Ngl, having a backpack and a hoodie feels kinda like a hacker 😎
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I've been rocking the same Eastpak backpack for about 25 years now. Pretty impressive.
If outward thought me anything, backpacks are cool and stay hydrated.
If Outward taught me anything, it's that everything in the outside world will kill you and it's best to just stay home.
Looking forward to the sequel~
It’s the best way to carry laptops which a lot of workers need to use these days.
Me with a kick scooter
Personally I'm on Team Satchel, Team Messenger Bag... and also unironically think fanny packs should come back.
But yes. Mobile storage compartments that are wearable?
Pretty good idea, generally.
While we're at it: GIVE WOMENS PANTS REAL POCKETS
Unless you have pockets with zippers, fanny packs are great for riding roller coasters if you're only carrying a fanny pack's worth of things. Especially one that can sit unnoticed under your shirt, since staff will sometimes make you take it off if it's obvious.
As it was told to me when I was young, "The more things you need to carry everyday, the less important you are. The less you need to carry everyday, the more important you are."
Sadly, there is a kernel of truth there.
Define "important" in this context.
Well no. Where would we be without janitors and people who repair shit. "Importance" is subjective. Ich would much rather have one person who repairs my car and need a lot of stuff, than 100 Managers.
I used to be friends with an EMT. They'd be carrying 80+ pounds of medical equipment everywhere they went just in case something happened and they weren't on route. Heaviest backpack I've ever seen.
Grand scheme I'm sure you're right, but to the few people they saved by carying that bag, I'm sure they're one of the most important people in the world.
Op is not german
Imagine being so scared of what people think of you that you refuse to use a backpack even when you need to carry a bunch of things.
Is anyone really, though?
I travel for work professionally. 99% of the time I'll travel exclusively with a backpack to carry my essentials, or honestly just carry everything if it's a <3 day trip. Its very hard to yank a backpack off someone when both straps are on, it's very ergonomic, it frees my hands to hold my phone/boarding passes/passport/food, etc etc.
Backpacks are the objectively superior travel and everyday bag, honestly.
When I was on the travel circuit I always did a carry-on and a backpack. The backpack was usually full of job related equipment so there wasn't much room for clothing etc. The carry-on was enough for trips of up to 2 weeks.
As I was in agricultural fields and hot temps everyday in all sorts of countries, full changes of clothing was required plus at least one laundry stop before I came home(phytosanitary rules and all). My carry-on often weighed in at 40lbs or more on those trips.
And where do you put your clothes ?
You change your clothes, right ?
…in the backpack?
How can you fit your EDC and your clothes in a single backpack ?
(I’m genuinely asking)
For a 2-3 day trip i don't need many clothes. 3 sets of underwear, socks, and work polos don't take much space and easily pack around my laptop and hand tools. I'll usually re-wear my slacks.
Any longer and I'll pack more into a carryon, especially on plant visits where I need steel toed shoes and PPE, but usually use the hotel laundry to cut down on total bulk.
Get a bigger backpack. I also assume they're talking about 3-4 day trips at most, so "clothes" is just shirts and underwear (maybe a pyjama). Add a small wash bag (pro tip: get those small refillable airplane bottles for shampoo/soap/conditioner) and you're good to go, with plenty of space for a laptop, charger, phone charger, wallet etc.
Oh, ok
I just found it weird since fitting my clothes for 4 days would require a large hiking backpack and taking that everywhere would be kind of annoying
If you tightly roll your clothes before packing them, then stuff them into a ziploc to do the poor man's vacuum seal, you can dramatically reduce the volume of your clothing.
Source: I moved everything I own with a 2002 Honda civic across the country and still had room for a passenger.
Edit, The US specifically. Anyone can hang out in an overfilled car for 5 hours. This was an 18 hour trip.
Easily, if it's a large enough backpack. For 3 days of clothing, it doesn't even need to be large. I mean what do you need, some assortment of care products (available in small packs, usually, so don't take a ton of space), maybe a razor and hairbrush, toothbrush (negligibly tiny anyway) and then 3 days of clothing don't take that much space unless you change your pants (not the british kind) or sweatshirt every day. And even then a large-ish backpack could fit it.
I went on a 5 day trip with just an average size backpack and laptop bag, and that included bringing the laptop. And headphones. It was pretty tightly packed but worked Clothing doesn't take that much space if you fold it and compress a bit.
Thanks for the explanation ! Yeah, I couldn’t not change my trousers or tops everyday-
I admit: I get Bag Envy when I see something that looks durable and has a plethora of pockets. My bag is weak and puny, but this bag I see before me is epic.
Am I the only one?
No, always. I have a really good waterproof 12L bag with the rollup top clip thingy. It will survive any rainstorm. It just doesn't have pockets and that's objectively more useful to me than being guarded against something that will happen maybe twice a year.
The bag envy is real
I just never stopped using them since childhood. Why would I give up on it? It's ergonomic, it relies on strong spinal muscles allowing one to carry heavier weight, keeps one's hands free and unloaded, doesn't press against one's neck like shoulder bags do, and is very hard for someone malicious to take off someone.
The only downsides I can see is that I cannot keep it in sight, meaning I should mind my surroundings not to hit anyone, and it can also be opened without me noticing (although Bobby bags solve this in particular).
You know what you can also carry inside a backpack? Bags. And inside those bags? Even more bags. Basically, you can carry infinite carrying capacity in your backpack! 🙃
I put a bag of holding inside another bag of holding, and I'm not responsible for the resulting black hole eating through the kitchen.
And what is that non-dork carry instead? A suitcase like a wannabe businessman?
Cargo shorts, of course.
"Even in the winter?"
"Especially in the winter."
A fisherman vest with all those pockets?
I feel like the X axis isn't necessarily the IQ, age suits just fine.
Backpacks are how I learned why a lot of purse's end up as black holes of miscellaneous shit. You think, "oh that like be handy to have just in case", and next thing you know you're carrying around half of a house in your backpack.
Stealth edit: I'm bad at verb conjugation sometimes.
On a positive note: You become the person to ask if anything problematic happens. Like, the moment someone feels sick it's always me who got the travel-amount of medicine ready (Ibuprofen, Talcid, Vomex and such).
How is this even a discourse?
Because you responded to a meme highlighting a situation that doesn't actually exist IRL, and was instead created specifically for prompting comments.
Unterstellungen sind ein journalistischer Trick.
I debilitating affliction if you're a manybagger like me. You'll then have a backpack for every occasion.
THEN CALL ME A DORK
When I was in middle school I was too lazy to go back to my locker between classes so I just carried a stack of 8 textbooks with me everywhere I went. If they had fit in my backpack I would have done that, too, but my family could only afford the cheap ones.
I got a detention for using my backpack full of books as a lethal weapon. I have the English anthology in there and that's a big book, it does some serious blood force trauma damage. It's an awful book though.
Apparently that started a trend so the school introduced a rule that said that all backpacks must be put in lockers at the start of each day. Which was stupid because the lockers weren't big enough for that. So everyone was forced to carry their books to and from school by hand.
Excuse me. Started a trend of kids using their backpacks as lethal weapons?
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