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Because so many people I know are all firmly in the gel pen camp...

Grownups use heavy ball-point pens or fountain pens. The former is acceptable for all needs, whereas the latter is best used only on high rag content paper, and for correspondence that needs to be a bit above the "general" kind of paper you get, with a high probability of long-term archiving.

Gel pens are one step above using a sparkly marker. If you're going to use some drippy, smeary little kid pen, go all the way, and just use a felt-tip marker.

If you don't think a ball-point pen can be a proper writing instrument, stop buying your pens at Wal-Mart.

If you don't think a fountain pen can be a proper writing instrument, you have no thoughts worth sharing with anyone, and should be on an ice floe, as your usefulness to society is at an end.

Your choice of writing instrument is important. Which would you rather be? "I'm a little kid filling my notebook with bad drawings of 'My Pretty Pony", or "I'm a grownup, able to properly select a pen that makes writing worthwhile."

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