@TheStas How about a combo bluetooth speaker hairdryer? So you can pretend to listen to tunes (or a podcast) while waving that noisy thing around your head.
@ircon96 Conair isn’t apparently going out of business, but I suspect that they’re having warehouse-overflow issues, and are dumping dud items as fast as they can find somebody to sell them off to. They’ve been trying to muscle their way into market segments “adjacent” to their main lines for a while now. It hasn’t always worked.
@ircon96@werehatrack I like to think they are concentrating on their core strengths after branching out so far. That whole prisoner transport thing didn’t go so hot for them and they’re still trying to redeem their brand.
(This has been the finest, most timely reference to a film so old DiCaprio won’t watch it that you will see today.)
I have a backpack that packs into a 12oz can size and it rules for trips if you’re an “only bring a personal item” type person. (The backpack goes in the personal item and it’s your daypack when out and about.)
@yougotrossed Similar vibes, but mine isn’t made anymore. Looptworks was an upcycling gear company but switched to the raw material side of the supply chain.
@FightingMongoos@ohhwell I was thinking that they looked more like the deluxe travel set “premium gift” used as a come-on for timeshare sales tracks back in the 1980s.
@arysta For optimum disuse, would you recommend scrunching them up together or separately, maybe even putting them away in two separate places, like one in the back of a bottom cabinet in the laundry room and one in that weird pocket behind the driver’s seat of your car that you have to be in the back seat to access?
@arysta@djslack For optimal storage efficiency and obscurity, lay the bag flat under the passenger’s side front floor mat. This also has the side effect, in many vehicles, of installing sport-mesh ventilation in the bag’s fabric. In a Chrysler product equipped with Stow-n-Go rear seats, the hot ticket is to toss them in the bottom of one of the middle seats’ storage well. Nobody will ever remember to check for them in that location, guaranteeing that they will not have been removed ahead of need.
I have 2 of these ‘packable’ backpacks and they are useful when you have a suitcase and a computer backpack and you really need a daypack for a day trip. The drawback is if you actually have crap in them they are terrible, zero padding between that full waterbottle and pointy souvenirs and your sweaty back, besides the narrow straps digging into your shoulders. It seems like a huge PITA to empty out your computer backpack for a day trip but you will be happier later.
Where they truly shine is when you stop at the (grocery) store and you happen to have this in your pocket because it packs so small.
Specs
Product: TravelSmart by Conair Packable Backpack & Duffle Bag
Condition: New
Duffle Bag
Model: TS083X
Backpack
Model: TS084X
What’s Included?
Price Comparison
Backpack: $32.95 at Camping Trail Outfitters
Duffle Bag: $17.94 at Amazon
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Wednesday, Nov 22 - Friday, Nov 24
Easy. It’s a dubaffel.
@werehatrack Ah yes – the less tasty, but lower calorie, counterpart of the much ballyooed stroopwafel…
@werehatrack Turduffen?
Now I can duffel off to Buffalo.
@phendrick (Anyone liking that is OLD.)
@phendrick Don’t quit your day job.
@bgammill @phendrick … And don’t take any wooden nickels. (I see your old-fashion reference & raise you a moldy-oldie cliché. )
@phendrick @ircon96
Possibly even a duffer.
@bgammill I already did. But gotta do something after retirement, so here I am.
I’m now getting paid for doing nothing, but finally have a clear conscience about it.
Sigh. I don’t know why, but I’m a sucker for this sort of thing…
/image ill-advised-oblong-sphinx
/giphy ill-advised-oblong-sphinx
@shahnm The more I think about it, the worse that giphy is.
@phendrick I actually started twice to add a comment, and bagged it both times. Some things are better just left alone…
@phendrick @shahnm Something like, giphy doesn’t know the difference between a sphinx and a sphincter…? You’re welcome.
@ircon96 @phendrick
/giphy applause
@phendrick @shahnm Just go watch the movie.
@ircon96 @phendrick @shahnm Thus the classic insult: “You don’t know your ass from an ancient Egytptian monument”
@ircon96 @macromeh @shahnm And to complete the analogy full-circle, I guess some ancient Egytptian monuments are indeed found in holes in the ground.
@ircon96 @macromeh @phendrick
Horse: Dead.
Condition: Beaten.
No thank you. Not interested in packing in other packing, just doesn’t feel right.
i’d be more interested in a conair hairdryer. Or bluetooth speaker
@TheStas How about a combo bluetooth speaker hairdryer? So you can pretend to listen to tunes (or a podcast) while waving that noisy thing around your head.
@xobzoo hhhnnnggg
I think I used to know that backpack’s little cousin from down south.
/giphy Dora backpack
@djslack So, anyone know how’s @Barney?
She’s been MIA for awhile now. According to her profile, she hasn’t been active here in at least a month now.
I think of her whenever something is offered in purple.
This caption made my day!
Is Conair going out of business or something?
@ircon96 Conair isn’t apparently going out of business, but I suspect that they’re having warehouse-overflow issues, and are dumping dud items as fast as they can find somebody to sell them off to. They’ve been trying to muscle their way into market segments “adjacent” to their main lines for a while now. It hasn’t always worked.
@ircon96 @werehatrack I like to think they are concentrating on their core strengths after branching out so far. That whole prisoner transport thing didn’t go so hot for them and they’re still trying to redeem their brand.
(This has been the finest, most timely reference to a film so old DiCaprio won’t watch it that you will see today.)
@djslack @ircon96 @werehatrack
I have a backpack that packs into a 12oz can size and it rules for trips if you’re an “only bring a personal item” type person. (The backpack goes in the personal item and it’s your daypack when out and about.)
@highonpez I am intrigued. Is it this one? https://a.co/d/cuEEIpT
@yougotrossed Similar vibes, but mine isn’t made anymore. Looptworks was an upcycling gear company but switched to the raw material side of the supply chain.
This looks like bottom tier cheap junk from 1978.
@ohhwell I was thinking cheap corporate crap they give away at trade shows and stuff
@FightingMongoos yeah lol, that sounds about right. I think I can already see the corners cracking…
@FightingMongoos @ohhwell I was thinking that they looked more like the deluxe travel set “premium gift” used as a come-on for timeshare sales tracks back in the 1980s.
I like how I can scrunch it up, put it away, forget about it, and never use it.
/giphy bubbly-excitedly-religion
@arysta For optimum disuse, would you recommend scrunching them up together or separately, maybe even putting them away in two separate places, like one in the back of a bottom cabinet in the laundry room and one in that weird pocket behind the driver’s seat of your car that you have to be in the back seat to access?
@arysta @djslack For optimal storage efficiency and obscurity, lay the bag flat under the passenger’s side front floor mat. This also has the side effect, in many vehicles, of installing sport-mesh ventilation in the bag’s fabric. In a Chrysler product equipped with Stow-n-Go rear seats, the hot ticket is to toss them in the bottom of one of the middle seats’ storage well. Nobody will ever remember to check for them in that location, guaranteeing that they will not have been removed ahead of need.
@werehatrack thanks for the pro tips!
/giphy I could learn a lot from you
I have 2 of these ‘packable’ backpacks and they are useful when you have a suitcase and a computer backpack and you really need a daypack for a day trip. The drawback is if you actually have crap in them they are terrible, zero padding between that full waterbottle and pointy souvenirs and your sweaty back, besides the narrow straps digging into your shoulders. It seems like a huge PITA to empty out your computer backpack for a day trip but you will be happier later.
Where they truly shine is when you stop at the (grocery) store and you happen to have this in your pocket because it packs so small.
No one else is gonna post it?
Nested bags are exactly what I need right now.
/giphy macabre-unjust-goose
/giphy hysterical-tenuous-iron :
Man the quality of these were not great. I used them on a vacay and the strap snapped within 2 days. sad