h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Just cannot stand the sound of people eating! Gets even worse if they open their mouths in between mouthfuls ahhhhhh!
The worst ever is eating Chewing gum - who in their right mind decided to invent something that makes everybody look and sound like a bunch of cows chewing the cud?!

Here's what's ugly -- someone takes a sip of hot beverage, the goes, "Aaaahhhhh..." as they set it down, blowing off hot air each time! Each sip! Painful boils to these people.

I especially hate the sound of people with a 'Clicky Jaw'
ie a loud click can be heard at each attempt at each
attempt at mastication. I suffer from this myself which
explains why I am very thin.

I hate the sound of people eating with their mouth open. I also hate it when people slurp their drinks (or soup), or do an intake of breath with each mouthful. Yeuggh!

I too hate the sound of people eating. All those chewy sounds. When I notice those sounds, they make me crazy. My mother has one of those clicking jaws you're talking about, I think. Sometimes I have to ask them to stop making so much noise when they're eating.

I have my faults too. I love slurping things, but only once have I met a person that doesn't tolerate slurping. The boy friend of my big sister. He couldn't stand my slurping, and he asked me to stop. I loved to slurp, so I just ate outside. Ahh. Slurp, slurp.

I hate that sound too! That's why I have PROHIBITED CHEWING at meals in my home. It can be quite amusing actually, because I also insist that my wife serve fried pork chops every day and have hidden all the knives (for my own safety, of course).

Try it!

I hate it when people are silent when they don't eat.

I wince every time someone scrapes the fork against their upper incisors as they remove it from their mouth. It's a fairly extreme way of making sure no food leaves with the fork, but I once had dinner with someone who suffered from this terrible affliction. I could barely sit still as my skin tried to hail a cab with every mouthful she took. We didn't go out again.

There's a bloke at work who eats crisps with his mouth open.
When I see him open up a bag of Quavers, I have to leave the room.

OMG, the sound of people eating, and the absolute extremes of insanity that it drives me to. Currently in my area, there is the absolute worst TV commercial in which a man and woman, who have presumably fallen from the pages of a romance novel (which was too under budget to procure Fabio) are eating ripened peaches, replete with slurps, slops and suckles. It is by far the most sure fire commercial I have ever seen, because it has convinced me that eating peaches is an evil act. And don't even get me -started- on the subject of gum chewing. That reply would likely crash the server.

This sure make my skin crawl ...
One summer in Bonn (Germany) I was sitting at a café when I heard it!
Jazz from a "marching", german band and I hardly couldn´t bread...
The only thing that I could think of was to get the fastest way out of "It".

Ok, so not only does people chewing with their mouths open drive me nuts, but some people can actually make me not want to eat anymore. The sounds that they make while chewing just make me nautious. Maybe it's me with the problem, but damn!

Snadj

I couldn't agree more the sounds some people make when eating are disgusting. We have a person here at work who sucks her fingers after eating and then smacks her lips. It's quite vile to listen to it and if you're unlucky enough to have to sit opposite her (as I do)it could put you off food for life. Mind you I have no trouble sticking to my diet when she's around. She was recently involved in an accident in which both her hands were injured, at least that's put a stop to it temporarily.

I left a comment on this page last week but I think we had a power failure so it never made it.
What makes my skin crawl is having to go thru a mans pockets before putting washing in the machine.I feel sick thinking about it.
You don't know what you might find.If you are very lucky it might be
money,keep quiet about that one,but it maybe a wet snotty hankie
with two sweets stuck to it URRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!

are normally the most revolting sounds to be made by the human mouth, with a few exceptions -

Burpping - oh please never let me be in breath distance of a cheese and pickled onion eater

Singing out of tune - drives me crazy and forget politeness, I just have to leave the room (I must mention that I am the world's worst singer so really have nothing to complain about)

Sighing - when you don't know what you've done wrong!

Screaming - especially from children unable to convey what they want in any other way, it leads to hours of elimination techniques until the desired button is found to switch the screaming off.

and these are just a few.

Excuse me whilst I go and apply calamine lotion to body.

I feel I have met a number of kindred spirits since posting my original message here!
I'm not so sure about sucking Pork Chops though Archilles, would probably be as noisy - eerrrrhha!
I think Crisps, peaches and all forms of beverage should be banned certainly from my vacinity
Thanks for sharing and keep them coming!

Nic

Ah, a fellow jaw clicker.
Do you also find that small insects follow you around in the summer and idolise you like some kind of clicking God?
Do dolphins and whales slap you with their tails because they thought you swore at them though your snorkel?

Does anyone out there have a half-decent explaination for this terrible affliction?

Why can I not eat a melon without giving the impression that it is crunchy?

HJ