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What do you empty your pockets into at the end of the day if not a shrine where every object is anointed with oil and ritually sanctified before Brohama, the god of confused masculine posturing?

they're always extremely thorough with me so i always find this stuff surprising

After 13 years of internal accountability reviews, the TSA is still missing an overwhelming majority of potential threats.

This concern is confirmed by the fact that DHS undercover agents have successfully flouted TSA security before:

“A similar episode played out in 2013, when an undercover investigator with a fake bomb hidden on his body passed through a metal detector, went through a pat-down at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty Airport, and was never caught.”

Don't worry, folks, they took extra time during my last trip to conduct some tests to ensure that my foot powder was not in fact anthrax. Although now that I think about it, they didn't seem all that concerned about the fact that I recently had my left arm replaced with a functioning shotgun.

I always get startled a bit when they poke around in my hair when I have it up in a bun.

don’t worry, they’re not gonna find anything

My hair is full of secrets...and joints. #GDF18 pic.twitter.com/01ocog9TnV

— ittybittykitties (@femaleorganism) July 22, 2018

Never confuse one local TSA tree for the nationwide TSA forest. Some shops are still miles better than others. Also, get Pre✔️ already.

The everyday carry mob seem to be responsible for the lack of good men’s shoulder bags. Everything has to be a rucksack now.

I once took a can of Dr browns celery soda through jfk security. It was delicious.

I’m a bag junkie from way before the EDC goons and their stupid knives and dumb three letter acronym.

What are you looking for in a shoulder bag? Brief? Satchel? Messenger? Something that actually works on a bike?

Something on one shoulder could work on a bike too but mainly for walking. The ideal one would have bottle pockets at either end, one for an umbrella one for a water bottle. Useful internal pockets. I need to carry a lap top, papers, book/kindle, headphones (massive and in a case) lunchbox, chopsticks, coffee cup, my pouch of chargers and useful cables, spare battery, bag of nuts, passport, foreign travel cards and foreign money wallet. Ideally would have one of those sleeves that alloys you to strap it to some rolling luggage.

My wife has a much abused, ancient and much loved baby nappy bag which fits this description very well. It’s been her work bag for years and is highly function. Repaired many times and I’m very jealous and it also seems to be irreplaceable.

ed

that is madness

It's basically my office, but, on the plus side, it can be anywhere in the world,

I carry a bag to work every day but, like Cosmo Kramer, it’s mostly full of crackers.

: D

xpost, you might want to find a shoulder bag that you you like the exterior of and then get a drop in insert that usually provides better padded compartments.

also useful if you have multiple bags so you can just move the insides easily between them.

I used to use a timbuk2 bag that had the “bottle pockets” on the outside and had all the other bits, mostly

a full lunchbox seems like a separate concern, unless you’re wearing a hiking backpack

i live in nyc. i carry my keys, my wallet and my phone, and i don't understand why all these dudes are wearing enormous fucking backpacks on the subway. you're going to work, probably in an office building; you don't need shoelaces and duct tape or whatever everywhere you go in manhattan

the women carry small bags and it's fine; it's the chunky guy with the full backpack and the noise-canceling headphones who stands in the middle and can't hang on to anything because he's playing a game on his phone whom i will ultimately be convicted of killing

the only huge backpacks here are on tourists and it crosses gender lines

xp: my backpack typically contains my lunch, glasses case, sunscreen, an umbrella, tissues, hand sanitizer, backup phone charger, a book, and gym clothes if I'm planning to work out on my lunch break.

I've been a bag carrier for a good 25 years and it's mainly been about books and water with a bunch of other crap along for the ride. I've always been a one-strap shoulder bag advocate but my back's fucked so I'm more likely to use a rucksack these days. As an aside, I've had a beard for that long too and it bores me that everyone else has one now. I was in a pub briefly yesterday (yes, of course it was a craft place) and everyone was bald and bearded, and everyone had a bag. My life is a Will Oldham convention.

everyone was bald and bearded, and everyone had a bag

it me

it's the chunky guy with the full backpack and the noise-canceling headphones who stands in the middle and can't hang on to anything because he's playing a game on his phone whom i will ultimately be convicted of killing

― mookieproof, Friday, 26 July 2019 12:58 PM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Part of the reason why I prefer a shoulder bag is I don’t want to be that guy. People with backpacks tend to have a terrible sense of space. (Myself included who, as a child on my way to school, spun round to get my rucksack out of the way and ended up getting my head stuck in the door of a jubilee line train at west hampstead)

it me

Me too, btw - didn't mean I was any different.

i didn't think you did! baggy balding beardos of the world unite

The glabrous shall inherit the earth!

It also me.

My bag is enormous mostly because I always have like two enormous books (500 and 900 pgs. at the mo) with me at all times.

If I weren't to use a backpack, I'd probably just have to look for some kind of trousers that had more and bigger pockets.

I've had a condition since childhood wherein I will literally die if I leave the house without some sort of bound printed matter on my person, so pockets-only just isn't an option for me, unfortunately.

(The technical term for my condition is 'being a nerd' btw.)

Bags come in other shapes than rucksacks, even if the EDC mob seem determined to deny this.

I bought a used Goruck a few years ago and it’s almost my perfect bag. Laptop, gym stuff (inc. shoes and flops), giant salad container for lunch, headphone (noise canceling) case, and then my assortment of things I can’t be without like spare phone battery, cables, and a paperback.

which one is it? i need a new bag for that kind of thing

Ed, you might be interested in the discontinued comedy-size Chrome Kremlin.

For the volume of stuff you’re wanting to cram in, plus occasional bike duty (which really benefits from a stabilizer strap), a shoulder bag will be a tough squeeze.

Whereas the Kremlin is a proper messenger that can also double as a cape or poncho :D

on the fancier side, Bedouin Foundry offers their messenger in volumes up to 45L...

https://bedouinfoundry.com/pages/size-guide

or for something more everyday practical, maybe check out the Lexdray Symmetry Mumbai or Booq Boa Nerve

@Tracer Hand it's the GR1. I never mentioned things I do not like about it: It's heavy compared to packs made of synthetic material and it's not water proof.

I think you’re overestimating the size I need. It’s more about organisation. The aforementioned lunchbox is a small tin approx 8cmx 10cm x 15cm.

The peak design everyday 15 is the best I’ve seen so far but I’d really like pockets on the outside for an umbrella and water bottle

I keep hoping i’ll stumble into the perfect thing in japan

im a john rocha khaki backpack man meself

hope thats ok

I used an LA Police Gear bug-out-bag (conference freebie) from 2010-2017, until the nylon on the bottom started getting multiple holes in it.

Now I have a Topo Designs mini mountain bag with a leather bottom and a shoulder strap made of seatbelt material, and I love the bag in general, but the cordura has already worn thin where it’s been rubbing against laptop edges.

LA Police Gear sells cool Spiewak jackets

I have a light grey canvas victorinox backpack, the lining is a pattern of pink sunglasses

i live in nyc. i carry my keys, my wallet and my phone, and i don't understand why all these dudes are wearing enormous fucking backpacks on the subway.

I've always been a shoulder bag dude and that's why I now have a spine pain and the doctor said I must carry my stuff symmetrically on two shoulders. So I have become the dude with the enormous fucking backpack on the subway and all that's in it is a paperback and a chef's knife. Is this the thread where I can get help? Should I be the dude with the 90s mini backpack?

my backpack is sized appropriately for my frame and is covered with cool patches that represent my various interests

there are... backpacks of many sizes

lmao is it time for a “your fucking EDC” thread?

we have one of those already

lol who knew

where it at?

Backpacks of every size feel oversized to me but perhaps just categorically lack the single-shoulder grace I'm used to