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I can no longer be silent on the daily oppression of the left-handed community!posted on July 16, 2012, at 11:01 a.m.
You gotta see this if you're a lefty. When I was a kid, we didn't even HAVE left-handed scissors.
1. Spiral notebooks.
Hurts the side of your hand. The worst are the five-subject with the extra big rings.
2. Writing in a three-ring binder.
You have to do that thing where you fit your hand between the top two, then eventually have to pick it up and fit it in between the bottom two.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/the-18-worst-things-for-left-handed-people
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)You know, so the rings are on the right.
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Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)When I was in school, ballpoint pens were believed to be vulgar by our teacher and we could only use fountain pens. Not a problem for me, but my lefty best friend sitting next to me would always be trailing his hand over the newly written text, smudge the ink and get shouted at.
At least the school was progressive enough to allow him to even be a lefty, I suppose, though the fountain pen requirement seems very old-fashioned to me now.
It made me think about right-to-left writing systems such as Hebrew, and I wondered if the ancient Jewish tribes had a larger percentage of left-handers than we do today, though - I confess - not for very long, for childhood was full of wonders and freedom in those days.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)I cannot stand those things.
dr.strangelove
(4,851 posts)I always just took out the paper and put it in when done writing.
IronLionZion
(45,442 posts)but especially bad for lefties. Some of my classes had long tables with plenty of space, and some were in computer labs. The lecture halls were mainly for the liberal arts courses.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)Once I bought a pair of left-handed scissors, but I couldn't use them because I had adapted to using right-handed scissors.