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[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 178 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

This shows abuse more than anything. He was likely forced to use his right hand growing up and has never fully recovered.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 154 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Spanked it right out of him..

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 80 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Yeah, that episode was basically making the point that he's from a generation where being different was considered wrong, and abusive behavior corrections were an option.

The boomers went through some stuff. Ned included.

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

I watched some movie set in the boomer era where a kid's dad died suddenly, and at the open-casket funeral, he saw his dad's dead body and screamed and ran, and all the adults just scolded him and yelled at him. On the day of his own father's funeral.

I asked my dad "is that how it was like for everyone back then?" and he said "yup".

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 month ago

I am gen-X / xenial and I had a friend who, while in elementary school, was forcibly made right handed. One day when we were in our late 30s saw me doing something with my left hand and said that make so much sense and realized he was actually left-handed.

[–] Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio 47 points 1 month ago (2 children)

THAT GUY IS SPANKING WITH HIS LEFT HAND!

[–] 200ok@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I haven't LOL'd in a while. Thank you.

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[–] Caesium@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

yeah my dad was a leftie forced to be a righty.

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I had a teacher in high school who was ambidextrous because of nun-based leftie abuse.

[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 79 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

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.

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, and maybe why it's such a liberation for him to come out as left handed? Idk

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 44 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Left handed folks are often ambidextrous.

Pick a side already!

[–] AZX3RIC@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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!

[–] Fabrik872@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In europe almost all toilets have flush button in the middle of the tank

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In the Europe I have been living my entire life in, positions of flush buttons are completely random and different on almost every toilet.

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[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Most things cater to right-handedness, there isn't much of a choice 🤷‍♂️

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 7 points 1 month ago

To be more exact, you are "criss-cross-applesauced" but it's a technical term.

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[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 59 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Need Flanders is definitely old enough to have possibly been forced to work with his right hand, meaning that while his left is his dominant he was forced to use his right enough to be effectively ambidextrous.

[–] FreeAZ@sopuli.xyz 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Some left handed guitarists play right handed just because left handed guitars are much harder to find, or they just string it like Jimi Hendrix lol. I'm sure that's true of other tools and hobbies.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

a friend of mine learned how to play upside down as well so he could play any guitar. not to the degree he played lefties but it was still impressive

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Yep. My brother is left handed and he plays right handed because it's just easier to get a right handed guitar

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (9 children)

I am cross dominant. I do somethings right handed, some things left handed, and there's a few things I can do with either. This blew the mind of every elementary school teacher I had until 4th grade because by then I had the vocabulary to explain myself.

For many years I only felt comfortable using right handed scissors in my left hand because my kindergarten teacher refused to give me a left handed pair since I write with my right hand. I argued with every adult that tried to teach me how to play baseball because I naturally line up lefty at the plate but I throw better right handed. Turns out I can bat switch but fuck them, they didn't know that.

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[–] fading_person@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 month ago (5 children)

My school did this to me in the 2000s :(

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[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Boy, I really hope someone got fired for that blunder.

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Or paddled.

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] sundray@lemmus.org 6 points 1 month ago

A wizard spanked him.

Many older southpaws actually know how to write with their right hand, as teachers used to force the southpaw students to learn it

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

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.

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Whenever you notice something like that, a wizard did it.

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[–] Jerkface@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

And where exactly was he supposed to find a left-handed bowling ball? Huh? D'jever think of that?

[–] StuffYouFear@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (16 children)

i know plenty of lefty guitarists who play right handed guitars. they're cheaper, for one.

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[–] deacon@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] cdf12345@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 month ago

He's finally out of the closet and open about who he is!

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago
[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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...

[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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?

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[–] sundray@lemmus.org 11 points 1 month ago

How sinister!

[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

Maybe the camera is flipping the image like a mirror in the most inconvenient of times.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'm right handed and play the guitar left handed...

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[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago

wizard do things

[–] drhodl@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

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