If someone did this to me, I would simply flick them out of their ears I think. My bullshit requires your full attention tbh 

 i would be at larry david level of condencesion if someone did that in front of me 

 I do wonder if this is considered old fashioned now. I agree tho lol 

 Nah its pretty rude, unless they tell you they're waiting on an important call or something 

 I can't not see it as rudeness, maybe it's acceptable for younger generations tho? 

 I will ask my 12 y o and see if I get a non-troll answer :D 

 I think it is maybe partly a performative aloofness, which I sort of associate with adolescence but I see this being done by fully grown adults. I think I would go as far as questioning if this 'friend' liked me if they did this lol.  

 Imho must be a very, very important call and I still would say that we can have chat after that very, very important call is done. 

Usually, for some reason, socializing with that particular person seem to be a bit cold.

🥶 

 You might laugh at me. But something I wear earphone with nothing playing. I'm just wearing them so I can pretend to be listening to something. You'll be amazed what people are saying around you because they think you aren't listening.  

 sometimes* 

 My wife says she wears them outside so that people don't try to talk to her :) But maybe she's really as tricky as you :p 

 it gives you a free pass from solicitors, they don't even bother trying to chat/talk. 

 This is fair enough, but what happens when you are meeting up with a friend? Do they stay in? 🤔 That's the bit I'm finding confusing lol 

 I leave them in and talk normally. If they ask, "I'm not listening to any music,I'm focused on this conversation" 

 I think it might be considered not-rude/normal now lol. Not sure. 

 But why are they left in? To not lose them? Let's say you know you're going to be with a friend for at least a couple of hours. They stay in? At an all night party? A dinner party? Under what circumstances do they come out? Lol 

 Nah, I keep them in my ears to reduce the volume of life. 

 Even when you're socialising with friends?  

 Depends on where we are. In a public place, yes. If in a conversation I might remove one of them. 

 So you're having lunch with a friend, only one ear pod comes out? Is the other ear pod playing music? Or just in your ear? 

 Just in my ear, as sound reduction. If alone, both are on, sometimes listening to music or podcast, but often just off. 

 I see, this is quite an interesting answer 🤔

I am assuming you are not considering your conversation with your friend as noise (?) 🤔🤔 lol 

 No, in fact I think I keep one on so that I don’t get too distracted by what’s around me. Squirrel!!! 

 If they take them off they'll probably lose them. 

 I pause whatever I'm listening to while I talk to co-workers.  Conversing normally lets them know I am giving them my full attention. Leaving them in sends the message that I am just here for what I need.  No small talk please. 

 I was thinking more of a social setting, although this may be grey area-ish, maybe 🤔 

 I'm getting older, and the hearing is starting to go. I leave them in, and use the talk passthrough feature as a cheap hearing aid. 

 Interesting. I've never had ear pods so wasn't aware of this feature.

I'm glad I asked this question 👀 

 "ambient aware"
"talkthru"
"hear through"
"transparency"

The function has different names depending on manufacturer, if you want to shop for this feature 

 This has been quite an interesting survey actually 🤔

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 i leave them in only for my gf when i'm cooking and she wants to talk. i pause with my wrist but can't remove bc my fingers are all foody. otherwise it's rude, imo 

 I use them sometimes as hearing aids. It works very well. They're then in a mode when  human speech frequency is amplified. 

 People who walk around with speakers. What are they thinking?

(Next on my list of trying to understand grumpy dad type moans lol)

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It's usually someone alone, who looks like they're into street art, ESL, backpacker vibes, blasting french hip hop or reggaeton.

Are they trying to make friends? are they sound tracking their lives. Do they think we care? Do they not care what we think? (I find it hard to believe they don't care about what people around them think, cos they're blasting music at them lol).

#asknostr

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 We never did shit like that back in my day.
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 We didn't have bluetooth headphones in those days. 

 But we had the Walkman. With wired headphones of course.