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Whistling in public

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,867 ✭✭✭SteM


    Ray Palmer wrote: »
    Not aware of how queuing works on an airplane? Two ques formed to get on the plane and then merge. As they move at different rates you don't have much choice where you are positioned. It wouldn't have made much difference as it was echoing in the tunnel.

    I spoke in my voice without shouting and he could hear me as I was facing him. My sofa is bigger the distance than he was from me so no need to shout.


    I've been on plenty of planes and I know for a fact that if there was someone getting on that I wanted to avoid because they were bugging me I could. Even if it means staying seated until everyone else had started to board. Face it, you were annoyed that he didn't fall for your alpha male staring him down bs and it got to you. You came off as a tool in your story and the lady that stared at you in amazement got it spot on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    glued wrote: »
    Seriously get a life and a lighten up. You sound like a sour old bugger!
    Read that in a flat Yorkshire accent.Whistling in public is acceptable to me,very trivial thing to get annoyed over.Anyway I'm not allowing myself to be getting into such a debate, I'm off t'pub for a half of bitter laddo.
    *whistles*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,924 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    bitter laddo


    Much like the OP.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    I can imagine OP staring his girlfriend out of it when he spots her going out wearing a dress he doesn't like.


  • Posts: 11,195 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I was on a quiet red line heading out towards saggart the last night and a yung wan was across from me giving it the eyes and she said psst and I kinda ignored her and she said psst again and I kinda gave her an inquiring look and she whispered across the tram she said look at this and mar ya didn't she flash open her legs and not a stitch on under the short skirt she was wearing well I didn't know where to look but I has an idea and she said psst and I said nothing and she said psst and I kinda gave her a less inquiring but more pensive look and she said I can wink and I momentarily lost composure I said wink? she said wink and she nodded down below and God help me didn't I peek again and lord above it winked at me now I was in an awful plamàs at this stage and when she said psst I looked at her haunted now and when she said do you wanna put a finger in it I lost all sense and roared AH JAYSUS LOVE DONE TELL ME YOU CAN MAKE IT WHISTLE AN ALL

    thats my story about public whistling wha


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 996 ✭✭✭1eg0a3xv7b82of


    You keep a list of what constitutes a 'good reason' though, in order to determine whether someone is mad or not though, right?

    Yes, whistling is very dangerous, have you not heard what a whistling woman and a crowing hen can do.
    There is 2 medically proven warning signs for madness
    1. Whistling for no good reason and
    2. People who play the spoons

    Be careful out there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,351 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    SteM wrote: »
    I've been on plenty of planes and I know for a fact that if there was someone getting on that I wanted to avoid because they were bugging me I could. Even if it means staying seated until everyone else had started to board. Face it, you were annoyed that he didn't fall for your alpha male staring him down bs and it got to you. You came off as a tool in your story and the lady that stared at you in amazement got it spot on.

    1) He had stopped whistling for half an hour
    2) He got in the queue behind me
    3) She didn't stare at me she was staring up at him

    Really don't care what you think of my actions. This man was aware he annoyed at least one person when he started whistling in the corridor. You can argue he forgot but either way he was being rude to do so once he had this knowledge. He was imposing his tune on me the same as if he was playing it on his phone speaker which everybody knows is rude.

    The woman's actions were actually pretty close to my initial reaction but you think it was right there.It kind of proves that you aren't so bothered by the action than you were saying before. Is it just because it was against whistling? Pretty finely defined set of manners and interactions you have there where staring is acceptable and amazing you can't see how whistling would be considered rude.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Ray Palmer wrote: »
    Then this women is staring at me literally open mouthed as if I had insulted her. I look at her and say "Yes?" and she slowly turns around with the same expression like a cartoon character.
    Ray Palmer wrote: »
    She didn't stare at me she was staring up at him.

    Now, I'm totally confused.

    I can't trust any of this yarn now.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    Now, I'm totally confused.

    I can't trust any of this yarn now.

    Ray just got slammed ......... BOOM! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 674 ✭✭✭idnkph


    PucaMama wrote: »
    D*ckhead

    Obviously the auld sense of humor is missed here. enjoy the holiday hahahahah


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,833 ✭✭✭JeffKenna


    I think you need to get laid more


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 488 ✭✭The Sun King


    If I was doing something that annoyed someone I'd probably stop out of politeness. I'm usually a very conscious person. Unless they were an absolute melt like the OP. People that are so easily wound up deserve to be pushed to the brink for the masses enjoyment.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭PucaMama


    idnkph wrote: »
    Obviously the auld sense of humor is missed here. enjoy the holiday hahahahah

    I see no sense of humour only a poor attempt at being smart. What a disgusting comment to make. And what are you talking about?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 674 ✭✭✭idnkph


    Dont be so nosey.


  • Administrators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 18,841 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭hullaballoo


    I dislike whistling in public because I was told to dislike it as a sprog. I can't remember the why of it but I was told that whistling or humming is only for when you are alone.

    I suppose the reasoning must be that rambunctious in many situations that you encounter it. Rambunctious is a word and you should google it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭sixfingered


    I do find it very annoying if it lasts more than a couple of minutes of so, but I also find people having loud conversations/phone calls or listening to music loudly the same so I think I might be the problem!

    I never leave the house without a set of good earphones as a result. Just the risk you take when you use public transport!

    I'd imagine that down the line we'll have similar things that you see in the UK/Europe/North America with things like quiet carriages and the like.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,424 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    idnkph, don't post in this thread again. You're just trolling and goading posters.

    Mod


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,915 ✭✭✭worded


    The Rare Tasmanian Snow Leopard can whistle, but chooses not to


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭Pat Mustard




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,639 ✭✭✭feargale


    Silbo Gomero ( 'Gomeran whistle'), also known as el silbo ('the whistle'), is a whistled register of Spanish used by inhabitants of La Gomera in the Canary Islands to communicate across the deep ravines and narrow valleys that radiate through the island. It enables messages to be exchanged over a distance of up to 5 kilometres.

    If I were you OP I would bypass the Canary Islands.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,779 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Op, sure it wasn't Roger Whittaker?

    http://youtu.be/QBHc1ds-zeE


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,639 ✭✭✭feargale


    worded wrote: »
    The Rare Tasmanian Snow Leopard can whistle, but chooses not to

    Otters whistle too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 breffnibiddy


    Wouldn't really bother me... I think


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Wouldn't really bother me... I think

    JUst what were you looking up to find this thread?

    :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 518 ✭✭✭keith_sixteen


    The guy in the youtube video looks exactly like what I would expect a top class whistler to look like.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    I don't mind it at all


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