Man bags - YES or NO??!!

[algie]

Doesn't surprise me one bit with the amount of muppets on this board.

 

[User removed 4]

Doesn't surprise me one bit with the amount of muppets on this board.

one of the yes voters has surprised me , but it was a dot on the cards that simster and herr tubthumper were going to be enthusiastic mans handbag wearers.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

What Brovian said.


Except - since I now carry a laptop around with for work - the laptop bag has replaced by briefcase and I am a tad concerned it may look a little like a man bag ........................

 

[Bozza]

I'm not sure I could go as far as a strapless bag - to me if just looks like a toiletry bag tucked under one's arm.

A bag with a shoulder strap, however - no problemo.

 

[Common as Mook]

Rucksack to carry files and laptop to work on the train. Is that acceptable or am I "psuedo-blah blah- trendy" as well?

FFS - it's just a bag. It makes it easier to carry stuff.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

FFS - it's just a bag. It makes it easier to carry stuff.

Oooooo. Get Her.

 

[Buzzer]

I think there's a simple series of questions you can ask yourself:
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Do you feel threatened by people more alpha male than you?
Do you have a latent fear of the slightest trivial thing tipping you into the*gayer camp?
Are you that much of a peasant that you think a smart satchel-type leather holdall somehow diminishes your manhood?
Does the thought of a bunch of neanderthal evolutionary throwbacks grunting in your direction and mocking your appearance really bother you?
Is the nearest you're likely to get to having a laptop shaped thing actually*a takeaway pizza box?
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If the answer's yes to any of those, then don't get a manbag. Otherwise, as a wise man once said on this thread, it's an essential accessory for today's metrosexual.
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I have several manbags.
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[The Spanish]

It makes it easier to carry stuff.

See, inadvertantly you have hit on the point. Making it easier to carry things should not really be a concern when we are talking about ipods and newspapers, not 40kg bags of cement.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

I think there's a simple series of questions you can ask yourself:
*
Do you feel threatened by people more alpha male than you?
Do you have a latent fear of the slightest trivial thing tipping you into the*gayer camp?
Are you that much of a peasant that you think a smart satchel-type leather holdall somehow diminishes your manhood?
Does the thought of a bunch of neanderthal evolutionary throwbacks grunting in your direction and mocking your appearance really bother you?
Is the nearest you're likely to get to having a laptop shaped thing actually*a takeaway pizza box?
*
If the answer's yes to any of those, then don't get a manbag. Otherwise, as a wise man once said on this thread, it's an essential accessory for today's metrosexual.
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I have several manbags.
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Manbags = CLOSET gayer. FACT.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

See, inadvertantly you have hit on the point. Making it easier to carry things should not really be a concern when we are talking about ipods and newspapers, not 40kg bags of cement.

Well said that man! All this ooh look at me with all my gadgets and stuff.

Nope a briefcase as others have said is quite adequate. And smart too.

 

[Wozza]

I am a man. I have a bag. I don't call it a manbag. I don't give a shit what you call it.

 

[looney]

Won't work I'm afraid as the girls are already discussing colors and makes ("Ooh ooh I've got Prada!", "Well mine's Ralph Loren!").

I am ashamed, deeply, deeply ashamed to find that there are 'men' on here on who think that a handbag is a modern male necessity. A briefcase is quite sufficient for work and generations of men have managed to carry wallets and keys (and nowadays mobile phones) around in things called 'pockets'. f***'s sake wake up and realise how STUPID you look, you're just a load of bloody sheep .


PS - To all the real blokes on here: you are legally allowed to PUNCH any 'man' with a handbag and tip the contents into the gutter. They won't hit you back because they'll be too busy blubbing about how beastly you are whilst scrabbling around in the gutter retreiving their Harry Potter books and spare ties.

The Messiah.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

I am a man. I have a bag. I don't call it a manbag. I don't give a shit what you call it.

was that or was that not a nerve ..................

 

[User removed 4]

I am a man. I have a bag. I don't call it a manbag. I don't give a shit what you call it.

what do you call it then ? a clutch or something ?

 

[The Spanish]

What amazes me is that no one in your social circle pulls you up on these bags in real life. Its fair enough to confess on a message board, but what happens when you get down the pub?

Different world.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

I think it a matter of where. When I was 18 (1975) a mate went to Italy and came back with a man-bag. It was leather - and carried. in your hand. What looked ok on the streets of Milan did not look quite the same on the mean streets of Brighton town (or anywhere else then).

In central London - I should think a man-bag like that would not now look out of place. I don't know what you do at the end of the day when you go back to your gaff in Harlesden or Peckham. Tuck it in your jacket perhaps.

Like Mohammed Bozza - I tend to think these days that anything with a shoulder strap is ok now anyway.

 

[NMH]

What amazes me is that no one in your social circle pulls you up on these bags in real life. Its fair enough to confess on a message board, but what happens when you get down the pub?

Different world.

A friend of mine turned up with a little number, and I didn't let him off about it.
Friends don't let friends look like mincers. :safeway2:

 

[Easy 10]

I can quite safely say that if me or any of my mates turned up in the pub sporting a manbag, the offender would have the piss ripped out of him RELENTLESSLY and MERCILESSly for the duration of the evening. This would of course eventually lead to an enormous dramatic huffy FLOUNCE by the manbagger, who would no doubt go mincing off down the road to top up on his supply of cottonbuds and moisturiser, stopping only to untether his pink poodle "Coochy-Coo" from a nearby lamp post.

Mobile. Wallet. Keys. Ipod. All easily pocketable. Other than perhaps a laptop for work (for which a carrycase is of course fully justified), these are the ONLY items required when leaving the house.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

A friend of mine turned up with a little number, and I didn't let him off about it.
Friends don't let friends look like mincers. :safeway2:

Unless of course they ARE a mincer.

 

[Wozza]

was that or was that not a nerve ..................

Not really. We've done this many times - eg

'Man bags' - North Stand Chat

Manbags - North Stand Chat

I don't understand the fuss.

If you're a labourer or something you probably don't need a bag. If you're, say, a urbanite with loads of stuff, you probably do. (Note: stuffing your pockets with gear and walking around a city isn't a good idea)