# Some people just like to hear themselves talk, obviously **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 6, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-just-like-to-hear-themselves-talk-obviously/146958 "2003-01-06T16:24:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-just-like-to-hear-themselves-talk-obviously/146958/1 "2003-01-06T16:24:25Z")
And I’m one of them. Fucking laryngitis. I’ve had it for almost 2 weeks now, since about 5 days after I first got sick. Still sick, still voiceless. I’d love to see a damn doctor, but after taking 5 unpaid days off of my (temp) job (which were originally slated to be vacation days spent in Florida with family, and ended up being days in bed with a wasted plane ticket), I can’t afford it. I’d use insurance, but I have none, because I can’t speak to my prospective employer about full time work because I have no fucking voice. I’ve had so much fucking tea, lemon, and honey, that I’ve been shitting out lemon-fresh bees for a week. I’ve coughed up so much technicolor sputum that I could make a Pollack masterpiece. I want to fucking scream in frustration, but nothing but air comes out. ---
**Author:** ![Themis00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/13edae/32.png) [@Themis00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Themis00)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-just-like-to-hear-themselves-talk-obviously/146958/2 "2003-01-06T16:29:01Z")
I like to hear myself talk and that would be uncool if I came down with laryngitis. Poor tdn. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-just-like-to-hear-themselves-talk-obviously/146958/3 "2003-01-06T16:32:54Z")
That’s why God gave us message boards, ain’t it? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-just-like-to-hear-themselves-talk-obviously/146958/4 "2003-01-06T18:36:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wang-Ka \* > \*\*That’s why God gave us message boards, ain’t it? \*\* Fine for a forum like this, but when it comes to friends, neighbors, restaurant workers, cab drivers, etc., then it really starts to suck. ---
**Author:** ![Suspenderzzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Suspenderzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suspenderzzz)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-just-like-to-hear-themselves-talk-obviously/146958/5 "2003-01-06T19:04:55Z")
There is this woman at my office with a really grating, irritating voice. Just before Christmas, she had laryngitis and thus was cruelly silenced for a day or two. She was like the famous children of yore: Seen, but not heard. At the end of the first day of this, I felt less stressed-out than at the end of the average workday. You could almost say I was overcome by an eerie calm. Then it hit me: Ole’ G. hasn’t opened her mouth all day, except in whispered rasps audible only to those within her immediate vicinity. What an enchanting early Christmas present! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-just-like-to-hear-themselves-talk-obviously/146958/6 "2003-01-06T19:10:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Suspenderzzz \* > \*\*There is this woman at my office with a really grating, irritating voice. Just before Christmas, she had laryngitis and thus was cruelly silenced for a day or two. She was like the famous children of yore: Seen, but not heard. > \*\* Funny – I have a cow-orker that talks all the time, and has the most grating, annoying, jackhammer voice (with a horrible accent to boot) that I’ve ever heard. Perhaps I should make a gift of my laryngitis to her. ---
**Author:** ![Kamandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5daacb/32.png) [@Kamandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamandi)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-just-like-to-hear-themselves-talk-obviously/146958/7 "2003-01-06T20:44:16Z")
In order for that to happen, wouldn’t you have to kiss her? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-just-like-to-hear-themselves-talk-obviously/146958/8 "2003-01-06T21:19:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kamandi \* > \*\*In order for that to happen, wouldn’t you have to kiss her? \*\* That sound you didn’t just hear was what is known as a “silent scream.” ---
**Author:** ![aenea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@aenea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenea)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-just-like-to-hear-themselves-talk-obviously/146958/9 "2003-01-06T21:20:29Z")
[/channeling Ellison] I have voice And I must scream [/Ellison] ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-just-like-to-hear-themselves-talk-obviously/146958/10 "2003-01-06T21:56:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kamandi \* > \*\*In order for that to happen, wouldn’t you have to kiss her? \*\* He’s not trying to turn her into a prince, he just wants to get her sick. Licking her coffee cup should be fine. ---
**Author:** ![Kamandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5daacb/32.png) [@Kamandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamandi)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-just-like-to-hear-themselves-talk-obviously/146958/11 "2003-01-07T01:54:47Z")
Hocking a loogie in there would work too, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-just-like-to-hear-themselves-talk-obviously/146958/12 "2003-01-07T02:52:17Z")
I remember when I first had a tooth-brace. A gigantic plastic thing with barbed-wire round the edges. It’s amazing how much that you want to say you discover you didn’t really need to when you nearly have to resort to miming it. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-just-like-to-hear-themselves-talk-obviously/146958/13 "2003-01-07T03:27:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kamandi \* > \*\*Hocking a loogie in there would work too, I suppose. \*\* And probably give the coffee a more “full-bodied” flavor at the same time.