• Anh Kagi
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      if it’s a true bic. knockoffs might not work very well.

    • FundMECFS
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      I used to live quite near to one of the bic factories in France. Ahhhh I’m obsessed with Bic pens.

    • DUMBASS
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      Ahhh Bic, where it’s 2 main products are also the most stolen products.

      • FackCurs
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        Windsurf boards and razor blades? Yes Bic makes those.

  • @BlueLineBae@midwest.social
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    My husband works at an architecture firm. They exclusively use #2 in 3 different colors. My husband has gotten in the habit of putting a few in his pocket during the day while he works and emptying his pockets when he gets home. We have WAY TOO MANY PENS!!! I’ve been bagging them up and giving them away!! They are nice pens tho… very good for drafting/drawing/etc. I just don’t need 300 of them. Beware that the blue ones tend to explode the most.

    • @GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today
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      Oh my god, the explosions with the black ones are horrible, because you don’t realize until you start to grip and the ink just coats your fingers. I love them, but the horror will live forever in my mind.

    • skulblaka
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      I had a pen like that when I was very young, had to be maybe in the 5th grade. It exploded on me because I chewed on the end of it while thinking. Parts of my homework desk remained blue until I graduated high school, I’m lucky my teeth didn’t also.

  • socsa
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    5 is the objectively correct answer here.

  • @murtaza64@programming.dev
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    not pictured, but uniball eye micro was my goat for high school and college. I had to do british standardized exams in high school which required black pen (not pencil). these guys write super smoothly and create really nice lines, but they take a sec or two to dry so you gotta be careful not to smudge.

    I think #1 in the pic is a thicker version of these

    • @Zwiebel@feddit.org
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      Why does half the ink leak into the grip though

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      uni-Flow Ink System ensures a consistent, delightfully fluid writing experience

      Is what they say

  • FundMECFS
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    At school all the cool kids had these lol

    or these

    [I come from a very specific generation in French speaking switzerland, so this may not be relatable]

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        Also Estonia, especially the erasable one

    • @Noodle07@lemmy.world
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      I can only write with friction now, I have ADHD and I often skip letters when writing words so I always have to erase the letter I just wrote. If I’m not using friction it looks horrible

    • @dumblederp@sh.itjust.works
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      When I taught tertiary anatomy to sports science students. The school’s stationary cabinet was a box of lost pens that the cleaners added to. The school wasn’t great. Rather than buy new pens, we were to take from the box. I knew I wasn’t being renewed next year so I came in on the holidays and took every four pen in that box. About fifteen of them. It’s seen me good for for pens for about 13 years now. I still have a bunch kicking around. Mostly green/red left, but I use those to mark my ToDo lists with completed and delayed entries.

      I wish they sold cheap refills for the 4-pens but when I looked I could only find ones around the same cost as a new pen.

    • Iron Lynx
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      Ooh, Pilot Frixion, I like those. I did not expect myself to ever be able to get excited about pens, yet here I am.

      I love lending out Frixion Clickers out to my DnD friends and seeing them struggle with the click before they realise that the pocket clip is the thing that goes click.

  • NoSpiritAnimal
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    1. The Bic Pilot G2 in 1mm writes like butter. Glorious. $4.95 for a 4 pack.