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Re: Why It Is Offensive To Give/Receive With Your Left Hand? by mysticgal(f): 8:22pm On Nov 24, 2015
What of we left handed peepz, abeg joor

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Re: Why It Is Offensive To Give/Receive With Your Left Hand? by sundilazo(m): 8:22pm On Nov 24, 2015
It is against the quadratic equation.........& it is not hygienic
Re: Why It Is Offensive To Give/Receive With Your Left Hand? by glossy6(f): 8:23pm On Nov 24, 2015
At times bad people use it to bring bad luck. So they say but as for me, God created both hands for our use.

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Re: Why It Is Offensive To Give/Receive With Your Left Hand? by tunjijones(m): 8:23pm On Nov 24, 2015
African culture. And funny enough left handed people are more inteligent. My mom beat the left handrness out of my lil bro.

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Re: Why It Is Offensive To Give/Receive With Your Left Hand? by stylezee(m): 8:23pm On Nov 24, 2015
make Justin beiber wey I sure say I senior give me $1m cheque wit left hand I go thank am..


grin grin grin
Re: Why It Is Offensive To Give/Receive With Your Left Hand? by cruzita(f): 8:24pm On Nov 24, 2015
because awon werey100%
Re: Why It Is Offensive To Give/Receive With Your Left Hand? by Nobody: 8:24pm On Nov 24, 2015
I don't teach my children to use right or left. The practice satisfies only cultural sensitivity which I don't subscribe to. It's borne out of the superstitious belief that the left hand is used in performing rituals.
Re: Why It Is Offensive To Give/Receive With Your Left Hand? by Xbee007(m): 8:25pm On Nov 24, 2015
This scenario is not only peculiar to African culture. Even in the West it is offensive and disrespective to offer or receive something with the left hand.
Re: Why It Is Offensive To Give/Receive With Your Left Hand? by hustla(m): 8:25pm On Nov 24, 2015
stylezee:
make Justin beiber wey I sure say I senior give me $1m cheque wit left hand I go thank am..


grin grin grin


Bruh if e put am for inside in yansh sef, I go collect am
Who born me

God punish Devil



grin grin grin grin grin

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Re: Why It Is Offensive To Give/Receive With Your Left Hand? by Nobody: 8:25pm On Nov 24, 2015
chuchutech:
that is african tradition and we must respect it period!

I'm African as well but I will only respect such senseless tradition only if all those that subscribes to such notion have amputated their various left hands.

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Re: Why It Is Offensive To Give/Receive With Your Left Hand? by zhiggy1(m): 8:25pm On Nov 24, 2015
Funny how culture / religion are use to inhibit. An Alfa approach me in a buka to stop eating with left hand cos only 'asetani' eat with left hand and I won't make heaven. - (Yoruba word for devil or demon).

Seen pple who won't share a meal if u eat with ur left hand..
Re: Why It Is Offensive To Give/Receive With Your Left Hand? by Dindondin(m): 8:26pm On Nov 24, 2015
sukkot:
maybe cuz the left hand is used by women to tamba undecided
lmao!
Typical Yoruba person.
Tamba ko, shan idi ni?
Last Bullet
Using lefty to take or collect things is just a traditional beleive.

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Re: Why It Is Offensive To Give/Receive With Your Left Hand? by mecuzee(m): 8:26pm On Nov 24, 2015
Good question! What of those with one hand (left)?
Re: Why It Is Offensive To Give/Receive With Your Left Hand? by Nobody: 8:27pm On Nov 24, 2015
I have been thinking of that too........cos of countless scolding sure to my left handedness
Re: Why It Is Offensive To Give/Receive With Your Left Hand? by Nobody: 8:27pm On Nov 24, 2015
kITATITA:
I don't teach my children to use right or left. The practice satisfies only cultural sensitivity which I don't subscribe to. It's borne out of the superstitious belief that the left hand is used in performing rituals.

The annoying part of it all is that they refused to chop of their left hands even after vilifying it.
Re: Why It Is Offensive To Give/Receive With Your Left Hand? by NovusHomo(m): 8:27pm On Nov 24, 2015
sukkot:
maybe cuz the left hand is used by women to tamba undecided

...and used by men to wipe yansh. grin

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Re: Why It Is Offensive To Give/Receive With Your Left Hand? by mrwiddy(m): 8:28pm On Nov 24, 2015
it is offensive because itz a bad omen,moreso,itz nt african.
Re: Why It Is Offensive To Give/Receive With Your Left Hand? by Nobody: 8:28pm On Nov 24, 2015
left=wrong... i dont care tho undecided
Re: Why It Is Offensive To Give/Receive With Your Left Hand? by Nobody: 8:28pm On Nov 24, 2015
Its all about supersticious belief
Re: Why It Is Offensive To Give/Receive With Your Left Hand? by hahn(m): 8:29pm On Nov 24, 2015
fearlesschicken:
It's a cultural thing unfortunately....

So much discrimination against leftists

People just have the believe that left is wrong .....it's some sort of orientation I believe

Some cultural beliefs really need to be abolished undecided

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Re: Why It Is Offensive To Give/Receive With Your Left Hand? by Sarhamsyn(m): 8:29pm On Nov 24, 2015
bcuz u wash d poo off ur anus with ur left handtongue

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Re: Why It Is Offensive To Give/Receive With Your Left Hand? by stylezee(m): 8:29pm On Nov 24, 2015
hustla:

Bruh if e put am for inside in yansh sef, I go collect am Who born me
God punish Devil


grin grin grin grin grin





hustla:

Bruh if e put am for inside in yansh sef, I go collect am Who born me
God punish Devil


grin grin grin grin grin






lwkm.. cheesy cheesy cheesy
Re: Why It Is Offensive To Give/Receive With Your Left Hand? by stylezee(m): 8:29pm On Nov 24, 2015
hustla:

Bruh if e put am for inside in yansh sef, I go collect am Who born me
God punish Devil


grin grin grin grin grin





hustla:

Bruh if e put am for inside in yansh sef, I go collect am Who born me
God punish Devil


grin grin grin grin grin






lwkm.. cheesy cheesy cheesy

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Re: Why It Is Offensive To Give/Receive With Your Left Hand? by Nobody: 8:30pm On Nov 24, 2015
stylezee:
make Justin beiber wey I sure say I senior give me $1m cheque wit left hand I go thank am..


grin grin grin

for where! me i go reject am sharply shuo undecided

Hin no get respect again angry

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Re: Why It Is Offensive To Give/Receive With Your Left Hand? by daveyjay(m): 8:31pm On Nov 24, 2015
ajixkhid1:
Cause SATAN x left handed. *Runs-Away*
Dude U reqistered a broad smile across my face, wassup
Re: Why It Is Offensive To Give/Receive With Your Left Hand? by tosyne2much(m): 8:32pm On Nov 24, 2015
I think it has to do with African culture. Even as a left handed person, I always avoid using left to give or receive something from elderly ones

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Re: Why It Is Offensive To Give/Receive With Your Left Hand? by Theophrastus(m): 8:32pm On Nov 24, 2015
My Uncle change his daughter from left hand user to the right one.....,now he is lamenting because you can just read anything she writes

A well trained teacher will never do this either formally or informally
Re: Why It Is Offensive To Give/Receive With Your Left Hand? by Nobody: 8:32pm On Nov 24, 2015
No mind them. Na because the money no plenty, throw a cheque of 3million with your feet and they would throw culture to the winds. grin
Jokes aside, I don't even notice such.
Re: Why It Is Offensive To Give/Receive With Your Left Hand? by SunstarS(m): 8:32pm On Nov 24, 2015
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Re: Why It Is Offensive To Give/Receive With Your Left Hand? by teebaxy(m): 8:32pm On Nov 24, 2015
You should know that left on it's own is synonymous to negativity, sometime when u are trying to refer to some one from the left hand, Yoruba will apa.alfia, the side of peace
Re: Why It Is Offensive To Give/Receive With Your Left Hand? by miqos02(m): 8:33pm On Nov 24, 2015
culture
Re: Why It Is Offensive To Give/Receive With Your Left Hand? by chidexxy007(m): 8:33pm On Nov 24, 2015
ajixkhid1:
Cause SATAN x left handed.
*Runs-Away*
....
**catches him***
.....
**slaps him wit left hand***....
nw gerrarahia, lolz

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