Have you noticed pens don't last very long these days

If people don't complain about the shortage of ink in a pen .or the science that makes it work .The next think that will happen is that they will shorten the lenth of them .and people  with bad eye sight won't be able to find them as easy

The only reason that people find pens in bookies is that there's loads .and they all look the same

There's pens all over my flat some work and some don't .you can only tell if they work if you try and write with them .
I don't want to be tagged as one of them people who are boring and sit there working out which pen works and which don't

Some times I can go through five or six pens before you find one that works .you darnt throw them away as sometimes they work the next time you try and use them

People like me didn't believe Uri Geller when he told everyone on t v to take a pen out of there drawer that didn't write and put it in a drawer untill after the adverts .He then said  take it out of the drawer  now and try and see if it works now  the adverts have ended  and he will use his extra percensive powers to make them work .
There was people phoning in from as far as Tim buck too to tell him that their pens were  now working
Mine wasn't working and I live right near the itv studios in Salford

It's a national scandal how many bookies pens end up in bins with unused ink in them, no wonder the polar bears have no ice to walk on with all the heat that's needed in factories to make pens that only work when they want to

Morning Do Wah you brighten my day up & I suspect that of many others on here please keep posting your words of wisdom & have a great weekend

People whose bookies are next to the sea or a  canal know what I'm talking about .when the
bookies  windows are open on a sunny day and punters throw them out of the widow's when their horse gets beat.you can see pens floating all about.in some canals they get stuck all together when they get snared up  and form a barricade .
Once it took the people on a barge in the Bridgewater canal over an hour to get though a bookiecpen  barricade .
It's not fair they were on holiday and they only can afford one holiday a year.They shouldn't have to wade into the canal to remove bookiecpen barricades

Earl e bath

Your lord I've never seen you post before

Bookie pens deliberately don't have much ink in em because they will be hurled across the shop after one or two uses, and then go in the bin. What gets me is them longer pens that stop working even when they've got ink visible in the pipe 

I've just had a private email sent to me on the chit chat forum ,from the chairman of a pen maker telling me that I'm putting the jobs of his 54 employees in jeopardy as he can't afford to give them a pay rise if people want more ink in their pens for the same price

He said people like me don't realise how business works.I told him straight if he's got enough money to gamble all day on here then he's got more than enough money to give his staff a rise .
That's how my ex wife talked to me when she wanted a house keeping rise.

I'm with you on this one DwD....

Just a few weeks ago I had pens for England, in this hub of the house...

One by one they expired on what seemed to be a daily basis...

Most notably were the ones from Barclays, which often don't work from day one, and I'm going to complain,
in the strongest terms, because this is yet another area where they are letting their customers down!

It's well worth it to buy a decent one, and with which you can get refills, and I have one here which is pretty special to me,
as it was given to me by a young, and beautiful member of staff, who very sadly lost the battle, and passed away just two years later!

This was in the late eighties, and I still have it here after, I think, four replacement cartridges, and now prompted to get another one!

Yes saddo I'm like you I look at the longer pens which look like thevecgot ink in them and shake them and blow down the end of them and still they don't work .uneven stand them on their ends and leave them for a few hours .some times they work and some times they don't

How long do you need to leave stood on their end  before they might work you need to be a world class mathematician to work out the ink gravity fall in a biro .or be very lucky

Thank you lady ferrit the gentry are out in force today with you and Earl e bath

Hi Do Wah been on here many years but just look normally don't post, however your threads are great so I wanted to tell you!

I never used to buy a pen, I would steal them from Argos..

Unfortunately they have cottoned on, they only provide pencils now.

My advice to you Doo Wah….write shorter letters...then the ink won't run out

I've known for years that this ink decline in pens .but the national media don't or won't tell the people of the nation the truth about what these global companies are doing to our pens to make them  more profit
A bookies pen should last a week at least not just a one day meeting or even less

Uble I've stated before that I've stopped writing to my pen friends ever since Alan the Australian got eaten by a shark .I got very emotional and I worked out if I didn't write to my pen friends that I couldn't get emotionaly upset
I never realised how much I saved in stamps until I stoped sending the letters

Earl e bath I'm grateful you did thank you

Ps if you've got any old coronets or genuine diamond neclaces that your wife doesn't want would you please e mail me .I know the gentry don't like to clutter up their mansions with old jewelry

PPS in fact most metals that I can weigh in I accept .especially if you pay the postage

Ppps sometimes it's more profitable if you can weigh them in instead for me,instead of meeting the cost of postage .just send me the money .
But shop around the different scrap yards to get the best price

Ppppps make sure you send the money by recorded post

If you've never seen the thread below (and only about three people ever did), do yourself a favour and have a read:

Do wah Diddy22 Nov 10 18:45Joined: 24 Jul 06 | Topic/replies: 41,031 | Blogger: Do wah Diddy's blog
TO THE MAN OR LADY WHO READS THESE FEEDBACK THREADS,HAVE YOU GOT ANY SPARE BETFAIR PENS THAT YOU DONT NEED AS I COULD DO WITH A FEW

ITS NOT TO WRITE BETS OUT WITH THEM ,I JUST LIKE STICKING THINGS IN MY EARS

https://community.betfair.com/site_feedback/go/thread/view/94170/26254065/i-realise-your-trying-to-do-your-best-for-your-customers?liveView=0&pg=4

Alan the Australian got eaten by a shark .I got very emotional and I worked out if I didn't write to my pen friends that I couldn't get emotionaly upset

Surely they won't all get eaten by sharks....they must be even unluckier than Doo Wah

than you doo wah

You can get quite a few in the pound shop for £1 Doo Wah...they would not last long I should think Doo Wah?

It's Do wah....not doo wah.

Thank you screening beneath the waves I forgot about that thread
I've just put it on site feedback as I don't know how to put it on chit chat

I have upset you again Sofiakenny I do apologise

and to you Do wah

Let's not fall out over an extra o .
So long as they don't swear at me it's ok

But thank you sofee for your concern but uble is ok

I KNOW YOUR ONLY TRYING TO DO YOUR BEST FOR YOUR CUSTOMERS BETFAIR

is the name of the thread on the site feedback forum

I'm so glad you reminded me of this thread  screening beneath the waves

It reminds me of the Hollies when they realised that they had long cool woman in a black dress in their old collection of work .and it ended up a best seller

Betfair Site Feedback is the one place on the internet you can post anything, safe in the knowledge that no one in authority will ever read it.

When I'm having a lousy day, I just think of ITS NOT TO WRITE BETS OUT WITH THEM ,I JUST LIKE STICKING THINGS IN MY EARS, and suddenly life isn't that bad after all.

its the little pens i worry about as the big ones just come out the other side...

Lifes not that bad on the betfair forum .there's people out there who don't talk to anyone all week .
They can't talk about the ins and outs of a ball point pen like we can

I've not seen the man who lives in the flat next door to me for over a month I hope he's not dead .I think he looks out of his spy hole in his door to make sure the coast is clear so  he doesn't have to talk to me .

We've not fallen out even though he doesn't send me a Xmas card I still send him one
I've seen him about three kids in the three years that I've lived here .His daughter comes once a week .I hope she's not murdered him

But at least the flat will be clean as I hear her hoovering many a week . I don't hoover I just turn the hoover on so she doesn't think my flat is dirty

There could be lots of dead bodies in these flats .as I never see or hear anybody for weeks .

That's the bad  news but the good news is there's a funeral parlour facing my living room window .

I never open my window blinds just  incase I see a dead body while I'm eating
Theres a woman I see an odd time .who asks me why I don't open my blinds fully .I told her I don't want to see any dead bodies .
She said it's all in my mind
I said if it is in my mind it's right at the front of it .as every time I look through my living room window the first thing I think of is dead bodies.
I'm sure she thinks its an excuse why I don't clean the insides of my windows

I don't walk about looking whose blinds went fully opened in their flat windows

That's the bad  news but the good news is there's a funeral parlour facing my living room window .

I never open my window blinds just  incase I see a dead body while I'm eating
Theres a woman I see an odd time .who asks me why I don't open my blinds fully .I told her I don't want to see any dead bodies .
She said it's all in my mind
I said if it is in my mind it's right at the front of it .as every time I look through my living room window the first thing I think of is dead bodies.
I'm sure she thinks its an excuse why I don't clean the insides of my windows

I don't walk about looking whose blinds went fully opened in their flat windows

I don't hoover I just turn the hoover on so she doesn't think my flat is dirty

I went out with a girl once who kept nagging me about the dust in my house. In the end I just sprayed the air in the living room and the bedroom with Pledge every time she was due round. Worked a treat, almost like an aphrodisiac.

Not much use looking at a funeral parlour Do wah...that is one place you definitely won't see a lot of life.

Yes I think it is sad when we grow old and cannot work and either have no family or have pslit up with them like you...

not your fault. It makes life very lonely, it is a problem with getting old.

I suffer the same. Although I have one friend, although I frequently have to bribe her, to get to see her, oh well.

I miss my job the most, I wish we did not have retirement, I would have preferred to work until I dropped dead

for the company if nothing else.

Still I hope you meet someone Do wah and life becomes a little less lonely.

Surely all your friends have not been eaten by sharks

Uble I thought I liked my own company and peace and quite .but I was wrong again .I don't like this living on my own thing .
My ex wife has give up on me .she knows I won't give up gambling and I won't,Ive known for years that if I behaved my self im sure she would have had me back .but I won't and I know deep down she's very upset that I put gambling before her .
If I was her I would have got rid of me much earlier.
I used to give her a very good house keeping money so she didn't have to  work when the children was small
I was the provider like my dad and grandad  was.and gave the family two fortnight holidays a year all over the world .I had the same holidays with them .and a week at Blackpool with my  drinking acquaintances gambling drinking and no worries which I loved
I went out most nights to the pub
I thought that's what proper men do same as my dad and grandad.i worked hard but played hard I thought i was entitled to go to the pub nearly every night .I kept all my earnings and gave her good house keeping money and paid all bills and if they needed anything I paid
But they deserved more I thought I was ok and that she should appreciate her holidays and not having to go to work .
She is not bothered about money and never has been she just wanted me to be a family man .and I wanted to go with my drinking partners and talk nonsense and sing on the carryokee and have no responsibilities
I can't handle life as a married person .and don't won't any responsibilities .I would still like to go to the theatre and pictures with female company but would not like a full time relationship with one .but I would feel as though I've betrayed my ex wife.
I hope she would meet some one else and have a happy life.

I still feel as though I'm married to her but have been devorced about 14years .we don't have any sexual contact .but I know she hates me for gambling and never having any money
She would give me her last penny if I needed it.but she won't lend me a penny because she knows I will gamble it .and it breaks her heart to think I am still gambling after all the.trouble I caused with it

Yes I'm very selfish .I thought I wasn't because I lent people money and bought them drinks and gave my family plenty of money .
But they wanted quality time with me .but my head told me to go to the pub and go out gambling .I thought I deserved it with my hard work

I  just had all my priorities wrong .This is horrible and I'm ashamed but it's the truth when my little girl was approx 3.i worked sat morning at my engineering factory and came home I worked all the bedtime I could to earn money I was like a donkey following the carrot.
My daughter had been in hospital for a few days  for her tonsils out .when I got home from work my wife said are you ready to go to the hospital to pick her up .I shouted I've been working all week and this morning I'm going for a couple of pints and put a bet on .she's only had her tonsils out

How could I have been so selfish .she was all excited that her little girl was comeing out and there was I shouting at her because I wanted a couple for pints and a bet and thought I was ENTITLED TO IT

IM ON MY OWN AND ONLY GOT MYSELF TO BLAME .
IM GLAD THE BADDIES GET THEIR COMEUPPENCE .LOTS AND LOTS DO AND IM ONE

I once wanted to go to blackpool for the day with the lads  from our club .the father in-law had broke his arm so he wouldn't be helping me on the market .I said to my ex wife if it's raining tomorrow I'm not going on the market .I'm going to blackpool to see the bowls with your dad and the club on the coach
I got up and it was a sunny day and I had had a few pints the night before .so I got up and got the hosepipe out and turned it on and drenched the bedroom windows .so it looked like it had been pouring down .I went in our bedroom and said it's pouring down I'm off to blackpool .I  opened the curtains and shown her the wet windows and she said ok

You can't live with a person who tells so many lies

I should have said I was going to blackpool and not to work on the market only if it was raining
That's why I turned the hose pipe on the bed room windows

Ps my father in law broke his arm when he fell down the steps of ou working men's club.a few weeks earlier because out with me but he had been drinking the new strong beer that had been introduced

It was only on a few weeks as nearly all them that drunk it had broken arms and wrists and legs and cuts to their heads .the committee took it off before they had no members left

IM GLAD THE BADDIES GET THEIR COMEUPPENCE .LOTS AND LOTS DO AND IM ONE

I cannot agree with that Do wah, sorry.

Your problem was you do like gambling and drinking that is obvious.
But that does clash with normal married life and having children.

When we are married and have children we are expected to put them first.
We can carry on gambling and drinking but only in a much more controlled way...which I suspect was beyond you, it is very sad.

But it sounds as if you have made a terrible effort to put that right. But she would never have you back. I am sorry.

I just wish you some peace of mind.
Do not allow yourself to dwell in hate, you said it caused you terrible distress.
I suffered from that myself until I decided to take the blame myself, and like you I also made mistakes if I was honest.

Anyway I wish you the best Do wah
I love your stories on here

It was only on a few weeks as nearly all them that drunk it had broken arms and wrists and legs and cuts to their heads .the committee took it off before they had no members left

Betting shop pens have a tiny microchip that stops them working when the bookie knows the favourite is trying.

When you are posh enough to be on a committee, your ink comes in a bottle not a plastic tube.
The ink and the pen were invented by Mr Parker but I don't know which came first, the ink or the pen.

Founavonfountainpen
I was once on the youth club committee like I've stated before .I had a very senior position I was the one who worked behind the coffee bar now and again ,and I was incharge of the table tennis ball distribution .
It was me that brought the deposit charge in after an exterordinary meeting of the committee .when we realised that we could go bankrupt if we didn't keep an eye on the number of table tennis balls that went missing or damaged
I was given the task of inspecting them after each session .and made sure they were returned .
The greesers (those who had motorbikes and imitation leather studded jackets )Didn't like me checking their ping pong balls .and one started calling me names as I left the club .he was  with all his mates and was intent on having a fight with me .I do wah diddied him and all his mates cheered me on not him .
I used to get in alot of fights but never won many .one member of the youth club said I was tight with the vimto  cordial when I worked behind the coffee bar .I said it's not my cordial it's the club's .I'm looking after the club .  She said no wonder youve not got a girlfriend and she wanted a fight .but I slipped out of the back door .

I never had a pen when I was on the committee .I had a pencil to write who had taken the table tennis balls

You can take off the brassy bit at the end of the plastic with the ink off and then blow the remainder of the ink up towards the brassy bit,i used to do that when i was at school, i wasn't very good at school.

I was once on a committee but I never got to be ping pong ball monitor. Sometimes life's not fair.

My main job was to say "seconded" when someone proposed something and I got my name in the minutes.