Having recently gone through the trouble of reading up a ton about them for my wife, I realised they are pretty much dispensable items. So you can go for the cheapest you can find at the quality you’re comfortable with. You can grab some decent ones off Amazon for less than R800, shipping and taxes included.
I ended up settling for the Skullcandy Sesh Evo for my wife, seeing it was on special over at Takealot on Monday. They cost R800 odd and have a decent battery life on a single charge.
I’m quite partial to my wired headsets and got myself a Razer Blackshark V2, which is a phenomenal headset. It’s light, breathable, has a THX-powered USB DAC and comes with a removable mic.
I just want them for at the office and in my car since I don’t have a fancy car radio that connects to my phone.
Its just to use with my phone/tablet instead of the usual earphones.
For now they will go onto my wishlist. (maybe if I win the brute force comp I will get that for myself :P) And I will start saving now. I had a pair that was about R500 - returned them to takealot for a full refund, since the one side had no sound
For the car I would recommend getting a USB receiver / adapter of sorts. You get those ones that receive the Bluetooth signal from your phone and broadcast to a specific FM frequency. You then just tune your car to that frequency and PRESTO, you have “streaming Bluetooth” in your car. It’s quite dangerous driving with earphones, as your situational awareness disappears.
That’s exactly the ones I got myself. They are really good for the price. Of course you can’t expect top of the range performance at the price but great nevertheless.
Nope not a chance cos then I have to pay Ford R800 for the code to unlock my radio - when I replaced the car battery we forgot the code is missing and Ford doesnt give it for free.
I normally drive with one bud in my ear and only for when I need directions. Otherwise my phone is in my handbag under my seat.
Oh and those thingies you plug into the cigarette lighter was a VERY bad idea - dunno why but in my car those dont fit properly.
Tilting at windmills here, but I would like to register my displeasure at how the term “Social Justice Warrior” has been weaponised. I’m speaking in general.
It’s right up there with WMC. While the term was already well on its way to being a general pejorative in certain extreme circles, Bell Pottinger brought it into the mainstream and weaponised it in their distract-deceive-divide-destroy campaign on behalf of the Guptas.
Unlike terms such as “libtard”, which were clearly coined to be pejorative, “Social Justice Warrior” is not inherently negative. However, it was transformed not only into a pejorative, but also into a term to generalise people with widely diverging beliefs.
Believe that everyone should have access to affordable health care? SJW.
Think historically disadvantaged people should be given a leg up to make up for the sins of the past? SJW.
Argue against the existence of biological sex? SJW.
Argue that trans people deserve special care and even special consideration because of the high suicide rates among them? SJW.
Argue that maybe not all trans women or intersex people should be allowed to compete in the female events at the Olympics without certain restrictions in place? Anti-SJW.
Argue for forcing people to use latinx rather than latino/latina? SJW.
Argue that people should be allowed to use latinx rather than latino/latina if they so wish? SJW.
Argue for forcing people to use an expanded list of English pronouns? SJW.
Argue that people should be allowed to use an expanded list of English pronouns if they so wish? SJW.
Hopefully I’ve made my point. Somehow if you argue just one of the points above you get lumped into one category or the other where people assume you stand for all of the issues linked to that group. Even if your views are on a divergent spectrum you end up getting lumped into one of two camps.
It’s a new kind of tribalism. Culture wars, identity politics. It’s just the same old us-and-them, divide-and-rule tactics rebadged for the 21st century.
I can dislike Biden while disliking Trump more. I can like Ramaphosa while liking Terror Lekota and Herman Mashaba more.
I can disagree with people on abortion and religion without hating them, so long as we have a mutual respect for one another.
The world needs to get out of this us-and-them hatecycle, or I fear we’re all just doomed to be the pawns of populists over and over again.
On the topic of neatly categorising people, I would like to quote the great poet Johan “Johnny” de Ridder (I’ve translated it so that everyone can hopefully enjoy the joke ):
Reguleer my, roetineer my
Regulate me, force a routine on me
Plaas my in 'n boks en merk dit veilig
Stick me in a box and mark it safe
Stuur my dan waarheen al die dose gaan
Then pack me off to where they send all the boxes (double entendre, pejorative: vaginas, similar to “dick” or “asshole”)
I have been an old school feminist for most of my life but I really do not like where a lot of this is going. You are absolutely correct in your analysis (in my divergent opinion) about a divergent spectrum of views and polarisation.
Somehow our childhood rhyme of “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never harm me” was forgotten, people got mentally weak, I don’t really know. But in this age words harm greatly now.
One example that comes to mind is ‘Redneck’ it was a negative stereotype and was adopted and embraced and the original meaning ceased to have its bite.
Like how “literally” has come to mean “figuratively” and “irregardless” is now an actual word in some dictionary?
I acknowledge that the meanings of words (and symbols) can change, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it.
For example, especially in the 80s and 90s the pentagram had become associated with satanism in Western culture. It used to be the symbol of the Pythagoreans and it is a mathematically significant shape as it contains the golden ratio. Thanks to mass hysteria the pentagram was completely off-limits as a symbol while growing up in a religious household.
Also there is a difference between the meaning of a word, phrase, or symbol being changed, and using a word or phrase to lump people or ideas in categories rather than deal with them on an individual basis.
That’s the power of words and language. Orwell recognised it, which is why it’s a key feature in 1984.
That’s a rhyme parents tell their children to help them cope with schoolyard bullying. Because the fact is that words can and do hurt and no-one knows that better than children, because holy moly are we cruel to one another when we’re young.
Yes words don’t inflict physical pain, but attacking the psyche can often be just as effective as attacking the physical. That’s why countries employed propaganda during wartime… Dropping demoralising pamphlets on one another’s soldiers, driving around with a megaphone and proclaiming just how wrong and screwed the other side is.
Let’s not pretend that words can’t hurt or that only the weak can be hurt by words. Under the right circumstances, even the strongest of us can be brought low by the right word at the wrong time.
I much prefer a more modern childhood moral, written by beloved the now controversial children’s and YA author J.K. Rowling in the voice of her character Albus Dumbledore:
“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”
Sure, there are a few examples where groups who are the subject of pejoratives will turn it into armour, or a word of community. In the U.S. the “n-word” which is widely used in hip-hop comes to mind.
However, we as outsiders are not welcome to use that word, even in its non-pejorative context.
In South Africa a word that comes to mind is “Dutchman” or “Boertjie”. Even as someone of Afrikaans descent myself, in certain Afrikaans groups I have been told in no uncertain terms that my use of the word “Dutchman”, regardless of context, was not welcome.
I’ve been so happily engaged in conversation today that I didn’t stop to think about everyone else participating on this thread topic.
From experience, I know that a lot of folks don’t like big debates. If you are put off by discussions like this, please let me know. Either here in #threadkiller, or via PM if you prefer.
I’ve really missed having deep, spirited discussions about stuff and this forum is the first place I’ve felt safe to do so in awhile. Maybe that’s an illusion, as it is a public forum after all. Regardless, I’m a firm believer that steel sharpens steel.
Your ideas / ideals / beliefs are refined when they are challenged. When you go for your PhD, you have to defend it. When you publish new scientific knowledge, it is scrutenised and challenged.
Our academic, scientific, and legal traditions are based on adversarial systems. Yet nuanced, edifying debate seems to have left our public discourse. Debates are all about “destroying” your opponent. The other side always has to “get rekt”.
I remember a time not so long ago when there was sportsmanship in debating. Mutual respect amongst opponents, where both sides recognise that you need a strong opponent to bring out your very best. Maybe I’m just being nostalgic, but I miss that. (I’ve been watching a lot of old debates on hot-button topics featuring the likes of Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry, which is possibly where this is coming from.)
Anyway… if it’s all too aggressive for y’all, please let me know and we’ll get a room
Nope, none that I can see, also can’t set like a default path for it to just download/install everything, you only get the option of where you want to install the game(s) when you actually click on “install”. At this moment in time EPIC store is better than The Microsoft store…
I can totally relate to that. I was raised by an old school feminist — one whose views align more with those of Camille Paglia. Equal rights, equal opportunity, but she finds stuff like a Ministry of Women, Children, and People with Disabilities patronising.
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