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What is a PHB? I searched online, and found that it could mean bachelor's in philosophy (PhB) or polyhydroxybutyrate ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyhydroxybutyrate ), but neither makes much sense in this context.
This is not a criticism, but I’m amused that someone with an HN account as old as yours is just now finding out what “PHB” means.
Well, our brains are asymmetrical in terms of function, and our bodies are asymmetrical internally too (heart, liver). So, which came first? Are we mostly right handed because of left brain functionality (each side of brain controls opposite side of body), or is handedness innate in some other way and perhaps influences brain sidedness? Or, are these two things unrelated?
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Im also like that..randomly mixed. I write left, but use scissors always with right. Throw and kick are right, but swing and bat is left. Computer mouse left. Taking a phone call is always left hand on left ear...but holding phone to use or text is always right hand. Self check out? Back to left hand for that mostly Lol. If a backpack is on one shoulder it feels weird if it's not on my left shoulder despite being mor…
I thought that scissors were made to be right handed, and you need a 'reversed' pair for left handed people. Or is that a scam?
Bias against left-handed people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_against_left-handed_peopl...
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There's a slight pressure you put on the hinge when closing them. The handedness aligns the pressure to a closing motion laterally (keeping the blades together) as opposed to opening (pushing the cutting edges apart). They do in fact make a difference. Trimming my beard with beard scissors requires a bit of a strange grip in my left hand to actually cut well when I switch sides.
Nail scissors can be quite the experience for a left-hander, instead of achieving the proper cutting/shearing motion it will just try to bend your nails due to the widened gap between the blades. A bit less painful but also annoying is cutting paper for the same reason.
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Im also like that..randomly mixed. I write left, but use scissors always with right. Throw and kick are right, but swing and bat is left. Computer mouse left. Taking a phone call is always left hand on left ear...but holding phone to use or text is always right hand. Self check out? Back to left hand for that mostly Lol. If a backpack is on one shoulder it feels weird if it's not on my left shoulder despite being mor…
I thought that scissors were made to be right handed, and you need a 'reversed' pair for left handed people. Or is that a scam?
Just throwing in my left handed anecdote here: the bottom of my hand was always covered in pencil graphite when I was in school because your hand drags over what you've been writing from left -> right. Also ring binders were a pain in the ass (your hand is blocked at the left margin lol)
I'm also left handed and this was never an issue for me. You hold the pencil out from your fingers thus your hand is sitting slightly below the line that is being written, traveling over unused paper constantly. Only people that do that weird claw thing have that problem.
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I thought that scissors were made to be right handed, and you need a 'reversed' pair for left handed people. Or is that a scam?
The thing with scissors is, as a left handed person, you'll never find the "reversed" type so you learn to just use "regular" scissors pretty early on. This is probably true with a lot of things, honestly. Yeah I might theoretically be able to cut better with a left handed pair of scissors but since I've never come across a pair I never bothered. Things get much more interesting with more complex things like golf, sn…
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The thing with scissors is, as a left handed person, you'll never find the "reversed" type so you learn to just use "regular" scissors pretty early on. This is probably true with a lot of things, honestly. Yeah I might theoretically be able to cut better with a left handed pair of scissors but since I've never come across a pair I never bothered. Things get much more interesting with more complex things like golf, sn…
if you look far and wide you can find left hand firearms components but the price climbs up
And lots of people use “sinister” as a stand-in for “malicious” or “evil” https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/39092/how-did-si...