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Which Noise Annoys You?

203 replies

ItsItchy · 18/06/2024 20:51

My husband walks around the house "singing". Well it's not really singing, it's just "la la la" to no particular tune.

I should be pleased he's happy but it annoys the hell out of me!

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Blahblah34 · 18/06/2024 22:07

i have misophonia so the sound of my husband drinking any liquid makes me want to do violence.

Throwaway0912 · 18/06/2024 22:07

MamaAndTheSofa · 18/06/2024 21:59

Yes yes yes to kids shrieking and squealing! When I was a child we just weren't allowed to shriek (obviously unless there was an actual disaster happening) but in DH's family it seems to be how they communicated. He's passing it on to our kids, so sometimes I'm working from home and he'll be chasing the kids around the house while they squeal their heads off. Then I'm the worst in the world when I tell them all to stop it.

It genuinely makes me extremely anxious; I don't know whether it's sensory overload or just that I feel like they're distressed, but it's awful!

YES! We weren't allowed to do it, I don't let mine do it. As soon as the shrieking starts, they're indoors or told to calm down. There's no need for it.

Add to that, tantrums and incessant whinging. I'm not talking about babies/toddlers of the age where they genuinely don't know any better. I'm talking in particular about the roughly 5 year old sat behind me on a recent long haul flight who switched continually between a tablet with no headphones and a stupid game making ding sounds, to fucking whinging and screeching. For 9 hours. How I didn't commit murder I have no idea.

NotMyCircusNotMyProblem · 18/06/2024 22:07

LovedmyRaleighChopper · 18/06/2024 21:03

Throat clearing. Specifically husband endlessly pointlessly clearing his throat. Wtf is that about? I end up going puce and screaming “JUST SWALLOW CAN’T YOU!”

Shit the bed... I feel your pain.
I thought it was just my husband - it seems I am not alone 😉

ExitChasedByCars · 18/06/2024 22:09

AffIt · 18/06/2024 21:00

Right now, my fucking neighbours playing 'Chasing Cars' by Snow Patrol on repeat.

I may have to go and murder them.

Thanks for inspiring my new username Easter Grin

Ponderingwindow · 18/06/2024 22:09

Whistling

cardboard touching anything

people using pencils - I want them banned from the planet - erasable pens exist. We don’t need pencils anymore.

chalk

the sound of the electricity in the walls

my neighbors 5 houses away using a small appliance

sometimes I just put in my noise canceling headphones so I can have some peace and my teeth can stop hurting.

Im autistic if you haven’t figured that out by now.

Wotcher · 18/06/2024 22:12

NooNakedJacuzziness · 18/06/2024 20:55

Wood pigeons

😮😮😮

take that back!

I love woodies, but ever since seeing the video that pointed out it sounds like they’re saying “my toe hurts, Betty” I can’t hear anything else 🤣

then my DP changed it to “my bum hole’s sweaty” and it got even worse 🙈😂

MissingMoominMamma · 18/06/2024 22:14

Noises made by people’s noses and mouths.

Excessive laughing (I’m not as miserable as that makes me sound).

Abracadabra12345 · 18/06/2024 22:16

Funnywonder · 18/06/2024 21:05

Football match noise and commentary. Mostly when it's coming from the small tinny speaker of a tablet or phone. But I hate it generally too. Drives me round the bend.

I came back to that with the neighbours' tv and their bifold doors open. Welcome, summer

SpringerFall · 18/06/2024 22:16

It's all quiet and you a loud squeal scream from a child outside

No not I am in trouble scream a playing in a playground type one

poppym12 · 18/06/2024 22:17

Motorbikes. Especially smaller engines and quad bikes, trial bikes etc. I can't even describe the rage I feel when I hear them.

CheerfulBunny · 18/06/2024 22:21

OH - so much. He has an incredibly performative way of drinking which involves him hoovering the liquid up that makes him sound like Darth Vader. I've pointed out that if you're tipping it in you don't need to inhale so strongly. Seriously, I don't know how he doesn't choke.
OH has a misaligned jaw that makes a sound like a dog chewing a bone. Not his fault but 😬
OH 'singing along' in the car but just makes the same tut tut tut noise whatever it is. So Dancing Queen ('tut tut tuttut') Sweet Caroline ('tut tut tuttut').. you get the picture.

Countdown to 'You should just be kind, I can't believe how horrible people are to their DHs.. blah, blah' He gets on my bust but I still love him!

ThereIsAMassivePiegeonOnMyFence · 18/06/2024 22:21

Any noise my twat neighbours make, god bless noise cancelling headphones

when men (always men) have spare change knocking about in their pockets and they stand and clank and rattle it about

mdinbc · 18/06/2024 22:24

There's one sports announcer that does baseball who's voice grates on my nerves. I have to ask DH to turn it down. Also when ladies curling is on - the screeching! Can you tell my DH loves sports? I usually don't mind, but there are times...

Also flip-flops. They drive me mad. Certainly there are smart shoe designers that could manage to design around this.

Thepossibility · 18/06/2024 22:24

I too have a DH that I adore, but is too loud. Yell sneeze. Scream cough. Even his farts sound like he has a microphone in his pants. But his most rage-inducing sounds are his eating noise. Juicy chewing the cereal and loud, painful sounding swallowing. Even swallowing a sip of coffee- swishy GULP swishy GULP.

TheThingIsYeah · 18/06/2024 22:29

I've thought of another. The sound of light aircraft doing loop the loops on a Sunday morning. Who are these selfish cunts with their expensive hobbies that inflict noise pollution on literally 1000s of people under their flight path?

Sux2buthen · 18/06/2024 22:30

Almost all noise

Greydogs123 · 18/06/2024 22:39

My partner likes to rest his feet on something when sat on the sofa. We have two foot stool type things he could use, but sometimes he chooses to rest them on the wicker bin we have near the sofa. This bin creaks with every movement and it drives me mad when we’re watching tv and then every few seconds there’s a random creak.

Peonii · 18/06/2024 22:41

My husband snoring
The fridge door alarm when it's left open
Foxes

BiscuityBoyle · 18/06/2024 22:42

Neighbours playing music that goes duff duff duff duff duff duff duff duff duff duff duff duff duff duff duff duff

The woman next door but two is perfectly nice but like a foghorn. She takes her dog out at about 11 every night and commands it to ‘go toilet’, over and over again.

The repeated hard kicking of a football against a wall.

Thevelvelletes · 18/06/2024 22:45

Revving a car , when parking.. just park your fucking car.. especially in the early hours of the morning.

Sparrow7 · 18/06/2024 22:49

Ticking clocks

Cattenberg · 18/06/2024 23:01

poppym12 · 18/06/2024 22:17

Motorbikes. Especially smaller engines and quad bikes, trial bikes etc. I can't even describe the rage I feel when I hear them.

Some motorbikes have HORRIBLE exhausts. When they drive past, they rip every thought from my head.

Someone told me that loud, souped-up exhausts are illegal. I wish the police would do something about them. Surely it would be cost effective to confiscate these morons’ motorbikes, remove the “pop bang” exhausts and sell the bikes at auction? The owners would get one warning and one warning only!

ItsItchy · 18/06/2024 23:17

And canned laughter, particularly in American sitcoms!

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LesserSpottedAlligator · 19/06/2024 00:05

White Noise, dives me mad.
The dog constantly licking, wakes me up she's so loud.
DH snoring !!!!

sesquipedalian · 19/06/2024 00:15

My husband has leather slippers that he sort of crunches together when he’s sitting down and they make a squeaky noise that I find absolutely infuriating. I’ve lost count if the number of times I’ve asked him please, don’t scrunch your slippers….

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