It’s easier to slide your weapon on/off your belt, assuming most wore weapon on right. Easy to
Unfasten belt, slide off weapon and refasten belt.

Because if we all did it the other way the earth would stop rotating. Duh!

Try threading a needle. If you're right-handed, you probably picked up the needle in your left hand, the thread in your right. You then held the needle stationary, and guided the thread towards it.

It's the same when you put on a belt. You hold the belt tip in your right hand, and guide it to the first pantsloop. Also the same for the belt buckle, holding the buckle with your left hand, and guiding the belt towards it with your right.

It's how we're wired. Hold the target stationary, and aim with the strong hand.

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Because I'm a guy and it matches my shirt buttons.

If I was a gal, I'd be going the other way on both.

Most men are right handed. Men's belts go on counterclockwise so that when he's getting undressed for some serious sports, he can grab the buckle with his right hand, whip that sucker out like drawing a sword, swing it around his head a couple of times yelling "yee-haw", and then give her a quick spank with the loose end if she's into that sort of thing.

Well, at least that's what I do...

Clockwise, no idea why, just the way it came natural as a kid likely. Left handed.

Two more to ponder...
Sock sock, shoe shoe ..or.. sock shoe, sock shoe?
Remember the Archie Bunker Meathead argument over that?


Hair part.
Did you just go with the grain?
My parents parted my hair going with the natural way it swirled... on my left until I started brushing it myself. I had trouble doing it that way so they reversed it to my right side. Been doing it that way since the early 60s... despite it going against the natural grain. Even had a barber ask if I knew if I was parting my hair on the "wrong side" once... yep. After all these years it tend to make my hair stand up in one spot because I'm doing it backwards to the natural flow but old habits are hard to break... especially if you don't try





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Originally posted by hudr:
Getting dressed this morning I asked myself
“Why does everyone (afaik) thread their belt counter clockwise?”

Well?

And, what else is there along these lines

Because the cowboy would fall off the horse if you threaded it the other way?

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Mine has a slight curve cut into it and it would be the wrong direction otherwise and the belt buckle won't go through the loops.

Most left-handed people thread their belt in clockwise, keep their wallet in their left rear pocket, and wear their watch on the right wrist.
The belt buckle points to the dominant hand...

Womens jeans used to have the zipper on the side. It is now in the front. Any particular reason for the change??

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Originally posted by 1s1k:
Why do women cross their arms to take off a t-shirt.

Before boobs becomes the answer they all do it, even the flat chested.

As long as it was coming off I never questioned it.

I too was trained about the gig line and have adhered to it ever since. At the time of the training, I wondered why a red faced man was yelling in my face about such a minor and mundane matter.

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Originally posted by BlackAgnes:
Most left-handed people thread their belt in clockwise, keep their wallet in their left rear pocket, and wear their watch on the right wrist.
The belt buckle points to the dominant hand...

No....

proper is wallet in left rear pocket, watch on left wrist. correct on buckle.

Wrong handers wallet right rear pocket, watch on right wrist.

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Originally posted by mark60:

quote:

Originally posted by 1s1k:
Why do women cross their arms to take off a t-shirt.

Before boobs becomes the answer they all do it, even the flat chested.

As long as it was coming off I never questioned it.

First answer I've ever heard that makes sense.

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Originally posted by ArtieS:
he can grab the buckle with his right hand, whip that sucker out like drawing a sword, swing it around his head a couple of times yelling "yee-haw", and then give her a quick spank with the loose end if she's into that sort of thing.

Sometimes I'm absolutely certain that my dog looks at me and wonders, "why the heck are you laughing like that?"

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Originally posted by mark123:

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Originally posted by hudr:
Getting dressed this morning I asked myself
“Why does everyone (afaik) thread their belt counter clockwise?”

Well?

So the gig-line matches your buttoned shirt.

This is why!