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Rucksack epidemic

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    #32
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,905 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Man bags are so much bigger than ladies' handbags these days.

    How the worm has turned all the same.

    I give all credit to gay men. They made it OK.


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    #33
    Inspector Coptoor
    Registered Users Posts: 6,818 ✭✭✭Inspector Coptoor


    I cycle to work so would be bringing in a change of clothes, iPad, maybe some notes/files, food etc.
    Got a new weaterproof bag for Christmas and its high viz.
    I wouldn't really bring a big rucksack on public transport tho.


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    #34
    dancingqueen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,079 ✭✭✭dancingqueen


    They are handy alright, but yesterday a fellow with one on his back decided to try on a shoe (in Schuh) awkwardly in the middle of the floor, backpack upon his back and smashed me in the face. Be aware of your dimensions, is the key


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    #35
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Neil Issagum wrote: »
    Each to their own I suppose, but I still don't understand where it suddenly came from. I commuted to work in Dublin city centre for ten years and never saw it. Went to work abroad for a couple of years and when I came back it seems to be the new craze

    Well in 10 years theres been this invention called the laptop which most people have and need to bring to and from work.


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    #36
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,465 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    Are we getting confused between what most of us have a backpack a small one vs a Rucksack used to climb Everest ?


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    #37
    AnonoBoy
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    Backpack salesmen I'd say.


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    #38
    Desmo
    Registered Users Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Desmo


    I cycle to work so I use it to carry rain gear, cycle repair kit, phone charger and sometimes laptop or any paperwork. My rucksack is huge. It is big enough to take everything I need as handluggage only for a trip abroad of up to a few days. I also use it to carry shopping home. I have no alternative. If I get the bus or Dart I still use it. It probably looks really awful. Good!


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    #39
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    darkpagandeath wrote: »
    I wear one, Is better than a Man bag... Never know when the OH will call and ask you to bring stuff back is dead handy.

    Haha whipped!


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    #40
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,465 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    harry Bailey esq wrote: »
    Haha whipped!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUUc4Cq5NJc

    NSFW or something...


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    #41
    First Up
    Registered Users Posts: 14,822 ✭✭✭✭First Up


    Desmo wrote:
    I cycle to work so I use it to carry rain gear, cycle repair kit, phone charger and sometimes laptop or any paperwork. My rucksack is huge. It is big enough to take everything I need as handluggage only for a trip abroad of up to a few days. I also use it to carry shopping home. I have no alternative. If I get the bus or Dart I still use it. It probably looks really awful. Good!

    Don't care what you look like. Just keep it out of my face.


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    #42
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    How else are you going to bring home office stationery?


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    #43
    Lights On
    Registered Users Posts: 1,752 ✭✭✭Lights On


    First Up wrote: »
    Don't care what you look like. Just keep it out of my face.

    Sounds like my ex girlfriend.


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    #44
    MilesMorales1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    Battery pack
    Phone cable
    Water bottle
    Book.
    Umbrella
    Spare plastic bag.

    Easy.


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    #45
    Chartsengrafs
    Registered Users Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭Chartsengrafs


    smash wrote: »
    I bet he learned how to play the guitar, grew some dreads and developed a higher state of consciousness too.

    He went abroad, not to Galway.


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    #46
    Otis_taylor2
    Registered Users Posts: 135 ✭✭Otis_taylor2


    Neil Issagum wrote: »
    Yes I'm that guy who always whips out the guitar at house parties. My repertoire includes wonderwall and Robbie Williams Angels


    Is this you ?


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtuN6G62EAY


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    #47
    Neil Issagum
    Registered Users Posts: 203 ✭✭Neil Issagum


    Otis_taylor2 wrote: »
    Neil Issagum wrote: »
    Yes I'm that guy who always whips out the guitar at house parties. My repertoire includes wonderwall and Robbie Williams Angels


    Is this you ?


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtuN6G62EAY
    No


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    #48
    Archeron
    Registered Users Posts: 6,190 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Bring back those weird little canvas bag granny trolley pulley things in a wide selection of tartans, that'll be much better and it will create a golden age for the small rubber wheel makers.


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    #49
    Neil Issagum
    Registered Users Posts: 203 ✭✭Neil Issagum


    smash wrote: »
    Neil Issagum wrote: »
    Maybe it's the extra space they take up on public transport when their glorified man bag squashes you in the face as they squeeze on to the Luas

    Are you a midget/dwarf/little person?
    Yes I am


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    #50
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    dancingqueen wrote: »
    They are handy alright, but yesterday a fellow with one on his back decided to try on a shoe (in Schuh) awkwardly in the middle of the floor, backpack upon his back and smashed me in the face. Be aware of your dimensions, is the key

    Did you call him up on it?


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    #51
    Pac1Man
    Registered Users Posts: 4,394 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    OP which are you talking about?

    Bag A

    Or

    Bag B

    Or somewhere in between?


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    #52
    Neil Issagum
    Registered Users Posts: 203 ✭✭Neil Issagum


    Pac1Man wrote: »
    OP which are you talking about?

    Bag A

    Or

    Bag B

    Or somewhere in between?

    Exhibit 'A' your honour


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    #53
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    Grown men travelling around looking like overgrown junior cert students with a schoolbag full of books on their back.

    Well, how else do you propose carrying them?! Most days of the week I'll have a bag going into work. It'll contain a laptop, notebook and maybe a book or two which are needed for my current project. Once in a while, I'll have lunch in there too.

    The requirements aren't much different from the schooldays so why would we need a different bag/contraption?


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    #54
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Neil Issagum wrote: »
    Exhibit 'A' your honour

    That's a backpack. Exhibit b is a rucksack.


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    #55
    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    It all the fault of Dora and Backpack!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK5SY5JPHeM


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    #56
    Neil Issagum
    Registered Users Posts: 203 ✭✭Neil Issagum


    syklops wrote: »
    Neil Issagum wrote: »
    Exhibit 'A' your honour

    That's a backpack. Exhibit b is a rucksack.
    Both are hideous to me


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    #57
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users Posts: 28,719 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Just buy a car people! Much easier than lugging stuff around (may cost a bit more though)


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    #58
    hardCopy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    Neil Issagum wrote: »
    Each to their own I suppose, but I still don't understand where it suddenly came from. I commuted to work in Dublin city centre for ten years and never saw it. Went to work abroad for a couple of years and when I came back it seems to be the new craze

    Has been the norm since I started work in 2007.

    Big corporates issue backpacks with laptops because the older style laptop bags destroy your spine and companies don't want to be liable for the damage to your posture.


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    #59
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,176 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    It would be physically impossible for me to use a backpack or a rucksack without lumbering around the office in a white crash-helmet going "PSSSSHHH! Good luck, Mr. Gorski!" :pac:


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    #60
    boobar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭boobar


    I use a messenger bag. I need to be able carry laptop, notepads, work papers, kindle for reading at lunch or on the train. Pens, portable hard drive, lunch box.

    Just handy. No need for a gigantic back pack.


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    #61
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    I only wear mine coming and going to suicide bomber practice at the Mosque.


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