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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

https://rawkandrolljunkie.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/car-on-blocks-no-wheels.jpg

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

I was really ott shitty to an old heroin addict pal who showed up on my doorstep a couple of years back and he passed this year. Sometimes these things can't be helped/avoided as sad as they are. Lol Dowd, I misread that as "scratter flat" and was thinking yeah been there before got the t-shirt etc!

Separately, I know women wearing headphones with no music in public is a thing to keep men from speaking to them.

― Yerac, 9. december 2018 14:09 (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Does this really work? I've tried several time where I've been dancing on my own in a corner at a subway station, and someone walks over to ask how to get to the airport.

Practice, practice, practice

xpost, i don't think it does really. I read a lot of posts on fb about men not being able to take a hint even when they have headphones on, are reading a book, are turning away, say outright "i'm busy."

We all should start wearing facemasks in public. The japanese have the right idea.

I read a lot of posts on fb about men not being able to take a hint

A hint only works with those who value courtesy and consideration highly enough to set aside their own desires as less important than those of the person doing the hinting.

there has been at least one viral article instructing men on how to approach women wearing headphones

aimless otfm, talking at someone (especially someone you don't know) who's wearing obvious headphones is either ignorant or powerfully selfish.

As someone who is constantly in an earbud cocoon I will add some controversy to this controversy by admitting that I am totally ok with someone asking me for directions however into a podcast I am, because I am not a fucking psychopath

I just wrote something along the lines of wins' remark, but was eaten by my browser. Giving assistance to those in need of it is courteous and asking for assistance is hardly "powerfully selfish". Considering those needing assistance to be a bother and nuisance to be rebuffed is more in the selfish mode.

Asking for directions is fine. Approaching someone obviously not paying attention and focused on something else is not, especially when there are multitudes of other people around.