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me203 said:
You remember using a fountain pen when in school. (I didn't--I was born well into the ballpoint pen era--athough I did have one that I kept at home. Sometimes it was used for homework.)
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Wow, that takes me back! I first used a fountain pen that used cartridges. Now it was just for "fun" and not something most students used. I then bought a true'ish fountain pen that sucked up the ink from a bottle into a bladder...it was cheaper than the cartridges. And no I never used the pen that you dip ink an ink bottle and write a few words with each dip (only seen that on TV).
 
^I vaguely recall playing with a dip pen when I was young. I think it was something that was aimed at arts and crafts use--and was probably dirt cheap. I also vaguely recall trying to make a quill out of a feather.

And I've thought those old school fountain pens that used cartridges probably got pretty tiresome with the constant need for new $$$ cartridges. Although those cartridges can be refilled with bottled ink. I first heard of that idea from my father--and I wonder if he didn't do that himself.
 
I use to use fountain pens. They were fun to play with. Being left handed I'd have to twist my wrist in a weird way so I didn't smeer the wet ink while blowing on the paper the whole time. Tried the feather thing, I missed someing in the directions because a toothpick dipped in ink worked just as well.

The cartridges were not expensive. Yeah, you could get a couple of Bic pens for the price of a pack of 5 or 6 carts and the ballpoints pens would last longer. But ballpoint pens are boring.
 
As for refilling the cartridges, have you ever given blood or sold plasma? I think they use a 12 gauge needle. The ink cartridges were pierce by a smaller gauge. Eyeballing it, I'd say 18 to 20 gauge. Kind of a mess to refill.
 
I don't recall my epxeriments with feather working terribly well. But it was fun when I was elementary school aged! I've heard that the true quills used specific type of feather, which would probably make a difference.
 
There is a real mess possibility with refilling ink cartridges. But people have done it. Places that cater to fountain pen users will even sell blunt syringes (blunt so you don't stab yourself acicdentally. :lol:) for refilling ink cartridges.
 
Dargelos said:
Who is going to be first to admit to using a piss bottle instead of staggering to the bog in the dark at 4am. Oh that's disgusting I hear you say. Yes, fair comment.
At least I'm not pissing in a brightly lit warehouse like they do at Amazon.
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My balance if horrible to begin with and diminishes as the light gets dimmer. It's non-existent in the dark. I can't feel the floor and I can't tell which way is up.

My bedroom is at the front of the building. The bathroom is at the back and a light is always on there. It's simply too dangerous for me to walk through the apartment since I have to walk through the livingroom in the dark to turn on the light.

I don't use a bottle, though. I use a Tidy Cats litter container. On the rare occasion when it's a 'need to sit' situation, I have a flashlight on my bedside table.
 
^ Mine from the '60s got lost in a move. With a bit of homework, I could probably figure out how to use it again.
 
I'm too young to remember the slide rule era. But I remember my father had one lying around his desk. He might have shown me how to use it to do some simple calculation, but I can't remember for sure.

I remember when I started using a calculator for algebra homework. OK with the teacher--maybe even suggested (probably more than suggested later on)--but my mother was (as I recall) slightly horrified.
 
If you saw the movie Apollo 13, you saw the actors utilizing slide rules to check the computer calculations. What is really mindblowing, is that the ordinary iPhone of today has more computing power than the command module and lunar module computers combined :eek:
 
me203 said:
You remember when restaurants had a smoking section.
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I remember even before smoking sections...you could smoke anywhere. Early in my careers after High School if you dealt with the public you needed to smoke out of plain sight. Like behind a counter or in the back room. For years our office had no rules against smoking at your desk.
 
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