What noises drive you up the wall?

[MsKandice01]

Am I the only person REALLY bothered by the sound of buzzing insects? I can deal with nails on a chalkboard, teeth grazing forks and many other noises that drive others batty but when it comes to a fly or mosquito buzzing around, I lose my mind. I can't relax at all if I know that there's a flying insect in the house for fear that it will buzz by my ear. If I happen across something on TV about bees, I go immediately running for the remote because of the possibility that they'll show a beehive and I'll be subjected to that god awful noise.

Right now, I'm suffering because there's a fly buzzing around in one of the light fixtures here in my office and I can't reach it. I've had my headphones on all morning listening to music to try to drown it out but because of the fact that I can see it, it's still bothering me.

What noises make you crazy?

[redqueen]

1. Same as you.

Something about that buzzing noise they make gets on my very last nerve.

Other than that? Loud/noisy eaters. And I have two in my immediate family! :P


Oh and one more: doom metal, screamo, etc. :7

[kick-ass-bob]

2. The person in the cube next to me

eating their carrots and celery.

:crazy:

[BOSSHOG]

3. A doorbell on TV

[mainegreen]

4. Wool rubbing on velvet. Ten seconds is enough to make me want to kill people.

[kick-ass-bob]

6. WTF does that sound like??

:rofl:

[mainegreen]

8. Madness. It sounds like pure reality warping insanity.

Really, It's hard to describe. Fortunately I rarely encounter it.

[Shell Beau]

5. styrofoam

[SeattleGirl]

7. Crunching, lip smacking, slurping, etc. when people are eating.

Especially the crunching! And that includes commercials on TV, where I swear to God, they put microphones in people's mouths just to amplify the sound. :grr:

[mainegreen]

9. My wife ate an apple in the car the other day.

I must say, it made me wish she would eat it fast just to get it over with.

[Oeditpus Rex]

24. Which is why I've boycotted Carl's Jr. for the last several years

Their commercials make me :puke:

[TrogL]

29. There's a dog food commercial like that

I think they finally took it off the air

[BarenakedLady]

10. My dogs biting themselves to scratch an itch.

Snoring.
An 11-year old girl whine.
Hocking a loogie.


I'm sure there are more.

[redqueen]

15. Oh yes...

that snick snick snick sound. Ugh... and the whining, too. Only for me it's whining from an any-year-old.

[kick-ass-bob]

11. 'Saved by Zeeerooooooo'

shoot me now.

[mikeytherat]

12. Leafblowers. A special circle in Hell awaits the inventor of the leafblower.

mikey_the_rat

[SmokingJacket]

13. Distant chainsaws.

I can't stand to hear trees being chopped down. It makes me tense all over so I can't concentrate...

[Aristus]

14. My neighbor's lawn mower on Sunday mornings.

He's a great guy, A terrific guy, but man, is he obsessed with his lawn. More so with his lawn than George Hamilton is with his tan...

[arcadian]

16. Fastfood wrappers being rustled about and crumpled.

For some reason. That sound really irks me.

[Throd]

17. Rap "music"

[TX Screwball]

18. My stomach growling.

Think I'll eat some pecan pie.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

19. My neighbor

saying:

I JUST LOVE SARAH PALIN! DON'T SAY ANYTHING BAD ABOUT HER!11!11

as she sat in a chair next to me, in front of my 3 Obama signs, in front of my house. :crazy::eyes:

[MorningGlow]

20. Sarah Palin's voice

Seriously. It makes me nuts.

Also loud eating/drinking, especially older family members' habit of slurping solids (salad off a fork, for example). I mean, :wtf:

[Blue Diadem]

22. I was going to say her voice too. It's like fingernails on a

blackboard, makes my ears hurt.

[kentauros]

21. the "noise" from young children

especially those high-pitched, ear-puncturing screams.

[mainegreen]

26. What I call the 'air raid warnings'?

I'm astonished at the volume of noise my rugrat can put out sometimes.

[britpopper]

23. The incredibly annoying sound of...

...Sarah Palin's eyelids when they quickly close to complete a wink....it's a double pronged attack of both auditory and visual menace...

[Inchworm]

25. My brother actually grunts and growls when he gets drunk

Makes me want to strangle him. I haven't in this many years so I guess I never will but still. Annoying.

:hi:

[Oeditpus Rex]

27. White People clapping to Rock 'n' Roll on the 1/3

instead of the 2/4.

Or, on every beat, as if they were listening to a march or something.

I can't explain it. That sound just literally hurts my brain and I have to get away from it. x(

[QueenOfCalifornia]

35. Racist!!!!

as a white person with rhythm I take umbrage1!1!1!

:applause:

[Oeditpus Rex]

36. That's just what I call 'em

There's nothin' whiter than white people with no rhythm.



As proof, here's a photo of the audience on The View:

[Jamastiene]

28. Pretty much everything today.

Normally, it is pretty much everything except punk rock and women breathing and doing other stuff I cannot mention here without getting the post deleted.

Today, though? Everything. I have PMS AND cramps today. Put the damn chocolate down and back away slowly and nobody gets hurt.

[TrogL]

30. sand on smooth concrete or flooring

[Lucian]

31. All of the above.

[Skittles]

32. whistling

and people who make noise with their shoes when they walk (usually gals in pumps)

[Kali]

34. oh yeah whistling

especially DAD early on Saturday morning when I was a hung-over teenager. That and the house repairs on the wall by my head.

[Kali]

33. dogs barking for no apparent reason

especially when their owner just stands there yacking at you and does NOTHING to shut them up.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

37. Sarah Palin's voice...........ewwwwwww

What is it about these whiny muffies????

[Mutley]

38. The sound of the garbage truck at 7 a.m.

:boring: :wtf: :crazy: :grr: :nuke:

[harmonicon]

39. nothing specific

but any useless noise drives me crazy. Things like loud music at restaurants and cafes - I can't stand that.

[sniffa]

40. Eating with your mouth open

and sounding like a fucking cow. That's the guy who sits next to me in my van every day. :grr:

[carlyhippy]

41. nails on a chalkboard....a fork scraping one of those tin/metal plates at the steak house

my knees make this grinding noise when I walk up stairs, tis maddening

"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"

Carly

[alphafemale]

42. Tires squealing and that split second of wondering if there is going to be a crash or awful thud.

x(

[Ivan Sputnik]

43. radiator rattle

in the office. I can't understand why it doesn't bother the co-workers much.