It will Dodat
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Morning all....
So before I get into the post, there is a big strike planned for the day.... Strikes in SA tend to be a bit like soccer hooliganism in the UK with rocks / bricks being thrown at vehicles, truckes being set alight and looted, and the all time favorite dozens of burning tyres as means of blockading the roads....
In order to garnish support, they have the happy habit of going into the informal settlements (where the unemployment is almost 100 %) and by threatening the dwellers with torching their shacks, or even worse necklessing... (put a tyre round your neck, pour petrol inside then set it alight) coerce people to join....
But lets wait & see................ Did keep the rugrats (7 & 8) out of school because their "shuttle bus" does the school rounds, and you never know....
Anyhow, my post....
I was considering my SA army issue sleeping bag, and it dawned on me that the zip is in the middle of the bag. I also have another military issue sleeping bag (from Europe somewhere) and it's zip is also in the middle top-side.
My SA Army issue bag is parrallel from top to bottom but the other one is "mummy" shaped, IE tapers to the bottom.
Then it came to mind that, as far as I can recall, all of the civilian bags I've looked at, whether mummy or not, all have zips that go down the side of the bag. Very high quality ones have short zips with weather flaps on the inside, but all on the side.
Perhaps with you guy's exposure to a greater selection of both military & civilian bags my assumption / observation is not accurate.........Or is it? & if so, why?
Rugrat Pics: -
1 Aiden first time by the sea
2 Caylin first time by the sea
3 Aiden 6 Caylin 5 Bithday at a Spur resturaunt
4 Aiden stealing garlic snail sauce from his dad Chris. As a single parent, I fostered Chris about 25 years ago, A first for any single man in SA at the time
5 Grandad's birthday prezzie.....
6 Aiden "building a house for mommy" on grandad's Landrover bonnet.... Gotta love em....
So before I get into the post, there is a big strike planned for the day.... Strikes in SA tend to be a bit like soccer hooliganism in the UK with rocks / bricks being thrown at vehicles, truckes being set alight and looted, and the all time favorite dozens of burning tyres as means of blockading the roads....
In order to garnish support, they have the happy habit of going into the informal settlements (where the unemployment is almost 100 %) and by threatening the dwellers with torching their shacks, or even worse necklessing... (put a tyre round your neck, pour petrol inside then set it alight) coerce people to join....
But lets wait & see................ Did keep the rugrats (7 & 8) out of school because their "shuttle bus" does the school rounds, and you never know....
Anyhow, my post....
I was considering my SA army issue sleeping bag, and it dawned on me that the zip is in the middle of the bag. I also have another military issue sleeping bag (from Europe somewhere) and it's zip is also in the middle top-side.
My SA Army issue bag is parrallel from top to bottom but the other one is "mummy" shaped, IE tapers to the bottom.
Then it came to mind that, as far as I can recall, all of the civilian bags I've looked at, whether mummy or not, all have zips that go down the side of the bag. Very high quality ones have short zips with weather flaps on the inside, but all on the side.
Perhaps with you guy's exposure to a greater selection of both military & civilian bags my assumption / observation is not accurate.........Or is it? & if so, why?
Rugrat Pics: -
1 Aiden first time by the sea
2 Caylin first time by the sea
3 Aiden 6 Caylin 5 Bithday at a Spur resturaunt
4 Aiden stealing garlic snail sauce from his dad Chris. As a single parent, I fostered Chris about 25 years ago, A first for any single man in SA at the time
5 Grandad's birthday prezzie.....
6 Aiden "building a house for mommy" on grandad's Landrover bonnet.... Gotta love em....