Most exciting noise?

Rain hammering offa winda.

Waves walloping a shoreline during a storm.

Thunder and lightning.

Chainsaws.

Coffee machine noises.

aujopimur wrote: »

One of my own awesome farts.

Would it beat this masterpiece?

A good wallop of thunder

The Guinea Pigs squeaking when they hear their food bag rattle.

My dogs howling along to the tune of the Ice Cream Van

I moved to Derry years ago when things weren't great there but everytime a helicopter went overhead I was out like a kid. Was told by one of my friends that this was kinda suspicious as most people tere kept their heads down when a chopper was about and there was me staring straight up at it Coming from an area that if a helicopter was seen, it was a talking point for days to seeing them multiple times a day was a bit of a shock.

Years later back at home I'll still go out if I hear one. Nowadays I'll check online to see who it is and where they are going. Ain't technology great

The cuckoo.
Also, the swallows conjure up warm summer mornings.

Soundchecks.

A neighbour starts his '67 V8 Mustang on a Sunday morning, it rumbles me back to sleep, love it.

irishgeo wrote: »

The noise of a saturn 5 launch. Sadly didn't get the chance to hear the real thing. But the tour of Nasa has sold pretty good audio.

It's all smoke and mirrors, the audio you heard at NASA was clearly doctored after having been recorded. The actual launch sounded like a mixture between a peacock call and an elephant's long held-in fart.

TPD wrote: »

Just spent about a week on Koh Samui in Thailand, thunderstorm every evening, was great.

Edit: this was meant to quote the post wishing we had more thunder at home.

We don't get it much in Ireland, but the topography of certain places lends itself to more or less regularly scheduled thunderstorms. Parts of Thailand and Laos definitely qualify - the Koh Samui thunderstorms are spectacular.

I was on holidays in France back in '04, can't remember which town we were staying near, but our house was at the foot of a very long mountainous ridge. When I say long, I mean that instead of coming to a peak, this was more wave shaped, like a continuous standing wave several kilometres long.

The interesting thing was that literally every day, a cloud would build up behind the mountain, the same shape every day (think of a very compressed mushroom cloud I guess), and by about 4/5PM each day like clockwork the skies would darken and this cloud would unleash the most incredible lightning I've ever seen. Somehow by the following morning the skies would be totally clear again, only for the cloud to reappear around midday and begin its five-hour buildup anew.

I've never managed to find a scientific explanation for it, but it was cool enough that I'd go back to that town just to see it, if I could remember where it was