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Nails on a chalkboard
Why does this sound not bother me?
I feel defective for not being bothered by it. Especially when other high pitched or shrill or loud sounds set me off
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I haven't ever actually heard it. I mean, people talk about it, but who actually does that?
I haven't heard it either, thankfully. Be glad you're not like me, Ica; I can't even stand chalk on a chalkboard. Or at all, come to think of it. Seriously, fuck chalk.
I don't think I've seen an actual chalkboard since middle school.
I don't think i've ever seen a real chalkboard in my life. (Something like it appearing in movies/tv drama doesn't count.)
Yeah, all of my schools used whiteboards.
The sound is... awful.
Yeah, come to think about it, I've probably never seen a chalkboard.
Certain kinds of markers on paper makes a sound that really gets to me, though.
I also like the sound of scraping forks/knives on plates, come to think of it...
How do you people get away with not having chalkboards? :V
^Whiteboards are better.
^^That's relatively mild.
Whiteboards are better, but the schools I went to weren't necessarily equipped to trade up.
Come to think of it, at least one lecture hall I saw in college had a chalkboard. I think.
I have heard it. Not as bad polystyrene interacting with anything but close enough.
@Icalasari
How about metal on dry ice?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtUly_bNVH4
^ Nope. Nothing
...So what kind of high pitched or loud or shrill sounds do set you off?
Jesus, you guys are lucky. I had a teacher who used this sound to get us to shut up.
^ Well, if it works . . . I mean, I hate dumb chatter about as much as I cringe at sharp sounds, personally.
I've never been bothered about this, even though I've tried to make it annoy me. Though chalk-on-chalkboard sometimes does bother me.
The math department both where I graduated from and where I am now used almost entirely chalkboards.
On that note: I can't remember if it was here where I originally saw this topic raised or not, but don't math teachers (the ones who use chalkboards, specifically) have a higher rate of lung disease, or something like that? It would lend further credibility to my pet theory that chalk is the devil's excrement, of course, but I was sort of legitimately shocked, but sort of not, at the same time, when I heard that.
Nails on chalkboard bothers me only slightly.
The "most annoying sound in the world" also only bothers me slightly, but that's partly because that was supposed to be amusing.
I love that "vintage" feel of these sorts of older departments.
Nails on chalk I'm perfectly okay with. Rubbing a balloon annoys me to no end, though.
/sunglasses
Old-school.
boo
That seems to imply that they are actually kind of clean, considering the feces so many other things poop.
You and your literalness, man.
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