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IrishBubbaLiberal

(2,561 posts)
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 07:53 PM Jun 2025

People so often overlook the importance of good penmanship -- Betty Bowers

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People so often overlook the importance of good penmanship.

Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) 2025-06-01T21:39:57.863Z


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People so often overlook the importance of good penmanship -- Betty Bowers (Original Post) IrishBubbaLiberal Jun 2025 OP
Good Penmanship is becoming a lost art BOSSHOG Jun 2025 #1
Do you ever wonder DENVERPOPS Jun 2025 #5
I've been reading BOSSHOG Jun 2025 #6
Doesn't matter how you write your signature--- cursive, printed in big block letters--- Jack Valentino Jun 2025 #7
Don't you have to sign your ballot? LisaM Jun 2025 #8
Oh yeah--- forgot about that one! Jack Valentino Jun 2025 #9
Great info JV DENVERPOPS Jun 2025 #10
Article I Section 8 Claus 7 Lifeafter70 Jun 2025 #12
When signing at election, the judge say young folks print. efhmc Jun 2025 #13
Even harder with spray paint! TommyT139 Jun 2025 #2
Is that . . . cursive writing? Aussie105 Jun 2025 #3
I'm on the dysgraphia spectrum. multigraincracker Jun 2025 #4
Beautiful penmanship. calimary Jun 2025 #11

BOSSHOG

(44,730 posts)
1. Good Penmanship is becoming a lost art
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 08:00 PM
Jun 2025

Like paying with cash and writing checks to pay bills and then balancing a checkbook. The ultimate old school.

However fuck you donald trump in any form or language is much appreciated.

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
5. Do you ever wonder
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 09:27 PM
Jun 2025

how the kids that haven't been taught cursive, ........sign a check or legal document??????

Of course the bank's don't look at the signature on the checks anymore..........a year ago, I signed a check Mickey Mouse and it went through, no problem...............

BOSSHOG

(44,730 posts)
6. I've been reading
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 09:33 PM
Jun 2025

Where the lack of cursive knowledge may be a problem or may be overcome with techno whizbangery. A persons signature should mean more than a spam text or email. I may be overfretting but online stuff makes me paranoid.

Jack Valentino

(4,338 posts)
7. Doesn't matter how you write your signature--- cursive, printed in big block letters---
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 09:55 PM
Jun 2025

back when illiteracy was more widespread, they just "made their mark"...

Signing a check is about the only thing I would ever use cursive for, now,
but I haven't even done that in a few years--- use a debit card,
and pay bills online to save the postage, which is now getting really expensive for just a letter...
(but "forever" First Class stamps are really cool--- I still have half a book which I bought about five years ago!)


With everyone using computers and printing things out,
and sending emails and texts, there isn't much point in cursive--
although if you haven't learned it, it might be difficult
to read some historical documents or old family letters.....



LisaM

(29,485 posts)
8. Don't you have to sign your ballot?
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 09:57 PM
Jun 2025

Or sign in to get one? Our ballots are all mail-in, and they match the signatures.

Jack Valentino

(4,338 posts)
9. Oh yeah--- forgot about that one!
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 09:59 PM
Jun 2025

I always worry about that one, because I made an effort to be more legible,
and have to remember that every time I sign one of those,
or it might appear not to match.... lol

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
10. Great info JV
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 10:14 PM
Jun 2025

I think all 70+ Million of us should go to the Post Office and buy a roll of forever self stick stamps. It would flood the USPS with revenue and serve to shut DeJoy's mouth forever about the USPS going broke.......He sure has screwed things up starting with the pre 2016 election...........

Of course his plan is to Bankrupt the USPS, so FedEx and UPS can take over, and more importantly obliterate on of the largest unions in the U.S.

Lifeafter70

(763 posts)
12. Article I Section 8 Claus 7
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 12:18 AM
Jun 2025

The postal system is part of our constitution.

But tfg doesn't think he has to uphold it.

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