Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Heaven forbid a man wear airpods to listen to music or an audiobook or podcast or whatever when it makes OP think he is less manly.

After all only women and children can enjoy listening to things.

Sorry, yes, walking around listening to audiobooks is ick.

Every time you post you become more and more ick yourself.

No, but grown adults using the term "ick" does. There's something very juvenile about that OP.

Anonymous wrote:This is so bizarre. Do grown men not make phone calls or listen to music or podcasts or audiobooks?

What would you like them to use?

I agree with the PP who said it’s highly rude to keep them in when taking to someone else but headphones and earbuds have a distinct purpose.

Of course they have a purpose, especially at work. But wearing them all day and taking selfies with them, which you put in your dating profiles, is bad optics.

This is so bizarre. Do grown men not make phone calls or listen to music or podcasts or audiobooks?

What would you like them to use?

I agree with the PP who said it’s highly rude to keep them in when taking to someone else but headphones and earbuds have a distinct purpose.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It does not give me the ick. But the adult men I know who do it are sales / middle manager types who are often “on a call” as if that makes them important.

I am in sales. Being on the phone talking to customers is literally what I do. I handle highly detailed complex deals. I do it simply for the fact that I make a lot of money. I don’t think I am important. Nor I do think that 99.9999% of the rest of people are important.

Sales has a sleazy / ick reputation.

Anonymous wrote:We’ve actually banned them being worn by my teenage sons around us parents unless they ask for permission first. But it is 100% because I think it’s rude behavior. I can’t imagine what my parents would have done if I had constantly had my discman on, albeit the fact that I could not listen to it while moving as it would skip was probably the real preventative measure.

You are onto something. Rude men are ick.

Thank God I wear beats when mowing my lawn and not airpods

Anonymous wrote:It does not give me the ick. But the adult men I know who do it are sales / middle manager types who are often “on a call” as if that makes them important.

I am in sales. Being on the phone talking to customers is literally what I do. I handle highly detailed complex deals. I do it simply for the fact that I make a lot of money. I don’t think I am important. Nor I do think that 99.9999% of the rest of people are important.

We’ve actually banned them being worn by my teenage sons around us parents unless they ask for permission first. But it is 100% because I think it’s rude behavior. I can’t imagine what my parents would have done if I had constantly had my discman on, albeit the fact that I could not listen to it while moving as it would skip was probably the real preventative measure.

It does not give me the ick. But the adult men I know who do it are sales / middle manager types who are often “on a call” as if that makes them important.

I would not date someone who has things stuck in their ears during most of their waking hours, personally.

Anonymous wrote:Does a troll just have to use "ick" to get five pages in four hours?

It helps if they sockpuppet relentlessly

Does a troll just have to use "ick" to get five pages in four hours?

Are there actually multiple people who believe this or is the OP sock puppeting like crazy?

You’re weird.