Yeah, that episode was basically making the point that he's from a generation where being different was considered wrong, and abusive behavior corrections were an option.

The boomers went through some stuff. Ned included.

THAT GUY IS SPANKING WITH HIS LEFT HAND!

I had a teacher in high school who was ambidextrous because of nun-based leftie abuse.

You right-handers force us into this position!

There's only one thing you use everyday that's made for the left hand and it's flushing the toilet!

Think of how that feels!

Most things cater to right-handedness, there isn't much of a choice 🤷‍♂️

To be more exact, you are "criss-cross-applesauced" but it's a technical term.

i prefer the term "ambisinister"

Yep, same situation for me. "Ambidextrous" roughly means "two right hands," so I like to joke that I'm ambisinistral - I've got two left hands.

Left foot forward IS the 'righthanded' way. Left foot forward is called regular stance, right foot forward is called goofy stance

https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-find-your-skateboarding-stance-goofy-foot-vs-regular

a friend of mine learned how to play upside down as well so he could play any guitar. not to the degree he played lefties but it was still impressive

Yep. My brother is left handed and he plays right handed because it's just easier to get a right handed guitar

I remember being out to dinner with my family and my brother was joking with me about how I would have to struggle to cut up my food being left handed because how the seats were arranged. I just switched to my right and him and a couple other people were like.... What?.. I didn't even know that people used a specific hand for their utensils.

We never had left handed stuff when I was in school so I guess I just learned on my own.

I'm righty for everything except specifically throwing a Frisbee. I just can't do it with my right hand, unless it's an overhand chuck. Makes disc golf a bitch because no matter how I throw, it usually breaks right from the spin.

I wonder how much of handedness is really "real". I'm sure there's a bit of a preference there, but a lot of it might be also training.

For example, I started using my phone in my "off-hand" years ago to keep my "main-hand" free for other stuff. Turns out I do more on my phone than on my free hand, and now I'm much better with my "off-hand" with my phone than with my "main-hand".

Why :( ?

We have a skill that most don't have. Give someone who's single hand dominant only, a steak. Watch as they constantly have to shuffle the silverware back and forth. Or go play like baseball or racquetball or tennis or badminton, etc. and just keep swapping the hand, it'll throw them off.

While you are most definitely correct his parents wouldn't do that; schools back then absolutely did enforce that and he clearly did still go through school.

the bridge is arranged a certain way (some of them have ridges in slightly different spots for the endpoint of each string) so restringing it would be... unpleasant. more involved than just the strings. some of them, the body of the guitar is shaped to hug your body. I can think of a few different guitars in the family collection and why it wouldn't work, but like, it's usually more complicated than just the strings

In a lot of cases the body of the guitar is different.

Some acoustic guitars like this one:

might work fine strung backwards; you might have to do a bit of alteration to the bridge and the nut, and you might put on a second pick guard, but you can probably Lefty that Righty.

A guitar with a bite taken out of the body like this:

That bite is so that it's easier to reach the base of the fretboard where the high pitch meedly meedly notes live. If you flip that guitar over, the notch is on the wrong side. You can still play it, but the point of that notch has been eliminated.

Acoustic-electric guitars, such as most Ovations, have their controls or built-in tuners on the sidewall that would face "up" when held and played, making that a pain to use upside down. Possibly literally if sitting down because the knobs would dig into your thigh.

Electric guitars like the Fender Stratocaster:

Are 1. surprisingly heavy because the body is solid wood, it's not hollow like an acoustic, and 2. are carved to fit a human body. You can see in that image the relief for your side in the back and for your elbow on the front. The tremolo lever ("whammy bar") is in an asymmetric location so that it can be both used and moved out of the way. The knobs and switch are convenient yet out of the way of strumming. The cord socket is designed to point the cord down and away. If you use this guitar upside down, you defeat all those ergonomics, the guitar would become difficult and uncomfortable to hold and use. Didn't stop Jimi Hendrix, who famously played a Stratocaster upside down.

I'm left handed and a guitarist, and I assert that a standard guitar IS left handed. The intricate work of fingering on the frets is done with the left hand, the large gross movements of strumming is done with the right. I'm perfectly comfortable using a standard guitar, yet most of the right handed people who have asked me to teach them to play have wanted to hold the guitar the other way, neck in right hand.

Jimi Hendrix famously did this, but it's not without its drawbacks. Some models are more problematic than others.

An acoustic like this would probably be pretty straightforward.

Huh, til. They were at the shop I looked at 30 years ago and the market has not changed I refuse to accept it.

The original fracture in this society was a disagreement about whether socks and sandals is a fashion faux pas. Then someone brought up pineapple on pizza...

just one anecdote, but I'm solidly right handed and I'm quite comfortable fretting with my left hand. It's a challenge to learn guitar regardless of which hand. But I have absolutely nothing against folks making and playing left-handed instruments either, folks should go with what they want