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I find myself getting annoyed with people whistling in public. The noise is like fingernails on a chalkboard.
YES. This is completely normal. Whenever I hear the sound of whistling it makes me wanna pull my hair out, I hate it so much!
I don't get annoyed with it because I WHISTLE ALL THE FUCKING TIME. Someday I'm going to be the whistling champion.
I whistle the Imperial March from Star Wars whenever people disappoint me. If that doesn't work, I put on a black, plastic head and get all asthmatic on their ass.
The worst is when they talk and they whistle because of a gap in their teeth or something. Like that old pedo in family guy ughhh i hate whistle talkers
It is annoying, but I find it rather creepy when you're in a quiet place and you start to hear it.
I really loved all your comments and I feel a bit better now that I know so many people hate the whistling... I hate it so much that I Fill like hurt the person or heart my ears so that I can stop hearing it ... my father used to whistle (and strongly) and I always hated it... and he knew it (I told him, since I was little) and he ignored it... as people do when they do not understand!! anyway: thanks for talking about MISOPHONIA I will search on it. I am seeking for counselling, now, because this is getting a bit too much for me.
Thanks again to all of you for being frank and describing so well what it feels.. cheers
Wow, I cannot believe I found this site! Paolap, OMG, it's like looking in the mirror! I don't think I could ever do another heavy face-to-face customer service job because of it. It hurts and it's like nails on chalkboard! Other people have made me feel like I'm crazy, said I'm jealous because I can't (don't want to...EVER), and deliberately did it in total disrespect because they thought it was funny to "watch me squirm." I do not even like to tell anybody about it since I've been shamed and taunted with it so many times. The only ones I tell are out of a sense of a "two-way adult" intimate relationship, and the few I have told used it as a way to laugh at me or as a weapon. My parents had started telling people how much I hate it since I was little, knowing what would happen. Those people, of course, would do it on purpose. They always made me feel like a loser because I hated it. Keep in mind, people that do things they know you hate on purpose really aren't the best people for you (or any decent person) to be around. Even after biting the bullet to ask an ENT specialist (and finding out it hurts due to pitch and it's nothing to be ashamed of) and telling a friend it literally hurts and WHY it hurts, he continued to do it. He'd even laugh and say it's funny because it's "...your kryptonite." With that and many other things pertaining to his bad attitude, disrespect, name-calling, and much more, I ditched that person from my life. That's not a friend. If only people had manners, especially in public.
To those who are NOT mindful of others: I get that sound happens and people make sounds. I don't care what you do when you're alone. But whistling, cracking your gum, singing/humming, slurping, smacking your lips when you eat/chewing with your mouth open, honking your horn repeatedly for no reason, and many other kinds of incessant, obnoxious, and repetitive noisemaking in public is downright rude. Be mindful of others, because it's not just about you and you're not anything special or entitled to anything. What you don't understand is that no matter how much you think you have the right to do whatever you want (regardless of whether it hurts or bothers others), that behavior triggers the urge in another to want to break the bones in your face. In some cases, it may even be well deserved. Look at it from the other side because someone might do something YOU hate, and you know how that feels. We've all been there before.
-P.S.- There are only a very few rare times I've heard it and it doesn't hurt. I think it's due to synthesizing or distortion? Example, I like the "Pumped Up Kicks" song by Foster the People. Crazy right?! I can tolerate the song, but not people that whistle along with it.
That best way to get back at people like that is to mimic their behaviour. If they whistle start whistling too in the most loud and obnoxious why possible. If they chew gum loudly and you happen to have a stick of gum put in your mouth and start chewing and popping in the loudest, most annoying way possible. The only way people learn is to give them a taste of their own medicine. I did that in the supermarket the other day. This guy was pushing his trolley up and down the aisles whistling like crazy. I wanted to scream. So I casually went behind him with a very innocent expression on my face and started whistling too. He stopped immediately turned around and had the nerve to look annoyed at me.
I love Pumped Up Kicks and whistle along with it. BUT, that is in the car with my BF. I don't do it in public or randomly! That is just RUDE.