Reply to: The noisiest thing in the world

[Board Game Geek]

One of my pet hates is people who bring babies into the office.

Does that include pre-babies ?

Eg, folks bringing in sperm and egg sacs ?

[TimberWolf]

The view was amazing but the thing which has stuck with me to this day is the silence, it really was DEAFENING, I have never heard anything as loud ever since.

I have a feeling I would hear a very quiet and high pitched sound if I were in a really quiet place. Nothing like that around here to test it though. I believe most people do hear something in a very quiet place:

Heller and Bergman (1953) conducted a study of 80 tinnitus-free university students placed in an anechoic chamber and found that 93% reported hearing a buzzing, pulsing or whistling sound.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinnitus

I want to know how long the shortest sound ever heard was.

[Pogle]

When I was 19, I went to spend Christmas and New Year with my then best friend, at her parents house in a small village in the Appinines.

We went for a long walk up the nearest mountain with a bottle of home produced red wine. There were wild boar in the area and we wanted to try and see one, so we walked to the top of the mountain/hill and sat down to drink the wine. It was idyllic, it was winter, there was a smattering of snow and not a sign of civilization anywhere around us, no roads, no houses, no people.
The view was amazing but the thing which has stuck with me to this day is the silence, it really was DEAFENING, I have never heard anything as loud ever since.

[Drewster]

"berk" is one of the nicer names we have for him

"berk" was intended in the Cockney Rhyming Slang interpretation....

[MaryPoppins]

Boney knob is intersting. I understand most mammals have a penile bone, it is only primates that don't. Why are suitable grafts of pig's bits not being offered to treat impotence?

PS The last place I was at had a family day where people brought their hideous offspring in. Most unfair to the rest of us.

Ggrr. One of my pet hates is people who bring babies into the office.

[foritisme]

"berk" is one of the nicer names we have for him


Snorbitz
Cougher Harris
Ignoramus
The Snorting Pig
Snotty Magoo (yes he has another infliction as well)

[Drewster]

The noisiest thing in the world..................
What can you say to a tw*t who continually coughs & sneezes all frolicking day !!!!!!!!

SHUT UP you loathsome and obnoxious berk!

[foritisme]

The noisiest thing in the world..................

The bloke sat opposite me. He has had a cold for 5 months, continually sneezing, coughing, blowing his ******* hooter, splurting.............

He did at one point blame it on the air conditioning, until it was pointed out to him that we don't have air conditioning in the building.

A complete and utter animal - if the market wasn't so bad I would have been out the door months ago. Did ask the boss if I could change desks, but he said if I had a problem so talk to the animal about it.

What can you say to a tw*t who continually coughs & sneezes all ******* day !!!!!!!!

[DS23]

dogs do.

[Drewster]

The irritating "leakage" that comes out of teenagers IPod/Earphones...

The "average" mobile phone call on public transport!

[Doggy Styles]

Boney knob is intersting. I understand most mammals have a penile bone, it is only primates that don't. Why are suitable grafts of pig's bits not being offered to treat impotence?

Mammals don't have nob-bones do they? I've never noticed one on their skeletons.

Some insects might I suppose.

[ace00]

A Small Nuclear device exploding inside your ear. Although you would never hear it....

[Board Game Geek]

The noisiest thing for me is the sound of people talking in an office. I like to work in as much silence as possible.

At one place I worked, many years ago, they had a radio permanently tuned to Radio 1 all day. In the office of all places !

Horrible...absolutely horrible.

[deano]

Boney knob is intersting. I understand most mammals have a penile bone, it is only primates that don't. Why are suitable grafts of pig's bits not being offered to treat impotence?

Because it wouldn't go down! You would walk around with a permanent bulge.

Nob.

I didn't think animals did have such a bone. It would make the "item" in question too exposed to damage because it would be on permanent "display", hence it appears and disappears when required due to blood flow.

Anyway, the noisiest thing for me is the sound of modern music at disco's and the like. They have them at the odd family "do" that I'm obliged to go to now and again.

[xoggoth]

Boney knob is intersting. I understand most mammals have a penile bone, it is only primates that don't. Why are suitable grafts of pig's bits not being offered to treat impotence?

PS The last place I was at had a family day where people brought their hideous offspring in. Most unfair to the rest of us.