Get it together with my knees today and we've got the start of an anatomical skiffle group 
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Autistamatic
Streetwise
The left-hand side of my neck does that and so does my knees
Pats
Yes, my neck sounds like I'm crunching a potato chip bag but I'm used to that. I just thought it sounded funny when my back just starts popping. The crunching is from degenerative disc disease. and would make sense that it would happen in other joints that have sacs separating bones.
Streetwise
it's arthritis in my neck and crepitus in my knees
Autistamatic
Dodgy disc in my neck and arthritis in my knees and lower spine here. It's like hearing distant fireworks when I stand up sometimes
Streetwise
The most embarrassing when I find is when you get up from the chair it's the getting up from the chair noise
Autistamatic
Do you mean that kind of "ooof" noise you don't realise you've made until someone asks if you're alright??
Streetwise
it's the one Billy Connolly when he says various countries names pretending that it isn't a strain to get up from the chair
Autistamatic
That's the e one 