The general decline in standards today

scottyrocks said:

My mom is left-handed. I don't know if they tried to make her write right-handed. But I do know she has two cursive handwriting styles. One is sort of a straight up and down cursive that she uses everyday, and the other is the more standard right slant version. Her hand has to curl up around the top of what she is writing, and the paper is turned almost 90 degrees.

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amador said:

I thought I would drop in to the Lounge to see what has been happening. I am left handed. During medical school training I was often asked to assist during surgery. I could not manipulate the various instrument with the seasoned dexterity of the attending surgeon. I would be chastised for my seeming lack of skill and belittled and embarassed in the operating room. Then by chance a LEFT handed surgeon asked for my assistance and I was surprised to find that my dexterity and skiil had improved quite a bit. He let me know that I was using his personal LEFT handed instruments. Harassment part of the program?

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scottyrocks said:

My mom is left-handed. I don't know if they tried to make her write right-handed. But I do know she has two cursive handwriting styles. One is sort of a straight up and down cursive that she uses everyday, and the other is the more standard right slant version. Her hand has to curl up around the top of what she is writing, and the paper is turned almost 90 degrees.

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Edward said:

Actually never used a mouse with my left hand.... feels natural in the right, as some things do oriented my way.

Ha, I'd slip that net - I have always worn my watch on my left arm.

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p51 said:

You'd fail on me, then. My watch has always been on my left arm.
I always did everything right handed but write. The odd thing is my Dad does everything right handed but he shoots left handed!
I never could make left handed scissors work...

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V.C. Brunswick said:

That was also the experience of my Dad when he worked at the GM plant in South Gate back in the '50s. He was constantly hassled by the shop stewards for working too hard. And whenever management admonished the assembly line over the PA about the number of defective units produced by that shift, instead of being chastened and filled with a resolve to do a better job, everybody would start cheering as if their team had won the World Series.

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esteban68 said:

I have to admit I personally didn't see any 'serious' bullying or attacks on pupils, it was low level discipline reinforcement or that's how it was seen, I harbour no grudges and some of it was downright amusing like the male WW2 veteran teacher who was rubbish at everything but extremely witty with good war stories so we forgave him, once seen him threaten a girl with cutting her throat with a rusty old scalpel (he'd been on the sherry again....seriously!), another one our old Headmaster was a very grumpy fellow and he once caught us fighting in the corridor of the quad with 1' rules and other 'weapons' we had fashioned, his punishment was for us to write a 1000 word essay for the following day about the trouble in the Middle East (his pet subject as he'd been in Palestine in 48), I sweated all night oin it as failiure meant the cane, so in I went next day completely knackered....we all lined up outside his office straight after morning assembly on recieving the papers from the four of us he gave them a quick glance tore them up and threw them in the bin...lesson learnt!

The film Kes gives a good idea how it was, here's a good scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZB0i0NzOe0 the whole film is a classic and well worth watching

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angeljenny said:

We had a visiting artist at art club last night - a man in his 70s. He painted well but made very smutty jokes ... he called me old fashioned! And a prude but we shall just skip over that.

Odd to be thought of as old fashioned by someone a similar age to my Grandad!

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jamespowers said:

He is an artist. You kind of expect crazy and immoral from them. Don't take any of what he said to heart.

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V.C. Brunswick said:

And also he was a young man back in the '60s which explains the attitude.

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angeljenny said:

He was certainly a character! A bit too vulgar to me and my old lady sensibilities.

Everyone I know thinks I am old fashioned or quaint so I just take it as a compliment.

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jamespowers said:

This is why I stay away from the arts and croissant crowd.

I would take it as a badge of honor.

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jamespowers said:

He is an artist. You kind of expect crazy and immoral from them. Don't take any of what he said to heart.

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jamespowers said:

This is why I stay away from the arts and croissant crowd. I would take it as a badge of honor.

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ButteMT61 said:

Except when you're drinking your fancy pants beers

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amador said:

Just visiting... Left handedness, my final comment. I was in a room once with seven other doctors, all of us left handed, eerie.

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AtomicEraTom said:

Second that. There's artists and there's 'artists.' I'm sure you know what I mean, Jimmy.

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