Annoying Sounds

[Stuart Jeffery]

Lets see how many we can find and then maybe run a poll for everyone: Obvious Starters: 1. Vuvuzelas 2. Fingernails on blackboard 3. Colonel Bogey March played on a megaphone enhanced Kazoo 4. Dead harddrive clicking sound Got anymore?

[Michael Schubert]

Stuart Jeffery wrote:

4. Dead harddrive clicking sound

I'd rather classify this as a scary sound. Here are some more (annoying or scary, take your pick): 5. Crying babies 6. Celine Dion 7. Michael Bolton 8. Hugo Chavez

[Mladen Jankovic]

0. "Leave Britney Alone" guy

[Genetic Algorithm Library] [Wowd]

[Kristian Sixhoj]

Here's one I really hate, and scares the cr@p out of me every time:

• Releasing the clutch too soon when shifting gear in your car

:~

:bob: Kristian Sixhoej I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. - Stephen Hawking

[Rage]

Michael Schubert wrote:

5. Crying babies

Until I was a father, this was annoying. Now I feel heartbroken when I hear one, and it bothers noone to take care of him.

[Rage]

0. Scratching some frost with the corner of the ice box when picking it up out of the freezer.

[Chris Meech]

Mockingbird, a duet by Harry and Llyod.

Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]

[Chris Losinger]

squeeze a bag of corn starch. it makes this horrible dry squeaking sound that makes me want to crawl out of my skin.

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[Bassam Abdul Baki]

Whatever happened to the dentist's drill being the scariest sound of all?

[Leslie Sanford]

Whitney Houston, or one of her clones, "singing" over the intercom at Walgreens. It always leaves me asking the question, "Why is this woman screaming at me?"

[hairy_hats]

Endlessly barking dogs.

[BonshatS]

car alarms at 03:00.

[Rajesh R Subramanian]

And they do it ONLY when you're trying to get some sleep! :doh:

Workout progress:
Current arm size: 14.4in
Desired arm size: 18in
Next Target: 15.4in by Dec 2010

Current training method: HIT

[Rage]

BonshatS wrote:

car alarms at 03:00.

FTFY.

[Lost User]

Rage wrote:

Until I was a father, this was annoying. Now I feel heartbroken when I hear one, and it bothers noone to take care of him am desensitized and it bothers me that I may not even notice

FTFY!

Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.

[BonshatS]

alarms.

[Rage]

arms. It is not a sound but UK goalkeepers tend to not know what to do with them. On the opposite, we French know how to use them...

[Rajesh R Subramanian]

Alarm clock at 06.30.

Workout progress:
Current arm size: 14.4in
Desired arm size: 18in
Next Target: 15.4in by Dec 2010

Current training method: HIT

[J Dunlap]

Styrofoam. I can deal with a number of sounds that some people find extremely annoying, but squeaking styrofoam drives me batty.

[Bergholt Stuttley Johnson]

the sound of a mobile phone on a desk with the owner no where in sight (you would think the name would give them a hint ie MOBILE phone)

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