holding pens.

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i'm watching some crap tv program about designing a new pen, and the design that the guy's proposing wouldn't possibly work for me cause i 'hold my pen wrong'.

i used to have to have a special finger guide on my pencil when i was in primary school, cause they didn't think that i would possibly make it in life holding my pencil the way i did :rolleyes:

what's the deal with that? i can still write.

anyone else hold their pen funny, and feel the oppressive force of the education system's disapproval?

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I apparently hold mine far too tightly and also press on much too hard. I do sometimes get blisters on my hand if my nails are too long, particularly in exams or when I'm writing a lot.

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My mum's always said that I hold my pen weird, I don't think I do though

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I was writing with a pen last night, and I got a horrible blister on my finger.

Should get them pens with the rubber cushion thingys.

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I hold my pen "wrong". And I am left handed. Someone PLEASE explain why being left handed used to be taboo.

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I'm left handed too. I don't know why it was taboo, I'm just glad it's not now. We're supposed to be more creative (which I go against, but still...).

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I'm left-handed too!

Erm... never really thought about how i held my pen. My writing's crap anyway. Typing is the way forward!

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Originally posted by the doc horatio
I hold my pen "wrong". And I am left handed. Someone PLEASE explain why being left handed used to be taboo.

Sign of the devil or some such.

You freak you.

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I must have something on the brain tonight. I thought that the title of the thread was holding penis.

My sister got told off a lot at school for holding her pen funny. She's left handed too.

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Originally posted by MoonShiner
I must have something on the brain tonight. I thought that the title of the thread was holding penis.

i hold my penises funny too.

but they didn't give me anything for that at primary school.

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I too am left handed and I used to have a guidance teacher who was left handed. She used to curve her hand to write. It looked sore and weird

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Originally posted by kaffrin
i hold my penises funny too.

but they didn't give me anything for that at primary school.

:eek2:

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Hmmm, now gripping those too tightly could be a slight problem and could cause some pain.

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i think i hold my pen alright, but i eat with the knife and fork in the wrong hands

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I'm left handed and I've been told I hold my pen weirdly but not in the curled round way that most lefters do.

Also when I play spit I deal my cards from the other side than others do.

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It's because in the days of fountain pens and real ink, if you wrote left-handed you would smudge your writing with the side of your hand. There might have been some association with evil as well, i'm not sure.

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I hold my pen strangely, i also write the wrong way up apparently. Going from bottom to top or something....which ever way is wrong

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Originally posted by paperBprincess
i think i hold my pen alright, but i eat with the knife and fork in the wrong hands

Ditto.

Though actually, I think I do hold my pen a bit weird. And I always always always press too hard. Exams are a bitch

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i hold my pen correctly.

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Originally posted by Joey Potter
I apparently hold mine far too tightly and also press on much too hard. I do sometimes get blisters on my hand if my nails are too long, particularly in exams or when I'm writing a lot.

I do that, get blisters alot. i also hold it funny and i am left handed...

This thread reminds me of the film "idle hands"

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I used to hold my writing implements correctly until around 6 years ago I broke my hand and had to have an op to have the bones fused together. Since then I can't write for long periods of time without major cramp and pain. Oh and I now hold the pen "incorrectly".

As for left handedness. Not so much evil just a real pain in the arse for companies to make left-handed pens, screwdrivers, keys, cutlery, etc..... :rolleyes:

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Originally posted by NinjaMaster


As for left handedness. Not so much evil just a real pain in the arse for companies to make left-handed pens, screwdrivers, keys, cutlery, etc..... :rolleyes:

I've never needed any of the crap... oddly, writing is the only thing i do left-handed... everything else (e.g. cutlery) i do in the right-handed way. And my right hand/arm is my strongest. Weird.

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I'm very right-handed in everything I do. Except when I eat. The fork is in my right hand when I'm led to believe the correct way is the knive in your right hand.

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i'm right handed, and hold my pen weirdly :-\

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i dont know how i hold my pen, but i do know i hold it to hard as i get blisters sometimes and i press down on the paper to hard.

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Originally posted by MoonShiner
I must have something on the brain tonight. I thought that the title of the thread was holding penis.

I'm so glad I wasn't the only one

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Left-handedness as a sign of evil comes from the Latin word for it 'sinister' (Ambi-dextruous actually means something along the lines of 'both right')
It was viewed in "the olden days" as an indication of evil because it was unusual - society was, and still is, mainly right-handed, and people unfortunately have a tendency to distrust and dislike the unusual.
Although of course not many people wrote in those days, and it's more noticeable that you're left-handed if you're say ploughing a field, than sitting at a desk.
Re. pen holding, I get writing callouses, but probably due to the fact that I write quite a lot rather than the way I hold a pen. I'm nearly ambi-dex. because of playing violin/piano.

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Originally posted by the doc horatio
I hold my pen "wrong". And I am left handed. Someone PLEASE explain why being left handed used to be taboo.

Because "the devil sits on your left shoulder". The theory was that the devil controlled your left hand, therefore it's evil and left-handers were lead by satanic instincts.

But all the best people are lefties. Go us!

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yea i'm left handed and my hand goes down at a weird angle wen writin, i think i do it to stop my hand getting ink marks as we write goin along with the ink, not the opposite direction

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Originally posted by turlough
yea i'm left handed and my hand goes down at a weird angle wen writin, i think i do it to stop my hand getting ink marks as we write goin along with the ink, not the opposite direction

Yes, I do the same and it stops me smudging my ink pen. Looks weird to "conventional" righties tho!

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there's a lot of lefties here.

considering only 1 in 10 people are leftie.

maybe left-handed people are more interested in threads about holding pens