Most annoying sound in the world

In My Humble Opinion
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What sound makes you want to go postal? It doesn’t need to be loud, it doesn’t need to be shrill, it just has to be a sound that crawls under your skin and needles around until you just want to peel your ears off your head.

For me…well, sorry brachyrhynos, but the sound of a begging baby crow makes me want to pull my hair out. Imagine the normal caw of an adult crow, made whinier and a pitch or two higher, repeated over and over and OVER again right outside, say your bedroom window at Damn It’s Early in the Morning. What gets me is how the pitch rises so feverishly as the crowling’s (or whatever it’s called) parent succombs to the berating whine and actually feeds the damn thing. You can actually hear them caw and choke on their food at the same time. ARGH! It sounds somewhat like this… “Eh! Eh! Eh! EH EH EH EH EH EHHHHHHH EHHHHHHHH EHHHHHHHH! EEEEEEEEHHHHHHHH <muffle gurgle munch> Eh eh.”

:::shudder::: Now we know why some choose to eat their young. UGH.

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A human baby crying - think about it, the sound is designed to annoy you so that you do something about it.

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Whistling.

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Haven’t you people seen Dumb and Dumber?

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That screech that fingernails on a chalk board make.

I read somewhere (might have been Straight Dope?) that the reason that particular sound affects humans so is that it is the sound a female ape makes to call her young (or warn them of danger), and that our primate brains retain that from whenever. Be that as it may, that sound causes pain for me.

That and leaf blowers.

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The sound of driving your car 55mph and only one window down. That hum drum sound is enough to make you get in an accident.

Also fireworks!

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Gas-powered leaf blower

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Of course I have, moejack. That’s where the thread title comes from.

And, IMHO, the whining crow beats Jim Carrey’s siren by a mile.

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Irregular vibrations bug the hell out of me. I love white noise, but if the fan or whatever I have producing it starts making clicks, sqeaks or any other non-constant sound it just drives me batty.

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the phone ringing at work. hands down

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A co-worker who sits 4 cubicles away cuts his fingernails at his desk 2-3 times a week. Every click click click makes me grit my teeth and I find I am unable to continue typing until he finishes.

And my grandmother’s voice when she (frequently) calls at 6am on a Saturday.

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Hands down, it’s the sound of my husband’s ex-wife!!!

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Hands down, it’s the sound of my husband’s ex-wife’s voice!!!:smack:

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definetly the sound of one of my sixth grade teacher’s voice.

It reminded me of the noise of an annoyed pig

Or the noise of a crying baby.
Or the background music in one specific(and stupid) anti smoking PSA.

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The dee-duh dee-duh dee-duh sound of the garbage truck backing into the alley under my window. I hate to wake up angry.

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I’d say it was a tie between one coworker’s laugh and…another coworker’s laugh.

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My three year old whining. Conversley, the best sound in the world is him laughing.

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It’s gotta be Diva’s for me, the way they stretch out one syllable words so that they last 15 seconds really makes me want to slide a butter knife under my knee-cap and pop it open then bring the cap to my mouth and swallow the contents as if it were an oyster.

Really, can anyone stand watching Mariah sing the word “I” while she taps out each change of note in her voice with her finger on an invisible xylophone that is suspended in mid-air without cringing?

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The chomp-chomp-chomp of someone chewing gum or eating with their mouth open. I think it is the wet, squishiness of the sound that makes it the most annoying.

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Alarm clocks. Can’t stand the EEEE EEEE EEEE EEEE EEEE EEEE EEEE EEEE shiver