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I want a small bag to carry about - needs to carry a tiny laptop, a kindle, that kind of ultra modern trendy consumerist planet-raping junk, plus a few extra odds and sods.
I have a messenger bag but it's much too big for this application.
LEGAL NOTICE:
You may rip the piss.
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Might struggle to cope with the laptop, but isn't it just divine
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You've been going to that there London, haven't you?
I saw more tossers with manbags in Manchester than I've ever seen in that London.
molgrips - I'm shocked!
Bravisimo - Thats because you spent your days loitering around Selfridges, making the place look untidy.
None of those people are actually from Manchester - Mancs are prevented from entering by security - Those blokes* are from Cheshire. And are all ****s!
* The term bloke is used figuratively in this case, and does not suggest the presence of any male hormones, genitalia or testosterone
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Junkyard - Aldi, Lidl or Netto?
I saw more tossers with manbags in Manchester than I've ever seen in that London
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100323141013AAl9tg9
Remember as a kid you'd want a 'cool' carrier bag even if it was to carry files or crap....
Nowadays I wont flinch at carrying a Bargain Booze carrier in broad daylight... 😆
Osprey flapjack, ortleib sling it or Keen Taylor 13 which is designed with your needs in mind(outside bottle pocket is great, water away from your gadgets).
I saw more MEN with manbags in Manchester
Did Binners & Hora take you up Canal Street?
I like my northface one.
[url= http://www.millets.co.uk/Backpacks-and-bags/hydration-packs/product/105537/CB-MULE-3L-BLACK-0.html?attribute=4801526 ]40% off at Millets. And as it's a 'laptop bag' it's a company asset. VAT free and you you can offset it against corporation tax.[/url]
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[i]Those blokes* are from Cheshire. And are all ****s![/i]
Oi! I'm from Cheshire.
Mind you, I do have a little courier bag that I carry around a lot of the time. I would argue that it's a bag carried by a man, but not a man bag. However, I can see an element of potato/tomato in my argument...
Did Binners & Hora take you up Canal Street?
Ooo-errr.
I bet Manchesters own Scott Alexander has one
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I got a sort of heavy cloth satchel affair from, uh, John Lewis or M&S or some such, in the Trafford Centre. Really like it. I'd post a pic but it's at home today.
Before that I had an 'Animal' variant of the same; it was second hand and "well loved" when I got it, and it was still going strong after years of abuse at my hand. Couldn't fault it.
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I have a messenger bag but it's much too big for this application.
A smaller messenger bag.
Out for lunch with a few colleagues (two blokes, me and a laydee) a few years ago in central Manchester. As we get up to leave, one of the chaps says "I'm going to Mulberry to look at manbags, do you want to come?"
Well, we could hardly resist, so off we trotted. Into the store we go, and upstairs to the men's section.
Very camp shop assistant attends and tries to guide my colleague. He offers helpful advice (we're all p---ing ourselves), until colleague is convinced one of the bags is for him. Turning to the assistant for an approving look, he is met with the response:
"Sir, we do tend to find that many of our customers find that style rather, er... [i]European[/i]."
Laugh? We nearly sh-t ourselves.... 😀
Rapha.. musette..
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Why do you need a bag?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I find my pockets hold everything; a phone and a ...wallet.
If I needed for anything else it'd be a small rucksack (which is never used).
I find my pockets hold everything; a phone and a ...wallet.
Yeah, right. Like you own a wallet. What would be the point, there would be nowt in it. You keep a fiver in your sock for emergencies
Its for holding pictures of you my sweet.
You keep a fiver in your sock for emergencies
You don't want to know what he keeps in his other sock.
does it rhyme with sock and is black in colour?
beaten to my joke by Hora -
You don't need to carry a picture of me, silly. Surely the enormous portrait of me, naked, staring wistfully into the middle distance, above the fireplace, should suffice?
The one I had commissioned for your birthday? You have put it up haven't you? I had to pose for hours for that
Tis affixed to my bedroom ceiling
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You have put it up haven't you?
Hora put a WTD ad in the classifieds for some ceiling mounts.
Edit ^what she said.
Right, those are mostly too big. The laptop is a tiny smaller than netbook thing. I have an osprey flapjack but my tiny pooter will rattle around in it. I'd like a shoulder one rather than a rucksack.
I do quite like that Rapha one though. Do I need to be banned for life now?
don't you have a spare one hanging around? Used to have balls in it. 😳
Just sew in a loop/divider a-la camera bags into the bigger bag?
I don't want a big bag, because it'll be too big. Dividers or not.
Chutney13 - I have a few scrotums lying around, they used to belong to people who challenged my masculinity. Now they are mine.
That's a good point, don't you have any camera bags spare? 👿
😆
the rapha is nice.
I have an osprey flapjack but my tiny pooter will rattle around in it.
And there's me thinking I'd heard every euphemism there was...
The Rapha may be nice, but I bet you could buy a 3 bed semi in a decent part of town for what it cost?
I do have the rapha one, don't care if I gets banned me. I've a HP Elitebook that fits in perfiklike and those things are smaller than A4. It's got a chest clip in case you do actually use it on a bike (I do from home to train station) and it's very hardwearing indeed. I've got an old rapha one in musky brown that I used for 2 solid years before it finally started fraying at the edges, this is more robust, has lots of detail in it and rubber groms on wear contact points.
It is Most Excellent and FFP.
"yeah like wtf!! it's my man bag and it's like,so ffp gf"
Chrome Minimalist?
MrBlond - Member
Rapha Musette is tiny.'Small Shoulder Bag'?
Is it wrong to hate the two people in the rapha photo?
Are you overcome by an urge to see a grand piano land on their heads? That'll learn 'em to be too cool to wear helmets. Perhaps its because they [i]are[/i] helmets. Hmmmmmmmmmm
It's always right to hate people in Rapha photos, and indeed most of their marketing 😉
That said, some of their kit is very good - sample sale FTW
Want manly? Why not one of these?
http://www.militaryops.co.uk/assault-bag-grab-bag-multicam-mtp/
Not sure you can get more manly...
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More expensive than rapha so must be better.
Knomo Kilkenny - but it won't hold A4 paper
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redx - Member
Chrome Minimalist?
The [url= http://www.chromebagsstore.com/bags/utility-bags/minimalist.html ]Chrome Minimalist[/url] does look ace, though I like the look of their [url= http://www.chromebagsstore.com/bags/utility-bags/classic-messenger.html ]Classic Messenger[/url].
I saw a decent one at the station for £20.. must not be tempted by Rapha....
Fly fishing bag should do the trick.
I have a musette, (these are not just musettes) from these guy's.
Mines Harris Tweed dont you know!
Large enough for a kindle colouring pens and mibbes a piece and lemon curd.
[url= http://www.ilsoigneur.co.uk/musettes ]Bag[/url]
That musette is about the right size. However I can't see anything in Merak's link, just a load of brightly coloured splodges.
You can buy them here_______________________________________
Hope this helps; [url= http://www.alwaysriding.co.uk/il-soigneur-harris-tweed-cycling-musettes-1075.html ]Musettes[/url]
How about this:
http://www.tilley.com/The-Tilley-INTREPID-II-Bag.aspx
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Inspired by a well worn WWII utility bag, the Tilley INTREPID II Bag is equipped with 5 secured pockets, wide and deep enough to hold a 13" laptop, wallet, keys, glasses and much more. Each bag carries a brass plate with a registration number that can be registered with Tilley. In case the bag is ever lost, we'll try and connect the owner with the finder.
Fossil?
http://weddingsincroatia.com/index.php?option=com_phocagallery&view=category&id=30&Itemid=184
Mol, I know the guy that runs Il Soigneur - he arranges seasonal rides from a coffee shop in Brizzle. He is indeed a top bloke. If you're on twitter, you can also catch him there. He's a one-man band - rather than a faceless company - and his musettes are indeed lovely. I'm pretty sure he has his own website too.
[url= http://twitter.com/#!/ilsoigneur ]Twitter[/url]
[url= http://www.ilsoigneur.co.uk/ ]Web[/url]
Mine:
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Love that dare not speak its name.
Fjallraven vintage shoulder bag is my favourite but I haven't been able to find one in stock yet....
I considered buying a homosatchel once.
A few friends have one but tend to keep them in the closet most of the time.
WTF - Member
I considered buying a homosatchel once.
A few friends have one but tend to keep them in the closet most of the time.
Dunno about the closet some of those should be way back in Narnia.
Not unlike Cougar's in style:
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Made by Belstaff. Proper classic stuff.
Just out of interest, why NOT just carry a small backpack?
Serious question.
Manbags are just wrong - you might as well just pull around one of those small tartan shopping trolleys and have done with self respect altogether 🙂
TBH derekrides, the fact that you have something negative to say about it is validation enough to carry one.
why NOT just carry a small backpack?
Because mol left school some time ago.
Manbags are just wrong
No they're not. Stop being silly.
Just out of interest, why NOT just carry a small backpack?
I think it's actually less convenient.
Manbags are just wrong
Good enough for Ford Prefect.
Some Harris Tweed Sir.....
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Ford Prefect sported an alien bag, not a man bag!
Most of those abominations posted above would be fine for carrying your gas mask, but not much else.
Oi thats my mate in that rapha advert dontchaknow..
Dune (the shoe store) have mensbags in, £40.00 black only, look nice too..
http://www.dune.co.uk/product-prodloyal10black/
Not unlike Cougar's in style:
I like that.
Particularly, I like the fact that the strap buckle is on the other end of the strap to mine, meaning that (as a left-hander) it'll be in front of me rather than digging into the small of my back.
[url= http://www.manhattanportage.co.uk/catalog/New-Arrivals ]Manhattan Portage[/url] is de-rigueur around my hips...
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..it even has 'Man' in the name so it must be for blokes...
Not cheap, though Cougar:
http://www.belstaffjacketsonline.co.uk/belstaff-colonial-collection-medium-man-bag_p74.html
Reduced to £132 from £355.
But it is Belstaff. Would go nicely with my Trialmaster jacket. Hmmm, Chrissy pressy to myself?
TKMAX usually have a selection
I was going to put molgrips down on the forum people I'd like to meet thread.
After this thread, I've changed my mind.