Most annoying noise?

[grumbledoak]

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you, the leaf-blower!

It's hot enough to need the windows open, here, which normally means I get a bit of 'ambient' noise. Only today, for reasons unknown, some bloke has been using a leaf blower nearby for the last hour and a half! There aren't even any leaves that I can see, he's just blowing the dirt around! I'd like to go down there, insert said electrical nuisance where the instructions say not to, and make a balloon animal out of him!

Your contenders for second place, please, or can you beat mine?

[londonbabe]

"Born Slippy" by Underworld

[V8S]

I think we had this about a month ago. I might even have started it.

Anyway, young girls screeching.

[OllieC]

londonbabe said:

"Born Slippy" by Underworld

what what WHAAT !?

sacriledge.

[215cu]

The 'Nokia' ringtone.

I work in an IT firm and to me it only demonstrates the total technical illiteracy of many of our staff.

Angle Grinder cutting bricks/slabs/blocks.

Just for 1 or 2 hours, one of my neighbours (who is either incompetent or serially bone-idle) must be putting down a patio. On a Sunday afternoon. It's been going on for a month now.

[madrob6]

The alarm that was ringing for 4 hours outside my office window last week.

[roboxm3]

Sittig on one of the largest construction projects in Europe!.....There's a few!

[stuttgartmetal]

Someone elses baby crying.

The opposite when its yerown.

[collateral]

Any sort of alarm does it for me. There's one somewhere nearby which goes off on the dot 11:30pm most days and goes on for AGES (must be a building as cars are limited to 30 seconds iirc)

I have daydreamed about finding where it is and putting a brick through a window with a note 'here's something to be alarmed about!' or somesuch

[Snoggledog]

Children.

[V8S]

dibbers006 said:

That high pitched ringing when i'm trying to get to sleep

Well, you should have put the toilet seat down then.

[nelly1]

Mopeds

[central]

Snoggledog said:

Children.

[grumbledoak]

nelly1 said:

Mopeds

A good suggestion. Those little 'wasp in a can' things. And, inevitably, you just know you'll be hearing the little prick for ages as he's only doing 8mph.

[TheCarpetCleaner]

central said:

Snoggledog said:

Children.

[Sciroccology]

A police car and a screaming siren
A pneumatic drill and ripped up concrete
A baby wailing
Stray dogs howling
The screech of brakes
A smash of glass and the rumble of boots
The cry of a tomcat
An amateur band rehearsing in a nearby yard

[Glassman]

A mosquito at 3am when you're trying to sleep.

[hal-finch]

atmo dump valves and their fake counterparts.

snoring mrs (ends up with a whack with pillow to face)

cockney accent.

brum accent.

liverpudlian accent.

[SirTainly]

Yes screaming children, screaming for no reason.

I could add the angle grinders/table saws my DIY obsessed neighbours use every weekend, or the motorcross bikes from the nearby track (more wasps in a bottle).

....and of course anything by Radiohead.....

[sleep envy]

alarm clock