# Whats the worst sound you can think of? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 11, 2011, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-sound-you-can-think-of/588675 "2011-07-11T22:00:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-sound-you-can-think-of/588675/81 "2011-07-17T09:13:04Z")
rabbits scream like babies right before you kill them. they know what’s coming. we used to raise rabbits for meat & I heard it all the time… ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-sound-you-can-think-of/588675/82 "2011-07-17T14:34:29Z")
Hearing "Hi Honey I’m home ", when I’m er dusting the inside of his wifes wardrobe…Hrumphh . ---
**Author:** ![KinkiNipponTourist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9bcb4/32.png) [@KinkiNipponTourist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinkiNipponTourist)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-sound-you-can-think-of/588675/83 "2011-07-17T15:31:15Z")
I HATE the sound rain makes on umbrellas on newscasts here. Thwap-thwap-thwap. It drives me absolutely batty, and I have to rush and change the channel/mute the TV before I lose my mind. We have loads of what an earlier post calls “enhanced eating noises.” I dunno, having someone eat something, then describe it AS THEY ARE EATING IT, complete with little fake squeals of surprise/enjoyment, seems to be a big draw. They do it on the radio, they do it on TV. Gross. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-sound-you-can-think-of/588675/84 "2011-07-17T16:45:53Z")
Children screaming. Babies crying The sound of some “packing” cigarettes. Useless and annoying. There’s a woman at work who apparently calls the Shecky Green hotline every morning. She also smokes and will make this slightly congested chuckle for thirty minutes at a shot. I want to kill her. The emergency broadcast system test sound. The sound of packing tape being pulled off the roll. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-sound-you-can-think-of/588675/85 "2011-07-17T17:22:46Z")
The dull crack of a skull hitting concrete. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-sound-you-can-think-of/588675/86 "2011-07-17T17:53:27Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > The sirens going off for a tornado warning. I live in Kansas, smack dab in the middle of Tornado Alley, and that long, rolling moan that rises and falls creeps me out. I went and looked it up, and yeah, that is very unsettling. ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-sound-you-can-think-of/588675/87 "2011-07-17T17:57:27Z")
Eating noises. Especially an older person without his teeth in. Snoring. The sound of any liquid filling a glass. A pet yelping in pain. The booming of bass in a car stereo Firecrackers. (Unless I’m doing it) 😉 While shoveling, sand, the sound that the shovel makes when scraping against cement. The sound of a Jr. high school band out of tune. (But I am tolerant) A knocking sound in an engine. My name being called in algebra class! :eek: Stay tuned… ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-sound-you-can-think-of/588675/88 "2011-07-17T19:29:24Z")
Add another one for people whistling a tune. I just hate it. I can’t concentrate on anything at all if I can hear someone whistling. It’s so rude. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-sound-you-can-think-of/588675/89 "2011-07-18T01:32:22Z")
The sound of a tent flap opening in the middle of the night (velcro and/or zippers), especially since _The Blair Witch Project_ came out. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-sound-you-can-think-of/588675/90 "2011-07-18T13:16:46Z")
> [@Indygrrl](#): > > Oh god, my husband gets those fruit on the bottom yogurts, so first I have to listen to him stir the damn thing a hundred times, then the eating noises, and then the scrape scrape scrape. All of it makes me feel like I’m going crazy in my head. And it’s just a normal human thing to make a little noise with stuff like that, but it makes me irrational. If they drag the lake and find him, this post may come back to haunt you.😛 ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-sound-you-can-think-of/588675/91 "2011-07-18T13:57:33Z")
the sound of breaking glass waking you up in the middle of the night ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-sound-you-can-think-of/588675/92 "2011-07-18T14:28:04Z")
> [@Becky2844](#): > > the sound of breaking glass waking you up in the middle of the night Or the sound of the phone ringing in the middle of the night. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-sound-you-can-think-of/588675/93 "2011-07-18T19:23:49Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Take a butcher knife and saw a Styrofoam cooler down one side. Yeah, that sound. Don’t! _curls up in a ball and whimpers_ ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-sound-you-can-think-of/588675/94 "2011-07-19T01:33:31Z")
Hungry pigs squealing. It’s the sound of the souls of the tormented in hell. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-sound-you-can-think-of/588675/95 "2011-07-19T01:41:03Z")
Has anyone mentioned the sound of a **vacuum cleaner**? Hate, hate, hate, hate it. Sadly for me, Mrs. Map loves to use the darned thing, several times a day – it’s her one and only flaw. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ginman999](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@ginman999](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ginman999)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-sound-you-can-think-of/588675/96 "2011-07-20T14:28:30Z")
The sound a cat makes when you accidently step on it. A knife scraped between the prongs on a fork. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-sound-you-can-think-of/588675/97 "2011-07-23T23:08:57Z")
I find the sound of someone beating a bowl of eggs with a fork absolutely repulsive. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-sound-you-can-think-of/588675.md?page=4)