This shows abuse more than anything. He was likely forced to use his right hand growing up and has never fully recovered.
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Spanked it right out of him..
Yeah, that episode was basically making the point that he's from a generation where being different was considered wrong, and abusive behavior corrections were an option.
The boomers went through some stuff. Ned included.
I watched some movie set in the boomer era where a kid's dad died suddenly, and at the open-casket funeral, he saw his dad's dead body and screamed and ran, and all the adults just scolded him and yelled at him. On the day of his own father's funeral.
I asked my dad "is that how it was like for everyone back then?" and he said "yup".
I am gen-X / xenial and I had a friend who, while in elementary school, was forcibly made right handed. One day when we were in our late 30s saw me doing something with my left hand and said that make so much sense and realized he was actually left-handed.
THAT GUY IS SPANKING WITH HIS LEFT HAND!
I haven't LOL'd in a while. Thank you.
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yeah my dad was a leftie forced to be a righty.
I had a teacher in high school who was ambidextrous because of nun-based leftie abuse.
Tbf, if they didn't show him writing with his right hand, this would all be acceptable.
I write with my left hand, but play guitar right handed, pitch a baseball right handed, do basically everything right handed, except usung my left to write and do knife work in the kitchen.
Left handed folks are often ambidextrous.
Not to mention he's religious and back a number of years, you weren't allowed to be left handed, so maybe that is why he writes with his right hand in the scene, and maybe why it's such a liberation for him to come out as left handed? Idk
Left handed folks are often ambidextrous.
Pick a side already!
You right-handers force us into this position!
There's only one thing you use everyday that's made for the left hand and it's flushing the toilet!
Think of how that feels!
In europe almost all toilets have flush button in the middle of the tank
In the Europe I have been living my entire life in, positions of flush buttons are completely random and different on almost every toilet.
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Most things cater to right-handedness, there isn't much of a choice 🤷♂️
One oddity for me at least: I'm left handed, but right eye dominant; which means I aim a gun or draw a bow with my right hand, to line up with my right eye.
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Technically you are mixed-handed as you use one hand mainly for particular actions, just different hands. Ambidexterity is being able to do anything equally well with either hand.
To be more exact, you are "criss-cross-applesauced" but it's a technical term.
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Need Flanders is definitely old enough to have possibly been forced to work with his right hand, meaning that while his left is his dominant he was forced to use his right enough to be effectively ambidextrous.
Some left handed guitarists play right handed just because left handed guitars are much harder to find, or they just string it like Jimi Hendrix lol. I'm sure that's true of other tools and hobbies.
a friend of mine learned how to play upside down as well so he could play any guitar. not to the degree he played lefties but it was still impressive
Yep. My brother is left handed and he plays right handed because it's just easier to get a right handed guitar
I am cross dominant. I do somethings right handed, some things left handed, and there's a few things I can do with either. This blew the mind of every elementary school teacher I had until 4th grade because by then I had the vocabulary to explain myself.
For many years I only felt comfortable using right handed scissors in my left hand because my kindergarten teacher refused to give me a left handed pair since I write with my right hand. I argued with every adult that tried to teach me how to play baseball because I naturally line up lefty at the plate but I throw better right handed. Turns out I can bat switch but fuck them, they didn't know that.
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Boy, I really hope someone got fired for that blunder.
Or paddled.
A wizard did it.
A wizard spanked him.
When need was young, you weren't allowed to BE left handed, even if you were. They forced you to do things right handedly, so Ned learned to do the things he does with his right hand, but in his soul he is left handed, as he's always had to work really hard at learning things with his right. He wanted to change the world for the better.
My dad is like that. He writes with his right hand because he was beaten at school by the nuns if he tried to do anything with his left hand, but he essentially does everything else with his left. It was quite a traumatic experience for him.
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Many older southpaws actually know how to write with their right hand, as teachers used to force the southpaw students to learn it
And where exactly was he supposed to find a left-handed bowling ball? Huh? D'jever think of that?
Not sure if your serious but I'm a left handed bowler. You normally buy the bowling balls without holes, then have a shop measure your hand and how you throw and drill the holes to based on you.
i know plenty of lefty guitarists who play right handed guitars. they're cheaper, for one.
What exactly stops you from just re-arranging the strings so they go the other way? Or is the whole body of the guitar somehow different? I never understood why they have to be made left or right handed.
the bridge is arranged a certain way (some of them have ridges in slightly different spots for the endpoint of each string) so restringing it would be... unpleasant. more involved than just the strings. some of them, the body of the guitar is shaped to hug your body. I can think of a few different guitars in the family collection and why it wouldn't work, but like, it's usually more complicated than just the strings
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This rings true of my experience as a left handed person, which is more like being ambidextrous, at least for people who were born at the tail end of society tending to think you’re evil if born left handed.
He's finally out of the closet and open about who he is!
a couple years ago some friends on a community driven wargame community and I were engaging in a worldbuilding discussion, creating factions and armies and such for our world
I Said "Im going to have a leftist insurgency" and everyone groaned. "why do you have to make it political cant we just have silly scifi tropes
"Who said anything about politics, 95% of your units are holding their weapons in their right hand. this is a left handed faction"
them
It was Lego, by the way...
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How sinister!
Maybe the camera is flipping the image like a mirror in the most inconvenient of times.
wizard do things
I'm 70 years old, so maybe things have changed, but my left handed brother was FORCED to use his right hand for everything, as we were growing up. Apparently left handedness is a sign of the devil, or some such crap. As a result, he was effectively ambidextrous, as an adult.
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