Ned being shown as right handed while owning a store that caters exclusively to left handed people, is the joke within the joke. It’s not that deep.
It shows Ned has a bit of shrewd business sense because he knows that lefties will more than willing to pay a premium to get left handed items. For example, I was willing to double the price to buy left handed scissors because it sucks to use “normal” right handed ones. Evidently, cutting stainless steel shim stock is hard on them and you can only resharpen them so many times. So I paid a lot of extra money to have a tool that I could comfortably use.
Was going to post, there was a time in history left handed people were considered odd and unacceptable so they would often be abused into right handed. Especially in religious ran schools. So Ned is probably old enough to have the wonderful yardstick across the knuckles treatment.
It’s where the word sinister comes from. In Latin it just means left, left hand side. Then in Medieval times the right got positive associations and the left negative which lead to left is bad then to evil. Hence sinister means evil. And why left handedness became associated with the devil.
This is literally what a lot of the boomers were forced to learn to do. Lefties became ambidextrous or got called the devil in a not fun way.
I’m pretty sure that’s literally what happened in the show isn’t it?
Ned being shown as right handed while owning a store that caters exclusively to left handed people, is the joke within the joke. It’s not that deep.
It shows Ned has a bit of shrewd business sense because he knows that lefties will more than willing to pay a premium to get left handed items. For example, I was willing to double the price to buy left handed scissors because it sucks to use “normal” right handed ones. Evidently, cutting stainless steel shim stock is hard on them and you can only resharpen them so many times. So I paid a lot of extra money to have a tool that I could comfortably use.
Was going to post, there was a time in history left handed people were considered odd and unacceptable so they would often be abused into right handed. Especially in religious ran schools. So Ned is probably old enough to have the wonderful yardstick across the knuckles treatment.
I use both hands and their pronouns are those hands them hands
It’s where the word sinister comes from. In Latin it just means left, left hand side. Then in Medieval times the right got positive associations and the left negative which lead to left is bad then to evil. Hence sinister means evil. And why left handedness became associated with the devil.
Oh, that’s an interesting bit of information. Thank you!
Yep. I am proud member of the Bar Sinister. And yes, Ricky Bobby I will put that evil on you because of it.
Makes you think about the word right, right?
I am a millennial and I know people they tried to convince to write right handed in elementary school.