People who have really annoying laughs: What's to be done with them?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

I mean, you feel bad calling them out for laughing. Laughing should be a good thing, right?

But seriously, I have someone in the office next to mine who literally sounds like a hyena when she laughs and I'm near wits end at this point because it permeates the walls.

[Baitball Blogger]

1. Try to be amused by it.

I know it's hard. I was really surprised how on the money they got the insincere chuckle for Dolores Umbrage in Harry Potter. I know someone who was exactly like that in personality. Very duplicitous.

[elleng]

2. Don't marry them!

Happened to my Dad. Trying to find a mother for my brother and me (after our mother had passed,) Dad dated, met someone he liked and was thinking of proposing to, but he decided against it due to her annoying laugh. She was nice, I liked her. I hope she found a husband. Dad did find a fine wife and mother for us. Yesterday was her birth anniversary.

[LiberalEsto]

3. Take her here

[A HERETIC I AM]

4. There is always such a long line at the Terminating Machine near my place. n/t

[rurallib]

29. and then people never leave when they are done.

[BlueJazz]

5. Got a portable recorder? Record her and play it back several times a day.

When she asks "What is that awful noise" Answer: You

[bigwillq]

20. Awesome idea!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

22. Turn it into a ring tone, in case she calls you

I'm sure there's a way to do that, but it's beyond my technical skills.

[BlueJazz]

23. That's a great idea! I'll have to remember that.

[Populist_Prole]

6. Remember that Seinfeld episode?

Jerry's date had that loud, drawn out, staccato cackle. When she mentioned a funny movie she'd like to see, he instead suggested 'Schindler's List'. Pure comedy.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

17. I would suggest having her watch the TV "sitcom" Two Broke Girls.

Really, there's nothing to laugh at there at all. That might break her.

[grilled onions]

7. One Day They May Have Less To Laugh About

When I was a teen some girls were having a party. They wanted my best friend but turned me down because they "didn't like my laugh". My girlfriend opted to decline their invite. That made me smile(not laugh) Through the years I found much less to laugh with or about. Disease started raging my body in my late teens and one of the few things that does cheer me up is laughter. Like singing some are off key,loud but, in general, I like laughter. It's free,it doesn't get rejected for coverage from Medicare and laughter seems to take people off their troubles if only for a little while!

[magical thyme]

8. sounds like you had a good girlfriend

[jakeXT]

9. I like it as a novelty thing, I can't imagine it every day

[Leith]

10. Does She Snort When She Laughs?

I do that sometimes and it's very embarrassing.

Here's some music for you. It picks up around the 40 second mark, but the part you really need to hear starts at 2:20. Enjoy!

[jakeXT]

13. Snort sounds like nothing, I remember grunting..

These laughs are a sample of the variety of laugh sounds we have recorded during the course of our research. They include an array of laugh types, including voiced song-like laughs, unvoiced grunt-like laughs, and unvoiced snort-like laughs. Considerable variability is also being found within these broad categories. For example, grunt-like laughs include sounds that might better be described as pants and cackles. "Voiced" means that there is measurable periodicity in vocal fold vibration. Voiced laughs are vowel-like in nature. "Unvoiced" laughs are those for which the vocal folds are comparatively uninvolved in the production process. For grunt-like laughs, sounds exit through the mouth, whereas for snort-like laughs, sounds exit primarily through the nose. To date, we are finding that females produce about 50% song-like, 25% grunt-like, and 25% snort-like laughs whereas males produce an equivalent number of each laugh type. (Files are in .wav format.)
http://www.psy.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/bachorowski/laugh.htm

[Tommy_Carcetti]

16. More like makes odd animal like squeals.

[Chan790]

11. Kill 'em.

People with really annoying laughs got no reason to live.

[ailsagirl]

12. Have a joke moratorium at work

Probably wouldn't help

[Tobin S.]

14. Trying to do something about it is like trying to change the essence of who someone is

Probably not going to happen. I suppose you could wear gun shooter's muffs.

[lovemydog]

15. Gun shooter muffs.

Oh my gosh that's hilarious. I agree, you can't really change someone else's essence. It would be funny to wear those to work though.

[Special Prosciuto]

18. This?

[kairos12]

27. That laugh was banned from Gitmo.

[annabanana]

19. When I was 12,someone told me I "laughed funny". .

I didn't laugh out loud again for over 5 years.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

21. Do they laugh after every line they say, inappropriately?

They're probably lying.

Or do they have an annoying laugh at appropriate times to laugh?

There's a difference.

[UTUSN]

24. "annoying laughter" automatically defaults to: Seth ROGEN. n/t

[kairos12]

25. Bray for them.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

26. .....

[grasswire]

28. Chef Michael Symon

A family member likes to watch "The Chew" on ABC, with Michael Symon, Mario Batali, and Clinton Kelly. Symon's laugh is just horrible. Kelly's isn't much better. Symon's makes me want to break the teevee.