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My controversial opinion on superhero movies is that Wonder Woman was boring af

Not sure you'll shock anyone with that one

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Basically wearing those airpods automatically ups your douchefactor.

If I saw someone who actually had toothbrush parts lodged in their ears I don't think my first thought would be "what a douchebag" unless I had another reason.

Question: if I am someone is also wearing Google Glasses, that offsets the douchiness of the Airpods, right?

Airpods are an incredible invention that liberates people from tangled earbud cords. If I was rich I would own them.

imagine tho that you heard in 1988 that they would have had invented airpods that were commercially available in 2018 amd waiting like a dog at an oven door your whole life for this and it was just a fuckin pair of earphones

I would be happy because I contemplate most technological change with dread. (Medical advances excepted—those are good.)

Airpods are an incredible invention that liberates people from tangled earbud cords. If I was rich I would own them.

― Trϵϵship, Friday, December 7, 2018 11:19 AM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the hilarious thing is that there are literally hundreds of wireless earbuds and headphones that have existed for much longer than Airpods and don't look douchey and cost a fraction of the price and sound great, but Apple has this great knack for "inventing" stuff that's been around for 5 years and charging 5X more than it should cost

xpost Well your decade-younger self will be heartened to know that innovation at Apple now just mostly entails remaking old things in new sizes.

wait there are a million completely wireless earbuds that don't look like dangly plastic earrings

Lol xxp

exposer Seriously? I was just shopping for not-Apple AirPods for my daughter, and most if not all of the ones I found reviewed that were considered remotely comparable were comparably priced, and while there were lots that were cheap knockoffs (we got her a pair) all of their reviews conceded they were nowhere near the quality of AirPods but were good enough considering how much money you save.

Ha! Autocorrect changed x-post to exposer!

they’re good for phone calls

They just look like apple earbuds without the wires? Why are they douchey?

The Apple Corporation has been running the most marvelous shell game for at least the better part of this century. If only Radio Shack had thought to paint their products white, man.

This is not a controversial opinion, I don't think.

I mean if you take the amount of emperor's new clothes snakeoil going on in the audio industry and multiply that by the amount of emperor's new clothes snakeoil going on in the apple universe, well yeah I think that many $50-70 options would be as good as AirPods

Is there anything functional in the long part that sticks out? Why does it have to look so much like regular headphones that someone snipped

They are somehow as bad and worse than people who are on their bluetooth at the gym.

They need a place for the bluetooth receiver

If I designed a flying car I wouldn't make it look like this

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Austin Powers trilogy >>>>>> any James Bond movie

"there are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers" - captain beefheart

Very few things were better back in the day.

x-post Do you suppose he meant people from Hamburg?

Earbuds should be banned entirely. Full over-the-ear headphones forever. I own these and they not only sound fantastic, they discourage people from talking to you in a way that earbuds never do.

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earbuds in the tenner price range meets requirements that over-ear dont until they get into the hundreds

I realized a while ago that I can't physically tolerate earbuds anymore, but I do miss them in winter

earbuds in the tenner price range meets requirements that over-ear dont until they get into the hundreds

I don't think this is true. What requirements are you talking about? Bass response? General volume? Over-the-ear headphones have a fuller bass sound, and earbuds are actually a lot worse for your hearing over the long term.

Lol I doubt it’s an audio requirement

they stay in they block noise

theres two big once and theyre not even wankery

I got some OnePlus V2 Bullet ear buds for £15 and they have a very full sound, but with the caveat I'm not an audiophile and quite easily impressed, but they've deffo got some oomph.

sometimes i wear over-ear headphones that are switched off, just so people will leave me alone

I use earbuds the same way - because i have the terribly coloured white earbuds. But you put them in and you can pretend not to hear people.

people try talking at me when i have white earbuds in, maybe it’s an australian thing

Jut tap your ears and shake your head. Ha, that's so rude, but I've legitimately done it before.

Helps if you throw in a 'what can I possibly do to rectify this situation where I can't hear you, nothing is what' shrug imo.

or you say "dont talk to me when im wearing my dont talk to me apparatus" without taking out said apparatus

recently chucked all my earbuds after noticing some tinnitus setting in

Who are these "people" that bother all you public earbudders? Petitioners? beggars? Friends and family?

seems like people are more aggressive lately about initiating contact, lots charitable/political/environmental causes in addition to vendors and beggars

one is too many

x-post Do you suppose he meant people from Hamburg?

― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd)

anything's possible

i love my noise cancelling headphones but the downside is that i literally don't ever hear my phone ring when i'm at work

Airpods make me think of this.https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CTBTGfBUAAEG26_.png

CAN'T UNSEE

that word downside i do not think it means what you think it means

I actually think of that whenever I see the airpods (the something about mary thing) but thought I was the only one! This is the number one thing I think of!

People bother me all the time when I am actively reading in public (to ask directions, ask if I have a pen, tourists asking if I will take a picture) it's super annoying. Separately, I know women wearing headphones with no music in public is a thing to keep men from speaking to them.

There’s a homeless guy who sits in the street in St. Andrews - and I shared a scatter flat with him when I’m homeless. He’s an enthusiastic heroin addict, and uses his benefit money to buy, then cut, heroin for a profit. I don’t much want to give him money, so I sometimes do the ‘i Can’t hear you’ thing