How's your handwriting?

[Willie Oleson]

I think you should stick with the timezones! and cultures!

 

[tommie]

Yes

 

[Willie Oleson]

How DARE you watching One Three Hill and not a start a watching-thread about it?

 

[tommie]

...

 

[tommie]

Betterr

 

[Willie Oleson]

You're a better writer than Liam Whatshisname.

 

[Barbara Fan]

Im Right handed

When i was younger i had quite nice and neat handwriting and it always had to be for school, but as ive got older its got much worse and sloppy / hard to read and not so legible

NHS went online to do notes a few years ago, so that helps with written reporting but takes me twice as long to type as it did to write

 

[Angela Channing]

The President wrote a letter to Angela Channing!

Well, Angela did used to be married to Ronald Reagan, after all.

The Tuscany Valley became too small for me so I went on to bigger things.

 

[Willie Oleson]

Will it be renamed "The Wine House"?

 

[Mel O'Drama]

Chateau Blanc?

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Left-handed people always seem interesting.

 

[Willie Oleson]

Yeah, it's very interesting but so-not-funny having to read a tape measure upside down (has anyone ever seen a hold left/pull right version?)

 

[Richard Channing]

This thread has made me realize how little I actually write anything these days. In general my handwriting has always been erratic. If I was to write a whole page it seems to change every few lines, it's just never very consistent. I'm sure handwriting experts would have something to say about what that means. Anyway, even at it's best it's not very neat or elegant and it's mostly just kinda all over the place.

 

[Mel O'Drama]

so-not-funny having to read a tape measure upside down (has anyone ever seen a hold left/pull right version?)

This is one of those little things that tells me when it comes to stuff other than writing I'm probably more unknowingly ambidextrous than I realise.

I'm fine with a tape measure in either hand, and while I use scissors in my left I don't have difficulty using ones that are designed for right-handers (though someone did treat me to a set of left-handed scissors a couple of years ago and I must admit they seem to work better for me, even though they don't feel any more or less comfortable).

In general my handwriting has always been erratic. If I was to write a whole page it seems to change every few lines, it's just never very consistent. I'm sure handwriting experts would have something to say about what that means.

Mine changes quite a bit as well. I've noticed it's often much better looking at times when I feel particularly confident or happy or energised. Even the size, shape and angles can change quite dramatically.

I have really grown to like it at its "worst" looking though. The perverse side of me loves the spidery scrawl that's illegible to everyone but me.

 

[Willie Oleson]

If I was to write a whole page it seems to change every few lines, it's just never very consistent. I'm sure handwriting experts would have something to say about what that means

Multiple personality disorder?

This is one of those little things that tells me when it comes to stuff other than writing I'm probably more unknowingly ambidextrous than I realise

My right hand is for Arbeit, the stupid and dirty stuff, and the left hand hand for the finer things in life and anything that requires precision (e.g. when I perform brain surgery)

I have really grown to like it at its "worst" looking though. The perverse side of me loves the spidery scrawl that's illegible to everyone but me

Everybody should take a walk on the wild side every now and then, but still, ugly handwriting always saddens me.
Disappoints, even.

 

[Richard Channing]

Multiple personality disorder?

None of us agree with that diagnosis.

 

[Mel O'Drama]

Everybody should take a walk on the wild side every now and then, but still, ugly handwriting always saddens me.
Disappoints, even.

Well, I suppose ugly is in the eye of the beholder, but I think even ugly handwriting can look attractive in the same way a concrete tower block does to someone with an appreciation of brutalist art.

The worst of my handwriting is generally just for me anyway. I usually make at least a bit of an effort when writing cards, etc. But to my eye I prefer the way a two page spread of hastily-written notes to myself looks. As well as having character, it also feels somehow more honest.

 

[Willie Oleson]

but I think even ugly handwriting can look attractive in the same way a concrete tower block does to someone with an appreciation of brutalist art.

That almost makes sense but, no, I'm not going to agree with this. It's kinda like saying that a horrible karaoke performance sounds interesting from a brutal artistic point of view.
But in reality you just want them to stop singing.

 

[Mel O'Drama]

It's kinda like saying that a horrible karaoke performance sounds interesting from a brutal artistic point of view.
But in reality you just want them to stop singing.

Hmmm. Perhaps the tower block thing was a bad analogy, since both bad karaoke and unattractive buildings are imposed on other people, whereas someone's handwriting in a notebook isn't. The singing thing is interesting, because people can't help having a tin ear, yet many people seem painfully unaware of this.

Building on the karaoke analogy, I'm not a good singer. At all. Yet, I enjoy wailing along in the relative soundproofing of a car in the middle of nowhere, or in the shower with the windows shut. I've accepted my poor singing in the same way I have my less than pristine handwriting, and when I do it, it's for my enjoyment.

If I'm in a situation where others may encounter it, I might make a bit more of an effort just as I would with my handwriting (I have been known to lip sync at funerals but if I have to sing I'll do it quietly).

All the same, in the same way that singing my heart out in the right circumstances is enjoyable, I think there's value in looking at my handwriting and finding something good in knowing that's me, uncensored and unfiltered, without needing to conform to what someone else thinks is attractive.

 

[Willie Oleson]

If I'm in a situation where others may encounter it

Well of course it doesn't sadden or disappoint me if I don't see/feel/hear/touch it. What you do in the privacy of your notebook or car doesn't concern me.
But when I was exposed to @tommie's dreadful handwriting I was tempted to call the police.