Screaming. Especially if it's extremely high-pitched. I cannot stand screaming. Usually, I'm fine. But as soon as I hear one, I end up feeling incredibly upset and I become temporarily mute to prevent myself from losing all control of my temper.

It's also the reason why I turn off the volume on most video games I play. It somehow doesn't detract from the fun. Wait, what if I wanted to know what the characters are saying? Simple: I turn on subtitles. Even though it's designed for the hearing impaired, it's still useful for those who are sensitive to screams and always turn off the volume on a lot of games. Like me!

This troper also has the thing about screaming women and screaming children. I have what's known as Sensory Integration Dysfunction. Basically, I process sensory input differently - ''especially'' sound. On a good day, if there's a screaming kid around for more than 10 minutes, I'll simply leave or step into another room, and I'm fine. On a ''bad'' day... I curl up into a ball and/or start losing my normally carefully kept temper. It never fails to give me either migraines or throw my nervous system off and screw me up for the rest of the day. I'm also a Covert Pervert, but I CANNOT watch porn. Ever. It's too damn cringe-inducing to listen to those women screaming. ''GAH''.

Are you below 25? Ever heard the mosquito tone? No, not the phone. The version of it that was WEAPONIZED against teenagers for a while. The entire class was rolling around on the floor.

In my house our kitchen sink is a really crappy sink and any time someone makes both the hot and cold water running all the way it makes this GODAWFUL high-pitched squealing noise. I seem tobe the only one bothered by the damn noise. So what does my mom do EVERY time she cooks or even in the kitchen?

For this troper, it's the shrill sound of a home telephone ringing.

''This''. First ring: "Hey! Hey! I'm ringing! Pick me up!" Ring Two: "You're not picking me up..." Third Ring: "PICK ME UP, DAMN YOU!!" Fourth Ring: "Alright, FINE! HAVE IT YOUR WAY! Hello, we are not here right now..."

Try being at a friend's house and your friend ''doesn't have an answering machine'' and won't answer the phone for some reason. You have to listen to it until the person calling gets tired of trying and hangs up. And sometimes they call right back.

How about the sound of someone else's phone ringing when you're the one calling them and they haven't picked up yet? RRRRRRRGGGGGHHHH.

For me, it's many of the default rings for cellphones. Especially when people in my family pick said annoying default ringtones.

Considering how much of an aversion I have to talking on the phone, even moreso for me. I intentionally pick the most annoying default ringtones for my cell because I don't want to ruin any of my favorite songs by associating them with getting calls when I really don't want to.

For this troper, it's people shouting at their misbehaving children and/or pets. (A close second is the oddly common phenomenon of children shrieking at the tops of their goddamn lungs for no apparent reason.) It's got nothing to do with what they're actually saying; something about the ISO Standard Angry Parental-Type Tone ''itself'' makes it feel like someone's driving red-hot railway spikes into my ear canals.

Also, once I reach a certain level of stress/irritation, ''everything'' becomes the MostAnnoyingSound. Glasses being heavily set down on the tabletop, the microwave beeping, floorboards creaking, other people's banal conversations...

Once, This Troper was on a train, and a woman was shouting at her baby child which could not have been more than a year old. Eventually, I couldn't hold in my disgust any longer, and asked her to stop, because it was only a little kid.

This troper agrees with the first post of this part. I HATE it when little kids feel the need to scream at the top of their lungs instead of saying it quietly. I was once in a castle (that ECHOES, by the way) and a little kid screamed "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!" in a really shrill scream that nearly deafened me.

For this troper, it's the high-pitched scream of a small child. She's phonosensitive. At best, it's a mild form of BerserkButton for her. At worst, it's migraine-inducing.

Newborn. Babies. Their shrill, whining screams makes me want to set it on fire. Screw the fact it's only a day old it's annoying!

This Black troper is sad to say many in my ethnicity suck their teeth every two minutes at the most minor inconvenience, if even that, and I feel like snapping necks when I hear it.

For this troper, screaming babies are ALWAYS a berserk button. And that godawful mosquito ring tone.

This troper will just agree with the previous two. Screaming kids from newborn to under seven are terrible.

Try riding on the same city bus as a baby with an ear infection. This troper is pretty sure she lost some hearing in her left ear.

This Troper is always ready to remind you that it's the sound of a rapidly clicking pen. Further evidence that he is, in fact, ThatTroper.

Frank West would agree.

Huh, I find making that sound fun.

This troper once up and confiscated the pen from a coworker that was clicking it. Said coworker had shown a total disrespect for being asked nicely to do anything, but the first thing out of his mouth upon his pen being removed was "HEY, you jerk, you could have just asked nicely for me to stop..." Horse pucky, then I would have heard the second most annoying sound in the world- "You're not the boss a me! You can't tell me what to do!"

Certain dog barks, when I'm close to the dog, and ringing ears, because it leaves fear in me that my ears are going to permanetly lose a lot of their sense of hearing.

Sounds like me. I fret constantly about hearing damage, so I have more than one reason to hate dogs barking close to me and people suddenly yelling in my ear.

NAILS. ON. CHALKBOARD.

AUGH. Porcelain scraping against each other is in the same category.

This troper even hates loud crying, ''period''. She feels bad about it, since obviously it's not that person's fault for crying so hard, but she just can't stand it.

This troper explained this concept to her grandmother. #QUOTE#"I hate five things. Screaming babies, screaming children, screaming teenagers, screaming parents, and screaming vocalists in really loud bands."

Alarm clock buzzers. Quite effective, but when I need to wake up early, the sound literally haunts my dreams.

I CANNOT for the love of me stand the sound of cloth ripping or being torn. It's so gross I just cannot be in the room when I hear that.

For Da_Nuke, it's cars rigged with fart cans. Either your stock engine growls like a dragon, or it doesn't. Pretending is futile.

For this troper a fartcanned ricer or chopper can drop him to his knees on the sidewalk due to the instant and intense headache it causes.

He also configured his laptop to unleash a ''mind-boggingly grating screech'' whenever he runs out of battery.

Also, the Mexico City traffic. Imagine a place where ''everyone'' honks the horn as soon as you slow down... ''EVEN IF YOU SLOW DOWN BECAUSE YOU STOPPED AT A RED LIGHT INSTEAD OF SKIPPING IT.'' (For the record, he lives in Guadalajara, where horns are only heard when truly necessary).

This troper finds items with rigid surfaces such as nail filers annoying. It's not really a sound, but perhaps mini-flags or something like that count.

This troper's little brother humming StarWars. Constantly. On a loop.

If anyone EVER tears napkins in front of me, I'll literally beat the hell out of them.

Squeaking styrofoam. *whimper*

''This'' turned up to eleven. Even worse when he has to carry it around.

In the same vein, stepping on tightly packed snow on an incredibly cold day produces almost the exact same soud. ''GAH.''

That beeping noise friers make in fast food kitchens. Of course, if you asked my boss, the most annoying sound would be me saying "I'm givin' 'er all she's got, Cap'n! She can nae taik enny more!" when all six baskets are down and he's demanding more fries.

This troper finds that while he has to be really close up, the sound made by the cheap crappy erasers on the end of some pencils sets his teeth on edge.

There's this one species of bird, I have no idea what it's called, I've never even seen it, but in the mornings it sings this awful two-note song over and ''over'' and '''over.''' You may be surprised that a mere two-note song can be annoying, but every time I hear it it's almost as though the bird is gloating about how uncomplicated and happy his life is compared to mine.

I'd assume that I wrote this and forgot about it, but I didn't learn how to make italics and bolded words until a few days ago, so I'd like to offer my sympathy. I hate those @#$!& things too. There's a whole group of them living in my neighborhood, and I can hear them from my school. Nobody else seems to understand how flippin' IRRITATING that call is.

I hear the little bastards too... there's one living in the tree ''right'' outside my window. He (or she, I don't know or care which) is one of the main reasons this troper is usually up before nine despite being very much NotAMorningPerson. ~cocks imaginary shotgun~

This Troper hears them (or at least something similar) occasionally as well. Though he didn't mind them initially, (he first heard one of the little things at about 4 or 5, and they pretty much taught him to whistle on that day... yeah, I imitated their annoying little sound for a while after that) he would later end up hating their guts. Honestly, these things are one of the reasons I find the whole "Bird Songs a beautiful" thing to Be A little bit over-the-top.

I have those birds, too. I actually find them nice to listen to, really.

It's not a chiffchaff, is it? This troper is a bird lover, but after listening to one of those cute little monotonous bastards outside the window during every Computing class for a year...

Definitely not a chiffchaff. Imagine more like a "wee-woo!" *pause* "wee-woo!" *pause* *repeat endlessly*

Ah, ya babies. Try being woken by those two tone birds AND seagulls.. at the same time!

This troper is currently being plagued by one. If it doesn't shut up by may, he has sworn to find it and kill it.

Also, robins. Beloved icons of summer? Yes. Incessant chirping at 5 in the morning right outside your bedroom window? Also yes.

This troper's on-campus accommodation is in a fancy new building apparently built by chimpanzees. One rather irritating part is that if a door to the outside is left open even a crack (and most don't close very readily), there's a persistent beeping noise that prompts this troper to storm around closing them all while snarling things about "crushing souls" in the most evil voice he can. The fun part? One of the doors just ''broke'' and won't shut properly. At all.

Heavy breathing. It drives This Troper ''insane'', hearing it. Also, the sound of someone eating, whilst they lean over her shoulder. Usually when she's at the computer. Both sounds make said troper want to go and punch the person doing it.

Oh God, don't even get me started on heavy breathing. This troper's father does it CONSTANTLY. He has yet to learn what my quick, irritated looks at him are for. He still doesn't quite grasp it when I leave the room because I just can't stand listening to him anymore.

The sound of people eating is annoying to me, too, often to a severe degree. I despised the moments where the whole family ate Mc Donalds on a road trip in the car. With no radio on or windows down. Just the constant smack and swallow of disgusting, infuriating, get-me-the-hell-out-of-here eating noises acting as my own personal soundtrack from Hades.

Ugh, I understand completely. I hate eating with my family now since no one closes their mouths when eating (which is confusing, since I do) and never seem to breath properly, meaning they have to breath in ''while'' they eat, through their mouths. It's really hard for me to eat with that sound coming from three other people in the room.

My computer was once infected with a trojan called Virus Melt. I got rid of it, but before I did that it would pop up at random times with a loud screech noise, an annoying set of beeps, or something that sounds like fingernails on a blackboard.

For This Troper it's several things: the fake moaning sounds people make when acting tired, smacking lips when yawning (* yawn* *opens and closes mouth loudly* ), audible yawns in general, quiet songs being sung WAY TOO F*** ING LOUD, screaming "singers", whining... most of these are caused by my sister constantly doing them...

This Troper is driven nuts by three sounds:

Two people screaming at the same time and having their tones just off enough that you can hear it wobbling. Ugh...

Heavy machinery squeaking.

Really loud, really heavy bass in songs. This troper lives in an area where people will jack up the volume in their car stereos so loud you can hear the bass from thirty feet away. It makes me want to shriek.

''This''. One of these days I want to build an [=EMP=] gun and become a weaponized-bass-eliminating vigilante.

I would say it's the sound of people yelling "WOOOOOOOOOOO!" It's a sound generally made by rowdy sports fans, rowdy drunks, drunken sports fans, and rowdy drunken sports fans. Also made by people who follow my commanding officer's mandate to "hoot and holler" for completely meaningless awards that the old man has a high opinion of. Fuck. That. Noise.

The sound of two forks scraping together makes this troper's teeth grate, and the sound of women screaming makes him want to get into a fetal position.

This troper is a heavy sleeper. So his mom bought him an alarm clock. A cheap one, okay. And the noise. The NOISE it makes... It's so... BALL-SHRIVELLINGLY ANNOYING. I used the thing for a month, and then I threw it out of my bed at the speed of sound. I then hid the (still ticking) remains under my futon.

Also, the sound of pidgeons cooing in the morning. That endless "roo-koo, roo-koo, roo, roo-koo, roo-koo, roo, roo-koo" makes me want to feed them styrofoam.

Here's a funny story. When my mother was pregnant with me, she adopted a unique method of baby naming - knowing ahead of time that she would be yelling at her kid for at least the first five years of its life, she had a habit of going around the backyard and screaming random names, e.g. "Tyler! Get back here!", "Christie! Put that ''down''!". She ended up choosing the name which felt most comfortable to yell. Result? Whenever people yell my name, they invariably yell it in the whiniest emo-band voice you can think of. The worst part is that nobody (''nobody'') has the decency to just ''walk down the friggin' hall and get me when they want me''. You think you got it bad with your most annoying sound? I hear mine ''all the goddamn time.''

Once, this troper was in the computer lab at her school. Another student walked up to her and said "Hey, want to hear the most annoying sound in the world?" After I gave a noncommittal sort of shrug, he opened his mouth and produced what is indeed the most annoying sound in the world. Sort of a cross between a drawn-out whine and a computer beeping. I think I punched him.

This Troper's computer tends to overheat, specially in the afternoon. It goes BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP, then often stops when the temperature falls below the alarm treshold or when the snooze is pressed. Then it starts again after a few seconds. Rinse and repeat.

Screaming in music. It's especially bad when there's one or two screams and the song is otherwise wonderful. Or when the lyrics are wonderfully well-written and well-thought-out, but you ''can't tell what they are without a lyrics sheet'', because the singer is shrieking, roaring or even squealing the song instead of signing it (I'm looking ''straight'' at you, Demon Hunter. There is absolutely nothing so wrong with your singing voice that you have to screech instead.) Who the heck decided it was a good idea, anyway? How could anyone on the planet actually enjoy the sound of another human being screaming like they're being murdered?

Also, another vote for shrieking children. I understand kids are hyper, but why on earth do they feel the need to make so much noise? If they're laughing or playing it's one thing, but literally just ''shrieking'' for no reason and with no context?

Silverware scraping against a frying pan. My mom tends to stir soups, "hamburger helper", etc.. with a metal fork or spoon. It makes my teeth hurt.

The dozens of various noises my twelve-year-old brother makes when he's trying to be funny or literally has nothing else to do. He has one that's like an inward gasping shriek. That he can draw out for like five minutes straight. More than once I've heard it from across the house and thought one of our animals was severely injured or dying.

Any time this troper goes to the flea market, he has to be prepared for the dozens of dealers selling those dolls that play the wedding march over and over and over and over.

Fran Drescher.

For this troper, it's children (babies and toddlers) screaming. You do NOT KNOW how annoying it is for a kid that for some reason WILL NOT STOP SCREAMING.

Yes I do. The people who used to live behind this troper's house had a dog that barked all the time. We wished they'd move away. They did - and were replaced by people with about ''three kids who scream nonstop from sun-up to sun-down.'' *headwall* (Also, this troper's cousin often leaves her dog with her. Said dog has not been trained well and barks repeatedly, all day long. Another annoying sound is stuff being scraped against styrofoam.)

Every cat I have ever lived with ''experimented'' to figure out the most irritating possible yowl it was capable of producing, and then used this yowl to indicate emergencies ranging from "My food dish is empty" to "This door is closed, and I want it open" to "Hey, did you know I exist?"

Self Service checkouts in the supermarket. "Please place your items in the bagging area...Please ''place your items in the bagging area''". "Insert cash, or select other payment type. ''Insert cash, or select other payment type.''" there's always this slightly different emphasis when it (needlessly) repeats itself, that makes it sound patronising enough to be really annoying, yet so subtle one can't be sure it's just a product of the imagination.

'Item has been removed from the bagging area. Item has been removed from the bagging area.' Now, I'm usually quite a chill person but hearing that, especially when the item has just changed position in the bag, is enough to make me start gesturing at the machine like it's a person, and start kicking stuff.

This troper '''will not''' use the self-service checkouts. Full stop. Doesn't matter how long the queue at the normal checkouts is; I just don't want to put myself through five minutes of that damned voice.

Art chalk. Just ''thinking'' about it makes my hair stand on end.

Snoring. Thankfully I don't do that, or I'd be a hypocrite for bringing that up.

Do not smother your roommate with a pillow, Do not smother your roommate with a pillow, Do ''not'' smother your roommate with a pillow...

This troper has done some rather unfortunate things in the quest to get the person snoring to stop. Including throwing a blanket over their face, punching them, pulling them out of bed...yeah. Snoring and I don't mix.

''This''. My dad and younger brother both snore, and it's especially annoying since Dad likes falling asleep on the couch and I have to share a room with my brother... so much precious sleep lost over the years...

My dad also like sleeping on the couch. Which wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have really good hearing. As a result, come 10:00 I have to hear his LOUD FUCKING SNORING ALL FUCKING NIGHT. And what's worse, if I'm watching something and turn the volume up because I can't hear over the snoring, he somehow snores '''LOUDER'''. At times I get to the point that I end up punching the wall hoping it'll make him shut up for a few minutes so I can sleep (just like with the TV, he ends up snoring louder than the sound of me punching the wall).

Note: Asperger's syndrome + Sound don't mix. Dogs. People screaming. Telephones. Alarms. People talking. Dogs. DOOOOOOOOOGS.

Fellow Aspie here, seconding you on the people screaming one HARD. In fact, most high-pitched sounds (and high-pitched speaking voices - both sexes) have the tendency to just fuck me off. As does the sound of people smacking while eating or chewing with their mouths open. SHUT YOUR GODDAMN MOUTHS!! Ironically, this troper likes listening to metal. Read into that what you will.

For this troper, the sound of a felt tip marker, especially the cheap ones, being dug into paper really makes me skin crawl, literally. I can always feel the hair on my arms go up... I hated colouring when in Kindergarten.

Nothing makes me want to go to the zoo with a chainsaw and punish innocent animals more than a barking dog. (Especially my roomate's, who likes to do it early in the morning for 30 minutes straight while his master just sits there, glassy-eyed, and counts his fucking Pokémon cards.)

For this troper, it's the sound her best friend makes when she sighs (in the kind of 'not really interested in the topic at hand' kind of way). It's just... she already has the weird soft/low/shrill (if that's even possible) kind of voice, and when she ''sighs''... I want to claw my ears out. Like, when ''normal'' people sigh in that way, it's short and has a softer quality to the sound, but when ''she'' does it, it's long, starts soft, heightens in pitch through the middle while ''still remaining somewhat soft'' and then lowers again until it ends. And she does it ''a lot'', so one of us is going to have to change something before I go berserk and knife her in the throat. And I mean that in the nicest way possible.

People badly attempting accents which aren't their own. Fake British accents in particular.

The sound of people grinding their teeth. I had to sit next to someone who was constantly grinding his teeth habitually for two hours non-stop while I was trying to focus on my college assignment. I didn't say anything because I didn't want to be rude. I could almost feel my blood pressure slowly rising.

And now said colleague is grinding his teeth and making a weird snorting noise as well. HELP. ME. PLEASE. DFGFGSFSGFSGFSDGFDGFSGFH.

For this troper, it's the sound of her twin sister crying. And before you say 'awww', it's not because it makes me sad. I find it irritating and very grating.

For this troper, hard drives and CPU fans. Also, he works in a lab with lots of large workstations which are noisy enough.

The sound of a fork scraping across the plate just makes me want to ''scream''.

This troper has so many due to his Asperger's Syndrome he'll make a list:

Cannot stand static-esque buzzing, and my guitar amplifier's buzzing when in overdrive mode doesn't help.

Old fashioned "ring a ding a ding!" style phones.

That damned mosquito ringtone, yeah I know you don't want your teachers hearing your cell phones, but for my sake, TURN IT ON VIBRATE AND SHUT THAT DEVILDAMNED NOISE OFF!

The sound of my ears ringing. Not to mention loss of hearing is a PrimalFear of mine, so that's especially a big one.

People smacking. Hate to sound like a douche, but it's annoying no matter what.

Ovens and such beeping.

Dogs Whining. I love mine to death but that drives me crazy.

This troper has a few:

Senseless screaming; especially when the person is over the age of 8. I was attending the graduation ceremony of one of my cousins, when the girl sitting right behind me (No younger than 15) screamed at the top of her lungs after one of her friends went up to get their diploma. After that, I moved to a seat much further away from her should she decide to do that again

Whiny children. If I where to ever find myself trapped in a place filled with whiny kids, with no possible escape in sight, I'd attempt to find a gun and shoot myself in the head, in hopes that either (A) I die or (B) 3}} it summons my Persona (More likely, the former would happen, but the latter would be pretty badass; regardless of wither my Persona could help me escape or not)

That song from the ad for {{Bayonetta}}. Sure, the game looks awesome, but I hated hearing that song practically every 5 minutes when looking around my local Gamestop around the time that game came out. It was to the point that I joked with the manager up there that if I had $1 for every time I heard that song while I was in there, I'd have enough to buy a copy of Bayonetta and still have money left to buy NewSuperMarioBrosWii

One that, unfortunately, comes with my job (Which, for the record, is cleaning equipment at the local hospital) is the sound of someone lazily dragging a bedside commode across the floor to the cleaning room. To me, the sound of the rubber feet on one of those dragging across the tile floors is like nails to a chalkboard.

I find myself ''incredibly'' annoyed by two of my classmates when they start singing in low voices in the middle of class. Yes, they're good singers, but first, the girl's voice more often than not sounds ''way'' too high-pitched and as though she was breathing through her nose; second, she mispronounces "th" a ''lot''. I hate this situation so much that I have ended up excusing myself from the class and finishing my work at the stairwell more than once.

Coughing. Not just for others, but for ''yourself'' too, especially if it's uncontrollable.

While playing ''{{Mushihime-sama}} Futari'': "EHHHHHHHHHHH!" / "IMA DA, HIROW!" Not really the sound itself so much as when throwing a bomb in ''Black Label'', which carries a massive counter penalty.

The buzz of fluorescent lightbulbs. I don't care if I'm killing Mother Earth a little bit by using incandescent bulbs, I'd rather maintain my sanity.

They used to sell anime themed alarm clocks at the mall. The Goku one is by far the most obnoxious, although the ''SailorMoon'' has her theme sped up and a chirpy "GOOD MORNING--" before it replays the theme. It gets louder the longer you leave it on. Here's a clip of it.

The scrape of a metal fork across a ceramic plate. The sound of someone hocking a loogie. Or ''preparing'' to hock a loogie by sniffing all that nasal-mucus back into their throat. The sound of a bluescreen on a TV, when it's on but no program is because it's switched to the channel for video-games. Navi.

The sound that is made when anyone scratches something that is like those holographic agendas, or even live violins. Got a shiver thinking about it.

This is why my (now deceased) maternal grandmother couldn't stand SpongebobSquarepants. Namely, Spongebob's laugh grated on her horribly. This Troper could (and still can) do a rather good impression of it, but refrained from doing so in order to not give gramma a reason to use The Look.

When I'm in class, and when people chew, or worse, crack their gum. They aren't supposed to have it in class anyway. The teachers do nothing at all.

EVERY. SINGLE. SOUND. THAT. IS. MADE. Seriously anytime a sound is made I just want to brutally ''murder'' someone!

On this very site, the f#&king adbot's "Everybody in Love" banner. Which "helpfully" offers a music sample upon mouse-over - which means every time I have carefully maneuver my mouse around the goddamned thing or be blasted with crappy music. Congrats, JIS or whatever that emblem is supposed to say. You've single-handedly become the most annoying group I know, and I've never even heard of you before.

One of the worst things about a morning class is the fact that some environmental factor or another (cold, pollen, heat-to-cold, etc.) causes half the class to sniff up snot. You ever try to take a test when surrounded by people doing that? *sniff* *sniff* *sniff* ..."BLOW YOUR NOSE, DAMMIT!!!" That I didn't bust out with this is indicative of very strong self-control.

Also, people texting. Those little key-clicks...''rrrggghh!'' What could '''''possibly''''' be ''so'' important at 8 in the frickin' ''morning?!''

Or that BEEP-BEEP-BEEP-BEEP ringtone everyone loves for when they get a text. I'd rather not have a phone than listen to that.

There are two sounds that will drive me insane more than anything else ever: rubbing two pieces of styrofoam together, and writing with a mechanical pencil to the point where the sound of the lead dragged across the paper is VERY audible (for me). Both not only give me goosebumps, but they also piss me off much faster than any other sound I've heard.

Oh God, how should this troper begin?

The meowing/yowling cats make when they are in heat. I either want to shoot them or leave the door open so they can do as they please and shut the hell up.

Clarinet squeaks. I understand that you're going to squeak eventually, but when it's one squeak after another, either check your reed or learn how to fucking play your instrument! You're in high school already.

There is this girl in my health class that I just want to punch sometimes. She's nice, a bit too random, but nice. But dear God, when she laughs, it's this "Beavis and Butthead" laugh that echoes in the room. I find it ironic that we have the same birthday.

A guy in my English class used to bring his GameBoyAdvance SP, and he would turn it on and shut it off numerous times during the middle of a test. The "DING!" that was heard almost made me dent the desk.

Not necessarily a sound, but it drives me raving mad when someone is assigned (or they choose) to read a short story in English and they mispronounce some words as though they were in a different language. People, how hard is it to say "immortality," "mere," and "apprehension?" Also, these people don't have the slightest idea on how to read properly. They read sentences as though the periods didn't exist, read dialogue as though it was just another sentence, and read sentences with a tone that suggests they trailed off. It gets so grating that I stop following along, block them out, and read silently to myself. If I don't, their errors will make me miss the whole point of the paragraph.

My dogs barking in the middle of the night or barking for no reason.

Among others, this troper hates a sound which is made when someone talks while eating a banana. (No not that thing!)

This troper has a few:

WOW! THAT'S A LOW PRICE!

Anything by Lady Gaga. Even worse if my friends are singing ALONG...

Spongebob's voice in the newer episodes.

ANYTHING Kristen Wiig does on SNL. ESPECIALLY the "Just Kidding" lady...

Little kids that think they're "cool" or "funny". My mom teaches third grade, and I spend some time in her room before leaving for class. Oh, if only it were legal to smack some kids...

My dad when giving instructions, especially on things I've done a million times BEFORE! Learning how to drive was HELL...

My dad's singing. He can only ever remember the chorus, and he sings the same chorus all day. The worst part? He does it ON PURPOSE. Mom's singing isn't much better, but at least she doesn't purposefully annoy me with it.

On my list of annoying sounds:

The telephone. Not only do I hate it for the noise it makes, but also for what I'll have to do if I end up being the one who has to answer the bloody thing.

Those horrid yappy dogs.

Babies. Yeah, I understand the need for reproduction, but why do they have to make such a horrid noise?

High-pitched voice + American accent = this trope. Doubly awful if the recording was made in an environment with a lot of short-delayed echo.

The visual analogue of this trope would have to be the flickering from fluorescent tubes which need replacing or CRT screens with the refresh rate set too low. Or strobe lights.

This troper HATES

Styrofoam. Oh God where to begin, just thinking about it makes me flinch.

I hate that sound CRT's make when on the input channel.

Extreme bass I hate with a passion, but my brother loves to put that on his 5.1 in our basement.

Children screaming and yelling.

That squeaking sound shoes make when you turn real fast.

Dogs barking. My neighbor has a collie named Duke who barks and chases everything ALL THE DAMN TIME!!! It REALLY doesn't help since most of my other neighbors have dogs, too.

A particular American accent. I don't know which part of America it's from, but it makes every muscle in my body tense with pure irritation. Especially when people who have said accent say 'Mirror'. It comes out 'Meeer'. 'MEEER'. Gah.

Also, from my own fair, green country- the Sussex accent, the Glaswegian accent, and my own Norwich accent. (Norwich accent is like the nasal drawn out Norfolk accent except the vowels are a lot shorter and barely anyone pronounces their consonants. 'Alrigh'? Oim appy ta see ya.' Urrgh)

Crickets. At night. When you are trying to sleep.

Hey there, guy in front of me at the IronMaiden concert. ''STOP BLOODY WHISTLING WHILE BRUCE IS TALKING!''

This troper hates girls screaming - particularly when it's as high and ear-perforating possible. And like anyone not born in Africa, the vuvuzela - which he knew a year before TheWorldCup, as the 2009 Confederations Cup was also in South Africa and those annoying horns were in every game.

There's nothing else to do...

A program in frequent use at work plays a standard sound to signal that it's ready for a new task. My old modem at home used the same sound to indicate a lost connection.

Gagging. Not that I don't feel sorry for the victim, but it's sickening.

Music played in stores. I don't mind if I can block it out with my earphones (which is usually the case at the local supermarket) or if the music isn't annoying, but being in a shop while crap music is being *blasted* at near-maximum volume so that you can hear it even outside is my idea of hell. I'm looking at you, JB Hi-Fi. (I don't live in Australia, but there's a few in Auckland, New Zealand).

Go to London and take the subway, you WILL hear "Mind the gap" ad nauseum. It seems to have undergone MemeticMutation, as I've seen souvenir magnets in the shape and color of the subway logo, reading Underground, Mind The Gap and Fuck the Gap.

Music being played on cell phones. My god, it sounds like it's being put through a megaphone backwards. Relatedly, when I can hear other people's headphones, and when people leave speakerphone turned on. Less relatedly, the "whimpering" sound dogs make when they think you should pet them and a TV left on in another room.

Every time I watch CartoonNetwork... "WHAT TIME IS IT?! ADVENTURE TIME!" Ok, look. I'm glad a show on CN is getting good advertising, but this happens EVERY. SINGLE. COMMERCIAL. BREAK. Of course, it doesn't help that I don't like the show, either {From what I hear, it's kind of popular.)

Ditto screaming kids (be the parent, ''shut them the FUCK UP'', and '''TELL THEM NO!!!'''), smacking (I know people say it makes food taste better, but I work with a woman who smacks so loud and so much '''''I''''' can damn near taste it!) and *sniff-exhale* *{{beat}}* *sniff-exhale* *{{beat}}* *sniff-exhale* *{{beat}}* *sniff-exhale* *{{beat}}* (sniff like you mean it or blow your damn nose!).

Babies/children screaming, dogs barking(I love mine, but his breed had a bark that carries bred into it, and considering we live on a fairly busy street with a motorcycle-riding neighbor, he barks a LOT), but most of all, my teeth accidentally grinding together. I can't quite do it on purpose, but when it happens I always cringe. It doesn't help that it also feels really, really upsetting to me for some reason.

The two smaller dogs at my house barking. They have really loud barks despite being so small, and we've learned not to ring the doorbell. Except my dad, who does it to make them bark on purpose. I've actually screamed "SHUT UP!" at them more than once, especially when the doorbell is rung consecutively.

Babies and little kids screaming, whining and crying. At Target. On vacation. In a restaurant. In the mall. In a van (long story). '''FUCKING EVERYWHERE.''' And this troper wonders why she's probably the only person on earth who doesn't find babies the cutest, sweetest thing ever. *sigh*

''(same troper as above)'' This troper would also like to speak for her best friend, who isn't a troper, but finds the sound of her little sister's voice very annoying.

''(same troper as above)'' At my school, when you get to the locker hallway to pick up your books for subject X, my annoyingly whiny former math teacher yells at everyone to pick up their books and go ("Come on, people, pick up your books and get to homeroom! Hurry up, let's go!") Hey, it's not ''my'' fault my bus driver's always late.

My roommate's voice. Even worse is her {{Angrish}}.

Before I joined Tvtropes yesterday, my disk drive broke. It now whirs the motor futily as I write this page. My mother wont let me, but I beieve the solution is PercussiveMaintenance with a ball-peen hammer or suitably large rock.

Paris actually uses this as an incentive to keep your Navigo transit pass in order. When you put it on the scanner and it's expired, it makes an ''incredibly'' grating buzz.

Burping. I can't be the only one who finds the very sound of a burp to be absolute NauseaFuel, can I?

You're not alone. And I hate how a boy in my class always tries to press out the loudest and most disgusting burps he can. Really, it's not cool.

Pretty much anything higher than an 8 on MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness. (Although most of the stuff under 11, while still unlistenable, is hilarious only because of how it parodies (I hope!) the sort of stuff that just ''really needs'' to be made fun of.)

The error message sound on computers.

For me it's Auto-Tune. I am sure there are other annoying sounds, but Auto-Tune is the one that sticks out right now. I can NOT understand why people seem to love it.

"We'll be right back" "GO COMPARE!!!" I. WANT. TO. KILL. THAT. GUY

One of the very few episodes of ''SouthPark'' that I refuse to watch ever again is "Lice Capades". Not because it wasn't a good story (it was actually pretty clever) or anything particularly inappropriate occurred, but it is unwatchable on sole virtue of ''the lead louse's voice.'' "I have to try and SAVE MAH BEH BEH! KEL-LAAAHHHHHHHH!!" It made me loathe him far and away above any other ''SouthPark'' character, regular or one-shot, that I can think of at this time. Throughout that episode I silently begged the writers to kill him so I wouldn't have to hear his voice anymore. didn't.

BWEWOP BWEWOP BWEWOP BWOOOO! Tropers/{{M0therBrain}} thinks this is the most annoying sound in the history of video gaming.

Any time this San Francisco Bay Area troper takes the BART. I don't know if it's just me having only ridden three times in my life, but holy hell, when my train is in tunnels going full speed, IT IS SCREECHY AS FUCK. It manages to drown out my iPod at 50-60% volume.

For this troper and his mother, its this Geico commercial: #QUOTE#Commerical Guy: Can Geico really save you on car insurance? Did the little piggy go 'whee, whee, whee' all the way home?''(Cut to piggy riding home.)'' #QUOTE#Piggy: Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! #QUOTE#Troper And Mother: '''Change the ''damn'' chanel!'''

My Dad is a seriously loud eater because he takes such large mouthfuls. If the sound wasn't annoying enough to put me off my food, then the food not always fitting surely must be.

This troper's examples:

Digital alarm clocks. I can deal with the analog kind that ring, but the digital ones? BerserkButton! There are two kinds in particular that get to me:

The "buzzer" that sounds like an angry insect: #QUOTE# EEEEGHH! EEEEGHH! EEEEGHH! EEEEGHH!

This kind has actually caused me to have a nightmare, in which I destroyed most of the furniture in my room with my bare hands trying to find the source of the noise, only to wake up and find out it was the alarm clock going off in real life.

The "beeper," which keeps getting more and more urgent as if it's going to explode if you don't hit the snooze button: #QUOTE# Beep, Beep. Beep, Beep. Beep, Beep. #QUOTE# ''B-B-B-Beep! B-B-B-Beep! B-B-B-Beep!'' #QUOTE# '''BEE-BEE-BEE-BEE-BEE-BEE-BEE-BEE-BEE-BEE-BEEP!!!'''

Dude, I know! I friggin hate those! Unfortunately, I have one right now, because my cell doesn't work. I used to have one of the old-fashioned ones that had one long continuous ring until you pushed the button. One day, my sister decided to wake me up by putting it ''directly in my ear''. As soon as she did, though, I threw it across the room so hard that it broke into pieces when it hit the wall. Whose bed did it land on? Hers. And who had to clean it up? ''Still'' her. Needless to say, no one wakes me up anymore.

I think I know which one you mean. My dad has one of these. Luckily, we sleep on different floors so I won't hear that fucking sound.

The sound of people playing their car stereos with ''way'' too much bass. It's not even the bass itself, but the fact that every part of their hood and trunk are rattling and vibrating with that '''"BWAAAANG! BWAAAAANNNGG!"''' noise.

People whose voices get increasingly more shrill and higher-pitched as they get angrier. I'm not even going to ''start'' caring about what's upsetting you until you stop ''shrieking at the top of your lungs.''

This troper has a few, which he wishes would be silenced forever:

His cat has a tendency to play with those little springy doorstops, which UNFORTUNATELY are attached to the damn door!

His cat YOWLING for him!

The creaking sounds made on his desk table whenever his cat (noticing a pattern?) jumps on them!

Phone ringing. God, just let me stay busy, I don't give a frick on what you telemarketers want!

'''SHINSEI ROOOOOOOMMAAAAA''' I don't care about the rest of it, the dub is good just for taking care of this.

Babies crying or screaming. It makes me want to tear my ears off. I have really good ears, so all sound can be this if it's loud.

Every. Single. Time his little brother keeps calling him.

You know that tone little kids use when they're annoyed with someone? It's most often applied to the phrase "Stop IIIIIIIIIIT" but it can also be used for other words like "DOOOOOOOON'T" or "Leave me ALOOOOOOONE"

My mum's mobile phone, which she vehemntly refuses to put on silent. I'm listening to it right now as I type.

If England underperforming at the 2010 FIFAWorldCup wasn't bad enough, the vuvuzelas made it much, ''much'' worse.

Where to start... silverware scraping against plates; animal noises in general; the phone; the doorbell; people screaming; high pitched voices; loud breathing, eating, yawning, etc.; and children. Just children. Their pitch of their voices, the incessant screaming for NO REASON (mommy not getting you candy is NOT A REASON), the butchering of the English language, the tone people adopt when talking to them, the drawn out words such as "stooooooooop it" or leave me alooooooooooooooooooooone". And also: people reading in class and mispronouncing words, ignoring periods and commas, etc.

And it all gets worse the more annoyed I get.

My five year old brother's squeaky noise he makes when he is hyper.

Whispering in a quiet room. It drove me nuts during high school when we had to read in silence and nearby peers whould whisper back and forth to each other. The best thing I could to from lashing out at them is to clog my ears with my fingers and ready quietly to myself but not in the same tone as the whisperers.

For This Troper, it's her old school's fire alarm. Imagine the sound of beautiful tropical birds...screeching. Incredibly loudly and shrilly, RIGHT IN YOUR EAR. Also, there's this bird that lives in my neighborhood. It makes a sound like "HOOO hooo...hooo..." that gets really irritating when you're trying to sleep.

I believe the bird you're talking about is a Mourning Dove. But usually they make that noise during the morning or evening, not at night...

It probably is, seeing as I go to sleep rather early due to my job requiring me to wake up at around 5.

This troper's little brother used to click his tongue repeatedly or hum loudly, and he seemed to know it annoyed her, worst of all.

This Troper personal most annoying noise is the USB insert/removal tone. It's a tad annoying on it's own, because, yes I know when I have removed or inserted a USB stick or device, but my laptop has a fault where every THREE SECONDS it will insist on making the noise for no appreciable reason. And I can't switch it off!

Humming. Just...humming. I don't care if it's actually in the proper key, I can't stand it. One of my old roommates loved to hum, and if we were both making food in the kitchen it was all I could do not to bash her head repeatedly into the counter to make her stop. Now, I did actually like this roommate--I just hate humming ''that damn much''. I never did ask her to stop, because I didn't want to be that insanely petty, but it drove me nuts.

Just about ''everything'' above a certain pitch or volume, for me. People that talk loudly, whistle random off-key notes, have their radio on too loud, yell at pedestrians for no reason, beep their horn at random pedestrians for no reason (car horns in general (cars in general)), phones, that high-pitched noise CRT [=TVs=] and monitors sometimes make that almost no one seems to hear, screaming kids, obnoxious adults, that noise a fork makes when it scrapes your plate...

This Troper has a lot, likely because of her Aspergers. List:

Wiping off chalk from a blackboard with your hand. I heard this all the time in school when the sponge was dry and the teachers didn't feel like wetting it again... It was a slightly grating, "sandy" sounding, torture for my ears, and I cringed whenever they did that. Luckily, my high school uses an electronic blackboard and sponge.

Also, generic alarm clock beeps. I can't stand them at all, that's why I prefer music or something.

All high-pitched noises, especially screaming. At middle school, some people found this out and though it was really funny to shriek out high and shrill screams whenever they were around me or INTO MY EARS because of this. Needless to say, it became sort of a BerserkButton quickly.

I've grown to hate the sound of the phone having low battery. A horrible bleeping sound.

FORKS/KNIVES SCRAPING AGAINST THE PLATE. Ugh.

Screaming babies on buses/trains/EVERYWHERE is pretty much a given. Especially when the parents don't try doing anything to stop them.

Little kid laughter and yelling in the morning(weekends and vacations mostly). I want to sleep as long as possible, and after that just slack off in bed in the morning, dammit.

The mosquito ringtone. If I hear that fucking ringtone one more time...

Pretty much ANY internet advertisements with sounds that starts by itself and you have to go and turn the sound off yourself. (Deviantart, for example, had a bunch of these a while ago, luckily they seem to have disappeared now.) Although the sound/music in itself might not be too annoying by itself, it will be after I heard it 100 times.

Now there's one at Neopets that sometimes plays before you can play a flash game, and it's been there for some months now. You have to either wait until it's done(and you can't even turn off the sound) or refresh the page to get it away

The sound of a recorder. gaaaaaah

What do you have against the Second Doctor?

Not a sound, but when someone sings loudly to a song they don't know, and just make up random gibberish. Either learn the words or just hum that part or something.

The beeping sound that washing machines and dishwashers send out when they are done. High-pitched, annoying beeps.

The standard Nokia tune, including remixes.

A few ones for me:

The Windows 7 start-up chime. Specially when, during a class, 5 or 6 people turn their laptops on.

The beeping sound that [=UPSes=] make.

The sound of clicking relays.

Hard drives. Just... hard drives. One of the reasons why I wait for [=SSDs=] to become cheaper.

For me, those [=SmileyCentral=] ads that activate a voice clip when you roll over them. Every time I hear that fscking "''OH MY GAWD! '''NO WAY!'''''", I want to fly over to where whoever recorded that line lives and kick him in the nuts.

SECONDED. From the day I first saw that advertisement, I hated it. (Can't remember having seen in in the past years, though... here's to hoping they've just stopped using it.)

This troper can't stand the sound of someone rubbing their hands together (as in, to try to get them warmed up). I have no idea why, but even ''thinking'' about that sound causes me to get shivers down my back, and to cringe like I just heard fingernails on a chalkboard. Also, when someone is chewing with their mouth open. And forks scraping against plates.

In this tropers Art and History classes at school, there are these two girls who in unison have this weird clucking-high pitched screechy laugh which every time I hear it makes me want to turn around and scream at them to shut up. Also, This tropers Maths class all find it hilarious to oink like pigs in unison, especially this one particular boy who in addition to the oinking likes to make really loud random wailing noises at random intervals for no particular reason. Another friend of mine also likes to make suggestive moaning noises all the time for some reason which I have politely asked him to stop doing several times. Lastly, listening to Radio 1 in Textiles class with the constant "WEEEEEEEEY!" and deliberately bad singing along to popular songs.

I find Sarah Palin's voice to be incredibly grating.

Can I put down an entry for "Most Annoying Thing Ever To Appear On My Laptop Screen" instead? It's those adverts for ''One Born Every Minute.'' They make me sick. Helloooooo, I do '''NOT''' like having to see pictures of screaming women in labor every time I open a new window. Where the fuck did they get the idea that pictures of screaming women in labor would make people want to see the stupid show?!?

This troper still hasn't fully emptied this trope from his system. The most annoying sound from his voice? His '''voice.'''

Since high school marching band, this troper has absolutely LOATHED "Land of 1,000 Dances." EVERY OTHER SONG WAS THAT ONE, all because a few really obnoxious players in the mellophone section kept wanting our director to choose it.

For this troper: the sound of stinkbugs. They fly around her ceiling fan light making this ridiculous buzzing sound, banging their heads against the lights, then bounce off the walls and land. Thankfully, most of them aren't smart enough to land somewhere where I can get them with a tissue and throw them away. But those that are force me to go through several repetitions of the above before I can get rid of them

Despite being deaf in my left ear, this troper has a VERY sinsitive right ear. So high-pitched beeping, alarms, loud repetitive sounds, and '''''screaming''''' (unless it's a well-done MetalScream) are fucking unbearable to listen to.

"Ear rape" videos on Youtube are of course ''meant'' to be this, and if you come across one unexpected while, say, having full volume and speakers... it sounds kind of like being anally raped with a rusty chainsaw. Only that it's in the ears.

This troper's brother does NOT KNOW HOW TO DRINK NORMALLY. It's disgusting. He gulps and you can hear it going down. He also chews his food this way, and he snorts ALL THE TIME and clears his throat, and kind of rattles in the back of his mouth when he breathes. She gets so disgusted and annoyed that it's hard to eat in the same room with him. He hums constantly as well, with no direction. All of this just make this troper want to rip his throat out so he can STOP CLEARING IT.

EVERYWHERE at my school: "GIT SUM!"

Anyone that plays Neopets at the moment, or has played it during the last few months, will know what I'm talking about when I say "that fucking Spongebob advertisement", which goes under the "advertisements with sound" category. "NOW AT THE NICK ARCADE, WHERE SHARKY TWO-TIMES IS TRYING TO TAKE OVER BIKINI BOTTOM!" I'm starting up a bunch of games, then at a random time BAM, advertisement that has to play before I play the game! And you usually have to refresh one or two times to make it go away when it's there.

The sound my mother's windshield wipers make. I don't know why. It's only her car, too.

For this tropette it's the sound of JustinBieber singing. That, hearing girls {{squee}} over him, and my sister playing Fire Burnin' over and over and over and over and over and over and over...

I personally find the sound of people chewing egregiously fucking annoying. Especially if they're gaping at your computer's screen over your shoulder. For all I know, though, my chewing is fucking annoying too and I'm just deaf to it.

There was something about the alarm from an old alarm clock I used once that ''really'' got to me. And then, there was an episode of ''Stand Alone Complex'' where a guy with a cyberbrain was searching for something in a book, and every time he ''didn't'' find it, ''the exact same sound from my alarm clock played''. This went on for about a full minute, after which I got rid of my alarm clock and stopped watching SAC.

My current annoyance is that Duck Sauce / BarbraStreisand song, a "song" that manages to top Justin Bieber in terms of annoyingness. Sure, I could just not listen to it... that is, unless a group in our class had to use it for the video projects they made... TWICE. (Actually, the second time is now.) Of course, this means they have to play it OVER AND OVER, just to see what the film's like... plus even MORE playing when showing it to others. It sticks in your head, too... and adding all this together just makes me want to choke puppies.

Anyone who owns a cat accustomed to being fed in the morning knows what happens whenever you try to sleep in. Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow! Meow! Meow! ''Meow! Meow! Meow!''

I agree with the people who mentioned screaming (babies, rock stars, etc.), barking dogs, lip-smacking, snot-snuffling, vomiting...and probably some others I forgot. My little sister ''chews liquids'', and the sound she makes...well, I had to ask her to leave my room when she was drinking milk. It sounds like a dog drinking (which, incidentally, is another sound I can't stand). The sound of turds dropping into the toilet also grosses me out...and rap. They call that stuff MUSIC?! I have yet to hear any rap that doesn't want to make me run out of the building. Interestingly, this trope has been more or less averted for me in video games; Baby Mario's crying in Yoshi's Island, the bad voice acting in Mega Man 8, and even BURN! BURN! BURN TO THE GROUND! don't really bother me all that much. I can laugh at the latter two besides.

This Troper wants to ''murder every baby'' because of their constant wailing. I swear, the sound of a baby crying is playing on repeat in the elevators of my personal hell. Young kids are no better on the ears, but babies are worse because you ''can't shut them up.'' I even made a ''swear to chastity,'' and the never ending whining of a baby is a huge part of that.

Seconded.

Every once in a while, my mom forgets to turn off her alarm clock. Her room is right next to mine, with pretty terrible walls, and she gets up far earlier than me. It emits a high-pitched, incredibly irritating beep ''constantly'' and will not stop, no matter how long it's gone on, until it's been turned off.

As much as it is a TruthInTelevision, this troper hates his parents' alarm clock. It makes a beeping sound constantly and it drones on and on every second. Another sound that's annoying to this troper is the sound of pencils (or pens) tapping.

This troper's high school has a special event every year which you are supposed to raise money for. The thing is, we weren't doing as much work as we should have. How did the staff respond? Changing the bells. The first time, they made this incredibly irritating noise that sounded like static, except way more irritating. It was LOUD too. Then they saw everybody was turning down their room volumes from this, so they went with something that the teachers wouldn't bother turning down their volumes for - the Friday song. The first time, they only played the intro to it. So we didn't think it would be too bad. We were wrong. The next passing period, they played the ''whole. Stinking. Song.'' And they did it the following passing period too. It was making everybody less tempted to raise money and more tempted to punch somebody.

"Sometimes life can get in the way of your education. Sometimes school can get in the way of your life." Dammit [=YouTube,=] I just want to watch my stupid video! Is that too much to ask, that you don't play the stupid online university ad every single time I feel like listening to my favorite Dragonforce song?!

Every musician ever, repeat after me: Feedback is not a musical instrument!

Also, so much good music has been ruined with the vocals either wholly or partially sounding like the vocalist is possessed by ''demons''.

This troper was at a camp once. We were all divided into cabins with different animal names to represent each, and we were the coyotes. Every cabin had to come up with a chant, and ours was, "C-O-Y-O-T-E-S, coyotes are the best!" followed by a howl. It very quickly got on the nerves of the other cabins due to how often we did it. We would always try to chant when we passed a cabin, who would try to chant louder than us but fail. It got to the point to where I was hearing people mock our chant.

The voices of Vocaloids. They're a computer, for goodness sakes!

Children that cry and beg. There's nothing worse than browsing the shelves of a Gamestop (don't judge me,) and listening to a 10 year old kid cry to their moms because she won't buy them Mortal Kombat. Whats worse is that the parents never tell their kids to stop. If it was my kid I'd have smacked them so hard their eyes would switch places. But I also hate kids in general.

The door alarms in the Bella Guerin Hall of Residence at the University of Ballarat, which go off if the door is held open too long. It's especially painful when the person holding the door open is having a conversation and doesn't even react to the alarm. On one recent occasion this prompted a loud and firm "Get Out of the Doorway!" from me after a few seconds of it.

The sound of people kissing. It makes this troper physically sick and has made her throw up on occasion. I can't tell my best friends who are all lovey-dovey this though. I just have to sit there and pretend I'm not feel like barfing all over the table.

The sound that squeaky toys make. This troper felt very very unnerved after she got a puppy in 4th Grade who chewed those things loudly ''and'' obnoxiously...

You know those banner ads that have sound when you scroll over them? I keep encountering one that's ''supposed'' to do that, but is much more annoying than the regular kind, because of what I assume is a peculiar bug: Instead of being silent until you mouse over, it starts playing this weird, muffled orchestral music as soon as the ad appears - the effect is sort of like what happens if you encode a song at the lowest possible bitrate. The music ''does'' become regular once you mouse over the ad, by the way. It crops up often enough to be annoying, and it doesn't help that the distorted version of the song is actually sort of creepy sounding.

This troper has Asperger's, so I definitely am sensitive to sounds. The two most awful for me?

Alarm clocks. I hate that BEEP BEEP BEEP noise. Partly because it's so annoying, partly because I hate getting up in the morning more than almost anything else. I tense up and feel like my day is going to suck.

Screaming babies/children. I work as a cashier in a grocery store, and every day I hear "MOM! MOM! I WANT THIS!" "No, you can't have it, put it back!" "BUT I WANT IT! NOOOOO! WAAAAAA!" Multiply that by 8 hours and you have an idea of my day.

My alarm clock. Having to listen to it EVERY. SINGLE. MORNING. Daaaaagh! Thank GAR for summer vacation.

Ripping burr. It causes this troper chills every time he hears it.

Also, the sound our extremely noisy coffee grinder make. That damn drilling.

This troper's brother has a drum set that he keeps in the living room. He sometimes just sits at it and absentmindedly beats on it with his sticks for ''hours''. No matter how many times you ask him to stop, he'll just keep on banging. It's awful.

At my uncle's house, there is a security system that informs you whenever a door is opened. For example, if the back door is open, a robotic-sounding voice says "Back door" every few seconds as long as it is open. However, sometimes it just ''keeps saying'' this even if the door is closed. It gets annoying hearing "Basement door" [pause] "Basement door" [repeat].

Edgy here. I work in a home office in the South so, of course, a number of my co-workers have Southern accents. Some of the ladies here speak in such a way, they pronounce the letter "S" with a loud but brief hiss. OH MY GOD! It's annoying!

'''SHUT UP!'''

''WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!''