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Wizard did it
ah hell diddly ding dong crap
Pretty sure Ned is the Devil
And sexy
Possibly learned to use right, realised he was a lefty, can’t be bothered to learn it with left
I played guitar and goalie in hockey right handed because that’s what you can find used.
It’s always weird that I find the idea of fretting with my right hand to be horrifying, even though it’s probably generally more dexterous than my left hand.
Guitar is a relatively ambidextrous instrument, yet the thought of flipping one over and swapping what each hand does is nightmarish
Fretting isn’t the part that requires dexterity. It’s the picking. Picking requires much more fine motor control than fretting.
That’s why right handed people fret with their left hand. It’s the weak hand and fretting requires less dexterity, leaving the dominant hand free to do the hard part.
If you picked up a left handed guitar, you could almost definitely figure out the fretting within a few minutes. But you’d have to seriously relearn how to pick with your left hand, if you were even able to.
And god said, to Noah, “There’s gonna be a floody floody”
Rain, came down, it started to get floody floody
Ned is a sweet guy. He’s probably ambi-dextrose. /s
This is literally what a lot of the boomers were forced to learn to do. Lefties became ambidextrous or got called the devil in a not fun way.
I am a millennial and I know people they tried to convince to write right handed in elementary school.
Was going to post, there was a time in history left handed people were considered odd and unacceptable so they would often be abused into right handed. Especially in religious ran schools. So Ned is probably old enough to have the wonderful yardstick across the knuckles treatment.
I use both hands and their pronouns are those hands them hands
It’s where the word sinister comes from. In Latin it just means left, left hand side. Then in Medieval times the right got positive associations and the left negative which lead to left is bad then to evil. Hence sinister means evil. And why left handedness became associated with the devil.
Makes you think about the word right, right?
I’m pretty sure that’s literally what happened in the show isn’t it?
Look, let’s just agree that while Ned isn’t left handed, he has a right to be left handed.
His left hand is his smitin’ hand, he uses it only when somebody needs a smite.
it’s a lemmy liberal
I recall some of my teachers (boomer generation, I’m an old millennial) said they would get a sharp crack across the knuckles with a ruler should they dare to use their left hands with which to write. Seemed more common amongst the ones from Quebec.
My wife’s mom was left handed, but forced to write using her right hand (in the Netherlands in the 1950s).
It actually helped her when she got some degenerative nerve disease since her right hand was the last thing to lose control, so she could write even when she couldn’t speak. 😟
I had a Great Uncle that was a lefty and he was forced to write with his right hand. He had the most beautiful cursive penmanship you ever saw. So flowing and elegant. It was perfect. I can’t imagine his struggle to be that good.
Both my parents were lefties also, (what are those odds?). And I was the only one of the us 4 kids to be so afflicted. And in the early 1960s when I learned to write, I drove my teachers to the brink of madness being a lefty. I was constantly admonished to keep my paper properly vertical and not turned 90 degrees. And my letters never had the correct slant to them, in cursive the letters need to slant forward just a bit. Mine tended to slant backwards. I also often got lower marks on my papers because of my left handed penmanship. And to be fair, my penmanship is still poor to this day. Writing in the western world is not made for us members of the Bar Sinister.
As far as Ned owning the Leftorum and being right handed, that is the joke within the joke.
My grandmother had said when she was learning to write, they would tie her left hand behind her back to force her to use her right.
This was common in France too.
Chinese people too
Literally where the word “sinister” comes from. It used to mean left-handed.
It’s a Catholic school thing but they’ve been somewhat pushed out of education in the 60s’s quiet revolution.
Funny thing about guitar:
I am left handed. I play a standard guitar, neck in left hand. I have since the late 1900s. I’ve taught several right-handed people guitar, more than half of them want a “lefty” guitar to put the fretboard in their right. At least one was willing to try to play a normal guitar upside down, not restrung Jimi Hendrix style. So I’m not convinced we don’t just have guitars backwards.
I made the transition from trumpet to french horn just fine as well.
the late 1900s
sighs
Drink it in. Everyone in Hansen are in their 40s now.
Late 1900s is better than mid 1900s…
I’m also left handed and play standard guitar. I can’t imagine using my right hand to hit the fret board and it seems like it would be way harder than strumming.
I’ve also been playing since the late 20th century. It took me years to realize how much more comfortable it was to play with the strap shortened and the neck pointed up a little so the pickups sit around midriff level. (This was crystallized by playing a classical guitar for the first time.) Do people find a low-slung guitar comfortable to play or are hundreds of professional guitarists doing it because it looks cool? No wonder people complain about bar chords!
I feel like when Blink-182 were peak popularity around the turn of the century, they brought with them incredibly low hanging guitars. I think they’re also giants and so it appeared even lower. But punk and it’s offshoots tended to do the low guitar thing.
And so for me, when I was in a band as a kid, I sacrificed comfort and some of my ability to play to look cool. The number one rule of combat (and life) is: Always Look Cool.
They do it because it looks cool. And their playing suffers because if it.
When playing seated, I rest the guitar on my right leg, neck slightly up. Standing, or my favorite, reclining, I prefer to have the guitar nearly vertical kind of like a cello.
This is the problem with lefties - endless purity tests…
No true Lefthandsman
