Men whistling loudly

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Does anyone else get fed up with men that whistle loudly and tunelessly in public? It's so rude! And before anyone says that women do it too, I can't say I've ever noticed a woman doing it!

I was just browsing in a small shop. A man came in, whistling extremely loudly, which was annoying in itself but then he came and stood right next to me and started browsing there and whistling right in my ear!

After a couple of minutes I said, politely 'Can you stop whistling in my ear please?'. He looked so shocked, as if it was the most shocking thing anyone had ever said to him, then just said 'How bloody rude!' and gave me a filthy look.

I carried on looking for a few minutes and he did stop whistling but kept giving me dirty looks until I left the shop.

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 ).

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

“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.

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

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.

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.

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.

You can hear him before you see him.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Therefore they are humming music they like and are familiar with. It is ridiculous to take it as a personal attack on you.

Yup, the loud whistler is definitely symbolic space invader. The pp's phrase 'aural manspreader' is very apt. They are Making their Presence Felt. If you're deliberately making a loud noise in public that others will unquestionably hear, you are drawing attention to yourself and feeling entitled to do so. They make me feel uncomfortable because of the underlying confrontational vibe.

Worst offenders are builders imo and I suspect they do it because they're no longer allowed to holler "Awright darlin'?" or "Nice tits, love" at passing women.

None of this applies to the people having a little whistle or hum under their breath.

Lol you snowflakes!

I think that blokes are often just in a good mood when they do this, and it's more ignorance that anyone else could possibly find it annoying rather than a deliberate attempt to mark out territory, but I find it really irritatingly intrusive, just as I would someone singing in my ear. I would never dream of bursting into song when I'm in a shop, so I don't see why their noise pollution should be seen as any more acceptable. There's something seedy about whistling too when it's done by a man with a woman in close proximity, like they're whispering something in your ear. I put it in the same category as being told to smile, a kind of attitude whereby their ego dictates that anyone around them should comply with whatever mood they happen to be in.

It definitely can be a territorial thing. I've had an ongoing run-in with one of the maintenance guys at work using my workroom as a (pointless) shortcut, and leaving the doors open when there are signs saying "no unauthorised access" and "keep doors closed". Whenever he barges through, he is always either whistling or tunelessly dee-dee-dee-da-da "singing". He will quite often knock on my desk as he passes as well. He's a smug prick; whenever I've complained, he responds by refusing to answer maintenance calls from our building.