Whistler?
By Humbug25
@Humbug25 (12540)
November 29, 2008 10:03am CST
No not the artist!! I can whistle without my fingers and also very loudly with my fingers much to my son's delight. I hate it when my son whistles, it really gets on my nerves but I don't know why. I like to listen to people if they are whistling a nice tune but hate it if it is just random whistling.
Are you a whistler? Does it get on your nerves when others whistle?
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@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
30 Nov 08
I can whistle a lil bit. My uncle can do it perfectly. I don't mind if they whistle unless it's supposed to be somewhere quiet or you have something you need to concentrate on it can become a distraction.
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@Humbug25 (12540)
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2 Dec 08
Hi Anne18
I guess some people just can't and that is all there is to it. Someone once told me that it is a hereditary thing. You'll have to ask your folks if they can whistle! I like to hear the posty whistle too, it means they are happy in their job and it is not like it is continual as they go on their merry way.
Cheers Anne
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@wolfie34 (26770)
• United Kingdom
29 Nov 08
I can't whistle for toffee, well I can but I get out of breath and I certainly can't whistle a song, I do find whistling annoying! It's a habit to me that people do either when they don't realize it or worst when they are happy, you wonder what they've got to be so happy about especially if you are having a bad day yourself! I can fully appreciate where you are coming from and yes whistling does get on my nerves although it's not as bad as some people's habits ;0)
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@lilybug (21107)
• United States
30 Nov 08
I can whistle, but I don't. I cannot stand it when other people whistle. My sister taught my son how to whistle a few years ago and it drove me nuts. I was constantly telling him to stop it. He catches himself doing it once in awhile now and stops on his own.
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@rocketj1 (6955)
• United States
30 Nov 08
I do a great bird whistle through my teeth (hard to describe, just trust me). Two weeks ago, I was practicing with the praise team and I was changing my batteries on my mic. As I was popping them in, I realized that my mic was still on. I was back stage and the rest of the team was milling around on stage. So , I decided to do my bird whistle in my mic. Talking stopped. "Do you hear that?" "Is there a bird in here".............pause.................. (Kendra)"Heidi! Is that you?"



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@aisaellis22 (6445)
• United States
30 Nov 08
Hello humbug25! Yes I do know how to whistle. But the sound is not that really good compared to other whistlers. When we (my siblings) were little, my father doesn't need to shout our name or go down just to let us go home, he will just whistle and he has this particular sound that we knew it was him and it means that we have to go home.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
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29 Nov 08
I can whistle, but not loudly and never tunefully Humbug. I was always the boy that couldn't whistle using a piece of grass either. I'm scarred for life by that! LOL. Tuneful whistling is fine, but a noise is awful. That said, I don't hear too many whistlers these days. When I was young every male seemed to have a whistle on the go.
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@Humbug25 (12540)
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29 Nov 08
Hi there p1kef1sh
I'll send my son on round to your place then!! LOL
.. I couldn't whisle using a piece of grass either so you're not on your own there! I can't whistle through my hands though both my brothers can but then they are both left handed too, not that I think that has got anything to do with it!! LOL
Cheers p1key
.. I couldn't whisle using a piece of grass either so you're not on your own there! I can't whistle through my hands though both my brothers can but then they are both left handed too, not that I think that has got anything to do with it!! LOL
Cheers p1key @scorpio19 (1363)
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29 Nov 08
Hi Humbug,
I whistle ocassionally and I'm a one trick pony because it always comes out "strangers in the night" why I don't know but I have a very different tune in my head but it always turns into strangers in the night, same if I hum. When I was a child if I whistled, my mum without fail would say this " Whistling woman, crowing hen brings the devil out of it's den" never told me to shut up or that's a nice tune just rhymed off her little verse with a knowing nod at the end and a look to enforce the ryhmn, like I was suppose to get whatever the rhymn was suppose to say to me and at the age I was, it meant nothing.
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@dinkan53 (99)
• Ukraine
29 Nov 08
I can whistle with out fingers.I even love and do tunning songs by whistling., but iam trying from some 15 years to whistle using fingers like my friends do no use.Whistling is a funny skill,i wonder how someone could have a problem withit.













