Folding your arms
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Øyvind Grave Digger |
27.04.2008 - 15:26
I don't know if anyone has noticed this, but when people fold their arms, they don't do it the same way. Some people put their right arm over left, like me (check my photo), others do it vice-versa, left over right. So, my questions are: which way do you fold your arms and do you know why people fold them differently? Does it have something to do whether you're right-handed or left-handed, or with personality, or something else...?
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Valentin B Iconoclast |
27.04.2008 - 16:55
i actually noticed that lol!(yeah i suck that much ) and it's not right, because it can cause your spine to lean in the direction the arm you're holding behind. and imo it's not something about personality, but almost 100% if you're left or right handed.
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GT Coffee!! |
27.04.2008 - 17:40
As Cursed said I think it has to do with whether you're left or right handed. I do it both ways actually (when crossing my arms that is!). Don't know why, but sometimes it just doesn't feel right the other way.
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Valentin B Iconoclast |
27.04.2008 - 17:52 Written by GT on 27.04.2008 at 17:40 yeah it feels weird. kind of like if someone told you to shake hands with your left hand
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GT Coffee!! |
27.04.2008 - 17:59
I think you misunderstood me. What I meant to say was if I today cross my arms with the right arm on top I might do it with the left on top tomorrow, because the other way feels wrong tomorrow (or vice versa)
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Valentin B Iconoclast |
27.04.2008 - 21:25
oh. anyway that feels weird to me all the time lol
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Stuart MiseryKing |
27.04.2008 - 21:37
One must remember that the folding of arms is an incredibly important issue in metal. Sometimes I might buy an album purely based on the fact of how many folded arms I can see on the back cover. If you get one in which every single member has his arms folded then you know its gonna be a killer album. If only one persons arms are folded, it is only acceptable if he is the singer as this shows he is the most serious and you should listen carefuly to the words. Otherwise its the amount of folded arms that really dictates the quality of the music.
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Valentin B Iconoclast |
27.04.2008 - 21:39 Written by Stuart on 27.04.2008 at 21:37 well it's in the general forum so the thread starter didn't think about music when he opened it
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Stuart MiseryKing |
27.04.2008 - 21:47 Written by Valentin B on 27.04.2008 at 21:39 Hehe, yeah I know, it just got me thinking about how alot of the albums I own contain some form of arm-folding. but to comment more exactly on the original post. I think your more dominant arm will always feel more comfortable going on-top. And because left handed people are thought by some to more artistic, I have just realised I should keep my eye open for covers which contain the left arms on top.
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Øyvind Grave Digger |
27.04.2008 - 22:18 Written by Valentin B on 27.04.2008 at 16:55 I'm not quite sure it's about which hand you're using more frequently, because for instance in my highschool class everyone was right-handed but they folded their arms in both ways, so I don't think it's about that.
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Torelli |
27.04.2008 - 22:19 Written by Stuart on 27.04.2008 at 21:47 Not allways I think. I'm left-handed, but when I'm folding my arms, the right-hand usually goes on-top.
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Stuart MiseryKing |
27.04.2008 - 22:25 Written by Torelli on 27.04.2008 at 22:19 Hmmmmm.... well I guess that means my theory is wrong. Maybe if people have the more dominant arm over the less dominant arm it shows readiness to act quickly should they need to make any sudden action with the precision of the more dominant arm and that maybe people who have their dominant arm below are not usualyy required to make quick movements with needing the precision of their more dominant arm. It is possible that a more dominant arm on top shows a domineering personality and a dominant arm below means a passive personality.
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Ernis 狼獾 |
27.04.2008 - 23:21
Do I sense the similarity with the issue of having left thumb or right thumb on top while having hands clasped together?
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Valentin B Iconoclast |
27.04.2008 - 23:24 Written by Ernis on 27.04.2008 at 23:21 no, but the importance of it is just as low
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Achor Account deleted |
02.05.2008 - 19:31 Achor
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i used to have my left arm over my right (im right-handed), but a couple of years ago i changed it, because i wanted to do a thing that one of the gladiators from the show gladiators did. he would cross his arms, and then take out the right hand and point at the camera or the audience or whatever and wink. hehehe! i thought he was so cool, so i started doing the same. and now the other way feels totally wrong.
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Øyvind Grave Digger |
03.05.2008 - 14:11 Written by Guest on 02.05.2008 at 19:31 I've heard somewhere that you need around 9 months to switch completely...
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APOHAKC The Bard |
03.05.2008 - 14:21 Written by GT on 27.04.2008 at 17:40 I do it both ways too, but also I am both armed or whatever it is called, I use both hands and legs almost equally effective, for example, when I write I usually use right hand cause in the school most of the kids used it so I did not want to be a freak using left hand, although I write with left one same as with right one, when playing football I use both legs, depending of person guarding me, if he's right legged I used left and in reverse, shoot with left cause it is stronger, I can't think of any other examples, but those two were the most obvious ones, damn, I'm freak too...
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Achor Account deleted |
03.05.2008 - 16:16 Achor
Account deleted Written by Øyvind on 03.05.2008 at 14:11 well, it took a while before it stopped feeling weird, but not 9 months.. more like two weeks or something
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Øyvind Grave Digger |
04.05.2008 - 13:10 Written by Guest on 03.05.2008 at 16:49 Is it too weird or not too weird?
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Pole Kitten Account deleted |
16.07.2008 - 12:38 Pole Kitten
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right over left, always. it feels wrong the other way.
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Gordon Freeman |
23.07.2008 - 00:58
If I don't think about it I go right over left. But if I make a conscious effort to cross left over right I don't actually feel any different.
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Stalker Lone wanderer |
23.07.2008 - 01:08
Woow. What a weird topic man Ok, anyway, Im right handed, and do it left over right... i guess. yeah....
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Kap'N Korrupt Account deleted |
23.07.2008 - 03:55 Kap'N Korrupt
Account deleted Written by Stalker on 23.07.2008 at 01:08 I was just about to post that but you beat me to it... I'm left handed and I always go to put my left arm over my right..
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Yavanna |
05.11.2010 - 14:26
Left over right, always. I never cared about it, but after seeing this post, I begun to pay attention. I am right handed, but do some things with left hand, such using the my computer's mouse, while writing with right hand. My college classmates find it very strange. I do both things at same time.
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Kennoth |
05.11.2010 - 14:55 Written by Stuart on 27.04.2008 at 21:37 OT: I'm right handed, but I always fold my left hand on top of my right. I guess it's just instinctive.
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Ernis 狼獾 |
05.11.2010 - 21:48
I think I fold them interchangeably... there's no big difference, is there?
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Himann Orm KrigGud |
08.11.2010 - 08:13
Never thought about it much and I rarely ever fold my arms actually. More comfortable with left over right.
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treptolemus aphotic_zoning |
10.11.2010 - 22:35
Well, left over right -that's usual for me. More comfortable and easy to do. But... right thumb over left thumb. Legs: both ways (left over right and the other way) - fine and comfortable. Written by Himann on 08.11.2010 at 08:13 I think folding arms shows a "defensive" position.
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Kennoth |
16.11.2010 - 14:07
About leg folding, I prefer folding left over right as well.
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