why do americans write with pencils?

[Albahan]

On the popular stereotype.
In American films pupils often write with pencils. In our schools, a pencil is used only for drawing.

Well in most schools in America we like to use bubble sheets when we take multiple choice tests and for those we use pencils so that we can erases mistakes and probably for the machine that reads the sheets. That's my best guess for why they are depicted that way. I personally prefer using pens because I like the way it looks better and i tend to press too hard so they break often.

[gut]

> you could just write right to left. That's my preference

I had you pegged for a lefty from day 1.

[Evil Knievel]

The statistical distribution of pencil and pen users surely matches the one of people that do math and those that don't.

[BlkDucky]

- Pencils don't need drying time. That is no problem for normal
humans, but you have to remember the birth-defected left-handers
in our populace. They have to write left-to-right, the same as we
normal people do. That means they drag their ugly, malformed,
unholy hands over every symbol they have just demon-scratched
onto their papers. The result looks like something a drunken
illiterate quickling drunk would have produced.

Must... destroy.

Edit: But yeah. It is kinda hard to write with ink without smudging.

[yisk]

Discrimination against left-handers is negligible in comparison with the discrimination against redheads. I've always been sorry for them.

[Silfir]

The most miserable sons of bitches are the left-handed redheads

[gut]

My attempt to flush out the lefties among us has been
successful. Let the purging begin.

Redheads we will keep, but only the gals.

[Travis Prue]

Edit: But yeah. It is kinda hard to write with ink without smudging.

i never have that problem, i was taught how to write correctly

Also, gut is probably catholic.

[gut]

I'm all for purging the catholics too. Then the methodists.
Then the vegetarians. Then the environmentalists. Then
the dog-haters. No wait, we should start with the dog-haters.

[Travis Prue]

gut, you're no fun to counter-troll >_>