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DeathWish · January 2010

What hand do you use to eat? ie, what hand is your fork in when you eat? >_>

MuckyDuckBrendon · January 2010

right hand

DeathWish · January 2010

MuckyDuckBrendon wrote:

right hand

YAY im not the only freak xD

SC`s Stars II · January 2010

I use both XD When I'm doing homework during lunch I use my left hand. but in history class when my right hand gets tired of writing i switch and write with my left. I usually write in cursive with my left hand, and print with my right. o.O I know I'm weird

BuffyBoarding · January 2010

right =P

DeathWish · January 2010

CoasterCannons wrote:

I use both XD When I'm doing homework during lunch I use my left hand. but in history class when my right hand gets tired of writing i switch and write with my left. I usually write in cursive with my left hand, and print with my right. o.O I know I'm weird

I mean only when you eat xP nothing to do with when you write. Apparently everyone here eats with their left hand. And people were making fun of me for eating with a right.. i was like o_O; woah didnt know there was a right and wrong way to eat XD

SarahJohnson · January 2010

I eat with my right hand. People are either right-handed or left-handed. You tend to eat with your dominant hand. I'm horribly right-handed, but some people are right and left-handed. I can't do much with my left hand (other than type, lol). I think that the majority of people are right-handed, so you'd be in the larger group.

DeathWish · January 2010

Actually, i found that in Britain, it is proper manners to eat with the fork in the left and knife in the right xD and that you are never to have the prongs[pointy bits of the fork] point up while you have the knife in the other hand and that when you eat[sip] soup for a spoon, you sip it from the side and not the end o_O and I'm sat loling as i read all of this xD I was clearly never taught any of this >_> I guess britain does everything backwards to the rest of the worlds. I mean we even drive on the left hand side of the road.

tarnish · January 2010

That's really interesting! I eat with both hands (even though I'm lefthanded). I use chopsticks with my right. I find it more comfortable in my right. xD

SarahJohnson · January 2010

ellary wrote:

Actually, i found that in Britain, it is proper manners to eat with the fork in the left and knife in the right xD

Well, it's good that I'm not in Britain, lol. I'd end up getting to eat about 2 bites out of a whole meal, and it'd be a disaster. Or actually, I could stab my food. :evil:

SC`s Stars II · January 2010

CoasterCannons wrote:

I use both XD When I'm doing homework during lunch I use my left hand. but in history class when my right hand gets tired of writing i switch and write with my left. I usually write in cursive with my left hand, and print with my right. o.O I know I'm weird

I meant, that I eat with my left hand when doing homework, but usually eat with my right, and when I write, i can use both, it seems most people can only eat & write with their dominant hand

RoyalRaccoon · January 2010

I agree with snowjo, people tend to eat and do things with their dominant hand, and most people are right handed. I'm a dominant right, but I use both to eat depending on the utensil and food. What it comes down to is cultural differences in etiquette and taboos. Some cultures actually look at being left handed as a taboo or inconvenience. I've heard that a lot of Asian cultures look at it as an inconvenience or something socially unusual, so they will raise their kids to be right handed even if they were born left handed(I believe some Americans probably do this too). In one episodes of a show I watch the girl said she was "born left, smacked right". I've also been told that Muslims never eat or shake someone's hand with their left hand since they reserve the left hand for bathing and cleaning themselves. All of them are neither right nor wrong, but you should make an effort to follow the basics in your country to avoid insulting others.

iluvdogs111 · January 2010

I noramally eat with my right hand, unless I'm cutting food with a knife. tHen I hold the fork in my left hand.

DeathWish · January 2010

PrinceSushi wrote:

I agree with snowjo, people tend to eat and do things with their dominant hand, and most people are right handed. I'm a dominant right, but I use both to eat depending on the utensil and food. What it comes down to is cultural differences in etiquette and taboos. Some cultures actually look at being left handed as a taboo or inconvenience. I've heard that a lot of Asian cultures look at it as an inconvenience or something socially unusual, so they will raise their kids to be right handed even if they were born left handed(I believe some Americans probably do this too). In one episodes of a show I watch the girl said she was "born left, smacked right". I've also been told that Muslims never eat or shake someone's hand with their left hand since they reserve the left hand for bathing and cleaning themselves. All of them are neither right nor wrong, but you should make an effort to follow the basics in your country to avoid insulting others.

Yeah, I thought most people would use the dominant hand, therefore I use my right, but almost all of my friends are right handed and they use the left, same with my family, everyone is right handed but use the left. Just seems to be what is considered manners in Britain xD And I know that it is haram[forbidden] for muslims to eat using the left hand, so atleast there are something like 1billion people using the right hand straight away xD For me using my left hand is just awkward, food falls of the fork, my arms is flapping everywhere, i miss my mouth o_O So I think i'll stick to right hand eating xD too bad if others find it insulting. I'd rather not miss my mouth while eating at a posh resturant >.>

ChibiWerewolf · January 2010

I use my right hand for eating and my left hand to cut food with a knife.

NickelbackLuver · January 2010

right. Left feels really weird xD

Simm · January 2010

I eat with my right, but use my left for the fork when Im using a knife. I do most things with my left-hand, although Im right-handed. I cant write with my left-hand though.

EpikLove · January 2010

PrinceSushi wrote:

I've heard that a lot of Asian cultures look at it as an inconvenience or something socially unusual, so they will raise their kids to be right handed even if they were born left handed.

True that. (; I'm Korean, and usually, we don't like lefties. xDD But, people have just stopped doing that now, and just ignore it. ^^ Btw, I am a right handed person, and therefore eat with my right. If I try eating with my left.... there's some problems there. xD

Kaley1 · February 2010

I'm all right-handed. xD Eating, punching, writing, kicking (right-footed, too.) Everything is my right side. xD (: tadaaa.

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