To be annoyed with Call the Midwife

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I've been rewatching from the start and of all the things to be annoyed about it’s Dr Turner writing left handed 🤣

Clearly as I know nothing about medicine or midwifery they could be showing all sorts that’s wrong and I’d have no clue but this is bugging me.

I think it’s time for a cuppa!

Call the midwife is a load of rubbish in terms of accuracy anyway. My mum loved in the area that’s it’s set for the first 25 years of her life and she has said it is is nothing like the reality.
on the left handed thing though the prejudice went on a long time. I remember in secondary school a governor saying to my friend ‘oh you are cackhanded’ - that was in the mid 90s!

Dr Turner always strikes me as a bit of a smart arse so he is probably ambidextrous!

One massive mistake is when they show the front of the Royal London Hospital with it's modern sigm. It was the London Hospital until the 1980s.

@Treaclemine thats really interesting about right handers in left hand dominant families. Both my maternal & paternal sides have a lot of lefties - & 50% of my children are. My brother & one of his kids are properly ambidextrous, another of my nieces is a lefty. I’m quite useful with my left hand & I’ve noticed lots of us for eg eat the left handed way despite being right handed. One of my right handed daughters writes really well with her left hand.

I am forever shocked that my left handed DP uses his mouse in his right hand! When he learnt to use a computer at school (so 90's) that's just where the mice were, diddnt occur to move it so he uses it to this day.

My father is 82 and didn't have it thrashed out of him.
Although, he wasn't allowed to hold his cutlery 'left handed' mostly because of the soup.dessert course where elbows would clash!

both my sons use the mouse (normal right handed one) upside down in the left hands - looks very odd. One of the most annoying things is finding mice without side buttons - they are a complete PITA for lots of left handed people. And teaching them to tie shoe laces - I was useless, I had to ask a left handed relative to do it.

At my primary school in the late 70 ‘s my friend was ‘encouraged’ by a harridan teaching ‘assistant’ to write with his right hand.

I taught my LH DD how to do laces by sitting facing her and have her copy what I did...mum taught her how to knit doing the same. DP's dad is a lefty and taught him how to tie his laces....it's the weirdest thing I've ever seen, but DP cannot do it the "right-handed" way however much he tries.

Some people naturally use both hands. One of my sons could but with the left hand it would be mirror writing. It was fun if he did alternate lines. He just seemed to forget about it when he was 7 or 8.

My grandad was born in the 20s and properly had it thrashed out of him. He was allowed to draw with his left though.

I'm from the 90s and a girl in my class was forced by her parents to use her right and the school "enforced" it.

I lived in a similar area in another city. It was very much how I remember it.

I mean it is very like inner city life in a poor area, I didn't know Poplar.

My father was born in 1927, he joined the air force at the very end of the war as a mechanic, and was paid extra as a left hander.

@oldtableleg that's interesting about the laces! DP's son his right handed, DP and his ex are both left and are having a nightmare trying to reach him to tie laces. Might suggest I have a go.

I was born in 1960. I went to three schoolsl in the 60s and 70s and corporal punishment was never used in any of them, which I think was true in most schools by then. I had friends who were left-handed and no one ever berated or thrashed them. 🙄 It wasn't even an issue. No one was told they had to write with their right hand. It sounds like your parents were unfortunate and went to awful schools.

My dad was born in 1931. He was right handed but played left handed in cricket and golf. But left handed for table tennis.

My dad taught my right handed brother to bat left handed as our county was short of left handers. He still bats and plays golf left handed 60 years on.

(He never played for the county but was called into the youth training squad).

My mum is 90 and left-handed, but was taught to write with her right hand. I don't think brutal methods were used but she never reverted to writing with her left hand. She does most other things left-handed, though. My husband and I are both left-handed and neither experienced any difficulty in being allowed to write with our left hands. I expected that at least one of our children would be left-handed, but no, the stubborn wee buggers are both right-handed. I read that even with two left-handed parents the odds are strongly in favour of a child being right-handed.

I was born in 1958 and had friends who were left handed. They weren't made to feel less then because of it. Maybe the teachers where I went to school were more enlightened?

My Mum was born in 1938 and her Mum made it quite clear to her teachers that she was allowed to be left handed.

DH is another child of the 50s. He was always allowed to write with his left hand. However when asked just now he recalled being the last child in his year group (at a small English state school) to be allowed to write with pen, as opposed to pencil.

He also said that since starting to write intensively on the computer in the 1980’s he has become ambidextrous in many things. But not writing.

My dad is 70 and is left handed. He is pretty much ambidextrous as a result of being forced to use his right hand so much

YABU. I’m right handed so can’t speak to school experiences several decades ago, but do have several elderly left handed relatives. All of them were hit with rulers etc at school and made to write right handed. The minute they left school they all reverted to left handed which got better over time in regards to legibility the more practice they got.

Don’t think all teachers cut this crap ages ago either. I have a leftie and on first week at school was called in by the teacher to try and agree a strategy to make them write right handed. That was only 20 years ago. I told her she was mad and could do one. The kid was clearly left handed, had been since they first reached for rattle/toys and would therefore write with their left hand.

I was born in 1961 and I went to four schools in the 60s and 70s. I don't think there was corporal punishment at the first school, but I was only there for a term. There was a lot of it at the second school and it was in use at the third, but not to the same extent, and only the headmaster administered it, whereas at the second school class teachers could use the belt. Appalling to think of this now. My secondary school was girls only and there was absolutely no question of corporal punishment. I doubt it had ever been used there.

There are quite a few left handed batsmen who are actually right handed. It's more to do with eye dominance than hand dominance which are linked but not 100%

Interesting, my Mum is 83 and was allowed to remain left handed.

My favourite Call The Midwife fact is that American Vogue’s Andre Leon Talley took the box set to Kim Kardashian’s wedding in Italy to help him relax.