Poll: Likely to switch off - mentally or physically?

[Mock Turtle]

When I was in my early 20's the group Duran Duran had a hit single that was played far too often on popular music stations. I would jump and spin the dial to get rid of it. My radio usually landed on the classical station. I ended up leaving it there eventually.

Best option too.

 

[Mock Turtle]

My auditory turn-offs are sounds intent on evoking chaos and cacophony (old Bruce Springsteen music, inside of any casino), expressed grandiosity (nearly all 'show tunes', wailing mourners and crying babies, etc.), deliberately manipulative sounds (unwanted sales pitches, movies that go real quit so you can't hear the dialogue, and then blast some sudden noise real loud to 'scare' the audience), and inarticulate sounds (songs and movies with mumbled and unclear dialogue, or dialogue so confusedly written or delivered that it's unintelligible. Public speaking of the same ilk.

Films played on TV that haven't the option of subtitles are my hate - when they just mumble so much!

 

[Estro Felino]

Me too, although it's the radio I usually find left on more often.

My boyfriend couldn't even stand the noise of the clock hands...lol
Omg...a nightmare...

 

[Heyo]

deliberately manipulative sounds (unwanted sales pitches

Yep. Totally forgot about those. My car radio is tuned to a station without ads and I have adblock on my computer so I got mostly rid of that.
In my youth I made use of the penetrating effect of ads. I had the radio on all night (they didn't have ads in the night). I woke up to the first ad 5 minutes before 7.

 

[Secret Chief]

The idea is ok.
Delivery isn't
It doesn't help that I have a deep
phobia re black men.

Metal, jazz, rap... there's so much I could annoy you with, Audie
Here's a couple of Mike Patton melodies to not click on!

 

[Secret Chief]

The only sound I detest more or less stopped today with the arrival of Biden.

 

[ChristineM]

Sounds alone that you cannot stand.
Loud bangs, example, although I don't hear them often now, cars backfiring. It takes me back to the Manchester bombing of 1996. I freeze and panic for a second.

Types of music that cause you to switch off.
Some sopranos attack on my eardrums, not all and only the female voice, it can have a burr that grates on my nerves

Personalities/accents that you cannot stand.
The Brummie accent makes me cringe, gropey Trump makes me shudder

 

[ChristineM]

Rap makes me frantic to get away from it.

Just for you

 

[Stevicus]

Yep. Totally forgot about those. My car radio is tuned to a station without ads and I have adblock on my computer so I got mostly rid of that.
In my youth I made use of the penetrating effect of ads. I had the radio on all night (they didn't have ads in the night). I woke up to the first ad 5 minutes before 7.

Reminds me of a time I fell asleep with the TV on. At some point in the wee hours of the morning when TV stations stack up the infomercials, there was some infomercial for a baldness cure. The sales pitch had somehow invaded my dreams, and I dreamt I was staring at myself in the bathroom mirror, with all my hair falling out rapidly. I was going bald before my eyes, and suddenly I felt an urgent need to buy this product.

Then I woke up thinking "what the heck?"

 

[Audie]

Just for you

Yes, it's a big mistake ever to reveal a weakness.

Luckily there's a ocean or two between
me and those whod plague me with
such grim and unnatural sounds.

 

[VoidCat]

I am autistic hypersensitive to sound. I also cant process a lot of sound at once. Not to mention trouble processing speech resorting to lip reading.

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

Generally, sounds that can really drive you crazy might well be the result of something called "misophonia." I've known a couple of people who find it almost impossible to deal with things like: whistling, people with the sniffles, etc.

I don't suffer from misophonia, so none of that.

However -- please believe me when I say that I am not a bigot, but one thing that I really do not like to hear is the sound of the language of the Philippines -- Tagalog. Too clipped, an absence of dphthongs and liquid vowels -- tomato potato lakota tamale -- and all spoken far too quickly. It just bugs me.

 

[Thief]

The idea of spoken word 'poetry' mixed with a hard beat, and some other audio accoutrement, is fine.

rap music?.....no thanks

channel hopping til I can't hear it

 

[Mock Turtle]

Personalities/accents that you cannot stand.
The Brummie accent makes me cringe, gropey Trump makes me shudder

Scouse for me, and some Essex accents (too much lobbed at us on TV), but I know I'm the one having the issue. Mostly it's the shouty types that I tend to mute - Mike Parry, Carole Malone (both often on Jeremy Vine, Ch.5), and Andy Peters, with his Win a Prize spiel. And all adverts because all too often they are SHOUTING at us (worst being TV ones). I probably wouldn't mute them all if they didn't do this - and the flashing, quick-changing images of course. Just too intrusive.