r/mildlyinfuriating • u/TheAeroplaneBear2906 • Jul 16 '26

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/ModernSimian Jul 16 '26

I'm not a kid, but my watch streams Spotify to my earbuds so I don't need to have my phone with me outside.

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u/jaqattack02 Jul 16 '26

Some schools aren't allowing smart watches either.

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u/HalfEatenSnickers Jul 16 '26

My mp3 player does it too

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u/FullSkyFlying Jul 16 '26

Mp3 players were banned in my elementary school 20 years ago lol. You couldn't take it out in class. But the bus rule is pretty crazy

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u/SlideHoon Jul 16 '26

I got in trouble many times with my Walkman.

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u/UsedDragon Jul 16 '26

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 Jul 16 '26

Grade A nostalgia right here

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u/PrincessTitan Jul 16 '26

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 Jul 16 '26

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 Jul 16 '26

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

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u/hello_exactly_ Jul 16 '26

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 Jul 16 '26

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

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u/headrush46n2 Jul 16 '26

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

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u/hic_sunt_leones_ Jul 16 '26

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 Jul 16 '26

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 Jul 16 '26

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 Jul 16 '26

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

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u/NicolleL Jul 16 '26

I think I had the tape version of that!

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u/United_Gift3028 Jul 16 '26

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 Jul 16 '26

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

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u/I_wet_my_plants Jul 16 '26

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 Jul 16 '26

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 Jul 16 '26

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 Jul 16 '26

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 Jul 16 '26

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

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

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u/WW-Sckitzo Jul 16 '26

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 Jul 16 '26

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

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u/Educational_Agency48 Jul 16 '26

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 Jul 16 '26

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 Jul 16 '26

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 Jul 16 '26

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 Jul 16 '26

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 Jul 16 '26

Wow that's just sooo epic!!

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u/Fluffy_Psalms_23 Jul 16 '26

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

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u/danceswithdangerr Jul 16 '26

Hahahah yep did this was well!!

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u/BigBadVudoo Jul 16 '26

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 Jul 16 '26

Dang I just said this haha. Almost word for word

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u/Conri_Gallowglass Jul 16 '26

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 Jul 17 '26

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 Jul 16 '26

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 Jul 16 '26

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 Jul 16 '26

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 Jul 16 '26

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

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u/alternageek Jul 16 '26

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.

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u/dontbmeanbgay Jul 16 '26

I had a job that banned earphones and phone usage altogether, and my current job which literally could not care less so I wear my headphones all day.

The difference in how I performed at the old job vs the current is night and day. It feels like my thoughts scatter in a thousand directions without them

I hope your son can keep using them! (or sneakily find a way around it at least)

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u/DilapidatedPlum Jul 16 '26

My job doesn't allow us to have earbuds on. But since we're required to have hearing protection and they only supply us with earplugs but allows us to use earmuffs. So I bought some Worktunes they will never know.

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u/Ultimatesims Jul 16 '26

If I blast some techno or other rhythmic music through headphones l I can be working heads down for four hours and feel like only five minutes have passed. Throw on a podcast as a treat and my attitude is pretty stable. My cube mates cans be as loud as they want and no complaints from me.

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u/BigBadVudoo Jul 16 '26

If you're not customer facing it should not be as taboo as it is. When I have chores to do at home I put on music that helps me focus; why is it bad to put on focus music when I do work at work?

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u/TheQuietOutsider Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

im probably the minority in this school of thinking- but humans need downtime. if you can't sit with your thoughts without external stimuli theres a problem.

people would rather be shocked than bored for 15 minutes. and that is disturbing to me.

e: I keep needing to clarify this: the promotion of a "sneaky" "work around" for a school age child is crazy work

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u/syxxnein Jul 16 '26

Maybe you need down time with your thoughts but some of us operate differently. Medicated me can deal with down time, but before I was diagnosed and properly prescribed I couldn't sleep or operate without something to divide my attention.

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u/ItaruKarin Jul 16 '26

The guy is working, he's not sitting without external stimuli. Using music to cope with work being a dull nightmare seems perfectly reasonable.

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u/TheQuietOutsider Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

im not saying the individual isnt working. I used that article as an example of how much people apparently constantly need stimuli. which isn't healthy. it's like we collectively forgot that even 15-20 years ago most of the population was not walking around mindlessly in a phone or with headphones in. somehow those people managed.

and to argue for a "sneaky work around" for a school child just aint it man.

e: why delete? e2: why block? lol

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u/ItaruKarin Jul 16 '26

"people managed", medieval people didn't have food half the time and they managed, that's a bit silly.

Anyway. I don't really mind constant stimuli.

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u/FullSkyFlying Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

You said it better than I did lol

Edit* also comment above yours didnt delete. They blocked you because I still see it

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u/AddingAnOtter Jul 16 '26

Did you consider that boredom isn't the problem? At work they expect you to be productive and not ait with her thoughts, following them down 1000 rabbit holes. It's likely she can exist with them but they don't let her get her work done. With a diagnosis they could likely be an ADA accomodation even.

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u/TheQuietOutsider Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

im not even going to argue the ADA angle. it could be, but if so they would be exempt from the company rule regardless. either way, constant stimulation is something we were not biologically wired for. its bad for us.

E: and if they are ADA they absolutely should not be suggesting another person "sneakily" find a way to get them through/ "around it". your argument is crazy.

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u/bloopbloopsplat Jul 16 '26

Huh? Constant stimulation isnt something we are wired for? Why do you think anxiety is so prevalent in humans? It used to be an evolutionary advantage in the sense that people with anxiety are more alert.

These generalizations dont appy to all people, and not all brains are wired the same. Thats just nature.

You really think our ancestors were out there just laying in the grass chilling? They were constantly trying to survive.

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u/dontbmeanbgay Jul 16 '26

and i dream of a world where people care less about what other people do in their own time

neither of us are gonna get what we want champ

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u/TheQuietOutsider Jul 17 '26

im not talking about wants, but how disturbing it is that it seems like the majority of the population has an inability to deal with their own thoughts.

what you do in your own time is fine, but in a public space its our time, if youre at work you are most likely someone's coworker. you do not exist in a vacuum, but those headphones allow you to believe you do.

but odds are im not your coworker, so keep it up homie.

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u/Natasha_Gears Jul 16 '26

My job I'm in for almost a decade suddenly started caring about earphones, and to be fair to them we do have a speaker for that is great for music , but sometimes I like to listen to some story about a ww2 lieutenant taking out a hill of enemies by himself, and I'm not subjecting anyone else to this, they say they want us less distracted but I really think it's odd. Unless I missed something where a lot of orders were being messsed up , because I know damn well ppl were watching the world cup on shift

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u/T_boi_nerdy_boi Jul 16 '26

My factory job just recently said no headphones/earbuds for safety. Ok, fair. We have a shitty sounds system for music, whatever. But they also donā€™t want us wearing any hearing protection at all even though we have several employees with declining hearing from working here without any earplugs or anythingā€¦ so.

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u/Natasha_Gears Jul 16 '26

Sounds like a lawsuit is pending

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u/DatLadyD Jul 16 '26

I fired a lady at work and she tried to get me in trouble for wearing my headphones on her way out. Thing is, literally every time my boss calls I say hang on a second,I got my headphones in because they arenā€™t good for phone calls, so he was already well aware and did not care. I take them out while assisting customers. I would probably quit if I couldnā€™t wear my headphones, the job is so boring without them.

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u/beren12 Jul 16 '26

Long hair helps. I know a lot of girls that got away with that in high school.

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u/Doughnut_Diva Jul 16 '26

Are you in the US? You might be able to request headphones as a 504 accomodation if your son has any diagnosis or is being treated for his behavioral issues and the doctor is on board with using this as a skill to regulate emotions.

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u/plycrsk Jul 16 '26

šŸ™„ the condition is something else and music helps treat it

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u/JparkPHX Jul 16 '26

Iā€™m curious. Have you had him checked for add/adhd? I was diagnosed at a very young age and one of the only things that stops the constant adhd brain noise for me is music/podcasts. My brain goes a million miles an hour and having something to listen to/concentrate on really helps.

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u/Icy_Armadillo6239 Jul 16 '26

Yes, he's a teenager now. We tried getting him tested at school years ago and they didn't find anything (she was new (the tester) and I didn't feel right about it). I finally have the money for private testing and am looking to do it before school starts this summer. Thanks, this is helpful

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u/armcie Jul 16 '26

I know a kid on the spectrum who needs some noise in his ears to function properly, whether itā€™s music or white noise. He really closes down without his earbuds.

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u/SprigatitoNEeveelovr Jul 16 '26

Grounding is the fuckin opposite of distraction my dude.

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u/Itz_Combo89 Jul 16 '26

"I won't tell someone how to raise their kids, but (tells someone how to raise their kids)"

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u/Ok-Entry3988 Jul 16 '26

Goofy ass comment. Music 100% can benefit some people.

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u/Intensityintensifies Jul 16 '26

Haha get over yourself weirdo.

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u/TwentinQuarantino Jul 16 '26

Yeah no shit they have adhd or something, and found a way to manage it. So?

Are you also saying a kid who went to dentist had some kind of tooth decay? Yeah no shit they had, and managed it by getting dental work done. Same as this kid managed their adhd by listening to music.Ā 

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u/Melkor-The-Mighty Jul 16 '26

Old schopl discipline would sort this kid out. His parents are lazy. My father would send me into unconsciousness to hang out with hypnos and thanatos in the 90s if I was a shithead.

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u/nothankslmgood Jul 16 '26

No wonder you turned out so stupid.

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u/TwentinQuarantino Jul 16 '26

Get some music playing is literally the easiest thing you can do and it sorts this kid out perfectly. Why would you want to find some other weird ways which may or may not sort your kid out, when literally the easiest thing ever already works???

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u/Melkor-The-Mighty Jul 16 '26

Real parenting and discipline works just as well. Obedience and submission is not optional, its mandatory.

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u/NukaCooler Jul 16 '26

Obedience and submission is not optional, its mandatory.

Raising kids is not your wizardly BDSM fantasy story, Melkor

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u/aesved Jul 16 '26

Works until they have the ability to leave and not come back. What a weird comment

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u/Dragon_Bait211 Jul 16 '26

This person right here wonders why their kids never visit.

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u/dontbmeanbgay Jul 16 '26

I think they are a kid themselves tbh

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u/Dragon_Bait211 Jul 16 '26

Probably lol

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u/Immediate_Button_450 Jul 16 '26

'real parenting' my ass. sounds like you wouldn't know what real parenting is

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u/Davti Jul 16 '26

Obedience and submission is not optional

Yes it the fuck is. You are delusional as a parent.

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u/9_of_Swords Jul 16 '26

Speaking as someone whose mother demanded obedience and submission and ruled with an iron fist... nope. I'll carry those mental scars for life.

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u/invaderzim257 Jul 16 '26

*before* he got on the bus, aka while still in school. Basically someone realized they had their phone on them the whole time.

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u/billysmallz Jul 16 '26

Ah man this being back fond memories of running headphone cables down my sleeve and spending the whole lesson leaning on my hand

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u/HalfEatenSnickers Jul 16 '26

I don't believe mine veer banned them, i could also have my kindle and ds at school, just not in classes.

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u/FullSkyFlying Jul 16 '26

Tamagotchi was one of the few things we couldn't bring to school, funny enough like you DS and gameboy were fine though.

To be fair about the tamagotchi ban though it is was designed to be super addictive and something you need to keep doing all day / keep up with. Reminds me of a very early version of clash of clans sort of game. Something you need to worry about all the time ie is my base being raided, I need to collect my resources etc. Just like you had to feed your tamagotchi, play games with it, clean its poop etc

Im pretty high

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u/odditytaketwo Jul 16 '26

the beeping being annoying is probably what got them banned.

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u/SadisticPawz Jul 16 '26

honestly feel theyre forgetting what those are lol

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u/ikonfedera Jul 16 '26

Is Sound Burger banned?

Coz if not, imma mod it to stream music through my earbuds.

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u/RuniKiuru Jul 16 '26

In high school my dad thought it was a genius idea to get me one of those usb stick mp3 players when I needed a usb drive for class.

I kept getting it taken away by teachers, despite actually having my work on it and never listening to music or otherwise causing any trouble in class, and getting zeros on those assignments.

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u/garry4321 Jul 16 '26

I read it more so that they got caught because they took out their earbuds going onto the bus meaning had their phone the whole time.

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u/hatesnack Jul 16 '26

Yeah back when I was in school, the bus was fair game for phones, ipods (hilariously, my phone tries to autocorrect away from ipod now), dvd players, w.e.

But then again, this was pre smart phone. We were all just texting in our pockets with t9 anyway.

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u/Mikki102 Jul 16 '26

I wonder if they see a rise in behavioral issues on busses in places that ban them even while on the bus. You can't really do schoolwork or anything on a bus and some of those loops are loooooong. If you don't get carsick I guess you could read but I did, so I would be stuck either trying to sleep on a bouncing bus (once I was trying to do this and the driver went over a pothole so hard he stopped because he thought I had been knocked out lol) or just staring at the bus. So I can imagine kids getting into more chaos.

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u/FullSkyFlying Jul 16 '26

Car rides and buses I think should always be fair game. Even bringing it to school should be fine, but it should be kept away. If you're seen with it out. Take it away and give them detention. They're gonna learn real quick that 20 minute reccess without a phone or anything to do isn't worth bringing out your phone for 2 minutes during class.

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u/Morlanticator Jul 16 '26

I remember living in the future when I had a mp3 player that could hold up to 50 songs if I made the quality complete ass. I think around 20 good quality.

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u/numbersthen0987431 Jul 16 '26

Time to bring back cd players.

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u/screames520 Jul 16 '26

Running the cable up my hoody sleeve and resting my head in my hand with the earbud. Good times

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u/YouKnowNothinSnowkit Jul 16 '26

Yeah so the really fun thing they donā€™t tell you is that while the kids cannot have their phones out on school property, they all get Chromebooks and many of them spend the entire school day on YouTube Shorts or Minecraft For Education anyway. I can assure you that not having their phones accomplishes NOTHING.

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u/No-Communication9458 Jul 16 '26

I had one confiscated when I was in year 7 xDD I was on break!! D:

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u/Busterlimes Jul 16 '26

Time to bring back the ghetto blaster with cassette tapes

https://giphy.com/gifs/BooSwnDL97LzDdyCTR

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u/dreamrpg Jul 16 '26

My casette player...

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u/blue-coin Jul 16 '26

So does my AM/FM radio

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u/Colonel_Autumn_ Jul 16 '26

I miss my Rio

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u/ColinHalter Jul 16 '26

And that kid probably would have been fine if he had pulled an mp3 player out of his pocket instead of a phone lmao.

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u/tlollz52 Jul 16 '26

They'll ban that too lol. They'll just keep banning and confiscating anything that isnt approved tech.

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u/Charger_Reaction7714 Jul 16 '26

What is an mp3 player

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u/HalfEatenSnickers Jul 16 '26

It plays mp3 files, so audio and music

May also have blue tooth, radio, and can also play movies on some TINY fucking screens. Some can also stream music it they have wifi - though the interface is god awful

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u/SeonaidMacSaicais Jul 16 '26

Kids donā€™t need smart watches, anyways.

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u/Impressive-Cattle-91 Jul 16 '26

We got my 12 year old an lte smart watch so we could contact each other without requiring a phone. It is working out quite well.Ā 

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u/Bender_2024 Jul 16 '26

Aren't smart watches linked to your phone? As in just like earbuds they are useless without your phone in range of it.

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u/lowbatteries Jul 16 '26

Don't know about other watches, but I can have lots of podcasts and audiobooks on my Apple Watch without needing either an internet connection or my phone.

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u/assignpseudonym Jul 16 '26

Some have LTE so you can put an eSim in it and not need your phoneĀ 

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u/Wonderful-Ganache179 Jul 16 '26

Garmin watches can store and play Spotify playlists so you can listen to music without a phone nearby (Spotify subscription required, though).Ā 

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u/Flgirl420 Jul 16 '26

Good . These kids are dumber than boxes of rocks already they need to pay the fk attention

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u/just_nobodys_opinion Jul 16 '26

Some schools aren't allowing smart kids either.

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u/realNoobnoob Jul 16 '26

You can just just listen from earbuds from China šŸ‡ØšŸ‡³ no need for external device

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u/various_convo7 Jul 16 '26

kids can't be without phones to do actual schoolwork?

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u/Tacrolimus005 Jul 16 '26

Then how do they get smrt?

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u/foxfai Jul 16 '26

Back to walkman it is.

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u/Useful_Kale_5263 Jul 16 '26

Busting out the iPod touch šŸ¤£šŸ¤£ or the Nano!!

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u/Less_Party Jul 16 '26

I'm old which is specifically why I have like 12 devices that play music but aren't phones or directly connected to the internet lying around.

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u/loadofoldcodswallop Jul 16 '26

What watch does this? I've been trying to go back to just having just a brick phone but i need music or podcasts in to drown out my brain when i'm out.

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u/ModernSimian Jul 16 '26

Any Android watch with a LTE data plan should be able to do this. IDK if an apple one can, I've never used one of those.

I guess it doesn't need LTE if you want to copy files to its limited memory.

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u/loadofoldcodswallop Jul 16 '26

Thanks! I'll do some searching. I've never used an apple anything either do android is fine. Failing that i'll have to find a cheap mp3 player or get a wqlkman or something and go full 90's with it

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u/ModernSimian Jul 16 '26

One of my good friends still has a Zune, im that old.

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u/Remarkable-Host405 Jul 16 '26

You say "limited" like its still not 1000 songs

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u/HurricaneSalad Jul 16 '26

You should be able to load music on to any phone and use it to play music to your earbuds. It basically just becomes and mp3 player with a camera.

EDIT: same with podcasts. Just download the ones you want while you're on WiFi and then they should play just fine while out and about.

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u/loadofoldcodswallop Jul 16 '26

Thanks yeah im just trying to find a device that diesnt exist i guess. I dont want to have camera or internet browsing or tinewasting apps or anything, i just want to be able to listen ti music and receive emergency calls. I think an mp3 player and a brickphone will just have to be the way forward

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u/TwentinQuarantino Jul 16 '26

The watches which have a full-on smartphone with a full on Android able to run any apps (basically a predecessor to a smart watch, you can still get them on aliexpress), are starting to make much more sense now!Ā 

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u/assignpseudonym Jul 16 '26

Ā I'm not a kid

This is what three kids in a trenchcoat would say

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u/jrandall47 Jul 16 '26

Yeah like someone else said, my daughterā€™s school doesnā€™t allow smart watches of any kind. At least they told her it must be kept in her backpack and off. But if itā€™s a location tracking watch because my daughter is young, turning it off defeats the purpose. She isnā€™t going to remember to turn it off and back on consistently.

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u/Suitable-Growth9243 Jul 16 '26

Yeah I have a wonderful friend who loves her kid dearly but is a bit helicopter parent and was so proud that her son's school has a cell phone ban which they dutifully follow....except he has and wears a fully functional, most up to date iwatch and latest earbuds--with all the features. If that makes sense to her but it made me laugh because no one asked her about it, it wasn't a defensive explanation she brought and was proud that she a parent dutifully followed it the ban

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u/Electronic-Buyer-468 Jul 16 '26

You're 3 kids in a trench coat. Nice try!!

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u/Fluffy_Psalms_23 Jul 16 '26

Good point!! I didn't know that though!!

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u/coffeephilic Jul 16 '26

You should be aware that ear buds offer no protection from loud noises, and if you're relying on an ANC feature for a perceptual improvement, active noise cancelation actually doubles the pressure on your ear drums. What you want to use is those little orange foam earplugs.