"Ian Tindale" wrote in message
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Edward Cowling wrote:

Left handed ticket users can be hilarious. Some do a kind
of contortion to use their left hand to insert the ticket. I even
had one put the ticket in my slot on the next barrier to the left,
which was nice of him :-)

All these contortions and you can't help thinking how hard
can it be to hold a ticket that weighs about 5 grams in your
right hand ??!!

Right handed *******s are the ones I find infuriating, especially the
stupid
****s that have the audacity to design systems like ticket barriers the
wrong way round. I've absolutely no tolerance for right handed people,
they're the most bigoted arrogant ****s you're ever likely to find on the
underground.

Two points:

- Right-handers are the majority, so it's not unreasonable that where a
design has to be "handed", right-handed is chosen.

- Why should an action such as holding a ticket be a "handed" operation? I'm
sure as a right-hander I'd have no difficulty whatsoever holding a ticket in
my left hand and feeding into a slot on the left side of the barrier if
that's how the barriers were designed. Are left-handed people less
ambidextrous (apart from skilled actions like writing) than right-handed
people?