[Poll] Lefties in the Nukes

[SloGlo]

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!  

[ex-turbine_cowboy]

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

[Rennhack]

I'm a lefty.

[Phurst]

I'm a righty but I'm bi-lingual.

[radgal]

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.

[Doc_REM]

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?

[Nuclear_Dog]

I'm a leftie, but I bat right and shot right (hockey that is)  

[Wolfen]

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???

[Rain Man]

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??

[Wolfen]

Ahhh!!! Rain Man, you obviously subscribe to the believe that left-handed people are sinister in the Biblical sense.

[SloGlo]

southpaws ain't sinister.  they're sinistral.

[Rain Man]

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.

[Smart People]

I'm a lefty, and Sinister.  Go figure.



Any good stories about growing up left handed out there?

[ex-turbine_cowboy]

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.

[HousePuke]

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.

[SloGlo]

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.  

[uRiaL]

[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 The teachers always tried to force me in preschool and kindergardento write righthanded,talk about trauma to ayoung mind [smiley=eye.gif]

[MajorMinor]

[smiley=clown.gif]I'm a lefty and proud of it. =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.

[greengoo]

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.
greengoo.

[Wolfen]

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.

[DeathDose]

 Has its advantages, though.

Like those left-handed cigarettes?

[St Raphael]

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.

[Rain Man]

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??

[St Raphael]

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.

[jkj]

 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.

[wondertech]

 On occasion I like to go to the tool room and ask for a left handed screwdriver. I explain that the handle is on the opposite end.
Everyone is born right handed. It's only the great one's that over come it.

[moodusjack]

Ambi with a bias for the left...like my politics.

[duke99301]

my ex is a lefty and  the Woman I share my life with Now is a lefty but alsa I am righty.
and Jim Keating will not get on a  plane unless it has two right wings.

[starving_dog]

Don't know why, but an inordinate amount of engineers seem to be left-handed.  I myself am right handed except in hockey.

[JassenB]

Ambi with a bias for the left...like my politics.

Semi-ambi/confused, here. Eat left, write left, bat/throw/everything else in life right.

Politics: dead center, honest. I just hope enough people actually believe that on county election day on May 4th.

-Jassen

[mahalo]

I can write with a left handed Pencil, I can read with my left eye but I do most everything else right handed.

[wrecked_edsel]

I'm a lefty.

Go figure... You and pdiddy are almost like brothers then. I always knew you 2 had a lot in common..

[ageoldtech]

Hey Edsel,
I've seen A LOT of camel toe in my life...........
But never on a CAMEL!!!!!!!

[flappervalve]

Me too but it that really a camel But if it is, it's a left footed camel which is almost on topic for this forum. 

[NascarTerry]

I'm TOTALLY left handed. If you ask me to do something with my right hand......I'll get a cramp.... And I also belong to the National Society For Equal Rights to Lefthanders. You right handed people just wait until you have to use a LEFTHANDED Door. 

[halflifer]

I throw righty, but everything else is leftie.
In 1st and 2nd grade, my teachers tried to 'rehabilitate' me.....didn't work then....hasn't worked since.
I don't have the numbers, but I recall reading that Lefties are statistically overrepresented in techincal fields.
I heard Einstien and Bethoven were lefties whild Hitler and Nixon were riighties.

[arizonie]

bill clinton and george bush sr are both lefties.
but there politics were opposed.
i'm a righty  but my politics tend toward the left.

ps:  bush (gw) coudn't find his arse with either his left or right hands..........

[SloGlo]

bill clinton and george bush sr are both lefties.
but there politics were opposed.
i'm a righty  but my politics tend toward the left.

ps:  bush (gw) coudn't find his arse with either his left or right hands..........

he doesn't have to, yew'll due the job jest phine

[oldodge52]

I'm one of the confused ones, also. I write and eat with my left, but just about everything else with my right. I can also write forward and backward at the same time.. I think that means I'm using both sides of my brain at the same time. Or maybe it means that I'm just weird. Not weird, GIFTED.

[iamarine]

I am a "righty" but, being a musician also, I can do a lot of things just as well with my left hand.  I remember back in 2nd grade I had a bicycle accident and I wasn't able to use my right hand to write.  I had to finish writing a story about "Charlotte's Web" so I finished it writing "LEFTY".  By the time I was done writing that story, you couldn't tell the difference between my right-handed or left-handed writing.  Now that I'm an "old man" I can still write left-handed legibily although I prefer writing right-handed.  I have also played both trumpet and trombone both "right" and "left".   BTW...who says lefty's make better lovers?

[halflifer]

 BTW...who says lefty's make better lovers?

Are ya sure that's a question you want to ask this bunch? Remember, "You should never ask a question if you're not sure you can live with the answer."

[radplanet]

I'm a "natch" lefty.  Interesting that US stated stats are ~16 -20 % left.  In whole world, it is supposed to be slightly lower.  Plenty of places still actively practice latent 'conversion' of young people (students) from L to R - for same stupid endemic reason educators and others used to do in USA. 

My opinion only, I bet that it is much more likely the 'true' left dominant population WW is probably 33%.  Lotta folks converted at early age.  In my case, I write with a 'crook' hooking my left hand becuase I was never shown how to position my writing tablet back when practicing going from Block to Cursive in like kindergaden or 1st g.  Too hard to break later.  L prob much more ambidextrous than R handers.

From my limited personal stats observation, Lefties seem to be way over-represented in the Sciences.


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[coshaun]

I'm a lefty and so is my hp hubby  and our son and daughter.  Got told by my history teacher in the 10th grade that I was a child of satan.... well that would certainly explain things

[Roll Tide]

Plenty of places still actively practice latent 'conversion' of young people (students) from L to R - for same stupid endemic reason educators and others used to do in USA. 
From my limited personal stats observation, Lefties seem to be way over-represented in the Sciences.

I have two sons that were deemed lefties by a public school system, and their mother thought it was great because that meant they were smarter than average. Of course, neither shows as much coordination with their left hand as their right.....

Actual lefties do seem to be much more common in Engineering and Scientific types of work.

[dangergirl]

I do equally well with both....but I do have to say a man who is a "southpaw" is sexy....So I agree with the above statement.

[bill10249]

I am 3 chairs right of Attilla the Hun