View Poll Results: Which is Your Dominant Hand and In Which Direction Do You Load?

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  • I'm right-handed and load clockwise.

    171 67.59%
  • I'm right-handed and load counterclockwise.

    34 13.44%
  • I'm left-handed and load clockwise.

    7 2.77%
  • I'm left-handed and load counterclockwise.

    19 7.51%
  • None of the Above/I don't load by swirling.

    9 3.56%
  • I worship at the altar of Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis

    13 5.14%
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  1. #1
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    Default In Which Direction Do You Load Your Soap/Cream with Your Brush?

    Just curious if there is any correlation between hand dominance and direction of loading.

    I'm right handed and load my soaps and croaps with my brush by swirling my brush on them clockwise. It just feels weird to go counterclockwise.
    Last edited by AABCDS; 06-30-2012 at 06:17 AM.
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    I'm so confused I voted right hand going clockwise but I'm actually ambidextrous and could have easily ticked all the boxes.
    I write with my right hand shave right handed too but i eat like a lefthander.

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    Left-handed and I load counterclockwise.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AABCDS View Post
    I'm right handed and load clockwise.
    I as well. This is definitely my "autopilot" mode, although I do make a conscience effort during the shave to occasionally do some swirls counterclockwise. Why? Why not, it makes me feel more "balanced," is the best reason I can give. Just one of those traditions, if you will, that I put into practice every shave.

    Something so small that I don't put much thought into it, but I think I would feel out of step if it was forgotten.

    So maybe I do put too much thought into it!
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    I am right handed and load clockwise, but every now and then I reversed the direction for a swirl or two.

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    Don't know if I'm being stupid here - but load what with what?
    Alan (BOTOC brother, LOSER)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oscroft View Post
    Don't know if I'm being stupid here - but load what with what?
    Me too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oscroft View Post
    Don't know if I'm being stupid here - but load what with what?
    Quote Originally Posted by Mike'sWorld View Post
    Me too.
    Load a shaving brush with soap. In other words in what direction do you swirl the brush.
    Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

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    I am right-handed, and I load counter-clockwise.
    Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

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    a circle is a circle?

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    Right handed and load both clockwise and anti clockwise

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimbofett View Post
    Right handed and load both clockwise and anti clockwise
    +1

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    Quote Originally Posted by Prof. Moriarty View Post
    Load a shaving brush with soap. In other words in what direction do you swirl the brush.
    Ah, got you - I'm a right-handed, load-both-ways, shaver.
    Alan (BOTOC brother, LOSER)

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    Chief Weasel and Director of the B&B Stjynnkii Membörd Dummpsjterd.

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    Life is too short to share that bacon with anyone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ouch View Post
    Great minds think alike.
    - James
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    If I look directly at the puck, the brush is going clockwise. If I look at it in the mirror, it looks like it is going counterclockwise.

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    Right Handed and I start clockwise, but I'll also switch directions halfway through adn go CCW. I voted RH/CW
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    I am right handed and load in both directions, I also use both directions when I am bowl lathering

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    Left-handed and load counter clockwise.

 

 

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