TIME: Top 10 most annoying sounds
BEIJING, June 17(Xinhuanet) — Since the 2010 World Cup started on June 11, several fantastic goals and enthusiastic soccer fans have impressed us.
Besides, there\’s one thing that you definitely can\’t ignore — Vuvuzela, a long plastic horn popular with South African soccer fans. Its loud buzz has sparked a debate about the level of tolerable noise at a sporting event.
Including Vuvuzela, TIME magazine summarized some other sounds that are not music to our ears.
1.Vuvuzela
A soccer fan blows Vuvuzela during World Cup match?(Xinhua/File Photo)
2. Emergency Broadcast System
Children?join a earthquake drill?(Xinhua/Reuters File Photo)
3. Gilbert Gottfried
File photo of Gilbert Gottfried?(Photo Source: gb.cri.cn)
The stand-up comedian has made his loud, grating voice his trademark, but that doesn\’t make it any less annoying.
4. Nails on a Chalkboard
(Xinhua/Reuters File Photo)
Have you ever been evoked such a negative response by this annoying sound during class?
5. Car Alarms
A Bentley car?(Xinhua/Reuters File Photo)
Not only is the sound of a car alarm annoying, but some sensitive alarms are increasingly ineffective.
6. Dial-Up Modem
(Xinhua/Reuters File Photo)
Before broadband Internet widely used as a household commodity, the dial-up modem reigned supreme. At that time, connecting to the Internet was quite painfully slow. Worst of all, it was annoyingly loud.
7. The Hum
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(Xinhua/Reuters File Photo)
This mysterious natural phenomenon occur the world over: there\’s the \”Bristol Hum\” in Great Britain, the \”Bondi Hum\” in Australia and the \”Taos Hum\” in New Mexico. It might infuriate one person, while the man standing next to him hears nothing at all.
