I THINK THIS SIGN IS MEANT TO SIGNIFY A WATER FOUNTAIN, BUT IT REALLY DOES LOOK LIKE A 'BE SICK HERE' SIGN. AND IT'S INFINITELY NICER THAN IF I'D POSTED A PHOTO OF ACTUAL PUKE, DON'T YOU THINK? (PHOTO: SEEDPIX)
Dr Trevor Cox, professor of acoustic engineering at Salford University, we salute you. To spend a whole year listening to disgusting noises to prove which is the most awful? That's dedication to science. At his website Sound 101, Dr Cox asked volunteers to listen to a selection of sounds and work out which was the worst. Among the 30-strong list was nails on a blackboard, the wail of a baby, a microphone screech, a dentist's drill, bad violin playing,a dog yapping and someone puking in a bucket. The vomiting is astonishingly realistic, it's not at all suprising that it topped the poll as most repulsive noise.
Lots of the sounds on the list are just plain annoying rather than dreadful, they only become unbearable if they keep on going for ages and ages. Babies crying is sad if you hear it for a few seconds, hours of it makes you want to kill the wretched child then kill yourself. But 2 seconds of vomiting noise makes my stomach heave. Apparently it was done with watered down baked beans. I knew that when I listened but I still felt queasy. Ew.
More from The Guardian here. Go to the website here and have a listen if you dare.
the sound that makes me go ewww is when people snort and build up flem in their throat and then spit it out. It's disgusting! ewwwwwww!
Posted by: dd | March 13, 2007 at 08:46 AM
i 've never seen that sign before but it's funny. HA Ha.
Posted by: big bro | March 13, 2007 at 09:19 AM
Yeah I've never see that sign before.
Posted by: dd | March 29, 2007 at 06:58 AM