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Why do headphones always get so tangled? :P

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by Techno Kid, Jun 7, 2014.

  1. Techno Kid

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    You can give a fun or serious answer. :3
     
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    Because the universe doesn't want me to listen to music!
    Even when they're in my ears they get pulled out at every opportunity. :lol:
     
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    They have crazy headphone sex in your pocket while you're not looking.

    It's why you can put a few neatly in a box and they'll be entangled the next day when you go to get a pair. They have massive orgies when humans aren't around. Only logical explanation possible.
     
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    Most logical answer, thread closed :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
     
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    Chaos theory.
     
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    This is the only logical explanation I can come up with:
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    I have no fucking clue, really.
     
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    I was going to leave an actual response... but then the thread turned into fun, I give up D:
     
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    Because they're little assholes, and they want to enslave the human race by driving us insane.

    ^^ And the price goes to~!
     
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    I have prevented my earbuds from having orgies by buying a little doochickey from amazon. it works wonders and I never have to spend any time fixing them.

    Forced chastity. :slight_smile:
     
  11. Fallingdown7

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    My mom always says It's because they're trying to get it on with other cords!
     
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    Best answer, we can all leave the thread now. :roflmao::roflmao:
     
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    I think I might just have the answer. The left and right earbuds have been sworn enemies ever since they were first manufactured many eons ago. Whenever the mortal humans aren't looking, they continue their never ending fight to the death to see who will reign as victorious. However they aren't very smart, and just end up getting tangled up.
     
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    There was actually a headphone theory on the way you place headphones in your pocket that they are bound to get tangled. Have to look that one up...


    But then perhaps they are just trying to aggravate you.
     
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    It is a near-mathematical certainty that a wire/string/hose/etc. of any length will knot in storage. To put it simply (and it gets infinitely complicated), there is only one way for a cable to be straight, but a massive number of ways it can get tangled. Scientists have found literally hundreds of separate, unique types of individual knot, or "prime knots," and they can be combined in infinite ways. You could go your whole life and never see the same knot twice.

    So any time you have a bunch of long, flexible objects (or, in the garden hose scenario, one really long object in multiple loops), the objects link in a number of places. When there's enough contact points, and the objects are long and slim enough, the chances for these objects not getting into one of those trillions of knot states is downright astronomical. The more contact points, the more possible knotted states.
    o even a little motion -- jostling the box of Christmas lights when you move it, a change in temperature causing your garden hose to shrink a tiny bit -- makes those states catastrophically accumulate, often within seconds. Put the headphones in your backpack, walk across campus, boom: You have descended into knot hell.

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