To ask if you whistle?

[BromptonCocktail]

I've been trying to teach a young relative to whistle this week and it got me thinking about whistling in general.

If you can whistle (as in whistle a tune, or with tune-like intention, as opposed to wolf-whistling or calling your sheepdog), do you actually whistle, and when do you do it?

I was passive-aggressively whistled at by a bloke heading for a lift I'd just entered a few weeks ago. I held the door for him but he made firm and consistent eye contact with me and while whistling a non-tune louder and louder as he approached the lift. It was very odd and slightly menacing

I can't whistle to save my life, wish I could whistle to a tune.

I used to think it meant I was tone deaf but I'm definitely not as I'm currently doing vocal lessons with an opera singer.

I've never heard the one about making Our Lady cry, is it just whistling that does that? I'm in awe of the nuns' ability to reframing things that aren't actual sins (not that I believe in sin as a concept) into sources of Divine Distress.

I can whistle but only do it to show off yo my DS's as they can't whistle.

Though when I rule the world people who whistle in public will be flogged. Men (and I've never seen a woman do this) whistling round the supermarket will be doubly flogged.

BromptonCocktail There was also 'every time a girl swears, it makes Our Lady blush'.

Or makes gods hands bleed. Or if you tell a lie your tongue goes black. I could go on and on with these. Putting that fear into young minds is wrong.

I was told not to whistle by my Gran, she said that Our Lady turns her head three times every time a girl whistles. I just thought it was something she'd made up, didn't realise other Catholics said it too!

The nuns came into my youngest child's school for a visit. My child had overheard an adult conversation at home (don't judge me, it happens) the conversation with the teacher left me mortified.

I'm one of those folks the only stays in tune when they whistle, not when they sing.
I can nail just about anything whistling. Random 3 year olds have corrected my singing!
I don't do it that often, but dh and I have been know the whistle a few Sinatra duets while doing the washing up.

I'm a whistler, my dad's a whistler. He can hold a tune though

Waaa I hate whistling!!!
The sound is so annoying and goes right through me.

I whistle frequently - my singing is terrible so I whistle instead. Never aggressively, mind.
I believe I can hold a tune pretty well, but perhaps others would think otherwise!

I taught myself to whistle in my early twenties while watching the Xmas Files
I wouldn't say I'm great but I get by.

That was the X Files obviously

I CAN whistle.
I DON'T whistle though because I find it insanely annoying.

I can barely whistle and only occasionally sing in key. Do they tend to go together?

I can whistle. I can whistle a tune but not in tune. DH can whistle (and sing) in tune and I've always been a bit jealous. The dcs try to whisle but haven't quite cracked it yet.

I whistle often and absentmindedly, I try not to cause I'll end up with lips like a cats bum.
I can also whistle with my fingers very loudly.
Took years of persistent practice. If only
I put as much effort into other areas of my life . . . .

I whistle - in fact, when the choir I'm in did a Kings Singers arrangement of Blackbird, that has some whistled solo sections in it, I did the whistling. [proud]

I'm a supermarket whistler! Not all the time though. Sometimes I just sing to myself. I do whistle a lot round the house, usually if the song requires a greater vocal range than I possess, or as the "instrumental" intro or middle eight to what I'm singing.

Both my parents did the same, and now I find one of my DC is picking up the habit too. I was amused to hear him whistling while washing the dishes recently, as he performed one of "my" songs, which I in turn have only ever heard from my father. I think it's from the 1940s but it's still going strong in our house!

People who whistle need to leave the planet. For the sake of my nerves.