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UTUSN

(70,685 posts)
Wed Aug 27, 2014, 01:09 PM Aug 2014

Incredibly annoying sounds/sights/whatever in proximity to you. Here're mine:

* Crunching chips. Not everybody's, not all crunchy items: Just somebody close to me who will go nameless. I actually have to leave. It's more like the style of crunching from this person, a big zesty *crunch* at the beginning followed by a seemingly interminable crunch crunch crunch.

* Slurping. Same person.

* Answering unintelligibly with food in the mouth. Same person.

* Scenes in movies of somebody embracing a toilet to throw up in. For some reason, screenwriters find this to be incredibly appealing, since they put it into so many movies.

* PDA(s) anywhere, by anyone.

* Sound tracks of movie sex scenes. Hmmm, is there a pattern developing here?!1 EDITing to add: If it don't involve me, I don't wanna hear or see it.

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Incredibly annoying sounds/sights/whatever in proximity to you. Here're mine: (Original Post) UTUSN Aug 2014 OP
Thunder cars. TV/stereo from other apartments. Most synthetic fragrances. valerief Aug 2014 #1
All of those are hereby added to my list. n/t UTUSN Aug 2014 #2
. rug Aug 2014 #3
Ummm...are you pipi_k Aug 2014 #4
Haha, O.K., I'll cop to one of those: I seldom eat hard candy, but when I do I crunch it!1 And my UTUSN Aug 2014 #5
Children's circle-time songs at preschool. Quantess Aug 2014 #6
Everybody now....The wheels on......oooops sorry. nt clarice Aug 2014 #9
Funny, reallly funny, Clarice. Quantess Aug 2014 #49
That's not as bad as DamnYankeeInHouston Aug 2014 #40
For YOU, maybe. Quantess Aug 2014 #44
The shrieking edhopper Aug 2014 #7
You can say that again MizzM Aug 2014 #50
Yes the love the effect edhopper Aug 2014 #54
Rosie Perez. nt clarice Aug 2014 #8
FTW geardaddy Aug 2014 #29
Leaf blowers locks Aug 2014 #10
lawn mowers on a sleepy summer's day rurallib Aug 2014 #18
try it at noon when you work 12 hour night shifts Skittles Aug 2014 #62
SCHEDULING LEAF BLOWERS FOR MASSIVE ASS-KICKING steve2470 Aug 2014 #67
absolutely leaf blowers! orleans Aug 2014 #51
At night, when I'm trying to get to sleep, The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2014 #11
I end up yelling ENOUGH ALREADY and doing the foot shove Skittles Aug 2014 #12
or when I'm trying to sleep - LiberalElite Aug 2014 #20
LOL, that too. The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2014 #21
I don't like to hear whistling Skittles Aug 2014 #13
OMZ, well of*COURSE* it would have to be the ONE thing *I* do!1 Plus, mine is high pitched piercing UTUSN Aug 2014 #14
I WILL KICK YOUR VERY FINE HIGH PITCHED PIERCING ASS Skittles Aug 2014 #15
I've had people stare daggers at me for singing along at "The Marriage of Figaro". Manifestor_of_Light Aug 2014 #52
Whistling alarimer Aug 2014 #16
My best work was while cleaning the bilges of my ship. It was a wonderful echo chamber. UTUSN Aug 2014 #17
I hate whistling too. Why not burst out in song when they are whistling? nt raccoon Aug 2014 #70
GUM SNAPPING!!!!!!!!!!!! LiberalElite Aug 2014 #19
Omg my mother coudn't stand that! RiffRandell Aug 2014 #37
I was waiting on a line once and LiberalElite Aug 2014 #39
I once worked next to someone LiberalElite Aug 2014 #22
OMG I worked with a pipi_k Aug 2014 #34
Those who pronounce the letter "P" in words with a sticky wet lipped sound. Populist_Prole Aug 2014 #23
Bwah-HAH so you picked your DU-handle to draw them out?!1 Reminds me of Bea ARTHUR UTUSN Aug 2014 #28
I'm pretty irritable in general, so this could get long. WhiteAndNerdy Aug 2014 #24
Welcome to DU, WhiteAndNerdy! Rhiannon12866 Aug 2014 #25
Aw, thank you! nt WhiteAndNerdy Aug 2014 #26
Learning to stop saying um & uh Quantess Aug 2014 #48
Websites that autoplay audio/video Bosonic Aug 2014 #27
OH GOD YES Blue_Tires Aug 2014 #46
Yes, this is a huge pet peeve for me as well distantearlywarning Aug 2014 #55
Baby talk & Talking with food in your mouth sharp_stick Aug 2014 #30
Those damn black helicopters droning and whirring panader0 Aug 2014 #31
Loud, theatrical sneezing.... LeftinOH Aug 2014 #32
"sneeze silently" - you gotta let it out!1 You might bust something holding it down!1 n/t UTUSN Aug 2014 #35
I used to hold my sneezes in when I was a kid. WhiteAndNerdy Aug 2014 #42
Big time! That and "chain sneezing" Populist_Prole Aug 2014 #66
Motocycles n/t sarge43 Aug 2014 #33
Yip, I've got three of those up the street, and on their nights out they ROAR past my house UTUSN Aug 2014 #36
Knuckles being cracked! RiffRandell Aug 2014 #38
In summer? Backup alarms on construction equipment. raven mad Aug 2014 #41
The guy across the street with his lawnmower/chainsaw/snowmobile, etc. Rhiannon12866 Aug 2014 #43
A co-worker's laugh. Tommy_Carcetti Aug 2014 #45
Obnoxious/loud cellphone ring/alert tones Blue_Tires Aug 2014 #47
Boom-thumpa-thumpa cars with subwoofers shaking the chassis apart. Manifestor_of_Light Aug 2014 #53
annoying yes nt steve2470 Aug 2014 #57
Next door neighbor blasting his tunes over his speakers right next to my bedroom wall steve2470 Aug 2014 #56
The rooster two doors down. The one across the street is not nearly such a pain in the ear The Second Stone Aug 2014 #58
The only sound that ever really annoyed me was frogmarch Aug 2014 #59
"blah blah blah AND SHIT blah blah blah blah AND YANNO SHIT...." rinse repeat steve2470 Aug 2014 #60
My next door neighbor having sex and Jamaal510 Aug 2014 #61
Diesel engines evirus Aug 2014 #63
The sound/cadence of cable TV news in the background as others have it on Populist_Prole Aug 2014 #64
Leaf blowers. kairos12 Aug 2014 #65
Having a case of 2naSalit Aug 2014 #68
People chewing ice. nt raccoon Aug 2014 #69

valerief

(53,235 posts)
1. Thunder cars. TV/stereo from other apartments. Most synthetic fragrances.
Wed Aug 27, 2014, 01:19 PM
Aug 2014

Whooshes and booms in movies.

Joe Scab's face.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
4. Ummm...are you
Wed Aug 27, 2014, 01:45 PM
Aug 2014

my long lost twin sibling?

I have the same food issues. Unnamed person who lives in my house.


Uses utensils like garden tools. Not so annoying if it's a spoon, but when it's a fork it makes a nails-on-blackboard scraping sound that makes me want to commit murder.

Slurping not a major issue, but shoveling is. As in, "who needs to actually TASTE their food? Just wolf it down. Not attractive.

The butterscotch candy adventures. This person loves individually wrapped hard butterscotch candies. No letting them dissolve in the mouth in a genteel fashion. Nooooooo!!!! Crunch. Crunch. Crunch. Crunch. Seriously, how many freaking crunches can one stinking little piece of candy have in it???

And, like you, PDAs. By anyone. I mean, what's up with that shit? Get a damned motel room, OK???


Conflicting soundwaves. Like when unnamed person has TV and radio on at the same time. Can't deal with it.

Flashing lights. There are two big screen TV screens visible from my recliner in the living room plus two smaller flat screens connected to surveillance cameras. Unnamed person in my home isn't bothered by the random flashing back and forth, off and on, security cameras switching scenes every few seconds. They're sort of like strobe lights. They drive me nuts. I have to shut two of them off, and after the unnamed person I live with goes to bed I turn everything off. No lights. No sound. ahhhhhh....

UTUSN

(70,685 posts)
5. Haha, O.K., I'll cop to one of those: I seldom eat hard candy, but when I do I crunch it!1 And my
Wed Aug 27, 2014, 02:04 PM
Aug 2014

Unnamed has another little thing, loves peanuts in the shell, and shells and eats ONE at a time, then next and next and next!1 The rare occasions I eat those I shell the whole pile at once then do all the consuming.

Quantess

(27,630 posts)
6. Children's circle-time songs at preschool.
Wed Aug 27, 2014, 05:26 PM
Aug 2014

One in particular that I despise most of all: "Wheels on the Bus"
I feel a quiet rage seething inside me that only becomes worse for every verse. I feel irritated and resentful toward anyone who starts singing it.

Quantess

(27,630 posts)
49. Funny, reallly funny, Clarice.
Fri Aug 29, 2014, 01:26 PM
Aug 2014

Fucking wheels rolling on some fucking stupid ass bus ALL FUCKING DAY LONG!

Quantess

(27,630 posts)
44. For YOU, maybe.
Fri Aug 29, 2014, 06:40 AM
Aug 2014

One woman decided we needed to learn new verses to Wheels on the Bus, without any indication that anyone wanted to hear them. At that moment I wanted to scream at her!

I feel irritated and resentful just thinking about it.

MizzM

(77 posts)
50. You can say that again
Fri Aug 29, 2014, 01:38 PM
Aug 2014

In my case, it's my youngest grandson - a three-year old. His ear-splitting shriek is accompanied by an evil grin that tells me that he is enjoying inflicting this pain on this grandma.

orleans

(34,051 posts)
51. absolutely leaf blowers!
Fri Aug 29, 2014, 01:42 PM
Aug 2014

i'll look out the window to see who is responsible & it's usually a certain neighbor at war with a SINGLE LEAF!!! i think: my god!! pick the damn thing up and throw it the fu*k away!

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,683 posts)
11. At night, when I'm trying to get to sleep,
Wed Aug 27, 2014, 06:59 PM
Aug 2014

one of my cats lying on the bed taking his bath. Lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick lick...

LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)
20. or when I'm trying to sleep -
Wed Aug 27, 2014, 07:52 PM
Aug 2014

one of my cats digging in the litter box: dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig scrape scrape dig dig dig dig dig dig dig....

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,683 posts)
21. LOL, that too.
Wed Aug 27, 2014, 07:54 PM
Aug 2014

And then after all that preliminary digging and scraping he finally leaves his poo on top of the litter instead of burying it.

UTUSN

(70,685 posts)
14. OMZ, well of*COURSE* it would have to be the ONE thing *I* do!1 Plus, mine is high pitched piercing
Wed Aug 27, 2014, 07:09 PM
Aug 2014

Never mind that I have perfect pitch and can whistle extremely complicated stretches of classical music!1 Years ago when I was whistling along with the jukebox an old man turned to me and said he was really irritated and asked me whether I knew that my whistling was "very fine and piercing".

Fine. I'll stop it. "Oh, what an artist is lost here!1"

 

Manifestor_of_Light

(21,046 posts)
52. I've had people stare daggers at me for singing along at "The Marriage of Figaro".
Fri Aug 29, 2014, 02:04 PM
Aug 2014

I took voice lessons. It's not like I'm bad.

Some woman tried to stare daggers at me and failed; I refused to look at her. She flew off on her broom in a short time.

alarimer

(16,245 posts)
16. Whistling
Wed Aug 27, 2014, 07:13 PM
Aug 2014

I hate whistling. Especially at work.

People at my office also talk too much and too loudly.

UTUSN

(70,685 posts)
17. My best work was while cleaning the bilges of my ship. It was a wonderful echo chamber.
Wed Aug 27, 2014, 07:21 PM
Aug 2014

My shipmate with me didn't complain. Hmmm, thinking/thinking: It might have been fairly scary down there, maybe the beautiful (yes, I'll say it, BEAUTIFUL) music was comforting!1

LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)
39. I was waiting on a line once and
Thu Aug 28, 2014, 07:19 PM
Aug 2014

the woman behind me started snapping the gum and I turned around and gave her such a look - she apologized and stopped.

LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)
22. I once worked next to someone
Wed Aug 27, 2014, 08:07 PM
Aug 2014

who was a little mentally challenged but a very diligent worker. I'll call her "Rachel". Rachel concentrated very hard on her work, and while she did so, she uttered various exclamations and also forcefully inhaled air like in a 'gasp.' THEN she had to burp up the swallowed air and each burp was followed by "excuse me" to no one in particular. This went on all day every day. It was impossible for me to concentrate on my work, and my boss was a perfectionist. Other employees from her department were very nice to her when passing by "hello Rachel" "how are you Rachel" etc. (I was new, not in their department and they didn't know me.) I thought there was something wrong with me because I felt like killing Rachel. Eventually it dawned on me that one reason they could be so pleasant towards Rachel was because THEY DIDN'T SIT NEXT TO HER like I did. It got so bad I was banging things around on my desk to drown her out. I finally asked my boss to find somewhere else for me to sit.

P.S.: When Rachel's department was renovated, in the new arrangement everyone sat together sharing modular cubicles - it was designed so that Rachel sat alone.

In another job I sat near a young guy who could not yawn quietly. Everybody yawns loudly once in a while but he did it multiple times a day every day. He sounded like he was dying. I finally asked him to lower the volume which he did - for a while.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
34. OMG I worked with a
Thu Aug 28, 2014, 03:38 PM
Aug 2014

"Rachel" too, except her name wasn't Rachel.

anyway, after I left the company one of the girls told me they had to hire three people to do my job.

So, needless to say, while I was actually there doing it, I was very stressed out and needed help.

So my supervisor hired a girl to help.

It soon became apparent that my Rachel was going to be more of a hindrance than anything when I delegated some work to her and she told me she didn't know how to file alphabetically.

WTF?

Anything I gave her to do, she didn't know how to do. And she would seek me out so I could help her do the work she was supposed to be helping ME out with. There was no place I could hide...not even in the company's very stinky and offensive smoking room (this was mid 1980s).

All these years later, I can still see her face in my mind...

aughhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!

UTUSN

(70,685 posts)
28. Bwah-HAH so you picked your DU-handle to draw them out?!1 Reminds me of Bea ARTHUR
Thu Aug 28, 2014, 09:54 AM
Aug 2014

in one of The Golden Girls, where a man hands her his card as "PFEIFFER," and she says, "Hello, Mister fie-fer," and he says, "Oh. No, in my case the 'p' is not silent." So Bea does her prolonged fisheye take at the camera, stretching it as long as perfectly possible, then says, "All right, Mister pa-fie-fer..."

And I fall on the floor. I assume it's an ancient vaudeville joke. But her doing it is gold. The now adored Betty WHITE, who is always cloying to me even when she's doing the racy bits, has said Bea hated her guts. Long live the great Bea ARTHUR!!!!!!1

WhiteAndNerdy

(365 posts)
24. I'm pretty irritable in general, so this could get long.
Thu Aug 28, 2014, 04:07 AM
Aug 2014

Any kind of mouth-noises: dogs licking, slurping, kissy sounds, lazy chewers mashing their food with their tongues, basically anything that sounds wet. Related: the sound of flip-flops slapping against someone's bare feet as they walk.

Slamming or banging doors. I can actually feel sharp, sudden sounds in my body. It's like someone shoving me.

The smell of earthworms after it rains. <gagging>

PDAs, especially on TV or in movies.

People saying "uh" a lot just as "filler." If someone is really searching for the right word, it's okay, but some people use it like a comma to punctuate every phrase or sentence they utter. It's worse when someone is telling me something and they get distracted and stop in the middle of a sentence and expect me to wait while they go, "Uhhhhh, uhhhhh, ummmmm," or just fall silent while they fuss with something else. I think a couple of the people in my life who do that are deliberately trying to keep me paying attention to them for as long as possible, because if I try to walk away or do something else, they protest that they're not done talking, but then continue to leave me hanging. (Both have other attention-seeking behaviors as well.)

Not the best way to introduce myself, haha!

Quantess

(27,630 posts)
48. Learning to stop saying um & uh
Fri Aug 29, 2014, 09:48 AM
Aug 2014

is one of the best things a person can do for themselves if they want to create a good impression as a speaker. Um and uh give the impression that you don't really know what you are talking about, and it makes people tune you out.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
46. OH GOD YES
Fri Aug 29, 2014, 09:27 AM
Aug 2014

Along with sites hosting long video content which takes forever to load, and EVERY time you want to skip forwards or backwards, they make you sit through another commercial...

distantearlywarning

(4,475 posts)
55. Yes, this is a huge pet peeve for me as well
Fri Aug 29, 2014, 06:01 PM
Aug 2014

If I want to watch a video, I will click on it myself, thankyouverymuch!

sharp_stick

(14,400 posts)
30. Baby talk & Talking with food in your mouth
Thu Aug 28, 2014, 10:37 AM
Aug 2014

There are plenty more but these two just drive me up the damned wall.

"Oh snookie snookims I just loooove you so...." Get me a club.

Anybody that can't keep their mouth shut while it's jammed full of food. There was a lady presenting at a meeting that I had to attend, I would have left if I could, I damned near chucked my coffee cup at her noggin a few times.

"At the end of, smack gnosh gnosh, the next experiment we..crunch (new food going in) smack slurp"....Just start choking already no Heimlich from me.

LeftinOH

(5,354 posts)
32. Loud, theatrical sneezing....
Thu Aug 28, 2014, 11:43 AM
Aug 2014

The kind of sneezing which is fully vocalized; a kind of hybrid sneeze+scream. I have allergies of my own, but I know how to sneeze silently. I had a co-worker who did the "screeze" regularly - when I counseled him that it is *not* necessary to vocalize his sneezing, he responded that he "couldn't change" because that's just how he does it.
Bull.Shit.

Populist_Prole

(5,364 posts)
66. Big time! That and "chain sneezing"
Sat Aug 30, 2014, 05:06 PM
Aug 2014

Several times in rapid succession.

When I sneeze, I don't "hold it in", it's forceful enough; but I do so without engaging my vocal chords. It's not loud at all and gets the job done.

I gotta say though, I also strongly agree with your last 3 sentences, and believe the theatrical part really is more voluntary than the sneezer cares to admit.

UTUSN

(70,685 posts)
36. Yip, I've got three of those up the street, and on their nights out they ROAR past my house
Thu Aug 28, 2014, 03:55 PM
Aug 2014

Gawsh, I've got so many irks I don't know how I'm still standing!1

RiffRandell

(5,909 posts)
38. Knuckles being cracked!
Thu Aug 28, 2014, 04:23 PM
Aug 2014

My son does it; I know it's bad but I told him the old wives tale that his fingers would swell up and he would have arthritis.

His response: Mom, I looked it up on the internet and it's not true. I still tell him to knock it off.

Slurping...my husband does it sometimes but I can't be nasty to him as he had cancer and his throat was radiated so it's hard to get stuff down.

Utensils scraping the bottom of bowls, snoring (that's another thing the radiation/chemo cured besides the cancer).

I have sensitive ears, and the oven in the bakery at the grocery store was going off recently with this high pitched beeping noise. I had to ask what it was. The timer.

I know I have more.

raven mad

(4,940 posts)
41. In summer? Backup alarms on construction equipment.
Thu Aug 28, 2014, 11:09 PM
Aug 2014

In winter? Backup alarms on snow removal equipment.

Since we have 2 seasons here, Construction and Winter, I'm screwed.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,181 posts)
45. A co-worker's laugh.
Fri Aug 29, 2014, 09:14 AM
Aug 2014

It doesn't sound like an actual laugh. It sounds like some odd jungle dwelling bird you hear at the zoo, or alternately, someone desperately gasping for air.

 

Manifestor_of_Light

(21,046 posts)
53. Boom-thumpa-thumpa cars with subwoofers shaking the chassis apart.
Fri Aug 29, 2014, 02:07 PM
Aug 2014

Maybe the engine will fall off the motor mounts. Ya never know.

steve2470

(37,457 posts)
56. Next door neighbor blasting his tunes over his speakers right next to my bedroom wall
Fri Aug 29, 2014, 06:05 PM
Aug 2014

Oh, all condos are not made with 100% soundproof walls ?

 

The Second Stone

(2,900 posts)
58. The rooster two doors down. The one across the street is not nearly such a pain in the ear
Fri Aug 29, 2014, 06:16 PM
Aug 2014

My free range cats will not obey my orders to kill this capon.

frogmarch

(12,153 posts)
59. The only sound that ever really annoyed me was
Fri Aug 29, 2014, 06:18 PM
Aug 2014

the sound of the blender as mr. froggy made his frozen fruit slushes, but it stopped when I told him Skittles had offered his/her services.

steve2470

(37,457 posts)
60. "blah blah blah AND SHIT blah blah blah blah AND YANNO SHIT...." rinse repeat
Fri Aug 29, 2014, 06:35 PM
Aug 2014

Yes, I say the word shit sometimes, but do you have to say it as a filler ALL THE FUCKING TIME ? Gets on my nerves. Sorry if anyone is offended but...it's the truth.

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
61. My next door neighbor having sex and
Sat Aug 30, 2014, 01:04 AM
Aug 2014

the siren that goes off from Arcata's firehouse at noon every day.

evirus

(852 posts)
63. Diesel engines
Sat Aug 30, 2014, 10:49 AM
Aug 2014

Auto play

Car horns instead of doorbells

Alarm clocks that sound like smoke detectors

Smoking

Unskippable DVD intros

Unseasonal use of fireworks

Populist_Prole

(5,364 posts)
64. The sound/cadence of cable TV news in the background as others have it on
Sat Aug 30, 2014, 02:52 PM
Aug 2014

Of course it always has to be on LOUD for some reason. When in another room, or playing in an open public place. It is very very annoying noise pollution impossible to tune out. It's staccato up-and-down voice cadences and inflections, the rapid-fire type editing replete with jarring music or sound effects.

Makes me want to sit out in the middle of the woods and just stare at whatever for 3 or 4 hours.

I can understand some who can tolerate it, but it boggles my mind that some people actually seem to thrive on such banal and inane trash.

2naSalit

(86,577 posts)
68. Having a case of
Sun Aug 31, 2014, 03:08 AM
Aug 2014

PTSD makes all loud noises and banging sounds a bad juju thing for me. I can't stand when those thumping stereos are within a mile of me, makes me suddenly change character like some kind of Mr. Hyde.

Being stuck in a small area with people who wreak of mint, I'm allergic to it.

Patchouli and anything made by AVON.

PDAs

The sound TeeVees make and people who are annoyed when I don't know what TEEVee show they are talking about because I don't do TeeVee.

People who are willfully ignorant of common sense activities like not walking up to a large wild animal to get the "nose hair shot" and get pissed when you try to tell them, for their own safety, that they should keep their distance (at which point I think to myself that a Darwin Award might be issued momentarily and I'm not sure I care to be a witness).

Chain saws and snowmobiles and those glass-pack exhaust kits on already loud vehicles.

Other things get on my nerves too but those are top of the list.

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