Whatever happened to

[gilgamboa]

@habanerocat

I suppose very few are wearing sports jackets these days

What’s the difference in a sports jacket and a blazer

[Fagan_ODowd]

@gilgamboa

@habanerocat

I suppose very few are wearing sports jackets these days

What’s the difference in a sports jacket and a blazer

A blazer has metal buttons.

Edit. You’d assume a rugby alickadoo would know this.

[habanerocat]

I’m just guessing a sports jacket is tweedy and workman like whereas a blazer has shiny buttons, a single colour fabric and is more formal.

Jack Charlton was a good man to wear both as such occasions arose.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Spidey

lol no it was a Parker pen for around 70 quid

I got a Parker Pen (Rollerball) from the school for finishing first in the fifth year exams. I anointed it my lucky pen and used it for every exam I did thereafter.

[MogwaiC86]

@habanerocat

I suppose very few are wearing sports jackets these days.

You don’t want to ever get accidentally seen by another forum member while wearing a sports jacket in public, the repercussions can be embarrassing.

@Bandage

I’d like sid waddell to give an explanation for that beige jacket he was wearing this evening.

[binkybarnes]

@caulifloweredneanderthal

I’ve a lovely Cross pen my aunt got me for my 21st. The ink on it lasted about 15+ years I reckon. Must get a refill

I think a few Cross Pens where the consolation prize for families on Where in the World with Theresa Lowe. The then Sunday Tribune critic Gene Kerrigan used to refer to it as Why in the name of Jaysis?

[MogwaiC86]

Do tables in primary schools still have ink wells like in my day?

[Fagan_ODowd]

@MogwaiC86

Do tables in primary schools still have ink wells like in my day?

They did the last time I was in one.

[myboyblue]

Nah man

[Chancer]

They used quills in your time didn’t they……

[myboyblue]

The bould Thady

[Chancer]

You won’t find too many Thadys these days. A sign of advancing years when I can recall Thady Turbett being a lifelong fixture in the Tyrone goals….

[glenshane]

The biro was a wonderful boon for the peasants, let them feel like grown-ups i suppose

[habanerocat]

The ball point pen, you mean?

[myboyblue]

Not unlike Mossie. You won’t find a Mossie to be taken seriously anymore

[MogwaiC86]

@Chancer

They used quills in your time didn’t they……

My primary school principal in the school with the inkwells was Mr. Quill.

[glenshane]

@habanerocat

The ball point pen, you mean?

Whatever

[Massey]

Limerick is wall to wall Mossies

[myboyblue]

You’d struggle to take one seriously

[Massey]

Fact