hitting the upvote so hard and then seeing the community
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Welcome
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link aggregators ideally do it in the other way around… Upvotes are supposed to reflect how well the content fits the community, acting as democratic curation. i’m well aware how idealistic this is.
(the word aggregator sounds it like should be an animal, like a distant cousin of an alligator)
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.
Blue LEDs are the absolute worst. I have to keep my bedroom door shut to sleep at night because the LED clock display on my stove is so goddamn bright it lights up the whole house.
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
YES, especially when they’re overly bright for their intended purpose. Notify bright, ok. Pin hole sized LED bright enough to light up an entire room at night, NOT OK.
I was part of a “focus group” just some random people that my friend and his team asked questions to about some humidifier or something, I genuinely don’t remember and he was shocked when I said I didn’t want ANY LED lights on the product and he’s like “how will you know it’s on??” On a product that would absolutely make noise while running. We compromised and I told him a completely hidden LED under the product, as long as it had no light leaks would be acceptable.
I hate how I have to put eletrical tape over all my device lights so I can get some peace at night.
This was at its worst when blue LEDs were new. Everybody wanted to show how cool they were and used a blue LED, but they were the brightest lights imaginable.
Like, just a hint, if your indicator light actually casts shadows on my wall at night, it’s too bright.
I have an air purifier and one of the amazing things about it that they haven’t actually advertised is that there is a button you can press to make all the LEDs go off. I just bought the best one in my price range, but if they put that feature on the box I’d have gone right for it.
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.
I’ll never understand this. Motorcycles are fantastic vehicles (fossil fuel issues aside) – they’re agile, fast, and exhilarating. But none of that enjoyment comes from the noise they make; removing your muffler is purely a selfish, “look at me!” exercise.
There’s a saying in the motorcycle community: “loud pipes save lives”. In other words, cars only notice motorcycles when they can hear them.
Personally, I think that was often used as an excuse for having an obnoxiously loud motorcycle. But, I’ve also seen first-hand how oblivious drivers are. I think Harleys are stupid. They’re a way to get middle-aged dentists to part with their money and to make them feel bad-ass. But, I think that annoying sound does mean that they get noticed, which probably helps keep them alive. I’m convinced that there are riders who have died on electric motorcycles because a car turned into them because the driver never looked to see if there was anything there.
I think you’re on the money here, both in that “loud pipes save lives” is a poor excuse for unreasonably loud bikes – since it’s the use of the throttle as a kind of soft horn in traffic that achieves this effect, and that’s possible with virtually any ICE motorcycle – and that this isn’t possible with electric bikes, which adds a risk. In either case, it doesn’t serve as a defense for increasing the volume of regular motorcycles.
I think the argument is that it acts as a sort of “passive horn”. That merely by being near a car you’ll be noticed if you have a motorcycle with loud pipes.
It’s somewhat true of all ICE motorcycles. They’re not silent. But, are they loud enough to wake a driver up out of a daze and cause them to notice the bike?
An electric motorcycle won’t be noticed at all through the noise it makes. It might not be that different from a properly silenced ICE bike.
In any case, it’s sad that we’re in a situation where a driver whose brain isn’t engaged with what’s going on around him can kill a motorcyclist through inattention.
Changing my motorcycle exhaust was purely for performance for me. I hate how loud it is but the stock one was so corked up the engine was choking
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.
I’ve seen a few newer models that have a silence mode. If you have a newer microwave you may want to look into it.
Yeah, but nothing will beat that old fossil. It truly was the perfect microwave.
I’ve silenced my microwave and I’ve never looked back!!
I haven’t had a microwave in a decade and have zero regrets. Every now and then it would be handy, but it’s really not a necessity.
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.
You sound like me. Recently my girlfriend and I moved. One day while packing, my girlfriend came downstairs and I heard a loud-ish hissing upstairs. She had no idea what I was talking about and didn’t notice it at all. I ran upstairs to check on it and it turns out she had packed some things tightly on top of some cleaning supplies. If it were up to her, the entire bottle of Lysol would’ve sprayed out and destroyed a lot of things in that box. I prevented that. So yeah I’m totally with you, noticing sounds that don’t make immediate sense can save you trouble and it could also save your life, so as maddening as it can be it’s also very useful and I won’t try to stop noticing these sounds.
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I feel the same way. I’m always “overreacting” no matter how much trouble or risk I avoid by reacting. It’s pretty exhausting.
My wife is the same way with cotton balls and cotton pads. She will not touch them or be near anyone using them. She recently bought reusable makeup remover cotton rounds thinghy things which made makeup removal much easier for her.
She’s always been like that, and we only recently discovered she most likely have autism.
My partner got me a GPU a while back (oh my god I looked it up and it was ten years ago aaaaaaaaa) that was an incredible deal for its power, but had a TON of reports of coil whine. I was delighted to hear nothing from it the first few days of playing! Then it promptly died. To death. To shreds, even. ah well, it happens, better now than out of return period. I sent it back for a replacement and got another one, TERRIFIED its replacement would be an auditory nightmare after being lucky the first time.
I got lucky the second time, and it still works to this day!
I feel you on that one. Cotton balls don’t bother me, but I know that’s a nightmare for my mum. That and just the idea of
The Idea that some might not wanna think about
chewing tin foil
(I’m sorry to put that in anyone’s head if that bothers them oh god lemme spoiler that just in case) bothers her a ton but doesn’t really hit for me.
Electronic sounds can be a nightmare. I love CRTs but I can’t be around many of them because they hit my brain in The Bad Spot. One tiny benefit to my tinnitus is I’ve found a few CRTs that seem to have a similar/the same frequency so I can be around them when they’re on!
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
Yeah, big same. Most noises I can tolerate even though they bother me, but baby cries elicit a similar visceral reaction as what you’re describing. Part of why I hate public transport.
I don’t like kids so I can relate
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.
This right here. I lived near a narrow road, where a building project was being realized. The trucks al had to reverse the entire road.
The construction noice didn’t bother me, but the beeping did.
I know it’s for the visually impaired, but it clashed with my impairment.
This video was 12 years ago but I’ve noticed that newer trucks had the new ““beep”” instead of the one you’re thinking about https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fa28lIGuxq8
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.
Man, teaching became a lot harder when they outlawed tasers.
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?
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.
I don’t have kids so this might not work for you, but for me getting a nice pair of noise cancelling headphones has been a real godsend. They were a little pricey but being able to just have a silent bubble you can turn on whenever you want is great. They also completely cancel out the background sound of being on a plane.
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.
I don’t understand the loud music. Nobody needs a radio so loud that it booms across the neighborhood even when your vehicle’s windows are closed. If you think you do, it might be time to get your hearing checked. Just don’t be surprised to learn you’ve got self-induced damage.
I particularly hate the loud ass Harleys with a radio somehow order than the bike.
They do it on purpose because they enjoy bothering other people. Same with loud-ass motorcycles and car engines for the most part.
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.
That along with obnoxiously loud motorcycles tops the list for me.
Should be confiscated on sight (sound?) and tossed into a portable metal crusher.
As a random douchebag who cranks their stereo and roars through the street in my modded car, I apologize. I can’t help it, I’m 37 but I still love loud music and driving fast.
That said, I’m not an inconsiderate random douchebag; I turn down the subwoofer and stay out of redline in residential areas. I also didn’t cheap out on the exhaust. I got me a proper resonated catback, not a $200 fart can that drones on at 95dB even when idling. If you drive normally it purrs softly like a kitty cat. You’ll only hear me is I want you to. And once again I apologize for all the random douchebags who do burnouts in cul-de-sacs and crank the shittiest hip hop in existence at 3AM while you try to sleep.
Leaf blower
Every time I see someone raking leaves I get the urge to thank them profusely. I wish lawnmowers and leaf blowers would just vanish. What happened to scythes, anyway?
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.
The key for me is, set notifications for DMs and @s only.
Don’t need to be getting pinged for channel messages.
I have a super low tolerance for distracting noises so I deadass turned discord message sound off.
Phone goes brrr
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.
Yup. I could kill in cold blood the person I love most for this. ASMR is already terrible, but the sound of chewing downright transforms me. I know one person who has it as bad as I do, we are very similarly brained, if that makes any sense. I’d love to make sense of it but when science itself has so few clues…
