Ball point pen

[Alpo]

How do you work it?

 

I was watching a video. The guy had a clipboard in his hand, and while he was talking there was this clicking noise in the background. He had a German accent. Then his hand comes up into camera, and we see that the clicking noise is he is working the ballpoint pen while he is talking.

 

And he's pushing the thing with his index finger.

 

I have always used my thumb.

 

So now I'm curious as to whether other people, here, use their finger. Or if maybe that's a European thing, and that's why this German guy was doing it that way.

[Eyesa Horg]

Mostly thumb by a large margin.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

I’m a thumber 

[Cypress Sun]

 

The hold depends upon if you're John Wick or not.

[Father Kit Cool Gun Garth]

Like this?

[Subdeacon Joe]

Usually thumb, but sometimes index finger as I'm pulling it out of my shirt pocket. 

 

I'll also sometimes bump it against my thigh to retract it.

[Chantry]

Thumb, desktop, other people's foreheads...

[Subdeacon Joe]

2 minutes ago, Chantry said:

Thumb, desktop, other people's foreheads...

 

The boss frowned on the last one. 

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

9 minutes ago, Chantry said:

Thumb, desktop, other people's foreheads...

 

6 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

The boss frowned on the last one. 

Especially when you did it on HIS forehead. Some people have no sense of humor.

[Chantry]

14 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

The boss frowned on the last one. 

The boss is in Arizona, I'm not allowed to be around co-workers!

[ShadowCatcher]

When we're teaching rifle shooting to new shooters we use the finger tip method to demonstrate how to

press the trigger, hold the trigger back, and then allow the trigger forward to reset.  It makes for a very

easy visual aide.

 

 

[Subdeacon Joe]

40 minutes ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

 

Especially when you did it on HIS forehead. Some people have no sense of humor.

 

Yeah....that's what he didn't like 

 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

this is important why? 

[Subdeacon Joe]

1 minute ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

this is important why? 

 

Alpo asked because he knew that it would irritate you and so lift your spirits.

 

[Eyesa Horg]

10 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

this is important why? 

Good to see you back!

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

2 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

this is important why? 

It's not, but if nobody answers him, Alpo will pout all day and bother us until somebody does.

[Alpo]

Hey!! I resemble that remark!

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

8 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

Alpo asked because he knew that it would irritate you and so lift your spirits.

 

I don't need my spirits irrigated.  Oh, wait.  Never mind.  

[Alpo]

You say you are irrigating yourself? You are incontinent?

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

23 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

I don't need my spirits irrigated.  Oh, wait.  Never mind.  

 

3 minutes ago, Alpo said:

You say you are irrigating yourself? You are incontinent?

I think that he meant that YOU were irrigating him.

[Alpo]

I thought he had had too many intoxicating spirits and that's why he was irrigating himself.

 

Isn't that what he said?

[watab kid]

6 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

It's not, but if nobody answers him, Alpo will pout all day and bother us until somebody does.

hadn't given it a lot of thought till you posted this - i use my index finger majority of the time , but i have used my thumb sometimes , ive used the table top on occasion , 

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

I'll use my thumb.  OR my own forehead.  OR chin.  Or cheek.  Or any inanimate surface.  Whatever works and is handy.  

[DeaconKC]

I'll stick with my fountain pens.....

[Alpo]

Do you suck on the nib, to make sure the ink is flowing before you start to write?

[DeaconKC]

38 minutes ago, Alpo said:

Do you suck on the nib, to make sure the ink is flowing before you start to write?

Not yet!

[watab kid]

im refraining from responding as i want to to keep this a family show , i have thrown a lot of ball point pens away when they did not immediately write for me - i shall continue to do so as most are either really cheap or free 

[Texas Joker]

8 hours ago, watab kid said:

im refraining from responding as i want to to keep this a family show , i have thrown a lot of ball point pens away when they did not immediately write for me - i shall continue to do so as most are either really cheap or free 

If you run a lighter flame over the nib they start right away.

 

Ink dries and blocks the flow. Heat fixes that

[Cypress Sun]

5 minutes ago, Texas Joker said:

If you run a lighter flame over the nib they start right away.

 

Ink dries and blocks the flow. Heat fixes that

 

Old trick, but it works every time!

[Pat Riot]

Isn’t it Spring now?

[Eyesa Horg]

NO! Just buried her up to the plow frame and front axle. All mud under 18" of snow and it's still falling!GRUMP

[watab kid]

14 hours ago, Texas Joker said:

If you run a lighter flame over the nib they start right away.

 

Ink dries and blocks the flow. Heat fixes that

perhaps , ill try it , but some were just plain empty - we do use them a lot and seems someone is always "borrowing" them at the gunclub and they dont come back , not sure where most go but a few turn up in the parking lot run over , dont work well then either ...

[Chantry]

Take a simple question and watch the Saloon make it weird

 

And yes, I'm one of the ones that helped turn it weird