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04 Oct 19
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Years ago you bought a cheap biro and I would last a good length of time Today's pens last hardly any time at all
Has anyone else noticed this .
People who make pens think people don't bother how long the life span lasts
Every time I use a pen that doesn't write . I think every single time that pens not lasted long were being ripped off
I shouldn't have to think about the life of a pen .ive enough to think about
DO YOU SIT THERE AND WHEN YOUR PEN WONT WRITE DO YOU TALK TO YOURSELF ABOUT THE SHORT LIFE SPAN OF ALL THE PENS YOU BUY
Has anyone else noticed this .
People who make pens think people don't bother how long the life span lasts
Every time I use a pen that doesn't write . I think every single time that pens not lasted long were being ripped off
I shouldn't have to think about the life of a pen .ive enough to think about
DO YOU SIT THERE AND WHEN YOUR PEN WONT WRITE DO YOU TALK TO YOURSELF ABOUT THE SHORT LIFE SPAN OF ALL THE PENS YOU BUY
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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
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The only reason that people find pens in bookies is that there's loads .and they all look the same
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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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
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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
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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 |
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Earl e bath
Your lord I've never seen you post before |
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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
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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. |
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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! |
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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 |
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Thank you lady ferrit the gentry are out in force today with you and Earl e bath
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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!
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I never used to buy a pen, I would steal them from Argos..
Unfortunately they have cottoned on, they only provide pencils now. |
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My advice to you Doo Wah….write shorter letters...then the ink won't run out
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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 |
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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 |
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Earl e bath I'm grateful you did thank you
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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
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PPS in fact most metals that I can weigh in I accept .especially if you pay the postage
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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 |
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Ppppps make sure you send the money by recorded post
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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 |
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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  |
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than you doo wah
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You can get quite a few in the pound shop for £1 Doo Wah...they would not last long I should think Doo Wah?
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It's Do wah....not doo wah.
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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 |
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I have upset you again Sofiakenny I do apologise
 and to you Do wah  |
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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 |
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I KNOW YOUR ONLY TRYING TO DO YOUR BEST FOR YOUR CUSTOMERS BETFAIR
is the name of the thread on the site feedback forum |
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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 |
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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. |
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its the little pens i worry about as the big ones just come out the other side...
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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 |
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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 |
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There could be lots of dead bodies in these flats .as I never see or hear anybody for weeks .
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