direction of stir
 

which direction do you stir your coffe/tea, clockwise or counterclockwise?

this is not a trick question.

Clockwise: I do live in the Northern Hemispere though.

Which way do you turn if you need to look behind you and there's nothing in the way either way?

And are you left or right handed?

Yes, this is a pet obsession or mine.

Business a little slow today?

yeah, I turned the red light on, but nothin's doing....

But in his business, he does the screwing.

It is slow for a Saturday, actually.....I'll most likely get crushed later.

but one of the salesmen asked me that question, and said he had polled his family and gotten seemingly random answers...so i thought i would increase the sample size for him. thanks for playing

Where is my goram user title then?

screwing has such a ...personal sound to it.

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*cough* undercoat *cough*

Yes master... where do I sign?

I bought Gap Insurance. That means if my ass grows too big for mall retailers, I can still have jeans specially made.

Is that what he told you? :eek:

no you didnt. your lease came with it for free.

Well thank god, because my ass is huge.

I stir clockwise and I look over my left shoulder to see behind me. I'm ambidextrous, FYI.

I stir everything clockwise -- coffee, tea, batter, soup, whatever. When I was a little kid, my great-grandmother taught me that it was bad luck to stir counterclockwise. I got in to the habit of stirring clockwise, and now I keep it as a way of remembering her.

I look over my right shoulder, and I'm right handed.

Depends on which hand I'm using to stir. Right hand goes clockwise, left hand goes counter. I tend to stir or mix things with my right hand despite being left handed.

I look over my right shoulder. It feels like a tactical response when surprised by something behind me. Looking over my right shoulder turns my left arm out of the way of whatever harm could be approaching. Not that that makes any sense, because I shoot righty and can throw a stronger punch with my right hand. My right hand and arm is faster though... Over think much?

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Gap is your friend, so is Income Protection and TLC.

I look over my left shoulder. I think. hmm.

Look left, stir right...but I'm a lefty so its all messed up.

I start off stirring clockwise, but then abruptly switch to counter-clockwise.

My theory is that this forces more collisions between the two substances I am trying to mix. Is there any validity to that?

I do this too.

Clockwise-only creates a linear flow that allows undissolved coffee/sugar to simply swirl around the bottom of the cup. Reversing the direction of stir creates chaotic turbulent flow which greatly increases mixing, and thus dissolution.

I believe this does work, because I can feel the extra resistance from the coffee and sugar up until the time I reverse directions, but not thereafter.

thanks, guys. Rich will be appreciative of this information. Of all my salesmen, he is the most dwellarish. intellectual, even. i may try to recruit him as a dwellar.

Oh, well if you mean like mixing cake batter & such, thats different. I alternate between clockwise and counter clockwise, then scrape the edges and go into a linear mix horizontally and vertically. Repeat as necessary.

monster, i look over my right shoulder, i think.....but i think it has a lot to do with driving. I'm right handed.

Yeah, right, I stir my coffee with this: :right:

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I'm late on the poll...but interesting question. I never thought about it. I always start clockwise then usually switch directions once or twice to increase mixing. Depends on what I'm making though.

As for looking over my shoulder, no preference, I don't think. Probably left though, since that is the way my head goes when biking, running, sleeping etc.

which foot do you lift first to ascend stairs?

The right one. When I leave today, I'll pay attention to which one I use to decend them. :)

Shouldn't there be another poll? If a righty, right or left, if a lefty right or left etc.

i run stairs and left foot always goes first.

i think jinx told me that you approach stairs with your off foot. unless you're gay....and then, you can't whistle

I switch directions too. I think I usually start clockwise, but I have to make cocoa for breakfast and see what happens. :)

I look over my right shoulder and usually right foot goes first to the stairs, but that changes too. And I'm very strongly right-handed.

I usually stir coffee etc clockwise, but sometimes I use a beating type of motion which really stirs things up. That's more counter clockwise. When mixing other things in bowls I'll do either way depending on what I'm mixing and how it needs to be mixed.

I look over either shoulder.

I'm left handed.

Left is right!

stand up.


pretend someone is approaching you and you have to defend yourself.


which foot and shoulder did you step back with? if you are right handed then your right foot and shoulder will be in back. you do it instinctively because that will create the most stability and power if you need to dodge or punch.

pretend you are going to race someone.

chances are you just crouched a little and tensed with your dominant foot further back to "launch" you out of the blocks. instinct.

Look over my left shoulder, to draw attention away from the movement of my gun hand.

Right handed, look over my right shoulder. When driving, that's where the blind spot is. And my son's infant seat. Step up with right foot... stir clockwise, until my arm gets tired then I switch directions... Step back with right foot to get into the "warrior stance" or "fighting stance". Allows more power to be projected/thrown from right (dominant) arm/leg.

Just like Han Solo!

funny. my first thought when i read bruce's post was "han shot first". but i figured that was a pretty geeky comment. but since you went there first... it's still pretty geeky, but well done.

And for the record, who the hell wouldn't think it would be awesome to wear Boba Fett's armor?

Beat me to it.:rolleyes:

Clockwise!!

I am noticing something new I'm doing that is curious to me...Everything is on the left side of my desk as if I am left-handed.....The calculator, pens, etc....I can be ambidextrious but this is outright strange......I have been using all these items left-handed without blinking an eye...until the other day, I noticed unconsciously, and now I'm thinking wtf?

Of course, if we're talking shit stirring, then I just poke it repeatedly with no discernable direction until it sticks to something.

same here. i always put it down to playing the guitar. right handed players finger the frets with the left hand. i can add on my adding machine without looking at it as though i were playing the guitar. my desk just happens to be L shaped in that direction. the other finance office is mirrored to mine, and the adding machine and phone are all on the right. I can use them, but it feels weird.

Update:

I have been paying attention to myself the last couple days. I go up and down stairs a lot at work and at home, and found that I use whatever foot is next to step. Interesting because when I pictured myself going up stairs after reading the post, it 'felt' right to go up with my right first, but in reality, neither leg appears dominant.

Could be why I never mastered deep water start slalom skiing, either leg in back felt wierd...although when I drop, I usually drop the left and place it in back...

why is there no "crazy" option?

:)

I like to stir up. :eek:

I noticed the same thing. :) If I step on a ladder or something similar, I usually start with right foot, but I'm not doing any extra steps in front of the stairs just to get the right foot first...

I made cocoa for breakfast too, as I mentioned earlier, and found out that it really is more natural for me to begin stirring clockwise. But it would be odd not to switch direction a few times while stirring it.

Because crazy is mandatory.

Clockwise, I'm in the Northern Hemisphere.

Great minds think alike.