New meaning for "saddle bags"

[Croc]

How to humiliate yourself in school:

http://www.backtpack.com/

Some chiropractor in Oregon redesigned the backpack...

...doesn't she know she's f@#king over her own business here? Dumb ####.

[mustang84]

I remember in high school when they started introducing those backpacks with the strap that you buckle around your chest and how dorky it was for anyone to actually walk around with them buckled.

[daves87rs]

Wow.....

[Croc]

And the best part for me: how do you carry a change of clothes in those? Gym shoes? There are many advantages to having a big, amorphous zippered pouch.

This thing is just a laaaaaaaaame double messenger bag.

Edited August 9, 2009 by Croc

[Intrepidation]

Nothing says "I'm a dork" quite like that.

[Blake Noble]

Lame $h! is lame.

[cletus8269]

rather be seen with that than those rolling back packs that were huge when i worked at office depot. we even had some with wheels that had lights that blinked. people brought them back for exchanges when the lights quit working... i mean come on...

[Satty]

Thats bad, but I dont think anything says "I'm a huge dork" like those rollers.

[FAPTurbo]

Wow, that just looks pointless, not to mention ridiculous. Plus, most backpack problems are caused by people not wearing them properly, or just carrying too much crap, both which can be fixed pretty easily.

And yeah, rollers likely still out-dork this.

Edited August 9, 2009 by TheCaptain

[Satty]

My last full semester, I'd walk around with at least 3 textbooks, 2 notebooks and my laptop in my 10 year old L.L. Bean backpack. Worked just fine, I'm no worse for the wear although the bag could probably be replaced.

[balthazar]

We use to full-bore punch kids with LL Bean anything in my HS - reason enough right there.

Might be partially why I've never owned a backpack my entire school career.

[Croc]

We use to full-bore punch kids with LL Bean anything in my HS - reason enough right there.

Might be partially why I've never owned a backpack my entire school career.

Oh you badass, you

[Intrepidation]

For me, the weight of a backpack was only an issue in high school. There was far too little time and too much distance to walk between classes to go to your locker and get things, so people, myself included, just packed everything into the backpack. In college, since there's only 2-3 classes a day, it was never heavy.

[Croc]

In HS, I just carried everything from the locker to class and back. Backpack was generally reserved for the end of the day and maybe during lunch. Then again, I did all my homework during school the day it was due.

[Blake Noble]

I never carried a backpack and I never used a locker. I would always use the spare textbooks in the class room and turned the ones assigned to me back in at the end of the year. As for homework in the textbook, I would either do what I could the last ten minutes of class and the first ten minutes of class the next day, copy it if I didn't feel like giving a f@#k, or just not do it at all.

Honor student this.

[Blake Noble]

Good gawd. It just hit me just how much of a man-purse on steroids that stupid thing is.

[balthazar]

Then again, I did all my homework during school the day it was due.

Oh you candy ass, you

[Intrepidation]

In HS, I just carried everything from the locker to class and back. Backpack was generally reserved for the end of the day and maybe during lunch. Then again, I did all my homework during school the day it was due.

Haha, I did homework sometimes the day off as well, but more often then not there simply wasn't time to do such a thing, so I did it the night before. Now when I say night before, this includes week long projects and such.

In college where there was more time and more relaxed classes....yeah I did homework last minute more often.

Only my last semester, where we had a semester long senior studio project that would determine whether or not you graduated did I do all my work on diligently and on time, and even then I just barely go it finished.

The first year of college I bought all my books new from the store. I was young, naive.

After that, I would either buy them used online, my friend and I would split the cost and share the books, and by 2nd semester Junior year we didn't buy any books at all.

What we would do is go to the library, and use his camera to take photos of the pages we needed.

[Croc]

Oh you candy ass, you

Wow, you sure got me fgured out...

So you were an asshole in high school. Least shocking development ever.

Fer sher.

[ocnblu]

"I can't put my arms down!" A Christmas Story

[Drew Dowdell]

Meh, put all my text books into Kindle format and I'll carry a netbook for taking notes on.

[mustang84]

I always had my study halls fall towards the end of the day, so my homework had to be done the night before. We never actually studied in study hall either (I was in band study hall and it was basically 50 minutes of screwing around), so of course nothing got done during the day.

[Justin Bimmer]

Wait. What is a locker? There was no such thing for us. Except in the gym where we kept our clothes in this tiny little box and we were able to use the big locker during class.

[balthazar]

So you were an asshole in high school. Least shocking development ever.

Wow, you sure got me fgured out...

Wow, you sure got me fgured out...

Fer sher.

:rotflmao:

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Don't you 2 go getting your LL Bean undies in a snit - tho it read that way, by "we" I meant a certain contingency of my HS, but I was not one of them. This was also a very different time than the touchy-feely '00s when you two were in HS.

I didn't create it- I was just there.

Lighten up, dudes; HS is over!

[Robert Hall]

Never had much LL Bean product (though my folks always got the catalogs)...I was more of an Eddie Bauer fan in the big 80s as far as bags, etc went.

[Croc]

Never had LL Bean. Mine was a North Face Yavapai.

Edited August 10, 2009 by Croc

[z28luvr01]

Lighten up, dudes; HS is over!

High School Never Ends!!!

j/k...I have nothing useful to add to this discussion.

[capriceman]

wow I get $h! for carrying my laptop "satchel." I cant imagine if i walking into the shop floor with that.

[trinacriabob]

I saw the word Oregon and was immediately turned off. I can't believe it's adjacent to California and such a freak show. And, no, Oregonians, it's the Californians that are WAAAYYY more normal.

[trinacriabob]

Never had much LL Bean product (though my folks always got the catalogs)...I was more of an Eddie Bauer fan in the big 80s as far as bags, etc went.

It seems that Eddie Bauer (now under bankruptcy protection) aligns more with the West and LL Bean aligns more with the East. After all, they're based in Seattle and Freeport, Maine, respectively. I only buy clothes from these places...and very infrequently, at that. I actually went to Freeport, Maine when I visited Boston in the late 90s. I bought some decent things for good prices. It's a nice little town, but there were TOO MANY Subarus...and, ahem...their drivers.

[Robert Hall]

It seems that Eddie Bauer (now under bankruptcy protection) aligns more with the West and LL Bean aligns more with the East. After all, they're based in Seattle and Freeport, Maine, respectively. I only buy clothes from these places...and very infrequently, at that. I actually went to Freeport, Maine when I visited Boston in the late 90s. I bought some decent things for good prices. It's a nice little town, but there were TOO MANY Subarus...and, ahem...their drivers.

Subaru drivers into the outdoorsy stuff seemed to be into LL Bean in the past.

Though the outdoorsy Subaru (and SUV) fans in Colorado seem to be heavily into The North Face and Columbia clothes and gear, both those brands are quite popular there... I've had a couple Columbia jackets..

Rob

[FAPTurbo]

Subaru drivers into the outdoorsy stuff seemed to be into LL Bean in the past.

Subaru driving LL Bean shoppers are all about being in the bush.

[Croc]

Subaru: The latest KD Lang disc comes as standard equipment.

[Robert Hall]

Subaru: The latest KD Lang disc comes as standard equipment.

That's kind of a PNW thing, AFAIK... in Colorado, Outbacks and Foresters are mainstream family wagons for outdoorsy folks that don't want the bulk of an SUV.

Back 30+ years ago, I've that the NE and Colorado is where Subaru first caught on.

Rob

Edited August 10, 2009 by Cubical-aka-Moltar