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Title: What ink stick are you currently using?
Post by: Mindy on Apr 10, 2025, 08:35 PM
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been using these, liking them much
Title: Re: What ink stick are you currently using?
Post by: Key on Apr 10, 2025, 10:37 PM
Otherwise known as...pens!
Title: Re: What ink stick are you currently using?
Post by: SGR on Apr 10, 2025, 11:13 PM
In the rare cases I actually need one, I'll consider myself lucky if I find one, and even luckier if it actually works. I'll use whatever pen I can find!  :laughing:

Save the trees, go digital.
Title: Re: What ink stick are you currently using?
Post by: SGR on Apr 10, 2025, 11:14 PM
By the way, if this is worthy of its own thread, could I start one about what toilet paper we all use?  :laughing:
Title: Re: What ink stick are you currently using?
Post by: Trollheart on Apr 10, 2025, 11:16 PM
No.

Title: Re: What ink stick are you currently using?
Post by: Key on Apr 10, 2025, 11:18 PM
Quote from: SGR on Apr 10, 2025, 11:14 PMBy the way, if this is worthy of its own thread, could I start one about what toilet paper we all use?  :laughing:

Make sure to title it as "butt wipers"
Title: Re: What ink stick are you currently using?
Post by: Trollheart on Apr 10, 2025, 11:18 PM
That's a shit idea.
Title: Re: What ink stick are you currently using?
Post by: Mindy on Apr 11, 2025, 04:30 AM
QuoteOctopuses use ink as a primary defense mechanism against predators. When threatened, they release a dark, often black, cloud of ink that obscures the predator's vision, allowing the octopus to escape. The ink is produced in a sac located between the gills and is expelled through the siphon, the tube-like structure used for jet propulsion.

chill haters....we had a pen thread at MB. so i thought we could get one going here again.


(btw, there is no more Mindy over at MB)
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Title: Re: What ink stick are you currently using?
Post by: Key on Apr 11, 2025, 05:02 AM
I ain't hatin'. Pens are cool. I'm a part of the Pen I 5 club and have been for many years.
Title: Re: What ink stick are you currently using?
Post by: Lexi of the Dawn on Apr 11, 2025, 05:14 AM
Quote from: Key on Apr 11, 2025, 05:02 AMI ain't hatin'. Pens are cool. I'm a part of the Pen I 5 club and have been for many years.

Whoa, nice! Did you get invited to their secret resort at Pen Island?
Title: Re: What ink stick are you currently using?
Post by: Key on Apr 11, 2025, 05:36 AM
Quote from: Lexi Darling on Apr 11, 2025, 05:14 AMWhoa, nice! Did you get invited to their secret resort at Pen Island?

Penis
Title: Re: What ink stick are you currently using?
Post by: Lexi of the Dawn on Apr 11, 2025, 06:33 AM
Quote from: Key on Apr 11, 2025, 05:36 AMPenis

Pen is what? What about the pen!?!?
Title: Re: What ink stick are you currently using?
Post by: Key on Apr 11, 2025, 06:36 AM
Quote from: Lexi Darling on Apr 11, 2025, 06:33 AMPen is what? What about the pen!?!?

Pen is um...uh. hmm.
Title: Re: What ink stick are you currently using?
Post by: Buck_Mulligan on Apr 11, 2025, 05:42 PM
Quote from: SGR on Apr 10, 2025, 11:14 PMBy the way, if this is worthy of its own thread, could I start one about what toilet paper we all use?  :laughing:
As they say in Dublin "personny" I use Kirkland. The savings keep me fully supplied with ice cream and condoms for a year.

OTOH: Only the best people appreciate the "scallop" tear over the straight. You see, it's the amount of research that goes into it, not unlike art appreciation you know.

https://archive.ph/2pXpE (https://archive.ph/2pXpE)
Title: Re: What ink stick are you currently using?
Post by: Trollheart on Apr 11, 2025, 10:30 PM
The doctors only let me use crayons; not sharp, you see. They all remember the time I got my hands on a Papermate: it wasn't that guy's mate, that's for sure!
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On-topic: favourite Pen? Sean.
Title: Re: What ink stick are you currently using?
Post by: SGR on Apr 11, 2025, 10:36 PM
Quote from: Trollheart on Apr 11, 2025, 10:30 PMThe doctors only let me use crayons; not sharp, you see. They all remember the time I got my hands on a Papermate: it wasn't that guy's mate, that's for sure!
(https://preview.redd.it/some-creepy-messages-we-found-when-exploring-an-abandoned-v0-qkaj8i9gp90e1.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=387c55c21b939aed28895f630f14718541ec1242)

On-topic: favourite Pen? Sean.

What about your favorite Sean though?
Title: Re: What ink stick are you currently using?
Post by: Key on Apr 11, 2025, 10:57 PM
Quote from: SGR on Apr 11, 2025, 10:36 PMWhat about your favorite Sean though?

Sean Penn. Heh, get it? Cuz...pen and penn. Sean Penn. Heh. Heh.
Title: Re: What ink stick are you currently using?
Post by: SGR on Apr 11, 2025, 11:13 PM
Quote from: Key on Apr 11, 2025, 10:57 PMSean Penn. Heh, get it? Cuz...pen and penn. Sean Penn. Heh. Heh.

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Title: Re: What ink stick are you currently using?
Post by: Trollheart on Apr 12, 2025, 02:59 AM
Favourite pen, Sean.
Favourite Sean, Bean.
Don't ask me what my favourite bean is.
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Title: Re: What ink stick are you currently using?
Post by: Key on Apr 12, 2025, 03:28 AM
MR BEA...oh you said it already
Title: Re: What ink stick are you currently using?
Post by: jimmy jazz on Apr 19, 2025, 03:19 PM
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1693/8459/products/parker-jotter-ballpoint-pen-variety-set-in-red-blue-black_312_450x@3x.jpg?v=1620249540)

Parker Jotter.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jotter

Used them for about 25 years. Nothing special I just really like them. Feel good in the hand, solid, really smooth to write with. Easy to replace the cartridges.

USA! USA!
Title: Re: What ink stick are you currently using?
Post by: jimmy jazz on Apr 19, 2025, 03:21 PM
@DeepMinder maybe you would like this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen_Museum
Title: Re: What ink stick are you currently using?
Post by: Mindy on Apr 19, 2025, 03:33 PM
Quote from: jimmy jazz on Apr 19, 2025, 03:21 PM@DeepMinder maybe you would like this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen_Museum

If I ever go over there, I am making that place a stop  8)

Those jotters are nice
Title: Re: What ink stick are you currently using?
Post by: Lisnaholic on Apr 19, 2025, 11:34 PM
I remember those Parker pens, which are pretty smooth-flowing. Some version of them has been around since my childhood and it's only TIL that Parker is not a British company. :(
They've sometimes been my regular go-to pen, but after a number of years, I didn't much like the feel of them in my hand. For me, the plastic makes the gripping of them a little too slippery, and the metal makes them too heavy at the wrong end, so the balance is wrong. Also, I've grown to prefer a pen that has no clip fixed on it.