I can't really fault this.

[Astro Pen]

Maybe 10% less helium, or a short tether to your belt?

 

[Orcadian]

Maybe 10% less helium, or a short tether to your belt?

But backpacking is supposed to hurt. How can you get that elation, that buzz, that Yay, I did it! moment, if you didn't tote that 10kg load up there, and aren't lying there looking like a freshly-washed beetroot?

 

[HareBrain]

Why not hire porters? Or train geese?

 

[Astro Pen]

Why not hire porters? Or train geese?

Because they both expect sandwiches.

 

[Harpo]

Why not hire porters? Or train geese?

How about underground train geese?

 

[Astro Pen]

I think this might be good also.
An inflatable parachute, already open before you jump.

 

[Harpo]

I think this might be good also.
An inflatable parachute, already open before you jump.

Why would anyone wear a bulky parachute in a building?
Also, high-up windows are impossible to open or smash (Bruce Willis in Die Hard had to shoot one multiple times and it still didn’t actually break until he went through it)

 

[Astro Pen]

Why would anyone wear a bulky parachute in a building?
Also, high-up windows are impossible to open or smash (Bruce Willis in Die Hard had to shoot one multiple times and it still didn’t actually break until he went through it)

At a wild guess I would say you would keep it in a cupboard near the window. Especially if you live in a war torn part of the world where the odds of your apartment block catching fire because it was hit by something are somewhat greater than in, say, Brussels or Margate.

 

[Harpo]

Ah ok, and you’d have more than one per person, obviously

 

[Danny McG]

Especially if you live in a war torn part of the world where the odds of your apartment block catching fire because it was hit by something are somewhat greater than in, say, Brussels or Margate

How many of us have now Googled the "Arlington house" tower block fire in Margate to see how it was caused?