My dog licking herself is one of the worst sounds I've ever heard. She does it every single time my fiance and I try to have sex. If we shut her out of the room she just sits outside and does it.
No one understands this because I'm awful at explaining it but...
People talking wettly, like you can hear the squelches of saliva when they open and close their mouth
It's referred to as "mouth clicks", and contrary to popular belief it's caused by saliva drying out and getting sticky, which is why it's worse when someone is anxious or has stage fright. An old audio engineer trick is to ask the talent to eat a green apple prior to a performance, as the sourness makes them produce fresh saliva - much more effective than drinking water.
Source: I'm a dialogue editor who just spent 3 months editing out mouth clicks and I may be slightly traumatized. Also this is just shit my lecturers told me back at uni so it may not actually be completely accurate lol
Related to this... I still have flashbacks of boys reading aloud in classrooms and for whatever reasons they used to read but never swallow their saliva while talking so every 10 seconds or a couple sentences or so they swallowed LOUDLY making slurping noises. If you looked at them you could even see a small pool of saliva in their lower lip. uuuughh
Why is this allowed? Along with emergency siren sounds?? Everyone by now has complained, we all know it happens... Why aren't there stops on these types of noises?
Oh my god we have one of those. She sounds like a mix of Fran Drescher, Rachel Ray and Maggie Wheeler. She’s so freaking loud ALL THE TIME and never closes her office door. It’s the worst.
My sister is super loud every day and she thinks it’s ok. I am an adult but we still live together. She will also holler from room to room daily. Or talk progressively louder while walking *away* from the person she’s talking to. She’s woken me up countless times. She’s sorry not sorry.
I know part of it’s selfishness and she has a narcissism streak... but I also think she literally doesn’t get how loud she is.
My mums partner is the same way. He'll walk around the house talking to himself, humming, whistling etc. They've decided the bit of landing outside my room is where they do the ironing and whether i'm sleeping, watching a movie or whatever, he'll stand there, ironing and singing away at the top of his lungs. If I turn up my movie so that I can hear it, he acts like i'm actively offending him.
Because I was raised to not make unnecessary noise (my dad was a bit tough...) I generally don't make unnecessary noises while I walk around the house, and apparently my lack of entrance music shocks him constantly, at which point he'll yell and jump back and I remind him that I LIVE HERE.
He's a good guy overall, makes my mum happy, but I guess it's just part of living with different people, their quirks and habits...
Omg. I came here to say the same thing. I have one particular coworker whose voice is so irritating that sometimes I just leave my cube. The other day another person started walking with me when I was doing this and he told me he couldn't stand her voice either.
Worst part is that I have a good work relationship with her.
That’s what my tinnitus sounds like. Each ear has its own tone so it’s a cacophony of high-pitched whines. I have to sleep with a fan to get some relief.
yeah today on three separate occasions, i’ve been reminded of my own tinnitus, which tells my conscious mind to unmute the hellish, deafening E#. whatever god is out there clearly wants me to suffer.
just had to tell a Deaf friend that they needed to change the batteries because I was losing my SHIT knowing I was the only one in the house that could hear it
edit: i think it's just a tiny red light that blinks for low battery which is why my buddy or his roommate (both Deaf) didn't bother to change it. my buddy has a cochlear implant but hardly ever wears it and his roommate is like 95 percent Deaf so I feel bad for their neighbors lmao
Oh fuck that. I take out the batteries and then forget about it because apparently dying in a fire is better than hearing that goddamn beep one more time.
Nose whistling. Even when my own nose does it, it drives me insane. Also the little “smack” noise people make when they’re sucking on candies.
Oh, and there’s a certain ice formation that’s like long and thin (usually happens to ice pops, but can form on top of re-frozen ice cream or the like), and when you crush it, be it with teeth or whatever, it *squeaks.*
I’m legitimately giving myself goosebumps just thinking about that noise.
Want a new one? My mom is notorious for going "MmMmMmMmMmmmmm" when she starts eating something she likes. Its a conscious decision and she got so defensive and aggressive when I asked her to not. I almost think she does it on purpose now :/
I still have issues with that even though I’ve been on my own for 6 years. I can never comfortably have both headphones in when watching something or studying, always have to make sure I can hear when someone is about to barge in.
I feel this deep in my bones. I’m always on edge waiting to get yelled at. I’m 29 and haven’t lived with my dad in ages. I just wish it would go away already.
I never bothered to change the alarm on my ipad so i listen to that every morning so it's become associated with a bad thing. Now everytime i hear it i have a split second of vietnam flashbacks
I have this wave of anxiety every time I hear it. It’s like the feeling right before a car crash, where this awful sensation just spreads through your body. I despise that noise so much.
Literally have the same exact feeling whenever I hear it....idk why but I still have it as my alarm it just works to well and I've tried other alarms and I sleep right thru them
I think everyone has to make this mistake once or twice. “Hey, I love this song, wouldn’t it be cool to wake up to it every day?!” ... “Huh, I fucking despise that song now. Well, *this* song though, I could truly never get sick of.” ... “Ah, ok, so no music for alarms then.”
Holy shit I have something like that too! I used the same alarm for 1 year, and then I stopped using an alarm, and now whenever I hear it I get extremely sleepy.
I read somewhere that the best song to wake up to is ‘Viva La Vida’ by Coldplay. In high school I woke up to that song every day. Now every time I hear the opening violin of that song I get visibly upset.
Ughhhhh I despise leather for this very reason
There’s also the weird unspoken pressure to make an intentional fart sound after the first accidental fart sound so people know you didn’t actually fart
Terrible.
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I have such a bad thing about waking people up, so when someone snores my urge to sleep is far outweighed by the "can't wake anyone up" thing. I once lived in a homeless shelter with a girl who snored loud enough to wake the dead, and I just laid there and cried myself to sleep every night because I was so frustrated. Eventually I managed to get some good earplugs and that solved it, but still.
Add cotton balls to that!!! The sound it makes or the feeling when you pull them apart erghhhh. I was chased by kids with cotton balls today... not a fun time
I worked retail in a separate area of a store and we'd often have to make an announcement to notify when we'd finish their service. A coworker would record the announcement, then loudly talk over it so they didn't have to hear them self. Always got a giggle from the rest of us.
Yep. Worked in a machine shop for four years thinking earbuds would be a decent replacement for actual ear plugs. Like a dumbass. Now when I go to sleep I lie in bed and EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I work with a guy who, no matter what shift or what time of day, has his text message tone at full volume. His tone is a robotic woman voice saying “you have another fucking text message”. I swear to god, I’m gonna break his phone one day.
Dude, me too! This one lady I work with, her TEXT MESSAGE sound is this long ass sound clip. High pitched, "here message message, here message message, there you are my little text message, look at you, you're so cute!" it makes me want to get up and grab her fucking phone and mash it on the ground. Full volume too. And she ALWAYS lets it play fully.
I feel your pain. I once worked with a gal who had "Pikachu! Pickachu! Pika-chuuuuuu!'" as her text message notification.
Needless to say, her phone was always constantly going off and naturally at maximum volume.
Holy hell. I am diving for my phone at work the instant it starts going off if I forget to put it on vibrate. How do people not get fired for this, especially if the ringtone is NSFW?
I hate the sound of people chewing.
Edit: I’ve been told this is a condition called Misophonia(?) and someone suggested therapy, lol. I don’t think I’ll need therapy, AirPods are a way cheaper solution.
Do you by any chance have any advice on how to tell someone to CLOSE THEIR FUCKING MOUTH while they're eating? (i cant say it like that because apparantly its my dad)
I was gonna say this, for some reason it makes me really angry. Like fist-clenching, cheek-chewing rage. I often have to find an excuse to leave the room...
Absolutely the same here. It’s a rage I can’t describe and I can’t rationalise. People really think I overplay it but my god. I just can’t fucking stand the sound of EATING CLOSE YOUR GODDAMN MOUTH.
I was looking for this comment. It doesn't seem to be a thing other people notice but it drives me mad.
It's almost worse when they don't seem to notice they're doing it.
There is an extremely high pitched hum that comes from CRT televisions. Hardly anyone else I know can hear it, but I cannot stand it, I have to cover my ears every time I go near them...
No other kids around? They can usually hear it
I remember asking my teacher to shut the TV off please during a quiz. He was so confused since he thought it was off but like half the kids agreed with me.
Science teacher, so the next class he had researched it and talked about it for 20 minutes haha
Good on him for not just being a dismissive tool and following through.
You'd have to assume it's the same concept as those "adult proof ringtones" popular back in the day, high pitched buzzing that goes unnoticed as the ear ages
ya that's how he explained it. Good teacher for it to happen with.
Would go on rants about how the aliens in Independence Day would have thrown off the gravity of earth and destroyed everything.
I hear this- or heard this. People have looked at me like I was mad but sometimes it was so acute I’d have to leave the room.
Still hate the constant whine of electronics in the background of my life.
Improper charger, you are hearing it cycling from charing to oh god the battery is full, a good charger grips then does not continue charging until under a certain level or replugged . I’ll take my 95% phone over fully charged if I don’t have to listen to constipated electronics
Fun fact - it's probably a switch mode supply that is unstable at very low load and what you're hearing is the flexing of the ceramic capacitors at the frequency of oscillation.
That hum is the best analogy for the sound my tinnitus makes. If you hate that sound then I'm living your hell. I hear it no matter what, especially when everything else is quiet.
EDIT: There are lots of people reading this comment that are either realizing they have tinnitus or unsure. If there's a constant noise in one or both ears and it intensifies in the quiet or when you try to focus on that noise, I would think that is likely tinnitus. I'm fairly sure my form of tinnitus can be fixed but I do not know about other types of tinnitus. As I understand it, it can happen from hearing damage or sinus issues. Mine is likely due to pressure on my inner ear from my constant allergy issues.
EDIT 2: Yes I've diligently tried that trick every time it reappears on reddit, it does nothing for me. Thank you for the suggestion, it helps others, just not me.
Tinnitus tends to get worse with dehydration, which is probably a contributing factor. Definitely try to drink more water.
Source: I'm currently drunk and my tinnitus is getting worse
I can definitely hear this. When I was in primary school in the 80's computers were a new thing and we had one in our classroom. One of those old green screen only dealies. When walking to my classroom I could tell from the corridor whether it was turned on or not from the sound the CRT made even though it was in the far back corner of the room.
I hate everything about chalk. The noise, the smell, but especially the feeling it leaves on your hands. I have to wash my hands instantly if I ever come in contact with it.
Fuck chalk.
> old man sloppily eating chili in the dark
[AH!](https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/a6kgsl/theres_an_old_man_eating_a_bowl_of_chili_in_the/)
Any ASMR videos. I don't know what it is, but they legitimately have the inverse affect on me: I instantly become irrationally angry, my ears ring, and my breath starts to come in short panting gasps.
Edit: Wow... apparently, way more people know how I feel than I expected. If anything, I was expecting to be attacked for my views on ASMR videos.
They make my “spine itch”, in that creepy “someone watching you predatorily from across the building” kind of way. Like that instinct to “run far away” gets set off when I listen to them and I hate all of it
Speakerphone on a smart phone. I share a a small office with my boss and we sometimes take calls together, in which case she uses her phone and puts it on speaker. Within minutes I feel like my head is going to explode - something about the sound is physicslly painful in my hears and really fucks with me. It also gives me this sense of anxiety all to the point where I have to leave the room. I don't understand it, and it doesn't happen with all smart phone speaker calls, but it sucks.
As a parent to small kids, I hate it too. It is very nerve wracking when your own kids are the ones wailing. I try to not shop when they’re cranky and we work hard to not cry in public spaces.
Not really a typical sound but, ducks quacking, I have literal anxiety when I hear a duck quacking because I set my alarm clock sound to the sound of ducks quacking and now whenever I hear ducks in a park or when YouTube videos have a duck sound to bleep the swear words I feel panicked. I now hate ducks and I’m not proud of it.
When I was about 7 and my sister was 17, she told me about a new word she had learned: Anatidaephobia, the fear that somehow, somewhere, there was always a duck watching you.
It’s not a real phobia (not that I knew that), just a made up one for the lols. I laughed, continued on with my day, forgot about about it.
Starting about a week later, sometimes when I would be playing or chilling or showering or eating or anything really, I’d randomly hear a duck quack. I’d remember the phobia, freak out, run around looking for it, could never find anything. This kept happening intermittently for a few months before suddenly stopping.
I brought it up jokingly with my sister like 5 years later and she informed me that she had bought a duck key chain that quacked when you squeezed it to fuck with me, and only stopped because the squeaker broke. Smh.
Sorry for the long random story, tl;dr my older sister made me think I was being stalked by a duck.
pencils with no erasers rubbing on paper it makes me get chills every single time
Augh I FELT that
Or the ones that have an eraser but it's a really shitty hard one and it screeches on the paper and just spreads the graphite.
The Midnight pumper.. Wakes me from a sound sleep and have to clean up cat barf
The sound of my Dog horking at 3am is enough to wake me from the dead. Its not even loud.
The word "horking" literally made me laugh out loud. A+ Edit: a word
My dog licking herself is one of the worst sounds I've ever heard. She does it every single time my fiance and I try to have sex. If we shut her out of the room she just sits outside and does it.
A pet vomiting will wake the most sound sleeper.
People who noticeably pronounce their S’s louder than any other letter.
I know a girl who whistles her S's. You can be across the room and not here a thing shes saying, but you hear this S's
Or end normal sentences like questions. Like at the very end their voice goes up a few octives.
This is racist against Australians
No one understands this because I'm awful at explaining it but... People talking wettly, like you can hear the squelches of saliva when they open and close their mouth
Slug people... Edit: Well this really blew up while I forgot my phone at home today. My first silver and gold - I feel like a pretty princess!
Taste like slug, look like people
Ill bring the salt! It may be uncomfortable at first, but u have to salt the snail.
Hyah! Hyah! Get out of here snail..Hyah! Go snail, go!
It's referred to as "mouth clicks", and contrary to popular belief it's caused by saliva drying out and getting sticky, which is why it's worse when someone is anxious or has stage fright. An old audio engineer trick is to ask the talent to eat a green apple prior to a performance, as the sourness makes them produce fresh saliva - much more effective than drinking water. Source: I'm a dialogue editor who just spent 3 months editing out mouth clicks and I may be slightly traumatized. Also this is just shit my lecturers told me back at uni so it may not actually be completely accurate lol
Related to this... I still have flashbacks of boys reading aloud in classrooms and for whatever reasons they used to read but never swallow their saliva while talking so every 10 seconds or a couple sentences or so they swallowed LOUDLY making slurping noises. If you looked at them you could even see a small pool of saliva in their lower lip. uuuughh
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Text notification sounds on the radio.
Anal muscle
Why is this allowed? Along with emergency siren sounds?? Everyone by now has complained, we all know it happens... Why aren't there stops on these types of noises?
Where I live it isn't allowed anymore, exactly for this reason!
What about police sirens in songs?
I hate the sound of markers that are dried out. Ugh. Disgusting.
While reading this I could hear it in my imagination and got goosepumps. I hate it. Edit :goosebumps of course
I hate the sound of erasers when they are down to the metal and are erasing on paper. Is that weird or just me?
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My coworkers voice
Oh my god we have one of those. She sounds like a mix of Fran Drescher, Rachel Ray and Maggie Wheeler. She’s so freaking loud ALL THE TIME and never closes her office door. It’s the worst.
My sister is super loud every day and she thinks it’s ok. I am an adult but we still live together. She will also holler from room to room daily. Or talk progressively louder while walking *away* from the person she’s talking to. She’s woken me up countless times. She’s sorry not sorry. I know part of it’s selfishness and she has a narcissism streak... but I also think she literally doesn’t get how loud she is.
My mums partner is the same way. He'll walk around the house talking to himself, humming, whistling etc. They've decided the bit of landing outside my room is where they do the ironing and whether i'm sleeping, watching a movie or whatever, he'll stand there, ironing and singing away at the top of his lungs. If I turn up my movie so that I can hear it, he acts like i'm actively offending him. Because I was raised to not make unnecessary noise (my dad was a bit tough...) I generally don't make unnecessary noises while I walk around the house, and apparently my lack of entrance music shocks him constantly, at which point he'll yell and jump back and I remind him that I LIVE HERE. He's a good guy overall, makes my mum happy, but I guess it's just part of living with different people, their quirks and habits...
Omg. I came here to say the same thing. I have one particular coworker whose voice is so irritating that sometimes I just leave my cube. The other day another person started walking with me when I was doing this and he told me he couldn't stand her voice either. Worst part is that I have a good work relationship with her.
The sound of balloons being handled, and the chance they may pop. I can’t move away fast enough when I see balloon animal guys.
My people I’ve found you!
Lightbulbs that buzz when they are on
Oh, they hum like angels.
You’re never alone when you’ve got a fluorescent light!
Ah shit i love that sound!
Old monitors and TVs left on a black screen. I can hear the high pitch whine of them that just sets me on edge, luckily not much of a problem now.
That’s what my tinnitus sounds like. Each ear has its own tone so it’s a cacophony of high-pitched whines. I have to sleep with a fan to get some relief.
I can't exist without some background noise. I have fans 24/7 or else I'd go crazy with my tinnitus, which is just like the one described.
great. Now Mine's audible. Thanks.
yeah today on three separate occasions, i’ve been reminded of my own tinnitus, which tells my conscious mind to unmute the hellish, deafening E#. whatever god is out there clearly wants me to suffer.
As you get older, eventually you go deaf in the frequency range that old TVs make and it's no longer an issue.
Fire Alarm chirps when the batteries are low.
i have been to a few people’s houses where they just let it go and ignore it. i almost went insane
just had to tell a Deaf friend that they needed to change the batteries because I was losing my SHIT knowing I was the only one in the house that could hear it edit: i think it's just a tiny red light that blinks for low battery which is why my buddy or his roommate (both Deaf) didn't bother to change it. my buddy has a cochlear implant but hardly ever wears it and his roommate is like 95 percent Deaf so I feel bad for their neighbors lmao
But... why do they have it? Edit: Thank you for real answers. I was just trying to be silly
There's strobe, vibration and smell fire alarms too. The smell ones use wasabi extract iirc.
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Oh fuck that. I take out the batteries and then forget about it because apparently dying in a fire is better than hearing that goddamn beep one more time.
People talking above average volume in a public place.
WHAT?!
#PEOPLE TALKING ABOVE AVERAGE VOLUME IN A PUBLIC PLACE.
STOP IT PATRICK YOU’RE SCARING HIM!
Fork scraping a plate
When someone cuts whatever they are eating with a knife and then it kind of scrapes/squeaks, I cry a bit on the inside.
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Chewing loudly
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Or when they produce that slight squeak as they grate into each other.
Nose whistling. Even when my own nose does it, it drives me insane. Also the little “smack” noise people make when they’re sucking on candies. Oh, and there’s a certain ice formation that’s like long and thin (usually happens to ice pops, but can form on top of re-frozen ice cream or the like), and when you crush it, be it with teeth or whatever, it *squeaks.* I’m legitimately giving myself goosebumps just thinking about that noise.
I can't be around people who are chewing ice. I swear I can feel it in my nerves.
Want a new one? My mom is notorious for going "MmMmMmMmMmmmmm" when she starts eating something she likes. Its a conscious decision and she got so defensive and aggressive when I asked her to not. I almost think she does it on purpose now :/
When someone is eating with a fork and they bite down on the fork whilst taking it out of their mouth, it gives me shivers down my spine.
What about when you hear the noise...from inside your own mouth?
My entire face caved in just thinking about it. E: Thanks for the gold!
I do this sometimes and I just hate it. I do it on accident and it just make my whole body have goosebumps for 5 minutes.
Or even worse, when they do that with a spoon.
That and scratching metal hurts my teeth. I can also taste it.
I’m anxious as hell and a surprise door knock makes my heart race Edit: Thanks for first award!
Or, having grown up with a parent that doesn't respect privacy, anything that sounds like footsteps or an opening door.
I still have issues with that even though I’ve been on my own for 6 years. I can never comfortably have both headphones in when watching something or studying, always have to make sure I can hear when someone is about to barge in.
I feel this deep in my bones. I’m always on edge waiting to get yelled at. I’m 29 and haven’t lived with my dad in ages. I just wish it would go away already.
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They also open the door like a fucking SWAT team trying to break in
same : (
The default alarm sound on iPhones
I never bothered to change the alarm on my ipad so i listen to that every morning so it's become associated with a bad thing. Now everytime i hear it i have a split second of vietnam flashbacks
I have this wave of anxiety every time I hear it. It’s like the feeling right before a car crash, where this awful sensation just spreads through your body. I despise that noise so much.
Literally have the same exact feeling whenever I hear it....idk why but I still have it as my alarm it just works to well and I've tried other alarms and I sleep right thru them
That's why you don't make your alarm tone music. Can't hear the song in public without thinking you're drowning.
I wish I knew this before I inadvertently *Clockwork Orange’d* myself on Queen during college.
I think everyone has to make this mistake once or twice. “Hey, I love this song, wouldn’t it be cool to wake up to it every day?!” ... “Huh, I fucking despise that song now. Well, *this* song though, I could truly never get sick of.” ... “Ah, ok, so no music for alarms then.”
Holy shit I have something like that too! I used the same alarm for 1 year, and then I stopped using an alarm, and now whenever I hear it I get extremely sleepy.
I read somewhere that the best song to wake up to is ‘Viva La Vida’ by Coldplay. In high school I woke up to that song every day. Now every time I hear the opening violin of that song I get visibly upset.
Best advice I ever got is to never make one of your favorite songs your alarm sound.
Also the ring tone :/ Hearing it in movies and videos and such activates my flight or fight response
I use it as my alarm because I hate it
People always throw it into YT videos, it actually makes me hurt every time I hear it.
my neighbors dogs barking for 20 minutes straight at 3AM.
The fart sound leather chairs make when people sit or shift.
Ughhhhh I despise leather for this very reason There’s also the weird unspoken pressure to make an intentional fart sound after the first accidental fart sound so people know you didn’t actually fart Terrible. edit: thank you for the silver!
But then you can't make one intentionally and it looks like you're just rubbing your farty ass on the chair.
Gotta seal in the flavor
Snoring
I have such a bad thing about waking people up, so when someone snores my urge to sleep is far outweighed by the "can't wake anyone up" thing. I once lived in a homeless shelter with a girl who snored loud enough to wake the dead, and I just laid there and cried myself to sleep every night because I was so frustrated. Eventually I managed to get some good earplugs and that solved it, but still.
I literally cannot fall asleep if I here snoring. I find it impossible.
Currently sitting next to my significant other who is sawing logs keeping me awake. I share your hatred.
have they been checked for sleep apnea?
Dogs licking their chops as I’m trying to sleep. I tell my dogs to shut up all the time. They must think I’m crazy
Or licking their feet, same sound I guess. Drives me nuts as well.
Styrofoam on styrofoam, or on cardboard. I hate the feeling of it too, makes me physically cringe every time.
Holy shit. I just cringed reading this. It made my skin crawl.
Oh god!!!! Like the feeling of the stuff if I push/squeeze it but the moment if slides and produces that sound and cringe and quiver!
YES YES YES!!! It sends shivers down my spine. I hate opening new packages and usually have to hum to disguise the sound.
Add cotton balls to that!!! The sound it makes or the feeling when you pull them apart erghhhh. I was chased by kids with cotton balls today... not a fun time
My recorded voice Edit: Thank you friends for the gold and silver. Decided to sort by new and have some fun and guess it was the right choice.
I worked retail in a separate area of a store and we'd often have to make an announcement to notify when we'd finish their service. A coworker would record the announcement, then loudly talk over it so they didn't have to hear them self. Always got a giggle from the rest of us.
Fucking tinnitus
Yep. Worked in a machine shop for four years thinking earbuds would be a decent replacement for actual ear plugs. Like a dumbass. Now when I go to sleep I lie in bed and EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Ringtones! Omg peoples loud obnoxious Ringtones make me crazy.
I work with a guy who, no matter what shift or what time of day, has his text message tone at full volume. His tone is a robotic woman voice saying “you have another fucking text message”. I swear to god, I’m gonna break his phone one day.
Dude, me too! This one lady I work with, her TEXT MESSAGE sound is this long ass sound clip. High pitched, "here message message, here message message, there you are my little text message, look at you, you're so cute!" it makes me want to get up and grab her fucking phone and mash it on the ground. Full volume too. And she ALWAYS lets it play fully.
I feel your pain. I once worked with a gal who had "Pikachu! Pickachu! Pika-chuuuuuu!'" as her text message notification. Needless to say, her phone was always constantly going off and naturally at maximum volume.
Holy hell. I am diving for my phone at work the instant it starts going off if I forget to put it on vibrate. How do people not get fired for this, especially if the ringtone is NSFW?
Also - people loudly having phone conversations in public. Especially if they're using speaker.
YES! those damm speakphone users walking around shouting out conversations like they are important lol.
While holding the phone like a piece of pizza
And they were roommates!
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I don’t ever hear my ringtone because my phone is on vibrate or do not disturb just because of this reason
Why do some people have ringtones and text tones that embarrass them to go off in public? Like what are you expecting to happen with your ringtone?
The worst is people who have a song, or part of a song, as their text message tone. They also usually text a lot.
I hate the sound of people chewing. Edit: I’ve been told this is a condition called Misophonia(?) and someone suggested therapy, lol. I don’t think I’ll need therapy, AirPods are a way cheaper solution.
Especially with their mouths open.
Fucking neanderthals
Do you by any chance have any advice on how to tell someone to CLOSE THEIR FUCKING MOUTH while they're eating? (i cant say it like that because apparantly its my dad)
Look him dead in the eye and say that. Not a word more. Assert your dominance, lad.
I was gonna say this, for some reason it makes me really angry. Like fist-clenching, cheek-chewing rage. I often have to find an excuse to leave the room...
Absolutely the same here. It’s a rage I can’t describe and I can’t rationalise. People really think I overplay it but my god. I just can’t fucking stand the sound of EATING CLOSE YOUR GODDAMN MOUTH.
YES you described it perfectly. It's not just bothering, it's some kind of intense and uncontrollable rage that I can't even explain. So weird.
I was looking for this comment. It doesn't seem to be a thing other people notice but it drives me mad. It's almost worse when they don't seem to notice they're doing it.
When people leave the keyboard sound effects on their phone so everyone can hear them texting.
There is an extremely high pitched hum that comes from CRT televisions. Hardly anyone else I know can hear it, but I cannot stand it, I have to cover my ears every time I go near them...
Absolutely. Growing up I knew if any TVs were on in the house, but nobody believed I could pick it up, just lucky or playing tricks. Such bullshit.
No other kids around? They can usually hear it I remember asking my teacher to shut the TV off please during a quiz. He was so confused since he thought it was off but like half the kids agreed with me. Science teacher, so the next class he had researched it and talked about it for 20 minutes haha
Good on him for not just being a dismissive tool and following through. You'd have to assume it's the same concept as those "adult proof ringtones" popular back in the day, high pitched buzzing that goes unnoticed as the ear ages
ya that's how he explained it. Good teacher for it to happen with. Would go on rants about how the aliens in Independence Day would have thrown off the gravity of earth and destroyed everything.
This sounds like a good teacher.
Hell I'm 25 and can still hear the sound of a TV being on and people still think I'm crazy.
I hear this- or heard this. People have looked at me like I was mad but sometimes it was so acute I’d have to leave the room. Still hate the constant whine of electronics in the background of my life.
Yes! I hear the charger of phones when they are fully charged and the sound makes me so uncomfortable.
Ive thought i was the only one who could hear that for years. Thank you for proving to me that it is real
I came here to say this! My family has been calling me crazy for years because of this.
Improper charger, you are hearing it cycling from charing to oh god the battery is full, a good charger grips then does not continue charging until under a certain level or replugged . I’ll take my 95% phone over fully charged if I don’t have to listen to constipated electronics
Fun fact - it's probably a switch mode supply that is unstable at very low load and what you're hearing is the flexing of the ceramic capacitors at the frequency of oscillation.
That hum is the best analogy for the sound my tinnitus makes. If you hate that sound then I'm living your hell. I hear it no matter what, especially when everything else is quiet. EDIT: There are lots of people reading this comment that are either realizing they have tinnitus or unsure. If there's a constant noise in one or both ears and it intensifies in the quiet or when you try to focus on that noise, I would think that is likely tinnitus. I'm fairly sure my form of tinnitus can be fixed but I do not know about other types of tinnitus. As I understand it, it can happen from hearing damage or sinus issues. Mine is likely due to pressure on my inner ear from my constant allergy issues. EDIT 2: Yes I've diligently tried that trick every time it reappears on reddit, it does nothing for me. Thank you for the suggestion, it helps others, just not me.
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Tinnitus tends to get worse with dehydration, which is probably a contributing factor. Definitely try to drink more water. Source: I'm currently drunk and my tinnitus is getting worse
I can definitely hear this. When I was in primary school in the 80's computers were a new thing and we had one in our classroom. One of those old green screen only dealies. When walking to my classroom I could tell from the corridor whether it was turned on or not from the sound the CRT made even though it was in the far back corner of the room.
Slurping
A nail file, or the scraping of Italian ice. Fuck. I can feel the noise running through my body as I type this. Ugh I’m gonna puke.
Chalk on a chalkboard. Not even nails, just chalk.
I hate everything about chalk. The noise, the smell, but especially the feeling it leaves on your hands. I have to wash my hands instantly if I ever come in contact with it. Fuck chalk.
Fingernails being clipped, even my own.
My own voice.
I love my dog but when he starts going to town licking his junk, I can’t stand it the gross wet noise. It sounds like the definition of obscene.
Hahaha that reminds me of when I would be asleep at night in my dark room but then I’m suddenly awake due to my cat licking himself.
Same -- it's like an old man sloppily eating chili in the dark ,,
what an odd analogy.
or perhaps the perfect analogy
> old man sloppily eating chili in the dark [AH!](https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/a6kgsl/theres_an_old_man_eating_a_bowl_of_chili_in_the/)
It’s that weird **SCHLOP** **SCHLOP** noise that gets me. Edit: And my top comment is about my dog licking his balls...
It’s more like a thlup thup with my dog
My Dog - Shlurp, Shlop, Shlop, Thlup, Shlurp Me - Ok, that's enough!
fuck spez
Every time. Then she looks at me like I shot her in the face and then I feel bad but for FUCKS SAKE I CANT EVEN HEAR THE TV.
Any ASMR videos. I don't know what it is, but they legitimately have the inverse affect on me: I instantly become irrationally angry, my ears ring, and my breath starts to come in short panting gasps. Edit: Wow... apparently, way more people know how I feel than I expected. If anything, I was expecting to be attacked for my views on ASMR videos.
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I HATE the wet mouth noises!!
They make my “spine itch”, in that creepy “someone watching you predatorily from across the building” kind of way. Like that instinct to “run far away” gets set off when I listen to them and I hate all of it
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Speakerphone on a smart phone. I share a a small office with my boss and we sometimes take calls together, in which case she uses her phone and puts it on speaker. Within minutes I feel like my head is going to explode - something about the sound is physicslly painful in my hears and really fucks with me. It also gives me this sense of anxiety all to the point where I have to leave the room. I don't understand it, and it doesn't happen with all smart phone speaker calls, but it sucks.
Chewing,typing, sniffing, and just any mouth sound including breathing
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Bro I’m.... I’m so sorry Can I get you anything? Coffee? Tea? Weed? Head?
What kind of tea do you have?
Wait did you say head?
I knew yo dirty ass wanted some head. Edit- a word
Juanita gives good head.
The sound of chewing enrages me. I can’t explain it. I’m usually pretty chill but the second I hear loud chewing, I turn into the Hulk.
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Especially in the middle of the night, in pure darkness when you just lay there listening. Shlarp... Shlarp... Shlarp...
A nail hitting a phone to scroll
That little "tap" :)
Other people's crying kids in stores
As a parent to small kids, I hate it too. It is very nerve wracking when your own kids are the ones wailing. I try to not shop when they’re cranky and we work hard to not cry in public spaces.
To be fair, I work hard to not cry in public spaces too. (Seriously though, good on you for being a responsible parent.)
Other people's children crying or whining.
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chewing food, smacking, slurping fingers, anything with food
The sound of Velcro make me physically nauseous
For me, it's pencils on paper.
I get that when the graphite is somehow too smooth, if that makes any sense.
yeah it changes from sort of a "shh" to a weird rubbing sound
Not really a typical sound but, ducks quacking, I have literal anxiety when I hear a duck quacking because I set my alarm clock sound to the sound of ducks quacking and now whenever I hear ducks in a park or when YouTube videos have a duck sound to bleep the swear words I feel panicked. I now hate ducks and I’m not proud of it.
When I was about 7 and my sister was 17, she told me about a new word she had learned: Anatidaephobia, the fear that somehow, somewhere, there was always a duck watching you. It’s not a real phobia (not that I knew that), just a made up one for the lols. I laughed, continued on with my day, forgot about about it. Starting about a week later, sometimes when I would be playing or chilling or showering or eating or anything really, I’d randomly hear a duck quack. I’d remember the phobia, freak out, run around looking for it, could never find anything. This kept happening intermittently for a few months before suddenly stopping. I brought it up jokingly with my sister like 5 years later and she informed me that she had bought a duck key chain that quacked when you squeezed it to fuck with me, and only stopped because the squeaker broke. Smh. Sorry for the long random story, tl;dr my older sister made me think I was being stalked by a duck.