hitting the upvote so hard and then seeing the community

hmmmmm

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Leaf blower

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 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.

I like it when my cat beeps and makes noises.

I am not autistic, but I have pretty severe misophonia. Sand paper is the worst. Just thinking about it is uncomfortable.

Radio ads with alarm clocks, ringing phones etc. make me want to murder.

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

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..

When I drive a rental car and it starts beeping at me in 2 different pitches.
I don't know what you're trying to tell me!
You're running just fine, I'm buckled up and below the speed limit!

Anyone else hate that the checkout scan noise is constantly going off in grocery stores?

You know what I found helps? Doing a silly impression of the sound while it's going off.

It seems to disarm the discomfort, assuming it's not super loud. Just gotta be careful not to do it around people who don't know you, or they'll think you're really special (as opposed to just your normal level of special)

Dentist drills. I'm not really the "scared of dentists" type, but that noise can really hurt your ears.

Speeding motorcycles. It's really annoying because it's extremely unnecessary, these people are just being as loud as possible for fun. Same goes for anyone driving a Harley. I also hate the noise of motor scooters, but those are utilitarian and thus less insulting.

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).

I love custom notification sounds. My ringtone and message sound is made by me. It started back in 2005 and stayed til around 2021. Now my phone is on silent. Most apps have notifications disabled manually. I got a smartwatch and only let it show notifications that I actually care about. Phone stays in DND forever.

I just cant understand how people live with notifs on for everything. Fake notifs from insta, fake notifs from whatsapp, fake notifs from email apps, youtube, any other app. By fake notifs I mean these notifications that are designed to prompt you to open an app. Suggestions, changes, invites, reminders. Fuck all of that. I want them to be useful, not trash stream of crap attention grabbers.

I fucking hate breathing sounds. I can't help it.

I learned how to solder purely to remove unnecessary beepers and LEDs from appliances

"I'm sorry, I don't know how to anwe..."

SHUT THE FUCK UP ALEXA, NO ONE'S ASKING YOU, SLUT

Repetitive and useless noises at any time.

Loud noises when I’m trying to sleep - like next door playing music loudly or something.

People playing music, videos, or voice/video calls on their phone speaker in public spaces, subways or planes.

People letting their phone ring loudly while just looking at it and not silencing it.

People with loud text send/receive tones while texting.

Any alarm, siren, or beep from a fridge

A car horn at the wrong moment can completey ruin my day. And I don't mean when it is aimed at me. Just the sound itself at the wrong time.

Cafeteria style restaurants as a kid. The sounds of all those people eating was gross. This was before there were tvs every 5 ft playing Fox News.

Now I know why EVERY battery powered toy I was ever given never got fresh batteries. I would memorize the sound effects so that I could make believe they were still functional once they died.

I suppose I did the same thing with my father.