Wiche hande dostow employe? Sinistre or dextre?
Spurred by this post from Pink Dog and the subsequent comment about the proportion of left-handed people in the population at large (11%), and the possible over-representation of left-handers in the Lib Dem support base, I decided to run a poll. Unfortunately, WordPress blogs, or the idiot-proof ready-hosted ones I use, do not allow polls without lots of tedious Mucking About.
But, I sez to meself, Mortimer, I sez, stating whether you’re right- or left-handed is hardly sensitive information is it? Why not have a deeply literal Olde Worlde Polle whereby people – novel idea coming up – just write down their choice and at the end a little man in a toga comes and empties the amphora and counts them all up?
So I invite you, if you are or think you might be a Lib Dem voter/supporter/member, to state your paw of preference in the comments (yes, that includes you, Pink Dog), and we’ll see how it pans out. Of course, if you are worried by the distinct possibility that Jacqui Smith might be scanning my blog for information on cack-handed miscreants so that she can better enact policies against them, you can always anonymise and I won’t breathe a word.
March 28, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Right!
March 28, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Left!
Completely hard-core left..none of this ‘I use my left hand for writing but eat or iron with my right hand stuff’.
I’m left handed and left footed. I don’t drink with my right hand, open a door with my right hand and when I smoked I would have really struggled to smoke with my right hand.
I can tell you some other lib dem left handers if you like – or leave them to come out on their own!
March 28, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Dextre!
March 28, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Left
March 28, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Right
March 28, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Right. But I love a woman who is left-handed. Were we to have any children, I don’t know which way they’d turn. Perhaps it all depends on the cider
March 28, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Right. But that doesn’t stop me being cack-handed in the clumsy, uncoordinated sense.
March 28, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Left. But generally for writing only – and I can give you my standard rant about primary school teachers who weren’t prepared to understand such subtleties…
March 28, 2008 at 5:02 pm
I am both left and right handed, but not ambidextrous. Seriously.
March 28, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Alas, I cannot claim an answer as exotic-sounding as MatGB.
Right!
March 28, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Ha, don’t worry about him. There’s always one weirdo…
March 29, 2008 at 12:04 am
First preference – right.
March 29, 2008 at 12:15 am
I’m classically ambidextrous.
March 29, 2008 at 2:32 am
Left, funnily enough.
March 29, 2008 at 8:52 am
Right.
Militant lefties (and anyone out-of-the-ordinary) are far more likely to comment, though, in order to remind themselves of how special and different they are.
You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake! (etc)
March 29, 2008 at 11:15 am
I’d also suggest a preponderence of lefties could indicate higher net usage rather than more LibDemmery.
March 29, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Right.
March 29, 2008 at 7:39 pm
LEFT! Obvious really?! But as my dear Dad always says (being an old lefty himself) 10& of the population are left handed………..but 66% of geniuses are left handed. Point made??? But Alix, I am very disappointed, you share my birthday but not my handedness?
March 29, 2008 at 10:01 pm
I use all my paws very well thank you. A slight tendency to prefer the front ones to the rear ones, but only when I am feeling lazy on a Sunday morning.
March 30, 2008 at 12:09 am
Sinister.
March 30, 2008 at 1:39 am
I am right handed; Millennium says he has fluffy feet, not hands, thank you very much and anyway what is the word for “prefers to use nose”?
March 30, 2008 at 4:31 pm
I am right-handed. My daughter is left-handed and seems to have some very peculiar thought processes.. not sure if the two things are related.
March 31, 2008 at 1:15 am
Pen: left
Guitar: right