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Post by PolarGreen12 on Jun 16, 2018 23:41:24 GMT
Young children's voices screeching inside stores and malls. I don't mean in laughter-I love the sound of children's laughter. I mean that screeching sound some of them do when they want attention, are running around away from their parents, you know, we all have heard it. That sound makes my stomach contract and my brain explode. I just hate it. I spent a month away from the USA in Europe last May and I didn't hear it once. I traveled in Poland, Germany and Austria. As soon as we hit ground at the airport in Dulles (in Virginia) and I was walking around in the airport I heard it again. It must be something in the way American parents are raising their children these days and/or the kids are hearing it from kids around them. My son was born in 1989 and I know it wasn't going on then. I just made a quick run to Sams. I must have been having a brain fart. Don’t ever go to Sams on a Saturday. I can’t believe how many screaming, running, crawling on the floor kids are in one building. And like no parents seem to pay attention or care. I needed a drink by the time I got out of there.
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Post by birukitty on Jun 16, 2018 23:51:04 GMT
Young children's voices screeching inside stores and malls. I don't mean in laughter-I love the sound of children's laughter. I mean that screeching sound some of them do when they want attention, are running around away from their parents, you know, we all have heard it. That sound makes my stomach contract and my brain explode. I just hate it. I spent a month away from the USA in Europe last May and I didn't hear it once. I traveled in Poland, Germany and Austria. As soon as we hit ground at the airport in Dulles (in Virginia) and I was walking around in the airport I heard it again. It must be something in the way American parents are raising their children these days and/or the kids are hearing it from kids around them. My son was born in 1989 and I know it wasn't going on then. I just made a quick run to Sams. I must have been having a brain fart. Don’t ever go to Sams on a Saturday. I can’t believe how many screaming, running, crawling on the floor kids are in one building. And like no parents seem to pay attention or care. I needed a drink by the time I got out of there. It makes me wonder what happened to discipline in today's parenting world? Did it suddenly become a bad word? Is it non-existent these days? I remember giving my son time outs way back in the 1990's when he was small but looking at the kids today running wild in restaurants and out in public it makes me wonder.
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my3freaks
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Post by my3freaks on Jun 17, 2018 0:00:24 GMT
Am I the only one who read about cracking knuckles and immediately cracked their knuckles? Nope, I did too. I have a friend who smacks me, she hates it. I feel bad because I don't even realize I do it anymore, but I don't try to annoy her.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2018 0:01:22 GMT
It isn't just american children. There were many times I wanted to beat the shit out of our French friends because of their whiny snotty biting brats. My kids never bit anybody.
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Post by birukitty on Jun 17, 2018 0:01:48 GMT
Young children's voices screeching inside stores and malls. I don't mean in laughter-I love the sound of children's laughter. I mean that screeching sound some of them do when they want attention, are running around away from their parents, you know, we all have heard it. That sound makes my stomach contract and my brain explode. I just hate it. I spent a month away from the USA in Europe last May and I didn't hear it once. I traveled in Poland, Germany and Austria. As soon as we hit ground at the airport in Dulles (in Virginia) and I was walking around in the airport I heard it again. It must be something in the way American parents are raising their children these days and/or the kids are hearing it from kids around them. My son was born in 1989 and I know it wasn't going on then. I'm not sure about American parenting. We have traveled to the Caribbean multiple times at all-inclusives and children speaking many different languages (some I don't recognize) can have beastly little tantrums. We did travel to Paris and I remember thinking that no one was unhappy, but there were a fair amount of English speaking people there. Who knows. I wasn't talking about tantrums. Tantrums are normal in small children. They all have them. Sometimes it's because they are tired or over stimulated. Sometimes it's a way to test what they can get away with from their parents. I meant the extended screeching noise that some small children vocalize. I've mostly heard it inside stores, malls and restaurants.
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Post by giraffemom on Jun 17, 2018 0:06:27 GMT
Whistling. The most irritating noise on the planet. I hate it.
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Mystie
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Post by Mystie on Jun 17, 2018 0:19:23 GMT
Dogs barking, howling, baying. Some people down the street have raised beagles for years...oy.
Engines idling or revving. Motorcycle engines are the absolute worst sound I can think of, but even a semi-noisy car engine for more than a few seconds sends me over the edge. My next-door neighbor works on random POS cars in his driveway right under my bedroom window, which seems to require lots of noisy idling and revving, and I don't. care. for. it.
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Post by leannec on Jun 17, 2018 0:24:13 GMT
I detest the sound of someone (usually dh) slurping/sucking up the last dredges of a drink with a straw ... shudder!!!!!
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valincal
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Post by valincal on Jun 17, 2018 0:58:38 GMT
I can’t stand the sound of styrofoam scraping against a cardboard box. Many items are packed this way and I have to leave the room and get DH or DS to unpack it. I’m cringing just typing it out. 😬
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SabrinaP
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Post by SabrinaP on Jun 17, 2018 1:22:43 GMT
The sound of packing tape pulled off the roll quickly. It haunts my nightmares. We moved 12 times in 10 years mid career (military). I got twitchy just hearing the sound, even coming from a neighbor's house! Omg! Reading that gave me chills because another one of my sounds that makes me cringe is the sound of the end of the packing tape roll when it hits the cardboard and starts tearing off the cardboard. I have goose bumps just writing about it!
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Post by alexa11 on Jun 17, 2018 1:53:27 GMT
Men hawking up phlegm- it makes me want to vomit onto them 🤮 My mom lives me me and OMG she does this constantly all day long. I don't see how she has a throat left- I just cringe! But it's amazing that she doesn't have to do it in public- it's a bad bad habit.
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grammanisi
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Post by grammanisi on Jun 17, 2018 1:54:56 GMT
When people, usually women, crack their gum. It makes me want to smack them! Cracking of the neck, ugh.
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StephDRebel
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Post by StephDRebel on Jun 17, 2018 2:09:06 GMT
cotton rubbing against itself. cotton balls in my ears when I was younger and using eardrops made me nauseated. I can't stand the feel or sound of it. Q-tips are ok. I think because it's wound so tightly but I won't go near a cotton ball, not even the puff in the top of vitamin bottles.
Also, sniffling. I just want to scream "get a tissue and blow your nose already!'
It's a more violent reaction when you ask if they need a tissue and they say no.
Clearly you do. If someone offers you a tissue it's because you need it. Same as whnr someone offers you a breath mint.
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Post by AussieMeg on Jun 17, 2018 2:17:56 GMT
Well, nails on a chalkboard for starters! Aaaargh I literally get goosebumps even thinking about it! Eating noises - slurping, crunching, swallowing, chewing, biting..... all of it! Clipping fingernails Sniffing Cracking knuckles
I'm sure I'll think of more when I've read the rest of the replies!
ETA: Children screaming. Thank goodness my kids weren't screamers. It does my head in. Chewing gum
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Post by Julie W on Jun 17, 2018 2:19:45 GMT
I hate the sound of nail clippers. I have an office mate who does it at work. Click. Click. Click. Pause. Repeat. Argggh!
Like another has said can't stand the sound of a fork being pulled out of someone's mouth and they scrape their teeth!
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Post by mom26 on Jun 17, 2018 2:28:34 GMT
Food sounds (chewing, crunching, slurping, smacking- all of it) and kids having meltdowns in public places and the parents do NOTHING.
Makes me absolutely stabby.
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Post by AussieMeg on Jun 17, 2018 2:31:13 GMT
I hate the sound of nail clippers. I have an office mate who does it at work. Click. Click. Click. Pause. Repeat. Argggh! I had to tell a colleague not to clip her nails at her desk because I hate it so much. I think she might still do it if I'm not there!
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Post by JustKim on Jun 17, 2018 3:04:25 GMT
Scraping teeth on silverware. 😫🤢🤮 I can do fingernails on chalk boards but not forks scraping on teeth. And the close second is knife sharping with metal or stone. I have to leave the room.
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julieb
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Post by julieb on Jun 17, 2018 3:11:39 GMT
My SIL talking. Squeaky and annoying.
Edited to add - her laugh too in like nails on a chalkboard. My poor brother.
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my3freaks
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Post by my3freaks on Jun 17, 2018 3:16:22 GMT
I hate the sound of nail clippers. I have an office mate who does it at work. Click. Click. Click. Pause. Repeat. Argggh! I had to tell a colleague not to clip her nails at her desk because I hate it so much. I think she might still do it if I'm not there! It is so weird to me that people clip their nails in public. If you're not getting a manicure or pedicure, you're nails should be clipped outside of your home.
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sharlag
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Post by sharlag on Jun 17, 2018 3:27:16 GMT
When people have phlegm in their throat, but just gargle-talk through the moist, snotty barrier instead of clearing their throat.
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Jun 17, 2018 3:33:04 GMT
Whistling.
Non-stop tapping of fingers or fingernails on something.
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Post by Lexica on Jun 17, 2018 4:09:54 GMT
Nonstop barking really gets to me. I used to have a neighbor with a Shellie that had that high pitched bark. This woman would actually sit outsidehiding behind her gate and make the dog bark, just to annoy people. She had received a couple of complaints, so to get back at them, she would sit and tell the dog to speak while she gave it treats.
Thankfully mine has learned how to be quiet when told to be. And when he is barking when someone is at the door, he always runs to me. I’m not sure whether it is to make sure I am coming to the door or because I always reward him when he alerts me to the door with praise and affection, but once I do that, he needs to shut it off. He is pretty good about it, but will sometimes do a really low muffled half bark where he doesn’t open his mouth. It is more of a throat rumble noise. He will do that while the person is at the door if it is someone he doesn’t know. I figure that is a decent compromise, as long as he keeps the volume down.
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Post by papersilly on Jun 17, 2018 4:29:27 GMT
-Beatles music -baseball play by play -99 Luft Balloons song
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Post by betty on Jun 17, 2018 4:31:27 GMT
When you are shopping for clothes and the metal hangers scrape along the metal clothing bars. As a teenager I worked at a local clothing store and EVERY DAY the top thing on the to-do list was "rub wax paper on all metal fixture bars". I guess the scraping noise annoyed my boss too! I cracked my knuckles after reading the knuckle cracking post.. and then realized how often I do it.
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Post by ametallichick on Jun 17, 2018 4:34:51 GMT
The sound of styrofoam being pulled out of a tight box! Oh Lord! 🙀
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tincin
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Post by tincin on Jun 17, 2018 5:12:04 GMT
Hands rubbing on cardboard and 45’s disgusting voice.
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Post by Delta Dawn on Jun 17, 2018 6:37:21 GMT
I was talking to someone and she said microblading sounds like velcro. I like velcro and I get entertainment from it. I am now skeeved out at the thought of microblading and it having audio. I considered this at one time. I am not longer interested.
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Post by gar on Jun 17, 2018 8:27:33 GMT
Men hawking up phlegm- it makes me want to vomit onto them 🤮 My mom lives me me and OMG she does this constantly all day long. I don't see how she has a throat left- I just cringe! But it's amazing that she doesn't have to do it in public- it's a bad bad habit. Poor you!!
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hannahruth
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Post by hannahruth on Jun 17, 2018 9:38:27 GMT
Most things I can tolerate but my absolute pet hates would have to be sniffing, irrespective of age and people slip slopping in shoes that don't seem to fit them.
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