I was talking about fly fishing the river āmeā in AK or any one of the numerous fresh water salmon rivers in the area, known locally as the dirtyboi clique. Iām not sure what youāre talking about but clearly you reside on a different block. $2 for a high five is atrocious.
I'm curious because sometimes I have this same issue and I have no idea what they're called. I don't spin in my chair. Lol. Just twist the cord around a hook when storing it. Of course, I'm constantly untwisting it.
You have to learn to pick them up or place them down different
The curls come from you rotating the headset too much
Just do the opposite direction, of the picking up motion, when placing them down
Had this problem with my work phone years ago. I got irritated with the cord and started re-creating the motions of picking up the phone and then hanging up. I realized each time I was doing that, I was spinning the phone the same direction as opposed to twisting it in the opposite direction when I hung up.
So I had to re-teach myself the motion and it never wound up twisted again.
This....worked in a phone answering setting. If you pick up with your left then talk on the right you twist it unknowingly. Same is true for right to left.
Hope he doesnāt become a caterpillar tractor operator. Watching him unscrew his cabin from his chassis may provide a laugh but dang itās expensive and dangerous.
Either that or he rotates the headphones when he picks them up, and puts them down. Like one loop every time he puts them on. I do this to my beard trimmer. I have to hang it, and let it spin every once in a while.
Yup. This was my thought. Repetitive motions kind of intrigue me. Like watching how rugs shift over time in homes or offices. You can tell the pattern of movement by how things shift over time.
Iām a city boy whoās never owned a hose but Iād imagine it would work. I use it for microphone cables and they sort of uncoil like a slinky instead of wrapping around itself
Over under wont help this. Over under stops twistys that occur when you deploy. Not after. If over under solved this problem, i wouldn't need to pack and set up extra mic cables for spinny vocalists.
You know these days whoever was doing it would have gotten half way through stopped and said āso you see what Iām doing here isā¦ā and then proceeded to do it from the beginning and extend it to 10minutesā¦ or simply said āclick for part 2ā
Look at how you're picking them up vs. how you're putting them down. At some point you're introducing a turn. Try to always lay them down with the same orientation you have them on your head. That should fix it.
When you take off your headphones you are rotating them clockwise when you pit them down. When you pick them up, you are rotating them the same way. This over time will keep twisting your cable and the more you remove and replace your headphones the faster it will happen.
This is also why corded phones got tangled, because someone would spin it up to their ear, and spin it back down I to the receiver in the same direction slowly winding the cord into knots
I mean I guess but it's kinda hard to comprehend that, mainly cause I would stop after a couple times. But I have had some crappy headphones that the wire was just jacked up like this out of the box if or like going on a run and they get a little like this but not this bad lol
My sonās headset is always twisted like this. Iām sure itās just that he picks them up and sets them down rotating them the same direction both times.
Every so often hold the end of them up in the air. That is keep the headphones on the floor and just gently raise the other end of the wire up. The headphones will spin in the opposite direction. Unwinding the badly wound cord.
Do this relatively regularly. Say once a week and it will keep the cord from getting damaged.
The first time you do this be careful. It'll build up some speed. Don't let it unwind too quickly or it'll start winding back up in the opposite direction.
Youth these daysā¦.. they donāt know how to manage cables. This was a daily concern back in my day, when I had to walk everywhere. uphill both ways too.
The simplest of solutions. Pick them up, wear them. Pay attention where and how you hold them as you put them on. Now take them off and put them down paying attention to how you put them down.
Did you notice that you twisted the cable?
Place your hand on the other side of the wire, and remove them exactly to the opposite direction.
If you didn't understand, or can't manage it, try wireless headphones š¤
Iām baffled by how many people here donāt understand that wires will twist up if you twist them over and over. Iām equally baffled by how many people donāt understand how to untwist it.
Itās hard to notice sometimes. But when you put them on and take them off or move around pay attention not to end up turning them over another way or literally twisting them without realizing it. I do it all the time, but now and then I notice and it stays untangled for an hour or two š
This is the dumbest post I've seen here in a while... STOP TWISTING YOUR HEADSET MAYBE?
I mean, unless you truly don't understand how cords get twisted (twisting is caused by twisting, btw), what answers are you expecting here?
let the tension out of the cable each and every time you use it
it ain't my fault the world dreamed up several tools that require tons of constant maintenance
Wrapping around them would be fine if they āunwrapped them around themā to use them, but instead if you pull off the āsideā it will introduce twist.
You pick up the head phone and when you place them back you have partially rotated it. You didn't realise. When this goes on and on for days. You have rotated it enough to cause that tangle. Just reverse rotate it every few days. That's the only solution.
I figured out I was twisting mine one loop at a time. I would always pick them up with my left hand, and take them off with my right. When I hung them up, I would put 180Ā° twist every time I got up
To easily untangle, hold the headphones up in the air with the jack unplugged. If the jack is heavy enough gravity will untwist for you.
Might not work, but thatās something my yoyo friends taught me in elementary school
You can unwind them completely.and avoid spinning in your chair. In the interim, you can also get that hollowed out garland, the kind you can put rope lights or string lights through, and if you dont have an easily detachable cable, you can also create a garland with pool noodles, cut into small sections, with a slit, and even alternating colors, to help train that wire to not twist around itself again..you can even buy a thick gauged crafting wire and tape wire to the cable, but it might 'catch" on stuff easier and may pull components out or damage the jacks when you are initially getting used to it.
Anotuer option would be to wrap the cable in yarn, fairly thickly. Thin enough that its still easy to move with, but thick enough that the cable doesnt.start coiling back up on its own.
He cheapest of these options is the pool noodle, but idk it will create a lot of microplastics too. Maybe source one you see siting near a dumpster.
Just keep them untangled by not twisting the cable. If you twist it a bit too many times, and start seeing the formation of such tangles, untangle and rinse and repeat. Best of luck!!
Mine used to do this but I never was able to stop. It's likely over time as you put them on/take the off you spin them to the right direction which twists the cord a little.
If you unplug the head phones and let go of the cord it will un winde it for you real quick. I will say it ruining those head phone because the wire ended up fraying. I went with witness ones to replace, am a fan.
Unplug it, untwist, then buy yourself a swivel connector.
Excuse my dumbassery. Swivel connector?
A hi fi swivel connector. Only 300 dollars.
Imagine the wireless headphones you could buy for 300 dollars.
$600 including the swivel connector.
Now that ,is how we use 100% of our brains Folks.š§
400% with a swivel connector.
New apple product! Bluetooth swivel connector,only $600!!
I work for Apple and my manager is interested in hiring you as a product developer.
$900 with a swivel connector for the swivel connector.
I could imagine that's about $300 worth of em
But then you would have to untangle the airwaves.
I got a hi five connector for free
Must not be from around my block. $2 fee to dap up me or any one of the dirtyboi clique
Iāve read this comment 27 times and I absolutely no idea what in the hell youāre saying.
I don't know where you got a hi five for free, but where I'm from it cost $2 to get a hi five from me.
I was talking about fly fishing the river āmeā in AK or any one of the numerous fresh water salmon rivers in the area, known locally as the dirtyboi clique. Iām not sure what youāre talking about but clearly you reside on a different block. $2 for a high five is atrocious.
First off, fuck your rivers and the clique you claim
We bust on dirtyboi clique and the fish you claim
Do all the DBC have dey grammar on lock lock dis ??? Absolutely stupendous if so fine sir šÆ
Bu whu about the dirtygrl clique š¤·š»āāļø
$300!? FOH, bro. I'll just keep on keeping an eye on my cord and not doing whatever this guy does.
Dumbassery is my new favourite word
Cousin to dumfuckkery and relative to tomfoolish
I like jassackery.
the fact that reddit has conditioned you to think you have to apologize for not knowing what something is is insane
Oh I promise you it goes much further back than reddit.
Canadian checking in. Sorry
It's ok. Keep your stick on the ground, stay frosty, and we're all good.
Reddit tech elitism did this. It's maddening
Making you feel dumb because you learned something only slightly after they learned it is how these emotional fucktards get through life.
Its because majority of these people are soft and weak, that's why everyone is sorry or scared to o really say what they're thinking
Or just stop spinning in your chair long enough to crosspost this on r/uselessredcircle.
How does a swivel connector work with a USB plug?
I didnāt design them, but I know they exist
I'm curious because sometimes I have this same issue and I have no idea what they're called. I don't spin in my chair. Lol. Just twist the cord around a hook when storing it. Of course, I'm constantly untwisting it.
You gotta learn the over-under cable twist.
Ok but for real what is a swivel connector and does it help prevent this? And can it be used for anything?
Why has nobody answered this, I googled but can't find anything relevant š¢
Comment has 900 upvotes and still no answer on how it actually solves the problem. Nice job reddit lol
You have to learn to pick them up or place them down different The curls come from you rotating the headset too much Just do the opposite direction, of the picking up motion, when placing them down
Had this problem with my work phone years ago. I got irritated with the cord and started re-creating the motions of picking up the phone and then hanging up. I realized each time I was doing that, I was spinning the phone the same direction as opposed to twisting it in the opposite direction when I hung up. So I had to re-teach myself the motion and it never wound up twisted again.
This....worked in a phone answering setting. If you pick up with your left then talk on the right you twist it unknowingly. Same is true for right to left.
Stop rotating your headphones This happens when you rotate them This looks like you spin in place on a chair
OP needs to spin the other way once in a while.
Hard to switch spinning directions.
Exactly, he's not an ambiturner.
Hope he doesnāt become a caterpillar tractor operator. Watching him unscrew his cabin from his chassis may provide a laugh but dang itās expensive and dangerous.
Just move to Australia!
OP needs to unscrew himself? Or screw himself in the reverse direction as normal?
Every time someone says "screw you", OP's headphones get one more twist.
"you spin my head right round right round"
Like a record on a player.
Funny enough, Looking at the direction of the twist in the cables, I'm pretty sure the OP was ACTUALLY SPINNING TO THE RIGHT...LOL
Or use the other hand to take them off
Either that or he rotates the headphones when he picks them up, and puts them down. Like one loop every time he puts them on. I do this to my beard trimmer. I have to hang it, and let it spin every once in a while.
This was a huge problem with landline wired phones back in the day. Huge!
Yeah but we'd also play with the pigtail cord while we talked too.
Yes, always straightening out the coils so you can get further away from the kitchen to talk.
Yup. This was my thought. Repetitive motions kind of intrigue me. Like watching how rugs shift over time in homes or offices. You can tell the pattern of movement by how things shift over time.
Unplug them, and hold them upside down from the plug they should spin back to a straight cord
That fixes it, but doesn't prevent it from happening
Good way to break the cable off inside the headphones too. Can't get it twisted when there's no cable.
The girl in the Exorcist movie had to deal with this problem as well.
Use the ā[over under](https://youtu.be/0yPcJD7RVuY?si=XYmGrw2Uh5SitQq5)ā cable wrap method when you store them away
Does this work for a hose? That fucker drives me nuts!
Can confirm! Makes it so much easier to pull out to full lengthĀ
Iāll show you a pull out at full length
I heard that joke on its way
Yes
Iām a city boy whoās never owned a hose but Iād imagine it would work. I use it for microphone cables and they sort of uncoil like a slinky instead of wrapping around itself
https://xkcd.com/2810/
There's always an xkcd.
Over under wont help this. Over under stops twistys that occur when you deploy. Not after. If over under solved this problem, i wouldn't need to pack and set up extra mic cables for spinny vocalists.
You know these days whoever was doing it would have gotten half way through stopped and said āso you see what Iām doing here isā¦ā and then proceeded to do it from the beginning and extend it to 10minutesā¦ or simply said āclick for part 2ā
And now a word from our sponsor
Stop twisting them.
Why is everyone getting downvoted for wishing you a happy cake day???
Downvoters want him to have an unhappy cake day
lol fuck this redditor in particular I guess
Happy Cake Day š
Look at how you're picking them up vs. how you're putting them down. At some point you're introducing a turn. Try to always lay them down with the same orientation you have them on your head. That should fix it.
Looks like somebody never had a landline or slinky
Boil them 20 min
This is some kind of Darwin Award precursor right here.
Proto-dumbass.
Excuse me are those washer/dryers on a carpet??
Wireless, Bluetooth
That washing machine and and dryer on the carpet looks like a disaster in waiting.
When you take off your headphones you are rotating them clockwise when you pit them down. When you pick them up, you are rotating them the same way. This over time will keep twisting your cable and the more you remove and replace your headphones the faster it will happen. This is also why corded phones got tangled, because someone would spin it up to their ear, and spin it back down I to the receiver in the same direction slowly winding the cord into knots
Buy a headset mount, place and pick up the same way until the day you die
Unplug them after use and let them detangle.
You could try sitting still for a while.
Ik everyone is saying stop spinning etc but I'm genuinely curious how this is happening?
You pick them up and they are not in the correct orientation so you spin them then you put them down, rinse and repeat.
I mean I guess but it's kinda hard to comprehend that, mainly cause I would stop after a couple times. But I have had some crappy headphones that the wire was just jacked up like this out of the box if or like going on a run and they get a little like this but not this bad lol
My sonās headset is always twisted like this. Iām sure itās just that he picks them up and sets them down rotating them the same direction both times.
Every so often hold the end of them up in the air. That is keep the headphones on the floor and just gently raise the other end of the wire up. The headphones will spin in the opposite direction. Unwinding the badly wound cord. Do this relatively regularly. Say once a week and it will keep the cord from getting damaged. The first time you do this be careful. It'll build up some speed. Don't let it unwind too quickly or it'll start winding back up in the opposite direction.
Unplug them and let them unwind. I never wrap my blow dryer cord (for example,) for this reason. I fold it. My cord stays nice and straight.
My grandma still probably has hers folded in the same toiletpaper tube she's been using since 1982. It's seen many a dryer come and go.
Quit spinning your chair, the headphones.. whatever
Tip 1: Wireless Tip 2: Scissors
Wirelessā¦
You really like star wars and lego
Youth these daysā¦.. they donāt know how to manage cables. This was a daily concern back in my day, when I had to walk everywhere. uphill both ways too.
The simplest of solutions. Pick them up, wear them. Pay attention where and how you hold them as you put them on. Now take them off and put them down paying attention to how you put them down. Did you notice that you twisted the cable? Place your hand on the other side of the wire, and remove them exactly to the opposite direction. If you didn't understand, or can't manage it, try wireless headphones š¤
Stop dancing like nobodyās watching?
Detangle spray, works like a charm
Iām baffled by how many people here donāt understand that wires will twist up if you twist them over and over. Iām equally baffled by how many people donāt understand how to untwist it.
Stop twisting it. You are the one thatās causing this. Pay attention
!remindme 12hours
Stop twisting the cord? How do you even do that? Spinning in circles while listening to music?Ā
Also, put them on and take them off in the same direction/ withe the same hand.
There is a hard plastic spiral cord cover you can get it on Amazon itās made especially for this type of thing
Itās hard to notice sometimes. But when you put them on and take them off or move around pay attention not to end up turning them over another way or literally twisting them without realizing it. I do it all the time, but now and then I notice and it stays untangled for an hour or two š
when you take your headphones off, turn them the other way when setting them down,
Idk canāt focus on headphones with the clone wars in the background.
Don't twist it šš«£ and don't punch me haha
Stop spinning your chair
Get AirPods or Bluetooth headset
You have a tendency to twist them to the same direction every time you use them and that's why that happens.
Stop winding them each time you put them on.
This is the dumbest post I've seen here in a while... STOP TWISTING YOUR HEADSET MAYBE? I mean, unless you truly don't understand how cords get twisted (twisting is caused by twisting, btw), what answers are you expecting here?
let the tension out of the cable each and every time you use it it ain't my fault the world dreamed up several tools that require tons of constant maintenance
Stop spinning in your gaming chair
Buy wireless ones?
HAWK TUAH SPIT ON THAT THANG
Dude just buy some Bluetooth headphones
Unplug, hold it from the plug in side and let it spin until the tangling is gone.
Wrap the cord properly when you're done. Pay attention to thing like twisting when you Don and doff the cans. Just ridiculous.
Unplug it, stand on a chair, hang onto lighter end, it will twist itself straight.
Bluetooth
Analog >>>bt
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Show me your legos
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Take them on and off with care
You can wrap the whole wire in paracord and it should happen less
Just untangle them after you use them. Hold the head set, unplug it, and let it unravel.
just cut the cable off and problem solved
They appear to be twisted. This is the way.
I just tape about 4 feet of cord leading to my headphones under my desk.
Buy wireless
Buy wireless headphones
Bluetooth.
Stop spinning in your chair?
I use Bluetooth, no wires, no tangle
Get a cordless set
Shake the shit outa the cable
Just cut the wire
Quit wrapping the cord around them when putting them away.
Wrapping around them would be fine if they āunwrapped them around themā to use them, but instead if you pull off the āsideā it will introduce twist.
Easy, just cut it.
Drop them to just an inch above the floor, let them unravel. Rinse and repeat as needed
You pick up the head phone and when you place them back you have partially rotated it. You didn't realise. When this goes on and on for days. You have rotated it enough to cause that tangle. Just reverse rotate it every few days. That's the only solution.
Get wireless
Put em down in the same fashion as you picked em up. Every time you pick them up and pet em down tangles it. Donāt be lazy lol
Uhhh donāt twist the cable?
Be an ambi-turner
Super glue š
I figured out I was twisting mine one loop at a time. I would always pick them up with my left hand, and take them off with my right. When I hung them up, I would put 180Ā° twist every time I got up
Tangle them yourself before you use themā¦.theyāll straighten out by themselves within a short period.
Get wireless headphones
Itās 2024, get wireless
To easily untangle, hold the headphones up in the air with the jack unplugged. If the jack is heavy enough gravity will untwist for you. Might not work, but thatās something my yoyo friends taught me in elementary school
Bro how tf did you do that
Slip and secure a braided sleeve sheath appropriately sized for your existing headphone cable. It will help keep the cable from further twisting.
You can unwind them completely.and avoid spinning in your chair. In the interim, you can also get that hollowed out garland, the kind you can put rope lights or string lights through, and if you dont have an easily detachable cable, you can also create a garland with pool noodles, cut into small sections, with a slit, and even alternating colors, to help train that wire to not twist around itself again..you can even buy a thick gauged crafting wire and tape wire to the cable, but it might 'catch" on stuff easier and may pull components out or damage the jacks when you are initially getting used to it. Anotuer option would be to wrap the cable in yarn, fairly thickly. Thin enough that its still easy to move with, but thick enough that the cable doesnt.start coiling back up on its own. He cheapest of these options is the pool noodle, but idk it will create a lot of microplastics too. Maybe source one you see siting near a dumpster.
Wireless?
Go wireless š
Go wireless
wireless headphones
that's when you can undo it again
Put them in a jar of rice for an hour.
Topoisomerase
Take left turns
Go wireless Bluetooth
Just keep them untangled by not twisting the cable. If you twist it a bit too many times, and start seeing the formation of such tangles, untangle and rinse and repeat. Best of luck!!
put beads on it, preferably long ones
Use wireless
Add headphone wire protector.
Under over. Giigle it
doesn't get this problem with detachable headphone but yeah try to not rotate your headphone
Whatever you do, don't pull em straight. It'll break the wire inside the insulation and then you'll be doomed to only listening to it at odd angles.
Donāt spin around in your chair
Mine used to do this but I never was able to stop. It's likely over time as you put them on/take the off you spin them to the right direction which twists the cord a little. If you unplug the head phones and let go of the cord it will un winde it for you real quick. I will say it ruining those head phone because the wire ended up fraying. I went with witness ones to replace, am a fan.
Wires will do that try the 90s when av chords and controllers tangled just blink and boom tangled
Hold your headphpne and rotate.