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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsIncredibly 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.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Whooshes and booms in movies.
Joe Scab's face.
UTUSN
(70,685 posts)pipi_k
(21,020 posts)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)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)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.
clarice
(5,504 posts)Quantess
(27,630 posts)Fucking wheels rolling on some fucking stupid ass bus ALL FUCKING DAY LONG!
DamnYankeeInHouston
(1,365 posts)Ground Hog's day. Dumbest day ever.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)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.
edhopper
(33,575 posts)of a three year old girl.
Often for no cause, they just like to shriek.
MizzM
(77 posts)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.
edhopper
(33,575 posts)evil little buggers.
clarice
(5,504 posts)locks
(2,012 posts)and motorized mowers. And ALL TV commercials.
rurallib
(62,411 posts)rattles relaxed nerves
Skittles
(153,156 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)YES INDEED.
orleans
(34,051 posts)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)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...
Skittles
(153,156 posts)yes indeed
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)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)And then after all that preliminary digging and scraping he finally leaves his poo on top of the litter instead of burying it.
Skittles
(153,156 posts)it really irritates me
UTUSN
(70,685 posts)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"
Skittles
(153,156 posts)YES INDEED
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)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)I hate whistling. Especially at work.
People at my office also talk too much and too loudly.
UTUSN
(70,685 posts)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
raccoon
(31,110 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)We would have to throw out our gum!
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)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)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)"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!!!!!!!!!!!!
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)Drives me up a wall!!!
UTUSN
(70,685 posts)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)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!
Rhiannon12866
(205,270 posts)Sounds like you'll fit in here just fine!
WhiteAndNerdy
(365 posts)Quantess
(27,630 posts)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.
Bosonic
(3,746 posts)I HATE THAT!!!
I really, really do.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)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)If I want to watch a video, I will click on it myself, thankyouverymuch!
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)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.
panader0
(25,816 posts)I swear they're getting lower and lower.
LeftinOH
(5,354 posts)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.
UTUSN
(70,685 posts)WhiteAndNerdy
(365 posts)Maybe that's what's wrong with me.
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)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.
sarge43
(28,941 posts)UTUSN
(70,685 posts)Gawsh, I've got so many irks I don't know how I'm still standing!1
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)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)In winter? Backup alarms on snow removal equipment.
Since we have 2 seasons here, Construction and Winter, I'm screwed.
Rhiannon12866
(205,270 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,181 posts)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.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Maybe the engine will fall off the motor mounts. Ya never know.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)Oh, all condos are not made with 100% soundproof walls ?
The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)My free range cats will not obey my orders to kill this capon.
frogmarch
(12,153 posts)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)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)the siren that goes off from Arcata's firehouse at noon every day.
evirus
(852 posts)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)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.
kairos12
(12,858 posts)2naSalit
(86,577 posts)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.