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posted by [personal profile] leoniedelt at 05:23pm on 08/03/2007 under ,
David Warner is mostly left handed. Except he writes with his right hand.

When he hits someone, he hits them with his left hand. When he pours a drink, he pours with the left, twists  the cap with the left, etc. When he points or reaches for something, he reaches with the left. He even picks up a telephone with his left, and throws a ball with his left.

He just happens to write with his right hand, stab people, and pull a trigger with his right hand.

Handedness is fascinating to me.  And its becoming more and more obvious its a spectrum thing, not a black-or-white issue. A person isnt merely right or left handed, there can be any number of combinations in between the two.

I've got 40-someodd years of television/film of him to study specifically, and what i learn from it reflects people, people out there, and which hemisphere of their brain they're using at any given time. I find it really fascinating.

I'm a leftie who is mostly a leftie, though i do some things right sided, like use my mobile / text message, and kick footballs and peer through telescopes... but i am a leftie. If someone says hold out your hand, i'll give them the left one. But i use my mobile with my right, all my song choosing and text writing, etc. Wild isnt it. I use a mouse with my right as well.

I'm feeling the urge to do some David-as-a-closet-leftie picspam. Yes. I just need to cap the appropriate moments as I remember them and upload them.
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posted by [identity profile] alocin42.livejournal.com at 06:17pm on 08/03/2007
My Peoplewatching book (by dear Mr Desmond Morris) has a chapter on laterality - sidedness in gestures. There was a study done where people were photographed acting out 45 different gestures and even the most lefty of them only completed 32/45 with their left side dominant, and the rightiest had 30/45 right side dominant. All sorts of weird ones like which is the active hand when threading a needle and hip juts out if you lean to one side!

Saying this I'm mostly a righty in all the obvious ones except tying my shoelaces, while my twin sister is a lefty. Which I argue makes her the evil one...
 
posted by [identity profile] leoniedelt.livejournal.com at 06:29pm on 08/03/2007
I'm gonna sound like a dumbass here and say 'i didnt know you had a twin sister...' I knew you had a sister but i never saw the word twin used until that reply. Unless i'm blind and missed it before, which is entirely possible...

I did a research paper on sinistrality, the condition of being left handed, when i was in high school. I still find it just as fascinating now as I did then (15 years ago ish).

I was watching Colin Baker for the same reasons - he may write right handed, but he does lots of other things left handed, yes.
 
posted by [identity profile] alocin42.livejournal.com at 06:36pm on 08/03/2007
I might have just not mentioned the twin thing before, I'm not sure! We're not identical or anything cool like that (she's actually six inches shorter than me and has dark brown hair while mine is light brown) - the left-right thing and that we're Gemini is about as snazzy as it gets. There were three sets of twins in our higher set science class at school and we were all Geminis, which is a bit freaky though! Dear sister is a med student at Peninsula Medical School, she's in Truro this year. She's just about as mad as me but without the Who and tea obsessions...
 
posted by [identity profile] leoniedelt.livejournal.com at 06:41pm on 08/03/2007
Funny, my brother's a Gemini. And he had a twin that died very early on in the pregnancy.

Ooh, baby baby its a wild world... Sorry, i'm on a lyrics kick today. I was singing country at my dad today (you dont have to call me darlin, darlin, but you dont even call my by my name), and that just popped in my head.

Maybe i need a straitjacket too!
 
posted by [identity profile] alocin42.livejournal.com at 06:50pm on 08/03/2007
Straitjackets for all! Huzzah!

I must run off to my first aid training but before I go... *pokes with a leek* Fear Stress and Anger! Should be 9pm for you. It's not on till 11:50pm here in silly BBC2W land but at least it's on this week and I can try to rip it again...
 
posted by [identity profile] leoniedelt.livejournal.com at 07:48pm on 08/03/2007
I'll be watching the Island at that point probably. I'll watch the upload / torrent when it comes on.
 
posted by [identity profile] mhr-kara.livejournal.com at 07:40pm on 08/03/2007
a David Warner picspam? yes,please. ^.^
 
posted by [identity profile] leoniedelt.livejournal.com at 07:42pm on 08/03/2007
There's a lot to do... and now that I have the Island o VHS (transferring to DVD as we speak, bless my husband) then i'm going to be in horny fangirl heaven for a bit. Yes.
 
posted by [identity profile] iamradar.livejournal.com at 12:12pm on 16/04/2007
A lot of older left-handed people actually do everything except write- they write with their right hands as many schools forced left-handed children to write that way (way back when).

On the twin-thing, I have a twin brother- we're both right-handed, but my brother writes as though he's a Leftie (and my father is a Leftie). Kinda weird. :-D
 
posted by [identity profile] leoniedelt.livejournal.com at 01:18pm on 16/04/2007
Oh wow :D Coolness. My dad's a leftie, but he does most things leftie. He was born in 1949, fortunately i think that's after they tried to change lefties into righties in school, though he tells stories of being smacked with a ruler for using the wrong hand when he was very very young...

Yes, I think David's a leftie deep down inside. He talks with his left too often not to be, and I've seen over half his filmography now :)

Welcome aboard, btw! I couldnt reply to your post on your journal, so i'm replying to this one. Help yourself to any icons, I'm pleased i've found another David-fan to commisserate with! :D
 
posted by [identity profile] mooncove.livejournal.com at 07:51pm on 26/05/2007
Ha, it's so funny you should talk about this cuz I had often wondered the same thing. He always seemed rather like a leftie to me (all creative and that), but, like you, I've watched and never been able to catch him writing with other than his right hand. (In person too, so it's not like he's trying to be right-handed for the camera or anything.)

However ... eerie coincidence, I have a friend who was born in Ireland (not exactly the other side of the world from Manchester) just five days before David, and he's a leftie who learned to write with his right hand. In fact, his right-handed writing is better than his left-handed writing. But in most other things he is left-handed. (Could there be an astrological connection perhaps??)
 
posted by [identity profile] leoniedelt.livejournal.com at 07:53pm on 26/05/2007
I'm positive he's a leftie deep down inside, just happens to write, shoot guns, and do a few other things as a rightie.
 
posted by [identity profile] mooncove.livejournal.com at 07:55pm on 26/05/2007
Ah, but have you seen "Felony"? (It's not as bad as all the reviews say--mainly saved by David's performance and my already-rock-bottom expectations.) There's a scene where he shoots (an inordinate number of bullets) left-handed while driving.
 
posted by [identity profile] leoniedelt.livejournal.com at 07:58pm on 26/05/2007
No, cant get that one either, though a friend is supposed to be helping me out. sigh.

He shoots left handed in Hornblower too...
 
posted by [identity profile] mooncove.livejournal.com at 08:02pm on 26/05/2007
OMG, your icon captures one of the funniest scenes in all Warnerdom! I can't look at it without laughing ...

Anyhow *chuckle*, I didn't notice that in Hornblower. Must have another look!
 
posted by [identity profile] leoniedelt.livejournal.com at 08:15pm on 26/05/2007
Hee, i love my icons :D
 

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posted by [identity profile] mooncove.livejournal.com at 07:53pm on 26/05/2007
Love your ADD icon, Radar. I too suffer from that affliction, as you can probably tell by all the postscripts ...
 
posted by [identity profile] leoniedelt.livejournal.com at 07:55pm on 26/05/2007
David was only born in Manchester, as far as I know he didnt spend more than his first 3 months there, and spent a lot of his early 20s around here... (Leamington Spa selling books, Stratford while acting, and so on)...

There's such a yawning gulf between the midlands and Manchester, that you'd know if he was Mancunian...he'd be... different.
 
posted by [identity profile] mooncove.livejournal.com at 07:58pm on 26/05/2007
Just sayin', it's not such a yawning gulf as between, say, Manchester and here. Anyway, I was talking strictly in terms of astrology (if you believe in that stuff), which would have to do with where he was born, not where he was raised.
 
posted by [identity profile] leoniedelt.livejournal.com at 08:00pm on 26/05/2007
Hee, i know. I'm from 'there' - hence i'm possibly more aware of the differences between Manchester and the midlands than the average Brit would be. Or the average Yank for that matter. lol

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