I’m a left-hander and, boy, am I lucky to not have any life-threatening accidents by using right-handed items. (Will there EVER be stores that sell and only sell items accommodated for my fellow southpaws? Ned Flanders had such an establishment called The Leftorium.)
When I went to Catholic school in the 50’s (yes, I know I am old), and the Nuns taught that left handed people were possessed by a devil. We either learned to write right handed or suffer the old metal edged ruler on our left hand. I was grateful my parents switched me to public school in 3rd grade, but I will have the scars forever. By the way, I am no longer Catholic.
Not being a video gamer, I had to Google the Silent Hill reference. For those of you who are unfamiliar as I was: Silent Hill is a survival horror video game for the PlayStation published by Konami and developed by Team Silent, a group in Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo. The first installment in the Silent Hill series, the game was released in North America in January 1999, and in Japan and Europe later that year.
I don’t know why gocomics doesn’t include the extra panel. I looked at it on the RBION site and the complete comic takes up less space on my screen than the truncated comic above.
So I suppose we left-handers are supposed to form focus groups, make signs, march in the streets, invent some great “phobia” types of words to express how offended we are, etc (southpawphobia? er,).
I went to Catholic school as a child, and remember left-handed kids being forced to use their right hands. (I don’t remember anything about “demons”, although if nuns had said that, my parents would have corrected that ridiculous idea.) When my first nephew, a leftie, started school, I was worried that he would be tormented. But my mother assured me that public schools (and by then, maybe even Catholic schools) didn’t do that. And that nephew is wonderfully creative – skilled at drawing, cartooning, and designing all kinds of stuff (including landing patterns and such for airports!) with computers. (Though I don’t know if he plays chess with them, lol!) Perhaps a lifetime of having to compensate in a world designed for righties brings out skills in lefties that the rest of us don’t have!
For those who might be interested in the doctor in labor who delivered a baby, here’s a link. (As a nurse, I found that very interesting, and very heroic!) https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kentucky-doctor-delivers-patient-s-baby-right-giving-birth-daughter-n787486
I remember the time, when most chess masters believed, that they will never see a chess computer winning against a grandmaster. This was still true in the mid 1990s, and Kasparov, when being defeated by Deep Blue in 1997, claimed that the computer must have had help from human chessplayers. He accused IBM of having manipulated the match, because he believed it was impossible that a machine could perform “typical human moves”.
Templo S.U.D. about 5 years ago
I’m a left-hander and, boy, am I lucky to not have any life-threatening accidents by using right-handed items. (Will there EVER be stores that sell and only sell items accommodated for my fellow southpaws? Ned Flanders had such an establishment called The Leftorium.)
Say What Now‽ Premium Member about 5 years ago
I can beat a computer if you give me one of those heavy marble chess boards.
whahoppened about 5 years ago
Kinda makes a 2 out of 3 hard to do.
therese_callahan2002 about 5 years ago
I hated reading “Out, Out,” by Robert Frost in high school.
Breadboard about 5 years ago
What happens with : Computer VS Computer ?
tkcoker about 5 years ago
Funny that the saw pictured above is more designed for southpaws than for right handed people. Right handed people need to use the worm drive model.
Smokie about 5 years ago
When I went to Catholic school in the 50’s (yes, I know I am old), and the Nuns taught that left handed people were possessed by a devil. We either learned to write right handed or suffer the old metal edged ruler on our left hand. I was grateful my parents switched me to public school in 3rd grade, but I will have the scars forever. By the way, I am no longer Catholic.
WCraft Premium Member about 5 years ago
Wow – a conspiracy against left handlers? Watch out, Mr. Clinton!
joeatwork212 about 5 years ago
Approx. 10% is left-handed. We’re a smaller minority than most. Why isn’t the entire conforming to us. Other minorities demand (and get) that request.
fgerbil46 about 5 years ago
Not being a video gamer, I had to Google the Silent Hill reference. For those of you who are unfamiliar as I was: Silent Hill is a survival horror video game for the PlayStation published by Konami and developed by Team Silent, a group in Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo. The first installment in the Silent Hill series, the game was released in North America in January 1999, and in Japan and Europe later that year.
pearlsbs about 5 years ago
I don’t know why gocomics doesn’t include the extra panel. I looked at it on the RBION site and the complete comic takes up less space on my screen than the truncated comic above.
https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/cartoon-08-11-2019/
Space_cat about 5 years ago
Southpaw here, I’ve learned to be ambidextrous with tools, guns, golf clubs, scissors, for safety’s sake.
Petemejia77 about 5 years ago
Then how about chess game competitions played by computers from around the world. Like robot wars for the A.I. brain?
Huckleberry Hiroshima about 5 years ago
So I suppose we left-handers are supposed to form focus groups, make signs, march in the streets, invent some great “phobia” types of words to express how offended we are, etc (southpawphobia? er,).
petecocker about 5 years ago
We are all born right handed. Only a few of us are able to overcome the handicap.
jonlaw about 5 years ago
Some of the earlier chess computers had a checkered past.
i_am_the_jam about 5 years ago
I once had to pay 10 bucks for a left-handed pencil… I kicked myself when I found them elsewhere at a 20% discount…
finnygirl Premium Member about 5 years ago
I went to Catholic school as a child, and remember left-handed kids being forced to use their right hands. (I don’t remember anything about “demons”, although if nuns had said that, my parents would have corrected that ridiculous idea.) When my first nephew, a leftie, started school, I was worried that he would be tormented. But my mother assured me that public schools (and by then, maybe even Catholic schools) didn’t do that. And that nephew is wonderfully creative – skilled at drawing, cartooning, and designing all kinds of stuff (including landing patterns and such for airports!) with computers. (Though I don’t know if he plays chess with them, lol!) Perhaps a lifetime of having to compensate in a world designed for righties brings out skills in lefties that the rest of us don’t have!
finnygirl Premium Member about 5 years ago
For those who might be interested in the doctor in labor who delivered a baby, here’s a link. (As a nurse, I found that very interesting, and very heroic!) https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kentucky-doctor-delivers-patient-s-baby-right-giving-birth-daughter-n787486
Running Buffalo Premium Member about 5 years ago
A webpage I saw had a good point. How many right handers die annually using things meant for right handed people?
be ware of eve hill about 5 years ago
My adoptive father was forced to be right-handed by his parents. Little did he know they were possibly saving his life!
Spock about 5 years ago
And 5000 right-handers do.
Spock about 5 years ago
I remember the time, when most chess masters believed, that they will never see a chess computer winning against a grandmaster. This was still true in the mid 1990s, and Kasparov, when being defeated by Deep Blue in 1997, claimed that the computer must have had help from human chessplayers. He accused IBM of having manipulated the match, because he believed it was impossible that a machine could perform “typical human moves”.