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Simon Mayo, this evening, a guy text the show thinking he was "odd"
The guy in question is right handed, but stirs his tea / coffee anti-clockwise.
Now, I must admit I thought that he was a tad strange, but the follow-up texts, all confirmed that,(As did the people in the studio.)

Right handed people stir anti-clockwise
Left handed people stir clockwise.


Being right handed that sounds "cack-handed" to me.
Unless something needs a really good stir, like a thick soup or stew and then I will switch, from one to the other.

Other than that, hot drinks and the like, it has to be clockwise all the way :thumbs:
 
Cobra said:
Simon Mayo, this evening, a guy text the show thinking he was "odd"
The guy in question is right handed, but stirs his tea / coffee anti-clockwise.
Now, I must admit I thought that he was a tad strange, but the follow-up texts, all confirmed that,(As did the people in the studio.)

Right handed people stir anti-clockwise
Left handed people stir clockwise.


Being right handed that sounds "cack-handed" to me.
Unless something needs a really good stir, like a thick soup or stew and then I will switch, from one to the other.

Other than that, hot drinks and the like, it has to be clockwise all the way (y)
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You have waaaaay too much time!! :lol:
 
Cack handed...gheez you sound like my dad! I got that all my life from the parents!

I'm left handed and stir anti clockwise but cooking is both....I think
 
Agree Cobra. I'm right handed and while cooking then the stirring can vary but with tea it is always clockwise.

Dave
 
Don't drink or stir tea but right handed and coffee or anything else............clockwise
 
ecoleman said:
Right handed and anti-clockwise.
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I had to try it, and found it very un-natural to the point about having to think about what I was doing.


Gremlin said:
Don't drink or stir tea but right handed and coffee or anything else............clockwise
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It just makes perfect sense :thumbs:

( not you, just the scenario :p in case you start to get worried again :D )
 
Right handed, anti clockwise.

Clockwise is weird. The bowl of the spoon would have to be held backwards. Unless you stir towards the back of the spoon, and that's weirder.
 
simon ess said:
Right handed, anti clockwise.

Clockwise is weird. The bowl of the spoon would have to be held backwards. Unless you stir towards the back of the spoon, and that's weirder.
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Hold the tea spoon lightly between fore finger and thumb, and you can hold it which ever way round you choose (y)

edit or these fast drinks places have a plastic "bat" or wooden sliver, these are not sided :)
 
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Right handed, anti clockwise here too
 
Surely you only need to stir if you add sugar or drink fake coffee, and who does either of those things in this day and age? :thinking: :naughty:
 
Cg_Girl said:
Cack handed...gheez you sound like my dad! I got that all my life from the parents!

I'm left handed and stir anti clockwise but cooking is both....I think
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I'm the same:) Left handed and stir tea anti clockwise. Cooking, painting, use both hands equally but I can only use scissors in my right hand
 
I'm a lefty and stir clockwise. Skate or surfboard start a race ( it's been a while for any of these!) left foot forward. But eat play the guitar and wipe my arse right handed! Lol
 
I'm a lefty but stir my coffee with my right hand - clockwise.
 
I mostly stir Right handed ......but in both directions to create turbulence.
once the contents are moving smoothly I reverse direction.

for woodwork, turning, spinning and most crafts I use either hand or both.
 
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Right handed and anti-clockwise - and when really lazy I use a battery operated milk frother which is clockwise.
 
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Right handed and anti-clockwise for me too.

Maybe it because I pick the spoon up with the front facing me (bowl forward) it just seems obvious & natural.
I reckon if you turn the spoon bowl away from yourself to stir clockwise..........you're weird! :D
 
Thinking about it a bit further, if you pick up a glass with liquid in, eg as wine tasters do & `swirl` it around, you would surely go anti for a right hander & CW for a leftie?
 
OldCarlos said:
Right handed and anti-clockwise for me too.

Maybe it because I pick the spoon up with the front facing me (bowl forward) it just seems obvious & natural.
I reckon if you turn the spoon bowl away from yourself to stir clockwise..........you're weird! :D
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Right handed and clockwise....

.... and if you start with the bowl of the spoon facing you, ( no matter which way you stir ) for some of the time you are using the back of the spoon. :D
 
Right handed and clockwise.

But, swirling wine in a glass would be anticlockwise - obviously!
 
RH and another figure of eighter! Or just straight across. I have a favourite wooden spoon which is worn so much from use in the same pan that it shows I must stir anti clockwise when I use it (which sort of puts the lie to my previous statement, although even with that spoon and pan, I tend to go mainly across or in a figure eight.)
 
Totally no idea ,the wife makes all mine :naughty::naughty::ty:
 
Right handed, and anti-clockwise for stirring, whisking and beating.
 
I just drink my tea :D
I will tell you what is cack handed and manky also......those people that make tea by placing a teabag in the cup then pouring milk in then adding hot water then stirring the s*** out of the bag :puke:
 
Lefty, anticlockwise in sort of "D" shape, down the straight of the D, then anticlockwise back up the curve, really fast like whipping an egg or something. Gets the demerara stirred in nicely.

Now if you're anything like me you haven't read any of the other replies, just gone straight down to put your reply in that no one else is going to bother to read. lol.
 
DorsetDude said:
Now if you're anything like me you haven't read any of the other replies, just gone straight down to put your reply in that no one else is going to bother to read. lol.
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I read your comment :D
I did the same with the tread just to put my two penneth worth in! :LOL:
 
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