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April 27, 2007
Listen Up!
I am a horrible eavesdropper. I like to blame this on being, "curious about the world," rather than, "unable to mind my own business." That seems like a legitimate distinction right? I was an anthro major after all -- I just haven't been able to shake my ethnographer's yoke, right?
Anyway, I saw this ad this evening for the Listen Up V3, your personal amplifier. And the mind reeled. I mean, wasn't this your dream in junior high, to know exactly what the evil girls across the lunchroom were saying about you? (probably nothing. you weren't even a blip on their sparkly-lipped radar, sadly.) And omniscence is yours for the bargain price of $14.99!
Yeah. I didn't buy it. The temptation would be too great. Some powers are best left unhad.
In other news, two of the spam comments I deleted this evening were "13 year-old penis length" and "injured penis vein." I am just happy that these subjects are completely foreign to me. Much like Theories of International Law, about which I will be writing a 30-page paper starting on Monday.
Posted by jen at April 27, 2007 01:32 AM
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Oooooh, I think I want one of those! Though my husband might never go out in public with me again... he already gets annoyed when we're out to dinner and I shush him because of the interesting conversation at another table near us. Oh, and it's definitely just "curious about the world". I like to come up with entire life stories in my head about the people. I don't ever (well, hardly) repeat what I've heard. I just find it interesting!
Posted by: sbukophile at April 27, 2007 07:22 AM
Oh, I eavesdrop all the time, sometimes to the detriment of my paying attention to whomever I'm actually talking to at the time. Oh well.
Posted by: Gloria at April 27, 2007 08:56 AM
Oooooh...I so want one of those now!
Posted by: Chris at April 27, 2007 12:09 PM
I too love to eavesdrop. But don't we all?
Posted by: Dagny at April 28, 2007 08:02 AM
the thing that makes me really curious when watching that commercial is whether or not you actually have to hold it up in the air they way to do in order to listen in on conversations. that would seem to contradict the whole concept of eavesdropping.
Posted by: Penny at April 29, 2007 01:54 AM
I think I would have loved to have this in junior high and high school, although I'm not sure it would have actually been "healthy" to hear everything that people have to say. Still, I'm the paranoid type, and I assume the worst anyway. In reality, I'm sure that most of the time, people weren't saying anything remotely related to me anyway. Isn't it funny how we think people are always talking about us?
As far as eavesdropping goes, I'm completely paranoid about other people listening in on my conversations. In fact, I try to speak quietly at restaurants most of the time so the people next to me can't easily listen. I don't actively try to listen to other people's conversations but it happens. I find that in 99% of the cases, their conversation is pretty boring or stupid anyway. Yes, I'm a judgmental bitch.
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