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RE: Post 10 Random Facts About Yourself
September 16, 2015 at 3:22 pm
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(September 15, 2015 at 3:12 pm)MentalGiant Wrote: (September 15, 2015 at 2:30 pm)Alex K Wrote: 7. In 12th grade geography, I wrote my notes in mirror writing out of boredom I am also able to mirror write/draw! Not a lot of people can. My Catholic school teachers thought the fact I was ambidextrous and could write in perfect mirror with my left hand was "concerning" and strongly discouraged me from doing it. I have refined that ability and use it in my art and sometimes embroidery patterns when I'm sewing something.
Haha, did they try an exorcism to cast out the daimones sinistras? 
I'm not ambidextrous though, unfortunately... My father in law is, which he says comes in real handy when you're a truck mechanic.
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RE: Post 10 Random Facts About Yourself
September 16, 2015 at 3:32 pm
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That sounds a lot like my Uncle (Mum's brother) actually. He was left-handed as a child, and his school forced him to write with his right hand because apparently it was devil-ish to be left-handed back then. He became abidextrous through being forced to right with his right hand.
I'm left-handed too, and oddly there were so many lefties in the school I went to. Literally 1/3 of the kids I knew at school were lefties, it was bizarre. A Catholic school too, I'm surprised the teachers and school priests weren't flipping.
Fun facts - Lefties (on average) die 7 years younger than righties and a disproportionate amount of homosexuals are lefties.
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RE: Post 10 Random Facts About Yourself
September 16, 2015 at 4:22 pm
(September 16, 2015 at 3:32 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: Fun facts - Lefties (on average) die 7 years younger than righties and a disproportionate amount of homosexuals are lefties.
So sinister.
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RE: Post 10 Random Facts About Yourself
September 16, 2015 at 5:35 pm
(September 16, 2015 at 8:20 am)ignoramus Wrote: (September 15, 2015 at 7:13 pm)MTL Wrote: That's so terrible. I'm so sorry, Boru.
That's the last time them two "friends" will break his nose! Amirite Boru? 
You aren't, and I consider your response monumentally inappropriate.
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RE: Post 10 Random Facts About Yourself
September 16, 2015 at 5:39 pm
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(September 16, 2015 at 3:32 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: Fun facts - Lefties (on average) die 7 years younger than righties
No, that's as implausible as it is made up.
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RE: Post 10 Random Facts About Yourself
September 16, 2015 at 5:41 pm
If lefties die sooner and righties live longer, does that mean ambidextrous people will live forever or will they die in adolescence?
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RE: Post 10 Random Facts About Yourself
September 16, 2015 at 5:52 pm
(September 16, 2015 at 5:35 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (September 16, 2015 at 8:20 am)ignoramus Wrote: That's the last time them two "friends" will break his nose! Amirite Boru?
You aren't, and I consider your response monumentally inappropriate.
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RE: Post 10 Random Facts About Yourself
September 16, 2015 at 6:37 pm
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(September 16, 2015 at 3:32 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: That sounds a lot like my Uncle (Mum's brother) actually. He was left-handed as a child, and his school forced him to write with his right hand because apparently it was devil-ish to be left-handed back then. He became abidextrous through being forced to right with his right hand.
I'm left-handed too, and oddly there were so many lefties in the school I went to. Literally 1/3 of the kids I knew at school were lefties, it was bizarre. A Catholic school too, I'm surprised the teachers and school priests weren't flipping.
Fun facts - Lefties (on average) die 7 years younger than righties and a disproportionate amount of homosexuals are lefties.
That sounds almost like a geographically-related, genetic anomaly...like the small towns in Brazil, India, and Nigeria,
where a high percentage of the population are twins. No I am not making this up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A2ndido_God%C3%B3i
also, Kodinhi, India:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodinhi
and in south-west Nigeria:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo-Ora
if a disproportionate number of homosexuals are really left-handed,
that, IMHO, obviously lends credibility to the theory that homosexuality might indeed be genetic.
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RE: Post 10 Random Facts About Yourself
September 16, 2015 at 7:29 pm
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I don't buy homosexuality being genetic personally, because I think if it was then there would be similar geographical "hotspots" where loads of people would be. It would be like the blue eye gene, more common than brown among Nothern Europeans but virtually non-existent among some groups.
It's inborn and not changeable certainly, but I don't think it's genetic.
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RE: Post 10 Random Facts About Yourself
September 16, 2015 at 8:11 pm
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(September 16, 2015 at 7:29 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: It's inborn and not changeable certainly, but I don't think it's genetic.
By what mechanism do you suggest something is congenital but not genetic?
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