Originally Posted by sidelinesam

Feel free to flame away, but I don't understand what the big deal is about wearing earbuds. It's the best defense against stupid questions from pax - or toolbox, self-righteous pilots who would only trash someone on a message board and not have the nerve to call someone out to their face.

That being said, us pilots are all nerds and dorks in different ways. Glass houses and stones and what and what...