a question about rucksacks

[sojourner]

But you're virtually a bumpkin Soj, not a thrusting big city dynamo like our Dodgepot. Different luggagewear strokes for different folks.

*slaps head*

of course! that's my big excuse, right there - i'm not even VIRTUALLY, i AM. its dead rural round here

i'm now cool by sheer force of being uncool

 

[Boycey]

now courier bags

do you wear them with the strap across your chest, or over your shoulder?

strap across the chest if you must wear one, though the serious ones have a kind of 4 way harness so you wear it across your chest both ways on both shoulders. if you have a bag with 2 straps then they are designed to be used with both aren't they

 

[quimcunx]

what is the correct bag then?

a courier bag ?

a man bag?

Either would be suitable.

 

[Orang Utan]

What's a man bag? The last time we had this conversation, I thought I was told it was the same thing as a courier bag?

 

[sojourner]

What's a man bag? The last time we had this conversation, I thought I was told it was the same thing as a courier bag?

is it not a record bag?

 

[tarannau]

A manbag's any bag that's not a satchel, briefcase, rucksack or courier bag ime.

 

[Geri]

I wear mine on both shoulders mostly, as I use them if I am cycling or walking to work, as it can have quite a lot of stuff in it. If I get on a bus, I tend to take it off and put it over one shoulder to avoid hitting people with it.

 

[Bakunin]

It's a case of the wrong bag for the occasion. Rucksacks are for hiking about the countryside. You pack it with provisions and only need to take it off your back for lunch and when you set up camp again in the evening.QUOTE]

Nay, nay, nay!

When I'm off up-country (or to that fetid metropolis otherwise known as 'London') for a couple of days or longer it makes sense to put everything I'll need for sleeping and so on in a rucksack, while storing more regularly needed items in a little rucksack or holdall. You won't get very far attempting to last through the Climate Camp or the Big Green Gathering with only the contents of a mere manbag, I can tell you.

And, should I accidentally ruin someone's day by bumping them over on the tube, I can always make my rural accent sound extra-rural and do the country bumpkin act by way of apologising instead of having to set fire to them with my cigarette lighter or bayonet them with my camping cutlery set.

Win-win all round, methinks.