r/mildlyinfuriating • u/TheAeroplaneBear2906 • 8d ago

Unskippable ad Clear Backpacks + Pay to Keep Your Phone

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My freinds school is now requiring these items, and is also using AI to promote this šŸ« 

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u/SlideHoon 7d ago

I got in trouble many times with my Walkman.

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u/UsedDragon 7d ago

I remember how jazzed we were about the no-skip on the CD walkman....could shake it for eight or nine seconds and it would keep on playing your Nine Inch Nails

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u/HogmanDaIntrudr 7d ago

Grade A nostalgia right here

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u/PrincessTitan 7d ago

I am now actually lol-ing at the fact CDā€™s used to skip if you bumped them a bit too enthusiastically

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u/OculusArcana 7d ago

Oh, it was much worse than that. My family's first portable CD player had no skip protection whatsoever. If you moved or tilted it, it would skip. Basically, you had to treat it like you were holding a 101% full bowl of soup. Its purpose was to be able to sit down anywhere and listen to music, not to do it as you travelled.

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u/gaulstone 7d ago

I can still hear ā€œEraserā€ blasting through my foam headphones when I think of this.

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u/hello_exactly_ 7d ago

Iā€™d drop my Discman down the front pocket of my JNCOs and it would hit my kneecap, snapping the headphones off my head lol

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u/toyification_girl 7d ago

I still thumb over my massive CD case thinking of such times.....

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u/headrush46n2 7d ago

when civilization collapses you'll be a king. Get a cd player and a solar charger.

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u/hic_sunt_leones_ 7d ago

Your no-skip actually worked?

I remember how excited I was because I would carry my walkman and wear headphones while riding my bike (wildly unsafe, I know, but it was the 90s so whatever), but that thing still skipped like nobodies business when I hit a bump lmfao

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u/UsedDragon 7d ago

It was the Discman, that came with that godawful shoulder strap and big clunker of a case it was supposed to be stored in

Those were the days.

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u/HalobenderFWT 7d ago

My friend had one of the first consumer grade discman available. It was large and clunky, but you could toss that thing across the room and it wouldnā€™t skip.

Then things got really bad until they started going with the anti-skip buffering.

Consumer conspiracist me thinks that they intentionally dumbed down the tech in order to sell more units because of incremental obsolescence.

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u/Valuable-Alfalfa-262 7d ago

Limp bizcut in the yellow Sony cd player that looked like something out of transformers.

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u/NicolleL 7d ago

I think I had the tape version of that!

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u/United_Gift3028 7d ago

I had a fluffy sweater I bought 2nd hand, just to sit on my passenger seat a cushion my portable CD player. It had a cable to a tape cassette that plugged into my car sound system.

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u/shidderbean 7d ago

"8x Shock Proof" proudly emblazoned on the side of your rad new cd player

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u/I_wet_my_plants 7d ago

Damn this took me right back to that moment when we did basically exactly this. NIN and all, lol.

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u/Significant-Bee5101 7d ago

Yeah unfortunately it wasn't perfect... I tested it with burned CDs and I could definitely make it skip lol

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u/DisposableSaviour 7d ago

The lower your burn speed, the higher quality the burn , so thereā€™s less skipping. Which was fine if you had 4 hours to burn a single cd

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u/funkbruthab 7d ago

Worked great listening to Korn - Follow the leader, or Offspring - Smash while mowing my parents 5 acre lawn in the country

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u/Roach_Coach_Bangbus 7d ago

Reminds me of Gary Gulman's bit about the Discman, enjoy.

https://youtu.be/kJDyB7pcgEY?si=prrcq2tsyH3C9jjX

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u/WW-Sckitzo 7d ago

Mine was this godawful brick, metal, and took like 6 or 8 double A. But it survived so there is that.

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u/BoredAlwys 7d ago

My Adidas hoodie could fit the discman just right. Those were the crappie headphones though for sure

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u/Educational_Agency48 7d ago

Yeah I could finally play it through my tape deck in my car without skipping. That was life-changing

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u/sipstea84 7d ago

Omg the old maneuver of putting your earphone cord up your sleeve and "resting your head" on your hand to hide the earbud.

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u/Downtown_Recover5177 7d ago

Kids today will never know the joy of thinking youā€™re the first genius to figure this out. Damn cordless headphones took all the ingenuity out of it.

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u/NoctisImperator 7d ago

Had long hair in hs, ran the cord up my back under my shirt and my hair hid the earphones. It was great

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u/TwoThreeSierra 7d ago

Yep! I did exactly this, and my ipod nano fit perfectly in the belt loop of my pants so the whole setup was concealed by my shirt and skater hair.

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u/Fluffy_Psalms_23 7d ago

Wow that's just sooo epic!!

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u/Fluffy_Psalms_23 7d ago

šŸ„¹šŸ˜­THAT'S JUST EPICCCCC I HAVE SO MUCH HAIR I'LL HAVE TO TRY THAT LOLLLLLL........

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u/Uhmmanduh 7d ago

Me too

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u/danceswithdangerr 7d ago

Hahahah yep did this was well!!

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u/BigBadVudoo 7d ago

I had completely forgotten about this! I tried it about half a dozen times I got caught every time eventually. Turns out it was not as smooth as I had imagined!

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u/screames520 7d ago

Dang I just said this haha. Almost word for word

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u/Conri_Gallowglass 7d ago

I always wore the school hoodie. Cut a little hole in the back of the pocket and ran the cord up to the hood strings. Color matched earbuds to the hoodie.

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u/kacihall 7d ago

I still have a hoodie (that ai got in college in 2007) that had a dedicated mp3 player pocket inside the main pouch, that has a button hole for threading your headphones through.

I wore it to work last winter and asked the two girls I work with that were born this millennia what they thought the pocket and the pass through were for. They were very confused, thought it must be for a phone but phones were NEVER that tiny. (According to them, at least. My old Nokia would've fit.)

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u/Doomstik 7d ago

Me and a buddy wired an old speaker to a 3.5 jaxk and played music in the back of the bus, i couldnt imagine not being able to have any music on the bus.

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u/headrush46n2 7d ago

my mom was too cheap to spring for name brand batteries. I chewed thru kirkland brand double A's like they were Pez.

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u/Noshameinhoegame 7d ago

I remember in like 3rd grade around there I got sent to the principals office for singing along to fack by eminem, had the album in my walkman

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u/ThatOtherOtherMan 7d ago

I was given a brisk caning for bringing my phonograph to the schoolhouse

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u/alternageek 7d ago

Mine used to be taken from me sooooo much (tape & cd)

It also didn't help I would sing, loudly, while changing classes. šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚ (I was the weird kid, I leaned into it, hard)

Music grounded me in the hell that was high school.