Agree with all that.
I just love my Parker Rollerball…
It’s a lovely thing to write with. This one was my 55th birthday gift from a mate.
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From what I can gauge from this thread. Engorged fountain pen users who opt for green ink have solved life’s riddle.
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Yes and we’ve not even started on those tarts who use shimmer ink - arrivistes 
Another Parker 51. They made them from WWII onwards with a couple of ink delivery mechs - this is a later Aerometric, with a large ink sac / filler that i only need to fill every 3-4 weeks with daily use. It writes a lovely smooth, wet line - but, key for me, is definitely more ‘draggy’ than a ballpoint so it keeps the spider tendencies under control 
… Or if you’re in the RN it means you’re an Admiral - similar outcome
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Nice bigger capacity ink for the win - I have a couple of eyedroppers that last for weeks
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Fountain pens were compulsory at my school
I threw mine away the day I left and have never owned one since!
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I had a collection of quite a few at school, mostly Parkers of which the 45 was a stylish unit to my teenage eyes. It had relatively easily replaceable nibs & I spent quite a while working out which width nib gave the optimal feel (smoothness vs drag) for my scribbles of the time.
Could run on cartridges or a pump mechanism too & the cartridges had the nifty reserve tank you had to tap if you unexpectedly ran out.
I often felt sorry for my best friend at the time who wrote left handed & who always ended up smudging what he’d written despite sometimes turning the page to extraordinary angles. I’m sure for a while, we really weren’t allowed to hand in work written in biro.
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Why is it no surprise the AA has a fetish for expensive fountain pens 
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Not allowed in my school, if you didn’t have a fountain pen you had to use pencil
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Mine are all ~£35. Although it’s perfectly possible to spend thousands on them.
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I did own a beautiful Pilot (Japanese) ballpoint for many years.
Best thing I ever wrote with
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There is a famous website with an unfortuante name for pen lovers
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My mum went to Riddlesworth Hall School in Norfolk from age 7 where they used to cane you over the knuckles if you picked up a pen/pencil with your left hand, she is still left handed.
Go on girl!!
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What is n shit?
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Great. Ideal thread title.
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Better than stationary n shit would have been
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