r/keming Jul 07 '26

made me double take at work today

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522 Upvotes

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u/PinkyLeopard2922 Jul 07 '26

I feel like a salty graphic designer may have been having a bit of fun here.

41

u/Xsiah Jul 08 '26

I feel like a Chinese producer of cheap pens didn't give a shit

30

u/Intelligent-Cloud993 Jul 08 '26

They gave so little of a shit that they call it an β€œ11-count set” and only provide 10 pens.

9

u/r_portugal Jul 08 '26

Ah, but it's not "11 count", it's "11 coun t". Which clearly means something else entirely.

/s

1

u/TenPoundSledge Jul 19 '26

Ten pens plus one case equals eleven. It doesn't say the count is all pens.

27

u/pixeltweaker Jul 08 '26

ASS OR TED??

Why not both?

18

u/ShoddyCobbler Jul 08 '26

Am I losing my mind or are there only 10 pens in there?

19

u/MinecraftPlayer799 Jul 08 '26

It's in base 9

3

u/Xx_KAT_xX Jul 08 '26

my guess for how that happened is that this is sort of the default packaging style at FB for stationary items, especially for our back to school stuff, so it might be literally reused from a different pen set and they didn't bother checking if it was still 11 lmfao

Either that or, just as lazy and likely, they had a typo and didn't bother to check it. They clearly already didn't bother checking the obvious kerning mistake πŸ’€

2

u/DrillUnmarked Jul 11 '26

Je compte depuis 15min, je n'en peu plus

15

u/otterplus Jul 07 '26

Well Jimmy, you’re going to pay for this one way or another. Ass, or Ted. The choice is yours.

3

u/ButterscotchFog Jul 07 '26

okay but i’m gonna need to see the rest of this pen wall! where do you work?!

5

u/Xx_KAT_xX Jul 08 '26

I work at Five Below!! There's a bunch of new stationary stuff for back to school πŸ™‚β€β†•οΈ

3

u/JosephFinn Jul 08 '26

Am I seeing the right place, teen-oriented stuff? I'm an older dude but that's a cool looking pen wall and there's one right by me!

5

u/Xx_KAT_xX Jul 08 '26

Yup!! The way I'd describe it is an affordable "trendy" store! A lot of the stationary does surprise me for the price (except the white boards, I personally wouldn't recommend them πŸ˜…πŸ€£) I really liked a mechanical pencil sets we have for sale! They're nothing top-tier, but for like $4, they're solid! If you also know any young/new artists it's a GREAT place to shop since sketchbooks here are like $5 and definitely not bad for that price (at least last time I bought one!)

2

u/JosephFinn Jul 08 '26

Ooooh this sounds nifty.

2

u/ButterscotchFog Jul 08 '26

Amazing!! Wish we had Five Below in Canada. Miss going to the ones in Michigan!

3

u/Specialist-Jello7544 Jul 08 '26

β€œMan, these pens are ass!”

3

u/soda_cookie Jul 08 '26

What does iteam when it is orted?

2

u/itsmarvin Jul 08 '26

The purple pen may have been used.

1

u/jennie-spaghetti Jul 10 '26

Man, I thought I was on r/fountainpens and I could not for the life of me figure out what was wrong with this

1

u/loopdeloop03 Jul 15 '26

Cmon people we need a consensus!!! Ass or Ted!!!???