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.
I play guitar right handed because I was taught by a right handed person and those were the only guitars he had. Right privilege is real.
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.
Jimi Hendrix famously did this, but it’s not without its drawbacks. Some models are more problematic than others.
An acoustic like this would probably be pretty straightforward.
In a lot of cases the body of the guitar is different.
Some acoustic guitars like this one:
might work fine strung backwards; you might have to do a bit of alteration to the bridge and the nut, and you might put on a second pick guard, but you can probably Lefty that Righty.
A guitar with a bite taken out of the body like this:
That bite is so that it’s easier to reach the base of the fretboard where the high pitch meedly meedly notes live. If you flip that guitar over, the notch is on the wrong side. You can still play it, but the point of that notch has been eliminated.
Acoustic-electric guitars, such as most Ovations, have their controls or built-in tuners on the sidewall that would face “up” when held and played, making that a pain to use upside down. Possibly literally if sitting down because the knobs would dig into your thigh.
Electric guitars like the Fender Stratocaster:
Are 1. surprisingly heavy because the body is solid wood, it’s not hollow like an acoustic, and 2. are carved to fit a human body. You can see in that image the relief for your side in the back and for your elbow on the front. The tremolo lever (“whammy bar”) is in an asymmetric location so that it can be both used and moved out of the way. The knobs and switch are convenient yet out of the way of strumming. The cord socket is designed to point the cord down and away. If you use this guitar upside down, you defeat all those ergonomics, the guitar would become difficult and uncomfortable to hold and use. Didn’t stop Jimi Hendrix, who famously played a Stratocaster upside down.
I’m left handed and a guitarist, and I assert that a standard guitar IS left handed. The intricate work of fingering on the frets is done with the left hand, the large gross movements of strumming is done with the right. I’m perfectly comfortable using a standard guitar, yet most of the right handed people who have asked me to teach them to play have wanted to hold the guitar the other way, neck in right hand.
I’m left handed and a guitarist, and I assert that a standard guitar IS left handed.
i play electric bass (badly) and am a leftie and agree
This is so interesting. I play bass right handed, standard. The lefty bass felt so weird. What an interesting thought. The left hand is the one doing the most work.
Yes this exactly. Even playing fingerpick style with the right hand doing some intricate work, I’m really concentrating on my left hand and my right hand just abides.
I know right? My primary instrument is sax, so they both feel a little off but righty feels better than lefty. I think my hands/wrists are just in the same arrangement (right hand low, left hand wherever the fuck it’s going) for righty bass as my favorite sax.
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
As a lefy this is more or less spot on. Pick guards are also on the wrong side usually
You mean there on the right side.
i forgot about the pegs for the strap too.
They are not actually, at least the dozen or so I looked at on Sweetwater before buying my leftie. They right-handed selection is better, but the price was the same.
Huh, til. They were at the shop I looked at 30 years ago and the market has not changed I refuse to accept it.
Just string a right handed guitar the wrong way
I’m right handed and play the guitar left handed…
Guitar makes a lot of sense to me either way. The really technical part is up on the frets.
just one anecdote, but I’m solidly right handed and I’m quite comfortable fretting with my left hand. It’s a challenge to learn guitar regardless of which hand. But I have absolutely nothing against folks making and playing left-handed instruments either, folks should go with what they want
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.
I’m right handed for writing but I prefer left for a lot of stuff. I ride primarily left forward on skateboard and snowboard. Throughout my childhood years everyone fucking hated my lefty hockey stick especially since the three lefties played right handed. Some games they forced me to either play right hand or sit out too.
Left foot forward IS the ‘righthanded’ way. Left foot forward is called regular stance, right foot forward is called goofy stance.
https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-find-your-skateboarding-stance-goofy-foot-vs-regular
TIL I’m skating and snowboarding goofy, though I don’t do those much
I’m riding bike left foot front, which is apparently considered goofy in BMX world
oh I guess the people hassling me about it were the backwards ones
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.
Both my toilets have the flushing thing on the right side.
NOW THEY TOOK THE TOILETS FROM US
Most things cater to right-handedness, there isn’t much of a choice 🤷♂️
Yeah, I used scissors as a main tool in my manufacturing job that I had nearly a decade, …many tools are right handed. Even driving a stick shift is right handed work.
You adapt.
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.
ay i’m right handed but left eye dominant so i shoot left handed. hello chiral twin!
I’m cross-dominant and left eye dominant but when I draw bows I use my right hand, pistols I use my right hand, but rifles I use left handed
I can’t explain why beyond that it’s just comfortable to do this way
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.
i prefer the term “ambisinister”
That’s actually the technical term for being equally kack-handed with both hands. Right-handed propaganda, I know.
You sound like you’re right handed and just happen to write with your left. Lol
But really, your “definition” wouldn’t be ambidextrous. That’s for people who can do most tasks pretty much equally with either hand.
You would be known as “cross dominant”. That’s where you’re better with one hand or the other, depending on what task it is.
I’m a fairly standard lefty myself, Im able to do most things pretty well with my right hand, but mostly always best with my left.
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
I had a teacher in high school who wrote poorly with both hands, he explained, because he went to a catholic school where they slapped his left hand with a ruler when wrote with it.
Yep, same situation for me. “Ambidextrous” roughly means “two right hands,” so I like to joke that I’m ambisinistral - I’ve got two left hands.
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.
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.
Which country did you grow up in out of curiosity? They definitely did this in soviet union because it was more optimal to not have to design anything for minority of left handed people.
A wizard did it.
A wizard spanked him.
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…
I love that their assumption was that their highly fractured society going to war with one another wasn’t political. What do people think politics is?
The original fracture in this society was a disagreement about whether socks and sandals is a fashion faux pas. Then someone brought up pineapple on pizza…
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.
His parents never would’ve done that. Wouldn’t. Couldn’t.
While you are most definitely correct his parents wouldn’t do that; schools back then absolutely did enforce that and he clearly did still go through school.
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.
He was only ever sold right-handed pens his whole life.
How sinister!
Boy, I really hope someone got fired for that blunder.
Or paddled.
wizard do things
Maybe the camera is flipping the image like a mirror in the most inconvenient of times.
We lefty’s do things rightyandedly. Those kidney-shaped mouses weren’t left-hand friendly.
