Author Topic: [Poll] Lefties in the Nukes (Read 35220 times)

SloGlo · « **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!

ex-turbine_cowboy · « **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

Rennhack · « **Reply #2 on:** Oct 20, 2003, 02:38 »

I'm a lefty.

Phurst · « **Reply #3 on:** Oct 20, 2003, 03:07 »

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

radgal · « **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.

Doc_REM · « **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?

Nuclear_Dog · « **Reply #6 on:** Oct 20, 2003, 04:44 »

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

Wolfen · « **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???

Rain Man · « **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??

Wolfen · « **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.

SloGlo · « **Reply #10 on:** Oct 21, 2003, 07:03 »

southpaws ain't sinister. they're sinistral.

Rain Man · « **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.

Smart People · « **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?

ex-turbine_cowboy · « **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.

HousePuke · « **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.

SloGlo · « **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.

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

MajorMinor · « **Reply #17 on:** Oct 23, 2003, 11:58 »

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[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 · « **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.
greengoo.

Wolfen · « **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.

DeathDose · « **Reply #20 on:** Oct 27, 2003, 10:49 »

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Has its advantages, though.

Like those left-handed cigarettes?

St Raphael · « **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.

Rain Man · « **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??

St Raphael · « **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.

jkj · « **Reply #24 on:** Jan 20, 2004, 02:27 »

Quote from: turbine cowboy on Oct 21, 2003, 11:39

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 · « **Reply #25 on:** Jan 20, 2004, 05:14 »

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 · « **Reply #26 on:** Feb 29, 2004, 05:32 »

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

duke99301 · « **Reply #27 on:** Feb 29, 2004, 10:33 »

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 · « **Reply #28 on:** Mar 01, 2004, 08:24 »

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

JassenB · « **Reply #29 on:** Mar 01, 2004, 10:55 »

Quote from: moodusjack on Feb 29, 2004, 05:32

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 · « **Reply #30 on:** Jul 11, 2004, 11:55 »

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 · « **Reply #31 on:** Oct 15, 2004, 07:55 »

Quote from: Rennhack on Oct 20, 2003, 02:38

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 · « **Reply #32 on:** Oct 17, 2004, 04:43 »

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

flappervalve · « **Reply #33 on:** Oct 17, 2004, 07:29 »

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 · « **Reply #34 on:** Oct 18, 2004, 06:32 »

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 · « **Reply #35 on:** Oct 18, 2004, 08:58 »

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 · « **Reply #36 on:** Oct 20, 2004, 02:26 »

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 · « **Reply #37 on:** Oct 20, 2004, 06:28 »

Quote from: arizonie on Oct 20, 2004, 02:26

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 · « **Reply #38 on:** Oct 29, 2004, 07:41 »

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 · « **Reply #39 on:** Nov 01, 2004, 05:29 »

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 · « **Reply #40 on:** Nov 01, 2004, 07:37 »

Quote from: iamarine on Nov 01, 2004, 05:29

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 · « **Reply #41 on:** Mar 13, 2005, 01:12 »

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.

ST

coshaun · « **Reply #42 on:** Mar 14, 2005, 01:04 »

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 · « **Reply #43 on:** Mar 14, 2005, 05:03 »

Quote from: radplanet on Mar 13, 2005, 01:12

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 · « **Reply #44 on:** Mar 15, 2005, 09:24 »

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 · « **Reply #45 on:** Mar 22, 2005, 05:40 »

I am 3 chairs right of Attilla the Hun

Poll

Are you a lefty?

Author Topic: [Poll] Lefties in the Nukes (Read 35220 times)

ex-turbine_cowboy

radgal

Doc_REM

Wolfen

Wolfen

ex-turbine_cowboy

MajorMinor

greengoo

Wolfen

DeathDose

wondertech

moodusjack

duke99301

JassenB

wrecked_edsel

ageoldtech

flappervalve

NascarTerry

halflifer

oldodge52

iamarine

halflifer

radplanet

coshaun

dangergirl