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The various calls I carry in my fanny pack are:
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I wear a fanny pack when I am coyote/deer hunting. I also carry a rifle and binoculars. No one calls me queer when I am hunting!
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
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."
I don't wear fanny packs. I'm a mom of 3 and have to haul things (more like a pack mule!)
I was just trying to show PJ some support and pointing out that guns go with fanny packs :)
If you ever visit the UK, try to call it something else. A 'fanny' is at the front here, and men don't have them. This is why patting a woman on the fanny is more than just impolite, it's criminal.
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The various calls I carry in my fanny pack are:
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I wear a fanny pack when I am coyote/deer hunting. I also carry a rifle and binoculars. No one calls me queer when I am hunting!
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
LOL!
I wouldn't wear a fanny pack around for any other reason as I find them to be confining and get in the way. Pockets work just fine for me, but to each his own.
I tried one once -- actually it was a sporran -- but it just got in the way when I sit down.
I've started wearing cargo pants, over the last few years, to provide extra storage.
I carry my wallet in a front pocket and have ever since I first sat down on my first wallet, around age 10.
I wear a fanny pack when I go out jogging. Holds cell phone, keys, and water bottle.
I carry a "possibles bag" when I hunt with a muzzle loader because of the ten pounds of stuff you need in order to reload. I would never call it a fanny pack. It is not attached to the belt and I wear it on the side, plus it is much bigger than a fanny pack and shaped differently. Possibles bag sounds so much better don't you think?
Oh, like I said to Allegra, you're a girl so you get a pass if you ever do want to wear one. I was just teasing, anyway. Nice to have a light thread for a break, Thanks to PJ
Actually, I designed and made in fabric that matches the SAM's CLUB Navy blue pants I wear . . . packs that hang on my belt on the left front and right front to carry a range of things, including my Leatherman.
I learned in Asia that having a variety of things was a great blessing to me and more importantly to Chinese I wanted to love and befriend in practical ways.
I virtually always also have a fairly well stocked back pack with me for the same reason. Once a group of faculty and students were on a picnic. And someone asked me "Dr [Quix], do you have something we could use for a ground cloth?" It so happened I'd put a largish REI plastic tarp in my pack that morning.
It became a joke--students and others would be with me out and about and would have a need and ask ". . . do you have a _________?" Probably 95% of the time, I did. That was very rewarding to be able to serve people in Christian love and caring.
So, I still carry such things. The left side of my belt pack has worn through and I need to make knew ones. The original one I had to take the belt off at airports. The latest has large buttons and button holes that I can use instead.
I certainly get interesting responses from folks--security, lookers on etc. But, I do that with no accoutraments so, no big deal.
I'm much more interested in being practical, prepared for whatever and of service to others than I am the least bit concerned what someone else thinks about how I look--especially strangers I'll likely never know.
Fanny? That's ok, it makes us vaguely uncomfortable too. But "bum" makes me VERY uncomfortable, as you people use it.
Perhaps you have heard the old Mariachi song "I carry my .45 and its 4 Magazines)
Of course it is understood that it is 4 spare magazines.
I actually have a .45ACP smith and wesson revolver, with moon clips. 4 spare moon clips does it for me (so far).
no. :)
Sorry, a fanny pack is gay
I have one male friend who still wears one - he also has a gray ponytail, wears sandels, and voted for John Kerry.
Sure it does, that is what the mountain men used to call them, possibles bags, you aren't going to denigrate a venerable institution like the mountain men are you?:)(Admit it, anything sounds better than fanny pack!)
They're still called fag bags, except by those that wear them.
Virtually all of the pants I wear are cargo type pants now.
No need for a fanny pack at all.
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