A Sacred Recommendation!

**Cob** · February 15th, 2018, 05:53 AM

The Church of England is suggesting that their adherents use "fountain pens instead of plastic ballpoints."

Lord be praised!

Rgds Cob

**jar** · February 15th, 2018, 07:47 AM

Makes a good aspergillum too. And a Sheaffer Snorkel to use when an aspergillum just ain't enough.

**SIR** · February 15th, 2018, 07:59 AM

They just want more social karma to support their claim for more public money to maintain unused edifices (monuments to, and tools of, brainwashing); I'd rather invest the money in protecting young muslim females from abuse by patriarcal zealots (sharia 'law' and the hijab).

**FredRydr** · February 15th, 2018, 08:01 AM

Originally Posted by SIR

They just want more social karma to support their claim for more public money to maintain unused edifices (monuments to, and tools of, brainwashing).

Or there really is a fountain pen god, and the COE has exclusive rights.

**SIR** · February 15th, 2018, 08:55 AM

Half-job Henry;
emancipated the people from their religious commitments, still spying on them ever since then.

**Kaputnik** · February 15th, 2018, 05:16 PM

But most of my fountain pens are plastic, too, and some of my ballpoints are metal. Of course, I don't throw my fountain pens away, but then, I seldom throw away a ballpoint, either. And whether the pen is plastic or metal, the refill that I'd eventually throw away would be the problem. If they're going to be consistent, they ought to say "use fountain pens, but not with disposable plastic cartridges. And if you must use ballpoints or gel pens, use refills made mostly of metal." Although I'm only assuming that the emptied metal ones would be easier to recycle.

Ah well, it's not my church. But if you were to prove to me that my current bottle fed fountain pens were actually worse for the environment than ballpoints, I'd keep on using the fountain pens.

By the way, I don't belong to the Episcopal church either, but I live not far at all from Glebe House, the site of the first Episcopal Church election in the United States. After some unpleasantness in the late 1700s, they could hardly remain COE. But I wonder if they're on board with this fountain pen initiative.

**RocketRyan** · February 15th, 2018, 11:21 PM

Originally Posted by SIR

Half-job Henry;
emancipated the people from their religious commitments, still spying on them ever since then.

You think he would have bee too busy, what with writing Green sleeves, beheading wives and walking around the maze at Hampton court palace. I actually got a bit stuck in there myself in the summer, and I really needed a wee.

**SIR** · February 16th, 2018, 01:07 AM

Been to Hampton a few times, seemed reasonable to buy membership with HRP at double the usual one-day ticket price for free entry for a year to all the HRP sites - I was working a literal stone's throw away from Kensington Palace at the time so would enjoy coffee in their orangery!
Food at Hampton Court is very good, almost worth visiting for in itself.

**RocketRyan** · February 16th, 2018, 09:34 AM

Originally Posted by SIR

Been to Hampton a few times, seemed reasonable to buy membership with HRP at double the usual one-day ticket price for free entry for a year to all the HRP sites - I was working a literal stone's throw away from Kensington Palace at the time so would enjoy coffee in their orangery!
Food at Hampton Court is very good, almost worth visiting for in itself.

Food is good, even my son will eat there and he's a fussy little..... cherub