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Men whistling: Rant!
SophieKaczynsky · 06/10/2021 13:55
I know this subject has been mentioned many a time on MN but I am fucked off with men whistling or humming loudly in public places and basically dominating the place with their tuneless shit.
I've just been into a small charity shop and a man was walking round it whistling so loudly, and it was the kind of shrill whistle that hurts your ears! He also, in typical dominant male style, kept leaning across me to look at things rather than looking at another rack until I'd finished, which meant he was whistling in my ear!
So, I started whistling too. Very loudly and even more shrill and tuneless than his whistle! He glared at me in shock, and the whole shop turned to look, but he stopped fucking whistling!
I'm going to do it more often!
BobbinThreadbare123 · 06/10/2021 14:28
There's a couple of men in my office at work who do the tuneless whistling. Plus the single line of song, over and over. It makes me stabby. The very few female members of our team don't ever do this shit (there's only 5 of us anyway).
I've taken to saying "No!" audibly when they do it, like you would to a toddler. Seems to work!
SweatyTits · 06/10/2021 14:41
I love you, OP.
My mate (who has zero tolerance for men taking up space, and zero care about getting judged in public) does this but rather than competitive whistling, she starts singing at the top of her lungs while looking straight into the offending man's eyes. She is a brilliant singer and it definitely shuts them up.
Very very strange and embarrassing for the person shopping with her though 
Martinisarebetterdirty · 06/10/2021 14:50
My DD whistles (incredibly) loudly in public too - she’s 8. Personally I quite like it and quite often join in. Of course tuneless whistling is shit, but when it’s in tune I don’t see the problem.
The leaning in to your space is different and would make me stabby too.
ErrolTheDragon · 06/10/2021 14:52
Well done, OP and others for their appropriate retaliation to unwanted whistlers.
Mind you, I've been known to whistle, though more often sing quite lustily, nursery rhymes as I pushed or carried DD when she was small.
I hope that doing this for the entertainment or pacification of babies and small children is allowable? 'The animals came in two by two' was my piece de (no) resistance. I'd have been perfectly happy for anyone else to join in, of course.
DontBuyANewMumCashmere · 07/10/2021 12:33
Dear gods! Is it just whistling in public? I'm always whistling, singing and humming (tunelessly) at home, plus have awful earworm habit of singing the same line or phrase repeatedly.
To think some people would like to set me on fire because of it! 
(I'm sure it was 'just a joke' but still a slight overreaction imo!)
TonyThreePies · 08/10/2021 10:55
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EarthSight · 08/10/2021 18:29
Not sure I would be as bothered about this as you, but this made me laugh XD
So, I started whistling too. Very loudly and even more shrill and tuneless than his whistle! He glared at me in shock, and the whole shop turned to look, but he stopped fucking whistling!
I'm going to do it more often!
Kotatsu · 09/10/2021 10:30
My DS1 burbles - he'll just be wandering around, or sitting in the car, making these little tunes (wordless singing, not whistling). And to a certain extent, it's fine, and he's not doing it on purpose. But if I'm trying to concentrate on a right hand turn, or if DS2 has had a long day, then I ask him to stop (he mindlessly starts again a minute later, and I ask him to stop again :) )
He wouldn't do it walking around a shop, because I've raised him to be aware of other people (family don't quite count the same, which is fair enough). Didn't these people have parents to teach them to hold it in when in public and potentially disturbing others?
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