Seriously, the fanny pack has to be the lamest invention ever created! Sure it may be practical, but it will never be fashionable!
Is it to hold their wallet? Most the time they’re wearing baggy jogging-pant (“Zoobaz”) type pants, so I’m sure a wallet would fit in them.
It just boggles my mind sometimes…
MtM
Those athletic pants have super saggy pockets. You throw your keys and a wallet in the pocket, and it swings and smacks against your “boys” as you walk. Big no no
You wouldn’t catch me dead wearing a fanny pack, but they seem pretty practical.
Dude, once you’re wearming zoombas, there’s nothing that will make you look like more of an idiot.
I’m not sure I understand the fight reference. Are they thought of as efeminate where you come from?
I agree that fanny packs aren’t the most attractive accessory one can wear. For one thing, the name is inaccurate (in American English). IME, the pack part doesn’t stay near your fanny (=butt), but tends to swing around and hang in front of you. It vaguely resembles a loincloth. I suppose, if the wearer is a woman, this makes the name more accurate for Brits.
Still fanny packs are about the most convenient way to keep your keys and wallet with you while you work out. Sometimes that’s necessary; I used to work out at a university recreation facility where the lockers were in a different building, so I had to bring my wallet to get into the actual workout area. And then, even if you like to wear those baggy muscle pants, you might not find it comfortable to carry your stuff in your pockets. Maybe if you are just wearing them to hang around in it’d be OK, but it can be annoying while you’re actually working out.
I wear a Fanny Pack most of the time when I am home from work, it holds my wallet, checkbook, PDA, phone, I.D., spare car key, Beretta 96 Brigadier and a spare magazine.
It is too convienent not to use
Unclviny
Perhaps they figure that having muscles the size of coconuts makes them attractive enough that dorky accessories don’t matter, and intimidating enough that no-one’s going to make fun of them.
As the old joke doesn’t go: Q. What do you call a body-builder with a fanny-pack and a machine gun? A. Sir.
I don’t know any bodybuilders. But I do know some power-lifters. And the ones I know that wear fanny-packs have the ones with the tear-away that allows quick access to a pistol! :eek:
While you are correct that over here a woman’s “front bottom” is referred to as her fanny :o , the accessory you describe is called a Bum Bag
Some people value practicality over the fashion world’s sense of aesthetics. (in other words, they are not slaves to fashion)
My fanny pack holds a 9 mm and 2 extra mags. No one gives me sh*t about wearing it…
It’s probably because they can’t bend their arms in close enough to reach their pockets anymore due to the bulging latts and delts and… uh… ceps…
I used to wear a fanny pack type thing to hold my CD player when I was working out. Now I have an mp3 player that can be strapped around my upper arm.