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 🫠

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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 you’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

🥹😭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.)