Is it normal to have earphones in ears without music and eavesdrop on people?

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I do this often in public places and on public transport. People think I'm listening to music but I'm listening to their conversations. I can't help it, people fascinate and intrigue me. I know it's nosey.
As well as eavesdropping I also like newsdropping, that's reading the front page of someone elses paper as they hold it up.

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  • q1w2e3
    10 years ago | pl

    I found your nose! Where? "In my business".

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  • howaminotmyself
    10 years ago | pl

    I do this all the time. It's especially good for listening to the ranters without grabbing their attention. And if I'm standing, the reading material of those sitting near me is game.

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    • [Old Memory]
      10 years ago

      One day they'll find you upside down in a dumpster, strangled with a pair of headphones.

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      • howaminotmyself
        10 years ago

        Why upside down?

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        • [Old Memory]
          10 years ago | pl

          For the visual aesthetic.

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  • kawaiigurl
    10 years ago

    omg how have i never thought of this

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  • Nephew7
    10 years ago

    When i do this i usually am listening to music and then when i hear something that grabs my attention i turn it down lol

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  • ___
    10 years ago

    Learn lipreading.

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  • Terence_the_viking
    10 years ago

    Dirty little secrets.

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  • KaffeInjection
    10 years ago

    NAAAH MAN.. NOT NOT NORMAL!..

    You gotta be like the FIRST HUMAN ever.. EVER on EARTH.. TO DO SUCH THINGS...

    NOT NORMAL.

    You might go to hell!

    Hell!

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      10 years ago

      Oh shit what have I done. I knew I was not like the other kids, I just kept telling myself that I could pretend but the price of doing that has taken its toll on my soul. I don't want to go to hell when I die I must repent! All my worst fears have come to fruitition. Aghast the devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is, and felt how awful goodness is

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    • BlackJohnnylicious
      10 years ago

      shut yo bitch ass mouth cracker... st0p spreadin lies bout hell yo bitch ass motherfucker.

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      • dirtybirdy
        10 years ago

        This is cute, really, but you're still not trying hard enough.

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        • BlackJohnnylicious
          10 years ago

          who da hell is u bitch?

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          • shuggy-chan
            10 years ago

            she is the absurdy birdy with a mind of a child.... so I you make her mad she'll poop on your head and then steal your cookies. you have been warned

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          • braintrip
            10 years ago

            dont talk to birdy like that dude, she'll peek ur eye out

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    • anti-hero
      10 years ago

      Fat fag.

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  • davesumba
    10 years ago

    Ummm, you do know that you can still eavesdrop in public without having anything in your ears.
    It's when your roommates are having sex that you need to put the ear buds in, so they think that you can't hear them, and they start getting into it, but little do they know, you are jacking off under the covers.

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  • IDiGAFi
    10 years ago

    Reading anything that someone else is reading... I just love it and can't help it.

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  • SplinterWingz
    10 years ago

    I love to do this, i'll just sit there pretending to be minding my own business and be listening to other peoples conversations.
    If my phone dies when i'm out and i've been listening to music, i'll just leave the earphones in and eavesdrop. XD

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  • Caps90
    10 years ago

    Hey they are the ones having a conversation in public...

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  • Half_Shock
    10 years ago

    I'll leave them in when not listening to music, but not to eavesdrop so much as to stop people from talking to me when I don't feel social.

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  • flax
    10 years ago

    Yes i used to do this when little, slightly different though. My parents would always tell each other the family goss when my sister and i webt to bed. We honed our listening skills that way and would find out all the family secrets. Slightly voyeuristic but i love it.

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  • macaroniheyo
    10 years ago

    Not completely related(okay, not related at all.) but, I HATE when my friends try to talk to me when I have my headphones in and am blatantly trying to drown them out. Like seriously? Music on, mouth off.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      10 years ago

      Why would you ignore your friends? If you're trying not to engage with them surely you can't call them friends? Oh me so confused

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      • macaroniheyo
        10 years ago

        They are my friends. I love 'em, and I usually never shut up around them. But i need my music time. I love music too much I guess. :P If we're in a car, for example, and the convo kinda dies down, i tend to immediatly start listening to my ipod, then when they try talking to me again, im always too involved with the song to pay attention. lol

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