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[Lucky Rathen]

Originally Posted by Lucky Rathen

Ah, you've overtaken me on rep points you absolute shit! Teabags is sniffing about at my rear as well. I must get my funny on. First to the brown star wins. Or is it a rusty sherrifs badge? Bigsby, shed any light?

I win the brown star. I had hoped it would fill this empty feeling inside. It didn't. If anything it made it worse.

[delboy]

the no smoking police were outside my local tesco yesterday handing out their propoganda. when i informed the chap that i thoroughly enjoy my 28 year tobacco habit and have recently had an all clear from the doc which showed no signs of any smoking related illnesses and had no official plans to quit in the foreseeable future, he still insisted i take the leaflets! fucks sake leave me alone.

it pisses me off the way smokers are treated like lepers and consistantly singled out at times, i mean you dont see alchoholics anymous or some anti obesity do gooders hanging around like that being so in your face.

feel better now, time for a roll up

[Cloud]

Originally Posted by Old Gold

Smashing. I'd rather not read about your extensive research into the matter however.

Why, are you homophobic? Can't stand homophobes...

[Alkaline]

Originally Posted by delboy

it pisses me off the way smokers are treated like lepers and consistantly singled out at times, i mean you dont see alchoholics anymous or some anti obesity do gooders hanging around like that being so in your face.

Very true. People like that are knobs. However, your addiction affects people other than yourself more than alcoholism or obesity. Fair enough, we might not like the smell of a pissed up/on tramp or looking at a super fatty fat fat but i don't like breathing in smoke at all and it's more detrimental to my health than the other two.

Folks can smoke all they like, just not in my personal space.

[Original Spies]

Originally Posted by Jan Deal

My current pet hate is that my ipod is too quiet. I'm sure this is a combination of my own deafness and passing traffic, but it fucks me off on my walk to work in the morning.

Although, I think I can remedy this thanks to wikihow: Unlock iPod Volume Limit - wikiHow

I tried that, but my iPod just doesn't have that file that I need to delete. Seems that the generation of iPod I have has a volume cap set by EU standards, or something equally poncey. Even with good 'phones, it still sounds tinny and nowhere near as good as my old Creative Zen. I guess Creative actually specialise in sound though, where as apple just make shiney white goods for students.

[Godzilla Blues]

Originally Posted by Jan Deal

My current pet hate is that my ipod is too quiet. I'm sure this is a combination of my own deafness and passing traffic, but it fucks me off on my walk to work in the morning.

Although, I think I can remedy this thanks to wikihow: Unlock iPod Volume Limit - wikiHow

I got some in-ear Sennheiser earphones and the difference is incredible. I Pod headphones are mighty pish. I used to be able to hear nothing on the train in to work and walking up Union Street but it's fine now without deleting that file. Stupid question i'm sure but have you actually looked at the volume maximum lock setting on the I Pod? If you have and it's still nae loud enough you must be one deaf bugger!

[Original Spies]

Mine is on full, and I can hear it enough, but it just sounds so thin and trebley. All the bottom end is completely inaudible when I am around loud traffic.

[Godzilla Blues]

I've owned most variations of portable music players over the years and I've never had one that has a completely satisfactory sound in comparison to a proper home stereo, I just accept that the sound quality will be reduced but at least I can listen on the move. The in-ear headphones certainly helped in terms of external noise reduction. I haven't tried any other MP3 players though, the I Pod suits my needs in terms of capacity, maybe I just accept things too easily.

[Lucky Rathen]

Originally Posted by Original Spies

Mine is on full, and I can hear it enough, but it just sounds so thin and trebley. All the bottom end is completely inaudible when I am around loud traffic.

That's crappy headphones. Are you using the standard iPod ones? They are entirely thin and trebly.

[Original Spies]

It's the only reason I got an iPod was the capacity. I really wanted something 30/40+ GB, and Creative just don't seem to be involved with mass storage players now.


What kind of ear/headphones should I be looking at? I've got some Seinheiser ones. I don't know which ones. They were £25 in 1up. I would have thought over-the-ear headphones would be more logical, as they surround the whole ear and possibly block out sound? No?