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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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TwoZeroTwoZero · 06/04/2021 12:44

@Gladimnotcampinginthisweather

LunaNorth and what's wrong with coming from Hull? 😉
Nothing at all Grin but the way that narrator intones (is that the right word?) her sentences so that everything is super dramatic just makes her, and her accent, sound incredibly annoying!
ChrissyPlummer · 06/04/2021 12:47

The Haribo adverts with kids voices dubbed over. I feel like chucking the telly out the window. So fucking annoying.

MissEyelesbarrow · 06/04/2021 12:48

Bosch advert gets silenced. People biting into things - magnum ice creams and there's a woman biting an apple that's horrendous too.

CloudPop · 06/04/2021 12:51

Boris Johnson. The sound of his voice makes me want to scream.

Wowcherarestalkingme · 06/04/2021 12:51

Motor racing. Sets my teeth on edge

Gertie75 · 06/04/2021 12:52

When the BBC show local news and play random music and dogs barking.

Chemenger · 06/04/2021 12:53

Sarah Millican. The sound of her voice makes me irrationally angry. Can’t be in the same room.

TristantheTyrannosaurus · 06/04/2021 12:55

Any coronovirus ad. Fucking sick to death of them.

QuidditchQueen · 06/04/2021 12:56

Stephen Fry - too many reasons
David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn -whiny voices
Radio /James O’Brien - his voice puts my teeth on edge.

LadyCatStark · 06/04/2021 12:57

Kissing noises on Love Island.

And anything with the slightest bit of bass on DH’s stupidly expensive Bose sound system. It gives me a massive headache even when it’s not on loud.

garlictwist · 06/04/2021 12:59

Most adverts but especially those for baby stuff. They are always so cloying and simpering it makes me want to scream.

sashh · 06/04/2021 13:04

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

I went to schools run by the Sisters of Mercy (the name is a sick joke if yo ask me) so had to take part in the Angelus at 11.55 every day - I feel your pain even without hearing it.

Can I mention the radio? The Archers theme tune. Also any Radio 4 play / series with a child in it, obviously played by a woman. Oh and the 'BBC American accent' it's not on as much but in my childhood there were various series like Pollyanna where everyone spoke in this fake American accent.

LunaNorth · 06/04/2021 13:07

Radio-wise, I can’t stand hearing Sarah Jarvis, the GP on the Jeremy Vine show.

Her saliva clicks. It’s unbearable.

DipSwimSwoosh · 06/04/2021 13:09

I saw your title and thought 'QI'.

Sandsnake · 06/04/2021 13:09

V similar to lots of others here. My list:

Eastenders (the shouting)
Mrs Brown’s Boys
One Show ( just too perky, like a kid’s tv programme but aimed at adults)
Bing (the whining)
Current Co-op adverts where the voiceover is trying so hard to sound warm and northern that it’s like she’s putting it on
Most performance based competitions, like X Factor (the noisy perkiness)
Gregg Wallace
Keith Lemon (big time)

3dogsnorth · 06/04/2021 13:19

That teatime tv show with Alexander Arnold who has to read out the answers multiple times in his annoying smug voice. You can read it on the screen but yet he repeats it again, loves the sound of his own voice

Tisforptarmigan · 06/04/2021 14:08

Football.

cushioncovers · 06/04/2021 14:10

The one show

JovialNickname · 06/04/2021 14:17

Anything coronavirus/NHS/government - just fuck off already

That alarm advert where the word "burgled" is mentioned about a million times. As in "hello, have you been burgled?" "Yes, burglars have burgled our house" etc

expectopelargonium · 06/04/2021 14:25

Keith Lemon.

The EastEnders theme tune.

TooMuchYarn · 06/04/2021 14:31

Piers Morgan and Arlene Foster.

WithASpider · 06/04/2021 14:58

Go Compare man - can't fucking stand him. Jimmy Carr's laugh. Frankie Boyle.

Anyone currently in Government.

Babyroobs · 06/04/2021 14:59

Can't stand Tenable and that presenter saying " you are terrible at tenable " and the noise when it counts up the answers.

EiffelPower · 06/04/2021 15:02

Alan Carr and the match of the day theme tune

abeanbaked · 06/04/2021 15:05

Lorraine Kelly and Alison Hammond, fake overly happy people in the morning Angry

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