# Nails on a chalkboard, balloon-rubbing, etc. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 28, 2005, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nails-on-a-chalkboard-balloon-rubbing-etc/301611 "2005-04-28T20:23:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Shana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shana)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nails-on-a-chalkboard-balloon-rubbing-etc/301611/21 "2005-04-29T03:50:44Z")
I thought I was the only one that was weirded out by belly buttons…eeek. Touch mine and you die. I also can not abide by anyone that stirs their coffee or tea by clanking, clanking, CLANKING on the inside of the cup. Pure barbarism. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nails-on-a-chalkboard-balloon-rubbing-etc/301611/22 "2005-04-29T04:11:01Z")
I cannot stand: that high-pitched whine certain machines, like water fountains or refrigerators, make the sound of someone cracking their joints and stuff–especially when someone cracks their back _shudders_ someone shuffling their feet slurping someone who punctuates their reading of the newspaper by continually shaking the paper the sound a modem makes when dialing up ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nails-on-a-chalkboard-balloon-rubbing-etc/301611/23 "2005-04-29T04:53:44Z")
Toothbrushing. I brush my teeth with my lips closed. And I hate it when people touch the front of my neck. I can barely sit still when doctors feel for my lymph nodes right next to my throat. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nails-on-a-chalkboard-balloon-rubbing-etc/301611/24 "2005-04-29T05:01:36Z")
Wet running shoes squeaking on the floor. Gah! ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nails-on-a-chalkboard-balloon-rubbing-etc/301611/25 "2005-04-29T05:12:14Z")
Og how I love my husband. I think he is the bees’ knees. Indeed, he is the wasps’ tits. But I want to strangle him when he drinks soda through a straw. I don’t know how anyone makes that sound gross, but he can do it. But then I think about his brother eating spaghetti and realized I could have had things much, much worse. ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nails-on-a-chalkboard-balloon-rubbing-etc/301611/26 "2005-04-29T06:15:44Z")
Paper napkins against teeth or gums. _Unnnhhhh._ I also hate pulling those really thin paper napkins out of those holders at restaurants, because they’re packed in so tightly and to get one out you have to pull it and it _scraaaapes_ against the container and _unnnghhhhh_. ---
**Author:** ![Orville\_mogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/aeb1de/32.png) [@Orville\_mogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orville_mogul)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nails-on-a-chalkboard-balloon-rubbing-etc/301611/27 "2005-04-29T11:03:04Z")
licking popsicle sticks. Ooh, I really hate that. Actually my tongue against any wood. Oh, wooden tongue suppressors are particularly bad. ---
**Author:** ![Orville\_mogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/aeb1de/32.png) [@Orville\_mogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orville_mogul)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nails-on-a-chalkboard-balloon-rubbing-etc/301611/28 "2005-04-29T11:07:57Z")
that should be tongue **de** pressors :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nails-on-a-chalkboard-balloon-rubbing-etc/301611/29 "2005-04-29T13:19:55Z")
I have a metal bookshelf in my office, and when you slide books or magazines out of it, they make this _squeeeeek_ noise that’s very “fingernails on a blackboard-y.” When people come into my office and go to grab something off my shelf, I yell, “_Lift it!_ Don’t slide it!!” ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nails-on-a-chalkboard-balloon-rubbing-etc/301611/30 "2005-04-29T13:23:12Z")
Squishing eyeballs is when someone presses the side of their eye with their finger and squishes it, so the eyeball moves. Think of Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. He knocks over Quinn and does it about six inches away from him. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nails-on-a-chalkboard-balloon-rubbing-etc/301611/31 "2005-04-29T13:30:44Z")
Why would anyone do this to themselves? I don’t see the horror, mind you, but I don’t see the appeal, either. ---
**Author:** ![Carm6773](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2bfe46/32.png) [@Carm6773](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carm6773)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nails-on-a-chalkboard-balloon-rubbing-etc/301611/32 "2005-04-29T13:35:19Z")
The sound of Scott Savol :wally singing on American Idol is nauseating. Seriously, though, styrofoam bothers me, as does any loud or sudden sound. I was in my classroom yesterday during my planning period quietly minding my own business and putting grades into the computer. All of a sudden some kid came running through the hall, pounded on my door, and ran out of the hall. It freaked me out so much (my heart was pounding so hard I could see my necklace moving) I couldn’t even go investigate who the little heathen was. ---
**Author:** ![Mint\_Julep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc79bd/32.png) [@Mint\_Julep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mint_Julep)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nails-on-a-chalkboard-balloon-rubbing-etc/301611/33 "2005-04-29T13:47:47Z")
A metal dustpan that I used to have to hang on a rusty old nail. ( I got chill-bumps just typing that ) BTW, My roomie in college could not handle the styrofoam on styrofoam either. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nails-on-a-chalkboard-balloon-rubbing-etc/301611/34 "2005-04-29T13:54:19Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > Why would anyone do this to themselves? I don’t see the horror, mind you, but I don’t see the appeal, either. I assume you mean the eyeballs. Mostly, because it’s juvenile & immature. It bothers my boyfriend, so occasionally I do it to him. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nails-on-a-chalkboard-balloon-rubbing-etc/301611/35 "2005-04-29T13:59:42Z")
Nails on a blackboard bugs me - because when I see someone do it, I involuntarily imagine MY nails dragging over the blackboard. Probably why people aren’t bothered unless they know what it is. I’m usually good at keeping myself from imagining the gruesome, though in my circle of friends, any of us can make each other cringe by putting forth, suddenly, the idea of a paper cut on one’s eyeball. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nails-on-a-chalkboard-balloon-rubbing-etc/301611/36 "2005-04-29T14:04:33Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > Nails on a blackboard bugs me - because when I see someone do it, I involuntarily imagine MY nails dragging over the blackboard. Probably why people aren’t bothered unless they know what it is. Phew! I was beginning to think it was just _me_. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nails-on-a-chalkboard-balloon-rubbing-etc/301611/37 "2005-04-29T14:06:14Z")
I must be weird, because sounds don’t bother me. Nails on a chaulkboard? Fine. Stryofoam? I actually _like_ that sound! Kuckles cracking? It’s annoying when people do it but that’s more the act itself, not the sound. I have ears of steel, or so it would seem. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nails-on-a-chalkboard-balloon-rubbing-etc/301611/38 "2005-04-29T14:10:06Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Phew! I was beginning to think it was just _me_. Well, you little minx - I hadn’t noticed, but you managed to surpass my post count. Brava. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nails-on-a-chalkboard-balloon-rubbing-etc/301611/39 "2005-04-29T14:27:07Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > Well, you little minx - I hadn’t noticed, but you managed to surpass my post count. Brava. 😃 See, distraction does work! Honestly, I didn’t notice it either. signed, the little minx 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nails-on-a-chalkboard-balloon-rubbing-etc/301611/40 "2005-04-29T14:45:43Z")
> [@Endemic](#): > > licking popsicle sticks. Ooh, I really hate that. Actually my tongue against any wood. Oh, wooden tongue suppressors are particularly bad. Wood eating utensils are just plain nasty. I hate those wooden ice cream paddles so much that if I see someone using one in my office, I will drop what I am doing to get them a real spoon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nails-on-a-chalkboard-balloon-rubbing-etc/301611.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nails-on-a-chalkboard-balloon-rubbing-etc/301611.md?page=3)