Whistling.Your thoughts on it.

darkdubh

Personaly I hate it.I always found it a real chalk on a blackboard type sound.There's a fella serving at the canteen where I work who whistles along very loudly to every song that comes on the radio ,complete head wreck.

hoodwinked

i love it, but only because my husband and daughter can't do it, nothing funnier than watching someone trying to whistle

IM0

only perverts do it

Festy

darkdubh wrote: »

Personaly I hate it.I always found it a real chalk on a blackboard type sound.There's a fella serving at the canteen where I work who whistles along very loudly to every song that comes on the radio ,complete head wreck.

Get back to work you little scut.

Ardeehey

Love it, my fav pasttime even though I am terrible at it

Bannasidhe

After my nose was broken for the nth time during a rugby match I found I can no longer whistle. I was never great at it but I could whistle a wee tune or call the dogs back. Now - not a chance. It's a bit annoying.

SEPT 23 1989

Its a dying art form

Jimmy 5F

I find it's often used as a signal by males to mark their territory much like a terrier pi$$ing on a tree.

gobnaitolunacy

Postmen are noted for having the most tuneless whistling.

When women whistle, it just sounds wrong....for some reason.

mike65

In 1953 100% of men could whistle.

hoodwinked

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

Postmen are noted for having the most tuneless whistling.

When women whistle, it just sounds wrong....for some reason.

not if you whistle while you work....

LizT

I can't whistle

Dravokivich

Never thought I could do it when i was younger. Turns out I can. Just not in key.

mikehammer67

wadn't there a big craze back in the 70s

when some new chocolate bar came out

a whistler bar i think it was called

LizT

LizT wrote: »

I can't whistle

Me neither

Duckworth_Luas

mike65 wrote: »

In 1953 100% of men could whistle.

Wrong it was 99.9999999% of men.

Famously, John "The Whistler" Kelly couldn't whistle!

wexie

My 3yr old just learnt how to whistle, which she's very proud of, which means she now whistles ALL THE BLOODY TIME , got woken up this morning by whistling....

The worst thing is she can only do the one note (more or less) so I've been trying to teach her to whistle songs to at least break up the monotony a bit.

Don't necessarily have a problem with people whistling though, as long as they don't do it all the time or the same thing over and over again.

I myself have been known to knock out the odd tune. I used to try to whistle this

from about a minute in.

Paz-CCFC

I was never into the whistling myself, I always preferred humming. You never hear a woman humming. I knew a woman once, but she died soon after.

Jimmy 5F

It always seems to be men who stroll around whisling on their own.

jprboy

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

Postmen are noted for having the most tuneless whistling.

When women whistle, it just sounds wrong....for some reason.

A whistlin' woman and a crowin' hen
Are worse than the divil and all his men

gobnaitolunacy

jprboy wrote: »

A whistlin' woman and a crowin' hen
Are worse than the divil and all his men

A whistlin' woman and a crowin' hen
There's no luck nor grace in the house they're in!

--Kaiser--

LizT wrote: »

I can't whistle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY5o39OAzA8

davetherave

Whistle while you work,
Hitler is a twerp,
He's half barmy, so's his army,
Whistle while you work.

SEPT 23 1989

http://www.whistlingiwc.com/index.html

mikehammer67

davetherave wrote: »

Whistle while you work,
Hitler is a twerp,
He's half barmy, so's his army,
Whistle while you work.

dang you didn grow up in england did you
all those silly hitler songs they used sing over there when i was a kid

Fizgig Bandicoot

I love whistling because it's one thing that I am awesome at.

Tabnabs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQQ5sEOhbjQ

Imagine not being able to whistle this tune

rain on

When I do it it's great and a signal that all is right with the world.
When other people do it it's insanely annoying.

kylith

I don't mind whistling, I do it myself.

My (adult) American cousin told me that she'd never heard a woman whistling before. WTF?

Dravokivich

davetherave wrote: »

Whistle while you work,
Hitler is a twerp,
He's half barmy, so's his army,
Whistle while you work.

Don't give him your name Pike!

Frank Black

Most people who whistle along to music also tend to have awful taste in music.
There seems to be some strange correlation between the two.

Ihatecuddles-old

My boyfriend can whistle really well, I find it really hot I can't whistle at all...

Dravokivich

Frank Black wrote: »

Most people who whistle along to music also tend to have awful taste in music.
There seems to be some strange correlation between the two.

Yeah... it's really annoying listening to the youngers whistling along to Skrillex.

Rubberlegs

I can whistle very tunefully, even if I do say so myself:P. My favourite tune to whistle is the beginning of Patience, Guns n Roses. My Dad was constantly whistling, and taught me when I was tiny. . .

gobnaitolunacy

bluewolf wrote: »

Me neither

Not even a 'wolf whistle'?

100200 shih

I had a student from Holland in my home for 5 months who whistle or hummed all the time, by the end of May , I was fit to kill him before he left, all day long , didnt matter what he was doing , cooking or in the shower,

davetherave

mikehammer67 wrote: »

dang you didn grow up in england did you
all those silly hitler songs they used sing over there when i was a kid

No, just a fan of Dad's Army.

kylith

Was in Amsterdam about a year ago and heard whistling. I looked around because it was very loud and melodious, but saw no-one whistling. A couple of minutes later he walked past; you could hear him well after he'd gone too, the whistle must have carried for a few hundred metres. I have no idea how he managed to whistle so loudly so well.

Ilik Urgee

Someone whistling along to a song or just in general

Me-"The original was better"
Them-"That is the original"

I'll just keep walking before the penny drops:pac:

funk-you

It's a dying artform passed on from father to son. If your Da is really oldschool you'll be taught; Sing a few lines from the song > Insert whistling for the bits you don't know > Hum a bit > Sing same lines of the song again.

-Funk

I love whistling and people who whistle.They always seem like a cheery bunch.
yeah, whistling makes me smile:)

Triangular

Yeah my grandad passed it onto me. Don't really see anything wrong with it. You never see sad people whistling. My theory is that you have to half smile to whistle and smiling makes you happy so therefore whistling makes you happy.

WoollyRedHat

IM0 wrote: »

only perverts do it

Bearded whistling perverts!

Hande hoche!

I enjoy whistling, if only because I couldn't until my twenties. Still can't snap my fingers though.

junior_apollo

I am really bad at remembering tunes...

But for some reason... when I whistle, I always whistle the Glenroe theme music???... Cant even think of it now but I know if i started whistling... there it would be... taunting me... stalking me... from the dark... *shudders*

Scarlet42

I can whistle and hum at the same time!!:D ... but not different tunes:(