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You know what sound I hate?

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Originally posted by: TridenT
Styrofoam touching anything. It makes me cringe and want to cry. I die a little every time I take a big thing of Styrofoam out of this stupid cardboard package.
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This... particularly Styrofoam touching Styrofoam. *shudders*
 
Originally posted by: AMCRambler
The deliberate *click*...*click*...*click* of someone cutting their fingernails. It seems to go on for ever too. You've only got ten fingers, how much can you draw this out.

Sawing of a nail file or emry board. Arrggh. That is the worst.
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AHHH yes, I think that's right up there with nails on a chalkboard..
 
The sound of someone peeing directly into the water in the toilet bowl, especially first thing in the morning. If I can hear you peeing from the other side of a wall then you're doing it too loudly.
 
Styrofoam rubbing together

My cat puking in the middle of the night..because it has to be cleaned up and hopefully I don't step in it at some point.



 
The sound of an 18-wheeler "jake-braking".
Loud children crying. Sniffling and quiet whining is ok.
Loud music in an inappropriate environment.
Loud thunder cracks.
Most other loud, sudden noises.
Any idle noise people make when they are bored. Finger tapping, humming, toe tapping, idle chatter, etc.
 
alarm clocks (especially the kind that screech at you)
the old school touch tone phone in my basement that has a bell in it
the electric air cleaner in my furnace
 
I'll add one... I hate hearing phones that don't sound like phones. Part of it is that I've always been hard of hearing and musical tones of any kind tend to get lost in the background noise easier even if they can match the volume of a good, pure, classic, unmistakable, ring. The closest I can find on my iPhone is "Old Phone" and I even have trouble hearing that sometimes. It's funny hearing the EXACT same ring on TV/radio and in movies all the time.

Oh! And I'll add another: The sound of Baby Mario crying in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island / Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3. It has the intended effect on the player though... "Get that damn baby back NOW [so you can shut him up/prevent dying]"

Originally posted by: ahenkel
[1]alarm clocks (especially the kind that screech at you)
[2]the old school touch tone phone in my basement that has a bell in it
[3]the electric air cleaner in my furnace
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1. I have one on my phone that sounds like a top-secret military installation. It works well, so I use it. It, too, comes from some Hollywood sound library and I frequently hear it elsewhere.
2. My old-school rotary phones had bells in them too. It's funny, calling a plain-jane TT phone "old school" until I remember that we mostly use cellphones these days and cordless home phones are usually operated in the same way (deferred dialing).
3. I wouldn't know.

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
The sound of an 18-wheeler "jake-braking".
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I love that sound.
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Now that I think about it, same here.
 
Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
The sound of an 18-wheeler "jake-braking".
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I love that sound.
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How could you possibly love that sound? It's extremely loud and unpleasant IMO.
 
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