The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for March 07, 2024

But with plastic you only have to digit some numbers.

Shows you how old this strip is. They don’t teach cursive anymore. And you just swipe your card, no signing anything. The only check I write is to the Gardner. Why,he doesn’t want cash is unknown.

The inability to write in cursive is a serious problem and, in any case, almost all medical staff would be better signing in capital letters.

And if you can’t sign your driver’s license, you’ll have to take the bus or walk everywhere you go.

You could become a doctor and write prescriptions…

many of the countries founding documents are written in cursive

I have to sign my name in a few places, like when a repairman comes to the house, but a scribble with special pen or using my finger is good enough.

Not only can I write cursive I can speak it pretty #&%@ing well!

I think taking cursive out of school is a big problem. Writing a journal in cursive is therapeutic. Cursive writing forces different parts of your brain to work together.

A microchip in the hand eliminates that requirement.

so instead of having to remember a bunch of number combinations and how to sign it properly, you just fork over the money assuming you brought enough of it you can take it home with you and not have to pay for it later type deal… my brain hurts. :p

HA! The more you know!

Learning to write in cursive is an asset. It shows one’s personality, artistic ability and is a special personal signature, no one else has.

Since the Common Core was started, they deleted courses vital to one’s basic knowledge. The curriculum skims the surface of subjects and there’s no “in depth” learning. The math was made impossible for parents to help their child. The homework load, hours, is unreseaonable, because all they learn while in school is “how to take a test”!

On a national level, America has plummeted in test scores compared to other countries!

Why would America’s elite want to "dumb down America?!

Manipulation?

I’ll let you figure that one out!

I remember the hours I spent practicing cursive writing as a kid, really working on it. Who knew my own kids would never learn. Interestingly, when I retired I worked at a living history museum and regularly read letters etc. from the 18th and 19th centuries, written in (of course) cursive. Those of us over 40 could manage it, but I was amazed how many under 40 had serious difficulty making out the words!

As a fountain pen collector and aficionado, I was at first appalled at the inability of younger generations to write and read cursive. But now I’ve come around and am opposed to teaching it. I like to think of cursive writing as a secret code that we baby boomers can use to communicate without the younger generations, knowing what we’re saying.

Uh Oh. If someday, nobody can read cursive (longhand), how will future politicians read and understand our constitution? Oh, now that I think about it……………….never mind!

I can write in cursive, though not elegantly. My signature hasn’t changed much since the 3rd or 4th grade though.

And cash seems to be rapidly going out of style!

Cursive writing is becoming a lost art. From a time when practically everyone wrote in the same cursive style to today when texting and emailing have used the keyboard instead of the pen.

you can tell i write cursive – if you can read it…

Times have changed so much in this century and not all for the better.

Depends on the cost of the item you are purchasing. Buy a new living-room set and you need to sign a sales agreement.

I read where in 75 years – people will have to get a major in cursive like a foreign language.No one will be able to read it. USA has made another big step downward. Once number one in education worldwide and now down to 27/28th and falling. Duh!

Writing has its own place as part of all civilizations and their languages. We really can’t write practically in Binary. It’s a sign of civilization also that can be left behind and demonstrate that we as individuals lived and were part of that civilization. ……

most places that ask for your signature will take any scribble and never check it. (in a word, signatures are passé)

A squiggle will do.

If you work in a law office, you will need cursive to read personal and police statements that were taken with pen and paper. They are scanned into computers and kept for years, but you will still need to read them.

I feel like Chip might have struck a nerve here today. Tomorrow maybe switch to politics or religion. lol Good job buddy!

How else are you gonna write your name in the snow.

My oldest child who is turning 30 this year was the only one of my children that learned cursive in school. For the rest, printing, and typing in a word processor and now, even chat gpt is fine.

Of course people my vintage had hand writing classes in cursive from about third grade on. I remember my best friend Chuck’s writing was terrible. Our fourth grade teacher called a chicken scratching. She used to jokingly say he should become a doctor because that’s the only profession he’ll be able to write that way in. Sure enough he did become a doctor and has served as the chief of emergency medicine at a major hospital in Cleveland for decades.

Let’s see: “Donald Trump”. How’s that? It may not be cursive but, it will work at any grocery store when I hand the Check Out person a check with that signature.

I haven’t used cursive for anything except my signature since grade school.

It appears Gladys views all matters in terms of how they relate to shopping.

retailers in japan used to insist on cash for the most part, meaning that folks carried around wads of cash to pay for their groceries and such. then along came covid and japan suddenly discovered the benefits of living cash-free… ☺

I almost never pay cash (simply because I rarely have enough cash on me to pay for whatever I’m buying). But I’ve not needed to sign my name for any purchase other than an automobile in the past 20 years. I have the same book of checks I got when I opened my bank account 19 years ago.

However, among other things, getting a driving license, opening a bank account, filing your tax returns, and anything requiring a contract (which includes getting a job), all require a signature.

My grandchildren will learn cursive. They don’t have a chance not to, considering the parents and grandparents all agree. They will learn it! There is no reason family can’t teach it to kids who don’t learn in school.

My having mentioned that I use shorthand for anything I don’t want others to read reminds me that the Peanuts cartoon occasionally had shorthand little notes in it. I was always able to read them.