Last year someone gave me a pair of Sennheiser headphones—dead ass gave them to me. I was ballin’. I got to be a homeless person with an iPhone 12 and a pair of Sennheisers. And then my idiot friend set off a series of unfortunate events that resulted in the loss of my headphones, along with everything else I owned at the time.
So last month when this very sweet devout Christian saw a comment of mine about being a homeless drug addict, and sent me $300. I bought a new pair of Sennheisers on Mercari. I’m pretty sure it was the same model even.
I finally got around to checking my mail and—the headphones are fucked off. They won’t pair or fucking anything.
I had to fight the screaming urge to slam them on the ground.
No joke, reach out to their customer support and see about getting them replaced. I got a pair that was defective (to replace a pair on warranty) and sent it back and got a working one.
Yeah, Sennheiser is usually quite generous with their warranties, one of the better companies in the audio space for it.
This would be my suggestion as well. Sennheiser should take care of you.
New rule: you don't get to fucking police someone's spending habits if you haven't fucking given them any money.
Nor if you have, for that matter. Fuck off with that moralism. Even having been homeless yourself does not give you the right to tell people how to live, you sanctimonious fucking pricks.
As far as I'm concerned every single homeless person on Earth has the God given right to beg everybody for all of the money and then piss it away on gambling, booze and drugs.
You often say, “I would give, but only to the deserving.”
The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.
They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and his nights, is worthy of all else from you.
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And who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed?
See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.
Trees give fruits so they can nut in your mouth. Or reproduce wherever you take your next dump.
You're technically correct, but it doesn't mean these words aren't upsetting me on a core level.
But yes, they give that they may live (by means of nutting in your mouth).
wait you're on here every few days asking for money but you recently dropped $300 on headphones??
Even if I hadn’t dude, that money wasn’t going to last long. Between survival-related supplies, laundry, food, my Spotify subscription, and your mom’s OnlyFans, it goes quick.
I may be about to become more self sufficient soon though.
Also, without my chapo friends sending me money I’d be extremely depressed and malnourished, and I’d just keep going downhill.
Yes. Someone gave them the money. Specifically gave them the money to buy new headphones.
Uh this person just randomly gave me $300 because I’m homeless and he believed that his Christian faith commanded him to give away such a sum. I spent some of it on a pair of headphones.
In that moment you were granted the mandate of heaven to buy yourself headphones
heard this once in either a book or sermon but it's always stuck with me as I undo my own bootstrap brainworms
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i've read plenty of different sacred texts in my life and not one says "give alms but only if you can get a full accounting of how it was spent"
If someone asks for a cloak, give them the shirt on your back also and a QuickBooks invoice to create a paper trail
yeah you're going to want a donation receipt so you can apply for a tax deduction, that's just how you incentivize the giving of means-tested alms
I had that screenshot and didn't have context, so I googled and it's from Craddock Stories by Fred Craddock. I knew the name because Jeremiah Wright once mentioned him as a preaching giant. Here's a profile from CNN.
slightly unrelated but I had to listen to my coworker complain about a homeless person he saw who was on his smartphone and smoking a cigarette yesterday. It wasn't enough to be homeless, you had to be a monk and a saint to garner his sympathy.
I'm sure you've never splurged on anything before. Being unhoused comes with the added burden of people expecting financial perfection from you. But responses like yours are literal cruelty.
$300 is now like 2 weeks of groceries, and about 15% of the cheapest monthly rent in my area.
I'd argue the psychological benefit of being able to listen to music properly outweighs that. This person doesn't need financial advice, they need levels of support that simply aren't fucking available in this country to those who have no money already.
Wow damn I read your deleted comments and you're a fuckin piece of shit, never come back fuck you
I mean imagine buying something to keep your morale up when you're stuck in a miserable situation. Send them money or shut the fuck up, and also shut the fuck up either way. Hope you suffer a tragedy soon, bye.
Finally, the unspoken truth and logic unhoused people need to hear:
"Spend money better idiot"
You should run a financial literacy class for unhoused people
They can all pull up in their Cadillacs wearing Gucci and learn to buy housing instead of avocado toast
My mind is blown just thinking about it right now, I wonder why homelessness is even a problem?
It must be because we just don't have enough people to talk down to them
What is there to possibly be gained by bringing the same kind of hounding unhoused people receive about how they spend their money found throughout capitalist society into our space? You think they don't hear that enough already?
The whole point of our mutual aid community is that you can ask for money without means testing or people bothering you about how exactly you spent it. Also, idk if you actually read their post, but the headphones money didn't even come from here.
It's not a strawman, you literally sound like one of those people when you're talking about people spending the tiny amount of money (a drop in a bucket compared to what people actually need, continuously, to survive) they get from "handouts" on "frivolous non-essential purchases" (wildly loaded words) and calling them "fucking stupid"
It's one thing to be giving advice (although unsolicited advice is often annoying) but what is it about what you're saying that is different from the average liberal just talking down to unhoused people about how they think they're spending money wrong?
You came into this calling them "fucking idiotic" so fuck you
Also you can't be racist to white people
Also you can't be racist to white people
Damn they're white too???
(I'm old AF)
Cool, so you'll be dead soon and the world will be better off for it.
watch that mad there kiddo, I just might fuck around and bang your mom.
Fuck off, if you actually read the post they never said they spent all $300 on the headphones. The headphones are ~$100 retail plus they got them off Mercari (so significant discount).
Can't tell if this is supposed to be mocking or what?
Ah rip. I hate Mercari. I tried to buy off there before for nice headphones and also got scammed but at least in this case the order fell thru and I got a refund. Only thing that confuses me, $300 for hd450bt? Those are like $180 new? Maybe Canada?
Found them for 135 on Amazon. And they obviously got them for cheaper on Mercari.
Do you have the cable and dongle to plug them in at least?
Addendum: I fully charged them and they’re still fucking off.
Any chance they just need a harder reset of some kind? Bluetooth stuff has annoying interfaces like "tap three times and hold" and things like that.
okay bear with me but you could, MAYBE, buy an identical pair on Amazon, and then when they arrive return the broken pair for a refund? idk if Amazon is smart enough to ever refuse shit like that, they seemed not to be
yes obviously this would require you to have the $$$ to make it happen, but, it might be an option rather than having some dud headphones
if you do that make sure it says it's sold/shipped by amazon and eligible for free returns or it might be a pain in the ass
If I were gonna spend money on another pair it would be a different model I think.
I mean the idea would be to replace the ones you got that are broken for free
Queen. 
