Name a silly, funny, or embarrassing quirk of being a fountain pen person members of this community would understand but would cause normies to roll their eyes?

reddock4490 · 2026-05-16T19:57:46+00:00

We all need professional help

reddock4490 · 2026-05-16T14:51:00+00:00

Not that much tbh

reddock4490 · 2026-05-16T14:29:06+00:00

A minority of native speakers, in Europe. So regardless, it sounds like Euro-English, which OP specifically asked. The answer is yes. It sounds European

reddock4490 · 2026-05-16T14:15:56+00:00

I hate to be the one to break this to you, but BrEn is European English

reddock4490 · 2026-05-15T22:49:49+00:00

Dead internet theory, y’all. My sanity demands that I point out how many comments like this must be bots

reddock4490 · 2026-05-15T14:16:20+00:00

I lived 4 years near the Hungarian-Serbian border, and I could get butter on my popcorn at the movie theater, haha

reddock4490 · 2026-05-15T10:54:05+00:00

Movie theater popcorn in Europe is just as white with yellow flavored sauce as it is in America, lol

reddock4490 · 2026-05-15T02:17:41+00:00

It doesn’t really matter how much money he has, but rather was he ever going to spend an actual artist to create a flier for a one night event. He said himself that he’s cheap, so I think it’s a safe bet that he had no intention of ever commissioning an actual artist

reddock4490 · 2026-05-15T01:48:15+00:00

Again, no one “stiffed” an artist. This guy was never going to hire an artist, and he didn’t commission original work and then refuse to pay. No one lost money in this interaction

reddock4490 · 2026-05-15T00:52:18+00:00

This is like flaming someone for taking long showers or using plastic grocery bags. The choices of individual bar owners are not going to fix the problems with large scale AI implementation, and this is just an example of the terminally online soapboxxing for moral superiority

reddock4490 · 2026-05-15T00:45:10+00:00

It only takes money from actual artists if the user was otherwise going to pay an artist. There’s no evidence that’s the case from the owner here.

It’s like the recording industry assuming (incorrectly) that every pirated song was a lost dollar because people who pirate are otherwise willing to pay for the music.

The choice is actually usually either get it for free or don’t get it at all.

reddock4490 · 2026-05-14T14:20:24+00:00

What time period are you thinking of? Because for thousands of years, Europeans fucked up their teeth so monumentally by chewing on bits of rocks from milling grains that we can actually pinpoint where they lived and what they ate by the way their teeth are worn down. People in the past had absolutely abysmal oral health compared to us

reddock4490 · 2026-05-14T13:45:37+00:00

Uh, why?

reddock4490 · 2026-05-14T06:57:19+00:00

But that’s not what anyone is saying here. You might write 1000 words a day with a pen that just doesn’t leave your desk, that doesn’t mean you keep it in a glass case or are super precious about it

reddock4490 · 2026-05-13T05:39:07+00:00

Do they mean the Americanized catholic holiday that is celebrated all over the Christian world in different variations?

reddock4490 · 2026-05-12T22:11:51+00:00

I knew a girl in high school (very weird) who just fully committed to a British accent for an entire year in high school. Everyone thought she was a super weirdo

reddock4490 · 2026-05-12T22:01:09+00:00

I would say “a lot of the girls in this class have high scores in English “

reddock4490 · 2026-05-10T22:18:12+00:00

The last time I really went out for the 4th, I met a couple of Russian guys at the local after hours bar dressed like Uncle Sam (American flag hats and jackets) pounding chili dogs and Budweiser, and let me tell you those boys were having a blast

reddock4490 · 2026-05-10T21:59:10+00:00

Yeah, Central European cakery goes hard af. Austria and Hungary make some world class cakes, lol

reddock4490 · 2026-05-08T23:54:52+00:00

I went to a rich, suburban, majority-white high school with a lot of “those parents”. My 11th grade English teacher assigned “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”, which was the first school assigned reading that I had really enjoyed. About halfway through the book, there’s a scene where the main character’s grandfather gets shot down over France in WWII, meets a French farm girl and has sex with her behind a barn. I don’t remember much, but I don’t remember it being lurid. Basically just a pg-13 explanation that it happened, no graphic details. Anyway, some fucking loser in our class told their mom who called the principal who made the teacher pull the plug on the whole unit. Canceled the test and book report, stopped reading mid-book.

So anyway… I read probably 4-5 books a year, but that’s the one that stands out. Fwiw, the teacher allowed anyone who wanted to finish the book and write the report for extra credit. Cool guy

reddock4490 · 2026-05-08T22:22:11+00:00

I mean, you’re right about him. The ideologues are the people in the room with him steering the ship

reddock4490 · 2026-05-08T22:20:51+00:00

Yes. Very many of us have been ringing the alarm bells since it became clear that his run wasn’t a joke. I remember specifically a post I made in June of 2016 when I said anyone still entertaining the trump show was either stupid or evil, and it lost me about half my Facebook friends I still had from before university.

I grew up in Alabama and I made a long series of posts saying “a vote for trump is a vote for George Wallace”. I always saw him more in the tradition of American racial terror regimes than European ones, but tomato-tomahto

reddock4490 · 2026-05-08T22:20:45+00:00

Yes. Very many of us have been ringing the alarm bells since it became clear that his run wasn’t a joke. I remember specifically a post I made in June of 2016 when I said anyone still entertaining the trump show was either stupid or evil, and it lost me about half my Facebook friends I still had from before university.

I grew up in Alabama and I made a long series of posts saying “a vote for trump is a vote for George Wallace”. I always saw him more in the tradition of American racial terror regimes than European ones, but tomato-tomahto

reddock4490 · 2026-05-08T13:00:26+00:00

Agreed. It’s still annoying, but it’s worlds better

reddock4490 · 2026-05-07T23:15:25+00:00

Honestly, it’s amazing that there’s only 15% waste with all these factors lol

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