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Noises that piss You off.

184 replies

itsthewordsmorethenanything · 26/08/2024 18:29

Help settle a discussion between between me and my husband.
I think scraping your cutlery on your plate is the equivalent of licking your plate.. The foods gone, no need for all of the scraping to get every last morsel of food in your gob!
He thinks my intolerance to food noises is getting out of hand.
I will admit I've always been sensitive to people chewing/slurping but regardless I still believe scraping is bad table manners, anyone else, or am I really being unreasonable?

  • For context we have had chicken salad for dinner, he had finished but was scraping mayonnaise left on the plate onto his fork.
OP posts:
bellalou1234 · 26/08/2024 18:30

I hate the chimes of the ice cream man.

OrdinaryMatilda · 26/08/2024 18:34

People whistling

AmandaHoldensLips · 26/08/2024 18:35

Men sniffing like they don't know what a tissue it.
Blow your firkin nose for gods sake.

Bonjovispjs · 26/08/2024 18:36

Noisy eating is the most unbearable sound in the world, but I do have misophonia.

sleepwithblanket · 26/08/2024 18:36

Chewing.

Also, that sniff. Often by men which comes from their toes. A hacking sniff. It’s utterly disgusting and can often be accompanied by a spit.

NoSnowdrop · 26/08/2024 18:37

YANBU OP. I’d have divorced him over this.

I can’t stand most noises/people though Grin

BCBird · 26/08/2024 18:37

Yappy dogs. Noisy eaters

motleymop · 26/08/2024 18:38

The noise of Harley Davidsons. Red mist descends big time.

echosun · 26/08/2024 18:38

Children screeching, motorbikes, one sided phone calls.

Okokokokokish · 26/08/2024 18:39

Noisy eaters ,unnecessarily loud cars\scooters

echosun · 26/08/2024 18:39

Also, music coming from other people's gardens.

TomatoSandwiches · 26/08/2024 18:40

I don't want to hear the scraping either, disgusting... or the sounds of your sloppy food masticating, lips smacking or slurping from a cup/mug/spoon.

Absolutely vomit inducing sounds.

I found a new one the other day, our taxi driver was the only one to not put his seat belt on so that bloody chiming noise was going and going.

Oh and the lovely Hawk Tahu, grim.

violetsparkle · 26/08/2024 18:40

I can't stand the plate scrape.

101jobs · 26/08/2024 18:40

Alarm clock

Engines being revved loudly

SuddenlyINeedToGoCauseIHaveAThing · 26/08/2024 18:40

Spitting and all related noises – pulling phlegm and mucous around throat and nasal passages, huaking, the ‘ptt’ noise, all of it. 😤😡

BeatsAntique · 26/08/2024 18:41

Another vote for men’s disgusting method of clearing their sinuses. DP does it all the time, it’s repulsive.

Why is it that women don’t have to make that noise?!

Sheeparelooseagain · 26/08/2024 18:44

The noise of next door's power tool fetish.
The noise when you walk across a sticky floor.

SpringLobelia · 26/08/2024 18:44

I am usually very tolerant to the noises of children. But today we were on a train and there were two children aged under 4 (siblings) who screamed their heads off, climbed over the headrests of the seats in a sort of train version of Ninja Warrior UK and cried non-stop. They climbed onto the baggage overhead holder bit and one fell off and landed on her head and (fair enough) screamed her head off. All while their mother had her headphones on and ignored them. At one point one of the children started kicking the leg of the man over the aisle from me and he only stood and left to a different seat. I was impressed by his restraint.

FWIW I had a non-verbal child with special needs and when he was 4 and kicking off I would do my all to deal with it. This was just non-parenting in all it's glory. (ETA- there were no obvious special needs here but i know from experience that this does not mean there were none. But fuck me this was a parent who had either given up or simply no longer cared. There was not even a soft bleating along the lines of 'don't do that darling' which would have been the very least i would have expected).

HelenWheels · 26/08/2024 18:45

that sounds appalling @SpringLobelia

PerkyMintDeer · 26/08/2024 18:46

Loud eaters/drinkers
Whistlers or people that randomly sing in public (i.e complete stranger belting out The Greatest Love of All right beside you while you're both looking at fitted sheets in Dunelm Mill - just...why?)
Children screaming indoors for absolutely no reason whatsoever.
Motorbikes/sports cars revving up very late at night/early in the morning
People that insist on sniffing rather than blowing their damned nose.
The constant thump thump thump of the basketball in a drive or football against a fence when you're trying to relax in the garden.
The long scrape of chairs in Starbucks/Costa/Garden Centre Cafes when useless parents are letting their tiny children drag them as a form of entertainment.
Whispering loudly.
People (or their children) watching stuff on a phone/tablet without headphones. Ten thousand times worse when it's someone watching porn on public transport.

I'm ND and have misophonia so...there's a lot. Some totally irrational.

Prriorayingly · 26/08/2024 18:47

Others people’s music, just use earphones FFS.

HelenWheels · 26/08/2024 18:47

Take That
Oasis

HelenWheels · 26/08/2024 18:48

bad language

SpringLobelia · 26/08/2024 18:48

HelenWheels · 26/08/2024 18:45

that sounds appalling @SpringLobelia

It truly was. I have never in all my time seen such inadequate parenting. It was non-existent parenting. And the children were in danger of serious injury.

FourLeggedBuckers · 26/08/2024 18:51

Eating noises are unacceptable from humans. Animals can be quite charming as they chomp their way through life.

Screaming children.

Any unnecessary high pitched noise in an enclosed space.

Shouty people outside of reasonable contexts. Shouting at animals / dogs instead of treating them reasonably and training them properly. People who conduct their lives at a constant shout…

I’m not a very tolerant human…