Not so much what I carry so much that...
... I have to carry something.

Seriously. I cannot leave the house with my bag being too light. I quickly stuff things on my dresser into it if I think it is. If my bag is too light, I feel queasy. Obviously, I don't like carrying too much but it has to be enough.

Of course, I also sometimes have a screwdiver. Cue my friend one day needing to replace the batteries on a calculator and asking, in jest...

"Haha. I don't suppose you have a screwdriver."

"Why yes." ^o~
(ladyintheradiator, Fri 28 Oct 2005, 16:22, Reply)

Not me, but my mum
Insisted on taking glass beads to Africa.

"Why mum?"
"To trade with the locals, of course"
"Oh, right"

She also insists on taking wellies and sandwiches everywhere. Apparently "You never know".

I don't get it
(ralphseviltwin, Fri 28 Oct 2005, 16:08, Reply)

..and don't forget
you'll all have to carry an ID card containing biometric info you are unaware of! .....at all times....and abso-fucking-lutely no choice about it!....Tony sez so! .. big brother is watching you comrade

something to do with anti terrortrsm...or aylum seekers..or bird flu....or something.....

nothing to do with an excellent control mechansim by the state on its population..no...it's for your own good

been on a protest march against the goverment lately.??..that's a black mark on your ID data base info...no credit rating for you comrade...we may refuse you benefits comrade unless you behave
(willtheyorwon'tthey, Fri 28 Oct 2005, 16:04, Reply)

On my person:

I have an array of coloured beads and cheap-tat chains on my right wrist.

The decent looking expensive chains go on my left.

My oversized pockets always contain:

Wallet - complete with keys
Assorted coinage - no great value
The Weed Tin - compulsory for any travelling.
2 Lighters - Its a bastard when your lighter runs out.
Mobile Phone - Standard.
Assorted bag of hoops, spikes etc - for the lip pearcing.

I am one of those who carries my bag EVERYWHERE. Although it never contains much more than :

The Pipe - to compliment the Weed.
Skinz and Baccy - Just in case
Gausses - for teh Pipe.
1 or 2 CD's - varying genres.
A Hoody or Coat.
Emergency Lighter - you can never have too many.


Personally, I feel I am lacking in length or girth.
( Bongmaster Is a Junglist Soldier., Fri 28 Oct 2005, 16:04, Reply)

wagonwheels
my answers to emails on outlook are always blue. does this make your fortune untrue, or anything i ever say in an email instantly true?

Regardless, I'm going to email my boss about my recent lottery win....
( Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Fri 28 Oct 2005, 16:03, Reply)

My first grey hair
It reminds me that I'm not the 17 year old that my brain still thinks I am.
(Lifesize cnut, Fri 28 Oct 2005, 15:48, Reply)

Weird little rubber things
A Condom


I'll often put it on my head, and blow it up until it explodes.

Apparantly they're sometimes used for sex too, but I wouldn't know anything about that.
( Regger, Fri 28 Oct 2005, 15:45, Reply)

I carry my fortune from a Fortune Cookie that I ate 6 years ago.
"A FORTUNE:
An answer in blue, is always true."

Has never served me any use. I still like it though.
(getdown is not spanish, Fri 28 Oct 2005, 15:43, Reply)

not sure why
For the last three years i have had a used ticket to phantasia land in germany in my wallet, not sure why.

For about a year I also carried a budgies feather inside my mobile (under the case)
(Jallagher, Fri 28 Oct 2005, 15:39, Reply)

The undead are coming...
I always carry a small two pronged wooden chip fork with me. It was given to me by a bloke in my local who seemed quite normal when he first started chatting to me. Turns out he always carried this chip fork with him to protect himself against vampires (a sort of small, easy to carry stake through the heart type thing). I laughed, then realised he was totally serious. He was most concerned when I said I didn't have a chip fork to protect myself with, so he gave me his. I haven't seen him since. He's probably been killed by a vampire... So I keep the fork just for him. It also comes in pretty useful for eating chips with.
(Rakky, Fri 28 Oct 2005, 15:35, Reply)

what have I got myself into?
I'm normal, me. But my father in law's bonkers in teh nut. Before going to Salzburg on holiday, he heard that bottled water was quite expensive, so he packed a suitcase with a dozen of those 500ml bottles to take with him.

He went to Thailand last year, along with notepads bundled up in packs of ten and split between all his luggage so MIL wouldn't find them all and unpack them.
(domjustdom, Fri 28 Oct 2005, 15:32, Reply)

Nowt
I carry nothing in my left pocket. The reason being that it has a hole in it. Therefore whenever I'm bored, lonely or just have nothing to do with one of my hands then BAM instant entertainment.
( Gleeballs is mostly made out of chocolate and hate., Fri 28 Oct 2005, 15:31, Reply)

Honestly!
b3ta.com/questions/essentialitems/post42142/



You can't put anything down for a second around here without some light-fingered toe-rag half-inching it!

I bet he's got Rob's laptop as well....

The real Legless...
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 28 Oct 2005, 15:28, Reply)

Oh yeah, this thing
For the past 5 years ive carried a carabina torch on my belt, making it a point of honour to clip it on evry morning

doesnt work mind, someone stole the battery, but its lasted more than 2 years so its been upgraded to "lucky carabina Torch"
(Joe Guevara is well known for stealing your biscuits, Fri 28 Oct 2005, 15:09, Reply)

Essential
I always carry a large albatross round my neck. Its great for mysterious voyages where everyone dies except you.

I'm an idiot.
(Fez, Fri 28 Oct 2005, 15:02, Reply)

Guess the prank's on me
I read once about a guy who carried a jar of mud in his car with him. He figured the cops would pull him over sometime. "What's in the jar, son?" "Just mud." "Riiiight. Hand it over." Several thousand dollars worth of lab tests later: it's mud.

Ha ha! What a cool idea! Off I go to the river and get my very own jar of mud. Jar goes in the back seat. Winter comes.

*Physics lesson*: water, including that included in mud, expands when it freezes, causing a sealed glass jar to shatter (coefficient of linear expansion).

*Another physics lesson*: water, including that included in mud, thaws when the temperature climbs above 0 C.

*Life lesson*: melted mud is very tough to get out of cloth car upholstery.
( setimret likes his metaphors mixed, not stirred, Fri 28 Oct 2005, 14:59, Reply)

Him again
I always carry a full sized Ant McFarlane round with me incase of an emergency.
Imagine my shock and suprise when I discovered that Declan Donnelly was not only 'copying my style' but sleeping with my wife.
(JinDod, Fri 28 Oct 2005, 14:56, Reply)

Denial is NOT a river in Egypt?!?
I've been mostly bald for close to 10 years now. The hair I do have I keep short.

Still carry a comb.

Hey, you never know...
( setimret likes his metaphors mixed, not stirred, Fri 28 Oct 2005, 14:50, Reply)

You gotta fight for your right
Those of you of a certain age will remember the craze a few years back of wearing VW badges round your neck. Loads of people with VWs were complaining that youngsters were ripping the badges off the front of their cars. Well round about the same time, it was all the rage to have a hood on your clothes. I had several blouses with hoods (totally useless, purely ornamental). In fact most of my clothes were hooded.

I was at a rave one weekend (for they were also all the go at the time) and when I got home I noticed that someone had placed a VW foot pedal into my hood. I kept it in my bag for months, no idea why - cos I thought it was kinda cool I guess! It never came in handy :(
(Mad McMad, Fri 28 Oct 2005, 14:47, Reply)

Les Battersby's autograph
and a mecca bingo card from 1998

both of these items bring me joy!!!!
(barronshark, Fri 28 Oct 2005, 14:45, Reply)

Legolas' autograph
My girlfriend got it for me as I love the LOTR films. Apparently Orlando Bloom is a very small, rather hunched figure in reality.
He signed 'Lots of love Orlando Bloom' on the back of a Super Drug receipt. I've had it in my wallet for a couple of years, always ready to produce it in triumph in a celebrity topp trumps related emergency.
(sterlingsmithe, Fri 28 Oct 2005, 14:16, Reply)

peanuts
cards
stickers

all in an attractive carrying pouch.
(Aphasian, Fri 28 Oct 2005, 14:03, Reply)

War
I keep a submachine gun + 100 rounds in my back-right-hand-pocket, an anti tank missile in my back-left-hand-pocket, a sidewinder anti aircraft missile in my front-right-hand-pocket and a tissue for my nose in my front-left-hand-pocket.

You never know.
(Axe murderer, Fri 28 Oct 2005, 14:00, Reply)

Not so much carried with me....
But these two have to stay in the build room or terrible things may happen. They've survived office moves and kamikaze air con units so far...




(Wallilay has been bored of this shit since, Fri 28 Oct 2005, 13:58, Reply)

Fascinating Stuff. No. Really?
For around 7 months I had one jewelled cross earring and a red Michelob golf tee in my wallet.

They disappeared.

To this day, I have no idea where they came from or where they eventually went.

I bet you just wee'd yourself with excitment, didn't you? You little cretins.
(Spoil Me please, oh, please, Fri 28 Oct 2005, 13:48, Reply)

i have an
arresting and complex array of keyrings, to whit - BMW, Ford and Jaguar things (Don't drive and never have), two lego yodas (or yodae, not sure) two strange square shouting fluffy brown things, and three bottle openers, of which only one opens bottles (how can a bottle opener not work?)

getting into my house is tiring.
(flynntoff, Fri 28 Oct 2005, 13:37, Reply)

Sponge sealife
I have been carrying around with me a small blue sponge fish the last year, im sure it holds some sentimentality but im not sure. Might just carry it to soak any small puddles of luqid i might happen to come accross and therefore save the day.

oh and i also carry around with me almost every cinema ticket from every film i've seen in the last year......thing is i have an unlimited card thingy so its gettin a little bulky in my wallet.

i also cary around a mini xbox, reminds me of my only true friend at home :( (least that black box wont break my heart)

Bitter at someone...me....damn right !
(Discobeaver, Fri 28 Oct 2005, 13:37, Reply)

not me but my friend
always and i mean always took a sterilised scalpel with him wherever he went o_O ..till one time at school he tripped and severed the artery in his leg, watching him explain what had happened to the receptionist was classic, went i bit like
"i put it in my pocket thinking it was a paintbrush and i think i'm dying help"
guess you had to be there
( m-a-t-t -- formerly mini hasn't been on here for EVER!, Fri 28 Oct 2005, 13:36, Reply)

Dunno if this is weird enough
All my keys are on a spring gate karabiner and i keep all my bank cards etc. in a crappy plastic business card holder - they have served me well!

Oh, forgot to mention the abundance of pocket fluff/loose tobacco mix :)
(fudge the return of the man with the cat on his head, Fri 28 Oct 2005, 13:31, Reply)