Well, a little from column A...

Fountain pens - do you lot use the left handed nibs or not

I don't think I've ever used a fountain pen. Cartridge pens were all the rage when I was at school, can't remember a particular problem with them other than the risk of smudging wet ink.

Tried a left handed fountain pen. It was awful. My natural way of writing left handed seems to involve holding the pen up in a really upright manner (rather than the more typical cack handedness/paper at strange angles) so the nib just kept scratching across the paper.

I just thought you were being a smartarse :)

Fountain pens - do you lot use the left handed nibs or not/ Some nib types scratch the paper when you push them, so you can get left handed ones with a kink at the end.

Also left handed with graphics tablet but now right handed with mouse - so useful.

I am right footed, right handed with a tennis racket and scissors and a sewing needle.

Left handed with a pen, painting (small scale), with a spoon (all other cutlery normal). I used to be left handed with a mouse but got so fed up of rearranging work stations for PCs that I changed over to my right. Using a hammer or painting something big like a garage door is done with whatever hand can reach best at that moment.

Mostly I do large movements with my right side and small detailed movements with my left.

The first time I ever did soldering I was better at it than the person teaching me, mostly because of the hand thing as it played into it.

I was lucky, no one ever made any issue about it - which is best as making a big deal out of it is silly, no one makes a fuss about being right handed. There are also loads of left handed people about now as schools and idiot people no longer force a 'handedness' on kids. Just let your kid do as he will and dont make a fuss or issue of it, its just natural behaviour and no different to being right handed.

Oh and its total rubbish that left handed people cant write properly or smudge everything. It depends how you hold the pen - if you hold it the same as right handed people but reversed there is no need at all for smudging or awkwardness (we used to write with fountain pens at school for a few terms and I had no issues). I have even had people talking to me when I have been holding a pen saying how weird and messy left handers are, to suddenly stop and look thrown as the did not even notice I was writing with my left hand while they were talking, cos I dont really do anything different to anyone else and they had been expecting some kind of clumsy awkward mess making. More fool them.

Something I found helpful which I chose to do myself when in my teens was to learn to do things with either hand, just for fun. My own choice and its turned out to have benefits. Lots of tasks, like the soldering, benefit from this and I would suggest right handed people should try to be more left handed as being able to use either hand for tasks can be so useful.

guitars are simpler to build lefty but as a lefty guitarist I would urge people to persevere with right handed guitars - I wish I had

drums you just set em up as you want but it's easy to switch left to right

computer mice I am ambidextrous, scissors are no bother

as a lefty you are forced into being more ambidextrous because you are in a minority which has benefits in the long run, e.g. driving on the continent is a piece of cake

I started doing this somewhere around high school. Partly because it feels more natural, and partly to mess with people's heads.

It's also why my smilies are reversed; they're left-handed (-:

which ear do you put the phone?

Left, always. Maybe I'm left eared too? Never really gave that much consideration.

Left, right feels odd.