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The most irritating sound in the world

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AlwaysSomethingThere · 23/02/2019 16:05

I'll get the ball rolling:

People biting into apples
Tea slurpers

OP posts:
Mmmhmmokdear · 23/02/2019 21:08

Someone chewing something juicy and crunchy. Especially if they chew with their mouths open. Angry

Needcoffeecoffeecoffee · 23/02/2019 21:10

Mil putting the dishes away (which she choose to do when everyone is in bed). Ffs stop banging them!! Angry

cauliflowersqueeze · 23/02/2019 21:11

Also the pronunciation of Brexit as Breggzit

mimibunz · 23/02/2019 21:12

My colleague gulping water.

flamingofridays · 23/02/2019 21:16

The most annoying sound in the world is the beep my baby monitor does for no apparent reason (nope, not low battery or temp thats a different and slightly less irritating beep!)

It only recently started doing it and it gives me the RAGE.

JudgeRindersMinder · 23/02/2019 21:17

DH eating crisps, such a loud crunch and he makes this weird hollow smacking sound with his lips....I’m surprised I haven’t killed him tonight....

DG constantly channel hopping the tv, even if you’re not watching it’s really jarring hearing the sound changing every 3.8 seconds

bibbitybobbityyhat · 23/02/2019 21:18

Dogs barking or car alarms in the middle of the night.

fruityb · 23/02/2019 21:27

@judgerindersminder this is why I hate having the TV on while I'm trying to go to sleep. DH channel flicks - rather than doing the sensible thing and bringing up the guide and looking on there!! The noise the remote makes with it's incessant clicking as well as hearing snippets of what's on drives me mental!!

Dumplingfan · 23/02/2019 21:28

Continual throat clearing

SciFiScream · 23/02/2019 21:29

Knives being sharpened on our sharpener. It makes me feel sick. I have to leave the room.

Ronsters · 23/02/2019 21:30

People sniffing, especially really snotty sniffs
Wet mouth noises, chewing/sucking sweets

Jamhandprints · 23/02/2019 21:33

7 year old grinding his teeth in his sleep. Motorbikes.
Swimming pools.

MitziK · 23/02/2019 21:36

Polystyrene pieces rubbing against each other.

The hooting sound small children make when they're whinging and feel so hard done by, but aren't actually genuinely upset. Especially when it would instantly switch off if ice cream appeared, but because you aren't going to give in to their whining, it continues for hours after they've forgotten what it is they are pissed off about.

Tapping. Not the rhythmic tapping of a child with ADHD or a natural talent for drumming, the irregular tapping of somebody with no sense of rhythm or timing - especially when they are convinced that they are a superb drummer, despite never having had any lessons, and have made a point of coming up and demanding your attention so that he can inform you because you're the only female your band that they aren't as good as the one he nearly hit the big time with when he was 15 but the others told him to sod off because he had no ability whatsoever.

The sound of a mic drop. Seriously, it's the most arrogant, entitled thing somebody can do with expensive equipment. If you do it and it's not your own microphone, just fuck off and die.

Kids who have never been taught to sing, but just shout because that's what they think singing is. Not just because it makes your ears bleed, not just because it's potentially damaging their voices permanently, but because some prat has apparently conned their Head to pay them an extra couple of thousand a year as 'the music specialist' when they've not got a fucking clue. And the Head hasn't fucking noticed and told them to fuck off and run the netball team instead.

The sound of a particular ex-PTA mum sweeping into the building in her expensive shoes. Look, nobody likes you. You're racist as fuck. We don't want to hear your stories of how The Africans needed organising when your husband had a fancy job in Malawi/Rhodesia/Wherever the fuck it was. Or the way you bark at children and bitch about how much the school has changed since your precious children were here being middleclass and white. We don't want you here, but you're best mates with one of the Governors, so you're fucking Teflon coated.

The sound of a guitar that hasn't been tuned. It's not hard - EADGBE - here is a tuner. Use it. I'll do it for you if you can't be bothered to use it. No, for the love of God, do not fiddle with the fucking machine heads again. Just stop playing. Just stop.

The sound of an emerging furball in the dark. Please leave it under the bed, as I do not want to find it under my bare feet or on my quilt. Bastard animal.

The clucking sound of somebody who knows they are allergic to something but likes it so much, they don't care and their throat is now slightly swollen for the next six hours. For fuck's sake, are you actually hoping the next reaction will kill you? because I am

Eating with the intention of everybody being able to see and hear exactly what it is whilst in the process of being mixed up with saliva. Especially if you then noisily slurp a drink mid mouthful to moisten the food to peak sound level.

The snorking sound of copious quantities of snot being sniffed back up so it can be flobbed out on the pavement. Blow your nose into a tissue, FFS. Or I might just have to hoy you in front of oncoming traffic.

The sound of Davinia McShouty. Or Jenny Fucking Chocolate Eclair going on about fucking vaginal dryness. No, it doesn't bother me. YOU bother me honking on about your dessicated minge.

Other than that, I'm an extremely chilled individual. Honest.

KipperTheFrog · 23/02/2019 21:39

That God awful low pitched whinge DD2 has developed. It's not a cry, but it goes on ages while we try to work out what she wants.

ginandnappies · 23/02/2019 21:44

Metal spoons scraping off a pan. Makes me gag.

AnneOfCleavage · 23/02/2019 21:49

That hideous teeth whistling / whistling through your teeth. OMG I cannot bear it and have to exclaim loudly or drop something to distract MIL from doing it while she cooks.

Amy-Lee33 / Claire Siobhan and their screechy excited ness. It goes through my head.

DH eating cereal and masticating every mouthful making it a long drawn out process. I always need the loo when he eats his breakfast - how coincidental - and come back in the room when he's done.

Annoying ringtones / Alarms on phones.

Doghorsechicken · 23/02/2019 21:59

Dogs licking their arses (I adore dogs and I.know they have to do it but it’s the most irritating noise!)
People eating
People breathing
People snoring

Yet I find dogs eating noisily and snoring incredibly cute!!

Dogseggs · 23/02/2019 22:03

DH lies on the sofa rubbing his socked feet together. The constant scritch scritch scritch makes me murderous. Slurpy eaters, yogurt pot scrapers, fork-tooth clickers - I hate you all!

Sometimes I can hear saliva-y clicking noises in some people's voices on the radio and have to turn off instantly. Same for the squeaky plinking noise you sometimes hear on the fret when acoustic guitar players change chord.

I can no longer go to the cinema in case I end up sitting in front of someone eating crisps.

I'm 99% sure I have misophonia. Solidarity with fellow noise sufferers. My family think I am nuts!

Dogseggs · 23/02/2019 22:07

Doghorsechicken - you are quite right. When dogs eat noisily or snore it is adorable. When the humans in the family do it it's gross Grin

weegiemum · 23/02/2019 22:18

Our en-suite drippy toilet in the middle of the night!

(Plumber coming this week!!)

Devonishome1 · 23/02/2019 22:20

Snoring
Rustling wrappers at cinema/theatre
Crunching crisps

Hushabyelullaby · 23/02/2019 22:33

Any kind of eating, crunching, slurping, swallowing/gulping noise (I have Misophonia)

People scraping the fork against their teeth with EVERY mouthful of food looking at you DSIL

My friend has acrylic overlays done on her nails, and as much as I love her, it drives me mad when she taps her fingertips against her teeth.

The sounds of someone cutting/biting into meringue that's crunchy. It absolutely sets my teeth on edge. I think it's because it reminds me of the sound polystyrene makes.

IamPickleRick · 23/02/2019 22:42

The clucking sound of somebody who knows they are allergic to something but likes it so much, they don't care and their throat is now slightly swollen for the next six hours.

OMFG YES!!! DH wakes me up with his fucking clucking!!!

SeaWitchly · 23/02/2019 23:20

These sounds all drive me mad on my 55-minute train commute to and fro work:

Snotty sniffing
Chewing gum and lip smacking
People whispering so all you can hear is disproportionately sharp first letters of words and then indistinguishable murmur and burble. It also smacks of self-righteousness: look at us, we are so considerate of our fellow travellers that we are ostentatiously whispering rather than speaking like those other inconsiderate clots.
Knuckle cracking
Keyboard tap tapping

I think it is the sense of being trapped in an enclosed space with these annoying, neverending sounds that makes my skin crawl and teeth clench with intense irritation. If I can, I will get up and move seats to avoid it,

Sophiemtb · 23/02/2019 23:29

The train station announcer saying that your train home from work is cancelled because there isn't a driver.

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