poddity

[freckles_and_doubt]

Random moment of techno-cultural amusement this morning: walking back from my lectures (45 minutes of spirited debate on whether sex is actually real), there were three muscular black students, male, be-ear-ringed and very sharply dressed, leaning against a wall in the sun, heads close together, passing between them the earphones from an IPod, and laughing so hard they nearly fell over. I'd love to know what they were listening to.

Which reminds me. Either there are tricks and techniques to earphones that are beyond my mere mortal ken, or I've been born with deformed and defective ears. I cannot get my wretched IPod earphones to stay put during gym sessions. Any suggestions, short of superglue or nine-inch nails, gratefully received.

Also, happy anniversary to those Old Wedded Folks, jo&stv.

Comments

[dragonroost.livejournal.com]

earmuffs !!?!

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

While madly exercising? eeuw. They'll get awfully sweaty, surely? Which won't, now I come to think of it, help with the staying-fixed problem much, either. You'll have to do better than that :>.

[ex-wytchfyn.livejournal.com]

A light sweatband, perhaps, drawn down over the ears? But really, you;re better off not using earbuds.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

For any particular reason other than my clearly sub-standard ears?

[(Anonymous)]

I too suffer from deformed and defective ears. Proper headphones for me... I admit I haven't really considered the sweaty problem, but they stay in place, and hey, you can always wipe em off. (Unless you get the gross spongey kind, obv, but then who would do that?)

scroob

[ex-wytchfyn.livejournal.com]

Oh, I didn't mean just -you-. Earbuds fail at (a) good quality sound transmission, and (b) keeping your music inside your head instead of in the public space. But must importantly, they might be making you deaf (http://www.google.com/search?q=earbud+damage+eardrum&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=utf8&oe=utf8). Even if the last issue is bogus, why put up with the first two?

can I join the defective ear club?

[bend-gules.livejournal.com]

...as I have only 1 defective ear, that my earbuds won't stay in. My kludge was to tuck a loop of cord under my ballcap hatband above my ear, before allowing it to trickle down to the player.

The best solution is perhaps investing in better quality earphones, as your hearing-concerned poster mentioned.

Usually I avoid buying good quality high-tech stuff; I always feel like I'm being sold a bill of goods in an electronics store. I don't trust the staff to sell me what I really want.

If you can't explain in simple terms the difference between the £10 version and the £60 version and the £200 version, why should I buy up?

I do have an $800 sewing machine though. That quality I can appreciate.

Re: can I join the defective ear club?

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Certainly, we do not discriminate against uni-ear defectives :>. In fact, generally I have the same problem - one ear fine, other earbud tends to leap for freedom with happy cries of "sproing!"

And, yes, tech is basically made and marketed for discriminating geeks, which is tricky when your geekdom is sewing machines rather than earphones. (Mine is probably kitchen gadgets, actually. I'd be fine if I could stick a blender in my ear).

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

I thought you might mean something like that. I've always mistrusted earbuds, actually. Nastily intimate little things.