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i feel so fancy using my cheap ass plastic 2000 yen fountain pen blobcatsuit
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@cell i used a lamy al-star for idk 10 years? haven’t touched it since i left school (in germany you start school with a fountain pen, and most exams require either that or a ballpoint pen)

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@mia ooh yeah i heard about germany requiring fountain pens, i didn’t realize it was a thing until the modern day too

mine was a mix of pencils and pens tbh, with multiple choice exams requiring pencil thanks to the scantron sheets we had to fill them in. but penwise it was probably almost all ballpoints, didn’t know of anyone in school who used a fountain pen
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@cell @mia we also have to write in cursive until we aren't allowed to anymore because teachers struggle with reading cursive
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@twinspin6 @mia @cell in trade school one course had all the exams automated but we filled them out on pc
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@snacks @twinspin6 @cell i went to trade school for IT stuff in hassfurt and the only thing they do on PCs is cisco certification courses and ethics class lmao
software engineering? lol paper

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@snacks @mia @cell that is one thing but never an automated paper test right?
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@snacks @twinspin6 @cell they also still taught us how to wire up TAE sockets instead of splicing fiber

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@mia @twinspin6 @cell our teacher was annoyed school didn't wanna buy stuff for fiber splicing
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@mia @cell @twinspin6 but i think all programming exams where on paper. Programming for regular classes was on pc tho
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@mia @cell i dont even buy pens anymore. i find them at uni, no one claims them, i keep em

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@cell The Lamy Safari in my pencil case is 40 years old by now and also works perfectly fine. Wasn’t super expensive in the 80's either flan_posh

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@Bendodroid @cell i don't understand how that pen's cap is still staying on, though the fact you store it in a pencil case and not in a pocket probably helps.
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