This show abuse more than anything. He was likely forced to use his right hand growing up and has never fully recovered.
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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.
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.
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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 🤷♂️
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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.
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
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How sinister!
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
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...
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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.
Maybe the camera is flipping the image like a mirror in the most inconvenient of times.
wizard do things
He was only ever sold right-handed pens his whole life.
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