Is it normal that it feels good to draw on my skin?

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  • I don't know what a "biro" is, it sounds like a loaf of artisan bread.

    I write on my hand and forearm all the time, but it's always notes to myself if I can't find a piece of paper or I don't want to write it on paper. Sometimes it is a tickley feeling, I can understand why you'd like it. Got to be careful about the chemicals in the ink though, especially in permanent felt markers (yikes).

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    • Ha! I didn't know you didn't have biros in Canuckville. It's just a ball point pen (Biro is the man who invented them). Similar to vacuum cleaner and Hoover. Hmm, now I don't know if you say Hoover in Canada.

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      • Ah, thanks for the clarification, but I still can't get the image of a loaf of bread out of my head.

        We have Bics (ink ballpoint pens), although I'm not sure it's a popular name any more and it can also refer to men's disposable razors.

        Hoover is a vacuum cleaner here too, but we don't normally refer to all vacuums as Hoovers, it's just a vacuum. Typically, we use Hoover as a replacement word for sucked, as in "you really Hoovered your food tonight, you must have been hungry." That was the PG version of the example, mostly it's used in the R-rated way.

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        • We have Bics too, only here we'd say that Bics are a brand of Biro.

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