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This show abuse more than anything. He was likely forced to use his right hand growing up and has never fully recovered.
Spanked it right out of him…
THAT GUY IS SPANKING WITH HIS LEFT HAND!
I haven’t LOL’d in a while. Thank you.
It’s clear that right conversion therapy doesn’t really work.
Yeah, that episode was basically making the point that he’s from a generation where being different was considered wrong, and abusive behavior corrections were an option.
The boomers went through some stuff. Ned included.
I am gen-X / xenial and I had a friend who, while in elementary school, was forcibly made right handed. One day when we were in our late 30s saw me doing something with my left hand and said that make so much sense and realized he was actually left-handed.
I watched some movie set in the boomer era where a kid’s dad died suddenly, and at the open-casket funeral, he saw his dad’s dead body and screamed and ran, and all the adults just scolded him and yelled at him. On the day of his own father’s funeral.
I asked my dad “is that how it was like for everyone back then?” and he said “yup”.
yeah my dad was a leftie forced to be a righty.
I had a teacher in high school who was ambidextrous because of nun-based leftie abuse.
Tbf, if they didn’t show him writing with his right hand, this would all be acceptable.
I write with my left hand, but play guitar right handed, pitch a baseball right handed, do basically everything right handed, except usung my left to write and do knife work in the kitchen.
Left handed folks are often ambidextrous.
Left handed folks are often ambidextrous.
Pick a side already!
You right-handers force us into this position!
There’s only one thing you use everyday that’s made for the left hand and it’s flushing the toilet!
Think of how that feels!
In europe almost all toilets have flush button in the middle of the tank
In the Europe I have been living my entire life in, positions of flush buttons are completely random and different on almost every toilet.
Where?
Both my toilets have the flushing thing on the right side.
NOW THEY TOOK THE TOILETS FROM US
Most things cater to right-handedness, there isn’t much of a choice 🤷♂️
Yeah, I used scissors as a main tool in my manufacturing job that I had nearly a decade, …many tools are right handed. Even driving a stick shift is right handed work.
You adapt.
One oddity for me at least: I’m left handed, but right eye dominant; which means I aim a gun or draw a bow with my right hand, to line up with my right eye.
ay i’m right handed but left eye dominant so i shoot left handed. hello chiral twin!
I’m cross-dominant and left eye dominant but when I draw bows I use my right hand, pistols I use my right hand, but rifles I use left handed
I can’t explain why beyond that it’s just comfortable to do this way
Left handed folks are often ambidextrous.Not to mention he’s religious and back a number of years, you weren’t allowed to be left handed, so maybe that is why he writes with his right hand in the scene
I had a teacher in high school who wrote poorly with both hands, he explained, because he went to a catholic school where they slapped his left hand with a ruler when wrote with it.
Yep, same situation for me. “Ambidextrous” roughly means “two right hands,” so I like to joke that I’m ambisinistral - I’ve got two left hands.
You sound like you’re right handed and just happen to write with your left. Lol
But really, your “definition” wouldn’t be ambidextrous. That’s for people who can do most tasks pretty much equally with either hand.
You would be known as “cross dominant”. That’s where you’re better with one hand or the other, depending on what task it is.
I’m a fairly standard lefty myself, Im able to do most things pretty well with my right hand, but mostly always best with my left.
Technically you are mixed-handed as you use one hand mainly for particular actions, just different hands. Ambidexterity is being able to do anything equally well with either hand.
To be more exact, you are “criss-cross-applesauced” but it’s a technical term.
i prefer the term “ambisinister”
That’s actually the technical term for being equally kack-handed with both hands. Right-handed propaganda, I know.
I’m right handed for writing but I prefer left for a lot of stuff. I ride primarily left forward on skateboard and snowboard. Throughout my childhood years everyone fucking hated my lefty hockey stick especially since the three lefties played right handed. Some games they forced me to either play right hand or sit out too.
Left foot forward IS the ‘righthanded’ way. Left foot forward is called regular stance, right foot forward is called goofy stance.
https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-find-your-skateboarding-stance-goofy-foot-vs-regular
TIL I’m skating and snowboarding goofy, though I don’t do those much
I’m riding bike left foot front, which is apparently considered goofy in BMX world
oh I guess the people hassling me about it were the backwards ones
When need was young, you weren’t allowed to BE left handed, even if you were. They forced you to do things right handedly, so Ned learned to do the things he does with his right hand, but in his soul he is left handed, as he’s always had to work really hard at learning things with his right. He wanted to change the world for the better.
My dad is like that. He writes with his right hand because he was beaten at school by the nuns if he tried to do anything with his left hand, but he essentially does everything else with his left. It was quite a traumatic experience for him.
His parents never would’ve done that. Wouldn’t. Couldn’t.
While you are most definitely correct his parents wouldn’t do that; schools back then absolutely did enforce that and he clearly did still go through school.
Need Flanders is definitely old enough to have possibly been forced to work with his right hand, meaning that while his left is his dominant he was forced to use his right enough to be effectively ambidextrous.
I am cross dominant. I do somethings right handed, some things left handed, and there’s a few things I can do with either. This blew the mind of every elementary school teacher I had until 4th grade because by then I had the vocabulary to explain myself.
For many years I only felt comfortable using right handed scissors in my left hand because my kindergarten teacher refused to give me a left handed pair since I write with my right hand. I argued with every adult that tried to teach me how to play baseball because I naturally line up lefty at the plate but I throw better right handed. Turns out I can bat switch but fuck them, they didn’t know that.
I remember being out to dinner with my family and my brother was joking with me about how I would have to struggle to cut up my food being left handed because how the seats were arranged. I just switched to my right and him and a couple other people were like… What?.. I didn’t even know that people used a specific hand for their utensils.
We never had left handed stuff when I was in school so I guess I just learned on my own.
Oddly, using a fork is something that only feels comfortable with my left hand. I can eat right handed but it feels off somehow.
I’m like that with putting my contacts in. For whatever reason I can do it right handed without any problem but when I use my left hand it’s a shitshow.
I wonder how much of handedness is really “real”. I’m sure there’s a bit of a preference there, but a lot of it might be also training.
For example, I started using my phone in my “off-hand” years ago to keep my “main-hand” free for other stuff. Turns out I do more on my phone than on my free hand, and now I’m much better with my “off-hand” with my phone than with my “main-hand”.
n=1 of course, but my dad was forced to write right-handed in school (early 60’s and an old-school teacher for those days). The result was more punishment as no matter how he tried, he simply couldn’t (and still cannot) write very readable with his right hand. So no, I don’t think practice is enough to make somebody ambidextrous. Might work for some, but certainly not for everybody.
I’m righty for everything except specifically throwing a Frisbee. I just can’t do it with my right hand, unless it’s an overhand chuck. Makes disc golf a bitch because no matter how I throw, it usually breaks right from the spin.
Some left handed guitarists play right handed just because left handed guitars are much harder to find, or they just string it like Jimi Hendrix lol. I’m sure that’s true of other tools and hobbies.
a friend of mine learned how to play upside down as well so he could play any guitar. not to the degree he played lefties but it was still impressive
Yep. My brother is left handed and he plays right handed because it’s just easier to get a right handed guitar
My school did this to me in the 2000s :(
Why :( ?
We have a skill that most don’t have. Give someone who’s single hand dominant only, a steak. Watch as they constantly have to shuffle the silverware back and forth. Or go play like baseball or racquetball or tennis or badminton, etc. and just keep swapping the hand, it’ll throw them off.
shuffle the silverware
This is a telltale sign of an American. In other regions everyone uses both hands. https://youtu.be/fypq2qhRZnI
Oh! I had no idea that was very much an Americanism! Next time I travel overseas I’m definitely going to pay more attention to that.
How sinister!
I’m 70 years old, so maybe things have changed, but my left handed brother was FORCED to use his right hand for everything, as we were growing up. Apparently left handedness is a sign of the devil, or some such crap. As a result, he was effectively ambidextrous, as an adult.
Which country did you grow up in out of curiosity? They definitely did this in soviet union because it was more optimal to not have to design anything for minority of left handed people.
I grew up in Australia, but my parents are Ukrainian, so this makes sense.
a couple years ago some friends on a community driven wargame community and I were engaging in a worldbuilding discussion, creating factions and armies and such for our world
I Said “Im going to have a leftist insurgency” and everyone groaned. "why do you have to make it political cant we just have silly scifi tropes
“Who said anything about politics, 95% of your units are holding their weapons in their right hand. this is a left handed faction”
them
It was Lego, by the way…
I love that their assumption was that their highly fractured society going to war with one another wasn’t political. What do people think politics is?
The original fracture in this society was a disagreement about whether socks and sandals is a fashion faux pas. Then someone brought up pineapple on pizza…
Whenever you notice something like that, a wizard did it.
You’re welcome
Many older southpaws actually know how to write with their right hand, as teachers used to force the southpaw students to learn it
Especially Lisa! But especially Bart…
Boy, I really hope someone got fired for that blunder.
Or paddled.
A wizard did it.
A wizard spanked him.
He was only ever sold right-handed pens his whole life.
wizard do things
