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Squishy saliva sound of someone chewing gum with their mouth open.

The sound effect used on commercials of a beer being opened and poured into a glass.

Typing on a computer keyboard. (As opposed to typing on a typewriter, which is a good sound.)

Fingers scratching denim.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 27 September 2002 12:47 (twenty-three years ago)

The sound of someone eating a banana.

Fax machines

Vaccum cleaners

Car alarms

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 September 2002 12:59 (twenty-three years ago)

definetely vaccuum cleaners. though i like MBV.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 27 September 2002 13:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Scooters

There's some kid who lives near my office that has nothing better to do that ride around on his 10CC scooter around the place in a circuit that passes my office every 10 minutes or so...

...and, in the evening I have several hours of listening to some kid about 6 doors down the road giving his mate a ride up and down the road.

Oh, and snoring. I live in a house converted into 5 flats. Beneath my bedroom is the bedroom of another flat. The guy who lives there snores a really annoying, fucking loud deep bass snore that sends all chances of sleep running like bandits from an alarm bell.

It would be classed as manslaughter.

― Alfie (Alfie), Friday, 27 September 2002 13:14 (twenty-three years ago)

1)people gulping/swallowing
2)motorbikes
3)a4 ring binders snapping shut
4)people eating crisps
5)music/telly (somebody elses) after midnight
6)when buses do that 'ppfsshhtt' air release-type noise just as they pass you.
7)people who's mouths make a wet noise when they talk
8)popcorn at the pictures
9)cutlery on plates, particularly breakfast bowls
10)the glug, glug of a bottle of wine
11)people who go on and on about the same fucking thing
12)people who go on and on about the same fucking thing really loudly
13)loud, over-the-top laughter

and much, much more. am i uptight?

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 27 September 2002 13:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not too fond of steel guitars.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 27 September 2002 13:28 (twenty-three years ago)

14)people kissing on telly
15)coronation street theme music
16)people eating in general
17)people talking with their mouth full
18)screechy bus brakes
19)jokes when told badly
20)old people doing that shaky voice singing

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 27 September 2002 13:36 (twenty-three years ago)

21)how could i forget, the phone ringing
22)and kid's crying loudly or shouting. they're two of the very worst.

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 27 September 2002 13:39 (twenty-three years ago)

People playing their mates ALL the ringtones that their new mobile phone has in sequence.

Should that be 'phone or would that make me anal-retentive?

Is anal-retentive hyphenated?

― Alfie (Alfie), Friday, 27 September 2002 13:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Pan-pipes.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 27 September 2002 14:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll take your pan-pipes and raise you:

The Great Songs Of Andrew Lloyd Webber Pan Pipes Album

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000003QFV/eartfinder-20/104-1422501-0076754

File under torture.

― Alfie (Alfie), Friday, 27 September 2002 14:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Dammit, I was just about to say I couldn't believe that still no-one else had mentioned THOSE FUCKING PAN-PIPES

― Ray M (rdmanston), Friday, 27 September 2002 14:21 (twenty-three years ago)

There's this bloke who walks past my office several times everyday & I always know it's him because his trouser legs flap together - aaarrrgh!! In general, people tryting to do things quietly REALLY get me going - it's like water torture...

― Jez (Jez), Friday, 27 September 2002 14:29 (twenty-three years ago)

The sound of knives, forks and plates at Jazz cafe gigs.

― Daniel (dancity), Friday, 27 September 2002 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Fluorescent Lights
Overhead Electric Lines

― christoff (christoff), Friday, 27 September 2002 14:49 (twenty-three years ago)

the crackle and hum of neon lights.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 27 September 2002 14:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Dogs barking
Cats scratching at the bedroom door
People snoring
People talking with their mouth full
People eating with their mouth open
Noisy neighbours
Any alarms
Kids screaming
Cliff Richard music
Sirens

There's probably more.

― Shaz, Friday, 27 September 2002 18:09 (twenty-three years ago)

people who pile onto ILM regulars for no good reason except to hide their indie-rock pasts

ILM regulars who allow others the satisfaction of picking on them

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 27 September 2002 19:10 (twenty-three years ago)

what indie rock past?!!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 27 September 2002 19:18 (twenty-three years ago)

The sound of a mosquito briefly buzzing by your ear......a warning of itching to come.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 September 2002 19:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Motorcycles. Not just any motorcycles, but the gargantoid Harleys with deliberately obnoxious 200 dB rumbling tailpipes. Enjoy going deaf, you trust-fund Hell's Angel poser.

― Nate Patrin, Friday, 27 September 2002 21:26 (twenty-three years ago)

scratching my nails on a chalkboard (strangely, it doesn't bother me when others do it)

high pitched squealing laughter

― brg30 (brg30), Friday, 27 September 2002 21:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Cowbells counting out time. Has this sound *ever* been the harbinger of anything good?

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 28 September 2002 01:33 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, "Honky Tonk Women"

― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 28 September 2002 19:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Respectfully, the hatred still stands.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 28 September 2002 20:21 (twenty-three years ago)

The way Avril Lavigne says 'pose'. Clocks when I am trying to sleep.

― Damian (Damian), Sunday, 29 September 2002 09:04 (twenty-three years ago)

people going "Shhhhh" in a cinema, when it's still only the previews showing.

the hocking up of a loogie.

the deflating anti-pop of a piece of bubblewrap that didn't do what it was sposed to.

― minna (minna), Sunday, 29 September 2002 12:45 (twenty-three years ago)

People laughing at the ads in the cinema, they're ads you fools! Just cos you paid some cash before going in doesn't make them any funnier, oh but the big screen! NO, STOP LAUGHING AT THE ADS.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 29 September 2002 14:06 (twenty-three years ago)

"particularly breakfast bowls" ??!

― Breakfast Bowl (tracerhand), Sunday, 29 September 2002 17:09 (twenty-three years ago)

fair enough, Kim

― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 29 September 2002 21:29 (twenty-three years ago)

My ex-flatmate really hates the sound of whispering - especially on adverts, like the Skittles one where the kid goes "taste the rainbow". I can see where he's coming from.

― dog latin, Sunday, 29 September 2002 21:47 (twenty-three years ago)

The sound of people's fingernails being clipped in public.

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 30 September 2002 03:41 (twenty-three years ago)

hehe, ronan otm about ads at the pictures. everyone laughing self-consciously at an ad they've already seen at home fifty times. i upbraided a friend for the very same when we went to see spiderman.

― michael wells (michael w.), Monday, 30 September 2002 10:15 (twenty-three years ago)

People talking at the cinema, EVEN during the previews! The lights go down, SHUT UP!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 30 September 2002 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)

''The sound of people's fingernails being clipped in public.''

not only the sound but also seeing them do it. awful!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 30 September 2002 14:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Heard it this weekend: Someone whistling who didn't know how to whistle... i.e. whistling through teeth, enemic little breathy whistle..

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 30 September 2002 15:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I work in an office across the road from the back-door of Brighton's Creation club (nee Paradox).

And EVERY DAY they empty hundreds of empty bottles into bins out the back, giving rise to 15 to 20 minutes of smashing, clattering bottle noises.

My colleagues go crazy, shutting the windows and putting their hands over their ears.

But I quite like it. It's like hardcore windchimes.

― phil jones (interstar), Monday, 30 September 2002 17:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Infants shrieking -- is any other sound as penetrating and irritating?

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 30 September 2002 21:37 (twenty-three years ago)

My colleagues go crazy, shutting the windows and putting their hands over their ears.

But I quite like it. It's like hardcore windchimes.

I've just finished working as a barman in a Wetherspoons pub. I took great pleasure in smashing those fuckers to bits as hard as possible. It's such a cool noise.
Another noise I liked was the sound of ashtrays being put down on tables with a tiny bit of spin on them. If you start one spinning and then start a few more, it sounds like autechre.

people going "Shhhhh" in a cinema, when it's still only the previews showing.
Lol! You'd hate going to the cinema with me then as I'm the joker who finds it insanely funny to go "Shhhh! It's starting!!" far too loudly every time an ad comes on.

― dog latin, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

the whining of elitists

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 18:03 (twenty-three years ago)

seven years pass...

was just thinking how much i hate these

The sound effect used on commercials of a beer being opened and poured into a glass.
Typing on a computer keyboard. (As opposed to typing on a typewriter, which is a good sound.)
― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, September 27, 2002 8:47 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

and lo, they were covered in the first post

― eyes without afaik (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 25 April 2010 22:23 (sixteen years ago)

whenever they have typing in a commercial it's like GAH

― eyes without afaik (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 25 April 2010 22:24 (sixteen years ago)

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