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General Discussion / Pen Twirling
uhhhh WHAT????
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Date: Wed, Oct 24 2007 00:43:31
Okay...
This is like really anoying but it is always happening! When i'm at home my dad is like"Why are you pen twirling?" PEN TWIRLING???
Who says twirling anyway? Another one is when I'm in school when there was when my english teacher was talking about verbs and she says "Andrew, who is twirling his pen?" When subs are in your class they will call you by "Kid who TWIRLS his pen" Why is the word TWIRL the first thing adults think of and not SPIN??? Just a question that seems to like always happen... -
Date: Wed, Oct 24 2007 00:50:15
i know wut you mean dude. whenever i ask my dad if we can go to the store to buy pens, he's like, "for what? to twirl?" gets me so pissed. i guess its just old people. and these girls in my history class call my ballsign a freaking 'baton'.
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Date: Wed, Oct 24 2007 00:54:24
Funny, my Literature teacher called my pen a baton. Psh. It's not long enough to be that.
Maybe I should show her my real baton... -
Date: Wed, Oct 24 2007 00:57:10
Because pen spinning is an esoteric hobby.
And people more know baton TWIRLING than pens they just call it twirling
/me shurgs. -
Date: Wed, Oct 24 2007 01:01:17
the first thing they think of is twirling a baton. No one spins a baton, they twirl it. and im sure they have never heard of pen spinning, so they have nothing else to call it.
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Date: Wed, Oct 24 2007 02:59:16
A lot of the tricks do look like twirls. Sonics, charges, passes, etc. Even some arounds and spin type tricks look like twirls to the average person. It's best not to make yourself look like a nerd and get angry over the word twirl. If it really matters that much, you could just politely say that it's called pen spinning.
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Date: Wed, Oct 24 2007 03:07:37QUOTE (Leviathan @ Oct 23 2007, 07:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>A lot of the tricks do look like twirls. Sonics, charges, passes, etc. Even some arounds and spin type tricks look like twirls to the average person. It's best not to make yourself look like a nerd and get angry over the word twirl. If it really matters that much, you could just politely say that it's called pen spinning.
Or, you could break out in uncontrollable bottled-up rage and attack the person.
Not like i do that to people...
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Date: Wed, Oct 24 2007 03:20:28
yea this girl i know calls it triwling too, or simply,
"that boton thing"
It's not even long... my MX's are barely 20 cm's -
Date: Wed, Oct 24 2007 04:04:23
well it sort of irritated me at first, but i managed to convince mostly my entire class and maybe the whole level that 'twirl' is not the right word.
in fact, when we went on a overseas service learning trip to Nepal with some people who i barely knew, we were left bored and were just waiting for something to happen.
one guy was like: 'what do we do now?'
another guy was like: 'watch him penspin.'
first guy was like: 'SHOW US SOME STUFF!' and handed me some G2.
i took out some comssa i brought along and they were like: 'wah cool pen' -
Date: Wed, Oct 24 2007 04:39:12
Honesty do we look like cheerleaders when we spin our pen? :[ sucks hearing the words "twirl" and "baton" when i spin
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Date: Wed, Oct 24 2007 05:00:49
I blame those who spin large double capped pens.
JK
No really(I kid) -
Date: Wed, Oct 24 2007 05:27:17
I dont understand why all you guys get so mad over someone calling it "twirling". Just tell them its pen spinning
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Date: Wed, Oct 24 2007 08:22:01QUOTEI dont understand why all you guys get so mad over someone calling it "twirling". Just tell them its pen spinning
they don't listen if you tell them its pen spinning..ive tried to tell that to my teacher and she got mad and kicked me out. my teacher calls it pen twirling and my friends just call it Pentrix..but..i don't mind..it doesn't really effect me when i'm spinning -
Date: Wed, Oct 24 2007 13:29:21
Yea, some of my english (native) teacher say that. It's not making me mad, but it kinda bothers me
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Date: Thu, Oct 25 2007 01:57:06
LOL I haven't have problems with that. I'm fine with pen spinning, pen twirling, or even pen turning. Although "playing with pens" are kinda annoying. And you know what? In ThaiSpinner, people use twirling more than spinning.
Just correct them if you want. -
Date: Thu, Oct 25 2007 02:57:34
Lol i know what you guys mean... Last year my history teacher kept saying stop twirling your pen and my math teacher said nice get on a cheer leader squad and spin a baton (least she didnt say twirl), AND PLUS my science teacher gets really pissed when i spin it...I dont get it whats so bad about spinning a pen anyways its not as if we're gonna kill someone with our pens (hopefully) and teachers think we're off task which we're not!!!! This year none of my teachers care though!!!!
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Date: Thu, Oct 25 2007 04:14:26
The simple answer is that people are ignorant and don't care about the artform.
So the response is to leigun them in the head.*
* I can not be held responsible for any consequences of leigunning people in the head. -
Date: Thu, Oct 25 2007 20:06:56QUOTE (Commsa @ Oct 24 2007, 10:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Lol i know what you guys mean... Last year my history teacher kept saying stop twirling your pen and my math teacher said nice get on a cheer leader squad and spin a baton (least she didnt say twirl), AND PLUS my science teacher gets really pissed when i spin it...I dont get it whats so bad about spinning a pen anyways its not as if we're gonna kill someone with our pens (hopefully) and teachers think we're off task which we're not!!!! This year none of my teachers care though!!!!
I know what you mean my dad doesn't want me to do it in school... Adults don't under stand pen spinning is an art and can be done without focusing on it. You can listen to a teacher and do a thumb around very easily. It's just like tapping a pen.
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Date: Thu, Oct 25 2007 20:58:07
Everyone who has seen me spin has called it spinning the pen. Why are you spinning your pen? What's that you're doing spinning your pen? etc... I've honestly never had anyone call it twirling or anything else. Must be some kind of American thing to say twirl.
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Date: Fri, Oct 26 2007 13:16:20
my english teacher is from england..she says twirling..
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Date: Fri, Oct 26 2007 13:23:01
My teacher says flicking
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Date: Fri, Oct 26 2007 13:29:22QUOTEMy teacher says flicking
'Flick may refer to:
* A film (movie), so-called due to the flicker of the image
* Flick (fencing), an attack implemented with the foil in the sport of fencing
* A nickname for someone with the name Felicity (name)
* An action used in a number of games e.g. pencil flick << he must play these kinda games
* Flick family, an industrial family from Germany
* Flick Shagwell, a porn actress
* An animation file format from Autodesk commonly known as an FLC file
* Flick, a character from A Christmas Story
* Herr Otto Flick, a character from the TV series 'Allo 'Allo!
* Flicks, Chocolate-Flavored Candy "Wafers" originally made by Ghirardelli Chocolate Company of San Francisco beginning in 1904 and now made by the Flicks Candy Co. of Fresno, CA.'
-source - wiki
@Whitefang - She's a female, let her off for that act of dumbness, heck if she's blonde, expect that kind of level of dumbness often. -
Date: Fri, Oct 26 2007 13:33:22
exactly...
there is like no element of "flick" in psing rily -
Date: Fri, Oct 26 2007 16:55:51
yea my parents say that aswell it really annoys me - ican see where they get the idea from but my sister says pen twisting i mean WAT!!! where does twisting come from lol??
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Date: Sat, Oct 27 2007 17:56:12
One of my teachers yesterday who hasn't said anything to me about it saw me... and said:
"You're pretty good at spinning pens."
She got it right.