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2011-11-01 04:03:06 PM
2.bp.blogspot.com

Ask this guy.
 
2011-11-01 04:24:09 PM
because they remind us of michelle bachmann's voice?
 
2011-11-01 04:29:49 PM
How else are you going to get the attention of the room so you can express your ability to catch the shark?
 
2011-11-01 04:42:43 PM
Eh? Is that sound really that bad for most people? It's never bothered me before.
 
2011-11-01 04:50:37 PM
yep..doesn't bother me either. it was a great thing in 3rd grade.
 
2011-11-01 04:52:33 PM
Finger nails on a chalk board never bothered me but rubbing restaurant napkins together, like the kind you get at a TGI Fridays sends shivers down my spine. Weird.
 
2011-11-01 04:54:22 PM
Fingernails on a chalkboard never bothered me, but the thing curdles my blood is that sqeaking sound that your teeth make if you ever happen to bite down on a polyester sweater.

Fortunately, I think it's been at least a decade since I've chewed on a sweater.
 
2011-11-01 04:57:01 PM
Even mentioning it makes me clench my teeth. fark you subby.
 
2011-11-01 04:57:20 PM
Just reading the headline made me shudder.
 
2011-11-01 04:57:54 PM
You know what's a weird sound and sensation? Chewing tin foil.
 
2011-11-01 05:05:39 PM
Somebody must like it, Scream-o groups sell records.

...unless scream-o just the goth version of trying to be ironic, like hipsters.
 
2011-11-01 05:06:02 PM
Who signs up for that study is my question?

Researcher: Hey want to listen to obnoxious sounds for a couple of hours?

Person: Well its that or read the Fark Politics tab so lets do it!
 
2011-11-01 05:06:07 PM
Mugato: Finger nails on a chalk board never bothered me but rubbing restaurant napkins together, like the kind you get at a TGI Fridays sends shivers down my spine. Weird.

For me the worst was when the eraser on the top of my pencil wore down and I scratched the metal into the paper.

encrypted-tbn3.google.com

*shudder*
 
2011-11-01 05:11:01 PM
This makes me wonder if people dislike certain voices because of the individual variations of ear canal shape/size.
 
2011-11-01 05:25:04 PM
Because you touch yourself at night, subby.
 
2011-11-01 05:31:31 PM
This reminds me of a jacket I had as a kid. The inside lining of it when it came in contact with my skin had the same effect as nails on a chalkboard.

It's tough to recall what the material was, cotton maybe? Was some sports jacket I received whilst playing a little league sport.

/shrug
//I'm glad it was destroyed when my 4th grade classroom burned down.
 
2011-11-01 05:47:13 PM
Dude. F*ck that State Farm commercial. If you've seen it you'll know which one I'm talking about.
 
2011-11-01 05:53:45 PM
What would drive me crazy in school is coloring vigorously with a dry felt tip marker on construction paper. Shockwaves of revulsion and skin shivers.
 
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2011-11-01 05:57:28 PM
"a plate being scraped by a fork" this bothers me, though it isn't the noise itself. I associate it with scraping a metal against my teeth (knife, fork, spoon, pop tab) and it gives me the willies. Also wooden Popsicle sticks dragged on the teeth gives me the heebee jeebees. It gives the oddest sensation and it lasts for quite sometime.

Fingernails on the blackboard never really bothered me, though once a kid used a metal nail and that was rather painful to listen to.
 
2011-11-01 06:28:36 PM
dauntlessmedia.net

"Y'all know me. Know how I earn a livin'. I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't gonna be easy. Bad fish. Not like going down the pond chasin' bluegills and tommycods. This shark, swallow you whole. Little shakin', little tenderizin', an' down you go. And we gotta do it quick, that'll bring back your tourists, put all your businesses on a payin' basis. But it's not gonna be pleasant. I value my neck a lot more than three thousand bucks, chief. I'll find him for three, but I'll catch him, and kill him, for ten. But you've gotta make up your minds. If you want to stay alive, then ante up. If you want to play it cheap, be on welfare the whole winter. I don't want no volunteers, I don't want no mates, there's just too many captains on this island. $10,000 for me by myself. For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing."
 
2011-11-01 06:41:22 PM
Some plastics and styrofoams give me the heebee-jeebies when they are rubbed together. I don't like fingernails on a chalkboard, but I HATE the plastic/styrofoam sound.
 
2011-11-01 06:43:32 PM
YOU ARE NOW CHEWING ON A BACKPACK STRAP
 
2011-11-01 06:47:40 PM
I absolutely hate seeing hands rubbing against carpet. I can't even try it.

/I just shuddered.
 
2011-11-01 06:57:17 PM
the squeek your teeth make after eating raw spinach
 
2011-11-01 07:07:16 PM
Oh god, just reading the headline gave me a shiver.
 
2011-11-01 07:30:26 PM
dry semi-coarse sand in the feet, and slightly fuzzy car seat fabric > chalkboard
 
2011-11-01 08:33:11 PM
IR lasers shining right in the retina of your remaining eye.
 
2011-11-01 08:38:59 PM
DVDave: Mugato: Finger nails on a chalk board never bothered me but rubbing restaurant napkins together, like the kind you get at a TGI Fridays sends shivers down my spine. Weird.

For me the worst was when the eraser on the top of my pencil wore down and I scratched the metal into the paper.

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*shudder*


YOU. DIE.

I THOUGHT I HAD REPRESSED THAT.

/can't even write on a chalkboard with chalk without getting the full body shivers
 
2011-11-01 08:46:04 PM
SundaesChild: Just reading the headline made me shudder.

This.
 
2011-11-01 09:04:07 PM
bunch of namby pamby neurotics in here
 
2011-11-01 09:40:42 PM
RivenSilver: bunch of namby pamby neurotics in here

Chewing on tinfoil.
 
2011-11-01 10:42:45 PM
The sound doesn't bother me. It's the physical feeling in my fingers from scratching the chalkboard.

Same with frosted glass.
 
2011-11-01 10:57:49 PM
Guidette Frankentits: The sound doesn't bother me. It's the physical feeling in my fingers from scratching the chalkboard.

Same with frosted glass.


Happens when I'm near someone filing their nails, or think about doing it myself.
 
2011-11-01 11:09:43 PM
Nails scratching on concrete. That gets me every time.
 
2011-11-01 11:18:17 PM
I had a kid ask me, "What's a blackboard?". Same trick doesn't work on dry erase boards.
 
2011-11-02 01:25:11 AM
Noises like that don't bother me at all. I have doglike hearing, and I'm guessing maybe it bothers people who's hearing is less than ideal. The only sound that really really gets to me is the hardcore Yankee accent. I'm not being snarky at all. It really does hurt my ears. Some bad music hurts my ears too. Maybe that's where the phrase 'makes my ears bleed' comes from. Emo garbage especially bothers me because of the high pitched whiney voices. Does anyone else get bothered by any of those things?
 
2011-11-02 10:09:29 AM
snoopaloopa: dry semi-coarse sand in the feet, and slightly fuzzy car seat fabric > chalkboard > Tebow
 
2011-11-02 01:08:33 PM
Fingernails on a chalkboard never bothered me. Now marsupials, on the other hand, they do.
 
2011-11-02 02:13:58 PM
Never used to bother me, but it made for good times lining up for recess when I would run my nails along the entire length of the blackboard as we walked out.
 
2011-11-02 06:25:24 PM
Blackboard doesn't really bother me. But someone biting down on a fork with their front teeth and pulling out is AWFUL. There is no sound, but just the thought of doing that gives me those same shivers.
 
2011-11-02 08:34:13 PM
purple kool-aid and a jigger of formaldehyde: Blackboard doesn't really bother me. But someone biting down on a fork with their front teeth and pulling out is AWFUL. There is no sound, but just the thought of doing that gives me those same shivers.

Reminds me of when my kids complain, at the dinner table, about what their counterpart is doing with their food/fork/drink/whatever... why the fark are you looking at them and complaining when you should be taking care of your own goddamn food?!
 
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