13 Hard-learned lessons from a veteran fountain pen addict

Re:13 Hard-learned lessons from a veteran fountain pen addict by oefrha on Friday February 09, 2024 @07:54PM (#39322358)

We used fountain pens at school back in the day. There was no sport to bang others’ pens into the desk (although there’s no shortage of other stupid sports like crotch grabbing or anus poking), and no one drizzled everyone with ink, ever. I don’t recall any ruined shirt but maybe it happened at some point. Your whole experience sounds very foreign and may not be representative.

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Re:13 Hard-learned lessons from a veteran fountain pen addict by graemep on Friday February 09, 2024 @08:17PM (#39322508)

Just what sort of school did either of you go to and when? It sounds like something from a biography from someone who went to school a 100 year ago.

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Re:13 Hard-learned lessons from a veteran fountain pen addict by ramenbytes on Friday February 09, 2024 @09:29PM (#39322977)

The future is here, just not evenly distributed.

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Re:13 Hard-learned lessons from a veteran fountain pen addict by seszett on Saturday February 10, 2024 @02:10AM (#39324240)

I have the same experience, just in some rural school in France (ZEP, meaning supposedly with more "difficult" population than average) in the 90s.

I still like fountain pens but I almost never write by hand anymore. Most of my classmates seem to have stopped with them as soon as they were allowed to though, which I never understood.

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Re:13 Hard-learned lessons from a veteran fountain pen addict by madaxe_again on Friday February 09, 2024 @10:12PM (#39323210)

You must have schooled with some remarkably mature children - in my experience if you give a 7 year old something that can be used for hijinks, it will be used for hijinks.

But either way, they were just hideous to use, and I can’t even say how many essays I had to rewrite because the pen would spontaneously decide to dribble all over the page.

It’s also left me with appalling penmanship, as it’s not like anybody ever taught us to write with fountain pens, as it was expected that you would Just Know, and if you didn’t, a few rounds of detention copying out the school rulebook would ensure you did.

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