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Whistlers.

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  • 22-10-2014 11:58pm
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    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,414 ✭✭✭✭


    Am I alone in my dislike of whistlers?
    Rarely if ever do they actually manage to make a comprehensible tune out of their annoying noise,instead it's like a child with a new musical instrument i.e. a random selection of noises.
    Only use for a whistle is to call your dog from a distance.End of.


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    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    My uncle used to whistle coming up the street... Think it was used as some sort of warning that he was on his way home...


    No one seems to like whistleblowers in this country :-)


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    DoYouEvenLift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,188 ✭✭✭DoYouEvenLift


    Nose whistlers are the worst, can they not hear how they sound like leaking gas canisters?


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    cruais
    Registered Users Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭cruais


    You'd hate henry street so on a Saturday afternoon.

    *loud whistle*
    Heyor Anto! Ye got ne schmookes?

    Translation: Hello Anthony. Do you have a cigarette?


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    mikeyjames9
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 700 ✭✭✭mikeyjames9


    There was a chocolate bar called a "Whistler" bar came out years ago in the uk
    Followed up with a big marketing campaign
    Everyone was gone facking daft whistling for a while


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    #6
    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,068 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    http://i.imgur.com/JLA60ia.jpg


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    AlanS181824
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    The NSA definitely doesn't like whistle blowers anyway!


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    Birneybau
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    realies wrote: »
    My uncle used to whistle coming up the street... Think it was used as some sort of warning that he was on his way home...


    No one seems to like whistleblowers in this country :-)

    Omar?


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    Call me Al
    Registered Users Posts: 3,022 ✭✭✭Call me Al


    My dad whistles a lot. He often starts whistling when he's driving even if there's something different playing on the radio. This drives me barmy.

    But my kids have told me they love this about him and they try to do it too. They don't know anyone else who whistles either.


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    policarp
    Registered Users Posts: 3,661 ✭✭✭policarp


    Anyone remember Roger Whitaker?
    He was a good whistler IMO.


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    The Backwards Man
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    Sitting on the Dock Of the Bay, one of the finest blues tunes ever, has a class whistle at the end. Don't think it was Otis Redding whistling it, but always love it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd3rA89VhtA


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    BrokenHero
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    Rickey Gervais out it in Room 101 if I recall correctly.

    Around 4.15am some guy used to walk down my road really fast whistling away to himself, Mon to Fri for around four years. Used to drive me nuts, then all of sudden it stopped. Often wondered what happened him


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    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,414 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    BrokenHero wrote: »
    Rickey Gervais out it in Room 101 if I recall correctly.

    Around 4.15am some guy used to walk down my road really fast whistling away to himself, Mon to Fri for around four years. Used to drive me nuts, then all of sudden it stopped. Often wondered what happened him

    Sniper probably.


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    Mongfinder General
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    cruais wrote: »
    You'd hate henry street so on a Saturday afternoon.

    *loud whistle*
    Heyor Anto! Ye got ne schmookes?

    Translation: Hello Anthony. Do you have a cigarette?

    No, soddy Johnner, I left them in the bleedin' pub...

    Translation - Mea culpa John but I seem to have misplaced mine following lunch at a local hostelry...


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    TheBrinch
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    I whistle constantly. Thug Life.


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    pablo128
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    My daughter learned to whistle from Peppa Pig. When she was 4!:eek:

    She's able to whistle away like a little sparrow now, so she is.


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    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    Never developed the ability.


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    Berserker
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    Never managed to master to art I have to say.


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    csallmighty
    Registered Users Posts: 650 ✭✭✭csallmighty


    What's your favorite whistling noise?


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    djflawless
    Registered Users Posts: 1,868 ✭✭✭djflawless


    Is it weird that i can't whistle blowing out, and have to inhale instead??


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    #21
    KungPao
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    The art of the thumb and index finger whistle is a rite of passage for any respectable aspiring boyo.


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    Karl Stein
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMm1Wih0kug


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    Betty Bloggs
    Registered Users Posts: 274 ✭✭Betty Bloggs


    I like whistlers. Sounds chirpy.:)
    Rubbish at whistling myself though.


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