Wires
Every day I carefully place my iPhone charging cable and headphones into a reasonably roomy zip-up pocket in my bag, taking care not to wrap them around each other. And every morning when I get to work the two are inextricably tangled in a series of knots so complicated, they would have Lord Baden-Powell himself so puzzled, he'd stop wanking over kids, stroke his luxuriant moustache and murmur "I say..."

HOW?
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 16 Jul 2012, 16:37, 4 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

Sleep bumming.

(Bazongaloid, Mon 16 Jul 2012, 16:39, Reply)

Can't be
I understand that
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 16 Jul 2012, 16:42, Reply)

Gremlins
Doesn't matter how many wires, how big the box, or how neatly coiled, given time it will always turn to spaghetti.
The only way to stop them is to put each wire in a separate bag and kitchen tie the neat coil together, which is just a bit anal.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 16 Jul 2012, 16:43, Reply)

This is perfectly logical but involves effort
as does calling a team of crack Gremlin exterminators
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 16 Jul 2012, 16:46, Reply)

I did have a set of headphones that solved this..
they came in a little case that incorporated a cable reel as well. The phones were shit but the case worked, maybe try local pound shop?
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 16 Jul 2012, 16:49, Reply)

My cans suck the wire up into themselves

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 16 Jul 2012, 16:51, Reply)

That's actually not a bad idea
Cheers
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 16 Jul 2012, 16:51, Reply)

nuff said

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 16 Jul 2012, 16:56, Reply)

Apparently, it's "Spontaneous knotting of an agitated string"
www.scienceworld.ca/swog/why-do-my-earphones-tangle-so-much

There you go. SCIENCE.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Mon 16 Jul 2012, 16:46, Reply)

Ironically, this is exactly why I don't trust science
They just make stuff up and say "See? SCIENCE." The world would be a better place if the generally accepted answer to my question, and many others such as how the fuck a tiny stone magically materialises inside your shoe when you have a long way to walk and it's raining, was "Fucking magic, mate. That's just the way it is."

See also; why the sun always goes in when you put sunglasses on, supposedly hilarious monkeys being asleep whenever you swing by their cage and Craig David's popularity in the early 2000's even though no-one bought his records.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 16 Jul 2012, 16:57, Reply)

somehow I knew entropy would be in that
it's next to the ursine arborial defecation study.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 16 Jul 2012, 16:58, Reply)

Entropy, Foxo
Entropy. Millions of combinations possible for a tangled up cable, only one possible combination for a tidy cable. Every time you move even slightly, it moves the cable and changes the pattern.
( Kroney, Mon 16 Jul 2012, 17:00, Reply)