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This still fascinates me...
Scientific terms that describe chirality:
Sinistral - from sinister -> meaning left
Dextral - from dexter -> meaning right
"ambidextrous" is as follows:
Ambi -> meaning Both
Dexter -> meaning right.
Thus if you are ambidextrous you are "Both Right". Slap in da face for The sinisters 
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I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous...
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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I solute you sir! One sentence compacted with so much sarcasm/irony/etc! 
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CBadger wrote: Dextral - from dexter -> meaning right
I think if you dig into it, dexter is more relate to implication of being capable, which as we all know, is predomoniantly a right-handed situation (as it should be).
Although we tend to dwell on the Latin derivation
Dexterity
From the Latin "dexter," for "right" (in the sense of right-left).
I suggest that the derivation is more akin to the typical meanings as described Here^, and that label thus applied to 'right'. Since left-handedness was considered (rightly) an ill omen, it was logically named such.
You're welcome to disagree, but that would, indeed, have sinister implications.
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Oh good, I always wanted to be sinister.
Now if only Logitech would make a left-handed gaming mouse... I've gotten used to using a right-handed one with my left hand, and it's just not the same.
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Hmm, might work... I'm currently using a G500[^]
EDIT: Nah, pass... Checked the reviews... Looks like Razer hasn't gotten any better. Shoddy hardware, bloated software.
modified 13-Aug-14 10:13am.
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I see there is a new one on the market[O]
But if I were you there would be no other than R.A.T.[×] 
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Am I the only one who looks at those cyborg mice and thinks, "That can't possibly be comfortable"?
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So that's why the weather is so sinister today...
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My fourteen-year-old daughter is left-handed, and she is very much proud of it. She is the only left-handed person in her class at school (35+ students).
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In the US, when I was a kid at least, we got the scissors with the green rubber handles. They were way better. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Jeremy Falcon
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Turns out, we're the only ones in our right mind.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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"I may be left-hander, but I'm always right" 
As a lefty who does a lot with his right hand I always find myself looking for the 'correct' hand to do things with... Like last week when I played pool for the first time, I didn't know if I should use my left or right hand so I used both.
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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It's good practice to do new skills both ways around. A lot of 'handedness' is actually practice and training. For example, most of us (in the west) pick up a fork in our left hand when eating, even though that's arguably the more 'dextrous' of the two tasks. Similarly, golf and cricket are both played the 'wrong' way round by logic, if you're really right handed, because the top hand is the control hand in both sports and that's the left with a typical right-hander's stance.
Try using your mouse on the other side for a week .
Sometimes it can really help, like painting or getting a screwdriver onto a screw in an awkward corner that can only be reached with the 'wrong' hand.
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Sander Rossel wrote: I used both
Always a wise choice. Trying to play pool one-handed is a fool's errand.
I have found that switching hands helps with difficult shots.
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You are better than I am.
Then why are you smiling?
Because I know something you don't know.
And what is that?
I am not left-handed.
You're amazing!
I ought to be after twenty years.
There is something I ought to tell you.
Tell me.
I'm not left-handed either.
What we got here is a failure to communicate
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Inconceivable.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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My wife, my mother, and my younger brother are all lefties.
What we got here is a failure to communicate
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