[Misc] Humming people

[Han Solo]

I've accidently managed to get on the same train as a middle-aged humming man several times the last month and quite quickly found myself a new hopefully lifelong object of hatred: people who hum or whistle.

Everyone is sitting nice and calmly on the train, waiting quietly for either winter or life to end. Except this lad, who sits and hums indecipherable rhythmless noices.

I look around me and expect to see a dozen people restraining themselves from strangling the man, but no. People just seem to accept it.

Anyone share my new hatred of humming people or am I alone in this agony?

 

[London Irish]

Wonder if it’s a type of autistic stimming?

 

[wellquickwoody]

A cousin of mine hums/whistles constantly when not talking. A lovely man but it makes me want to kill him!

 

[AmexRuislip]

I've accidently managed to get on the same train as a middle-aged humming man several times the last month and quite quickly found myself a new hopefully lifelong object of hatred: people who hum or whistle.

Everyone is sitting nice and calmly on the train, waiting quietly for either winter or life to end. Except this lad, who sits and hums indecipherable rhythmless noices.

I look around me and expect to see a dozen people restraining themselves from strangling the man, but no. People just seem to accept it.

Anyone share my new hatred of humming people or am I alone in this agony?

Was he a Roger Whittaker fan

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

If whistling is good enough for Carlos Baleba it’s good enough for me.

 

[Zeberdi]

Anyone share my new hatred of humming people or am I alone in this agony?

No, you are not alone - it drives me to distraction - even worse when there’s no discernible or particular tune.

My complete intolerance to it is probably to do with being neurodivergent- I process sounds differently to neurotypical people -every ambient sound in an environment is magnified and intensified.

I work a shared office, fortunately my colleagues don’t hum but one of them crunches crisps, apples and biscuits all day, the other types with little fingers tapping on her keyboard in a really annoying monotone clicking with her fingernails .. I literally feel my blood pressure rise just hearing these sounds and I visualise throwing apples and keyboards out of the window whilst keeping a dead pan expression and quietly carrying on with my work I plug in headphones and listen to a country music station on my desk top most of the day unless I’m discussing work, bird watching or football with my colleagues.

All in a normal day in the life of someone with a neurodivergent brain.

 

[Me and my Monkey]

Does he hum Freed from Desire?

 

[Zeberdi]

Wonder if it’s a type of autistic stimming?

More likely Buddhist stimming

 

[Han Solo]

Wonder if it’s a type of autistic stimming?

Yeah I've thought about that and I actually don't think the hummers are autistic in general. The few ones I know are at least a rather mixed bunch.
Think maybe it could be related to trauma (and comfort)? Or some other thing making people afraid of silence and their own inner monologues?

 

[Madafwo]

Noise cancelling headphones, the ignore button for real life.

 

[dazzer6666]

I've accidently managed to get on the same train as a middle-aged humming man several times the last month and quite quickly found myself a new hopefully lifelong object of hatred: people who hum or whistle.

Everyone is sitting nice and calmly on the train, waiting quietly for either winter or life to end. Except this lad, who sits and hums indecipherable rhythmless noices.

I look around me and expect to see a dozen people restraining themselves from strangling the man, but no. People just seem to accept it.

Anyone share my new hatred of humming people or am I alone in this agony?

I’d probably have changed carriages if that had happened when I was commuting………also hated people having loud conversations, non-commuters on the train (ie people who didn’t know that it’s FORBIDDEN to talk throughout the journey, especially early mornings), people eating (especially anything noisy, smelly or those unable to keep their gob shut when chewing), people with crap tinny headphones, people BASHING away on their keyboards so hard the carriage shakes, kids, anyone playing games online with audible sound…….

God I hated commuting

 

[Gabbafella]

I work with a guy who is a walking one man band of pointless and annoying noises.
His whistling can never be identified as an actual song, just nonsensical chirps.
He pops his lips like a fish, again just a load of random pops (and when questioned about it he is genuinely proud of himself and sees it as a talent), he scrapes his pen along boxes and shelving, he uses everything as a drum kit, he's an obnoxiously loud yawner and has to tell everyone how tired he is after every roar like outburst, his sneezes and throat clearing are onomatopoeic and unnecessarily loud.
He pisses everyone off all day, every day.

 

[Anger]

I blame marketeers.

Thanks to the Tesco Christmas advert I’ve had On Melancholy Hill by Gorillaz In my head for the last 5 days and I can’t help whistling it at times.

 

[Hamilton]

I've accidently managed to get on the same train as a middle-aged humming man several times the last month and quite quickly found myself a new hopefully lifelong object of hatred: people who hum or whistle.

Everyone is sitting nice and calmly on the train, waiting quietly for either winter or life to end. Except this lad, who sits and hums indecipherable rhythmless noices.

I look around me and expect to see a dozen people restraining themselves from strangling the man, but no. People just seem to accept it.

Anyone share my new hatred of humming people or am I alone in this agony?

Maybe you were staring at him too much?

 

[el punal]

Does he hum Freed from Desire?

You’ll soon find out when it reaches the “ooh! haa!” bit and his arms start doing the up and down motion.

 

[GJN1]

I blame marketeers.

Thanks to the Tesco Christmas advert I’ve had On Melancholy Hill by Gorillaz In my head for the last 5 days and I can’t help whistling it at times.

Really hate the fact they’ve used that song in the ad. Surprised Alban let them. Mind you, he has got form I suppose.

 

[Han Solo]

I work with a guy who is a walking one man band of pointless and annoying noises.
His whistling can never be identified as an actual song, just nonsensical chirps.
He pops his lips like a fish, again just a load of random pops (and when questioned about it he is genuinely proud of himself and sees it as a talent), he scrapes his pen along boxes and shelving, he uses everything as a drum kit, he's an obnoxiously loud yawner and has to tell everyone how tired he is after every roar like outburst, his sneezes and throat clearing are onomatopoeic and unnecessarily loud.
He pisses everyone off all day, every day.

I hate him.

 

[BN9 BHA]

I plug in headphones and listen to a country music station on my desk top most of the day

I think I would rather listen to someone humming

 

[Zeberdi]

I think I would rather listen to someone humming

Then thank your lucky stars that humming isn’t an autistic trigger for you - some noises can literally cause us physical pain. Wearing headphones and listening to a music station with no dialogue is the way I cope. Like millions of people around the world, I enjoy Country music but apart from that, I find it is great ‘easy listening’ music to type by when I am working - the driving repetitive rhythm and simple lyrics soothe my autistic brain in environments that are overbearing with sensory triggers.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

In my train travelling days, out of Waterloo, there always used to be a guy in the carriage who would produce an apple and crunch it loudly and make it last for about 30 mins, being half the journey home. I hated him.