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What do you have to turn off that's on TV because you can't stand the sound?

206 replies

VampireTheBuffetSlayer · 06/04/2021 00:29

I just ran into the lounge from the kitchen because QI started. I hate the theme tune, I hate the claxons. I don't know if I'd like it as a quiz show because it's like listening to nails down a chalk board.
I had to stop watching Eastenders because of all the shouting.
Sports aren't great but football is a no go because of the crowd noise. Just as well DP isn't a football fan!
Anyone else got anything they have to turn off?

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SkiingIsHeaven · 06/04/2021 00:53

The TV show It's always sunny in Philadelphia.

Husband and son love I. I call it the shitty, shouty, show.

They just shout, scream and make continuous, unnecessary noise all the time. Can't stand it.

lem0njelly · 06/04/2021 00:59

Jimmy Carr

TheUnquestionedAnswer · 06/04/2021 01:07

I can't stand The One Show theme tune. Gets muted as does EE and Corrie.

EveWasReframed · 06/04/2021 01:07

Mrs Brown's Boys. Every bloody voice, the music, the stupid fecking laughter.

Canned laughter and 'enhanced laughter' generally irritate me, so I also have to turn off Harry Hill's stuff.

Any old edition of TOTP with The Beautiful South caterwauling.

franknbeans · 06/04/2021 01:08

Donald Trump. Thank god he’s no longer president.

Yeah, Jimmy Carr’s fake laugh is like nails down a blackboard to me.

TaraR2020 · 06/04/2021 01:14

Super Noodles TASTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

Gives me the rage.

LemonSwan · 06/04/2021 01:14

Unfortunately my TV sits in an alcove - so that very slight tenseful osciallating hum which is so common in nearly every TV drama is completely unwatchable in our house - you probably dont even know what I am talking about as its pretty much white noise to people with an adequately positioned TV. Its like a subwoofer in a nightclub. I really feel for the neighbours

Operasinger · 06/04/2021 01:19

Alan Carr

EveWasReframed · 06/04/2021 01:19

@franknbeans

Donald Trump. Thank god he’s no longer president.

Yeah, Jimmy Carr’s fake laugh is like nails down a blackboard to me.

Oh sweet jesus, yes, Donald Trump's whiney whiney voice. Ugh.
VampireTheBuffetSlayer · 06/04/2021 01:19

@TheUnquestionedAnswer

I can't stand The One Show theme tune. Gets muted as does EE and Corrie.
I forgot The One Show theme tune... so jauntily jolly
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EveWasReframed · 06/04/2021 01:21

And Lorraine Kelly.

Sorry Lorraine, you may well be a lovely person but I can't take the noise.

CoolCatTaco · 06/04/2021 01:26

Fairy liquid biker baby.

FunnyWonder · 06/04/2021 01:33

I have to agree about football. Can't stand the crowd noise or indeed the manic commentating. Even worse through DP's phone speaker.

Astella22 · 06/04/2021 01:45

I’m in Ireland and cannot stand the sound of Angelus bell ringing at 6pm every evening right before the news, it gives me the rage

RoseRedRoseBlue · 06/04/2021 01:47

Jess Glynnw, whose voice I actually find painful to listen to

RoseRedRoseBlue · 06/04/2021 01:48

Urgh GLYNNE

MooseBeTimeForSummer · 06/04/2021 01:53

The theme tune to Gardeners World. You can hear fingers sliding up the guitar strings, which really sets my teeth on edge.

LunaNorth · 06/04/2021 01:58

The constant ‘whoomping’ on any Christopher Nolan film soundtrack. It makes me feel ill. I once had to leave the cinema ten minutes into a Batman film he directed, because of that.

Whatwouldnanado · 06/04/2021 02:00

Alan Carr

NiceGerbil · 06/04/2021 02:01

Lol way too much.

I have got to the age where the differences in volume are really noticeable.

My parents used to turn the sound off for the ads I thought wtf. Now I do it.

And in everything why are the action scenes a million times louder than the talking? FFS.

People wise. Jimmy Carr. Frank Skinner. I have to switch their faces off too, TBF.

OneKeyAtATime · 06/04/2021 02:06

Every advert

BluePeterVag · 06/04/2021 02:12

Another vote for Jimmy Carr. I cannot bear to hear that stupid fake laugh. There is an advert for a show with a clip of his laugh - why?! Hideous.

GellerYeller · 06/04/2021 02:14

The adverts. Why are they still so much louder than the programmes?! Bonus if it mutes out 'perf with Surf' Angry

DeedledeDee · 06/04/2021 02:22

The music on the Chase ,too loud,
Anything with rylan Plastic Clark.
One show, EastEnders music
Anything with canned laughing

TwoZeroTwoZero · 06/04/2021 02:22

Snapped on Sky Crime. That woman's voice and intonation does my tits in!

Football for the same reasons as pp ^^ said.

Quite a lot of adverts.

One of those 999 emergency programmes about the hart team. The narrator's voice is so irritating. I think she has a Yorkshire accent, but it's nothing like mine; she says things like, "The victim... is in grerve dernger. They marght... not merke it out... alarve," in an overly serious and dramatic tone. Both dh and I rush to the remote to turn it over!

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