noise

ApostateLois · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 11:27 am Post subject:

I wish I had an old-fashioned fan like the kind my mother used to have. They made the most pleasant sort of humming/vibrating noise and I always liked to have it on just to hear it so I could fall asleep. It looked something like this one, only more beat-up. Modern fans are too quiet. There's a guy who refurbishes old fans like that, completely rewires them so they're up to modern standards, gives them a new paint job, and resells them, but they're outrageously expensive. When I can afford one, though, I'll buy one. Oh, and I clean an office building where the boss has his huge office filled with antiques--furniture, old license plates, paintings, etc. He has this enormous old fan on a six-foot-tall base. I turned it on a couple times and it's like a damn airplane taking off! That sucker can really move the air around.
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aitm · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 11:30 am Post subject:

joshuas3521 · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 4:17 pm Post subject:

Hmm, you need something more like this:

I've always wanted to see what would happen if you turned one of those on in an enclosed space...
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JBCuzISaidSo · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 4:56 pm Post subject:

Vyrian · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 5:06 pm Post subject:

move to a quiet location or like....listen to a lot of heavy metal on headphones to the point where your ears have been dimmed in their sensory of sound.
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1angel · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 4:40 pm Post subject:

I sleep better with some background noise like an AC or a fan or rain or the TV on. Anything. Most noise doesn't really bother however there is one sound that I hate more than anything, it always makes me cringe when I hear it. It is the worst sound for me to hear. People popping their gum.
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ChrissyFos · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 5:59 pm Post subject:

Top four most annoying sounds:

A bastard baby that cries out in infinite sadness, because there is no nipple. It tears my brain.

General friction, grinding

The desperate, whining whimpers of a full grown man

Yelling or the auditory assassins that speak progressively louder due to adrenaline
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