Gotta use expensive paper to write well with those pens too. The cheap stuff bleeds through or catches the pen tip, or rips holes through the paper when you try to make the pen flex and write stylishly.

Gets fairly expensive with the cost of fountain pens, decent ink, and good paper.

I used to use a fountain pen when I was younger and cared more about how my writing looked and was a little bit of a collector of weird pens/mech pencils. Then I got into computers, realized typing was loads easier because you could screw up all you wanted...and the carpal tunnel started, etc etc. Was just easier to use the keyboard versus having the cramping hands from trying to write neatly.

And now my handwriting looks like a little kid or doctor wrote it, and I hate people who hand me a clipboard to fill stuff out. Clipboards have to be pretty close to the most horrible writing surface you can have to write on...they are not natural to hold at all for me.

In principle, I agree; however, I am in awe of the penmanship. I wonder if this kind of thing will become the art that far eastern calligraphy has become. That would almost be a pity.
>> ^ulysses1904:

No doubt I'm showing my age with this but is there some mantra effect that results in using the word "awesome" so much? I'm referring to the title here, nothing to do with the video (although it's awesome how many levels of awesome they can pack into one pen).
I remember when little teen hipsters starting saying awesome around 1981 and it sounded stupid back then. Keep it up and future historians will use Moon Unit's "Valley Girl" as the Rosetta Stone to decipher modern American English.

In this age of technology, one must practice a sense of vanity to develop decent handwriting.>> ^Deano:

He's got great handwriting. Mine is terrible now and I squarely blame computers for that. At school it wasn't uncommon for us to use fountain pens at one time, the cheap stuff you could buy in the high street.
I recall them being fun to use if slightly messy.

He's got great handwriting. Mine is terrible now and I squarely blame computers for that. At school it wasn't uncommon for us to use fountain pens at one time, the cheap stuff you could buy in the high street.

I recall them being fun to use if slightly messy.

Now I realize why I've never and why I'll never give a shit about fountain pens, and what I'd need to learn in order to start giving a shit about good fountain pens... expert calligraphy and Ayn Randianism.

This is true, Bob is unburdened with facts...life does get a lot simpler when you don't bother with evidence and critical thinking. Who cares if some colored folk get enslaved in the process. Who do they think they are wanting equal rights and drinking from OUR water fountains. What IS this world coming to?

And is it just me or is Bob's grammar getting worse? He's getting more and more incoherent.

>> ^bobknight33:

I find liberals are always first to pull the race card.
By their standards if you generalize then you are a raciest. Never mind life experiences or facts.

Your at a site the baths in liberalism and they will stab you if you even have thought other that theirs.

>> ^Chaucer:
>> ^VoodooV:
>> ^Chaucer:
It doesnt surprise me that they boo'd that' he'd repeal Obamacare. Most black people just want free shit at the expense of others.

I'm going to attempt to give you the benefit of the doubt, but you do realize that that was pretty much the definition of racism right?

Actually, that isnt racism as there is no hate there. Its just an observation that I have formed through my life experiences.

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Scahill's twitter feed is a fountain of information in these matters, definatly worth your time.

Dear @dystopianfuturetoday @Deadrisenmortal @Ryjkyj and @kymbos

Please stop being asshats.

This is clearly a very intelligent little girl.

Assuming she doesn't know what she's speaking about just because you couldn't grasp a topic "this complex" when you were 12, belittles that intelligence.

While her parents may have piqued her interest in this topic...
the basic concept of "wait, so banksters create money from thin air? but if we do, it's illegal?" is a fairly easy dichotomy to grasp. Even for a 12 year old person.

I was 12 was G.W. Bush was elected. I remember thinking how much of moron he was and how the election had to be rigged because there's no way someone that stupid was deserving of that position.

I think the biggest factor you're forgetting is: This young person has access to google & wikipedia i.e. the entire fountain of human knowledge & history at her finger tips.

If you're 12, you probably have a shit ton of questions about the world.
If you have interest enough and google, you can educate yourself on any term or concept or complex system in maybe.. 45 seconds.

So please, recognize and acknowledge this girl's intelligence.

Recognize that she [like I and millions of other young people] had a simple epiphany about how the "real world" works, that lead her to educate herself on the relevant subject out of a simple sense of justice and indignation.

TL;DR

Give this girl credit. Even a 12 year old can see how unjust our banking/business culture is.
She's had a "wtf" moment and access to google.

"No one really knows what I'm talking about
Yeah that's right my name's Yauch
Ponce De Leon constantly on
The fountain of youth not Robotron
Peace is a word I've heard before
So move and move and move upon the dance floor
I'm gonna die gonna die gonna die one day
Cause I'm goin and goin and goin this way
Not like a roach or a piece of toast
I'm going out first class not going out coach"

We have 2 of these for those rare times we go away for the weekend. If it's longer than that, we have someone check on them every couple days.

We do use the water fountain and CatGenie automatic litter box all the time.