# Whose voice mannerisms can't you stand? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 23, 2008, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601 "2008-01-23T01:06:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Malienation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Malienation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malienation)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/1 "2008-01-23T01:06:15Z")
Consider overall tone and attitude, not pitch or content. As an example, I don’t like Pat Buchanan’s views, and his voice is a little high, but I can listen to him. Not so Peggy Noonan. I saw her on a talk show the other day and was immediately reminded why I can’t stand listening to the woman. Her voice is always, always, _always_ inflected with a tone of condescension. How is that possible? Anyway, about 10-15 seconds is my limit. After that, my blood starts boiling. Fuck you, Peggy… :mad: Anyhow, who’s your blood boiler? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/2 "2008-01-23T01:48:36Z")
Lloyd Grossman. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/3 "2008-01-23T01:51:18Z")
Nancy Grace X 10 ---
**Author:** ![Ro\_Carter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7feea3/32.png) [@Ro\_Carter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ro_Carter)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/4 "2008-01-23T01:59:31Z")
Nancy Grace. More recently, through an episode of MST3K, Kathy Ireland in Alien from L.A. My word, I wanted to duct tape her mouth shut. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/5 "2008-01-23T02:02:08Z")
Fran Drescher has them all beat, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/6 "2008-01-23T02:04:55Z")
[QUOTE=John DiFool] Fran Drescher has them all beat, sorry. [/QUOTE] No way. The way Nancy Grace patronizes people… I feel like punching babies just thinking about it. ---
**Author:** ![PaperBlob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@PaperBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaperBlob)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/7 "2008-01-23T02:06:15Z")
**Joan Steffend** , the host of Decorating Cents on HGTV. I dislike so many of the things they do on that show, and then to hear her talk about them in that annoying voice is just too much! ---
**Author:** ![MadPansy64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@MadPansy64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPansy64)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/8 "2008-01-23T02:08:28Z")
Peter Jennings. If he’s the Major Network (ABC?) Evening News Anchorman who sounded like he had a chronic sinus infection but is dead now. I’m sorry he died, but the nasal quality and off-rhythm pauses as if he was talking around a bad case of post-nasal drip drove me bonkers. With the sound off and the subtitles on, he was great, but that voice made me bellow “go blow your nose, dammit!” three or four times every weekday evening. Hubby liked him. I learned the benefits of earplugs, and that subtitles can be on even with sound. ETA – that woman on the US version of What Not to Wear. Earplugs aren’t enough to mute that bitch. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/9 "2008-01-23T02:11:56Z")
[QUOTE=John DiFool] Fran Drescher has them all beat, sorry. [/QUOTE] That’s not so bad. I went to a hypnotist once; she recorded me a tape to listen to every day. I had to go back a week later & tell her that I hadn’t. I didn’t tell her that her voice annoyed me too much to make myself lie there & listen to it daily. (She had what I think was a sort of NW Arkansas accent.) ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/10 "2008-01-23T02:13:33Z")
James Earl Jones. I know, I know, he sounds like God – or at least he would if God had a mouth full of marbles. He makes such heavy weather over his pronunciation that it’s painful to listen to him. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/11 "2008-01-23T02:17:55Z")
Melanie Griffith, Victoria Jackson, and their bimbo-voiced ilk. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/12 "2008-01-23T03:04:10Z")
Pat Buchanan sounds like he needs to clear his throat. I can’t listen to him. I also could have done without the voice coming from whoever played Laura on **Rescue Me**. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/13 "2008-01-23T03:25:54Z")
Iris DeMent. That weird yodel-y break in her voice makes me want to run screaming from the room. Sarah Vowell. I like her writing. I can’t stand to hear her nasal voice reading it. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/14 "2008-01-23T05:18:31Z")
Ann Coulter, besides being a repugnant excuse for a human being, has the most irritating vocal mannerisms I can think of. After her comes John Stossel. Listening to that guy’s sing-song whine (oftentimes about whiners, no less) is nauseating. ---
**Author:** ![Kevbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/15 "2008-01-23T05:45:06Z")
Nellie Mooooooooooore ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/16 "2008-01-23T06:21:14Z")
Paula Deen. Her over-the-top Southern accent and all that y’all-ing gets to me. One or two Dopers have mentioned that she doesn’t really talk like that off the set. Still Southern but not that much. The way John O’Hurley talks bugs me too, but to a lesser degree. I like him but his voice is irritating. It’s like he’s saying, “Hey, listen to me. You can tell by the tone of my voice that I’m saying something funny. This is my funny voice. Don’t you just want to laugh at what I’m saying?” Me, I think he’d probably be just as funny without talking that way and be less irritating to boot. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/17 "2008-01-23T06:52:33Z")
Tim Gunn, the _Runway Express_ guy with the pursy lips and the perfect white hair. This nonsense is on at my mom’s place every now and then and when I hear Tim talking in his overly-precise High Queeny metallic baritone, I have to leave the room before I start imitating him and can’t stop. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/18 "2008-01-23T08:26:28Z")
Terry Gross, NPR’s “Fresh Air”. I almost can’t listen to her program because of her calculated “fresh” tones and over the top NPR qualities of voice. I’ve been avoiding her on my iPod for months because of this. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/19 "2008-01-23T13:00:43Z")
George W. Bush ---
**Author:** ![Engineer\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9fc29f/32.png) [@Engineer\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Engineer_Dude)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601/20 "2008-01-23T13:04:10Z")
Hillary Clinton. There are worse people I can think of for President. But if elected, I’ll definitely being turning off her State of the Union addresses _just because of her voice_. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voice-mannerisms-cant-you-stand/434601.md?page=2)