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most obnoxious noise?
- Thread starter vikingur
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I find certain metal things scraping againt other hard objects really annoying and hurt my ears (like a metal dustpan against cement) but a lot of my friends don't understand why... also scratching those little "holographic" or whatever material that changes what you see when you tilt it different dirrections... that makes my head want to explode but a lot of my friends think its a fun noise so...
When I was in grad school, I shared a lunchroom with a large group of Chinese students. In their culture, slurping and smacking loudly while eating is not considered rude. About 8-10 would sit and eat lunch together every day. You could hear it all the way down the hall. 
A guitar
No, seriously, nothing worse than that guitard friend that comes over and does blues "improv" for hours on end, makes me sick.
No, seriously, nothing worse than that guitard friend that comes over and does blues "improv" for hours on end, makes me sick.
This thread reminded me of a juvenile prank that my friends and I pulled one day when I was a senior in high school. We lived in dorms at this school, and there were classrooms in another wing of the building. In my dorm room I had 2 big bass amps -- a Peavey Mark IV with a 2x15 cab, and an old Sunn Model T with a 6x10 cab. Somebody showed up with a cheap microphone with a 1/4 inch plug, so we connected the 2 amps and plugged in the mic, cranked the amps to "11", and then *flushed the toilet* with the mic a few inches away. 
We must have gotten about 125 decibels worth of toilet flush out of those amps!
That night everybody was talking about the weird mystery noise they heard during Physics class. We kept the truth to ourselves (because it was pretty easy to get kicked out of that school), but we had some good laughs over it in private.
We must have gotten about 125 decibels worth of toilet flush out of those amps!
That night everybody was talking about the weird mystery noise they heard during Physics class. We kept the truth to ourselves (because it was pretty easy to get kicked out of that school), but we had some good laughs over it in private.
Someone just learning to play the clarinet. Squeak!
Someone just learning to play the violin. Screech!
Whatever they pay beginning band/orchestra teachers in public school, it ain't enough. That's just pure auditory hell right there.
The screaming toddlers one is good too.
Someone just learning to play the violin. Screech!
Whatever they pay beginning band/orchestra teachers in public school, it ain't enough. That's just pure auditory hell right there.
The screaming toddlers one is good too.
How'd you get the flushmic not to feed back massively?
And as for obnoxious noises . . .
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And as for obnoxious noises . . .
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This thread reminded me of a juvenile prank that my friends and I pulled one day when I was a senior in high school. We lived in dorms at this school, and there were classrooms in another wing of the building. In my dorm room I had 2 big bass amps -- a Peavey Mark IV with a 2x15 cab, and an old Sunn Model T with a 6x10 cab. Somebody showed up with a cheap microphone with a 1/4 inch plug, so we connected the 2 amps and plugged in the mic, cranked the amps to "11", and then *flushed the toilet* with the mic a few inches away.
We must have gotten about 125 decibels worth of toilet flush out of those amps!
That night everybody was talking about the weird mystery noise they heard during Physics class. We kept the truth to ourselves (because it was pretty easy to get kicked out of that school), but we had some good laughs over it in private.
Dude....you should have farted into the microphone....
The way young girls love to scream high pitched at the top of their lungs at gigs. The kind of high pitched scream that can be heard well over the music. Thats always fun.
I'll add to that, buzzing mosquitos either at night when you're trying to fall asleep or when you're sitting on the toilet and the noise reverberates off the bathroom walls.
It's the extra scenario that makes it extra annoying
Good question, now that you mention it. I think closing the heavy old bathroom door was enough to keep the feedback from getting out of hand. It was 20 years ago, so the memory is a little cloudy. I mostly just remember how funny we thought it was.
A gitard 'slapping' my bass. My entire central nervous sytem hurts to think about it, though it's not just the sound that kills; it's the utter wrongness of it.
