+180 I'm glad cursive writing is dying out. amirite?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Guess it's safe to assumed you don't remember the "Barq's has bite" commercials with the dog. You know, like "Bark!" (also guessing OP either didn't have tv, or is gen z)

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I only recently learned that the bite they're talking about is caffeine. Most root beer is caffeine free. Barq's has caffeine.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

You just blew my mind. 39yrs old. Used to drink this at our northern MI cabin in the summers when I was kid. 🤯🤯

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Whaaaat, all those times as a kid my grandma would get me it because she said it didn't have caffeine.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

If she gave you Diet Barqs, she was right. If she was giving you regular Barqs, she was misinformed. You might notice the diet version is quite bland compared to the full-flavored stuff.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

It was always the regular stuff, guess she just missed the memo. Definitely something my weed smoking grandma would do.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

see, now that's something I didn't know. Thank you kind stranger!

by Anonymous 2 years ago

> "Barq's has bite" commercials with the dog Took me back to my childhood!! Now I need to go get some Barqs!

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I'm gen z but in my elementary school they taught us cursive in 2nd and 3rd grade and I retaught it to myself once I forgot

by Anonymous 2 years ago

well I meant gen z since they wouldn't remember the old barq's commercials from the 90s and early 2000s, so I used it as a metric to guess their age. But still, that's pretty awesome.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I ducking. Hope so. Cursive is way easier to write. OP must be so young as to never have written by hand.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

No one ever corrected you when you ordered a bangs root beer?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Usually order root beer by asking for "root beer", rather than a specific brand. Most places only have one on tap anyhow

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Good point.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

What about the possible hundreds of people in OP's life? You're telling me, everyone, who ever heard him say "bang's" root beer, didn't say something? I doubt it, I call BS. OP just sucks at Cursive. I think it's dope.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I only ever say rootbeer names when I am debating which I think is better with friends, and I have only had that conversation maybe two times. At any restaurant, I know that they only have one type of rootbeer and so I just ask for a rootbeer.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

How often are you referring to specific root beer brands with your friends? I guess I remember a handful of conversations where we were talking about which root beers had caffeine in them. But that's a pretty rare convo haha.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

My family is weirdly specific when it comes to soda. My niece likes Mug, Sprite, Sierra Mist, Coke, etc. but won't drink Barqs, 7Up, Pepsi, etc. unless it's the only thing available, and will drink water over anything generic at all. Most of all that applies to my mom and sister as well. Yea, we talk about brands quite a bit. Me, I'm fine with whatever. I was even fine with Dollar Tree soda until they raised their prices. Strange family.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

i read 1800s documents now and then for work. super grateful i can read cursive.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yep, they are super beautiful. That's when writing was also could be considered a form of art

by Anonymous 2 years ago

fair enough, it should only be a matter of comfortability but blaming the Barq's logo designer for you not being able to read cursive correctly is uh... concerning as long as the writing is clean should be readable. shakey and or tightly packed cursive is hard to read but digital cursive letters are most often clear and easy to read

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Your inability to read cursive is not proof that a graphic designer can't write cursive legibly

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yeah, Barq's was a stupid example to use.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Unpopular opinions and poorly formed ones coincide a lot, self report from OP here tbh

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Also, harder to write? Non cursive is just annoying to write, lifting your pen for every small stroke? Nah ah, I've written cursive my whole life, it's the default here

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I write in print but 90% of the time my letters flow together more like cursive. The mix works well for me

by Anonymous 2 years ago

The best is to mix the two, because capital letters in cursive are just annoying sometimes

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Capital G is stupid, and I will die on that hill. Fwiw, my name starts with a G.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yes. And Ouch. Mine is B so I can do some fun lopped stuff with it.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I don't write in cursive, but I agree that lifting the utensil for every individual letter is annoying and tedious. I typically just blend the two together. Writing style of cursive with the font of print.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yeah, the Barq's logo is clearly legible if you know that a Q and a G do not look the same.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Am not american so have never seen it, looked up the logo and theres no way you could confuse that unless you couldnt read cursive.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

cursive is not "hard to write" cursive was invented so you could write faster than typical print writing. the whole point of cursive is that you can write entire words without lifting your pen from the paper

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I write so much nicer in cursive. My printing is OK, but looks like a child wrote it. Plus, as you said, I can write much faster.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I still write cursive every time I have to write something

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I wrote a random check the other day and cursive flowed from my pen like I do it all the time.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yeah, cursive is great. I used to take notes during lectures and I can't imagine doing it in print.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Same. Way easier and faster.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

People are equally shocked that I know how to count back change and write in cursive

by Anonymous 2 years ago

You're a silly lad if you're just now finding out it's called Barq's

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I never even paid attention to what the name actually was. I'm just like "hey this looks like a can of root beer to me tats all I care about"

by Anonymous 2 years ago

i like the way cursive looks - i just hate reading it lol

by Anonymous 2 years ago

It has to be really perfect to my second grade standards and I can get a hint, but when I get cursive mail I have to ask for help

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Definitely not hard to write, definitely harder to read especially when written sloppily. Definitely faster to write in cursive, you don't have to lift off the page every letter, might not mean much if writing something short but fill a page and you may have minutes in difference.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Your ignorance of a thing does not mean that thing is problematic.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Must be an American thing cause cursive is defs not dying out where I'm from

by Anonymous 2 years ago

seriously, print is not a thing where i am. from. people sometimes learn it on their own, but the proper writing you learn at school is "cursive" (we just call it writing tho)

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I had to google what writing in cursive is. Turns out it's just what we call writing in Belgium. Had no clue this was a thing.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Exactly. It's just "writing" no one thinks about that being something out of the ordinary (I live in Poland btw)

by Anonymous 2 years ago

You couldn't tell the difference between a "q" and a "g" and we are the ones with issues?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Brazilian here. Cursive is standard

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Barqs rootbeer... you can't blame the graphic designer because you can't read a lower case Q

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I think this is like the "people eat 8 spiders a year in their sleep" thing. I'm gen x. Can read it and write it. My kids learned to read and write it in school and they're gen z. I don't know who isn't being taught this (I'm in NY in the US), but everyone here is….

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Show us on the doll, where did the bad cursive touch you?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Umm "Barqs" is written in perfect cursive. Looks like you just never learned to read cursive.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Cursive for life.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Absolutely

by Anonymous 2 years ago

You can't read cursive writing. Blame that on you and your teachers, not a graphic designer that made something everyone else can read. I am now wondering how you will ever get through life knowing if people legitimately signed anything what with you putting a big X down as your signature.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I can write way more smoothly in cursive and have never had an issue reading it, unless someone has really crappy penmanship.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

The root beer problem is on you. Everyone knows the brand name

by Anonymous 2 years ago

You mistaking the can as Barqs is more a reflection on you. Who cares if someone writes in cursive. People SUCK ASS at writing legibly even regular print.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Bro admitting to not being able to read

by Anonymous 2 years ago

If you couldn't read Barqs root beer you should wear a helmet outside.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Oh it's not. You know how the younger generations love to have their little secret language that only they know like texting and emojis and stuff like that? Well, cursive writing is the secret language of older people... you know, the ones with all the money?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I just checked the Barqs logo and I can tell that you have never seen a "g" in cursive. Print is boring and you can't tell if an adult wrote it or a kid. As an immigrant in the US, I see that everybody has a similar writing style, and worse 9th graders have the same writing style as adults. IDK but i find it weird

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I'm 26 and the majority of my writing is in cursive. Every one in my life currently can read it just fine.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Everyone knows its Barq's. You're wrong lol

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Hardly do any hand writing since school but I've been using cursive since 1st grade, despite my teachers telling me not to so the other kids didn't feel behind. It's easier to use, faster to write and looks nicer if you write properly. Also if you weren't able to figure out it's barqs then that's on you not the logo as it's pretty clear. If you want hard to read cursive you should see my grandmother-in-law writing it is on par with a doctors and still legible, at least to me.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Cursive is easier to write (you never pick up the pen) and significantly easier to read as the word flows Vs hoping around like a crack addicted chicken. People who can't write or read cursive are missing out.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

If you can't read cursive you can't read a primary source document like the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. You could find a print version but sadly never make head nor tail out of the real document. A great deal of history would be lost if individuals lost the ability to read a primary source document. A primary source document being a document or correspondence written first hand, by a person that was there.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Most of our historic documents are written in cursive, that's the most important reason to know it.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Cursive. Requires practice and of course anything that requires effort these days is pushed aside. Good cursive writing is a pleasure to read.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Pretty sure your inability to read cursive is the fault of your education and even yourself for having recognized a shortcoming yet doing nothing about it other than complain. If you're the only one reading"bangs" which you sort of are I don't think the graphics team or even cursive writing itself is at fault

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Cursive isn't hard to read at all and your issue with Barq's is more of a sad indictment on you than it is an exhibit in your case against cursive. It literally was created to write faster when we didn't have typewriters and computers and such. Widely useful for decades.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Just get more smart.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I mean, not even that, cursive is something a 7-8 year old could learn, OP is just smoothbrained

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I am also glad that cursive writing is dying out. Now my generation has a secret code with which to communicate. You young 'uns may be better at technology, but my old ass will be passing notes to other old farts and you won't be able to read them. Hmph.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Ironically technological literacy is also starting to die out as everything becoming so user friendly.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I taught my classmates who are younger than I am what the brush button on Word does. Because they kept making me fix their chaos formatting. I also had a classmate ask if I can "touch type" which is apparently what you call it when you don't have to look at the keys. I do think they probably all understand TikTok more than I do.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Honestly, why isn't everyone touch typing yet? I think in a world full of computers, you owe it to yourself to learn it.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

….how do you sign your name on checks???

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Ah yes. lets make a writing form go extinct because you don't like it!

by Anonymous 2 years ago

It is not hard to read if it is written as it should be. lt is people that personalize the cursive and add own style to it that makes it hard to read.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I learned cursive in 2nd grade. It's not hard to read or write. Bangs lol I question your intelligence.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

21, cursive is literally just writing fast and your letters connecting. I accidentally write in cursive all the time. It's not that bad

by Anonymous 2 years ago

It isn't harder to read or write. As a matter of fact, it is expressly *easier* on your hands for writing long periods of time. You just never learned it well OP

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Look man I know reading is hard but q's got a loop on the right and g's the loop on the left and this stays the same in cursive. This ain't rocket science it's eyesight Source: Someone with glasses and drinks Barqs

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Cursive is useful for improving fine motor control, it's only the US that's dropped it right?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

You left out another advantage: the beauty of cursive. Documents the Founding Fathers wrote come to mind. I think things like that matter more than a root beer logo.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Harder to write? I find writing in print much much slower and more annoying. Normal writing just flows.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Wow this is a genuinely terrible opinion to have. Depressing stuff.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Just cause YOU can't read cursive doesn't mean it's hard to read. I'd say the vast majority of people who drink barqs root beer know that it's barq and not bang.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

You're education system has failed you.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Ive been writing in cursive my entire life, every other person i know writes in cursive, am i missing something? Is it maybe a translation mistake and cursive is not what we call „Schreibschrift" in german?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

You're kinda an idiot for thinking barqs was bangs lol

by Anonymous 2 years ago

As long as every one of us can write legibly, who cares? If you leave me a note to pick something up I can't read…

by Anonymous 2 years ago

The fact that you find cursive unreadable says more about you than it does about cursive itself

by Anonymous 2 years ago

If you're nearly illiterate you can just say it.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Millennial — we were taught it in the third grade but never required to use it after that. Most of us print as adults, or do a half-write-half-print hybrid style.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

It's way easier and faster to write in cursive than print, even when I write in print I incorporate a bit of cursive for the sake of speed

by Anonymous 2 years ago

As someone who grew up with cursive I think it's great it's convenient for taking notes and is super fast compared to print writing which means I never feel like I'm falling behind during a lecture and I feel it's something that could be great for alot of people but to each their own

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I don't like cursive because I'm left-handed and it smears.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I could go for some A&W right now.

by Anonymous 2 years ago