Sounds you love or Hate

Hate the sound of the air-raid siren they test at 12 noon on the first Monday of every month. Brilliant time to drop something, 'cos no-one'd take any notice... Love all the corny things like birds warbling, bees buzzing and butterflies..er...butterflying (have to use your imagination a bit there). Oh, and the comforting slither of Guinness being poured into a glass...

i hate the sound of footie on telly ... and plinky plonky jazz with those nasty tishing sounds ... i become insane at the sound of three different CD players in my house playing three different unholy rackets ... i hate the sound of a dripping tap ... i love the sound of ice being dropped into a gin and tonic ... or the way ice cracks when you pour a magarita over it ... i love the hush in a bookshop ...

I hate the tone in my daughter's voice when she is beginning to whine. I hate my female cat singing at three o'clock in the morning. I hate the sound of her brother biffing her over the head when she's singing at three o'clock in the morning. I love the sound of water, be it running, flowing or trickling (not dripping though). I love the sound of sweet fat laughter coming from the garden when I'm writing in my bedroom. I love hearing the sound of family clinking plates and pottering about downstairs when I am holed up upstairs, almost but not quite in my own world.

I love the sound a dog makes when running across a tiled floor, when the claws scrape against the tiles, also the sound of a dog's tale thumping against the floor. I hate the crying sound that cats make in the middle of the night that sounds like a baby crying

Sounds like anextremely literary dog you've got there Martin...

hate: alarm clocks, boy bands, crying babies on trains, cheesy mobile phone tones on trains, people talking in the cinema. love: the sea, dirty laughs, acoustic guitars, friends' voices, bonfires.

I just love being able to hear.

As a person working with Deafblind people, that was the first thing that occured to me when l saw the thread Gabrielle. A colleague and I often have conversations when we imagine the things that we would first ensure our deaf students hear, should they ever be able to do so. Some of the following have cropped up in those conversations: That crackle of electricity when lightening strikes, followd by the rumble of thunder. The way snow sounds when it squeaks under your boots. A seagull, calling as it swoops. Water, rushing like a stream, or waves crashing. Laughter, of any kind. Music, of any kind. Wind, rain on a glass roof, hailstorms. Glass breaking. All the sounds that various animals make. What talking without using your hands sounds like.

i always like the noise of a full school playground...

love - laughter. wine glugging from the bottle. beer settling. (you hear this with your eyes). storms. bass guitar. the sound you hear when you plunge into a pool of water. A cat purring. Hate - crying. yappy dogs. (especially next doors). Woofy dogs. (on the other side when yappy dogs set them off) my kids (when they make miaow noises deliberately to set both pairs of aforementioned dogs off)

see my posting on the 'writing den' thread...

Love: The Kop singing 'You'll Never Walk Alone' Often imitated, but never surpassed. The words i cannot hear when Gerard Houllier talks to himself all through the match. That final whistle in Dortmund. And the angels sang. The lovely warm words of the Alaves fans as they reached out to me in hesitant English to whisper in our common language: football is the true Esperanto. Football brought us together to celebrate each other. God bless them. Hate: Alex Fergiscum whining about another sending-off/correct decision/time added to their disadvantage (rare). mobile phones: megaphones for the illiterate. the alarm clock.

I love the sound of bottles crashing into the recycling bins... A good reason to try to save the world!

i like the sound of silence

micro.... the amount of bottles some of us recycle each week is enough to keep a small planet going. my w/e paper has enough shite in it now to rebuild the amazon rain forest.