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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: quig on February 24, 2016, 05:33:22 PM
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Ok, I don't know where else to ask this, so here is as good a place as any...
I drive a truck all over the country and see a lot of places and people. Something I've noticed that I can't get my head around is guys from 20-35+ wearing backpacks like a kid in junior high would carry. This has been getting worse in the last 5 years or so. What in the world is this all about?
I asked one today WTF it was for, he said 'holding stuff', shrugged and walked away.
I don't get the My Little Pony thing either, so maybe I'm just out of the loop? A connection here?
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Ok, I don't know where else to ask this, so here is as good a place as any...
I drive a truck all over the country and see a lot of places and people. Something I've noticed that I can't get my head around is guys from 20-35+ wearing backpacks like a kid in junior high would carry. This has been getting worse in the last 5 years or so. What in the world is this all about?
I asked one today WTF it was for, he said 'holding stuff', shrugged and walked away.
I don't get the My Little Pony thing either, so maybe I'm just out of the loop? A connection here?
Adults wearing backpacks is silly. I think it's more closely related to adults watching "Adventure Time" than My Little Pony. I mean, I can understand the need to carry things. That's what a briefcase is for. In the event that you need to carry more/heavier things than would be manageable by a briefcase, I would go with a nice leather messenger bag. If you wear a backpack and you're not in some form of school, I can't really take you seriously.
The My Little Pony thing... google "Bronies". But NOT on a work computer...
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Adults wearing backpacks is silly. I think it's more closely related to adults watching "Adventure Time" than My Little Pony. I mean, I can understand the need to carry things. That's what a briefcase is for. In the event that you need to carry more/heavier things than would be manageable by a briefcase, I would go with a nice leather messenger bag. If you wear a backpack and you're not in some form of school, I can't really take you seriously.
The My Little Pony thing... google "Bronies". But NOT on a work computer...
So I should stuff the groceries for my family into a messenger bag and make several trips instead of one just to avoid not looking 'serious' enough? :)
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I want to look tough like Serenity!
(http://g02.a.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1kfebIFXXXXcWXXXXq6xXFXXXO/2015-New-Europe-Style-Retro-Designer-mens-canvas-leather-satchel-messenger-shoulder-tote-bag-School-Military.jpg_640x640.jpg)
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I'm jealous. :mad:
How do you find the time to care about something as ridiculously stupid as this?
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1st world problems bro.
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Since I usually bring my work laptop home with me every night, I stuff it in this backpack.
(http://images.frys.com/art/product/300x300/4823600.01.prod.jpg)
I don't give a rat's behind if I don't "look serious enough" for some people. It's their problem, not mine.
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I've been taking a backback to/from work ever since the USAF figured out we actually carry stuff around sometimes (duh) and allowed backpacks to be carried/worn in uniform. "Stuff" is right. My backback currently holds a 1.5" 3 ring binder full of professional reference materials, 2 fairly thick folio folders with retirement paperwork, an electric razor and toothbrush/toothpaste in case I get stuck on duty more than 12 hours (happens), 2 pairs of glasses (reading and computer), some random breakfast bar thingy in case I get locked down in my workplace (happens), some of that little squirt flavoring for water, a book of study stuff for professional pilots for after-retirement, and a book on parenting 'cause my kids are total spazzoids. I also put my lunchbox in there 'cause my shift is 8 hours tied to a desk with no breaks except toilet runs.
Can't carry that in my hands or pockets, and a briefcase big enough to carry all that would be stupidly large/heavy. Shoulder totes are... well, shoulder totes I guess, most look like the diaper bags we've been carrying around for almost 8 years now.
So, backpack.
If I get hired by the airlines, I think the cool kids use a professional sized roller carry-on plus a smaller detachable bag sized for headsets, tablet, etc.
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I want to look tough like Serenity!
(http://g02.a.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1kfebIFXXXXcWXXXXq6xXFXXXO/2015-New-Europe-Style-Retro-Designer-mens-canvas-leather-satchel-messenger-shoulder-tote-bag-School-Military.jpg_640x640.jpg)
Honestly, I think that's a much more professional look.
Since I usually bring my work laptop home with me every night, I stuff it in this backpack.
(http://images.frys.com/art/product/300x300/4823600.01.prod.jpg)
I don't give a rat's behind if I don't "look serious enough" for some people. It's their problem, not mine.
You've got a point there ack. I guess when I hear "backpack" I picture the sillier things I was used to seeing around Austin.
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at work some guys will bring a back pack just to carry a pack of top ramen.
semp
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Why would a messenger bag be a better choice than a backpack of similar design? In the early seventies backpacks were considered "childish", so high school students carried their books in a shoulder bag. That one sided fashion caused a lot of curved spines.
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Too much oestrogen in the water and 'Broke Back Mountain' are to blame for said problem.
The above is also why people buy All Terrain vehicles when they never go off road.
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Ok, I don't know where else to ask this, so here is as good a place as any...
I drive a truck all over the country and see a lot of places and people. Something I've noticed that I can't get my head around is guys from 20-35+ wearing backpacks like a kid in junior high would carry. This has been getting worse in the last 5 years or so. What in the world is this all about?
I asked one today WTF it was for, he said 'holding stuff', shrugged and walked away.
I don't get the My Little Pony thing either, so maybe I'm just out of the loop? A connection here?
do you use a shopping cart instead?
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I'm with Ack Ack, plus, I lived in an urban area where a car wasn't really needed so I've done the grocery thing plenty. Unlike my over the shoulder bag, a backpack stays comfortable and doesn't scream LAPTOP, MUG ME.
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The above is also why people buy All Terrain vehicles when they never go off road.
I believe one of your countrymen pointed out the quite-real danger of 'moist leaves'.
A strong case for four-wheel drive pickup trucks in metropolitan Texas. Yes I own a two-wheel drive example. I use it to transport an expensive leather shoulder bag (shoulder strap removed) containing cellphone, iPad, vape juice, spare batteries, pen/pencil, tablet, and a 9mm pistol. This is a bag that I never carry into the Truck Stop to pay for fuel.
So I say your environment truly dictates the style of bag you use. There are imperatives after all. In my case, 'moist leaves'.
:bolt:
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What got me noticing it was standing in line at a Starbucks a while back behind a guy wearing loafers, slacks, button up and tie, with a pink backpack on that had a cupcake on the front of it. I thought his daughter must be around somewhere with mommy and he just got tired of lugging it.
Then I started noticing it more and more.
I've got a duffel bag and a shower bag, but no way in hell am I carrying around a backpack. I didn't like them when I was in school, much less these days.
Most people with them just look childish and lazy. All but that Starbucks guy, anyhow. Still giving him the benefit of a doubt.
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I'm jealous. :mad:
How do you find the time to care about something as ridiculously stupid as this?
:lol
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Adults wearing backpacks is silly. I think it's more closely related to adults watching "Adventure Time" than My Little Pony. I mean, I can understand the need to carry things. That's what a briefcase is for. In the event that you need to carry more/heavier things than would be manageable by a briefcase, I would go with a nice leather messenger bag.
The My Little Pony thing... google "Bronies". But NOT on a work computer...
I use a ballistic nylon Tumi for my laptop and other crap. It has a shoulder strap and can double as stopgap armor, sufficiently loaded (with kevlar plates, haha). I like the Tumi leather, but my bags get hustled around quite a bit and there's nothing I hate more than scratches, so the ballistic was the right choice for me. It is also impervious to water.
As for the OP, I've noticed it too - and it's kind of annoying. I used to use a backpack in college. That said, these kids will grow up. For example, we had some kid with dreds (or is it "dreads? - a white kid with reddish-blond hair) come in to work. He wore them for a year or two and then, one day, he came in with a more professional look. When asked, he just said, "I just got tired of it."
If you wear a backpack and you're not in some form of school, I can't really take you seriously and will deny you admission to "The booster's club".
My Little Pony... betta than "Glitta My Little Pony". I always figure that, when my little pony chicks grow up, they tend to overleverage on things like houses and weddings, typically ending up in default. I also think they are more likely to make bad decisions regarding tats, aka "tramp stamps", but that's just one dude's opinion. See, it's all about "da pageantry". Don't try to play chess with one of them. They'll line the pieces up like a procession. No, they only have one use, and they're only marginal at that.
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Wow! A sharp dressed guy wearing a pink backpack with a cupcake certainly is a show stopper. Must be one of those hamsters or whatever the wannabe trend setters want to be themselves called. The image DaveBB sent made me think about a Lara Croft style thing - the backpack, not the front...
Anyhow, a backpack can be very useful for carrying all the stuff those younger people like, hands free. A cell phone for communicating, a tablet for watching movies, a Bluetooth keyboard for easy typing, a Bluetooth speaker for sharing your music, a pair of over-ear headphones for not sharing your music... and of course a gigantic power station to reload all those power hungry gadgets!
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Pipz needs to explain this issue to us as he is light on his feet :old:
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Here's my backpack:
(http://www.brony.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/rainbow-dash-backpack-pony.jpg)
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:rofl
Oh crap!
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What about fanny packs?
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What about fanny packs?
Are talking about those that make you look like pregnant, or at least like your belly were hanging over your belt buckle? Yikes!
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Here's my backpack:
(http://www.brony.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/rainbow-dash-backpack-pony.jpg)
I don't even doubt that...
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Here's my backpack:
(http://www.brony.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/rainbow-dash-backpack-pony.jpg)
Dude that is sweet. The Rebel model: cannibal clan mohawk, rainbow lightning tattoo, fire flare tail, and extra padded hug straps. :aok
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I grew up hill walking, camping and hitch-hiking with rucksacks and backpacks. As I got older I started riding bikes instead of cars and while i had saddlebags/tank bags etc, for short trips I usually used a backpack. To this day I still ride with a backpack so i can have waterproofs/powercell etc with me, which of course means when i'm walking around its over my shoulder. Even when i'm out with my kid a backpack is still handy to have to carry all his crap. (Although recently hes got big enough to carry it himself, which he does).
Being offended or judging someone for using one seems a bit silly to me, especially since i've interviewed numerous 'suits' who carried them for jobs. From my point of view a would be middle-management candidate who I see carrying a backpack immediately has the advantage over the briefcase carrier, simply because my first impression tells me the backpack guy is more about practicality and function, whereas the briefcase is more about being worried about projecting his image, and a pretty dated image at that.
My little pony is something I haven't seen or heard of since I was about 5 however.
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Hahaha I was thinking about this thread as I watched a 75 year old inorganic chemist at the chemical plant I work at walk to his car with his backpack on today.
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Ok, I don't know where else to ask this, so here is as good a place as any...
I drive a truck all over the country and see a lot of places and people. Something I've noticed that I can't get my head around is guys from 20-35+ wearing backpacks like a kid in junior high would carry. This has been getting worse in the last 5 years or so. What in the world is this all about?
I asked one today WTF it was for, he said 'holding stuff', shrugged and walked away.
I don't get the My Little Pony thing either, so maybe I'm just out of the loop? A connection here?
Well a few years back there were these things called computers. And over time they got smaller and smaller to the point you can fit an entire computer in a bag and take it with you. Some people used shoulder bags, but they ended up walking with a hunch... so the smarter people used backparks to evenly distribute the load.
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Well a few years back there were these things called computers. And over time they got smaller and smaller to the point you can fit an entire computer in a bag and take it with you. Some people used shoulder bags, but they ended up walking with a hunch... so the smarter people used backparks to evenly distribute the load.
Dayum! The things I've been missing!
Posted from my ENIAC in 22.697 hours
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Thart's not a backpack. This is a backpack:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51swt6Afy4L.jpg)
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Thart's not a backpack. This is a backpack:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51swt6Afy4L.jpg)
Naw, even a girl can handle that:
(http://www.post-gazette.com/image/2014/12/15/ca24,0,2210,1457/wild03-1.jpg)
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A grown-up 'girl.' :aok Everything else someone straps to their back and calls a pack is really a back purse. :D
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Does anyone in the US walk that's a question!
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Yeah but here its considered a form of exercise.
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-m5tnVZveR0Y/T1WSrACw3FI/AAAAAAABSVQ/73KAP7u7gBY/s1600/Funny+motivational+exercise+quotes+(21).jpg)
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Yeah but here its considered a form of exercise.
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-m5tnVZveR0Y/T1WSrACw3FI/AAAAAAABSVQ/73KAP7u7gBY/s1600/Funny+motivational+exercise+quotes+(21).jpg)
... and you're supposed to pay serious money to do that on a looping mat in an climate controlled room enjoying the landscape provided by the butt of a severely overweight lady in front of you.
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... and you're supposed to pay serious money to do that on a looping mat in an climate controlled room enjoying the landscape provided by the butt of a severely overweight lady in front of you.
Dont forget the music is nothing but Richard Simmons aerobics tapes while overhearing the steroid raged screams of guys weightlifting in the next room calling each other bro
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Dont forget the music is nothing but Richard Simmons aerobics tapes while overhearing the steroid raged screams of guys weightlifting in the next room calling each other bro
You seem to be a lot more experienced in this. The last time I was in a gym I installed a UPS. Is Richard Simmons related to Gene or Jean Simmons?
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Does anyone in the US walk that's a question!
From what I've seen... no.
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Does anyone in the US walk that's a question!
I take a walk every day. :aok
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To McDonald's ? :)
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enjoying the landscape provided by the butt of a severely overweight lady in front of you.
You're picking the wrong treadmill bro...
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You're picking the wrong treadmill bro...
As I already tried to explain, I don't do gyms. Running in one place is IMO even more stupid than running away from one place, only to return from the other direction. Don't get me wrong, though. Running is a great invention if you're in a hurry. Then again, planning is an even greater invention to prevent getting in a hurry.
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As I already tried to explain, I don't do gyms. Running in one place is IMO even more stupid than running away from one place, only to return from the other direction. Don't get me wrong, though. Running is a great invention if you're in a hurry. Then again, planning is an even greater invention to prevent getting in a hurry.
lol. I'm a 3-mile a year club member. The only thing that runs on me is my mouth!
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To McDonald's ? :)
I eat McDonald's food on average twice per week, but by vehicular transit of the drive through.
Also, since I have twin 5-year-olds, it is my opinion that McDonald's has, on numerous occasions, saved both my life and my sanity (to whatever extent I am deemed to possess that).
But I also eat at the local British Pub (Three Lions) about once per week, the last time being right after frame 4 of the "Southern Conquest" scenario. Thanks for flying in that. Popsman and I drank a toast in your honor. I had a Newcastle.
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I get runner's high when I run. As good as drinking a few beers. If I take fish oil for a few days before I run, I consistently get runner's high. Also, running creates new neurons in the brain.
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You seem to be a lot more experienced in this. The last time I was in a gym I installed a UPS. Is Richard Simmons related to Gene or Jean Simmons?
Gene Simmons would be an awesome relation, but his might be with the bread buttered the other way
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A grown-up 'girl.' :aok Everything else someone straps to their back and calls a pack is really a back purse. :D
Well, she did have a cut on her face and she is blonde. That's gotta lower her a bit...
And apparently you'll start a backpurse fight around here with comments like that! ;)
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I get runner's high when I run. As good as drinking a few beers. If I take fish oil for a few days before I run, I consistently get runner's high. Also, running creates new neurons in the brain.
I wish I got that... I just feel like dieing...
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I wish I got that... I just feel like dieing...
It's the same thing, only with worse knees.
Times and styles change. It happens, it will always happen. You can change with it or shake your fist at it from your porch. Neither will stop change, but one means you have the ability to still learn.