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DrBouvenstein posted:Remember the pencils that were a series of just tips on a tube, and when it went too dull, you'll pull it out, and then slide it back into the top of the pencil to "load" the next tip? I was thinking of these just the other day trying to tell someone about them but I couldn't think of a good name to call them. "Stackable" for some reason did not enter my head. I kept calling them conveyor pencils.
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And then when you lost one of the tips the whole thing was unusable.
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Shifty Nipples posted:In third or fourth grade we discovered we could put a piece of construction paper into a bottle of glue and the color would leach out and make your glue be any color you want. We did this by ripping the ink tubes out of crayola markers! Mine was purple 
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Neito posted:Playing the remaster of Klonoa (A very pleasent "Wahooo" to everyone who wants one) reminds me of a lot of that era of mascot platformers and Playstation/Saturn games; specifically, making them reletively short but hard as hell, and also how "checkpoints" were something that took us a good ten to twenty further years of development to really understand. The soundtrack to Klonoa absolutely slaps, and I still listen to it frequently, it's a great game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cbcc4ler1Y
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widefault posted:And then when you lost one of the tips the whole thing was unusable. This is why the traditional mechanical pencil will always be superior. 0.5mm obviously. Get out of here with your 0.7 or, god forbid, 0.9 lead size. Ridiculous.
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Imperador do Brasil posted:This is why the traditional mechanical pencil will always be superior. 0.5mm obviously. Get out of here with your 0.7 or, god forbid, 0.9 lead size. Ridiculous. Go big or go home. 
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:I think I remember those. The '90s were the golden era of weird and wonderful school supplies: Yikes and triangular pencils, Trapper Keepers, Lisa Frank. There was even colorful glue: We weren't allowed to have this in school for reasons
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"gang colors"
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Milo and POTUS posted:"gang colors" No I think because kids used way too much of it and it bled though paper or some poo poo. It was 30 years ago.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Remember the pencils that were a series of just tips on a tube, and when it went too dull, you'll pull it out, and then slide it back into the top of the pencil to "load" the next tip? Oh gently caress yes I swore by these as a kid. Normal pencils got too dull, and our hand crank pencil sharpener would make the lead break off basically immediately, and my dumb rear end somehow made mechanical pencils jam up way too often
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Killingyouguy! posted:Oh gently caress yes I swore by these as a kid. Normal pencils got too dull, and our hand crank pencil sharpener would make the lead break off basically immediately, and my dumb rear end somehow made mechanical pencils jam up way too often
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I hate pencils in general and the second I could get away with writing with pen forever I took it. But I could tolerate mechanical ones
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Of you don’t use Ticonderoga pencils then you done hosed up. That is the best brand, hands down.
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Wayne Knight posted:Mirado Black Warrior Was just gonna post this lol
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dialhforhero posted:Of you don’t use Ticonderoga pencils then you done hosed up. That is the best brand, hands down. i accidentally bought some of these and soon realized they are perfect for my trembling, palsied claws. 
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Shifty Nipples posted:In third or fourth grade we discovered we could put a piece of construction paper into a bottle of glue and the color would leach out and make your glue be any color you want. We did this in second grade but we used the inside of a marker Wayne Knight posted:Mirado Black Warrior This is the correct option
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Killingyouguy! posted:my dumb rear end somehow made mechanical pencils jam up way too often You're supposed to hold them with your hand.
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uber_stoat posted:i accidentally bought some of these and soon realized they are perfect for my trembling, palsied claws. My favorite school pencils were the natural wood ones made by that huge pencil company that wasn't Ticonderoga. EDIT: Paper Mate, I'm pretty sure. Vincent Van Goatse has a new favorite as of 05:13 on Apr 11, 2023 |
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I remember having a set of mechanical crayons and a bunch of pencils that had a reuleaux triangle cross section like a wankel engine rotor. I recall that one time a kid in my class brought in this foot long half inch thick novelty pencil covered in glittery holofoil but they had to give it up because there were no sharpeners big enough for it.
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Milo and POTUS posted:I hate pencils in general and the second I could get away with writing with pen forever I took it. same, but in the 90s that also briefly meant  and they were the loving worst
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Those Zebra mechanical pencils with the microscopic erasers were hot trash. The antitheses of those were the standalone Pentel click erasers. Love those. I would post pics but i can't on imgur on mobile for some reason Unperson_47 has a new favorite as of 11:44 on Apr 11, 2023 |
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I also like the mechanical pencils that look like pencils but the lead comes out by twisting the pencil end.
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Unperson_47 posted:Those Zebra mechanical pencils with the microscopic erasers were hot trash. Zebra pens and pencils were like an elaborate trap. The ink in their pens uses a glue base or something. poo poo pens
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They used to give those triangular pencils to us lefties at school as apparently they were easier for us to use than standard pencils??? Don't know what pop science that came from Not that they helped. Everything you write gets immediately smudged unless you hold the implement in a sort of hosed up deathgrip.
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RhomboidSphinx posted:They used to give those triangular pencils to us lefties at school as apparently they were easier for us to use than standard pencils??? Don't know what pop science that came from I had the triangular rubber thing that went over my pencils but I need up just loving it up and taking it off because I hated it. My writing still sucks.
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I'm a righty, but I guess my pen/pencil grip is incorrect, because I still smudge my ink. I have a sort of...overhand "death grip", for lack of a better word? I curl my hand sort of "up and over" the pen rather than just come in straight from underneath. So what happens is that my hand will drag across the row above it when I'm writing. And since I write fast, the ink often doesn't have time to dry before my stupid grip rubs all over it and it smudges. Not as bad as a lefty typically smudges, but still annoying. Thankfully, with how little anyone writes by ahnd anymore, it's not really a problem. I also have sort of forced myself to just write a little slower But in school, no amount of those triangle things, or other "grip assist" covers for pens/pencils fixed it. My handwriting was poor as a kid, but even after forcing me to use those things for months in more than one grade in elementary school, and my handwriting, if anything, getting WORSE, pretty much every teacher gave up.
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I do something similar, basically using two fingers "on top" instead of just the one. This just made me realize how little I write on actual paper in recent years. I always had a circular callus on the inside of my right ring finger from holding writing implements this way, but now it's completely gone.
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Did y'alls teachers not cover how to properly hold a pen? Your grip looks painful to maintain for long
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Killingyouguy! posted:Did y'alls teachers not cover how to properly hold a pen? Your grip looks painful to maintain for long Some people just don't figure out certain poo poo. I know a gang of poo poo about a gang of poo poo, but I'm fuckin stupid when it comes to math beyond basic add, subtract, multiply and divide.
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Killingyouguy! posted:Did y'alls teachers not cover how to properly hold a pen? Your grip looks painful to maintain for long Not really, it was actually uncomfortable to do the thumb and one finger grip so I did what felt more natural to my hand 
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Yeah, I guess whenever I first started learning to hold a pencil or crayon, my parents/teachers never took a hard enough look (until it was too late), so I continued to hold it like a freakin' toddler my whole life. The times I've tried to hold it the "right" way, it's slightly uncomfortable, but mostly I just can't get a good grip on it? It feels too "loose", I need all those fingers. But I also have kind of crummy finger dexterity in general, so maybe that's all related? 
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I think these are the general types of pen grips: so this: would be a Dynamic Quadrupod meets Lateral Tripod... sort of? (the Dynamic Tripod is the One True God's Own Pen Grip)
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Did you know that people who work in kindergartens are quietly judging how you grip your pencil? Because we do.
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Trabant posted:(the Dynamic Tripod is the One True God's Own Pen Grip) Yeah Dynamic Tripod was the only one my teachers would accept by like second or third grade, whenever it was we were doing cursive drills
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We got those pencil-grip things with the 3 side dents for thumb and fingers in elementary school to help with "proper pencil holding", but that was the 80s.
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Alhazred posted:Did you know that people who work in kindergartens are quietly judging how you grip your pencil? Because we do. Well you'll be happy to know I at least hold my cutlery the proper way, and not, like...prison-style.
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I went to occupational therapy for several years from like 3rd to 6th grade, learning how to hold a pencil correctly and write in cursive was a large part of the half dealing with fine motor skills. We eventually gave up on cursive. This would have been ~1990-1993.
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I am left-handed lateral quadropod.
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i must acquire this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSt4E0pOb-0
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