Alpo Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyesa Horg Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Mostly thumb by a large margin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 I’m a thumber Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypress Sun Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 The hold depends upon if you're John Wick or not. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Like this? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chantry Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Thumb, desktop, other people's foreheads... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 2 minutes ago, Chantry said: Thumb, desktop, other people's foreheads... The boss frowned on the last one. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 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. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chantry Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 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! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowCatcher Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 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 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 this is important why? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 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. 1 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyesa Horg Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 10 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: this is important why? Good to see you back! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 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. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted March 22 Author Share Posted March 22 Hey!! I resemble that remark! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 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. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted March 22 Author Share Posted March 22 You say you are irrigating yourself? You are incontinent? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted March 22 Author Share Posted March 22 I thought he had had too many intoxicating spirits and that's why he was irrigating himself. Isn't that what he said? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 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 , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 I'll use my thumb. OR my own forehead. OR chin. Or cheek. Or any inanimate surface. Whatever works and is handy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeaconKC Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 I'll stick with my fountain pens..... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted March 23 Author Share Posted March 23 Do you suck on the nib, to make sure the ink is flowing before you start to write? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeaconKC Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 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 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Joker Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypress Sun Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 Isn’t it Spring now? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyesa Horg Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 NO! Just buried her up to the plow frame and front axle. All mud under 18" of snow and it's still falling!GRUMP 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted March 24 Share Posted March 24 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 ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chantry Posted March 24 Share Posted March 24 Take a simple question and watch the Saloon make it weird And yes, I'm one of the ones that helped turn it weird 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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