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aelluz · 2 days ago

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Right side, left-handed, Latin alphabet (native English speaker, USA).

I agree with ciceqi I think, because a prototypical mug to me is a clipart style image with the handle on the right. I wonder my subconscious is giving me a logo or something I see in passing often but haven't paid real attention too. A quick google showed most handles on the right, but not an insignificant amount of handles on the left either.

When I imagine a mug sitting in front of me, though, the handle is on the left in anticipation of me picking it up easily. It was only when I put pen to paper that I figured the handle should be on the right side.

Maybe it has to do with design/shopping listings I often see? If a mug has a single-sided design on it, its 'front face' is normally positioned so that the design faces forward when the handles is on the right (this is a small reoccurring frustration for me, who wants to see the silly words on my mug when I pick it up lol and those mugs that have words printed on the bottom that reveal when you drain the mug are always upside down for me!!!), but that could be a chicken or the egg situation. From a design point, though, it makes sense that the most important info (the design or words on the mug) are presented to you first, assuming the average viewer is a person who reads left-to-right. Presenting the handle on the left side would kinda be a weird break in the path your eye is used to traveling. It feels unbalanced to me?

Interestingly, popping "mug" into Google Images gives a good mix of mugs with left- and right-sided handles (if a bit right-side leaning), but Google Shopping shows almost exclusively right-side handled mugs. Obviously Google isn't end-all-be-all for this kinda stuff but its pretty interesting at least.

I need your help with a hypothesis!

For context: My linguistics professor and I got into a discussion after a test she did with us, and I was of the opinion that the reason for the results was different from the one she offered, so she encouraged me to test my theory.

What I need

All you need to do is draw a coffee cup (with a handle, not the disposable stuff) and then answer three questions.

I don't need to see the coffee cup. You can draw it wherever you like; on a piece of paper, digitally, in the sand, on a foggy window. Anything works. It does not have to be good. A doodle is fine.

You have to draw the coffee cup before you see the questions. This is very important. If you decide to help me with this, please doodle the coffee cup before you keep reading.

Assuming you have drawn the coffee cup, I now need you to answer these three questions:

On which side did you draw the handle?

Are you right-handed or left-handed?

Do you primarily write using the Latin alphabet or a different one? (please specify which)

More context

Most people will draw the handle on the right side. My professor says it's because most people are right-handed, so they draw the handle in the direction that would be comfortable for them to pick up.

I said drawing it on the right side just felt more comfortable to my hand and argued it's probably because we write a bunch of letters like that. B, b, D, P, p, R all look like a tiny "handle on the right side" and are all a straight line followed by a round one (so "cup first, handle second," like most people draw cups). The Latin alphabet doesn't have letters like that that face the other way, except maybe d, depending on how you write it, so it makes sense to me that people writing mostly Latin letters would go with the handle on the right side.

Which means that I need to know what Asians, Arabs and Greeks do and if the distribution of left and right sides of handles differs from the Latin alphabet group. Cyrillic seems to favor right, too, though it'd be interesting to see if there are differences.

If there are, my theory is right. Doubly so if there is a sizeable increase in a group whose alphabet has letters that benefit the left side choice.

So feel free to spread this to as many people as you like and put the answers in the comments or the tags of a reblog. The more answers I get, the better I can assess whose theory is better.

Thank you for your help!

#op im sure you've settled this convo with ur professor by now but this was a fun thought experiment for me thank u #i tested it on all my roommates #they all are right handed and drew the handles on the left side so idk man #except for the one who saw what we were doing and drew a mug with the handle front-facing #every good experiment needs that one person to throw a wrench in your plans for shits and gigs i guess #also i know google results vary wildly depending on where you live so im curious if image and shopping searches vary in this way too

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jackinalex · 5 months ago

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#I told my roommate god is testing me this week #I should have shut the fuck up #😞#I’m actually going insane #WHAT were they thinking!!!!!#all time low forever sessions #lg

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pisshandkerchief · 29 days ago

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truly having the worst couple months of my life rn. going through the horrors for real for real

#in the past two months alone I have:#gotten a new phone and then proceeded to break it almost immediately; had a weed-induced hallucination including violent intrusive thoughts #almost ruined my relationship with my roommates several times; cried at work at least 3 times;#got side-swiped on the interstate in my mom's car because I was high and scared; lost my health insurance; failed my driver's test #and all of this is just the tip of the iceberg #I've been having a depressive spiral that I can't seem to pull myself out of since the start of November #it's real bad. but we keep on truckin'!!

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scoliosisgoblin · 11 months ago

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doodles and some lore. I'm tired.

#Jay does this thing on second dates where he tests the other person #he wants to make sure they'd like all of him. every part of him that may throw others off or realize he's insane #Matt and Jay were friends during high school. dated in college and broke up just before finding out Jay was pregnant #they decided to co-parent Mona and just view one another as friends #Mona really likes Don and Tk. loves Peter. though dislikes Lucy quite a bit because of how much she hears Jay complain about her with Matt #Mona is very close with Jay despite living with Matt and only coming over to Jay during the holidays/some weekends #Jay moved into the complex about a year prior to meeting Peter. he's had 5 roommates since moving in #Lucy has been the worst compared to the rest but is the only one Jay tolerates (since she's young and reminds him of himself. pretransition #Jay and Don hated each other in the beginning. only really bonded over talking shit about a neighbor #and Jay saying “anyway I gotta finish watching the game.�� Don saying how he wanted to too but his tv is fucked so they watch together #Tk does have feelings for Jay but Jay just can't take the hint. he simply just thinks he's making jokes and is very kind #Jay really cares about Lucy. he often checks up on her when she's out and buys her dinner if he didn't make anything for them #and she ofc tries to make his life easier by cleaning the apartment making him coffee in the mornings etc etc #also Jay and Don sometimes just talk about marriage. how both of theirs didn't work out (I headcanon that for Don)#how it'd go - Don: I just wish I showed her how much I cared... Jay: I chased mine down with a knife. didn't kill her though. I promise.#Jay also calls Don's kid (the cop) Don Jr. he doesn't mind it that much. it's mainly cause Jay never remembers his name #my art #yb peter #Yb don #Void #Jay #Yb tk #Yb lucy #none of them die btw. Peter kills some guy who treated Jay poorly #the entirety of Jay and Peter's relationship before the abduction takes place over June #I say so cause it was a bit alarming to Tk. Don and Matt how fast Jay was rushing into the relationship and such #anyway uhh idk what else to say

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fxaa · 6 months ago

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Guess who might have covid again :)

#i wore a mask travelling and was generally very safe but my sibling tested positive and we shared weed 👍#i was travelling for a funeral. i am upset that i have to isolate after my grandmothers death. but i can message and call people #and im isolating in a basement with my tv and couch. which is not so bad. i might move if i jave to isolate longer #bc i dont want to deprive my roommates of tv #but for now...i have this #izzypost #idk maybe ill fight it off and not get it. i hope so bc last time i ended up in the er #bc it triggered fucking anaphylaxis #i should not have smoked w anyone and i shouldve masked around family but i. really.wanted to. because my grandma died.#they wouldbe all made fun of me more but i shouldve masked anyway.#i appreciate if u read all of this. mwah .

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mildmayfoxe · 7 months ago

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lol my roommate just texted that she tested positive. shocker!!! so glad i got out of the house!!

#hopefully i wasn’t around her enough sunday & my mitigations (nasal spray) will save me #but now i do for real need to figure out if there’s somewhere i can go that’s not here. i can’t live here for a WEEK!#i tested this morning & was negative but that would be a really fast turnaround so only time will tell i suppose #chatpost #when i went to pick up stuff after work yesterday (masked) my other roommate had also come home & was very cavalier #so for all i know she’s gonna get it too. can’t go back there #might have to though unless i want to tell people their orders are gonna be delayed #which i might just do. idk. i don’t wanna go there again if i can help it. should’ve gotten more clothes. although i can go to a laundromat #i guess if i need to.

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deermouth · 7 months ago

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me in my bedroom going slowly insane on day three point five of covid isolation in 2024, mostly passing my time by rewatching the entirety of interview with the vampire: this is boring!!!!!!!!! colorless, flavorless, dull!!!!!!!!

#for real this is like a fucked up thing to think but i kind of feel like #if i'd gotten it back when the national consciousness was generally in agreement that we were in a pandemic #i may have been able to handle it better. mentally i mean.#the cabin fever was kind of chic #and obviously this all is deeply unfair to regularly bed/housebound disabled individuals and i recognize the ridiculousness of it #but i am kind of dying here #i will almost definitely not be asymptomatic/neg on swab for pride this weekend #i am permitted back at work next tuesday at the earliest #and one of my roommates just tested posi today #and it all feels extremely not fun and shitty and evil. thanks. why the fuck didn't we eradicate this shit in like may 2020 #we could have. we fucking could have.#txt

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pallases · 2 days ago

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moodboard

#personal #GODDDDDDD fuck ive thrown up three or four times today and have had horrible other stomach problems and now on top of all that im pretty #sure this has exacerbated my period symptoms bc now my lower back hurts like hell and my legs are so achy and every time istand up i get #lightheaded #it took me a fucking hour to make a smoothie for myself bc i kept feeling weak and at one point had to run upstairs to Expel My Insides in #the middle of it #also all of this means no auditions for me today 👍🏻 messaged director to let her know i wouldn’t be coming in and also to ask her to tell #stage manager that despite my bailing on this i do plan to be involved in crew still 👍🏻 since the stage manager told me she’d see me at #auditions since she’s part of the audition committee. anyway director messaged back saying i could do an email audition which was very #nice of her so i guess im supposed to send a vid of me singing + reading some sides + following a choreographed routine once she sends me #the guide for that which she said she would do later… since she like just said that im guessing it will be like 9 at least by the time she #gets it to me so hopefully it’s fine if i do that tmrw morning instead of tonight bc i don’t want to disturb my roommates #<- we are all students btw sorry this is making it sound like i have a weirdly informal relationship w the audition committee #the music chronicles #anyway also emailed asking if i could take work off tmrw bc i still feel like shit and don’t want them scrambling to figure out the #schedule tmrw morning if i had called then instead. they haven’t replied yet tho #also i feel like. sick bc tmrw is MLK jr day and like what if theyre thinking i thought we had the day off and am now finding out we don’t #and just spitting out an excuse to not come in bc i made plans for it or smth… ugh #lke it would be fine if it were just this but I also requested Feb 7 off not long ago and last week my testing went so overtime like they #are going to think im slacking so bad… :/#i am straight up not having a good time ‼️#cw emetophobia #also if i am still sick tmrw that means no working on crony with lab partner either since we meet on mondays ☹️ was looking forward to that #even if im not sick actually i still shouldn’t go bc i called off work and we work on it in the same building as my workplace so if they #saw me that wouldn’t be great #the engineering chronicles

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blorboresidue · 2 months ago

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facing down the barrel of a gun right now but the gun is the fact that I'm probably allergic to garlic and also some strains of weed idk I'm not good at metaphors but I AM good at having an itchy throat

#i am so itchy and my skin is exhibiting Rash Behavior all cause i used garlic in my pasta #and i have So Many servings of this pasta left y'all #maybe i can pawn it off on my roommate and make something else this weekend. sigh #but like MAN i wanted my itchiness to get down to a baseline so i could test out my various vape carts and isolate the Problem Terpene #can't do that if I'm constantly Under Attack!!!#oas tag

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desolatehands · 8 months ago

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Hi! I hate to have to make a post like this, but I am in some need of assistance. I'm a disabled individual living on VERY limited income and most of my income has been going towards moving expenses as I am leaving this current housing situation in two months. I have already spent most of my paycheck on mailing off valuables to my next location. The next step is to get my furbaby the things he needs to travel comfortably with me.

The goal is to have him with me in the cabin to help not only him, but myself too with my anxiety. It's difficult traveling alone as an autistic individual, so my cat is my best bet in keeping cool without turning to opiates as a one day prescription.

Here is the amazon list, if anyone feels like helping.

And here are a couple photos of Steven hard as a rock Stone. He's a very sweet and loving cat. But, I am in a very poor state financially.

My roommate is not the best and has 'forgotten' about the cash I have given her to purchase specific things for the cats in the house. Instead using that money to buy cigarettes.

While I don't feel comfortable talking about too many details, I can comfortably say I live with a hoarder, that I am blamed for things out of my control ( like the bills she should be paying w my rent ), so on and so forth.

I'm incredibly sorry to ask for this help, but my hands are kind of tied. It's been insanely difficult to get out of an abusive situation while being disabled.

#i feel like if i were to go too far in depth with this situation it would be a thesis #i have a couple friends who have been witnesses to the abuse ive gone through #one of the most notable things is me coming home from a trip with friends. showing symptoms of covid-19. then expressing CONCERN that i ma #HAVE covid. being BRUSHED OFF. told im being dramatic. made me take three tests all of which were positive #and then being BLAMED for exposing them since they now couldn't go to a PARTY #bc i was unable to avoid getting covid in public transportation.#i feel like ive gone insane #with how much i get blamed for. for things that are out of my control.#i dont even want to get started on the animal abuse #and the fact that my roommate has a DOG #that she doesnt even care for. hes depressed. he doesnt WANT me. he wants his mom #and not only that the vet tore into her this month because the neglect is showing in his health bright as day

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miodiodavinci · 1 year ago

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good news: we have water again ! ! ! a pipe had burst somewhere up the street so the city came out and fixed it today (we still need to run the tap to get rid of the air and muddy water but. it's something.)

bad news: i had to go to my partner's to do laundry and shower so i missed out on work time today (bad) (anxiety inducing) (i don't need this right now)

worst news: i have a killer headache and my throat is suspiciously stiff 👁 👁