Top 10 Most Annoying Sounds

The use of vuvuzelas — a long plastic horn popular with South African soccer fans — at the World Cup has sparked debate about the level of tolerable noise at a sporting event. Here's a look at some other sounds that are not music to our ears

Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber

"Hey, wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world?" Jim Carrey doesn't give you, or his hapless hitchhiker, much of an option. The sound, a mixture of a car suddenly braking and a Wookie howling, is a lesson for all those who would hitchhike on a van decorated to look like a shaggy dog — just say no, or you may be going on the auditory ride of your life.

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