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even small wrist watches ticking in another side of room, eg when i asleep, everything is silent, THEY TICKING A LOT
any fcking car sound
etc I HATE ALL NOISES especially my parents voices and noises what they making
i am basically 24/7 in sensory overloads, i hate so much bright light, when sunsets, parents fcking turning on main room light, I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE ssososoososo much
OK since nobody has said it yet. How everything has a goddamn LED in it to show its on or off or disconnected or whatever.
I hate how I have to put eletrical tape over all my device lights so I can get some peace at night.
Edit: shit this thread is specifically about noises, not general annoyances. I do not retract my statement however.
Count your lucky stars you cannot hear LED's.
I can. My hearing is extremely sensitive.
I've gone through the effort to set up smart plugs for most of my devices, to turn off automatically, for no other reason than eliminating the buzz.
That is actually pretty interesting! Are you sure it is the LEDs that you can hear? I would probably lean towards the mains 50Hz buzz being heard by you due to internal transformers
Depends; I’m a lot older now and deaf (but have tinnitus, yay) in one ear, but I could hear the flyback whine of old TVs. I can hear the odd switching regulator still, but most these days are switching waaaaay above even the best human hearing range.
50/60Hz buzz should be fairly rare these days except for some high power cases or some really poorly designed electronics.
I’m kinda the opposite—I miss functional LEDs on things. I miss disk activity light the most, but there’s many things that have no indication as to whether they’re even on or connected. Overly bright LEDs are a problem tho
Random douchebags roaring through the streets in their modded cars, especially after lights out. Don't even get me started on the folks who do that and crank up their stereos all the way blasting music.
I feel we should be allowed to catch these drivers, strap them to a chair at ear level of their idiotic car and have it run full throttle in their ear until the gas runs out.
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Almost any feedback noise. How is it that phone keyboards make noise by default? Fake camera shutter too needs to be turned off immediately on every phone.
I bought a washing machine recently - it beeped four times whenever the setting dial on the front moved even one place. I heard the guy who installed it testing it out and nearly sent it back before finding I could turn it off.
Why do Foley artists do noises whenever a computer does something? If my pc had a sound every time a window opened, a loading bar appeared, or some text appeared on screen, I would not be the perennially online misfit I am today.
Easily the assholes on motorbikes who go out of their way to be as noisy as possible and cause a whole row of houses to vibrate tangibly.
At my last place I used to wake up 2-3 times a night from this.
Oof, phuck!
A couple years ago, we had a downstairs apartment neighbor with a fast and very loud motorcycle, that he would literally park inside his apartment, and he'd make a point to rev it up right when he returned or left from his front door..
I confronted him, from a slight distance from our front balcony (he stayed on ground level). Anyways, I kinda lied to him, but not very rude, but I firmly spoke..
"Sir, we'd appreciate if you wouldn't rev your motorcycle up like that, it's scaring our dog."
That motherfucker had the nerve to threaten me, but I stood behind my words, with witnesses around no less. The lie, for whatever reason, the sound actually didn't scare our dog, but that was my lie, and I was sticking to it.
Well guess what? Within less than a month, apparently one of the other neighbors had that asshole evicted... 👍
I am not autistic, but I have pretty severe misophonia. Sand paper is the worst. Just thinking about it is uncomfortable.
Polystyrene. Everything about it is terrible, it makes a horrible squeaking noise.
I hate that microwaves have to beep like R2-D2 everytime you push a fucking button. I was in a crappy hotel room once, and in that room was a microwave from the '90s. That thing had an analog timer and dials and physical buttons and shit. No crappy capacitive touch sensors. It was amazing. Every microwave should be like that. Oh, and when the food was done you heard a ding (LIKE A FUCKING BELL!) and that was the only sound it made aside from the ooooooooooooo sound of the thing. It was amazing. I still long for a microwave like that one.
most high pitched squeals
I learned how to solder purely to remove unnecessary beepers and LEDs from appliances
What drives me bonkers are the unnecessarily intensely piercing-bright white LEDs, TWO of them, in the UPC scanners at Goodwill, that somehow need to be on a stupid stand so the LEDs shine EXACTLY into people standing in line. Why the hell do you need such obnoxiously bright LEDs to read a barcode? And why do they need to be always on?
And yet, the stupid "modern look" air conditioner I'm saddled with has stupid 7 segment displays that shine through the white plastic shell, and THOSE stupid LEDs have lost 95% of their brightness (in uneven spots) in less than two years...
Most annoying noise is my phone alarm in the morning.
Why did we build a society where we must wake up and drive away from our homes full of love and beauty at the maximum legal speed every day?
I like it when my cat beeps and makes noises.
Don't put it in reverse then.
Babies or toddlers crying is one of the big reasons I won't be a parent. My reaction to the noise is incredibly intense and I pretty much lose all sense of thought past getting away from the noise any way possible. People most of my life be like "nobody likes it get over yourself / you get used to it / it's worth it". No Susan you don't understand how badly I'd neglect a child to get away from that noise, it'll create a feedback loop, and I refuse to do that to a kid. Thankfully in my thirties now and people have for the most part finally stopped trying to convince me otherwise
Its not just the crying for me, its those random shrieks of delight that also get me, especially in supermarkets with all that noise and light reflecting surfaces
There are many reasons I never had children, but the crying would have been a special kind of torture
Any noise that I don’t know is an immediate problem for me. If I don’t know what it is and I can hear it, I absolutely have to stop what I’m doing and find out. I can’t convince myself to stop this because it’s actually led me to detecting leaky pipes in my house twice now, right as they broke.
Also the sound of cotton balls rubbing together. Horrendous. And coil whine of electronics, that’s awful too. As is just the sound of electricity in general, like fluorescent lights make an awful noise. I’m gonna stop here before this becomes a novel.
For the past several months, in my neighborhood, there is a periodic very low frequency thumping sound. Imagine a chopper motorcycle idling, but lower frequency and very distant. It comes, lasts about 20 minutes, and then stops. I've only heard from one other person in the neighborhood who has noticed it.
Closing the windows does nothing because it's such a low frequency. Also, because it's a low frequency, it sounds the same whether inside or outside, and it's impossible to figure out which direction it's coming from. I usually miss it during the day, but at night, if I hear it I can't get to sleep until it stops.
Honestly...the discord notification or my phone vibrating.
When you're busy with something but the crew starts a back and forth in the group chat and it just keeps going off.
There should be a setting that only sends a notification once from the same channel over a set period of time.
I find I simultaneously want them to stfu but also know everything they're saying.
Its not the notification sound mind you. Its the sound of the phone vibrating against whatever its resting on.
Everything annoys me, notifications, kids making noises, my own kids making noises, the sound of an extractor fan whilst im trying to shit in peace... getting older is mad. Explains all the grumpy old men.
Coil whine. Especially if it ends up triggering an acute tinnitus flare up, which is like coil whine times a million
One of the kids at my job managed to tune his whine into a fucking siren. Seriously. He'd ramp up the volume and pitch, ramp back down, and repeat, just like an ambulance.
I can see why he did - it's very good at getting someone's attention. Our practice is to ignore it and prompt functional communication instead, and thankfully it's working as I haven't heard the "ambulance whine" in a while. But wow, it was a truly awful sound. I'll take straight screaming over that noise any day.
I watched an urban exploration video the other day and they walked into a room where there were Christmas lights hanging and on with like 10 alarms all beeping differently.
I had to stop the video. I refuse to be subjected to that criminal abuse.
Nothing drives me crazier than a loud bird making the same obnoxious sounds over and over again for attention. Parrots, cockatiels, and mockingbirds are especially infuriating. I love birds but never want to own one ever again.
Anyone else hate that the checkout scan noise is constantly going off in grocery stores?
A phone on vibrate. Getting a text or notification and the thing vibrating. Started pissing me off more and more. Its rewiring our brains like Pavlovs dogs. Every time you hear it, it makes you check your phone and connects you back into the never ending flow of information.
Fucking disconnect, breathe, brrrr..brrrr..
Reversing trucks. “For safety”!? I don’t need to hear a truck reversing half a block away on the other side of the road! If you could sell a sound laser for trucks, you’d start a new business.
Gas station pumps here in ontario have these shreiking beeps, at every step, I fucking hate it so much
Insert card
BEEP BEEP BEEP
connecting
BEEP BEEP BEEP
Would you like a car wash today?
BEEP BEEP BEEP
pick up nozzle
BEEP BEEP BEEP
select grade
BEEP BEEP BEEP
nozzle replaced
BEEP BEEP BEEP
Have a good day
BEEP BEEP BEEP
BEEP BEEP BEEP
it can stil be heard beeping repeatedly as I fucking drive away
And if you hesitate at any step, it will beep repeatedly as if your a stupid cow taking forever to do the simplest task and need to be cattle pronged in the earballs to get your ass moving
When people run their nails over a velvety surface. I have no idea why, but it makes my tongue itch. It's specifically the back of bus seats that bother me for some reason. I haven't ridden on a bus in years, and it still bothers me. I have no idea why.
I already commented, but after going through the other comments I realized nobody's brought up one of the worst offenders - the sounds of eating. The squishing, chewing noises, the lips smacking, even the "ahhh" that soda commercials include whenever somebody takes a drink. It makes my skin crawl and can even make me irrationally angry.
A lot of ASMR also triggers me. It's creepy and unsettling to hear a close up recording of someone whispering. I can't explain it, I know it's not rational, but there's something about it that makes me deeply uncomfortable. I simply can't wrap my head around how people can find that sort of sound pleasant.
Idk, maybe nails on a chalkboard, or someone blowing a raspberry.
Cars: the loud music, the engine/exhaust sound, the tire-road noise, the air noise, the decrease in natural noises (e.g.: birds) because car-centric infrastructure decimated and divided natural spaces.
Fucking cars. Especially Subarus and Toyotas, which have an unpleasant tone. They beep every button push on the remote, so unlocking all the doors is two pushes BEEP BEEEP BEEEP BEEEEP! Then people push the lock button more than once as they leave BEEP. BEEP… BEEEP!
My car doesn’t need to beep. I’ll turn around and look at it and see the lights flashing.
Also, my fucking dishwasher. If I program it to start in 5 hrs when electricity is cheap, and then add something, I have 3 seconds to add it before it soft cancels the cycle and I have to push a button to make it continue for some inexplicable reason. If I close it while it’s in this mode it beeps constantly for 20 seconds. If it wasn’t bolted down everyone in the family has had a time when they would have taken the opportunity to throw it out the door.
I can also relate to the chewing; if I’m eating it covets other’s noise and I survive, but I can’t stand hearing other’s mastication. Also breathing heavily. A family member has asthma and fucked up sinuses and refuses to see a doctor, so they just mouth-breathe panting all day long (and don’t have their phone silenced either).