"Bag."

I've long had the opinion, that while Forge is smart as hell, some of the crap he 'invents' with his mutant power shouldn't work at all. Like if you were to take them apart, the pieces wouldn't even make sense. Something like how Tweedledope created Widget in Excalibur: Forge's gadgets are probably full of apple cores, change, drug store receipts...(I had to look up Tweedledope, since I'm not positive he's referred to by name in Excalibur. And, he was created by Alan Moore and Alan Davis and killed by Deadpool? That seems just like him, honestly.) Forge's inventions work because of his power, like altering reality in a limited area. Or maybe not! 

I could also be wrong about this, but I don't think we see Reed and Ben hang out enough in a non-FF, non-family, non-work setting. I'd be glad to see them go to the fights, a game, Dave and Busters, whatever. I also doubt Reed gets in on the traditional poker games, partly because he's incapable of not counting cards; but I suspect he doesn't bluff. At least, not at first: Reed plays each hand like math, betting precisely calculated amounts based on his odds. He wouldn't bluff, until late in the game when he realizes he could. He probably has some weird, stretchy twitch to his poker face, though. Probably not quite Elongated Man's nose, but...Moreover, Reed has almost certainly made a ton of super-deadly crap, probably unintentionally; or items ripe for misuse. This could explain why Reed's inventions haven't trickled down to the general populace: his tech could all be based on the same general principles, so if you understand something as harmless as a hovercycle, you could build a mega-death ray. 

Does Ben still drink? I know he used to like a frosty brew back in the day, but I haven't seen him chug any of late.