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| World's worst sound? Take baked beans, a bucket and Saturday night Ian Sample, science correspondent Wednesday January 24, 2007 The Guardian A year-long quest to identify the worst sound in the world ended yesterday with top honours going to the backdrop of market town Britain on a Saturday night: a person vomiting. The sound, recreated for acoustics experts by an actor with a bucket of diluted baked beans, won out over fingers being dragged down a blackboard, a dentist's drill and wailing babies in an online study that attracted 1.1m votes from around the world. Microphone feedback, crying babies and the scrapes and squeaks of a train on a track ranked second and joint third, with a cat howling and mobile phone ringtones coming joint 12th and snoring an unexpectedly low 26th. The study, set up by Trevor Cox, a professor of acoustic engineering at Salford University, sought opinions on 34 sounds at the website www.sound101.org in the hope of learning what makes certain noises so objectionable. "From a scientific perspective, we really don't understand why some sounds are so horrible, but our reactions are part of what makes us human. If, as engineers, we can learn what offends people then, in some cases, we may be able to engineer them out of existence or at least reduce their impact," he said. The survey revealed a stark gender divide, with women voting 25 of the noises as more repellent than did men. Of the sounds men ranked as more distressing two were variations on babies crying. "This may be because women play a role in protecting both themselves and their offspring from attack. It could be that females have become habituated to the sound of babies crying," Prof Cox said. The researchers expected sounds that evoke disgust to be near the top of the list, such as vomiting, coughing and spitting, eating an apple with the mouth open and a lengthy blast from a whoopee cushion. Revulsion to such sounds is partly governed by culture and partly an evolutionary legacy that helps us avoid picking up diseases. In general, horrible sounds became worse as people aged, but for some sounds the picture was more complex. The sound of eating an apple revolted people less as they aged. The sound of a dentist's drill ranked worst among the under-10s and those in their 40s to 50s. "These are the ages when you are most likely to experience the dentist's drill, so these people could well be more sensitive," said Prof Cox. Some scientists have tried to explain widespread shudders at nails being dragged down a blackboard as a historical reflex to the similar-sounding screech made when monkeys alert others to impending danger. But the sound ranked 16th, between sniffing and polystyrene being scrunched, suggesting the noise has less effect than expected. Top 10 1. Vomiting 2. Microphone feedback 3. Wailing babies 4. Train scraping on tracks 5. Squeaky seesaw 6. Poorly played violin 7. Whoopee cushion 8. Argument in a soap opera 9. Mains hum 10. Tasmanian devil |
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| Originally posted by jennypie |
^thats the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread. jenny wins.
Please JP or PC say what we are all thinking.
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| Originally posted by FunkyCrew woman you post with a speed of lightning! |
nails on chalkboard.
Top 10
1. grinding teeth
2. vomiting
3. nails on chalkboard or similar sound
uh..
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| Originally posted by FunkyCrew woman you post with a speed of lightning! |
tiesto mashup
mine are
1. styrofoam breaking
2. the sound of the dentist's machine
3. screeching tires
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| Originally posted by Cosmic Fur I'm almost certain that jenniepie is a bot unleashed on TA by Google that just crawls the web all day, and whose vocabulary is the dialogue found in Cum Guzzlers Vol 1-5. |
1. PEOPLE CHEWING ON ICE (OMG)
2. Wild animals that are in heat in the middle of the night (they make horrible noises that almost always make me think that a little kid got hit by a car and is JUST alive enough to scream)
3. The noise my keyboard makes when it does not let me type letters (you probably don't understand...)
4. Nails on the chalkboard
5. Mona and Dima "doing things" when I am in the next room
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| Originally posted by me@t k@tie 5. Mona and Dima "doing things" when I am in the next room |
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| Originally posted by spitty Top 10 nails on chalkboard or similar sound |
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| Originally posted by FunkyCrew |
i never understood the nails on the chalkboard thing...are you guys that sensitive or something? that sound doesn't bother me at all. in fact i used to do it in high school to piss people off and i was so suprised at how many people would freak.....freaks.
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| Originally posted by Adamo i never understood the nails on the chalkboard thing...are you guys that sensitive or something? that sound doesn't bother me at all. in fact i used to do it in high school to piss people off and i was so suprised at how many people would freak.....freaks. |
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| Originally posted by Adamo i never understood the nails on the chalkboard thing...are you guys that sensitive or something? that sound doesn't bother me at all. in fact i used to do it in high school to piss people off and i was so suprised at how many people would freak.....freaks. |
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| Originally posted by me@t k@tie 5. Mona and Dima "doing things" when I am in the next room |
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| Originally posted by Adamo i never understood the nails on the chalkboard thing...are you guys that sensitive or something? that sound doesn't bother me at all. in fact i used to do it in high school to piss people off and i was so suprised at how many people would freak.....freaks. |
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| Originally posted by Cosmic Fur You're just JELOS. |
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| Originally posted by Cosmic Fur *high fives* Me too man. You coming to the cottage? You bring the board, I'll bring the nails. |
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| Originally posted by me@t k@tie If I ever meet you, remind me that you are the guy I want to smack in the back of the head. |
how about the alarm on your radio alarm clock?
That is sooo annoying...makes me wanna throw the radio across the room
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| Originally posted by Cro_Addict how about the alarm on your radio alarm clock? That is sooo annoying...makes me wanna throw the radio across the room |
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