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Too Much Noise

Posted by DFO

June 13, 2009 6 a.m. • 7 comments

Halo Kaiser, 3, blocks her ears with her hand and a teddy bear while being pulled along in her wagon as the siren from the Reliance Fire Company’s aerial platform blares while taking part in the Berwick Elks Pet and Toy Parade in Berwick, Pa., Thursday. (AP Photo/Bloomsburg Press Enterprise, Jimmy May)

Question: What noise bothers you most?

Seven comments on this post so far. Add yours!

Charlie on June 13 at 7:00 a.m.
Small children screaming at the top of their little lungs with the parents doing nothing!
Gregor_Samsa on June 13 at 7:22 a.m.
1. The shrieking of the damned as they slowly descend into a lake of fire in hell, the sulfur blasted shores lined with leathery winged demons laughing with the most unholy and derisive laughter, mocking the mindless and chilling cries of the cursed as they begin a horrifying eternity of constant pain and soul obliterating agony.

2. The insectile clacking and clattering of ten thousand robot cockroaches scattering in a great gleaming black horde out of ancient human warehouses, remnants of the pre-invasion archaelogy, nothing on their robot bug minds but the seeking and destruction of any living thing, a quest of unremitting futility as earth has for ten millenia been devoid of anything higher in the order than single celled protozoa.

3. Pretty much anything by Modest Mouse.
Liz on June 13 at 1:41 p.m.
the dentists drill.
fingers on a chalkboard
Cindy_H on June 13 at 3:22 p.m.
I used to think tantruming toddlers awful, but I’ve found teenage whining and tantrums to be immeasurably worse.
Kage_Mann on June 13 at 3:43 p.m.
I hate those lil’ ankle-biters, who yap all day.
EagleKeeper44 on June 13 at 4:19 p.m.
The sound tract from the TV Commercial for
the Show “Lion King”…

That noise could break down concrete walls
with no strain.
spokelooneh on June 13 at 7:54 p.m.
Jackhammers. Hate that sound.