Posted on 07/16/2006 11:18:54 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
The other day I started a thread asking what everybody's Linus-blanket type obsession is. Mine is that I feel completely insecure outside unless I am wearing my fanny pack. Okay a few folks admitted what their neurotic security blankets were BUT I caught a lot of flak for even wearing a fanny pack. Even on my DUmmie FUnnies thread I was the target of mockery for wearing a fanny pack.
The fact is that fanny packs are INCREDIBLY practical. It is the PERFECT place to stow away your money, sunglasses, cell phones, pens, dental floss, knives, radios, etc. when you are away from home. MUCH BETTER than pockets since your pockets will bulge with all that stuff in them plus you merely need to grab your fanny pack when you go out the door and everything you need is already packed away in there.
So why the HOSTILITY to fanny packs? My theory is that one big reason for the anti-Fanny Pack bias is the name. It sounds, well, vaguely metrosexual. Perhaps there should be a better name adopted like Stow Pack. The other reason for the prejudice against Fanny Packs is that they have somehow become associated with tourists.
However, the bottom line is that mere pockets DON'T hold a candle to fanny packs (or Stow Packs) in terms of practicality. My challenge to any male Freeper is to wear (and use) a Fanny Pack for two weeks. I guarantee you will be addicted to Fanny Packs at the end of that time. And if it makes you feel any better, just call them "Stow Packs."
Hah... I saw that commercial. It was ridiculous, especially since the HMMV is an emasculated version of the real thing. It's like telling someone to restore their manhood with a man purse. 8-D
It also holds a small dictionary to remind me of the difference between where and wear.
Please don't take this as a personal attack, but my children used to call them Fag Bags when they were in middle school. I'm just sayin'.....
A Sporan is NOT a fanny pack!
So you going to change your name to Metro-comix now?
Hahahaha!
I don't wear a fanny pack, it's called a Concealed Carry holster!
Good luck PJ.
We have a map case in the Army we call a FAGBAG, but we had to change the name to an alternative lifestyle bag.
Men have handbag options. The backpack, casually slung over one shoulder is the preferred option. The briefcase is another, but it is far less handy. Fortunately the casualization of society has meant that the backpack, formerly the tool of the college student only, has made great inroads into the business world. Just don't get a leather one -- then you're in murse territory. Besides, leather is too heavy for luggage.
Okay. Then I don't wear a fanny pack. Just an updated sporran.
I was going to say Eurofag Carryall, but your kids are right on. Thank goodness that even with all the indoctrination, kids know that gay is gay. Drives the PC Commissars bat-crazy.
Well, I own one, but it is the kind that is designed to open very quickly and holds a very nice snub nose revolver.
I seldom wear it, but bought it for when I went walking with my dog in a rural area. It is now in the back of my gun safe and will be given to a niece when she wants to take that revolver which was originally owned by her grandfather and which I have been keeping for her.
At least I don't wear underwear briefs. Now those really are gay. Even worse is any male who wears bikini type bathing suits. That is why I have to avert my eyes whenever I see Europeans wearing them on the beach.
Anyone who wears a fanny-pack wants it in the butt.
well, it made me laugh.
Regularly, Yes.
I was getting B-iBD , billfold-induced buttock disorder.
Sitting on a wallet full of credit cards and money finally was such a discomfort, I haven't carried my wallet in my pants pocket for years.
WOO HOO! One other Freeper has confessed to wearing a Fanny Pack. Feeling better now.
It's ok. You're a man. If you go to Europe they call them 'bum-bags.' Of course, they call gays 'bummers.'
(I don't wear a fanny pack. There. I've checked in.)
Now if I admitted that I used my Fanny Pack to carry around Judy Garland CDs, then you would be right to be suspicious of me.
I may have to delete my post after Laz's,, umm, offering. :-} lol
I think there was a whole story arc about them in a Seinfeld -- but Seinfeld always put into words what everybody was already thinking. It's too bad about the fanny pack. So incredibly practical, so incredibly taboo. It's an interesting psychological phenomenon that we feel so strongly about it, but we do.
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