Pen caps

Page 2 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.

KeithTalent

Elite Member | Administrator | No Lifer
Administrator
Nov 30, 2005
50,231
118
116
Originally posted by: Juked07
Originally posted by: KeithTalent
Originally posted by: meltdown75
less pointless than YOUR FACE

People in glass houses...

KT

"So really the rule should be, 'Only people in glass houses should throw stones, provided they are trapped in the house with the stones'"

~Demetri

So awesome, I love that bit.

KT
 

imported_Imp

Diamond Member
Dec 20, 2005
9,148
0
0
I 'ate you... and the mess you left on me rug.

Almost every time I lend out a pen, it comes back with:
(a) A chewed pen cap.
(b) A bent, twisted pen cap.
(c) No pen cap.
(d) A bent pen.
(e) No pen at all.

In all the above cases, I just couldn't love it anymore. So disfigured with no cap.
 

geno

Lifer
Dec 26, 1999
25,074
4
0
To make it easier to resist stabbing people in the face with them when they anger you.
 

nageov3t

Lifer
Feb 18, 2004
42,808
83
91
spoken like someone who's never put a pen wrong-side down in the shirt pocket of a white collared shirt.
 

Flammable

Platinum Member
Mar 3, 2007
2,602
1
76
Originally posted by: Chiropteran
Originally all pens were uncapped with unlimited writing capability, but some pen manufacturers were upset with P2P (pen to paper) abusers who would write on paper far more than the average pen user, which resulted in a shortage of ink in those pens. Manufacturers started installing artificial caps to keep the pen use somewhat in line with the average. However, this measure has been criticized as being ineffective, as it's very easy for end users to remove the caps and make use of heavy P2P applications anyway, so some manufacturers have already abandoned the idea of capped pens.

what?