How we learned it in school

[jhawks99]

My handwriting is terrible. Always has been. I think I was born a lefty but the nuns weren't having any of that devil-hand writing. I gave up cursive as soon as the teachers would accept printed homework. I don't think I could write in cursive anymore.

I have a lot of respect for people who have excellent penmanship. Now that I write that I remember, penmanship was graded when I was in school. I usually got a C-.

[shindig]

My handwriting is terrible. Always has been. I think I was born a lefty but the nuns weren't having any of that devil-hand writing. I gave up cursive as soon as the teachers would accept printed homework. I don't think I could write in cursive anymore.

I have a lot of respect for people who have excellent penmanship. Now that I write that I remember, penmanship was graded when I was in school. I usually got a C-.

Yep I'm a lefty. Actually both my parents are and my brothers. I remember the school desks were always set up for right handed students. My hand writing is pretty sloppy now because it's usually just taking notes from a meeting and I'm just scratching down whatever seems pertinent.

[jhawks99]

I found out late in life that I'm adopted. Both of my parents are lefties. I do some things right handed and some left. Just depends. Makes for some interesting nature/nurture thinking. What hand would I have naturally used had I not had two adoptive lefty parents. Both of whom have impeccable handwriting.

[shindig]

I found out late in life that I'm adopted. Both of my parents are lefties. I do some things right handed and some left. Just depends. Makes for some interesting nature/nurture thinking. What hand would I have naturally used had I not had two adoptive lefty parents. Both of whom have impeccable handwriting.

I play pool right handed, not sure why, I guess it always felt natural to me. I golf lefty and shoot hoops left handed. But I use my computer mouse right handed as well, probably again just felt more natural and all laptop keyboards are set up with the 10-key numbers on the right.

[ChalkRocker]

Who still writes in cursive? I don't think they even teach it anymore, correct? I gave my nephew who just turned 18 a gift card and birthday card and I wrote something in it in cursive, he had no idea what I wrote...lol.

The fact that you sent an actual card is a nice touch. I do the same thing. Most of my family does not. Everything is via text or facebook, tied to paypal, etc. Thank-yous come from the recipients in the same fashion -- via their phones

[jhawks99]

I write and use a knife with my right hand. I shoot hoops, throw, golf lefty. My parents bowled a lot when I was a kid. They had a closet full of trophies. I joined a team as soon as I was old enough. The coach came up to me a few weeks in and said, "I don't care which hand you bowl with, but pick one and go with it." I had no idea I was using both.

[ousdahl]

I do pretty much everything lefty, except golf, hockey, and scissors/righty-designed tools, as needed.

[shindig]

Who still writes in cursive? I don't think they even teach it anymore, correct? I gave my nephew who just turned 18 a gift card and birthday card and I wrote something in it in cursive, he had no idea what I wrote...lol.

The fact that you sent an actual card is a nice touch. I do the same thing. Most of my family does not. Everything is via text or facebook, tied to paypal, etc. Thank-yous come from the recipients in the same fashion -- via their phones

Yeah, I think a lot of it is just social media, that's all kids know nowadays. Now my neighbor's daughter graduated from Bishop Miege last year and I gave her cash and she gave me a thank you card a few days later and wrote several nice things in it. Not sure it was her idea or her Mom's, but it was nice to receive.

[PhDhawk]

I dunno, I think forcing people to learn to read infringes upon their rights. And I think it's bullshit that in movies they'll have a typed out prologue or subtitles, you know they just do that to exclude the free thinkers brave enough to not learn to read. And, it might be dangerous. Lobster was telling me about a friend of his who died after he learned how to read. And nearly everyone who has developed myocarditis knew how to read. After I learned how to read, my car keys stuck to my neck. Can someone explain that to me?

[twocoach]

I write and use a knife with my right hand. I shoot hoops, throw, golf lefty. My parents bowled a lot when I was a kid. They had a closet full of trophies. I joined a team as soon as I was old enough. The coach came up to me a few weeks in and said, "I don't care which hand you bowl with, but pick one and go with it." I had no idea I was using both.

I do everything right handed expect for shoot a puck. Ice hockey, roller hockey, street hockey, all of it. No idea why it feel more natural to have the stick on my left side vs. my right. I think it has to do with the better dexterity of my right hand in maneuvering the stick.

I can play darts with both hands but that was mainly something I taught myself as a way to hustle beer at bars that had dart boards or to make it more fun to play against people who are really terrible at it.

[twocoach]

I dunno, I think forcing people to learn to read infringes upon their rights. And I think it's bullshit that in movies they'll have a typed out prologue or subtitles, you know they just do that to exclude the free thinkers brave enough to not learn to read. And, it might be dangerous. Lobster was telling me about a friend of his who died after he learned how to read. And nearly everyone who has developed myocarditis knew how to read. After I learned how to read, my car keys stuck to my neck. Can someone explain that to me?

I'll never forget a "letter to the editor" I read in the Colorado Springs Gazette back when I was in high school. It was about how raising the speed limit on the highway was biased against poor people because their crappier cars would struggle to maintain that speed on some stretches of highway and it would make them feel bad about themselves having to get in the right lane to be passed. One of the first times I remember thinking "WTF is wrong with some people?"

[ousdahl]

I dunno, I think forcing people to learn to read infringes upon their rights. And I think it's bullshit that in movies they'll have a typed out prologue or subtitles, you know they just do that to exclude the free thinkers brave enough to not learn to read. And, it might be dangerous. Lobster was telling me about a friend of his who died after he learned how to read. And nearly everyone who has developed myocarditis knew how to read. After I learned how to read, my car keys stuck to my neck. Can someone explain that to me?

I get the feeling this might be a potd, except I can’t even read it

[defixione]

I do pretty much everything lefty, except golf, hockey, and scissors/righty-designed tools, as needed.

They make left-hand fly reels?

[ousdahl]

Actually, most fly reels nowadays can easily be converted to right or left hand retrieve, depending on the design.

[Deleted User 89]

i guess even ignorance is bigger in tejas

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... amo-facts/

[Deleted User 89]

also, just read that there is zero credible support for the story of Betsy Ross having anything to do with the creation of the first American flag, much less actually sewing it herself

[sdoyel]

i guess even ignorance is bigger in tejas

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... amo-facts/

Thanks for sharing.

[Deleted User 89]

https://worldwildlife.org/magazine/issu ... -our-story

[Deleted User 89]

lol at tejas (except it’s not funny)

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/11/01 ... ols-books/

[Cascadia]

Abbott and DeSantis in a constant “hold my beer” competition