Where are all the whistlers?

I went to a convent school where the nuns told us that girls who whistled made the Blessed Virgin sad. I could never get the hang of it anyway.

How awful, repressing females from even whistling.

I’m afraid I’ve been a whistler - quite a tuneful one I’m told - since I was a child. My older sister use to say “You’ll never be a lady!” And do you know? She’s been proved absolutely right!😁

I would dearly like to be able to put my thumb and finger in my mouth and whistle but I could never get the hang of it!

Shinamae, haven’t heard A whistling woman
And a crowing hen
Is neither good to God nor men? 😜 for more years than I care to remember. My great aunt used give me in trouble when I tried to whistle, whilst my darling papa tried his best to teach me just to annoy her😂😂😂

I find whistling disconcerting - it always makes me feel that the person doing it wants to be acknowledged and I am socially phobic 😥

My 17 year old Grandson whistles, when I hear him I know he's happy 😊

I just looked on Google, putting in 'teach yourself to whistle', and there are heaps of lessons. I might try it! I'm 76, it's never too late.

I whistle quite a bit - mostly in the garden. A short while ago I was whistling a merry tune as I cleaned the bathroom. Then I caught sight of myself in the mirror. And wished I hadn't. I still whistle though...

I equate whistling with feeling happy.

I’m currently whistling Hymn to Love ( Edith Piaf!) having watch the Olympic Opening Ceremony. Also, I taught my oldest grandchild to whistle the theme tune from Postman Pat and shame oh shame, I found myself whistling through my fingers in my mouth when watching Tom Jones at the Piece Hall in Halifax ( my son looked aghast😕) Im 75 and keeping whistling alive!!

I whistled a rather rousing rendition of Sweet child 'o mine, by Guns 'n' Roses this morning.

I'm quite out of practice, though.

I once worked with a brilliant deputy headteacher at the end of play time she was the only teacher who didn’t need the bell, she would put her fingers in her mouth a produce a stoning whistle. The kids loved it, really upped her street cred. 👍

I also whistle while I work in a care home. The seniors love it. But, one colleague told me that women who whistle are disgusting. Ha, ha! I'm 69 and will continue to whistle at work. Even when I am cycling.

My grandson talk himself to whistle and he is 7. Mind you its a bit tuneless at the moment !!

I love hearing whistling, it's joyful

I read somewhere that if workmen whistle at ladies, it’s classed as harassment.
Personally, I would feel complimented.

All this PC nonsense.

my husband does it, nearly all day every day.........tempted to dig a hole in the garden for him to fall into.

I can't and never have been able to whistle. My dear late grandfather used to whistle all the time but I rarely hear anyone whistling nowadays.

It isn't only whilstling, nobody sings at their work now either.

Frankly, I seem to remember both going out when walkmen came in.

No need to make your own music if you can listen to others making professional music while you work, seems to be the thinking.

If indeed, anyone actually thought about it. Probably the change just occured.

I was told the proverb as " A whistling woman and a crowing hen are neither good for God or men"" Girls were allowed to whistle for a dog, but not to whistle tunes, and it was frowned on if you whistled in your fingers, or stuck a (grubby) finger in your mouth and whistled.