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[JohnW2]

I was taught to never do it.

So was I, but that doesn't alter the fact that I find it by far the most effective way of eating peas (or similar)

 

[JohnW2]

I've always done it so did my Dad, I can also play cricket either way, not that I've done that for a few years

It certainly sounds as if you are pretty ambidextrous - pretty rare, but by no means unknown.

 

[SUNRAY]

Well I use a fork in my right and knife in my left because I'm normal

I think that is very far from normal and very much in the minority.

I'm left handed but from the time I used cutlery I was taught to eat right handed, that is the standard way a table will be laid with the forks of the left and spoons/knives on the right. As john says if I'm only using one implement it will normally be in my right hand, in fact cake forks are for the right hand. However like many lefties I'm fairly ambidextrous so a lot of tools I can make an equally bad mess with either hand, IE I never have been good at cutting straight with a saw.

Despite being right handed one of my grandsons changed from eating righty to lefty at the age of about 13 when he started doing cooking at school and the teacher observed him using sharp knives in his non dominant right hand.

 

[SUNRAY]

It just seems an odd way to use a knife and fork to me, They use both the knife and fork combined, to cut the food, put the knife down, transfer the fork over to the right, to move food to mouth, then reverse the process, to cut more food.

How on earth do they hold the food still when cutting it?

 

[pete01]

However like many lefties I'm fairly ambidextrous

I can also go both ways with a grass edger

 

[SUNRAY]

How can you not reproduce that? That is sterescopic vision.
You are the one who always states the rules of physics are sacrosanct.

 

[SUNRAY]

People's or dog's?

We don't have dogs.

In my early life licking the plate was a punishable crime, however when I met Missus Sunray there was also a 17 year old Miss Sunray in tow, she and her boyfriend fairly quickly taught me the art of turning the plate against the tongue rather than dragging the tongue across the plate

 

[JohnW2]

How on earth do they hold the food still when cutting it?

In the same way that right-handed people do over here - holding the food still with a fork in their left hand, whilst cutting with knife in their right hand.

When they've cut at least some of the food into bits, they put down the knife and use the fork in their right hand to eat those bits. If there is then more to cut up, they go back to square one again (fork in left, knife in right), then again put down the knife and eat the bits with fork in right.

 

[SUNRAY]

Shovelling the peas with an upturned fork is, at least in my experience, by far the most effective (and least frustrating) approach

And much of Easterly European mainland use the fork the other way up as a spoon or if stabbing, in a very vertical mode.

I've never quite got the hang, of turning a fork over, to use it as a shovel for peas - I tend to load the down pointed fork up with mash, then dip it in the peas. No mash, then I struggle by trying to stab the peas.

I tend to place the fork tines down on the mash then push down and pull towards me (action of JCB) then squash that tines down onto the peas, sweetcorn or baked beans.

 

[JohnW2]

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How can you not reproduce that? That is sterescopic vision. You are the one who always states the rules of physics are sacrosanct.

"Double vision" is not stereoscopic vision.

In any event, I certainly cannot reproduce what was described - i.e. I can't do anything which results in one finger appearing as two or one distant object appearing as two - are you saying that you can?

 

[SUNRAY]

"Double vision" is not stereoscopic vision.

In any event, I certainly cannot reproduce what was described - i.e. I can't do anything which results in one finger appearing as two or one distant object appearing as two - are you saying that you can?

Yes of course I can, it is totally normal and quite worrying that you can't.

I'm not describing double vision, that is where nothing lines up, however it is a less obvious form of double vision.

 

[JohnW2]

In my early life licking the plate was a punishable crime ...

Same here, and I still don't do it ... but some members of my family do (and I have no particular problem with that)

 

[JohnW2]

Yes of course I can, it is totally normal and quite worrying that you can't

Maybe I don't understand is being suggested. What exactly are do doing which makes one finger held at arms length appear to be two fingers?

 

[SUNRAY]

Concentrate on something distant, such as the clock or light switch, then without breaking that concentration pass a single finger across your vision, it may work better if you try it say 6-12" in front of your face.

 

[SUNRAY]

Concentrate on something distant, such as the clock or light switch, then without breaking that concentration pass a single finger across your vision, it may work better if you try it say 6-12" in front of your face.

Im playing with this now and I'm shocked it's not blatantly obvious to you, physics make it impossible to not be there.