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Best and worst noises

T

theoldtrout

Overdrive!
Siemens have done a survey to establish the UK's favourite and least favourite sounds. Interesting results, I fully agree with both No 1's.

Britain's top 20 favourite sounds:

1. The glug of wine as it pours into a glass :)

2. Dawn chorus

3. A cat purring

4. Rain falling

5. Laughter

6. A stream flowing over rocks

7. An open fire

8. Waves crashing on the shore

9. Footsteps through fresh snow

10. Rain on a tent/caravan roof

11. The acceleration of a powerful car

12. Church bells in the distance

13. A cricket bat hitting a cricket ball

14. The wind passing through the leaves of a tree

15. Crowds chanting at a football match

16. Lawn mowers in the summer

17. Seagulls calling

18. The rustle of a feather duvet

19. Pebbles being thrown into water

20. The popping of a champagne cork


Britain's top 20 least favourite sounds:

1. Screaming children :eek:

2. The sound of nails on a chalk board

3. Car or house alarms

4. A dentist's drill

5. A yapping dog

6. Someone talking with their mouth full

7. Mobile ring tones

8. Alarm clocks

9. Someone's knife grinding on a plate

10. Someone grinding their teeth

11. Car horns in traffic

12. An unanswered phone

13. Dripping tap

14. Someone biting their nails

15. Someone blowing their nose

16. A squeaky door

17. People chewing gum

18. Screeching brakes

19. Someone learning the violin

20. A chair scraping on the floor
More information can be found at

www.siemens.co.uk/index.jsp?sdc_p=f...3&sdc_bcpath=1301568.s_0,&sdc_sid=20401681939
 
Favourites:

Jet engine at full thrust (especially if you can feel the vibration and smell the burnt avtur ;)), V8 and my kids laughing.

Hates:

Fireworks on any night other than 5th November, train wheel squealing on the tracks around bends, any rattles in my cars :Bloodymad

Helena's favourites:

Merlin engines and sailing boat halyards knocking against the aluminium mast.
 
Best: the hum of a single handed sailing dinghy when planing in a good strong breeze... :D

Worst: the wife saying "is that it" :(
 
Sounds I love.
My boat chopping through a gentle wave

Dogs growling while playing

The noise a Trout or Salmon makes taking your fly

The drumming of Snipe

Women Laughing

Welder Sizzling

Sounds I hate.
Fireworks.....period
Alarm clocks
Alex
 
Just noticed No16 on the favourites list is lawn mowers!
I assume they mean clackity-clackity hand-driven ones, not the incessant God-awful humming of hover mowers?
 
My Scouts when they're busy, interested and enjoying themselves or the sound of a big steam locomotive pulling smartly out of the station.

However, the all time greatest noise ever created is; A Rolls-Royce Merlin engine - it doesn't really matter which aeroplane it's in, but for preference a late mark Spitfire - flying low and very fast along the display line then pulling up into a barrel roll climb. The hairs all over your body stand up.

The worst noise is people using ipods or walkman, with the volume turned up so high I can hear it - or, metal being tortured to death, as in failing big or little ends.

Roger.
 
Best:

The sea
A 'Deltic' locomotive being made to work for it's living
Bacon sizzling in a pan

Worst:

A ringing telephone
A door banging to and fro in the wind
Pub Landlord shouting 'Last orders please':D

cheers, Tim
 
Roger Whittle said:
My Scouts when they're busy, interested and enjoying themselves or the sound of a big steam locomotive pulling smartly out of the station.

However, the all time greatest noise ever created is; A Rolls-Royce Merlin engine - it doesn't really matter which aeroplane it's in, but for preference a late mark Spitfire - flying low and very fast along the display line then pulling up into a barrel roll climb. The hairs all over your body stand up.

The worst noise is people using ipods or walkman, with the volume turned up so high I can hear it - or, metal being tortured to death, as in failing big or little ends.

Roger.
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Steam locomotives and Merlin engines - fabulous sound, makes me dewey eyed when I hear them. Also [sadly no longer] Concorde's 4 Olympus engines at take off. Wish my Harley sounded like that.

Angela
 
Have to say since moving to the Welsh coast, the sound of waves on a beach in winter is the best sound and sight,
worst sound buzzers at work going non stop!

cheers, Ali;)
 
Best sounds:
Hadedas in the morning, and frogs at night. (The sound of suburban Johannesburg)

My dog sleeping comfortably and breathing softly

Hyaenas, lions and hippos at night (NOT the sound of suburban Johannesburg)

.50 Browning

Worst sounds:
Thump thump thump thump of the sound system in the taxi next to you at the traffic light, but all you can hear is the bass.

"All our operators are busy at the moment, but your call is important to us, so please stay on the line"

The sound of an animal in distress

Children screaming or shrieking
 
theoldtrout said:
Steam locomotives and Merlin engines - fabulous sound, makes me dewey eyed when I hear them. Also [sadly no longer] Concorde's 4 Olympus engines at take off. Wish my Harley sounded like that.

Angela
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Before Concorde stopped flying, there was always a photgraph I had framed in my mind, but not enough skills as a photographer to set up and take. Before the M25 opened fully, I was dodging through Poyle to get from the M4 to M25 CCW to Chertsey. It was gathering dusk and I stopped my car in what is now the M25 northbound Poyle on-ramp, to watch the aeroplanes.

After a few minutes, during which it got dark enough that there was only a strip of pale sunset to the south, with everything else pretty much blacked out. Aircraft were only sillhouettes against it so, I started to get back in the car. Then I heard the four Olympus engines roar and the thump of reheat coming on and I knew Concorde was departing.

A few seconds later she roared past me and the shutter in my head went 'click'. Concorde herself all black, sillhouetted against the pale blue, peach tinged sky, her windows filled with the same light and everything else was black. But at the back of the engines, reaching as far as her tail, were two, vivid, electric blue flames with white shock diamonds in them.

That was another audio/visual hair standing on end moment.

Roger.
 
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