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Totally enjoyed your shopping trip as well as the “perverse inner workings of my mind”.

I imagine “perverse” was tongue in cheek, but just in case it wasn’t, it only scores 3 on my perversity scale of 1-100;)
I am having a similar Argos experience, where my local stores have in stock a replacement external light I need, but no bulbs. (Why do manufacturers do this; you don't buy a car and have to get the wheels separately?) Yes, Leytonstone Argos was never the most user friendly store.

Maybe it's me getting old and paranoid but I no longer listen through headphones when out and about, preferring to be aware of my surroundings.
When I used to listen to music all the time on my Walkman in the 90s my headphones used to break one ear at a time then, too - usually the wire near the jack got broken inside so could sometimes be temporarily salvaged by judicious wiggling or folding. Unfortunately, a one ear existence was not much good as my cassettes usually gave me backing only and no singing or melody in the remaining ear.
I think under the circumstances I'd have cut a hole in the old case for the new camera. And then used the old butchered case until it or the phone gave up the ghost.

You're not the only one with a ”perverse" attitude to modern life.
I think more things need to be described as 'an unqualified success'. I am going to adopt this terminology about various things in my day to see if it enlivens the process of working from home. So far, being awake has been an unqualified success, as has my coffee. I am sure my commute (lifting laptop onto surface, opening) will be a similar triumph.
While reading this I do understand that some people don't understand/like other peoples idiocracies.
Non essential shops here been open for some weeks, so I've also started to do inperson shopping, instead of having everything delivered.
The main difference is walking km 17.5, I would have done the trip by bike.
During this pandemic I have always opened packed goods a few days after getting them giving the packing a quick spray with some cleaner. Then the goods a get a spray clean and dry before use. Of course I wash my hands too. After that the items get used in the normal way.
Surprised you opened and used your headphones straight away.
You have managed to make Wanstead Flats look pleasant, nice picture.
I'm aware that pedantry is generally unwelcome here, but "earbuds" and "spare earphone protectors" suggest that you actually bought in-ear earphones rather than headphones.
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I started the first lockdown with the intention of not ordering online, because it would be making other people do risky things on my behalf, and that wouldn't be fair. However, my sister kindly ordered something I half-needed from Amazon, to be delivered to me, and that broke the meniscus and I have ordered bucket loads of stuff ever since.
Re slippery phones - the crazy thing is that - driven by marketing presumably - the sleek, cool, sensual, devices are actually pretty impractical. Without a case they do slip everywhere, and do not sit securely, or even comfortably, in the hand. So, in fact they aren't "pinnacles of design" but pretty poor design. True elegant design can be both functional and aesthetically pleasing.
Nokia had it right with rough plastic backs on their phones two decades ago (the small size was a lot more manageable, too!). And as for "turning the volume down automatically after about 90 minutes with no way of turning it back up,"...what about hearing-impaired people who need a louder volume to hear?
Quarantining or spraying items that enter the house has never been necessary - but if it makes one feel safer then no harm done.

I've had a phone for 3 years now without a case and hadn't dropped/scratched it in any way.
But it was in dire need of being upgraded as it had run out of space so my son gifted me his old battered, uncased one and now I need a case to hold it together!!
Has it really taken this long for BoRhap to be nominated for Johnnie's Jukebox, or did someone do some judicious juggling to ensure it coincided with a round number?

dg writes: Yes, and yes.
I rather liked the textual arrangement of today's post, with multiple columns. It suited the content admirably. And, surprisingly to me, it coped very well with my lazy preference to read it on a phone.
They obviously didn't, but I'm genuinely surprised the supermarket didn't sell these!
I have been using my local Tesco for 20 years and until today I had never noticed they sell headphones... the exact same headphones I walked miles to buy in Argos, and for almost half the price. Sigh.
Be careful you will turn into Dinosaur Geezer with all this in person shopping!
If you would like to post me your old phone case and a paper template explaining where the camera hole needs to be, I would be happy to make a neat-ish job of adpating it for you. But then you'd have twice as many phone cases as you need :-)
Hey DG! I bet Tesco sell headphones ... 😉
I assume more readers empathise with your views and customs than you assume.

Common misconception: The dB (SPL) scale that correlates to perceived volume isn't linear. You wouldn't be able to hear a lot at 50 dB while out and about. Halving of perceived volume means subtracting ca 10 dB.

dg checks phone: Sorry, 70 dB.
To turn off the headphone nanny-ing on iOS:
Settings —> Sounds & Haptics —> Headphone Safety
During lockdown I talk a walk around our local streets just before the paper and cardboard was to be collected. I couldn’t believe the volume of Amazon packaging that was waiting for collection. It is the new normal - and if you subscribe to Amazon Prime you get things delivered free of charge which then provides no disincentive to ordering on line and generally I find the online prices are cheaper than most shops
My new iPhone also unilaterally decides that headphone volume should be restricted. It also allows the user to change the setting for any bluetooth-connected device, so simply telling it that the thing I use as a headphone is a "speaker" can bypass that.
Settings -> Bluetooth -> [choose the device, click the i] -> Device type

Maybe not relevant for android users and/or non-wireless headphones, and unlikely to be seen by any of your readers who don't scroll down to the bottom of the comments of old posts, but what else would I have done with the last ten minutes, except some work?










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