Noises we could all live without.

[GoneOffShore]

After a particularly sleepless night, I'll start:

Motorcycle exhausts that rattle windows and set off car alarms.
ANY music played on a car stereo that is above normal listening volume - I'm including "Happy", "Stand By Your Man", "The Ride of the Valkeries" and everything in between.
Back up alarms.
Any drum circle, anywhere, anytime.
Any Faux Noise commentator.

[fizzgig]

1. car horns

the light to go forward or left off my street is pretty short and someone honks probably 80 percent of the time between 7 am and 11 pm.

there's a lot of loud music coming from those cars, too, but that doesn't bother me.

[Scuba]

2. Fox "News"

[Populist_Prole]

3. I've gotten less tolerant of background noise as time goes on

The most irksome to my sanity:

Crotch rocket type motorcycles with their howling buzz

Harley Davidson motorcycles with loud pipes

Gas powered leaf blowers: Laziness has gotten really out of hand but really I notice they'll spend more time running those damned blowers than they ever would sweeping/raking. Infernally annoying.

Loud "zero turn" riding mowers. The kind that the "landscapers" that are hired by some of my neighbors to mow their lawn use. Loud those things are: They sound like a turboprop airliner at take-off. I also hate they way they dart around the yards like smartass punks, like they're trying to impress us with their agility while warding off vertigo. Assholes: I hope they run over a 5-foot wide yellowjacket nest.

MSM news broadcasts: I never watch them; but you see...It's that much more apparent how annoying it is when it's just background noise. Very "splashy" and rapid-fire presentation. "Ooooh....Shiny!!!"

Another vote for car horns. There is absolutely no reason whatsoever they should be honked other than to warn of an impending danger. And NEVER in a residential neighborhood, especially to summon a house occupant outside. Get out of the car and go to the front or side door you lazy fucks.

Car alarms. If one goes off, I really do hope your car really is getting stolen. Then there's this idiot neighbor from a few houses down that must be a certified moron. She never unlocks her car and gets in without tripping the damned alarm.

[antiquie]

4. Chain saws

Whistles
Any gas-powered landscape equipment

[NightWatcher]

5. gas powered leaf blowers are the worst

[antiquie]

6. Yes, especially

when I'm out front doing the same job with a broom.
(Pardon my grumpiness.)

[Phentex]

32. I would ban them...

if I ruled the world!

[Brother Buzz]

7. Ice cream trucks

Especially the one circling my neighborhood playing fucking Christmas music in August.

[GoneOffShore]

15. OH Yes!

That's one I missed.

Thought it's gotten better in my neighborhood of late.

[noamnety]

8. snoring.

Gah. There's some commercial on tv for a sleep aid I think, and in it the guy finally gets a good night's sleep and starts snoring. I'm not sure what it's for because I'm always diving for the remote. But that's okay, because if I did know the name of the product I wouldn't buy it being that if it works, the result is intolerable.

[GoneOffShore]

16. Can't actually speak to this one,

apart from the bruises on my back from Mrs GoS smacking me and telling me to stop.

[3catwoman3]

22. I think all husbands have...

...sleep apnea (based on comments I have heard fro many women over many years).

[noamnety]

28. I was very proud of myself earlier this week

I was in the recovery room earlier this week waiting for my husband to come out of anesthesia and he snored a little and I did NOT kick him! I thought about it just from habit, but then I realized it would look bad if a nurse or doctor walked in while I was kicking him, and he still had the tubes in him and stuff.

[shenmue]

9. Fox's 'The Five'

Worse even than the other awful stuff they do. P-U!

[lunatica]

10. Sarah Palin's blackboard screech

[kairos12]

25. My first thought.

[femmocrat]

11. Dogs barking.

Don't their owners hear them? Can't they look outside to see wtf is wrong with the poor dog?

[Rochester]

12. Small children and babies

I can't stand that noise. Also unmuffled motorcycles, like the original poster said.
Screaming, cheering crowds.

[GoneOffShore]

23. And that small percentage of folks who say:

"Loud pipes save lives" - except when I stretch some monofilament between two telephone poles.

[sharp_stick]

36. I once suggested this

as a method to deal with a dirtbag we had at a previous address. The look on her face told me that even though it was probably a bad idea she was all for it, so was my neighbor who thought it might be easier than his idea of digging a spiked tiger pit in the middle of the street.

It didn't matter what time of the day or night this asshole had to rev the shit out of his bike with short pipes all the way up and down the street. It was so damned loud the prick had the audacity to wear fucking earplugs.

I never once met the guy but I still hate him and it's been 12 years.

[MADem]

50. Put a few potatoes in the pipe.

That'll fix his little red wagon.

[Jamaal510]

13. My next door neighbor

having sex.

[NJCher]

14. leaf blowers here, too

What a waste. Usually they are just blowing leaves out into the street.

And worse yet, they will stand there and blow them at a single leaf. Stupidest thing I ever saw.


Cher

[sakabatou]

17. Nails on chalkboard

[GoneOffShore]

18. Sorry, but when was the last time you heard that?

Yes, it's horrid, but haven't most blackboards been replaced?

[sakabatou]

20. Over 10 years ago

But it's still sometimes used on TV.

[NJCher]

33. we still have them at our school

the place is full of chalk dust. They are the green type of "blackboard."



Cher

[MADem]

51. Plenty of places are still using them. nt

[lastlib]

19. Dick Cheney's voice

(for that matter, anybody with the last name "Cheney&quot
John McCain
Sarah Palin
Lindsay Graham
Ted Cruz
Rand Paul
Bagpipes

[3catwoman3]

21. The whine of mosquitos.

And the buzz of flies and bees/wasps/hornets.

Agree on the Palin screech (toss in Limbaugh and Hannity, and Eric Cantor),noisy motorcycles and leaf blowers.

Any music fron any car that I can hear through my closed car windows and feel in my solar plexus.

[pipi_k]

24. The annoying chirp

of weak batteries in a smoke alarm.

I awoke to that at 6 AM today.

Mr Pipi has lost his high frequency hearing but can hear low frequency sound

I've lost a lot of low frequency sound but can still hear noises at an impressively high frequency.

So he could live with a chirping alarm and never hear it. Which is dangerous. Those things need to have alarms that are audible to people with various levels of hearing difficulties.

Anyway, smoke alarms suck.

And kids' screaming tantrums.


Oh, and I'm wondering what happened to womens' voices in the last 20 years or so.

Seems like so many women have this annoyingly high cartoon character type voice. They sound like children, and I want to slap them for some reason. Especially the ones on the TV news, etc. This is the reason I will NOT call Customer Service for help for anything. Always the high voices on "women" who are making it worse by talking very rapidly. Arrrrggghhh!

High pitched voices belong on little girls.

I prefer deeper voices.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

34. Women's voices: May have to do with drop in smoking?

[pipi_k]

41. I don't know...

could be, but then wouldn't the same hold true for men's voices I would think.


although there's also this distinctive screechy kind of quality to the women's voices as well. Like they're talking from their throats and not projecting from their diaphragms.

[Inkfreak]

26. The crunch from eating chips. (nt)

[Purveyor]

27. Farts. I find them absolutely disgusting and those that can't contain themselves

equally disgusting unless it is a medical condition.

[SkatmanRoth]

29. Black helicopters in the middle of the night

I put extra aluminum foil on my windows to seal off the electromagnetic rays, but it does nothing for the sound.

[KG]

30. phil collins pretending he can sing.

[LeftinOH]

31. Car audio systems. From the "music" to the throbbing bass

which isn't even music - it's just obnoxious noise. This may be the one thing that could drive me to murderous rage.. and it may happen someday.

[GoneOffShore]

39. What prompted my OP was the jerk driving down the street while I was napping

blasting "Happy" at window rattling volume.

I like the song, but not that loud.

I listen to anything (well, not a great fan of throat singing, but that's another discussion) from classical to The Roots to standards to Pink Floyd, so it's not the choice of music, but the volume.

[pipi_k]

44. those dirtbags

with their pounding, throbbing bass speakers!


I like listening to music through headphones, sometimes at pretty loud volumes.

What I can't tolerate is being surrounded by bass that makes my innards pulsate.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

35. Planes taking off and landing!

O'Hare altered their runways last year and now I frequently live directly under a landing pattern. Beats a takeoff pattern but jeezus it gets bad some days.

[GoneOffShore]

40. When I lived in Windsor (UK) the glide path for Heathrow went over the house.

My father-in-law was always wondering if he could get an old ack-ack gun and fire blanks and flares at them.
This was back in the 1970's.

[kentauros]

37. Infrasound from the nearby railroad.

Also the sound of all of the cars either coming to a stop or starting off (it's sounds like a massive train-wreck!)

Garbage-dumpster trucks at 4 ayem!

My sneezes!!!!

[El Supremo]

38. Screaming little girls.

[polihood]

42. My...

spouse... farting.

[GoneOffShore]

43. It's not a fart.

It's the music of the wind ensemble.

[panader0]

45. The black helicopters hovering over my "garden".

[bigwillq]

46. Screaming and crying babies (nt)

[NYC_SKP]

47. Loud motorcycles, yes, and FIREWORKS and mistreated animals crying or barking.

If they're out in the yard and barking for no immediate reason, I blame their owners.

[mrmpa]

48. The damn maintenance man..........

mowing the lawn a 9 am on a Saturday, when I didn't get home from work and into bed until 5 am. I've asked them (maintenance company) to do this after 11 am, they won't (this is a condo).

The person two floors below who just got a piano & think they can play.

[AllenVanAllen]

49. The sound your car makes when you try and crank it...

and the engine won't turn over and you're fucking stuck.

Yes, that.