Lefties are the devils minions

[Willie71]

Kind of an interesting discussion re. Numbers. Of the population, how many are left handed. Of those, how many cook? Of those, how many know the purpose of a japanese single sided grind? Of those, how many care enough to look for/ want a custom blade? Sounds like the number is a small one…

7% of people are left handed.

 

[Horsewright]

I always thought it was caused by the brits and aussies driving on the wrong side....

Now there’s a thought............

 

[Cushing H.]

I always thought it was caused by the brits and aussies driving on the wrong side....

No .... THAT slows down the rotation of the earth, thats what makes the days shorter in the winter....

 

[Horsewright]

No .... THAT slows down the rotation of the earth, thats what makes the days shorter in the winter....

Ah gotcha! So see the leather wrapped around the saddle horn? This is called......wait for it.....a horn wrap. It is put on while damp and stretched very tightly around the horn in a clockwise fashion:

After catching said cow critter the rope is wrapped around the saddle horn from right to left. This is referred to as a dally. Dallying the rope around the horn allows ya to "run" the rope a little which is easier on the calf. This is what causes those almost burned grooves in the horn wrap above.

Allowing the rope to run some is easier on the calf:

Just starting to dally:

Then dallied on:

The point of all this and it is certainly a ponderment, in fact, ya can see my son Logan here pondering this very thought while waiting for a heeler:

A left handed roper would dally from left to right and not from right to left. This would unwrap the horn wrap and then where would we be? Quien sabe?

 

[Bruce Gibson]

It's 2021 in what's left of America. I'm left-handed, laughing out loud, and completely without offense. I don't know if it's my thick Scottish hide, or if I've just grown accustomed to adapting to right-handed tools and products.

I'm brand-new with knives & blades, but I've made gunleather for near-20 years. I don't accept advance orders anymore, but I have gone the "keep a few in stock" for the Southpaws route. Blades may be different, but holsters tend to collect dust waiting for a home. I don't tend to cater to my people--there's just not enough of us.

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

When preaching yesterday, I used a reference to the little angle and devil sitting on your shoulders that was a common cartoon feature in the 50's and 60's. The angel was on the right shoulder and the devil was on the left one. I pointed out as a side note that the Latin word for left is sinister, meaning on the left side, but when it was mixed with Old English synn -to do wrong/evil, in the 15th century, it became "On the bad/wrong/evil side".
The left was always considered evil or wrong in that time period. There are all sorts of stories about why this was so, from which side a knight wore his sword to hiding a dagger. The story of how shaking hands came about rises from the same "left is wrong" idea.

I pointed out in the sermon that in the 21st century we are a little more enlightened about lefties, but not a whole lot more.

 

[Londinium Armoury]

When preaching yesterday, I used a reference to the little angle and devil sitting on your shoulders that was a common cartoon feature in the 50's and 60's. The angel was on the right shoulder and the devil was on the left one. I pointed out as a side note that the Latin word for left is sinister, meaning on the left side, but when it was mixed with Old English synn -to do wrong/evil, in the 15th century, it became "On the bad/wrong/evil side".
The left was always considered evil or wrong in that time period. There are all sorts of stories about why this was so, from which side a knight wore his sword to hiding a dagger. The story of how shaking hands came about rises from the same "left is wrong" idea.

I pointed out in the sermon that in the 21st century we are a little more enlightened about lefties, but not a whole lot more.

There is only a single left handed person in my family and funnily enough she is the most devout Christian also. The handshake thing is common in my part of London as there are lots of middle eastern, Jews, Islamic, Christian , eastern European immigrants etc. So the left hand is still seen as negative.

 

[fitzo]

My mother-in-law was born in 1932 and schooled in parochial schools. We always knew her to be right handed. When she had a massive stroke she lost use of her right hand. During therapy, they were testing left-side function when they found she could actually write with the left hand, but refused to do so. Vehemently. So vehemently, as a matter of fact, that she flat out refused to go to therapy any more. Pity, she was doing well, and never improved further. RIP, Mom.

We suspect it may have been those f'n nuns with their damned sticks beat her into submission when they found her left handed and her now stroke-broken mind couldn't get past the prior conditioning. FIL confirmed they were still pulling that left-hand-evil crap back at that point in time in their neck of the woods (East St. Louis).
I don't remember from my own time at the hand of the blackboard pointer-swinging servants of the Church whether they were still on about the left hand crap, but the pointers were still the most frequent tools for them to take their own repression out on the students.

No love loss. Guess it shows!

PS I'm righty. Sister's lefty. Father was a true ambi. That ambidextrous stuff can make one downright jealous.

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

All of my mothers family is left handed or ambidextrous. I was ambidextrous completely during my youth, but became right dominant in my 20's. I still can use either hand for mechanical work like a screwdriver. In jewelry work, either hand will do the same tasks. Left handedness also accompanies the genetic mutation that causes genius IQ. There are more left handed people with an IQ over140 than right handed (60% lefties IIRC).