Can you whistle? Do you?

[Conager]

Like carry-a-tune whistle?

I was whistling a tune* the other day and some older gent was complimentary about my skill with it, and he said, "You don't hear anybody whistling anymore." I never noticed, but he might be right. The whole "whistle while you work" thing was probably much more common before everyone had earbuds and a smartphone in their pocket.

*not to be confused with tuneless whistling, which I probably do at times, but wouldn't notice any more than you notice of you stick out the tip of your tongue or bite your lip when your are bent on a task.


. . .poll to follow.

 

[Conager]

Public poll. Select all that apply.

 

[Conager]

Dolf is how you round out poll options when you realize your number of poll questions was overly ambitious.

Dolf is also a woman. I know Dolf currently as the poaster who is a weightlifter and the mature paramour of the Muscular ToyBoy with a Huge Cock™.

In context, from resurrected threads she seems to be both much more than that, and/or a stand-in for a two-dimensional sexy stereotype in days of yore (before my time.) I was here then, but not specifically here at the time, so I'm really nor qualified to answer the question.

Not that that ever stops me from giving it the old college try.

 

[Conager]

Dunno. I left that question blank.

 

[dolf]

I can carry a tune. I don't think I'll ever fill a concert hall, but I'm probably a smidge better than the average, despite being late to the game. I only figured out whistling at age 15. Incidentally, the same age I finally figured out bicycles.

I would have to vote for not hearing whistling as much these days, were it not for a coworker. And, apparently, whistling is somewhat contagious, because the new guy has caught the bug too.
Maybe it's the ease at which we access music these days. Once upon a time, humming, singing or whistling was the only access people had to music on the go.

 

[Conager]

I would have guessed you could, because I can't see you not trying it, and you are persistent enough to stick with things.

You might be right about it being contagious come to think of it I learned listening to my father's cardinal call, and I've noticed that the small one has been whistling a lot and I'm quite sure she picked it up for me. I tried to be fairly patient because at this point she still learning she's not bad, but it can be grating.

Mine probably is to others, but no one has ever said anything about it that I can recall till this gent.

Every once awhile when I'm whistling I have had people comment that they can't that they've tried but can't I don't know if that's a thing. Like our there mechanical reasons that people can't whistle or they just haven't got the neck because they haven't practiced enough?

I can whistle continuously morales in tune while both inhaling or X sailing I can also whistle through my teeth as opposed to using my lips.

Oddly, I cannot do that thing that people do when they whistle using their fingers. I've tried and tried and I can't seem to do it I'm not sure why I can't.

I can shriek really loudly with a bit of plastic or paper, which is the same principle.

 

[Conager]

Ha. Because of the discussion above, I clicked on profile to see if you have a picture and a evidently you do. Nice to see you. I don't think that I've seen a picture of you before, and I don't know how that's possible. I don't know if you put it up just now because of the discussion or if it's been up all the time because I have avatars off.

 

[badbabysitter]

You have avatars off, but knew about mine


Yeah, you're not obsessed

 

[dolf]

Mine comes and goes. I swing between desiring pseudo-anonymity, and finding it just too fucking annoying not to be able to instantly identify posters (including myself) whilst scrolling.

 

[Tryharder62]

https://youtu.be/WnAFuM4w_50