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[wanttobeatree]

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My parents and I spent two ad breaks discussing the winking thing. TWO. I thought we were maybe done with it after the first one, but then the next break came along and my mum rounded on my dad and said 'TRY WINKING WITH YOUR OTHER EYE WITHOUT CONTORTING YOUR MOUTH!' Cue several minutes of gurning

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[rionaleonhart]

I am right-handed, wink with my left eye and prefer to turn my head left. My left eye is also dominant, but I suppose that may be because my vision is slightly worse in my right eye.

[wanttobeatree]

HOW DO YOU TELL WHICH EYE IS THE DOMINANT ONE? I was just kind of assuming it was the right eye, as that's the one I look through when winking, but my right eye also has the slightly worse vision thing going on and. Oh god why am I thinking so deeply about this?

[rionaleonhart]

Here is a test:

- Put your hands together at arm's length in such a way that there is a small gap between them.
- Focus on an object through the gap in your hands.
- Remaining focused on the object through the gap, bring your hands closer to your face.
- The eye that ends up pressed to the gap is the dominant one.

Ta-da!

[wanttobeatree]

IT IS MY RIGHT EYE! Wtf, right eye, why are you dominant yet also so shit?

[concernedlily]

I'm right-handed and I wink the same with both eyes, but my left eyebrow is the one I can raise singly - can't do it with the right.

[wanttobeatree]

Aw man, I can't raise either eyebrow singly. I just crumple my brow and PRETEND :(

[annella]

I can raise both singly! O_o o_O

[wanttobeatree]

It's both at the same time or nothing with me :( MY BROTHER GOT ALL THE DRAMATIC EYEBROW RAISING GENES.

[zeitheist]

I will get to whatever seems like the bottom of this if it kills me.

False. This line of enquiry has no bottom.

But IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE: I instinctively wink with my left eye, but can wink easily with both. I'm right-handed, I turn my head to the left first, and right sock goes on first. MAKE OF THAT WHAT YOU WILL.

[wanttobeatree]

IT HAS A BOTTOM AND I WILL FIND IT, DAMN YOU.

I make that you are a ZIG-ZAG.

[zeitheist]

IT HAS A BOTTOM AND I WILL FIND IT

DAMN IT, TREE, KEEP YOUR SEX LIFE TO YOURSELF. I WAS DRINKING.

I think this is a sound hypothesis! I AM A ZIG-ZAG. YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT I'M GOING TO DO NEXT.

[wanttobeatree]

THE FACT THAT YOU THINK MY SEXLIFE INVOLVES ITS (AND ITS WITH HARD TO FIND BOTTOMS, AT THAT) IS A LITTLE BIT WORRYING.

Also, you are excellent for a game of dot-to-dot!

[earthquakedream]

I'M THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN'T WINK WITH BOTH EYES? so laaaame ugh.

also, i thought and just automatically turned my head right. does that count?

[wanttobeatree]

HAAAA YOU ARE AN EYE FAILURE!

Your head turning totally counts, though. Now go put a sock on and report back to base.

[earthquakedream]

Right first! I do everything to the right...but I'm left handed. I even snowboard with my right foot forward, but most left handers do it opposite. I play guitar (hero) right handed, I shoot archery and my old bb gun right handed....but I'm not.

I'M SO WEIRD.

[wanttobeatree]

AHAHA YOU FREAK. You're like my brother! He's right-handed but does everything else with the left, more or less. Except for playing the guitar! He sticks with the right for that. HE IS LESS WEIRD THAN YOU ARE :D

[elizardbits]

Hrm. Re: head turning, I tend to do it to the right because 1) if I'm driving (ON THE CORRECT SIDE OF THE ROAD AND IN THE CORRECT SIDE OF THE CAR KTHXBIE) I have a mostly unobstructed field of vision over the right shoulder and 2) I fucked up my neck a long time ago and thus looking over my left shoulder is kind of creaky and unpleasant.

ALSO! I am just like concernedlily re: the eyebrow thingy. Like, even if I try to poke my eyebrow up with my finger, it's all "NO I WON'T AND YOU CAN'T MAKE ME, BASTARD." It is most vexing indeed. And when I smile, the right side goes up first, so much that I have incipient laugh lines on the right and none on the left. OH HAY WTF FACE, YOU ARE DUMB.

[wanttobeatree]

Just scanning over this comment in the email notification, I briefly but unforgettably misread point #2 as 'I fucked my dog a long time ago.' SO THERE YOU GO.

(When I was in America, last summer, I kept trying to get in the wrong side and my friend kept laughing at me. It was a difficult time for me.)

I CAN'T RAISE EITHER EYEBROW SINGLY. It's all or nothing. I think they're soulbonded or something :(

[elizardbits]

OH GOD THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT MY GAY BEASTIAL NECK INJURY HAS FINALLY COME OUT OHNOES. And I thought my brain went scary scary places. The horror.

(The last time I was in London, and terribly intoxicated, I kept trying to get in on the wrong side of taxicabs, which resulted in me almost climbing into the laps of many amused cabdrivers. SO SAD.)

[wanttobeatree]

I AM ONTO YOU AND YOUR SURPRISE BESTIALITY, MISSY.

(Ahahahaa, next time I get to the States I am going to be OF YOUR DRINKING AGE, so that is almost certainly going to happen to me. Hopefully I will just ~charm the taxi drivers with my accent~)