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[ggamer]

being a teenager is hard, it's hard and noone understands.

[Mr. Strange]

I'd wear those earmuffs (is that a real word?) and sit in a living room or somewhere she couls see, just so she knows it's annoying but that's just me...

My rage; I got thi keyboard two months ago and I still haven't gotten used to it. So much typos.

[Tawa]

The kitchen is straight across from where the computer is. She can see just fine. She gets away with this crap all the time. It doesn't matter if I don't want to listen to terrible music in the car, she wants the radio on and it's on. They'll stop making it play from the nearest speaker to me, sure, but they'll grumble about it. It would be different if my dad wasn't either such a yes-man to my mom all the time or an authority freak (not sure which it is), I'm sure he'd sympathize with me.

[Frumple]

Earmuff is indeed a word. I don't think it's actually the word used for gun-range level hearing protection (I've got a set myself, for similar circumstances, and they're among the most blissful monetary investments I've ever made), but it's a word. It usually is used to describe those... ear warmer things. Basically the same construction, but more for heat retention and wind protection than sound muffling. They tend to be fuzzy and colorful.

[TD1]

I was a member of the CCF. (Combined Cadet Force)

We called them ear muffs even on the shooting range.

[Descan]

Ear Muffs or Ear Protection is what I generally hear, they're interchangeable as far as I'm concerned (although if you have two types (like, say, in-ear foam blockers as well) and just say "Get me some ear protection" then there could be confusion there, it's kind of a higher-level term)

[SOLDIER First]

Playing Dishonored and, during

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Lady Boyle's Last Party, I give Lord Shaw the note from Pendleton, then shoot his ass dead.

Once I finish the mission I find out this locks me from getting the Ghost and Clean Hands achievements, which I restarted the entire game just to get.

[Frumple]

Ear Muffs or Ear Protection is what I generally hear, they're interchangeable as far as I'm concerned (although if you have two types (like, say, in-ear foam blockers as well) and just say "Get me some ear protection" then there could be confusion there, it's kind of a higher-level term)

Ah, the actual goes-into-ear stuff does have a different name. At least around here. Ear plugs. Since that's what they do. You actually have reusable ones, as well as ones for swimming instead of sound blocking.

[Descan]

Which is my point, they say "Ear Protection", you got plugs and muffs, which do you give them?

Do you plug them or do you muff them?

[Graknorke]

Hehe. Muff.

[Wolfkit]

Whichever is higher quality. If neither is suitable, give both.

[Frumple]

Both works, yeah. It's... a pretty amazing thing, actually, if you're into quiet. There's some synergy involved. It's pretty great.

[Descan]

This person is an ear-protection Nazi. They must have ONE and ONLY ONE, and you MUST KNOW WHICH ONE THEY WANT.

But they suck at communication.

[nenjin]

I'm starting to feel like Martin Sheen in the opening of Apocalypse Now, steadily going crazy and wasting away in this hotel room. I wanna go hhhooooooommmmmeeee.

[Yoink]

Slept in, terribly late for a job network appointment and those fuckers won't answer their phone, so now I'm running a gauntlet of trains and trams without knowing if there's even any point.