your "fingernails on a chalkboard"

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-I can't stand people chewing carrots, chewing yogurt/making smacking noises (why is that necessary anyway?! You don't need to chew yogurt...) Actually, come to think of it, any eating-related noise will make me leave the room-or at least want to.
-Teeth against utensils or glassware
-Forks scraping against a plate
-Fingernails on piano keys/computer keypads
-The grinding sound of some ATM machines when they take the card
-Nail filing (or ANY object being filed)
-Stuffy noses, 'wet' coughs, loud mouth breathing, and also nose blowing
-Tapping on hollow things, particularly metal
-Circular saws (or regular saws-anything to do with sawing something)
-Welding (that zapping noise)
-Fire alarms
-The loud rustling sound of the q-tip when I'm cleaning my ears
-People dragging their feet/letting their heels scuff because they're wearing slip on shoes or flip flops
-Any sound that has to do with throwing up
-Sink drains
-Really high pitched electronic sounds (like when you first turn on the TV but the cable isn't on yet)
-Motorcycles/dirt bikes
-Those 'coffee can' exhaust systems they put on cars to be 'cool' that are really loud
-Paper shredders
-Phone ringtones
-Kettle whistles
-Table legs or chair being pushed or dragged on a gymnasium-type floor

That's far from everything. I'm surprised I don't walk around with earplugs lol

any type of eating noise, coughing, snorting, sniffling, mouth breathing

also, when i am eating and i accidentally bite down on the fork with my front teeth, i gag and feel like i am going to be sick

forks clicking or scraping onto plates
motorcycles
chewing
whispering
fingernails across jeans
clipping fingernails
sloshing through muddy grass
windshield wipers scraping against ice
many more but I can't think of them all right now!

For me, that would be:

Lips smacking

"Shhhh!"

Whispering

Babies crying

the sound styrofoam makes, the sound 2 cotton balls make when you rub them together, any high pitched screechy noise... old CRT screens, to an extent (i had to force myself to get over that one...)

rap music
rush limbaugh [his booming drone makes me ill, regardless of what he says]
chain saws
2-stroke dirt bikes
"jake" brakes on semi-trucks
hot rods
the noises of my neighbors
sarah palin [belongs in her own excruciating category- just her whiny alto fries my nerves]
mistuned AM radios
judder in motion picture film projection, especially after telecine conversion
phonographic impulse noises [crackles and pops]
analog tape hiss
FM multipath distortion
boomy one-note bass heard in much rap music
anything by madonna

Loud people, or people with loud voices make me cringe.

-any individual string instrument, mostly violin; I need to be hearing at least two to cancel out each other's high-pitched noises
-the feeling of pastic containers
-booth chairs at restaurants or certain couches or public transportation seat that have those stupid creases in the place where the back of the seat and the bottom of the seat intersect because I feel as though food or other disgusting crap may have found its way into there and get on me
-anything lukewarm
-as many people have said "SSSHHHHHH!!" and my response is always "STFU"
-bells ringing, especially doorbells or those hotel bells that you tap to ring
-deep/raspy voices that sound like they have a cold, makes me want to clear my throat
-when my fingernail scratches the wrong way against any surface, usually metallic, that gives me the same feeling as a chalkboard
-babies crying
-sunlight and fluorescent lights, equivalent to cutting onions
-any loud ringtone, because for some reason they always make them so jarring
-utensils against plates
-any loud automobile-related noise
-I've listed enough. Much more, of course.

I forgot one Ultrasonic Pest and Rodent repellent devices.

Small shiny things are a visual fingernailsonachalkboard for me. That's all though.

I shudder when my boyfriend's kitten climbs up the couch, I don't know what material it's made of but that + claws, oh god. I also can't stand fingernails on jeans, it's like something is scratching me from the inside, I can't really explain

Listening to women talk about who is dating whom, and who is having a baby, and who is getting married. This makes me want to leap from a high place to escape their endless vacuous conversation about nothing.

I'm bothered by any loud noise that occurs repeatedly in irregular random intervals. If the interval is regular it becomes part of the background, but things that happen irregularly like people shooting target practice in their yard (yes I live in the boonies), or a woodpecker on a tree, or construction noises, is irritating.

Funny enough, the sound of fingernails scraping a blackboard doesn´t even bother me.

That description of teeth scraping against a blackboard made me laugh! I actually don´t think the sound of teeth scraping would bother me, but the FEEL of my own teeth scraping against a blackboard would be unbearable!

Okay, here are the sensory things that bother me:

Some people´s lips make crackling sounds when they talk (I guess due to moistness). I hate this sound. Especially if they are speaking into a microphone.

The feel of drinking a beverage that has crumbs in it. Yuck!

Drinking anything out of a glass that smells bad. Or, getting a wine glass (in a pub or restaurant) with a lipstick stain on it. I have returned many a glass for these 2 reasons.....

The feel of people bumping into my backpack when I´m wearing it.

The feel of any random person touching me, brushing against me or bumping into me in public.

When I´m walking, I don´t like it when people are talking animatedly behind me. It irritates me and makes me feel nervous.

The smell of butter melting on a stove is so sickening to me I have to leave the room. (My family teased me and gave me much grief about this when I was growing up).

I agree with the poster who said the sound of vomiting. That goes double for me, but probably even worse for me is the visual image of it! Unfortunately, they show it a lot in movies nowadays. I can´t watch......

I´m sure I´ll think of more.

I've realized that I hate the sound of my phone vibrating, but I hate the sound of it ringing even more, so I have to live with it. And I've heard my phone vibrating so much lately that I think I hear it but it's really nothing.

Expanded polystyrene and/or cotton wool rubbing against itself. Those tiny little squeaking noises...
Sarah Palin.
Screaming kids.
That horrible slack-jawed open-mouthed chewing some people do. Just stop doing that, Ok?
Crunchy food, when I have to listen to it being eaten, and noisy eaters generally.
Sarah Palin. (she's worth at least two mentions for that voice alone)
Nasty sharp fluorescent lighting.
Sarah Palin. (Ok, three)
Cars driving past making that "boom, boom, boom, boom" noise (it's "music", I'm told), and generally loud enough to make my eyeballs vibrate.

And more...