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Although officially left-handed, I'm mostly ambidextrous - I use whichever hand is most convenient for the job. This is very helpful when working on mechanical things. There are two things I always use my left hand for - writing and using scissors. I've been using right-handed scissors my whole life without problem. My office scissors' handle cracked so I ordered new, but thought I should get left-handed. Bad idea. 1) I'm having trouble holding them! 2) You cannot cut close ot a line with left-handed scissors!

What weird thing have you learned lately?
 
My dad was like you. He would have been classified as left-handed if they had allowed such things back when he was in school. He could use either hand but I never asked him about his use of scissors.
 
marshg246 said:
Although officially left-handed, I'm mostly ambidextrous - I use whichever hand is most convenient for the job. This is very helpful when working on mechanical things. There are two things I always use my left hand for - writing and using scissors. I've been using right-handed scissors my whole life without problem. My office scissors' handle cracked so I ordered new, but thought I should get left-handed. Bad idea. 1) I'm having trouble holding them! 2) You cannot cut close ot a line with left-handed scissors!

What weird thing have you learned lately?
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I thought you were going to say something else............
 
Big_Jim59 said:
My dad was like you. He would have been classified as left-handed if they had allowed such things back when he was in school. He could use either hand but I never asked him about his use of scissors.
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It wasn't just school - my father considered me sub-human for being left-handed so I mostly hid it from him.
 
I used to work with a service writer that was left handed. He went to catholic school and he was forced to write with his right hand. The results were the absolute worst mess of chicken scratching and scrawls you could imagine. It took me months to decipher what he was trying to write.
 
marshg246 said:
Although officially left-handed, I'm mostly ambidextrous - I use whichever hand is most convenient for the job. This is very helpful when working on mechanical things. There are two things I always use my left hand for - writing and using scissors. I've been using right-handed scissors my whole life without problem. My office scissors' handle cracked so I ordered new, but thought I should get left-handed. Bad idea. 1) I'm having trouble holding them! 2) You cannot cut close ot a line with left-handed scissors!

What weird thing have you learned lately?
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Never thought about scissors before!
I'm right handed for most things but ambidextrous when I weld
I'd thought everyone could weld left or right handed until I made a jig for some large blast louvers
It was a roll over jig so most of the welding could be completed in the jig to minimise distortion
When I made it I made the first panel with no issue
So it was passed on for someone else to work on and I had complaints because you needed to weld left and right hand
It never crossed my mind!
 
I learnt fairly recently that oxo cubes are supposed to be squashed inside the foil until they are powder
And only then used !!! rather than stuck under your fingernails as you break them up
Hope this helps others
It's changed my world! 😂😂😂😂😂
 

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baz said:
I learnt fairly recently that oxo cubes are supposed to be squashed inside the foil until they are powder
And only then used !!! rather than stuck under your fingernails as you break them up
Hope this helps others
It's changed my world! 😂😂😂😂😂
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I never knew that !
 
baz said:
I learnt fairly recently that oxo cubes are supposed to be squashed inside the foil until they are powder
And only then used !!! rather than stuck under your fingernails as you break them up
Hope this helps others
It's changed my world! 😂😂😂😂😂
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And I just learned all about oxo cubes - never heard of them before. Here they are called bouillon cubes and they come in a jar, not a package (at least I think it is the same thing).
 
My Dad was left handed but not allowed to be at school!
Loved his golf & cricket, he used to wait for the fourth ball of an over & swap stance. It used to freak out the bowler as he ran in & the whole field was set up wrong. Single handy cap left handed ten handicap right handed always had one club of the opposite side for when you were tight up against trees or out of bounds.
 
My son played baseball. One of his team mates was right handed. His dad made him hit left handed
 
When I was very young playing catch with my Dad, he's says. What are you doing?
I was throwing left handed. He puts the ball in my right hand and says use this one.
Not sure if I was naturally left handed, or just picked up the ball with the nearest hand.

What color tin snips?
Not knowing any difference, I had always got yellow ones.
One day in the field a co worker hands me his green snips. Worst snips EVER.
What are these junky things? He just laughed. I didn't know.
About 20 years later I realized he was left handed. Just had never noticed..
We get a big laugh now...
 
baz said:
I learnt fairly recently that oxo cubes are supposed to be squashed inside the foil until they are powder
And only then used !!! rather than stuck under your fingernails as you break them up
Hope this helps others
It's changed my world! 😂😂😂😂😂
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that’s fine until you only need a half for the recipe....
 
reminds me of a joke I saw on youtube about a wife who keeps asking what her man will do if she dies: he keeps reassuring her he won’t sell the marital bed etc if he meets someone else, until she mentions her golf clubs, at which he says: yes, I’ll sell those, as she is left handed.........
 

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