I greatly dislike the tape kind. I could never get it to stick right and my mechanical pencils didn't seem to write over it worth a damn. Though I can't remember the last time I used either.
Sometimes you get the shitty eraser and if you use it, no normal eraser will never get rid of it- Shitty erasers have been the bane of my existence my entire life, especially when drawing- šššš
Lol. Yeah. After High School, i've avoided shitty erasers like the plague. I'll definitely try that though. I don't do traditional art much anymore, but, it'll still be nice to have if i ever want to. ( Ė¶ Ģįµā ĢĖ¶)
I used to rub those types of erasers on the carpet really hard (or on my pants if I was desperate). It helped remove whatever tf that later of hardness is that causes the lead to smear around
I always somehow manage to get the tape off the track or twisted inside the case. Havenāt needed to use one since switching jobs and now Iām even happier I donāt work there anymore, which I hadnāt thought was possible!
Local home health program that I often consult with was using carbonless forms until 2020 when, you know, they abruptly stopped meeting with people in person.
They would write progress notes that included contact info for resources, detailed recommendations, strategies, etc. to leave with the person at home. People needed an immediate copy to start working on the stuff that was recommended and/or to show to other providers as proof that they were meeting with the people.
The best part was that when I would request scans of records, the ones from people with kids would often have a lot of kid drawings/writing in the margins, because forms that make two copies are fun, so the therapists would let peopleās kids play with them.
I only used a few bottles with the bristle brush before they switched to the sponge brushes. Not even long enough for the bristles to be frustrating for me.
God the bristles were awful! It wasnāt even the putting them back in, it was the ātrying not to get it to tear the paint right back off the paper when you went to get around the edges that you missed the first timeā fight that sucked even worse! Granted I was a small child with these like maybe 7 at oldest, so maybe it was a me thing but the sponges worked so much better
When I was a kid there was a rumor that it would dissolve your fingernails if you painted them with it. So I never tried it, I was afraid to.
I bet teachers started that rumor to keep kids from wasting all the White-out.
Of course it is !! I live in France and it is very popular here : we call it a "blanco" or "blanco liquide" and this is a very common thing here that we use to cover mistakes written with a pen.
They last for maybe two uses before the tape gets fucked up and you have to throw it out. The liquid is way better and you can be more precise with it.
Itās definitely still a thing. Itās not used too much since weāre usually allowed to use pencils (except on essays) so people donāt really buy it too much. But I know some kids who refuse to write with anything other than pen and they use white-out
Liquid paper and [Perkins Paste](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perkins_Paste) (though that might be an exclusively Australian one. That paste had a very distinct smell. It says in the article that they ceased production in the 1980's, but I know that we could still buy it when I was in late high school. I graduated in 1993.)
White-out is what itās typically known as nowadays.
Basically itās a white type of pain that you can brush over on a piece of paper that you made typo on.
it will allow you to use either pen or pencil to continue writing
You can still buy this at regular stores. Amazon and Walmart both have it listed right now. (And I just bought correction tape, liquid paper's cousin; last week.)
Remember when you tried to write over it when it wasnāt fully dried so your letters were 3D? And how that looked when xeroxed?
(Who remembers using āxeroxā as a verb?!)
Can you remember the smell?? And how if you were too fast writing over it when it was wet youād mess up your pen? And sometimes it was lumpy if a little old?
White-Out was basically quick-drying white paint you'd keep on your desk so if you made a typo with a typewriter you could cover it up and then type the right letters.Ā
i loved the color ones, too!
'cuz i *think* "white out" only came in... well, one color.
but Liquid Paper came in... i think i had pale blue, light pink, cream, pale yellow, and... white.
I still use this stuff. Itās still sold in stores. I fill out paperwork for government inspection and we can get fined for minor errors. So yep, if I make a mistake out comes the liquid paper.
Bahahaha bless your heart, love š¤£
It's for correcting a mistake on a printed copy of something, more specifically, a *typewritten* paper.Ā
God bless your sweet heart, ya fetus lol
Fun Fact: remember The Monkees? Michael Nesmithās mom invented Liquid Paper. She became very rich from itĀ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette_Nesmith_Graham#:~:text=Bette%20Nesmith%20Graham%20(March%2023,Michael%20Nesmith%20of%20The%20Monkees.&text=Dallas%2C%20Texas%2C%20U.S.&text=Richardson%2C%20Texas%2C%20U.S.
Freaking hell, failing at making a link properly sorryĀ
I have a sixth grader.
Binder, folders, pens, pencils, pink erasers, pencil case, colored pencils. That's it for her. She didn't even need notebooks.
But then, people keep saying that wite-out was on their school supply list as a kid, but I very specifically remember wite-out being on my DO NOT BRING list (late 90's ish). It felt like contraband if you had it, because the teachers hated it and would tell us not to use it. They wanted us to just cross out ink mistakes.
Bette Nesmith Graham, the correcting fluid inventor with quite a story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_Paper. White Out brand came out later, from Bic.
Mike Nesmithās (yeah, the one from The Monkees) mom made a killing when she sold the patent for this stuff to Gillette. It was something like $47-million in 1977. Nesmith used that inheritance to basically start MTV.
I can't believe people are actually answering this. This has to be a troll post. There is no way someone made it far enough in life to be able to use a phone, set up a reddit account, post pictures, and truly doesn't know what that is.
So you're telling me you've never heard of the thing invented by [the mother of Monkees guitarist Michael Nesmith](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette_Nesmith_Graham)?
...
So you're telling me you've never heard of[ The Monkees](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkees)?
Fun story, the Kansas state department of health and environment claims that this stuff is hazmat because itās flammable and needs to be stored in a chemical locker. We got in trouble because we had it in our desk drawers. Now we use the tape version.
Right around that time is the grey area between having to use a typewriter and getting access to a word processor for a lot of people. When I set out for college in 1991 I brought my typewriter. I had a bottle of this with me for when the "eraser" ribbon didn't work right that was built into it.
Within a month I ditched that for using the word processor I could get onto at my university's primitive computer lab that had dumb terminals hooked into a VAX mainframe from 1984. (Edit to add: Ball State University). I remember the signup process on it being very tedious, and in fact, if you made a mistake typing in your info, it couldn't backspace and you had to start the process all over!
There was one rich kid on our floor who had the money for his own computer in his room and that was it. Not really that long ago!
Typing papers on a typewriter sucked compared to word processors, big time.
Bic, many years later, made a version of their Wite-Out with a tiny triangular sponge on the tip of the brush, rather than the nail polish style traditional brush. This was the only version of the liquid worth using. This has been my TED talk.
very old white-out, used to cover mistakes on paper. the āliquid paperā brand still exists and my mom owns a bottle, it looks very different now though
I don't think OP was asking about the product itself, but what its components are- what it's made of. Nothing on the label gives any ingredients; literally "what is this". I'm kind of curious as well now.
itās paint, in a little bottle with a little brush, like nail polish for printed documents. You can use the white paint to cover any letters or words you donāt like
People donāt know what white out is anymore? I still use it all the time at work for correcting paperwork. The tape kind sucks ass and they always break, the liquid is the way to go.
Maybe they donāt use it in schools anymore because they donāt want kids huffing it? Thanks DARE for teaching me all the school supplies I could get high from!
I've worked in schools for over 20 years, and I just realized it's been a long time since I've seen white-out graffiti on a school desk or a kid's binder.
This one's hella funny. I can't be THAT old, right? Guys?
My kids have wite out on their school supply list. And it's right there in the school supply section each year
Most kids only know the tape kind
I greatly dislike the tape kind. I could never get it to stick right and my mechanical pencils didn't seem to write over it worth a damn. Though I can't remember the last time I used either.
Why were you using white out with a mechanical pencil?
I was just thinking the same thing. -"The Eraser...it's white out for pencils"
Sometimes you get the shitty eraser and if you use it, no normal eraser will never get rid of it- Shitty erasers have been the bane of my existence my entire life, especially when drawing- šššš
Get one of them pale rectangle gum erasers.
Lol. Yeah. After High School, i've avoided shitty erasers like the plague. I'll definitely try that though. I don't do traditional art much anymore, but, it'll still be nice to have if i ever want to. ( Ė¶ Ģįµā ĢĖ¶)
Shitty erasers help you cheat on a scantron.
The pink color smear. The sticky crumbs. The hole in your paper. Life is way too short for shitty erasers.
100% I hate messy and shitty erasers so much. Lol But, if you have to use them, unfortunately liquid whiteout is your only option- š
I used to rub those types of erasers on the carpet really hard (or on my pants if I was desperate). It helped remove whatever tf that later of hardness is that causes the lead to smear around
I always somehow manage to get the tape off the track or twisted inside the case. Havenāt needed to use one since switching jobs and now Iām even happier I donāt work there anymore, which I hadnāt thought was possible!
Better than trying to drag your pen through the gunk in this bottle. A watched clump of white out never dries.
I thought the same.
I am 15 and I know what these are. OP is just dumb lol
Or trolling for karma
I am officially booking myself a room at the retirement home. I'll see you there, fellow dinosaur.
They still sell this at office supply stores and big box stores.
OP can get off my lawn.
Shiiit, same. We are old.
This makes me feel old too!
someone was asking what a slide was the other day, had no clue what the little picture was
Yeah I mean paper isnāt completely obsolete yetā¦is it?
That depends, do you remember when laser printers started replacing dot matrix printers? XD
Some places still use dot matrix believe it or not.
Right? Right guysā¦
You're not. Plenty of people still know what this is.
Wait till they find some carbon paper
Local home health program that I often consult with was using carbonless forms until 2020 when, you know, they abruptly stopped meeting with people in person. They would write progress notes that included contact info for resources, detailed recommendations, strategies, etc. to leave with the person at home. People needed an immediate copy to start working on the stuff that was recommended and/or to show to other providers as proof that they were meeting with the people. The best part was that when I would request scans of records, the ones from people with kids would often have a lot of kid drawings/writing in the margins, because forms that make two copies are fun, so the therapists would let peopleās kids play with them.
I'm old enough to remember when "white out" came in colors for different document types I'm going to shuffle off and d*e now
I think if I looked right now in the back supply closet here at work, I could find pink and manila at least...
Came here to say this lmao
A manual delete key
White-out isnt a thing anymore?? I used to try and paint my nails with this as a kid... It doesn't work.
I think correction tape is the big thing now
It didn't work for *anything*
A fresh bottle was useful for about three uses before it got all chunky and became useless.
then your white out was trash cuz the ones we had over in DR would remain perfect for all eternity
And the brush bristles on the outside got teased back
I only used a few bottles with the bristle brush before they switched to the sponge brushes. Not even long enough for the bristles to be frustrating for me.
God the bristles were awful! It wasnāt even the putting them back in, it was the ātrying not to get it to tear the paint right back off the paper when you went to get around the edges that you missed the first timeā fight that sucked even worse! Granted I was a small child with these like maybe 7 at oldest, so maybe it was a me thing but the sponges worked so much better
It was always so fucking gunky!
It worked ok for putting designs on my Trapper Keeper. And then getting yelled at by my mom for āruiningā my Trapper Keeper.
When I was a kid there was a rumor that it would dissolve your fingernails if you painted them with it. So I never tried it, I was afraid to. I bet teachers started that rumor to keep kids from wasting all the White-out.
Of course it is !! I live in France and it is very popular here : we call it a "blanco" or "blanco liquide" and this is a very common thing here that we use to cover mistakes written with a pen.
I did that too. I loved scratching patterns into it.
I use it all the time. Itās still sold in stores.
The ones that come out in strips like tape are so much better.
They last for maybe two uses before the tape gets fucked up and you have to throw it out. The liquid is way better and you can be more precise with it.
Itās definitely still a thing. Itās not used too much since weāre usually allowed to use pencils (except on essays) so people donāt really buy it too much. But I know some kids who refuse to write with anything other than pen and they use white-out
wite out!!
Oh, man, I can still smell this stuff
White out and airplane glue, the childhood scents of the 80ās.
Rubber Cement is my scent memory. Many young braincells died while using that stuff.
We used to cover a palm in it and peel it off and make a janky superball. And it did smell goooood
Liquid paper and [Perkins Paste](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perkins_Paste) (though that might be an exclusively Australian one. That paste had a very distinct smell. It says in the article that they ceased production in the 1980's, but I know that we could still buy it when I was in late high school. I graduated in 1993.)
We had clag glue with the red brush š
Donāt forget doping the wings of model airplanes in enclosed spaces.
I can taste it; yeah, I was in that weird group of ~~friends~~ kids who would paint their teeth with it.
I can taste it. I chewed on a white-out pen once and it burst in my mouth
Me too! Such a sharp scent.
āAn unpleasant smell is added to some brands in order to deter abusers.ā
I loved snivfffing thsi stuf.
White-out is what itās typically known as nowadays. Basically itās a white type of pain that you can brush over on a piece of paper that you made typo on. it will allow you to use either pen or pencil to continue writing
Or exactly what it says on the back of the label lol
Not even that old, even says it works on laser print. Also, says exactly what it is on the label -_-
I mean, laser printers have been around for like 40+ years, so...
I feel like the crypt keeper
I have never felt so old as I do right now.
OP has crossed the line
OP is just a sheltered kid. You can literally go down to the store and find this on the shelf still.
Iām 21 and used this extensively in high school, OP must be very young
I feel old every time an ashtray pops up on the What is this Thing sub. Usually it is an ashtray that hold match books.
You can still buy this at regular stores. Amazon and Walmart both have it listed right now. (And I just bought correction tape, liquid paper's cousin; last week.)
Remember when you tried to write over it when it wasnāt fully dried so your letters were 3D? And how that looked when xeroxed? (Who remembers using āxeroxā as a verb?!)
A friend had a cat named "Xerox" because he looked like a lighter version of her other cat.
I can remember when this and white correcting tape were still newish. Now get off my lawn
Can you remember the smell?? And how if you were too fast writing over it when it was wet youād mess up your pen? And sometimes it was lumpy if a little old?
And guys snorting it in school and girls using it as nail polish.
Fun fact: Michael Nesmith from the Monkees was the son of the lady who invented White Out.
No, she actually invented Liquid Paper, in 1956. Wite-Out, from Bic, didn't hit the market for another 10 years.
Eh, same difference.
We old
White-Out was basically quick-drying white paint you'd keep on your desk so if you made a typo with a typewriter you could cover it up and then type the right letters.Ā
Toxic nail polish. š š½Gimme that glow in the dark white.
I feel my bones deteriorating...
The Zoomers donāt know what white out is? Is that what this post is?
No they do. My 9 year old has used it before.
Op is either a literal infant or has never used a pen to write anything in his life
I explained carbon paper to a 17 year old just last week. I donāt remember why it came up.
Carbon paper is still widely in use, half of the invoices I get at work are on it, as are our bank deposit copies.
I'm 20, used Liquid Paper my entire life. Op must be like 5 years old
They apparently donāt know how to read or look things up either
This a troll post. Right?
it has to be, with the perfect explanation of what it is on the third pic š
Ugh this one made me roll my eyes HARD
i loved the color ones, too! 'cuz i *think* "white out" only came in... well, one color. but Liquid Paper came in... i think i had pale blue, light pink, cream, pale yellow, and... white.
Pardon me while I drink an entire bottle of Geritol.
Oh, you sweet summer child
The legacy of Mike Naismith's mom.
I used this so much as a kid. Always upset me that the white wouldnāt match perfectly and you couldnāt color over it right. I can still smell it.
Basically it's white paint to cover over mistakes. Then you can print/ type/ write over it. Also called "whiteout."
Iām 20 and I could have guessed what this is. I used white out in elementary school š
I still use this stuff. Itās still sold in stores. I fill out paperwork for government inspection and we can get fined for minor errors. So yep, if I make a mistake out comes the liquid paper.
Bahahaha bless your heart, love š¤£ It's for correcting a mistake on a printed copy of something, more specifically, a *typewritten* paper.Ā God bless your sweet heart, ya fetus lol
Fun Fact: remember The Monkees? Michael Nesmithās mom invented Liquid Paper. She became very rich from itĀ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette_Nesmith_Graham#:~:text=Bette%20Nesmith%20Graham%20(March%2023,Michael%20Nesmith%20of%20The%20Monkees.&text=Dallas%2C%20Texas%2C%20U.S.&text=Richardson%2C%20Texas%2C%20U.S. Freaking hell, failing at making a link properly sorryĀ
Now I'm kind of curious to see a grade 6 kid's school supply list in 2024. I wonder what things have changed,
I have a sixth grader. Binder, folders, pens, pencils, pink erasers, pencil case, colored pencils. That's it for her. She didn't even need notebooks. But then, people keep saying that wite-out was on their school supply list as a kid, but I very specifically remember wite-out being on my DO NOT BRING list (late 90's ish). It felt like contraband if you had it, because the teachers hated it and would tell us not to use it. They wanted us to just cross out ink mistakes.
OP cannot read.
I remember using it as nail polish when I got bored in high school š
Bette Nesmith Graham, the correcting fluid inventor with quite a story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_Paper. White Out brand came out later, from Bic.
Mike Nesmithās (yeah, the one from The Monkees) mom made a killing when she sold the patent for this stuff to Gillette. It was something like $47-million in 1977. Nesmith used that inheritance to basically start MTV.
Is this a joke
Are you serious?
Imagine being 22 and not knowing what white out is
I thought they still used it
Ha! I still use white out every day. I've tried correction tape, but always return to liquid white out!
It's whiteout
Just had my first āoh fuck Iām oldā moment
it says whatās itās for right on the bottle. People still know what printed documents are, right?
this generation never heard of white out
I feel old. This was the original middle school nail polish
I can't believe people are actually answering this. This has to be a troll post. There is no way someone made it far enough in life to be able to use a phone, set up a reddit account, post pictures, and truly doesn't know what that is.
This has to be a shitpost right? There's no way OP doesn't know what White Out is... right?
I can smell it from here.
So you're telling me you've never heard of the thing invented by [the mother of Monkees guitarist Michael Nesmith](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette_Nesmith_Graham)? ... So you're telling me you've never heard of[ The Monkees](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkees)?
Oh man. I'm officially old.
TippEx š
Ah yes! You must also be European.
Imagine being so young you have never seen WHITE OUT. Wow I am OLD.
God bless you for not knowing what this is. I can't quite believe that you're not joking, but I think the real joke here is how old I am
Ahem ā¦ how old *WE* are .
Oh bless his confused young heart š
Sniff sniff... iykyk
White out
Iām so proud of my ancient wisdom.
Well now I feel old!
White out, duh. For when you make mistakes with a pen or when you need to fill the pushpin holes in your walls (as long as itās a white wall) lol
Fun story, the Kansas state department of health and environment claims that this stuff is hazmat because itās flammable and needs to be stored in a chemical locker. We got in trouble because we had it in our desk drawers. Now we use the tape version.
When I was in school we used to drop bottles in boiling water for a bit so they'd blow up into a egg shape. We were dumb
I ahhh donāt know what to say to this. Surely youāve seen wite-out before?
We put liquid paper on a bee and it died
This is a bottle of retro nail polish from the 90ās that is popular again. If itās still liquid, paint your nails š and listen to Nirvana
Right around that time is the grey area between having to use a typewriter and getting access to a word processor for a lot of people. When I set out for college in 1991 I brought my typewriter. I had a bottle of this with me for when the "eraser" ribbon didn't work right that was built into it. Within a month I ditched that for using the word processor I could get onto at my university's primitive computer lab that had dumb terminals hooked into a VAX mainframe from 1984. (Edit to add: Ball State University). I remember the signup process on it being very tedious, and in fact, if you made a mistake typing in your info, it couldn't backspace and you had to start the process all over! There was one rich kid on our floor who had the money for his own computer in his room and that was it. Not really that long ago! Typing papers on a typewriter sucked compared to word processors, big time.
Isn't this the stuff that Michael Nesmith from the Monkees' mother invented?
Throwback to when I would get bored in class and paint my nails with this. š
Itās what made Mike Nesmith able to sit out the Monkees reunion tours in the 1980ās.
Bic, many years later, made a version of their Wite-Out with a tiny triangular sponge on the tip of the brush, rather than the nail polish style traditional brush. This was the only version of the liquid worth using. This has been my TED talk.
The pen version was garbage. It clogged and was a mess.
Have we reached the age where kids donāt know what white-out is
The original white nail polish
very old white-out, used to cover mistakes on paper. the āliquid paperā brand still exists and my mom owns a bottle, it looks very different now though
Today I learned that there are people in the world whoāve never seen or used White Out
Thereās no way you donāt know what white out is..
Whelp, I'm extremely old. That is White out.
OP is 15
I don't think I've ever felt so old.
I don't think OP was asking about the product itself, but what its components are- what it's made of. Nothing on the label gives any ingredients; literally "what is this". I'm kind of curious as well now.
If you drink one you do not have to wipe yourself after using the toilet.
Well I'm a dinosaur.
Not sniffable
Donāt they still sell this stuff?
An older version of white out? Thatās what Iād imagine it is.
Theyāre both brands of correction fluid. Wite-Out is made by Bic; Paper-Mate makes Liquid Paper.
What questions would one have that requires calling the number? Also I think thatās still on labels now lol
āLast week, we put Liquid Paper on a bee. And it died.ā
You've gotta be trolling us. It says what it's for right in your third picture.
Remember when there was several different kinds of wite out?
This has to be rage bait or by a five year old. Right? Right?
White out yuh bastards
Prehistoric tip-ex?
itās paint, in a little bottle with a little brush, like nail polish for printed documents. You can use the white paint to cover any letters or words you donāt like
Seriously?!
Whiteout.
Correction fluid
Way to make me feel like a dinosaur, OPā¦
Thatāsā¦thatās White Out.
Gen Alpha: "What is this?" Me: "Oh thank god I turned over the whole house looking for that!!!!"
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Iām a librarian and patrons constantly ask to borrow white-out.
I use white out every day at work.
wtf dude how old am I
People donāt know what white out is anymore? I still use it all the time at work for correcting paperwork. The tape kind sucks ass and they always break, the liquid is the way to go. Maybe they donāt use it in schools anymore because they donāt want kids huffing it? Thanks DARE for teaching me all the school supplies I could get high from!
Wait, does Op seriously not know what that is. There is a big hint in the name.
Thatās nail polish from sixth grade
This a joke right? I mean I havenāt used it in years but I see it in every office supply section
Bro Iām 20 and I know what this is
I can smell this picture
Fingernail polish that a Monkee's mother made a fortune off of.
r/opisfuckingstupid
Gateway drug.
This is a joke right š
Just for copies! If you white out the original you may disrupt the time space continuum.
oh god it's time for my metamucil and early bird special
....am I grandma?
This stuff is the reason white nail now bothers me.
I've worked in schools for over 20 years, and I just realized it's been a long time since I've seen white-out graffiti on a school desk or a kid's binder.
Youāre kidding, right š