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Were you punished for being left-handed at school?

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  • #52
    superfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 900 ✭✭✭superfish


    yup I was forced to write with my right hand but I still kick with my left foot I feel like some super mutant freak


  • #53
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,508 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    superfish wrote: »
    yup I was forced to write with my right hand but I still kick with my left foot I feel like some super mutant freak

    I thought attitudes to homosexuality had improved :(


  • #54
    Asphyxia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,740 ✭✭✭Asphyxia


    Nope! I'm a lefty but was never punished for using it. I think that happened way before my time, I'm only 19 :rolleyes: It's a mad to think that people were hurt for that!


  • #55
    fivestar
    Registered Users Posts: 54 ✭✭fivestar


    No I'm right handed...


  • #56
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Cheap Thrills! wrote: »
    I hate Nuns, evil Penguin armies.

    Enemies of innocent citeogs. :mad:

    I'm right-handed although I always text with my left. I can text much faster than if I use my right hand.

    I was really cack-handed at crafts at school and the oul' bitch of a teacher (not a nun, but a really horrible hag nuntheless (!))... we had in sixth class looked at my handiwork and asked if I was a citeog. The real lefties in my class were always much better than me at crafts so I don't know what she was shíting on about...

    I think citeog is a horrible-sounding word!


  • #57
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,104 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    pickarooney wrote: »
    5 of the last 7 US presidents have been left-handed, apparently. That's what happens when you don't keep the southpaws down - they take over!

    citeogs out


  • #58
    fontanalis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭fontanalis


    Back then ireland needed to dragged into the next century; the 19th.


  • #59
    fontanalis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭fontanalis


    byhookorbycrook wrote: »
    had my hand tied to back of desk (the old heavy ones) and hit on each side of the face until I tried to use my right (I was 4.)
    It was the only time my mother ever questioned "the holy nuns."

    I am on a personal crusade to ban the use of the word citeóg for left handed which is from the Irish word for "awkward."

    Is it any wonder the country is a basket case?


  • #60
    prinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    Never for using the left hand (mother was though, ruler across the hand for her she's still a lefty so it never worked.) Did get into trouble/punished for other equally stupid reasons however.

    On the other hand, pun intended, it's painful to watch a hurler lead with the left. Just looks so feckin awkward :p


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  • #61
    rain on
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭rain on


    I wasn't but my father was - well I don't know if he was punished as such but he was forced to write with his right hand anyway. His handwriting is absolutely atrocious as a result.


  • #62
    xuan xuan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15 ✭xuan xuan


    Was never punished in school.

    The only thing I was made to do right-handed was to use a knife, by my Mam, like wot proper people do in restaurants.


  • #63
    Kasabian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    I am right-handed and when at school I played a lot of GAA, I play hurling left sided.There was a priest at the time who this used to upset and at training he used to try and get me to hold the hurley with my right hand and play right-handed. His fix was that I would stand in a corner of the field and "cut the daisies", literally swinging the hurley on the right side and cutting the heads off daisies and buttercups. This continued for a few weeks until I told him to fcuk off and let me do it my own way.

    Funnily enough his madness worked as I became proficient in hurling and striking with either side.

    My All-Ireland medal makes me proud and always reminds me of this man.


  • #64
    Azureus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,130 ✭✭✭Azureus


    I wasnt as I went to primary in the 90's and it was all kindsa illegal then.

    My dad went to a Christian brothers school in the 30's tho and his hand was mangled from what they used to do to him :( misplaced bones and everything that weren't properly treated after the beatings he used to get for being a leftie. He was forced to write with his right hand an did so for the rest of his life-his writings shockin tho!!


  • #65
    whadyasay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭whadyasay


    Was forced to use my right. Now I write like a doctor.


  • #66
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,902 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Stories about left handed children basically being abused into writing with their right hand upset me and anger me.:mad: And to think that this abuse went on right up to the 1980s - Ireland of course being generations behind other civilised countries.

    F*cking religious b*astards - yet another thing to hold against these child abusers. Ireland was truly a backward country mired in a theocracy and all its mumbo jumbo rubbish.

    Problem is, most schools are still religious owner and run and this is simply not acceptable.

    I'm a leftie and proud of it!:D


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  • #67
    m@cc@
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    ArtSmart wrote: »
    your third option is 'born normal'???

    GTFOutta here.

    It was clearly tongue-in-cheek.


  • #68
    Cheap Thrills!
    Registered Users Posts: 2,723 ✭✭✭Cheap Thrills!


    Aglomerado wrote: »
    I'm right-handed although I always text with my left. I can text much faster than if I use my right hand.

    I was really cack-handed at crafts at school and the oul' bitch of a teacher (not a nun, but a really horrible hag nuntheless (!))... we had in sixth class looked at my handiwork and asked if I was a citeog. The real lefties in my class were always much better than me at crafts so I don't know what she was shíting on about...

    I think citeog is a horrible-sounding word!

    har har har !!!!! ;):p


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