I have an old Husqvarna 345 and I'm very happy with it. I believe the 300 series is like a semi-professional lineup. More than good enough for home use. Decent gift for someone who thinks they could use a chainsaw, but isn't a professional lumberjack that knows exactly what type of saw they need.
Of course the 345 is no longer being sold, but basically get 'em something in the 40-50 cm^3^ range roughly, to get started. Husqvarna and Stihl both make great saws.
When I got my smart watch the first thing I wanted to do was add a watch face like the old Goofy lefty watches that went anti-clockwise. Thus far I have not found one.
i have a few pair of "good" scissors. the duck scissors. the curved creepy looking scissors. those ones are mine. the righties can use the other ones. those two pair are mine, since i can actually cut with them.
No you cannot, though some manufacturers like to say so.
The grips are neutral, but the blades are righty.
Pick up some scissors and open them like you're cutting something. You'll see the top blade on the right and the bottom on the left. Because you're holding them in your right hand the bottom/left blade is closer to you. This gives you a clear view of the cutting line of whatever you're cutting. Even if you flip them it's still true.
For a lefty this line is blocked by the top blade.
Lefty scissors have the blades reversed. Try a pair sometime. It's doable but not pleasant.
"Hand neutral " scissors are still right handed scissors that do not have molded finger holes for righties. They still are built backwards for a lefty. All in all they work in a pinch, but generally are garbage.
Hold your scissors like you're cutting something. The top blade should be on the right side and the bottom edge that whatever you're cutting rests on will be on the left facing you. This is true even if flipped.
It would be reversed on left handed scissors. This is the important difference. It's more common nowadays for the grips to be ambidextrous, but the blade is still an issue. Of course lefties CAN cut things with righty scissors. But try out a lefty pair sometime. You'll find the blade blocks your view of what you're doing. You can't easily see the line that you're cutting.
Interesting, hadn't thought of anything but the grip affecting ambidextricity. I guess part of it is I don't do precise cutting that requires me to pay attention to the blade.
Even when you do not need to see exactly what you are cutting, physics of the blade orientation, and your hand movements, pull the blades apart when you use right-handed scissors in your left hand.
As you can see, the blades on my left-handed scissors are mirrored to yours, so when I cut my hand movements push the blades together.
A couple weeks ago, after more than three decades on this earth, I discovered for the first time that if I slice the butter from the other end of the stick, I can get a nice clean, straight, vertical cut. Because the butter knife is only beveled on one side.
All my life, I've been slicing butter from the wrong end, and the knife has slipped off a third of the way down every time...
Well I haven't tested this new discovery on many knives, but I'm certain I've had the same problem with many different ones over the years. At the very least, they're all beveled on at least one side...
This is what it felt like to finally get an ADHD diagnosis in my 30s after raw dogging life on hard mode, and assuming I just sucked at life compared to everyone else
"Is this what things have been like for you this whole time?"
I got diagnosed with severe complex sleep apnea (central and obstructive). I spent a few weeks with a CPAP but not dialed into the correct pressure but after my first night of sleeping with a CPAP in the lab to get the pressure correct I woke up and went to work.
I was confused because I felt odd, it took me 10-15 minutes standing on a forklift trying to figure out what the fuck was happening. I finally realized that I was experiencing what being awake was for the first time in my life at 32. I reintroduced myself to coworkers I had worked with for a few years because I had been in a haze for most of my life.
I am almost 70 and my GP says I have undiagnosed ADHD and autism. Now I cannot afford to pay for the actual testing to prove it and document it. Ironic, back when it would have been free or cheap I was the “weird kid” and later “uncle nutsy” and there were no diagnoses.
Gods this was basically what trying gender neutral pronouns was like. Figured I would give them a try, how much difference can they make?
Wow, why does every friendship suddenly feel closer and more real? Huh, I actually can spend time with people and not feel drained? Why is my long-term skin and inflammation problems suddenly and inexplicably clear up?
Oh wait... These health problems can be caused by stress! What else can be caused by stress (reads list)
Oh shit. Yeah that also stopped being a problem... And this one... Wait, I don't have joint problems as much either....
wait, we don't want to tell people to refer to us by plural pronouns, we're weird enough.
Get that you're just being silly and irreverent and all and I see you... But not exactly great to imply that plural pronouns are a problem that makes you implicitly odd to other people? Just... Sayin.
But not exactly great to imply that plural pronouns are a problem that makes you implicitly odd to other people? Just… Sayin.
why shouldn't we imply that we would get the exact response that we get for hinting at our identity were we to legitimately assume it instead of dance around it and let people assume we're joking?
Because the people who respond to us that way are being assholes. Like it doesn't matter who it comes from. Cis folk are gunna look at that and think it's fine thing to say and keep doing it.
I think that was their intention. The lefty is unhappy as the scissors are still almost unusable and the right handed guy has scissors that work but are uncomfortable.
The blades are setup differently for right handed vs left handed scissors. On a right handed blade setup cutting slightly pulls the blades together thus increasing the effectiveness where as when a lefty uses them the blades will be pushed apart slightly. On top of that the blade will obscure what you are cutting if you are using the wrong handedness scissor.
For me it was the opposite. Elementary school had old and dull left hand scissors. I never understood how the manufacturers could screw them up so badly, lol.
Left handed rulers are also a thing, and surprisingly helpful even if you're right handed. The scale runs from the right to the left, so if you hold it with your left hand the zero is on the stick out to the right.
Growing up I always had the green left handed ones for elementary, not even sure I've noticed in 30+ years besides when the Xmas wrapping paper was on awkward side that I'm now just used to using right handed ones. Some issues with wrapping this recent season ....
I always played some sports different handed though was never good at either side so didn't seem to make much of a difference but say golf clubs feel way better right handed, baseball I can never remember which one I want to throw with.
They're life changing for us lefties. Blades are meant to be squeezed together with the force from your thumb but right handed blades are backwards for lefties, meaning will pull the blades apart when we squeeze. Not saying you don't know this but someone might learn it!
Once bought a left handed scissor, did not know up until then there was such a thing, as a right handed how the fuck do you cut stuff, it was the crappiest cut ever
The same way I use a computer mouse, suboptimally with my off hand, but it was the only option when I was learning as a child and now I'm stuck because it works well enough. I think most lefties have decent capability with their right hand because it's occasionally unavoidable to use it for something.
I started using my left hand for the mouse due to carpel tunnel syndrome. Never bothered with changing the settings to left handed so I guess I'm using it sub-optimally.
Because of my less than optimal grip I prefer mice that are for either hand. They are not always easy to find.
You have to uncomfortably hold it and push the top blade with your thumb intentionally so the blades stay together properly. That or you just have to use the other hand if the scissors are to loose, its a pain in the ass lol
So as a left-hander you get a small bonus to your brain from being forced to use your right hand a lot and a right-hand design world. When you buy especially left-handed made things, you actually rob yourself of that advantage of gaining that ambidexterity. So I don't have a good hand and a bad hand. I have a fine dexterity hand in my left and a raw power hand in my right since that's traditionally what I've opened doors and other things with my whole life.
Whether or not I play a sport, with a certain hand varies by the activity
So in baseball I throw and catch left-handed
In ping pong and badminton and other racket sports, I can play either hand but generally I favor my right
When boxing or doing MMA I typically take a right-handed stance because I want my precision parrying hand out front and I want my raw power hand in back
For that reason I also shoot pool right-handed (left hand in front)
In volleyball, I hit left-handed
So yeah, generally I discourage my fellow Lefty brothers from doing a bunch of things to specifically accommodate themselves and instead embrace dual use that the righties will never have.
Left-Handedness is a spectrum, from people who can only use their left hand.for everything, to people who only do a few things left-handed, but are naturally right handed for everything else. Then there are people like you, who can do some things lefty, some right, and some ambidextrous.
I am fully right-handed, except that I write with my left hand. I can't do anything else left-handed. I throw, swing a bat, play musical instruments, etc. all right handed. Yet, people see me writing, and say I'm left-handed. Even my mother, who should understand that I'm not really left-handed, tells people I'm a Lefty.
I'm right-handed. I just write left-handed, for some unfathomable reason. That does not make me left-handed.
107 Comments
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk · 85 pts · 228d
Things that also give you this sort of motivation:
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space · 45 pts · 228d
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 227d
I have an old Husqvarna 345 and I'm very happy with it. I believe the 300 series is like a semi-professional lineup. More than good enough for home use. Decent gift for someone who thinks they could use a chainsaw, but isn't a professional lumberjack that knows exactly what type of saw they need.
Of course the 345 is no longer being sold, but basically get 'em something in the 40-50 cm^3^ range roughly, to get started. Husqvarna and Stihl both make great saws.
Yes, I love chainsaws.
Broadfern@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 228d
I labeled everything when I first got my label maker.
I still love any opportunity to use it.
toynbee@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 227d
Have you even used a label maker if you haven't printed a label for the label maker?
bbboi@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 227d
Do you have an old school embossing label maker or a lame modern label printer?
Broadfern@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 227d
TIL of the existence of embossing label makers. That’s neat! I may have to get one lol
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 227d
Those are the original. They made DIY projects look totally professional! Not like you made it yourself, at all.
ChexMax@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 227d
Booo don't yuck their yum
bbboi@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 227d
Is there anything people won't get offended by?
ChexMax@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 227d
Apparently you're offended by practical and cheap label makers
bbboi@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 227d
yes being nostalgic means I'm offended 😂
Also embossing label makers are cheap as hell. It's tech from the 50s.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 228d
I don't need a label marker... but it would be so fun to have.
Credibly_Human@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 227d
They're pretty cheap too, just don't get a Dymo, with their proprietary locked down DRM ass label tape.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 6 pts · 227d
Don't look now but they can be had cheap
Echolynx@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 227d
I'm trying to do a no-buy January, but I just bought a secondhand book... sigh.
lemonwood@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 228d
Just label every drawer, jar and box you own. Helps you stick to an organizing system and makes it easier for guests too.
luluberlue@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 227d
Don't forget to label the label machine, just in case.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 227d
i'm on a "make your own spice mix" kick. that label maker is saving my mouth
LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 228d
3d printer
night_petal@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 228d
Also any kind of kitchen tool (for me anyway). I was gifted a blender once and started making smoothies within the hour lol.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 227d
Bidet
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 227d
heated bidet. i ain't freezin' my pucker in the middle of the night in the winter
hypnicjerk@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 228d
things my bidoof has said since i gave him hm01 for christmas
Klanky@sopuli.xyz · 51 pts · 228d
I didn’t realize scissors were ‘handed’. My right-handed privilege is showing.
markstos@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 228d
Yes, and when write with a pen or pencil on paper it’s easier to smear your work as the writing hand is trailing, not leading.
Coffee mugs with logos have in mind which hand you hold them with.
Insulated bottles with handles and sip lids assume righthandedness.
One improvement has been smart watches since the screen can flip over if you switch wrists.
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 13 pts · 228d
When I got my smart watch the first thing I wanted to do was add a watch face like the old Goofy lefty watches that went anti-clockwise. Thus far I have not found one.
Natanael@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 227d
Be the change you want to see, make one
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 227d
I wish I knew how.
ytg@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 227d
Right-handed people writing right-to-left languages (there are a lot of them) can sympathize, I guess
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 227d
Coffee mugs that don't have the logo opposite of the handle are just stupid.
deacon@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 228d
I’m a lefty who made it almost half a century on this earth without realizing I could just go out and buy left handed scissors, so don’t feel too bad.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 227d
i have a few pair of "good" scissors. the duck scissors. the curved creepy looking scissors. those ones are mine. the righties can use the other ones. those two pair are mine, since i can actually cut with them.
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 14 pts · 228d
I don’t want to try and take away your privilege but You can buy scissors that are "hand neutral."
bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 16 pts · 227d
No you cannot, though some manufacturers like to say so.
The grips are neutral, but the blades are righty.
Pick up some scissors and open them like you're cutting something. You'll see the top blade on the right and the bottom on the left. Because you're holding them in your right hand the bottom/left blade is closer to you. This gives you a clear view of the cutting line of whatever you're cutting. Even if you flip them it's still true.
For a lefty this line is blocked by the top blade.
Lefty scissors have the blades reversed. Try a pair sometime. It's doable but not pleasant.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 5 pts · 227d
Ohhhhh, it's about the blades! Now I finally get it. Thanks!
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 227d
You’re definitely correct. I just like that they don’t make my hand feel bad.
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 13 pts · 228d
"Hand neutral " scissors are still right handed scissors that do not have molded finger holes for righties. They still are built backwards for a lefty. All in all they work in a pinch, but generally are garbage.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 227d
I have a 100% symmetric kitchen scissors that gets used for just about everything. How is it backwards / garbage?
bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 11 pts · 227d
Hold your scissors like you're cutting something. The top blade should be on the right side and the bottom edge that whatever you're cutting rests on will be on the left facing you. This is true even if flipped.
It would be reversed on left handed scissors. This is the important difference. It's more common nowadays for the grips to be ambidextrous, but the blade is still an issue. Of course lefties CAN cut things with righty scissors. But try out a lefty pair sometime. You'll find the blade blocks your view of what you're doing. You can't easily see the line that you're cutting.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 227d
Interesting, hadn't thought of anything but the grip affecting ambidextricity. I guess part of it is I don't do precise cutting that requires me to pay attention to the blade.
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 14 pts · 227d
Even when you do not need to see exactly what you are cutting, physics of the blade orientation, and your hand movements, pull the blades apart when you use right-handed scissors in your left hand.
As you can see, the blades on my left-handed scissors are mirrored to yours, so when I cut my hand movements push the blades together.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 228d
My partner is a lefty, and sometimes manufacturers lie about them being hand neutral
bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 8 pts · 227d
It's not possible. The really important part is which blade is on which side. The grips can work for both hands but the blades are righty.
tomiant@piefed.social · 5 pts · 228d
We should all work towards ending the horrors of handedness and the implied moral violence inherent in the system.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 227d
The handedness binary is a worn-out social construct
(/s, for anyone who needs it said)
Echolynx@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 228d
Yeah I got a pair of these. Even as a righty, it's nice to not have to figure out which orientation is correct before you pick it up.
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 228d
Apparently bread knives are also handed.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 227d
A couple weeks ago, after more than three decades on this earth, I discovered for the first time that if I slice the butter from the other end of the stick, I can get a nice clean, straight, vertical cut. Because the butter knife is only beveled on one side.
All my life, I've been slicing butter from the wrong end, and the knife has slipped off a third of the way down every time...
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 227d
butter late than never
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 227d
🥁
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 227d
good for you on using the same butter knife for so long
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 227d
Well I haven't tested this new discovery on many knives, but I'm certain I've had the same problem with many different ones over the years. At the very least, they're all beveled on at least one side...
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 228d
A lot of kitchen knives, and other utensils are too.
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works · 32 pts · 227d
This is what it felt like to finally get an ADHD diagnosis in my 30s after raw dogging life on hard mode, and assuming I just sucked at life compared to everyone else
"Is this what things have been like for you this whole time?"
Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 227d
I got diagnosed with severe complex sleep apnea (central and obstructive). I spent a few weeks with a CPAP but not dialed into the correct pressure but after my first night of sleeping with a CPAP in the lab to get the pressure correct I woke up and went to work.
I was confused because I felt odd, it took me 10-15 minutes standing on a forklift trying to figure out what the fuck was happening. I finally realized that I was experiencing what being awake was for the first time in my life at 32. I reintroduced myself to coworkers I had worked with for a few years because I had been in a haze for most of my life.
BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 227d
Was also in my 30s when I got diagnosed. Identical experience, I was shocked I've gone this long as a zombie.
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 227d
I am almost 70 and my GP says I have undiagnosed ADHD and autism. Now I cannot afford to pay for the actual testing to prove it and document it. Ironic, back when it would have been free or cheap I was the “weird kid” and later “uncle nutsy” and there were no diagnoses.
DrivebyHaiku@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 227d
Gods this was basically what trying gender neutral pronouns was like. Figured I would give them a try, how much difference can they make?
Wow, why does every friendship suddenly feel closer and more real? Huh, I actually can spend time with people and not feel drained? Why is my long-term skin and inflammation problems suddenly and inexplicably clear up?
Oh wait... These health problems can be caused by stress! What else can be caused by stress (reads list)
Oh shit. Yeah that also stopped being a problem... And this one... Wait, I don't have joint problems as much either....
oh shiiiiiiiit
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 227d
wait, we don't want to tell people to refer to us by plural pronouns, we're weird enough.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 227d
You can always get weirder. The universe needs it.
DrivebyHaiku@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 227d
Get that you're just being silly and irreverent and all and I see you... But not exactly great to imply that plural pronouns are a problem that makes you implicitly odd to other people? Just... Sayin.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 226d
why shouldn't we imply that we would get the exact response that we get for hinting at our identity were we to legitimately assume it instead of dance around it and let people assume we're joking?
DrivebyHaiku@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 226d
Because the people who respond to us that way are being assholes. Like it doesn't matter who it comes from. Cis folk are gunna look at that and think it's fine thing to say and keep doing it.
We're allowed to dream of a better world dude.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 226d
Credit where credit is due, I don't know how you were able to even parse that comment...
DrivebyHaiku@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 225d
It was kind of a best guess if I am being honest.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 227d
I recently hit my 30's, probably have ADHD, reading this...
...I swear, if I don't kill someone...
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 227d
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 227d
I will write it down, just in-case.
Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 227d
Same for me with anxiety. All those years I avoided doing stuff, if only I realised what I felt wasn't normal.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 227d
Me going on Indomethicin after getting my hemicrania diagnosis.
TomMasz@piefed.social · 30 pts · 228d
We've come a long way from the days of teachers hitting left-handed kids with rulers when they tried to write with the dominant hand.
tomiant@piefed.social · 9 pts · 228d
Indeed. Rulers are retractable now.
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 227d
Teacher can fwip that fucker out and dekopin you right between the eyes without even getting up
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 227d
my wife and i are in our 40s. she went to a school where they did that. i did not. she would be left handed. i am left handed. funny that.
jared@mander.xyz · 20 pts · 228d
I've never experienced true cutting, maybe one day.
tomiant@piefed.social · 5 pts · 228d
There is still much good to be said for ripping.
Davel23@fedia.io · 3 pts · 228d
And tearing!
Mongostein@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 228d
You can just get non-ergonomic scissors. Then nobody’s happy!
paks@feddit.uk · 20 pts · 228d
That might help for the grip, but the blades would still be right handed
Successful_Try543@feddit.org · 1 pts · 227d
I think that was their intention. The lefty is unhappy as the scissors are still almost unusable and the right handed guy has scissors that work but are uncomfortable.
Rothe@piefed.social · 1 pts · 227d
Spoken like a true rightey. But no, they still won't work for left-handers.
Mongostein@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 227d
Shit really? Why not?
AlfredoJohn@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 226d
The blades are setup differently for right handed vs left handed scissors. On a right handed blade setup cutting slightly pulls the blades together thus increasing the effectiveness where as when a lefty uses them the blades will be pushed apart slightly. On top of that the blade will obscure what you are cutting if you are using the wrong handedness scissor.
fodor@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 227d
For me it was the opposite. Elementary school had old and dull left hand scissors. I never understood how the manufacturers could screw them up so badly, lol.
tehmics@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 227d
Huh, on the rare occasion that left handed scissors were actually available, they were always way better because they didn't get used
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 4 pts · 227d
Depends on if the last kid went mad with cutting power
moody@lemmings.world · 3 pts · 227d
Left handed dcissors used by a right handed person suck though
tehmics@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 227d
Now you understand our plight
notabot@piefed.social · 13 pts · 228d
Left handed rulers are also a thing, and surprisingly helpful even if you're right handed. The scale runs from the right to the left, so if you hold it with your left hand the zero is on the stick out to the right.
ramble81@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 228d
Cutting is just something I learned to do right handed for that exact reason.
orbitz@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 227d
Growing up I always had the green left handed ones for elementary, not even sure I've noticed in 30+ years besides when the Xmas wrapping paper was on awkward side that I'm now just used to using right handed ones. Some issues with wrapping this recent season ....
I always played some sports different handed though was never good at either side so didn't seem to make much of a difference but say golf clubs feel way better right handed, baseball I can never remember which one I want to throw with.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 228d
Left handed scissors sounds like one of those fake tools, like a long weight or blinker fluid.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 228d
They're life changing for us lefties. Blades are meant to be squeezed together with the force from your thumb but right handed blades are backwards for lefties, meaning will pull the blades apart when we squeeze. Not saying you don't know this but someone might learn it!
kevin2107@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 227d
right hander, get him!
notaviking@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 228d
Once bought a left handed scissor, did not know up until then there was such a thing, as a right handed how the fuck do you cut stuff, it was the crappiest cut ever
cmac@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 228d
The same way I use a computer mouse, suboptimally with my off hand, but it was the only option when I was learning as a child and now I'm stuck because it works well enough. I think most lefties have decent capability with their right hand because it's occasionally unavoidable to use it for something.
miked@piefed.social · 2 pts · 227d
I started using my left hand for the mouse due to carpel tunnel syndrome. Never bothered with changing the settings to left handed so I guess I'm using it sub-optimally.
Because of my less than optimal grip I prefer mice that are for either hand. They are not always easy to find.
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 228d
That is how us lefties feel using right-handed scissors.
AlfredoJohn@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 226d
You have to uncomfortably hold it and push the top blade with your thumb intentionally so the blades stay together properly. That or you just have to use the other hand if the scissors are to loose, its a pain in the ass lol
Linktank@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 228d
A lefty that doesn't know how to clench the blades is no lefty I want to associate with.
KuroiKaze@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 226d
So as a left-hander you get a small bonus to your brain from being forced to use your right hand a lot and a right-hand design world. When you buy especially left-handed made things, you actually rob yourself of that advantage of gaining that ambidexterity. So I don't have a good hand and a bad hand. I have a fine dexterity hand in my left and a raw power hand in my right since that's traditionally what I've opened doors and other things with my whole life.
Whether or not I play a sport, with a certain hand varies by the activity
So in baseball I throw and catch left-handed
In ping pong and badminton and other racket sports, I can play either hand but generally I favor my right
When boxing or doing MMA I typically take a right-handed stance because I want my precision parrying hand out front and I want my raw power hand in back
For that reason I also shoot pool right-handed (left hand in front)
In volleyball, I hit left-handed
So yeah, generally I discourage my fellow Lefty brothers from doing a bunch of things to specifically accommodate themselves and instead embrace dual use that the righties will never have.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 226d
Left-Handedness is a spectrum, from people who can only use their left hand.for everything, to people who only do a few things left-handed, but are naturally right handed for everything else. Then there are people like you, who can do some things lefty, some right, and some ambidextrous.
I am fully right-handed, except that I write with my left hand. I can't do anything else left-handed. I throw, swing a bat, play musical instruments, etc. all right handed. Yet, people see me writing, and say I'm left-handed. Even my mother, who should understand that I'm not really left-handed, tells people I'm a Lefty.
I'm right-handed. I just write left-handed, for some unfathomable reason. That does not make me left-handed.
matlag@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 226d
Same here, ambidexterity power! Though I'm regularly told "You're not so much left-handed, it's more like you have 2 left hands…"
WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 225d
Ambisinistrous!
KuroiKaze@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 226d
Thanks to everyone who responded to this comment when it had all that poor formatting, I have subsequently gone back and fixed it
InFerNo@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 227d
✌️👉👍
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 227d
Buy a left and a right handed scissor, then you can play crabs...