And lo on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:19:31 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did  
spake, saying:

> Phil Cook wrote:
>
>> Hmm it's like at the supermarket check-out I arrange the items to come  
>> through the till in the same order I want to pack them I don't  
>> understand people who just tip everything out.
>
> Ooo, you don't carefully arrange items according to dimensions,  
> geometry, weight and temperature do you?

Well yeah, otherwise what's the point? These are frozen and stackable;  
this is cold and upright so it can sit next to them; these are light,  
stackable and refrigerated so they can sit on the others. These are thin  
and cool and can slot down the sides, these are non-cool, light, and  
stackable so they sit on the top or in another bag on top of the non-cool  
heavy stackables. These are squishable so go on the top of any bag unless  
they're also heavy in which case they get the side of the bag if possible  
or are paired with the very light. It hardly takes an effort to sort this  
way.

> I mean, I try to avoid putting heavy stuff on top of light stuff. But  
> that's as far as I go.

Yes, but light doesn't equate to non-rigid. Compared to some items bread  
is heavy, but I wouldn't put it at the bottom of the bag unless the total  
weight of the items above it was very light.

> Obligatory XKCD reference:
> http://xkcd.com/309/

Unfortunately I'm in the Two Nerd section even when on my own.

-- 
Phil Cook

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