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One pleasant side-effect of these is when we all start flying again it'll be even easier to find the SFO airport gate. Currently you can just look for the one
by fossuser 6y ago
One pleasant side-effect of these is when we all start flying again it'll be even easier to find the SFO airport gate.
Currently you can just look for the one with >50% Airpod use, but that's hard to see from a distance.
These are much easier.
- shash7 6y agoLmao
- hombre_fatal 6y agoFwiw, the delivery and implication of the first sentence was good enough to end there.
- pwthornton 6y agoAgreed. You have to believe in your joke and be OK that some people won't be hit over the head with it.
- fossuser 6y agoI honestly wasn't going for a one-liner joke, I really do find the SFO gate this way when walking towards it. Being HN, I figured I'd explicitly spell it out. On Twitter you'd be right.
- rameshs 6y agoIs it embarrassing to admit, op helped me understand the joke with the additional lines?
- tF73d78kq8t3R6n 6y agoI’m right there with you. Perhaps I’m extra dense because Florida.
- exmadscientist 6y agoPerhaps you, like me, were thrown because the first line is actually wrong. "The SFO airport gate" is actually "one of the gates at SFO", which is to say, it's a gate in San Francisco Airport. The better phrasing would be "gate for SFO". With that change, the first sentence lands perfectly for me (at least as far as I can tell). A single word can make or break the whole thing. Jokes are interesting like that.
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- slowwriter 6y agoThis is the most HN discussion of a joke I've ever seen.
- fsflover 6y agoBut... it wasn't a joke!
- slowwriter 6y agoHahaha, that just makes it even funnier! :D
- onlinejk 6y ago"... lands perfectly..." claps vehemently
- SZJX 6y agoExactly lol. Spent a minute trying to wrap my head around how the hell would one be able to find the gate to an airport while driving/taking public transport, by looking at other people's headphones.
- booleandilemma 6y agoAnd you don’t even need an /s tag!
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- h0l0cube 6y agoThe intention doesn't have to always default to snark. People are permitted to make plain old observations on this forum, I think.
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- the_arun 6y agoHeadphones market is a crowded place. Apple with this expensive headset may be addressing very small segment of the users. I'll wait for SE model. $500 for headphones doesn't sound good to me :)
- dzhiurgis 6y agoLightning port is the biggest disappointment so far, but I’m sure there will be more. Does it work without Apple Music subscription?
- jonplackett 6y agoAnd yet they’re already nearly sold out for pre-Xmas delivery...
- DSingularity 6y agoHow do you know that?
- Austin_Conlon 6y agoEstimated delivery date from the online store.
- kensai 6y agoSure, but that might be because they produced very small numbers to portray an artificial scarcity and name it "demand". Not convinced.
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- torgian 6y agoThere are headphones in that price range that are much better sounding too, I bet.
- acwan93 6y agoAirPods, Away bags, and Allbirds.
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- tlapinsk 6y agoThis is way too accurate lol
- thecompilr 6y agoI’m in this picture and I don’t like it
- fossuser 6y agoTom Bihn for me, but I could be persuaded to fall in-line if necessary.
- sorum 6y agoAdd the Patagonia and an oversized Yeti water bottle and you've got yourself the VC starter kit
- Austin_Conlon 6y agoNow imagine what Apple Glasses will do for navigation.
- floatingatoll 6y agoThis method is also effective for finding the Austin gates during SXSW, while at SFO. There’s a noticeably higher concentration of early adopters than the default airport mix and it’s apparent from a couple gates away.