It is physically impossible to make “hand-neutral” scissors. One blade will always come before the other, obscuring your view of the cutting line from one side. That’s the problem.

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nilloc 3 points 6 days ago

It’s not the view obscuring that’s really the problem, though it is a side effect. It’s the pressure exerted while squeezing that only works for the correct hand in scissors.

If you can figure out how to contort your fingers to squeeze the blades together enough, you can use the wrong scissors, but I just learned how to cut righty because I could never find good lefty scissors as a kid. Same reason I used the mouse righty.

By the way: The view of the line is going to be obscured cutting curves in the direction of the cutting hand no matter the side.

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thenextguy 2 points 7 days ago

It's all I've ever complained about. Never noticed the blade thing, but I understand what you mean.

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MachineFab812 1 point 6 days ago

You're not wrong, and the ways around it are awkward, but they exist. Personally, I'll often flip the point towards the wrist of the hand holding it and cut from the opposite side of my body, but I'm basically ambi-dextrous anyways.

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thenextguy 8 points 7 days ago

What if I'm semi ambidextrous?

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bricklove 5 points 7 days ago

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

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nocturne 4 points 7 days ago

Only 9 hours of today are for you.

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Onomatopoeia 4 points 7 days ago

Then you only half understand!

(As a fellow semi-sinister, I'm right there with you).

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higgsboson 1 point 6 days ago

My eldest is a lefty and her brother writes left-handed, having learned by watching her. He does everything else righty instinctively, but if asked he thinks he is lefty.

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AnarchoEngineer 4 points 7 days ago

Alright fine guess I’m going to try being fully left handed today.

Funnily enough, it looks like I’m making less mistakes typing this out on my phone with my left hand than I typically do with my right. I wonder if it’s because I’m typing slightly slower, or if the way I hold my phone in my left gives me a better angle for typing.

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ViaGetty 3 points 7 days ago

Today is OUR day!

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melsaskca 3 points 6 days ago

Once again Ned Flanders gets completely ignored and he started the whole movement! /s

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nocturne 2 points 6 days ago

Observe the community icon.