Green Pens

Arthur Beesley · 11-04-2014 03:51PM

mike_ie wrote: »

Last teaching course I was at, we were told that it's now considered common practice to correct papers in green pen - apparently red pen is now considered too 'confrontational' and may have a negative impact on the student... I wish I could say I was kidding....

Health and safety gone mad.

Tokyo · 11-04-2014 03:59PM

Arthur Beesley wrote: »

Health and safety gone mad.

Yup... had a two hour presentation on this, and "finding the positives". Apparently we could start another Columbine or something should we dare to highlight student's mistakes in red pen.

Adamantium · 11-04-2014 04:01PM

mike_ie wrote: »

Last teaching course I was at, we were told that it's now considered common practice to correct papers in green pen - apparently red pen is now considered too 'confrontational' and may have a negative impact on the student... I wish I could say I was kidding....

Oh for ****s sake....... :mad:

I used to have this amazing english teacher (best teacher of anything I ever had), a legit educator of people at the school of life.
I'd almost look forward to getting my essays and stuff back to see the massive RED marks and ticks throughout.

Something oddly satisfying about it, he wasn't afraid to mince his words either in front of the whole class, and go through each paragraph individually, but he did it to everybody and we all like liked him and respected him for it.

I loved to hear his critisim, and would want to impress him, which made all of us apply ourselves.

Off topic anyway...

11-04-2014 04:02PM

Adamantium wrote: »

Oh for ****s sake.......

FYP

IvyTheTerrible · 11-04-2014 04:05PM

mike_ie wrote: »

Yup... had a two hour presentation on this, and "finding the positives". Apparently we could start another Columbine or something should we dare to highlight student's mistakes in red pen.

That is the stupidest logic ever, sure if people start using green ink to correct essays, then students will find that colour negative!

TPD · 11-04-2014 04:07PM

I haven't written much since the leaving cert, mostly scribbled hurried notes. My handwriting is accordingly ****e. In an attempt to improve, I recently bought myself a calligraphy pen, and when choosing a bottle of ink to go with it, thought why not green? I'll stop writing letters to anyone who actually complains about the colour of ink I'm using.

May get a bottle of purple next..

Tokyo · 11-04-2014 04:22PM

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

That is the stupidest logic ever, sure if people start using green ink to correct essays, then students will find that colour negative!

I wish I was making this up - just dug out the notes from the course to check the exact wording. Red pen is apparently, very threatening.

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Though to be fair, it doesn't have to be green. Lavender is acceptable too.... :rolleyes:

11-04-2014 04:29PM

Diego Simeone wrote: »

They're designed for correcting the leaving cert.

Good of Bic to mass-produce millions of green pens and force shops all over the world to stock them just so we can have them to correct the leaving cert.

11-04-2014 04:31PM

mike_ie wrote: »

I wish I was making this up - just dug out the notes from the course to check the exact wording. Red pen is apparently, very threatening.

Though to be fair, it doesn't have to be green. Lavender is acceptable too.... :rolleyes:

Why did you have to do a red box? I would have agreed with you anyway without you trying to intimidate me like that.

Badly Drunk Boy · 11-04-2014 04:43PM

The stationery room in my place of work usually stocks blue, black, green, and red pens, but the rules of our multinational company state that we can only use blue or black pens on any company documents (so why do we have the green and red ones?). Then they say that our stationery budget is gone, so only the essentials shall be re-stocked. All of the blue and black pens are gone now, for some strange reason.

So...I've a huge stash of green (and red) pens if anybody is in the mood for swapping. For this week only, I'll give 1 green and 1 red pen in exchange for each of the ever-elusive black pens which I used to love so much...

Scarinae · 11-04-2014 05:04PM

I've heard that the term 'green ink brigade' is used for people who write angry letters to newspapers about conspiracy theories or minor things that aren't really worth getting worked up about

Having said that, I like green pens and nobody else in work ever seems to want them

Capt'n Midnight · 11-04-2014 06:26PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Don't be silly, everything was black and white back then.

All explained here.

http://i.imgur.com/zbVEHJ9.gif

Stavros Murphy · 11-04-2014 06:29PM

Deleted User wrote: »

It's true!

I've a green pen right here on my desk!

Are you a Farmersis though? Or did you nick their pen?? Eh? EH?

BanzaiBk · 11-04-2014 06:33PM

I have a tin of inks for my pens, 4 shades of green at the moment. Lovely colour for making a note IMO.

poundapunnet · 11-04-2014 06:58PM

I like green pens! Or any non-standard coloured pens, right now I have pink, lime green, dark green and purple in the rotation. Had a brown one for a while but that was a step too far really.

I'm not mental though I swear, it's for helping me study.

11-04-2014 07:07PM

Red ink for losses, black ink for profits (to be in the red or black) Green for notes?

I used green ink today - I had made notes in blue, my boss had made some changes in red and I wanted to make some further notes so used green.

duffer247 · 11-04-2014 07:11PM

I worked in a QA role and we always wrote in green, nobody else in organisation was allowed to!

ElleEm · 11-04-2014 07:24PM

poundapunnet wrote: »

I like green pens! Or any non-standard coloured pens, right now I have pink, lime green, dark green and purple in the rotation. Had a brown one for a while but that was a step too far really.

I'm not mental though I swear, it's for helping me study.

I am like this. I love coloured pens, orange, purple, shimmery ones. My English teacher hated it in school- she began returning my work uncorrected if I didn't use a standard pen colour. She said it gave her headaches!

LizzieJones · 11-04-2014 07:44PM

Jonny Blaze wrote: »

For a second I thought this thread was 'Green Penis'

Don't know if i'm disappointed or relieved..

I'd hate to be the guy with a green penis.

zcorpian88 · 11-04-2014 07:50PM

Had a security manager give out stink to me one day when I worked in Dunnes Stores because I filled out a HACCP report in the only pen I had on me that I brought from home, a green pen.

Apparently they don't come out on the sheet when you fax/photocopy them. Didn't know that at the time.

Incredibly dull depressing place to work!

Capt'n Midnight · 12-04-2014 09:54AM

zcorpian88 wrote: »

Had a security manager give out stink to me one day when I worked in Dunnes Stores because I filled out a HACCP report in the only pen I had on me that I brought from home, a green pen.

Apparently they don't come out on the sheet when you fax/photocopy them.

If the photocopier had a green light then they don't come out. Old trick for doing diagrams was using a red pen on green graph paper. Red was blacker than black and the green disappeared.

Green Pens

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