Jake Brakes operated in close proximity.
Especially because you know the jerk truck driver is doing it to intentionally scare people or compensate for some other shortcoming.
Once or twice a month I drive a disabled, non-driving neighbor on errand - to the grocery store, doctor or dentist appointments, whatever.
She is a chronic chain smoker and since I don’t let her smoke in my vehicle, she coughs non-stop. It’s a disgusting, phlegmy, wet cough. I know she can’t help it but it makes me want to scream.
Fox “News”
A mosquito buzzing in my ear in the middle of the night. Not only is the actual sound incredibly annoying, but there is the added risk that I may wake up with itchy insect bites in the morning.
The way Kesha enunciates “Brushed my teeth with a bottle of Jack”.
mmm
The sound of clipping nails…especially in a public place.
The backup beeps of a vehicle
The chirp of an undiscoverable smoke detector . I can never isolate the proper one so I change the batteries in everyone, every time.
That scrape as one’s car fishtails
The high-frequency electronic beeping/ongoing sound that is currently happening down the street, where an office is expanding its parking lot. I think it’s some kind of laser surveying tool. It’s been going on for days, just loud and piercing enough to drive us all into a murderous frenzy.
Screaming/whining/crying brats (infant to child)
I’m not sure what this means, but if you’re alluding to Iggy Azalea, then hell yes. I have never, ever had more distaste for a perfomer. Her voice makes me borderline homicidal. And now that I’ve seen her (on the American Music Awards)and can picture her stupid lyrics coming out of her ugly horse face I really can’t change the channel fast enough when she comes on.
When lazy bitches in the shoe department (think discount stores like Ross as opposed to proper department stores) drop shoes on the ground to try them on.
That goes double for the lazy asses (men and women) who drop their workout equipment on the gym floor. I never understand why the instructor doesn’t say something. Presumably it’s not great for the floor (?).
I’ll second the sound of someone hitting their keyboard too hard. I worked with a woman who, among her many annoying habits, would pound the hell out of each key. I believe it was because she learned to type on a manual typewriter (then again, who didn’t?)and after 20 odd years she still had gotten used to computer keyboards :rolleyes:
Anyone speaking with a *strong *regional accent(American) of pretty much any kind, though midwesterners irritate me the most.
That coughing, spurting sound as the keg runs dry.
Auto-tuning
Gum cracking. This makes me homicidal.
David Lee Roth’s squawk.
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My tinnitus
I’m changing my vote to this.
This.
I was gonna name a few others, but this right here is the winner for me.
The others:
- shrieking/crying/whining babies/children
- “wet” eating
- that overdone slurping sound they do on TV and in movies when two characters are “deep kissing”
- cellophane crinkling in movie theaters
- people who think they can carry a tune (and love to sing!) when they’re actually tone deaf
Seriously, when I was in high school I had to stop playing the radio in my car when my friend was with me, because she insisted on singing along and she couldn’t find the right note if it was handed to her on a plate.
**What is the most annoying sound in the world?
**
Christmas music.
The scraping of a pencil’s eraser over paper if there’s insufficient eraser left and so it’s just the metal part scraping on the paper. I think the metal part’s called a ferrule.
I’ve already contributed leaf blowers to this thread, but I have to say, I agree with this gum cracking/snapping sound being another of the most annoying sounds. (I came back to this thread to post it, and I see Dustin has beat me to it.)
Why do people crack their gum? Don’t they realize how fucking annoying it is? I was stuck in a long, slow line of people once, next to a woman repeatedly cracking her gum. Thankfully, she had a young son with her, or else I might’ve said some nasty words to her.