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There was a kid when I was at school who had deformed arms and hands, and thus had to hold a pen between his toes. He was onyl at my school for like a term (this was when I was about 9). He had better handwriting than me. But what does it SAY about me.

(There are a couple of handwriting threads but none specifically for images and analysis.)

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 15 September 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

Deep curl on those y's g's and j's!

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 15 September 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

qwhat does that imply, suzy?

― N_RQ, Thursday, 15 September 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

http://www.kittenrecords.co.uk/slypics/gkit_writing.jpg

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v506/Paronomasiac/write0001.jpg

― C J (C J), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

So far my analysis indicates that you are all ~~cheap bastards~~ responsible recycling types who won't waste a clean sheet of paper.

:-P

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

Deep curls = someone for whom sex is verrrry important.

I can't scan but my handwriting is a very jagged version of the kind of handwriting that IS NOT Sloane-girl pen hand but is similar to that often spotted on gastropub blackboards. Sloane girl handwriting features a lower-case e that looks almost like a euro-sign.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

Nick: well-balanced overall, perhaps a bit more sexualized than normal (note pronounced loops on g's y's etc as well as frequent triangle shapes on rounded letters like h's and n's). Independent but thoughtful, good sense of self without being overly egotistical.

g-kit: slightly insecure, issues with follow-through, secretive, love and companionship are important.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

What about pronounced loops with little swhirlies attached?

― The Brocade Fire (kate), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)

nick: exhibitionist

― N_RQ, Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:16 (twenty years ago)

Also high on the top end - h and d esp. THis indicated a very cerebral attitude - you're more likely to think things through than go with a snap decision. You also write almost directly upwards with almost no right slant. This indicates a more introverted personality, although you seem to have moments of madness, as your handwriting shifts about a lot.

You're also not as arty as you'd like to be. Your handwriting is joined up, which shows that you're usually a very analytical person, but your sig. isn't joined up, which shows your want to portray yourself as artistic and insightful.

Along the right lines?

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

Wow. There's a surprising amount of sense in these.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

hey, that's pretty accurate for me, teeny; except the slightly insecure. well... ok.. maybe a lil bit.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)

Argh my non-joined writing has GONE TO SHIT.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

oh I didn't see CJ's! Sweet and friendly but careful about giving heart away, not overly concerned with intellectual matters, more grounded in here & now. Not artistic. Optimistic but not emotional.

nb I think this is all kinda bullshit.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

are you just making it up?

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/handwriting.jpg
Here is something written by somebody else, which I copied out. Loops ahoy!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

that's nice writing.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

I'm not making it up any more than anyone else is I guess. I used to think it was interesting and read a few books on it once.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

Madchen's is nice but I can't read it at all.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:25 (twenty years ago)

Yeh, same as me teeny. It's about as scientifically valid as a ouija board, but a lot more fun.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:25 (twenty years ago)

CJ's is one degree of separation away from Sloane handwriting. She doesn't do the thing with the e's, which is the reason for that once-removed feeling.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

CJ's reminds me of this
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/370000/images/_374108_dianalogo150.jpg

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

CJ's writing makes me feel warm and safe.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

madchen: security is a priority, extroverted, maybe a tendency to worry about the future or at least an inclination to plan things out in advance. Can keep a secret. Also secretly kinky.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

http://www.britishgraphology.org/analyses/diana.gif

(xpost hahahaha)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/30/43517737_ed592b86e6_o.jpg

― Bombed Out and Depleted / Kate (papa november), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

Even on that scan I can tell you carve the pen into the page, which I also do, and am also left-handed.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

How I wish I had a scanner :( My handwriting is a messy scrawl but I'd love to have it analysed. Was thinking about this the other day actually.

Kate's is cool.

― Crackity (Crackity Jones), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

It's actually not a scan, I couldn't be bothered hooking it back up again, so I just took a photo of the notepad.

― Bombed Out and Depleted / Kate (papa november), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

this thread tells me one thing: my handwriting is terrible.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://tinypic.com/dp6zdj.jpg

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

OMG ONIMO YOU SICK FUCK

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 15 September 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

j/k, I'm running out of bullshit here.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 15 September 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

Why, I just copied it from a thing someone sent me?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 15 September 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

I have like 12 different modes of handwriting.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 15 September 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

Sergei Esenin's suicide note, innit?

xpost about Onimo

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 15 September 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

haha I didn't even look at the content!

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 15 September 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

Aye, he wrote it in his blood and gave it to his mate before hanging himself.

Cheery cnut me, aint I?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 15 September 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

You guys (or girls) can't be serious about analyzing someone's character based on their handwriting?!? If so, then I have multiple personality syndrome. ;-)

― nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 15 September 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

In copying a suicide note I was attempting to see if content affected interpretation. That I turned out to be a sick fuck before anyone even read it probably means something.

― Onimo Is A Sick Fuck (GerryNemo), Thursday, 15 September 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

http://www.coastaltown.nildram.co.uk/jim/hidere.JPG

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 15 September 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

I am having fun conversing in handwriting on MSN right now!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 15 September 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

http://www.coastaltown.nildram.co.uk/jim/hidere.JPG

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 15 September 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y257/nitsuh/handwriting.jpg

― nabiscothingy, Thursday, 15 September 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/sleep_no_more/buyamagazine.jpg

― Ian Riese-Moraine: See? I even write British, too, you fuckers! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 15 September 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

I accidentally deleted it. :(

― nabiscothingy, Thursday, 15 September 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

My mouse kept dragging to the left during the creation of that, so picture my "handwriting" at a 35 degree angle. xpost

― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Thursday, 15 September 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

i used to think this stuff was interesting too. here's my stab at it:
looking at sick mouthy's i think it seems like you're at a point of change in your life & you feel perhaps pulled in a couple of directions. In that way, you're perhaps not feeling like you have your more usual strong footing in whatever is going on. I also get the sense that there is a need for attention, but not a strong desire to actually have it (and certainly not ask for it in anyway). You seem intelligent & for the most part, calm in a time of crisis. mostly i see a lot of opposites fusing together.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 15 September 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

This is SGS:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/biondino/sarahshandwriting.jpg

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 15 September 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

And this is me (via the ofice photocopier/scanner and Adobe Acrobat):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/biondino/markshandwriting.jpg

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 15 September 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

heh thanks Mark. That is pretty typical of mine, esp. while taking notes. (It was a paragraph to add to a paper I was presenting an hour later.) Mark has prettier handwriting than I do. I almost stole a book about handwriting analysis (on an unguarded stairwell in Oxford) but I didn't, and now I wish I had.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 15 September 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

And here's a non-self-conscious sample that Sarah snapped and emailed me:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/biondino/markshandwriting2.jpg

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 15 September 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v284/jamiefake/handwriting.jpg

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 15 September 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

Grrrrr. I'll shrink it:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v284/jamiefake/handwriting.jpg

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 15 September 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

http://wizardishungry.com/no/letter.jpg

― ~~~~ DODONGO DISLIKES SMOKE ~~~~ (ex machina), Thursday, 15 September 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

http://nf.wh3rd.net/files/handwriting.jpg

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 15 September 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

haha jon that note is classic

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 15 September 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

okay here is something classic, a note passed between me and a friend in 1995 (i was 15 at the time) -- also, i am the person who starts the note, so you can tell who's who.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/note.jpg

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 15 September 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

i like how I state that SUV's are "the coolest"

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 15 September 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

Haha that is K-classic

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 15 September 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/jel2004/handwriting.jpg

I've posted this before, when it was cold, it's not that cold today.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 15 September 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

you have comic book artist handwriting, jel

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 15 September 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

What didn't you know, Jel?

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 15 September 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

TehHobb has scientist handwriting: small, angled, and letters with large tails that sort of trail off into space.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 15 September 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

Where I'm going, how to live, just good old doubt.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 15 September 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

It's only small coz I shrank the picture by 50%.
{that one's probably going in the 'out of context' thread}

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 15 September 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y182/3Keys/DSCN2666.jpg
I'd love somebody to analyse mine.

― Colin Cooper, Thursday, 15 September 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v240/lunacee/ilx.jpg

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 15 September 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

http://dumpty.net/notice.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 15 September 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

http://giganticmag.com/images/ilx/handwriting.jpg

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 15 September 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

Kate, my handwriting is a loooooooot like yours, esp in the lowercase h and the upwards-angled uppercase T, and "g" in "handwriting" has the exact shape of all my gs and ys. Should we be worried?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 15 September 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

http://i.photos.reuters.com/genImage.aspx?uri=2005-09-14T203736Z_01_UNS100D_RTRIDSP_2_SUMMIT-UN.jpg&resize=full

― Jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 15 September 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

ok colin. here's one:

you often prefer to be alone, or at least keep somewhat of a distance between yourself & others. Whether this is physical, emotional or whatever, I don't know. You find yourself not always completing what you've started...I think you try to & aim to, but a lot of times you leave smaller things hanging. Ex: if you started on a sunday to clean your apartment, you'd do really well on one area. then you'd get distracted & not finish that day. Maybe on Monday or Tuesday you'd try to finish, but by Wednesday you'd feel "done" with the whole thing & leave things like sweeping or taking out the trash to accumulate for later. That said, I think you set your standards/goals high, but that doesn't always mean you meet them. Other than that, you seem very self assured without being cocky.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 15 September 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Colin's a mate of mine and that all makes sense...

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 15 September 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

i think i did yours upthread....

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 15 September 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

Do me! Do me! I want to know how crazy I am!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 15 September 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

I don't even know if I'm 2 for 2 yet!!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 15 September 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

You did indeed kelsey and it also made a lot of sense. Thank you!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 15 September 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

Wow! What a lovely thread this has turned out to be. I am fascinated by people's handwriting (and Suzy, when I was a young teenager I did actually write the letter 'e' they Euro sign way for a while!)

GUESS WHAT EVERYONE!! I just found a book on my bookshelf which I had forgotten I owned, which is called "sexual secrets in handwriting". I shall return and analyse the handwriting samples on this thread a little later, when I get a spare moment!

― C J (C J), Thursday, 15 September 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

get one penmanship

― Just wanted to say..., Thursday, 15 September 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

I normally don't believe in that kind of stuff, but that's pretty cool. I'd be interested to hear my sexual secrets from CJ too, perhaps I can take notes.

Thanks Kelsey.

― Colin Cooper, Thursday, 15 September 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

I think Colin Cooper is the name of the guy that Sharon Smedley cheats on Jilted John with in the song "The Birthday Kiss." She says "I was just giving him a birthday kiss" and John says "Oh yeah? For ten minutes? In the rain? I don't believe you. . . . And besides, it's not even his birthday."

Happy birthday, Colin!

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 16 September 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

Fellators, the lot of you. You've got the classic fellator "g"s.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 16 September 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

The best handwriting on this thread is David Shrigley's.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 17 September 2005 06:01 (twenty years ago)

http://www.tryfoneblog.com/photos/b4/c0/d61d700d0ba0.jpg

That's my handwriting. It's not a great photo, I coulnd't get my camera to focus on the paper.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Saturday, 17 September 2005 08:08 (twenty years ago)

I change my handwriting every few weeks between a few different styles - sometimes i print and have rounded letters, sometimes i write and it looks like a bunch of signatures (very stylised with massive y's, g's etc and unreadable except to me) and every where in between. It can even changes from paragraph to paragraph. Sometimes i start writing vertically then change to a slant.

― splates (splates), Saturday, 17 September 2005 08:38 (twenty years ago)

― Momus (Momus), Saturday, 17 September 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

I tried writing a note but my writing goes all weird if I'm thinking about it. This is a page of rubbish from an exercise book. Analyze me!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v133/cathyleech/1998b779.jpg

― Cathy (Cathy), Saturday, 17 September 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

ihttp://mars.walagata.com/w/sgh/sav.jpg

Unfortunately the main body text is mine. Evidently, I'm some sort of idiot. In my defence, I was never taught to hold a pen properly.

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 5 January 2006 12:04 (twenty years ago)

wow, i'm no expert but straight away i'm getting that you're a really chilled out easy going type of person from that writing, maybe from what you wrote as well.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 5 January 2006 12:09 (twenty years ago)

Wow, immediately I can tell that you have a black pen.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 5 January 2006 12:38 (twenty years ago)

Sadly, Mark much more OTM than Ste, who is not OTM at all.

― Sasha (sgh), Friday, 6 January 2006 01:55 (twenty years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/42/82773096_2729ec003e_b.jpg

― miss michael learned (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 6 January 2006 02:27 (twenty years ago)

Hmm Sasha, I would say that you're about 22 years old, and probably play percussion in that band you mentioned there. It also looks like you have an alcohol addiction, on top of a fairly healthy masturbation obsession, and possibly a case of syphilis (although that could just be sexual frustration). Your key influences range from Pavement to Television to The Fall, and you have an above-average sized music collection. That girl you're hoping to score with will go for you, and you'll almost immediately realise that you werern't really interested in the first place. Try not to drive for the next two weeks.

― David Giles, Friday, 6 January 2006 05:32 (twenty years ago)

*gets coat*

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 6 January 2006 09:18 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/8783/handwritingyl0.jpg

― Abbott, Friday, 1 August 2008 23:37 (seventeen years ago)

omg Abbott you are more woman than the lot of em!

― Surmounter, Friday, 1 August 2008 23:55 (seventeen years ago)

A pretty average page out of the notebook. Not too messy, not too neat.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/handwriting.jpg

― kenan, Saturday, 2 August 2008 04:52 (seventeen years ago)

You have nicer handwriting than me.

― Abbott, Saturday, 2 August 2008 04:56 (seventeen years ago)

well. You could tell I was extra awake that day, because I was writing lengthy prose about hooking external drives to a network. A simple diagram would have sufficed.

― kenan, Saturday, 2 August 2008 04:58 (seventeen years ago)

So, am I normal?

http://i36.tinypic.com/fz66xe.jpg

― StanM, Saturday, 2 August 2008 09:54 (seventeen years ago)

"l" looks like a "1" = sure indication of sociopathic tendencies

― snoball, Saturday, 2 August 2008 09:57 (seventeen years ago)

No, really!

One day, when I was about 10, I decided I liked typewriter letters, and now I do times new roman (which is the one I uploaded) and arial (sans serif - so those ls look like l) :-)

― StanM, Saturday, 2 August 2008 10:01 (seventeen years ago)

left leaning type = introversion
changing type size = moody
not finishing letters (eg "u" in butter ) = short attention span
large below-line characters (y,p) = horny

― The Wayward Johnny B, Saturday, 2 August 2008 10:02 (seventeen years ago)

3/4 - Wouldn't say I've got a short attention span, but the other three are quite right, I'd guess. I'd ask my friends, but I don't have any. ;-)

― StanM, Saturday, 2 August 2008 10:06 (seventeen years ago)

Nope, I have a long attention span, apparently. I read long "and boring" books and I like slower movies than my friends do.

― StanM, Saturday, 2 August 2008 10:26 (seventeen years ago)

stanm i want your handwriting. it is too cute.

― g-kit, Saturday, 2 August 2008 11:43 (seventeen years ago)

StamM, what pen is that you're using? Looks like a Parker?

― snoball, Saturday, 2 August 2008 12:08 (seventeen years ago)

Thx, g-kit :-)

Yeah, just a cheap parker with black ink.

― StanM, Saturday, 2 August 2008 12:29 (seventeen years ago)

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/07/10/images/09_inglouriousbastards1_lg.jpg

― DavidM, Saturday, 2 August 2008 13:31 (seventeen years ago)

whoa yr handwriting is crazy! like in a good way tho
i love abbott's handwriting too - it seems very abbotty! neat
here is some of mine in a note to ilx that i just wrote:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3271/2725253278_f30a35a3ca_o.jpg

xpost uhh

― rrrobyn, Saturday, 2 August 2008 13:33 (seventeen years ago)

i tried to write out all the letters of the alphabet in script a while back and i couldn't do it. i didn't even know how to write a capital E. let alone a Q.

― scott seward, Saturday, 2 August 2008 14:13 (seventeen years ago)

http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/2464/012wl8.jpg

― iiiijjjj, Saturday, 2 August 2008 14:32 (seventeen years ago)

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii317/RabitesAngelatin/IMG_0530.jpg

― RabiesAngentleman, Saturday, 2 August 2008 14:44 (seventeen years ago)

Hahaha, you can see my phone number on the other side of the page.

― RabiesAngentleman, Saturday, 2 August 2008 14:44 (seventeen years ago)

I tried to make mine into a font since it's all type writer letters already, but it just doesn't work (there should be a font that randomly uses one of the 5 slightly different versions of every letter (plus other variations, like a t in the middle of a word looks like a cross, but at the end the bottom bit curves) and then it would probably look more real)

― StanM, Sunday, 3 August 2008 08:21 (seventeen years ago)

http://xs330.xs.to/xs330/08310/00003841.jpg

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 3 August 2008 18:18 (seventeen years ago)

what it mean

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 4 August 2008 03:46 (seventeen years ago)

heck|

― iiiijjjj, Monday, 4 August 2008 04:03 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/IMG_3659.jpg

― ENBB, Monday, 25 August 2008 23:12 (seventeen years ago)

At least I managed to post it while it was still August.

― ENBB, Monday, 25 August 2008 23:13 (seventeen years ago)

DEAREST Ms. NBB

Your penmanship is too stylish & legible to go on.

― Abbott, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 01:22 (seventeen years ago)

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/8783/handwritingyl0.jpg

Buh I am SO glad I am not working at thins place anymore. It was only 8 weeks but still long enough to make me wicked insecure.

― Abbott, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 01:24 (seventeen years ago)

I think HOOS's is thee most like mine.

― Abbott, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 01:26 (seventeen years ago)

nine months pass...

I have like 12 different modes of handwriting.
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, September 15, 2005 8:12 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark

hi-speed (legible only to me)
normal lower-case
normal all-caps
tidy all-caps
----
hi-speed cursive
tidy (and more awkward looking) cursive
----
sundry gift card/mixtape/flyer fonts

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Thursday, 28 May 2009 23:07 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, I should be honest - the writing sample I posted above was pretty much my neatest version. If you look at my school stuff or notebooks etc. it's not quite as neat.

― Chaki Demus & Pliers (ENBB), Thursday, 28 May 2009 23:08 (sixteen years ago)

http://xs330.xs.to/xs330/08310/00003841.jpg

so disappointed that nobody lold @ "OTM Nabisco"

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 28 May 2009 23:26 (sixteen years ago)

I saw that yesterday and LOLd on the inside. Promise.

― Chaki Demus & Pliers (ENBB), Thursday, 28 May 2009 23:30 (sixteen years ago)

"dump"

― "alt-black" (Pillbox), Thursday, 28 May 2009 23:32 (sixteen years ago)

http://i674.photobucket.com/albums/vv105/NAPOLEONROFL/DSC00352.jpg

― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Thursday, 28 May 2009 23:39 (sixteen years ago)

since i don't actually expect anyone to be such an expert handwriting analyst to devine this I'll add that I write with my left hand but am actually right-handed.

― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Thursday, 28 May 2009 23:41 (sixteen years ago)

divine

― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Thursday, 28 May 2009 23:42 (sixteen years ago)

waht

― tehresa, Friday, 29 May 2009 00:19 (sixteen years ago)

I learned to write with my left hand but many years later, discovered, while trying to write with my right hand just to see how hard it was, that it was fairly easy and that with about fifteen minutes practice it was as good as the left for writing. Added to that I use to play right-handed when I played tennis as a child, play guitar right-handed, punch right-handed when I'm forced to, point with my right-hand, use scissors right-handedly etc. etc.

― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Friday, 29 May 2009 00:22 (sixteen years ago)

you are weird as hell

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Friday, 29 May 2009 15:53 (sixteen years ago)

no i actually think that's pretty common for lefties! either because we're forced to (a lot of things are made for righties) or because whoever taught us to do other stuff was right-handed. i write left-handed but can write with my right hand with above average neatness. i do a bunch of other stuff right-handed too, like using scissors, bowling, batting, etc.

― harbl, Friday, 29 May 2009 16:01 (sixteen years ago)

^^ me too

― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Friday, 29 May 2009 16:03 (sixteen years ago)

take that gbx we're normal!

― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Friday, 29 May 2009 16:11 (sixteen years ago)

I'm lefty and utterly cack as a right-hand user but my dad and sister were/are both ambidexterous.

― don't fear the freeper (suzy), Friday, 29 May 2009 16:16 (sixteen years ago)

i still complain about those desks that are built for righties, though. damn those things to hell.

― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Friday, 29 May 2009 16:18 (sixteen years ago)

btw u guys did you know that well-over 90% of the population uses their left hemisphere for motor control....including lefties!

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Friday, 29 May 2009 16:20 (sixteen years ago)

which is to say that 'true' lefties are exceedingly rare, and chances are you're not one of them

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Friday, 29 May 2009 16:21 (sixteen years ago)

agreed^^ i write with my left hand but i do almost everything else right handed

― Mr. Que, Friday, 29 May 2009 16:23 (sixteen years ago)

some stuff i pulled from my neuro notes, just for general interest:

96% have dominant left hemi
93% of pop is right-handed, 99% of these have dominant left hemi
left-handed people--about 50% have dominant left hemi, some right, some are bilateral

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Friday, 29 May 2009 16:25 (sixteen years ago)

ok so instead of telling him he is weird has hell you should have said you are pretty normal jim

― harbl, Friday, 29 May 2009 16:29 (sixteen years ago)

so basically, half of y'all lefties are 'actually' righties.

also, the WADA test: before neurosurgery, pts get injected with sodium amytal in one hemisphere at a time, to determine which hemi is dominant, and seat of, say, the speech centers. good idea, esp with lefties, to nail down precisely ~where~ their like broca's or wernicke's areas are, so you don't accidentally cut them out

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Friday, 29 May 2009 16:29 (sixteen years ago)

but i just made some observations and took some notes and it turns out i brush my teeth and use eating utensils with my left hand and would have trouble doing otherwise xp

― harbl, Friday, 29 May 2009 16:30 (sixteen years ago)

i need to get neurosurgery to find out if i'm really a lefty?

― harbl, Friday, 29 May 2009 16:30 (sixteen years ago)

yeah, i guess the weird part to me is that ppl learn left-handed writing (which has historically been discouraged), and then suddenly realize years later that it's basically the only left-handed thing they do.

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Friday, 29 May 2009 16:31 (sixteen years ago)

well, you need to get the wada test to determine which hemisphere is dominant, yeah.

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Friday, 29 May 2009 16:31 (sixteen years ago)

i also tooth brush, do hair, apply makeup and cut food with my left hand
am not real leftie?

― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Friday, 29 May 2009 16:32 (sixteen years ago)

cuz righties are almost always left-brained, but lefties aren't always right-brained. so if they're gonna CUT ON YR BRAIN, they want to know for sure that they're in the correct neighborhood

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Friday, 29 May 2009 16:32 (sixteen years ago)

The test is usually performed prior to ablative surgery for epilepsy and sometimes prior to tumor resection. The aim is to determine which side of the brain is responsible for certain vital cognitive functions, namely speech and memory. The risk of damaging such structures during surgery can then be assessed, and the need for awake craniotomies can be determined as well.
The Wada test has several interesting side-effects. Drastic personality changes are rarely noted, but disinhibition is common. Also, contralateral hemiplegia, hemineglect and shivering are often seen. During one injection, typically the left hemisphere, the patient will have impaired speech or be completely unable to express or understand language. Although the patient may not be able to talk, sometimes their ability to sing is preserved. This is because music and singing utilizes a different part of the brain than speech and language. Most people with aphasia are able to sing, and even learn new songs (as in the case of Cesero Rota, klawans, 2002). Recovery from the anesthesia is rapid, and EEG recordings and distal grip strength are used to determine when the medication has worn off. Generally, recovery of speech is dysphasic (contains errors in speech or comprehension) after a dominant hemisphere injection. Although generally considered a safe procedure, there are at least minimal risks associated with the angiography procedure used to guide the catheter to the internal carotid artery. As such, efforts to utilize non-invasive means to determine language and memory laterality (e.g. fMRI) are being researched.

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Friday, 29 May 2009 16:33 (sixteen years ago)

neuro is dope imo

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Friday, 29 May 2009 16:33 (sixteen years ago)

ok so a "true" lefty would be a right-brained person?

― harbl, Friday, 29 May 2009 16:34 (sixteen years ago)

yeah. this 'true' business is of my own device, btw, but yeah---truly right-brained ppl are rare

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Friday, 29 May 2009 16:35 (sixteen years ago)

gbx can u analyze my handwriting if i post it later (btw i have 5 handwritings)

― harbl, Friday, 29 May 2009 16:41 (sixteen years ago)

I think I'm a true-lefty/right-brainer. I do some things right-handed but mostly because I damaged my left arm in an accident as a child and the movement/strength is limited. Everything feels correct left-handed but some things aren't possible (e.g. I can't straighten my left arm fully so I would use my right hand for something like tennis even though I have better 'touch' with my left).

― go and put your f'kin torn jeans on (onimo), Friday, 29 May 2009 16:42 (sixteen years ago)

i don't know how to analyze a handwriting!!

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Friday, 29 May 2009 16:43 (sixteen years ago)

They teach you NOTHING in medical school.

― cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Friday, 29 May 2009 16:46 (sixteen years ago)

I do everything right-handed except writing and playing pool/snooker. (racquet sports, bowling, throwing, playing the guitar badly...all right-handed)

No, wait, I hold my spoon/fork in my left hand when I'm eating, if I'm stirring/chopping, I hold the spoon/knife in my left hand.

I wonder if the "being taught to do something" thing holds true? It might well be. I don't know why I play pool left-handed though.

― ailsa, Friday, 29 May 2009 16:50 (sixteen years ago)

i'm a confused lefty myself. i would post my handwriting but tbh it's too awful. plus it changes pretty much every time i write.

― hugging used to mean something (call all destroyer), Friday, 29 May 2009 16:50 (sixteen years ago)

playing the guitar badly...all right-handed

I do that but I don't think right-handed guitar playing is actually right-handed. I feel that there's more dexterity required on the fret board and therefore feel that all the right-handed people are making things hard for themselves by playing what looks like left-handed to me.
(note: I am absolutely rotten at playing the guitar and this is probably all based on general ignorance of how hard it gets with the picking hand once you get good at it).

― go and put your f'kin torn jeans on (onimo), Friday, 29 May 2009 17:09 (sixteen years ago)

I can wiggle my fingers in a fretting manner with both hands, but the act of strumming feels totally wrong when I try to do it with my left hand though.

(I am checking this out now, on my back doorstep, with no guitar, in front of my laptop. If my neighbours looked over the fence, they would think I was mental)

― ailsa, Friday, 29 May 2009 17:12 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

having been awake for >24 hours i was nodding off in class today, but i wasn't going to let a minor matter like that prevent me from taking notes.

http://i50.tinypic.com/fnh9x.jpg

not much less legible than my usual handwriting, if i'm honest.

― michael nyman cat (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 21:53 (thirteen years ago)

i have entire modules worth of notes that

― diafiyhm (darraghmac), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 22:08 (thirteen years ago)

i like merdeyeux' handwriting

i've stopped writing cursive now, it's almost the same (though more inept) as my grandmother taught in rural ireland a century ago, so i can't imagine it was exactly cutting edge even then

which is no matter since handwriting isn't the sort of thing subject to amelioration through advancing years, but my caffeinated scrawl doesn't do it justice

so now it's just very boring normal writing

― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 22:14 (thirteen years ago)

shd read /was/ taught

― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 22:14 (thirteen years ago)

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