• Aniki@feddit.org
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    I have good quality integrated pen. No mechanical spring, no button. Just like smartphone. Everything is glued together. Two pieces only: pen and cover only.

    (no you can’t replace the ink when it’s empty. throw the whole pen away and buy a new one. but is ok, as it costs 0.30€ in total each.)

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    13 hours ago

    I’m secretly very glad when my son breaks one of his toys so I can take the whole thing apart. Children’s trucks with pull and release and worm gears are very complex!

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    17 hours ago

    I was literally doing this in my office 5 seconds before I clicked this thread.

    We live in a simulation.

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        13 hours ago

        my 6th grade teacher always said “you’ll never make $50,000+ a year sticking markers together”

        he was right. He never said anything about looking at memes.

        ~This was a true story brought to you by pepperidge farms~

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    19 hours ago

    “This is my pen, there are many like it but this one is mine. My pen is my best friend, it is my life. I must master it as I must master my life.”

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    19 hours ago

    With some pens, you can jam the spring between the button and the silver thing on the bottom right and the white thing next to it. Then jam it into the top of the pen with the ink stick until it sticks.

    Then press the button on the top of the pen and the white thing shoots across the room.

    • Bonus @lemm.ee
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      17 hours ago

      This, I remember.

      We also made miniature slingshots out of fashioned bits of coathanger and rubberbands and would shoot eachother with uncooked popcorn kernels. In class, of course.

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        For us it was strips of paper rolled up super tight and bent across a rubber band. We called them wasps and a well-aimed wasp could give you a sizeable welt.

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          17 hours ago

          Damn, I can feel it now.

          The funniest thing is you couldn’t react or you’d get busted. Like the worst case of giggles in church.

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    19 hours ago

    Sorry, I can’t relate. None of those pieces have teeth marks. Like why even take it apart if you’re not going to chew on it?

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      19 hours ago

      “I can chew on this piece, it goes inside and no one will see it, but if someone steals my pen, I can dramatically reveal the interior chewed piece and reclaim my property while everyone cheers for me and I’m finally accepted in the office as an equal.”

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    19 hours ago

    What else was I going to do in class, listen to the teacher recite the previous grades lessons? Pfft.

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    Everytime, and then the reason I have the pen out, to take notes or sign something actually comes up, I have to rush to put it together.