Why you should not hoover with ear-phones in

[rts]

Because it might take you a while to realise you haven't turned the fucking thing on.

[Gavin Scott]

You must vacuum more than I do then. I would notice the difference visually.

[Nini]

Hm, my vacuum must be either particularly loud or my music particularly quiet as I'd probably notice pretty sharpish if it was on or not.

I wonder for you.

[rts]

Hm, my vacuum must be either particularly loud or my music particularly quiet as I'd probably notice pretty sharpish if it was on or not.

I wonder for you.

Bose in-ear headphones. The swines.

[Nini]

From "in-ear" I got the in-canal sort which usually do a good job of passive noise reduction as I had some before and grew to detest them for that very reason. The swines indeed.

[noelfirl]

Q: Are in ear canal phones very effective in their job, e.g. would they block out some coughing and hacking oldy on the bus, or loud Eastern European background babbling? Just from I've seen they're quite expensive, and I'd be looking to make sure they'd do the job I want them to before splurging.

[Nini]

A: Generally speaking, an active NR system (requiring a separate device attached to the earphones) will do much better than a passive one. I'm not fully edumacated in the field of NR earphones and don't want to come across like beep or jrothwell97 and spout some know-it-all technobabble bullshit when in all actuality I'm just giving a guess so better to wait for someone to give a real answer.

[rts]

I got them for the rackety-old mode of transport, known as "The Tube". They work rather well.

[Spencer For Hire]

Might have to invest in some of them for the gym. I'm sick of trying to listen to my ipod, only to have my music drowned out by such delights as a techno remix of Michelle McManus (seriously) on the gym speakers.

[nwtv2003]

Might have to invest in some of them for the gym. I'm sick of trying to listen to my ipod, only to have my music drowned out by such delights as a techno remix of Michelle McManus (seriously) on the gym speakers.

Not as bad as our Gym, they have Flava on dead loud, they used to have B4 on the speakers, so every ten minutes you get "YOU'RE WATCHING B4" and all the same ads to go with it. Luckily we have the option of plugging the headphones in and changing channels, so usually I tend to run and listen to Sky News at the same time.

[Spencer For Hire]

Not as bad as our Gym, they have Flava on dead loud.

When reading that at first, I thought you meant Flava, as in the 1996 hit for Peter Andre.