Caryl Posted January 16, 2013 Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 Now listen up you young ones! I am just having a laugh and a trip down memory lane. My age will really show here. I was reading an advert that offers a pack of 12 felt pens for $1.99. I can remember when felt pens were new, hard to get, and very expensive (and others, yet even older, here will remember using slates and chalk at school :bggrn: ). Only one girl had a pack of felt pens in my class and that was because her dad had gone to the USA on business and brought them back for her. She was the envy of every other kid in the class! That would have been when I was about 7. :dnc1: (I also remember when biros became available. Before that we had to use ink from ink wells. Boys were always doing naughty things with the ink, including dipping girls' long plaits in them. Computers weren't invented either!) wikipedia has this to say about them... Lee Newman patented a felt-tipped marking pen in 1910.[3] However, markers of this sort began to be popularized with the sale of Sidney Rosenthal's Magic Marker which consisted of a glass tube of ink with a felt wick. By 1958 use of felt-tipped markers was commonplace for a variety of applications such as lettering, labeling, and creating posters.[4] The year 1962 brought the development of the modern fiber-tipped pen (in contrast to the marker, which generally has a thicker point) by Yukio Horie of the Tokyo Stationery Company. Ahhhh memories :sage: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted January 16, 2013 Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 When I was at school Crayola felts were The Best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godly3vil Posted January 16, 2013 Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 Old fogeys. :sage: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted January 16, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 :dnc1: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disgustipated Posted January 16, 2013 Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 it's all about the pens that smell like something depending on their colour. at school i was never allowed to use pen because my handwriting was so bad. only the good kids got pens. only the cool kids had twink, and super roller rulers. i'm glad i finished school before they stopped selling pies in the tuck shop. all they have at my daughters school is sushi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted January 16, 2013 Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 We had scratch n sniff stickers :lar: We had bottles of twink before they invented twink pens. We would ask to borrow one particular nerd's twink, she would throw it to us, we would use it, paint the bottle with twink and throw it back so she would catch it and get it all over her hands. She never learned not to lend it to us. :dunno: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godly3vil Posted January 16, 2013 Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 What a bully Sophia! I think you should track her down and apologize as you may have ruined her life, she may be really afraid of twink now and it may affect her everyday life! Haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted January 16, 2013 Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 Funnily enough I found her on Facebook along with a bunch of other class mates and they were all friendly and nice and wanted to friend me. Weird :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disgustipated Posted January 16, 2013 Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 aw. it's probably because they buried it deep, deep down... but don't worry, it will come back to them one day when they are yelling at their kids... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F15hguy Posted January 16, 2013 Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 what??, she still trusts you???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted January 16, 2013 Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 Like I say, odd. In the end I spring cleaned the FB friends that were really only old acquaintances that I will never see again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted January 16, 2013 Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 I still have nightmares about writing with the old pen and ink left handed. The nibs wear to suit a right handed person and when a lefty tries to use them they dig into the paper and flick blobs of ink all over the page. I was greatful for two things: One was being allowed to use ball point pens and also realising that the incorrectly wired right handers were put on this world to teach us normally wired lefties patience, tolerence and understanding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disgustipated Posted January 16, 2013 Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 if being left handed is normal, why do we write from left to right? left handers just smudge it all up with their incorrectly wired hand dragging over all the fresh ink... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camtang Posted January 16, 2013 Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 hey, us odd balls havesome type of use surely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted January 16, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 Of course we do. It is to show the righties the correct way to do things ;-) I find things like ATM's and swipe card things annoying because they assume you are right handed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godly3vil Posted January 17, 2013 Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 Right is right! The rest of you guys just haven't evolved as far as us right handed people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamH Posted January 17, 2013 Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 Only 15% of the world is left handed, why change things to benefit the minority? :dunno: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disgustipated Posted January 17, 2013 Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 Only 15% of the world is left handed, why change things to benefit the minority? :dunno: ask NZ politicians... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted January 17, 2013 Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 Right is wrong and ya all should be smacked with a ruler every time you try to write with your right hand. It is about what is right. The Asians know what is right and start on the right. There is more of them than you lot so get ready for a change. Obama is a lefty---he will fix things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disgustipated Posted January 17, 2013 Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 loool. excellent response. as a guitar player, my left hand does all the tricky stuff, despite me being right handed, i always wondered why it was this way around, but my left hand is quite talented when it comes to guitar, but i can't write with it at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted January 17, 2013 Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 I am left handed and footed but right eyed. Fire a shot gun left handed with both eyes open. Bat right handed. Eat with a knife and fork left handed and chopsticks right handed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disgustipated Posted January 17, 2013 Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 talented. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted January 17, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 Because I actually write with my right I am considered right handed but I do almost everything else left handed (except softball. Tennis I play left handed but not softball - go figure). Kicking a ball or jumping over stuff I don't care which foot is used. I learned guitar right handed as it was easier. Had trouble as a child using scissors though as they did not make them usable either way back then. I knit left handed (dad had to teach me as he is a leftie) and, as a Brownie, I had to set a table as part of my Golden Hand badge. I did it beautifully, except left handed. I was passed as the leader said it was the right way around for me. When I first started using a computer mouse I used my left hand but it was such a nuisance switching sides after others had used it I trained myself to use it right handed. When finally getting felt pens (I was 11) I used them right handed but if I was asked to write on the blackboard (no whiteboards in them days either) I often as not used my left. I could also mirror write - that is writing the same thing with both hands at once, starting in the centre and writing one forwards and the other backwards away from each other. Not sure if I can still do it though :dunno: I was never forced to use my right hand (unlike my dad who got the ruler over the knuckles) and actually sat next to another leftie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disgustipated Posted January 17, 2013 Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 i used to get annoyed sitting on the left of my leftie brother at the dinner table because our elbows would clash lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted January 17, 2013 Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 My mother was a leftie and her and I had special places at the table to avoid the righties. I learned to use chopsticks with my right hand because I was told it was very rude to use the left. When shooting off the back of a ute I was always on the right corner. Chainsaws are very dangerous used left handed because if they throw back the chain lands on your head. Had heaps of blisters from scissors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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