On worldwide Left-Handers’ Day 2015, Lefty’s San Francisco announces the winners of their 15 second video contest: Being Left-Handed: The Good the Bad and The Ugly. But it was only in the last few decades that being left-handed ceased to be a real problem for many people, and instead became something that could be celebrated.
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Though left-handedness was looked down upon and lefties were often told to use their right hand for their day-to-day functioning in olden days, things have changed now. “The Devil himself was considered a southpaw, and he and other evil spirits were always conjured up by left-handed gestures”.
Renowned left handers in Irish existence contain previous Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, artist Bob Geldof, actor Pierce Brosnan and also the late author Samuel Beckett. In sports, the name is used when talking about a player, most commonly a pitcher, who throws with his/her left hand or a boxer who “leads with the right hand and stands with the right foot forward, using the left hand for the most powerful blows”.
The Polish-born physicist and chemist earns her place for discovering the principles of radioactivity and winning two Nobel prizes.
Some half-decent footballers have also turned out to be left-handed, with Pele, Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi a likely bet to be selected in any left-handed team.
While there are over seven billion people are this planet, only 10 percent of the general human population is left-handed, reports Live Science.
Anything Left Handed, also run by Mr Milsom, was founded in 1968 and operated a shop in London until 2006. It’s because the right side of the brain has a lower tolerance to alcohol. (Maybe that’s why you don’t get an irritating right-handed ergonomic mouse when you buy an iMac?). He stocks left-handed versions of most types of kitchen hardware, irons, and also carries artists’ palettes, dressmakers’ scissors, surgeons’ knives, pruning shears and cricket bats. Their opponent, faced with an unusual left-handed opponent, has a disadvantage.
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“There has never been a large national census, but we would love to see one”. The pressure to influence right-handedness is vast, though. They do say it is more probable that if you are left-handed, you had a left-handed parent. When he asked for a left-handed can opener, for instance, he was asked if he wanted a left-handed can as well.
