Men whistling loudly

People know if they hear me humming Ode To Joy I'm trying desperately not to spectacularly lose my temper

I used to whistle at work, only in the photocopier room if there was no one there.

Then my boss told me it was really annoying just walking by, so I stopped. Apologies. There are certain noises I hate as well.

It suggests that they can only cope with the heathen hordes if they're in direct contact with God

Oh for goodness sake- get over yourself.....

They've said as much, unfortunately. We serve a very diverse community, and they both attend the same fundamentalist church.

That really is annoying
It suggests that they can only cope with the heathen hordes if they're in direct contact with God

Oh for goodness sake- get over yourself.

People hum music they like and are familiar with.

I'm an atheist and have been known to hum I Vow to Thee My Country Thine Be The Glory , Risen Conquering Son Morning Has Broken and In The Bleak Midwinter and many others.

I Vow is Jupiter and Conquering Son is from Handel's Judas Maccabeus. I can't now remember if I first encountered them as hymns or secular music, but really that's a powerful combination of narcissism and inferiority complex to think your colleagues are humming them because they think you are a heathen.

Territory. If you can hear the whistle you're on his

What rot. Lots of people whistle or hum because they have a tune on the brain

Agreed- the territory thing is absolute rot.

Now what is territorial is assuming your bags are entitled to their own seat and making no effort to move them when a public space fills up. That is almost always done by women.

I'm a whistler, sorry! I try not to do it at work. I have two (female) colleagues that hum hymns under their breath all the bloody time though,

That really is annoying.
It suggests that they can only cope with the heathen hordes if they're in direct contact with God.

Of my many pet hates this has to be in the top ten!

You can hear him before you see him.

This is probably helpful. Some folk on mobility scooters go far too fast.

I am a habitual, tuneless whistler. I have only had positive comments “You sound happy” and suchlike.
Cant believe anyone could find it offensive tbh.

Those of you who dislike singing in public, you would hate my local Tesco then. There is an old man who comes in on a mobility scooter and drives around singing at the top of his voice. He doesn't even sing in tune. All the staff know him and smile benignly at him. I can't get out of the shop quick enough when he appears. He also sings while going down the street. You can hear him before you see him.

We stayed in a terraced holiday cottage last summer during hot weather, so everyone had their windows open. The guy in the neighbouring cottage whistled the same 3 or 4 bars of some tune pretty much on a loop. DH, my kids and I all wanted to kill him after the first couple of days. The only silver lining was that it wasn’t our permanent home, or he’d have been under the patio by summer’s end.

Any man who leans to one side is a complete bastard. #EileenDover

“a whistling woman and a crowing hen are neither fit for God nor men”..

..is an old expression to remind women of what's expected tho fortunately you don't hear it much nowadays.

Don't get me started on "performance" sneezes which I think men and women can excel at alike. Fuckers.

Those whistling males give me the right hump.

And as for performance sneezers, there was yet another man yesterday coughing and sneezing loudly without covering his nose or gob.

Does anyone know any female loud sneezers? Because I've only ever met male performance sneezers. I work with one now. It's loud enough to trigger a fear response. Horrible.

Does anyone else hate how men always lean slightly to one side?

I don't think whistling would annoy me unless I was stuck with the whistler in the same space for a while.
Frankly sniffers and snorters piss me off much more. Use a tissue you skank!

Sometimes I think you could make almost anything up about men and post it on here and you'd get a chorus of agreement.
Does anyone else hate how men always lean slightly to one side?
OMG me too, I hate that.

And here's me thinking that people whistle because they're happy or have a tune stuck in their head. If I could whistle, I probably would do as well but I can't so humming it is. Men do whistle more, that I've noticed, but I can't say it's ever bothered me.

Territory. If you can hear the whistle you're on his.

What rot. Lots of people whistle or hum because they have a tune on the brain. Generally it comes across as a cheerful thing to do (even if some people find it annoying). My FIL whistles constantly (but pretty tunefully tbh). He is not remotely alpha male or the type to even think about his 'territory'. There absolutely are arseholes around, but whistling doesn't make you one of them.

Men might whistle but women hum or sing I find (based on my very unscientific observations at work)

I found the same (in my own incredibly scientific observations ).

Is this a thing? In my 45 years I have never encountered this.

I have never noticed this

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I find myself getting less and less tolerant of this symbolic space invading as I get older.

If I see a man spit now, I will tell him loudly that he's disgusting and should be ashamed of himself. I commute and regularly tell manspreaders to move out of my way. I absolutely don't move for men on public pavements.

It feels great but is fucking depressing how often this shit happens.

Oh God I've found my tribe.

I was talking to a friend about this the other day and she thought I was bonkers. I'm so glad this is a thing that others have noticed.

I think its to do with symbolically taking up public space (which is why I think it is similar to spitting). I don't think men necessarily always do it on purpose, I think a lot of it comes from unquestioning public space ownership (see also manspreading, not moving on pavements etc. etc.).

I do think some men do this to draw attention to themselves when attractive women are around and as a kind of quas-wolf whistle (i.e. they're not technically whistling at a woman...)

I remember last year when a man who lives in my local area and pisses me off immensely for all sorts of reasons (including whistling) stood right next to me in a shop and was whistling tunelessly right in my ear. I was so pissed off that I saw red mist and when the song changed on the radio I started singing it at a volume to match his whistling. He wasn't prepared for Take That's 'Everything Changes' at 200 decibels in Savers the Chemist and looked very shocked. My DP exited the shop post haste.

Oh, honestly! Get over yourselves.

Gawd! I've seen the light and am off to get over myself.