|  JDKlein76 | May 12, 2007 4:48pm | | It seems that anytime my being left handed comes up in a discussion with friends or family or whoever; eventually someone mentions that statistically left handed people live five to seven years less than right handers. First of all, if it where true, why would that be a great thing to bring up in front of a left handed person?! It doesn't piss me of at the person but it doesn't make me think the better of them! Second, it's just a bunch of crap! In fact, MSN's home page just had an article on it in the last week or so and there was mention of a study saying there is no real evidence to prove this theory is true given the studies they've done. Anyone else see or hear anything on this? |
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Sponsor |  cynthia-nekomata | May 12, 2007 7:15pm | No. The actual reasoning behind this may be the (unconfirmed source) 2.500 (that's 2,500 to you Americans) left-handed deaths a year resulting from the misuse of products intended for right-handed persons. In addition, apparently left-handers have a wider variation of mental capacity than right handed persons, both a greater percentage of geniuses and of... mentally handicapped persons. There is more stuff.
Note: All of the above is unsubstantiated but repeated frequently, and it just may be substantiated. |
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| | SurferStan | Jan 12, 11:41am | | I read it was possible that we live shorter lives because we live in a world largely designed for right handers. This in turn makes us more clumsy, and therefore more accident prone. Have you seen how clumsy a right hander is when trying to use left handed products - hilarious :) |
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| | mikebussy3334 | Mar 13, 10:17am | | I try to buy tools and things like that for left handers so I DON'T DIE! We should get a tax write for this. |
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Sponsor | | cynthia-nekomata | Mar 15, 6:05am | We're the unknown minority, don't'cha know. Discriminated against religiously for more than a thousand years. Don't get any benefits for the suffering either. Partly because it is not (at least not entirely) hereditary.
Such, as they say, is life. |
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|  axileon | Mar 29, 11:20pm | | well, maybe we are using more of our brains? that's why we live shorter? mental and physical exhaustion for using products made mostly for right handers... the classical example is car doors! |
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