I understand the need to make these things cheap, but seriously?


Every time I'm given a free pen from a business trying to promote itself, it looks, feels, opens/closes, has the same weight as, same plastics, same point, but the only goddamn difference is that IT DOESN'T WRITE. Why the fuck go through THAT much effort to make something look so similar to an everyday object, even include INK, but can't dispense ink to the paper?! I end up just throwing it away! Many of them don't work brand new out of the box!!


Now, I understand plastic forks are supposed to be cheap and be thrown away after you're done using it, but for fucks' sake, the piece of shit can't stab through a soggy onion without its prongs bending. The fork's functionality is rendered complete useless without its prongs. I now have to use my fork as a motherfucking spoon. A fork in the shape of a fork is not a fork at all!! Even a squirrel with the functionality of a fork is a fork. It's the functionality that makes an object what it is. Get it right, motherfuckers!!!

[Edited on August 29, 2011 at 5:39 PM. Reason : .]

8/29/2011 5:38:31 PM

Quote :

"I end up just throwing it away!"

oh my heavens!

8/29/2011 5:39:55 PM

the complaints web.

8/29/2011 5:40:11 PM

the bubblebobble web

8/29/2011 5:43:33 PM

craptastic forks and pens

8/29/2011 5:45:49 PM

^^haha that shit was hype until it got taken over by bots and spam <3

8/29/2011 5:46:13 PM

I have never actually used a spork to stab food.

8/29/2011 6:22:59 PM

donate the pens to Bada

it seems they only have one pen at any given time

8/29/2011 6:40:20 PM

I read this as "Plastic Forks and Free Penis"

8/29/2011 6:43:27 PM

EVEN A SQUIRREL WITH THE FUNCTIONALITY OF A FORK IS A FORK

8/29/2011 10:58:49 PM

my school gives out these pens for free:



except they are green with our school's department info on it

8/29/2011 11:06:52 PM

First world problems ITT

8/29/2011 11:12:48 PM

the first startup i worked for, we got these orange giveaway ballpoint pens from our first client

damn things lasted almost 3 years. several times longer than the startup

8/29/2011 11:18:23 PM

We only order Bic pens now because our first set of generic pens didn't write and they couldn't send them back.

8/29/2011 11:45:48 PM

so far...I really like the pens here

8/30/2011 9:27:38 AM

My favorite free pen is from Dollar Rent A Car

Has lasted many many years. A+, will write again.

8/30/2011 9:29:57 AM

hot damn, I love me some clicky pens

8/30/2011 9:33:57 AM

i keep one of these (except black) on my hardhat and it hasn't let me down yet

8/30/2011 5:03:33 PM

pen island

8/30/2011 5:13:56 PM

Free pens/notepads in your hotel room ftw

8/30/2011 5:15:47 PM

Which penismightier

[Edited on August 30, 2011 at 7:05 PM. Reason : .]

8/30/2011 7:05:16 PM

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/24/sunday/main6987066.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody

a nib doctor seems like the profession to be going into

cannot be as complicated as pizzas

8/30/2011 7:12:17 PM