# Makeitstop Makeitstop Makeitstop **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 12, 2003, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/makeitstop-makeitstop-makeitstop/154678 "2003-02-12T22:15:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/makeitstop-makeitstop-makeitstop/154678/41 "2003-02-13T17:30:16Z")
A spoon clinking then scraping across the bottom of a dish. Someone eating ice cream: CLINK!..SCREEEEEETCH!..CLINK!..SCREEEEEEETCH! I can’t stand to hear my husband clip his toenails. If he did it at a normal pace, it wouldn’t be so bad. CLIP!..(long pause)…CLIP!.. ---
**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/makeitstop-makeitstop-makeitstop/154678/42 "2003-02-13T17:32:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jack@ss \* > \*\*An infant crying. I’m sorry, but when I hear a baby crying, I just want to run away. I know, lots of parents will think I’m a bad man for this. \*\* I would never judge another Doper (ahem), so I won’t say that I think you are a bad man. But boy oh boy are you living in the wrong city/state, if you don’t want to hear any babies crying. In SLC, you pretty much have to stay out of Target, Wal-Mart, Shopko, Fred Meyer and most public places, or you are gonna run into at least one of those families dragging along their 12 kids to the market. I would suggest earplugs, lots and lots of earplugs. As for my sounds, it would be a tie between mouthbreathers and people who chew with their mouth open. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/makeitstop-makeitstop-makeitstop/154678/43 "2003-02-13T17:46:37Z")
Two pieces of hollow unglazed ceramic rubbing together. Just thinking of this gives me the willies… > [@](#): > > Also, televisions that don’t have the volume on (on mute) for a long period of time. There’s this high-pitched keening noise that seems to linger on the faintest edge of my hearing and drives me crazy. That’d be the horizontal scan at approximately 15 kHz. If you can hear it, you haven’t wrecked your hearing with too much headphone music… ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/makeitstop-makeitstop-makeitstop/154678/44 "2003-02-13T18:34:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JessEnigma \* > **Fingernails tapping on metal…particularly the sort of metal used to make musical instruments and mouthpieces for such instruments. Every day I sit next to a trombone player who is absolutely incapable of NOT TAPPING ON HIS TROMBONE FOR FIVE MINUTES. I threatened to pull out his fingernails yesterday, but that didn’t work.** I’ll bet you don’t like the Joe Ely song _Fingernails_, right? [http://www.ely.com/EarlyAlbums.html#Fingernails](http://www.ely.com/EarlyAlbums.html#Fingernails) _I keep my fingernails long So they click when I play the piano"_ ---
**Author:** ![Tir\_Tinuviel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tir\_Tinuviel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tir_Tinuviel)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/makeitstop-makeitstop-makeitstop/154678/45 "2003-02-13T18:48:43Z")
I have the amazing ability to be irratated by just about anything. Depends on my mood. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/makeitstop-makeitstop-makeitstop/154678/46 "2003-02-13T18:51:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Max Carnage \* > \*\*The “BREEEEEEEEP-BREEEEEEEEEP-BREEEEEEEEEP” alarm clock sound. Hate it when I’m asleep of course, but anytime I hear it like on a commercial or something, I have to change the channel. \*\* Oh yes. There’s one ad in particular that used the same alarm I do, and I actually twitched the first time I heard it. I’ve blocked the product itself from my mind in protest. I didn’t get a lot of sleep last night, and when my alarm went off I snapped awake and switched on my bedside lamp, then spent a few bleary moments in a daze trying to figure out why the alarm wasn’t going off. I despise the sound of people eating with their mouths open. Smack smack smack. Actually, I also hate the sound of someone sucking on a lozenge or hard candy, rolling it around their mouths, clinking against their teeth, fiendishly slurping their saliva. ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/makeitstop-makeitstop-makeitstop/154678/47 "2003-02-13T18:54:46Z")
Napkins or tissues rubbing across teeth or gums. I don’t know if it’s the sound or the image, but either way I can’t stand just thinking about it. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/makeitstop-makeitstop-makeitstop/154678/48 "2003-02-13T18:55:28Z")
Hearing Fran Drescher’s voice. Thank the good Lord that her 15 minutes of fame are apparently over. ---
**Author:** ![Beija](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a8b319/32.png) [@Beija](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beija)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/makeitstop-makeitstop-makeitstop/154678/49 "2003-02-13T20:11:18Z")
Folding paper. The SSSSSSSSSSSSSt sound of the fingers running over the paper wigs me right out. If I know the person who’s folding I scream “STOP IT!” and grab the offending paper from them. If I don’t know the person well, I’ll just grit my teeth and bear it. Once. Every once in a while someone will just stand there and absentmindedly fold, fold, fold. At that point whether I know them or not I’ll ask them to “please stop that–it’s like fingernails on a blackboard for me!” I always get a funny look. If I need to fold paper I have to put it flat on a table, fold it over onto itself and gently _press_ the paper until it stays flat. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/makeitstop-makeitstop-makeitstop/154678/50 "2003-02-13T20:48:18Z")
People singing along to music, but not really singing. I have one friend who does this in the car … about every eight words, she’ll let out a breathy noise that is rather like, but not quite, singing. SING OR BE SILENT! The pens with no ink, and the sound the TV makes on mute are also high on my list, but the singing-under-one’s-breath is my MAKEITSTOP noise for sure. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/makeitstop-makeitstop-makeitstop/154678.md?page=2)