Are KLICKY pens less dressy than twisty or capped?

I was going to leave it be, but joshua addressed the issue. ;) fountain pens are made to use! They get better with use, expensive pens included. I use my Pelikan m160, swapped with a gold nib from pelikan, for all my ink drawings.
 
Joshua J. said:
Light the torches and grab the pitchforks! He has spoken HERESY!

Both of my Pelikans (M150 and M600) are my best performers, journalling, book keeping and everything in-between.
Like folding knives your price to performance peaks around $100-$150 (I like piston fillers).

The fountain pen is an infinitely superior writing tool than the common ball point pen (with the exception that you cannot make carbon copies with an FP). I have always been incredibly frustrated with ball points, they just quit randomly, at one point I actually started using felt pens instead.Then about five years ago I bought my Pelikan M150 and it's been bliss ever since.
The best part is you can tune almost every characteristic of the writing experience, broad, fine, italic, write extra wet or dry, any colour you want, waterproof or washable, all in the same instrument (not all at once, of course).
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I fiddled with fountain pens for a while. Sheaffer, Parker, Waterman. Indeed, they are more fun to write with.

I could live with the extra fuss, compared to a clean, long lasting ball point. Though that didn’t help.

Why did I give up on them? Two things killed the fountain pen for me.

One was the long drying time. I’d jot something in my pocket notebook, close it, and smear ink on the facing page. I wasn’t about to burden myself with a blotter .

The other was not being able to use carbon paper. I use carbon paper often enough that I had to carry a ball point anyway.

Nowadays I use a roller ball pen unless I’m practicing calligraphy.
 
Meh. Just because the nice pen works much better than a other doesn't make the other any less "dressy"

BIC's that come in a huge pack with pull off caps are not dressy, a zebra clicky is IMO

Click away I say
 
Writing is so 20th century. Nobody writes anymore except for old ladies in the express line at the supermarket who insist on writing a check. :roll eyes:

Hey! There's an app for that.
 
My Waterman Edson and Boucheron fountain pens have engines inside that return overflow ink to the converter/cartridge. I can do crossword puzzles at 40,000 ft. with no fear of leakage.
My Parker clickies will run Fisher Space Pen refills. So if I need to go higher, I can write in space.
 
UffDa said:
Does any "normal" person really give a rat's behind what kind of pen you have or, for that matter, what kind of watch you wear? Hey! If it makes you feel good to shell out
$500 for Montblanc or whatever, go for it. Just don't expect 99.9% of people to care. I'll stick to the pens that I swiped from Comfort Inn. They write just fine.

By the way, my watch is a Timex. :p
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Only people who I've met who cared were some people who were trying to get me to join their pyramid scheme (technically it wasn't due to a technicality), I was only there because I was talking to my buddy about wanting to get a job and he said let me make a phone call as were doing interviews latter today. Got a call back saying be ready in a couple hours, so I had no idea of what I was walking into. Turns out his idea of an interview and mine were different, it was a recruitment for their scheme.

To date their the only people I've met in person who were borderline insane on how you appeared and presented yourself and tried to drill it into you including your body language, etc. I imagine they cared about what watches, pens, phones, etc that you wore and every other little detail considering what they were already trying to drill into their potential recruits. Before you as, no I didn't join them and neither did one other guy who saw right through it, everyone else did sadly. And for the record him and his coworker picked me up so I couldn't have bailed out on that meeting as I had no ride home :grumpy:.

BTW I am jealous of you, I am rocking a citizen because everything cheaper I buy dies before the year is out and thats with babying the watch. I decided to go a bit high end and beat up my citizen and not baby it like all the others and it's still chugging a little after a year :thumbup:.
 
UffDa said:
Does any "normal" person really give a rat's behind what kind of pen you have or, for that matter, what kind of watch you wear? Hey! If it makes you feel good to shell out
$500 for Montblanc or whatever, go for it. Just don't expect 99.9% of people to care. I'll stick to the pens that I swiped from Comfort Inn. They write just fine.

By the way, my watch is a Timex. :p
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Does any "normal" person really give a rat's behind what kind of knife you carry? But hey! If it makes you feel good to shell out $500 for Sebenza or whatever, go for it. Just don't expect 99.9% of people to care.

I'll stick to the knives I bought at the gas station. They cut just fine. :D
 
Raymond1000 said:
Does any "normal" person really give a rat's behind what kind of knife you carry? But hey! If it makes you feel good to shell out $500 for Sebenza or whatever, go for it. Just don't expect 99.9% of people to care.

I'll stick to the knives I bought at the gas station. They cut just fine. :D
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That one hit him right between the eyes. Actually you just smashed the whole face.
 
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