Post by @Diddlydee@feddit.uk

2026-11-09 21:07 UTC

Do any of you ne'er-do-wells still whistle? I’m a regular whistler and pop out a tune to myself when I’m walking. It’s a dying art. Any other whistlers in the house?

Replies (30)

@vladmech@lemmy.world 2026-11-09 21:16

I’ve never been able to whistle even after multiple learning tries over the years. I like to think that if I could, I’d probably be whistling a lot as I always have a tune stuck in my head.

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@mannycalavera@feddit.uk 2026-11-09 21:19

I do agree it seems like a dying art. People look at me weird when I whistle away to myself.

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@Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 2026-11-09 21:27

Been whistlin’ since I had teeth. I’m always whistlin’ a tune.

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@Elting@piefed.social 2026-11-09 21:43

I have a whistling comm if you would like to post in it.

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@mushroommunk@lemmy.today 2026-11-09 21:51

I seen to be physically unable of blowing on my food to cool it without whistling.

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@UpAndAtThem@lemmy.world 2026-11-09 22:14

OoooEEE oooEEEoooo!

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@pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 2026-11-09 22:40

yeah

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@Berttheduck@lemmy.ml 2026-11-09 22:48

I regularly whistle when I’m just wandering around between things. Strangely it’s never a song I know it’s always just random tunes I make up as I go. I’ll hum or sing songs that get in my head but I’ll only whistle along with something already playing. I also taught myself to whistle with my fingers which is surprisingly useful and only took 1 summer spitting on my fingers to learn how to do.

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@whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-11-09 22:54

I whistle pretty rarely but I use non-language vocalization all the time when I’m learning to play a song on the guitar by ear, writing music, or trying new improvisation techniques, etc

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@WarTowel@lemmy.world 2026-11-09 23:41

All the time. I wish I could do it louder. Never could figure out how to “wolf whistle”

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@Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 2026-11-09 23:49

I’ve had pet budgies for forever, so that’s just how I talk to them.

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@foreverknew@lemmy.zip 2026-11-09 23:53

I whistle, I sing, I beat box. Try harder, world, you ain’t bringing me down.

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@TrackenDaKracken@lemmy.world 2026-11-10 00:31

I used to enjoy singing (not that anyone else did.) I used to have a range of almost three octaves. I lost that in the past ten years, down to about 1.5 octaves. I’ve never had a whistling range of more than one octave, but I can whistle higher than I can sing. So, I’ll sing the lower notes and whistle the higher notes.

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@enphurgen@lemmy.world 2026-11-10 00:31

I do often, my wife constantly tells me to stop

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@BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2026-11-10 00:33

I’m a constant whistler, and I’m pretty good at it. Sometimes I catch myself whistling quietly under my breath at the grocery store.

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@Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 2026-11-10 00:34

Love it! Sometimes I get the gym showers to myself, and the acoustics in there are great! Lots of jazz standards. Some classical. Some random noodling.

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@monovergent@lemmy.ml 2026-11-10 01:10

I never learned to whistle, but I find (can’t pinpoint why) that there can be “tasteful” and “tasteless” whistling. A colleague at my old job whistled on occasion and I hated it. But one of my current colleagues whistles often when he works and his whistling I find very calming.

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@Kefla@hexbear.net 2026-11-10 01:24

I’ve tried to learn to whistle several times. I can’t do it.

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@Carl@hexbear.net 2026-11-10 01:37

i can do it, but i don’t do it very often

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@Bonifratz@piefed.zip 2026-11-10 06:06

I was literally whistling while reading your post, haha! (Fire by Kasabian, if you wanna know.)

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@GarboDog@lemmy.world 2026-11-10 08:29

Yes, though our dad always said that it wasn’t us whistling it was just us squeaking like a girl. Anyways we’ve whistled all throughout out childhood and into adult hood and became a girl so that’s cool ig lol

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@rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 2026-11-10 16:20

Sure. Every now and then.

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@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2026-11-10 17:03

All the time. I whistle on the inhale too, so I can keep going all day. If you want to take it to the next whistle, hum at the same time to get undertones and a cool buzzing sound.

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@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2026-11-10 17:15

Alas, I whistle only slightly more tunefully than I sing. However, I must applaud the perfect application of gallivanting by a fellow ne’er-do-well

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@SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 2026-11-11 08:38

I whistle a lot, yeah

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@Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2026-11-11 08:49

Whistling is great

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@DamienGramatacus@lemmy.world 2026-11-11 09:11

Can’t sing for shit but I can whistle pretty well. So I do both.

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@CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 2026-11-11 11:14

After all these years I still get a random Andy Griffith Show compulsion when out walking my dogs. Has to have been a minimum of 25 years since I’ve seen an episode

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@Million@lemmy.zip 2026-11-11 11:50

I whistle constantly even without realizing sometimes. While doing menial tasks, like folding laundry, I sometimes whistle untill I feel light headed.

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@melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2026-11-11 12:19

I used to whistle quite tunefully. I’ve found, now that I’m older, I can’t whistle anymore. Mostly air and spit.

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