and bolted

Since the acquisition of rack and pannier, concerns such as the wonkiness of replacement rucksacks are a thing of the past. I came close to trying out a rackpack during the bike shop sale but eventually resisted, instead eventually ordering a few cheap canvas drawstring duffel-bag-style bags (just visible between bicycle and camera bag) to act as supplementary bag-space if I need to carry shopping when the pannier is already stuffed full without having to faff about bungeeing things to the rack. The camera is quite happy in the normal camera bag, albeit requiring bungeeing to a belt loop to stop it drifting round and getting in the way of my knees.

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I'm not sure whether "unable to argue their way out of a paper bag" is an official phrase or whether it just sounds like it should be, based on the other saying about paper bags but involving punching or fighting. Recently I've seen two examples of people who could be said to be able to argue their way into a paper bag and then get locked inside, despite paper bags generally not being big enough for people to get into and not having any doors, nor a facility to lock them. The technique seems to involve mis-summarising what someone has said and then attempting to scathingly ridicule it, presumably in the hope that people will only read the most recent entry and will presume the mis-summarisation to represent what was previously said. I assume it wouldn't work in a face-to-face or otherwise speech-based discussion, where it would just look like losing the point. It's easier to address in sequential-text written arguments simply because it's always possible to return to and quote from original statements when they've been mis-represented.