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Are you a lefty?

I'm a lefty
53 (40.5%)
I'ma righty
68 (51.9%)
I'm ambidextrous - or confused.
10 (7.6%)

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[Poll] Lefties in the Nukes
« on: Oct 20, 2003, 12:25 »
wolfen alluded to an abundance of southpaws in the nuclear workforce on the thread, "does musical talent dwell within nuclearworkers".  has anyone else noticed this phenomena?  I once was on a crew that had 14 lefties out of a total of 23, at least i think that was the ratio.  maybe housepuke and barleybuddy can help me out here.  anyway, that was the most disporportionate crew i was on, also one of the bestest!  
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Re: [Poll] Lefties in the Nukes
« Reply #1 on: Oct 20, 2003, 02:30 »
Lefty is besty and we be the only people in our right minds and we make better lovers - just ask us

Do a poll Slo Go

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Re: [Poll] Lefties in the Nukes
« Reply #2 on: Oct 20, 2003, 02:38 »
I'm a lefty.

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Re: [Poll] Lefties in the Nukes
« Reply #3 on: Oct 20, 2003, 03:07 »
I'm a righty but I'm bi-lingual.
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Re: [Poll] Lefties in the Nukes
« Reply #4 on: Oct 20, 2003, 03:28 »
I'm a righty but i can be ambidexterous on everything but writing and sports.   ???   Being a waitress before tech work was a contributing factor.

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Re: [Poll] Lefties in the Nukes
« Reply #5 on: Oct 20, 2003, 03:54 »
I'm a rightity I think and can't see or hear out of my left side...why is that...but everything else works just fine...I think????

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Re: [Poll] Lefties in the Nukes
« Reply #6 on: Oct 20, 2003, 04:44 »
I'm a leftie, but I bat right and shot right (hockey that is)  ;D
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Re: [Poll] Lefties in the Nukes
« Reply #7 on: Oct 21, 2003, 06:40 »
Judging from the poll so far, Lefties are in a much greater abundance in the nuke industry than the national average, which I think is much less than 10% of the population.

There has to be a connection.  Any theories???

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Re: [Poll] Lefties in the Nukes
« Reply #8 on: Oct 21, 2003, 06:46 »
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There has to be a connection.  Any theories???


Commercial nuclear power is under the control of the minions of satan???.....or is it managed health care??
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Re: [Poll] Lefties in the Nukes
« Reply #9 on: Oct 21, 2003, 06:53 »
Ahhh!!! Rain Man, you obviously subscribe to the believe that left-handed people are sinister in the Biblical sense.

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Re: [Poll] Lefties in the Nukes
« Reply #10 on: Oct 21, 2003, 07:03 »
southpaws ain't sinister.  they're sinistral.
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« Reply #11 on: Oct 21, 2003, 09:31 »
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Ahhh!!! Rain Man, you obviously subscribe to the believe that left-handed people are sinister in the Biblical sense.


350 years ago they would have all been burned at the stake.  This is a more enlightened age.
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Re: [Poll] Lefties in the Nukes
« Reply #12 on: Oct 21, 2003, 10:24 »
I'm a lefty, and Sinister.  Go figure.



Any good stories about growing up left handed out there?
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Re: [Poll] Lefties in the Nukes
« Reply #13 on: Oct 21, 2003, 11:39 »
Born Right Handed, Fell from a castle wall in europe at the tender age of 11 and shattered my right arm and wrist. Cast and rebraking for about 8 months.  Went left out of necessity and discovered I was a closet southpaw.  Came out of hiding and found out the Girls liked us southpaws better.

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Re: [Poll] Lefties in the Nukes
« Reply #14 on: Oct 21, 2003, 01:57 »
I'm a hardcore righty, but I know plenty of lefties in the biz.
Sloglo, the crew you mentioned...is that a reference to Bettis those many years ago?  I don't recall the ratio 'cause I was just learnin' my way around back then. ;D
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Re: [Poll] Lefties in the Nukes
« Reply #15 on: Oct 21, 2003, 02:14 »
housepuke.... that's the job.  what wuz so kool, wuz the lefthanded design on the glove boxes driving the site radeng goofy.  btw, i ran into the woman that was a biggie in the radcon dept (can't remember her name rite now...kathy?) at a hps meeting a couple years back.  she's out of the dept....doing legal.  :o
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Re: [Poll] Lefties in the Nukes
« Reply #16 on: Oct 22, 2003, 05:48 »
[smiley=clown.gif]I'm a lefty and proud of it,my crossover(basketball) is a thing of beauty.They saY THAT i have a little talent with the oils and watercolors. ;D ;D ;D ;D =D The teachers always tried to force me in preschool and kindergardento write righthanded,talk about trauma to ayoung mind [smiley=eye.gif]
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Re: [Poll] Lefties in the Nukes
« Reply #17 on: Oct 23, 2003, 11:58 »
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[smiley=clown.gif]I'm a lefty and proud of it. ;D =D The teachers always tried to force me in preschool and kindergardento write righthanded,talk about trauma to ayoung mind [smiley=eye.gif]

 I am a natural Lefty who was assimilated into the right-hand world by 'old-school' teachers. About the only common task I can't do 'right' is cut my steak. Even when I broke my left hand, I had to hold my steak knife pecil-style on my left hand.
I've heard of hard-core righties who were completely helpless when they injured the right paw.

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Re: [Poll] Lefties in the Nukes
« Reply #18 on: Oct 25, 2003, 12:15 »
I am a rightie.  I am also the only person I know who can/will toss high pressure gas/liquid cylinder between hands without looking at them while walking somewhere.  Is that strange?  I figure, if I drop one and explodes, in all likelyhood, I'll be dead instantly. ;)
I can also shoot either left or right handed.  Unfortunately, my right eye is around 20/2000, and the left is about 20/1500, those are my real vision records.  Therefore, for accurate long range shots, I use the left.  I first learned this little talent last in 2002, when I fell down the stairs and crushed my right facial nerve.  I had Belle's Palsey for about a year and had to wear any eye patch full of moisture gel for most of it.  I was unable to close my eye at all.  I still smile crooked, but the rest is better.  I just refrain from smiling whenever possible.
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Re: [Poll] Lefties in the Nukes
« Reply #19 on: Oct 27, 2003, 05:48 »
Generally, Lefties can do more things right-handed than righties can do left-handed.  It's a right-handed world.  Lefties have to deal with that every day.  Has its advantages, though.

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Re: [Poll] Lefties in the Nukes
« Reply #20 on: Oct 27, 2003, 10:49 »
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 Has its advantages, though.


Like those left-handed cigarettes?

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Re: [Poll] Lefties in the Nukes
« Reply #21 on: Nov 03, 2003, 06:06 »
As a faternal triplet and a mirror-image idential twin growing up I was left and right handed depending on my mirror-imaged idential twin.
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Re: [Poll] Lefties in the Nukes
« Reply #22 on: Nov 03, 2003, 07:11 »
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As a faternal triplet and a mirror-image idential twin growing up I was left and right handed depending on my mirror-imaged idential twin.


straphael, not to be a wizenhiemer, but has this resulted in any counseling or medications??
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Re: [Poll] Lefties in the Nukes
« Reply #23 on: Nov 03, 2003, 10:59 »
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straphael, not to be a wizenhiemer, but has this resulted in any counseling or medications??


Well wizenhiemer, I mean Rain Man, to answer your question, my twinkie and I are healthy and very well adjusted right handers today.  Although growing up we had developed our own language throughout childhood and still to this day start and finish each others sentences.  It's a twin-triplet thing.
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Re: [Poll] Lefties in the Nukes
« Reply #24 on: Jan 20, 2004, 02:27 »
 Came out of hiding and found out the Girls liked us southpaws better.

They do? Damn! I must have been "left"-out. Southpaw all the way.
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