I had a mate, who would start singing a song relevant to what you just said. So we had a day trip to Beverley War Museum (We hailed from Manchester). Mark was driving my mate Stan mental, singing at whatever he said. It got so bad, that while we were having a brew at a cafe, Stan said ' No more bloody singing, I have had enough. Utter one more lyric, and you're walking home. Got it?!' Mark, 'I can't help it mate, sorry. Promise, no more singing!' Stan, 'right lets hit the road' Mark, 'Hit the road Jack and........awwwww fuck!'
Hi lovely 😊 I've never left a comment to you before, but your observations about gendered (lol) whistling made me recall my old grandfather Arnall Robinson muttering "A whistling woman and a crowing hen brings the devil out of his den" with all earnest. We used to laugh ourselves silly at his old fashioned beliefs. Turns out he had a point. Me grandad was gender critical before it was even known about! Love your updates! Thankyou xxx
RE: MAiD, my mother at age 100, could have been allowed to stay in her home, the one I grew up in, and have a peaceful death. Instead, my older sister, her health proxy, forced her into a hospice just before Mom turned 99. In some US states, a hospice stay of over a year is allowed. (not NY, where I live) Mom told me she wanted to go home, but when I said I have no power, you have to tell Joan, she suddenly said, "I guess it's not so bad, I can't be a burden." They repeatedly asked her if she''d like morphine and she declined, saying she's not in pain. I actually snuck in ibuprofen, in case her arthritis was bothering her. If she'd requested that, she'd have gotten morphine. I hired a carer to go visit her, cut her fingernails and toenails, as they were neglecting her daily care. You are right, this is a culture of death mills. I did what I could and my indoctrinated sisters cut me off. They also believe my odious, lying, deceitful ex-husband "is a woman." Thanks, Barry!
@@arandorapress7561 Thanks. I choose to remember the good times. When they said they planned to sell her house 6 months before she died, what do I want, I took only 1 thing. Her 1943 wedding dress. I have a dress form which it fits perfectly. I keep in touch with 2 cousins who agreed with me about it all. In the last few months, my sisters were saying she's not taking visitors. This was absolute rubbish and I told these cousins and their children/grandchildren they are welcome, she'd love to see you. And they went.
Ahh Barry, you have made me think of my lovely husband, he used to whistle as he came through the front door after work. It was something I always knew but never noticed (if that makes sense) as in, it was a given, the door opened and he walked in whistling, like something that's always been there but you only notice when it's gone. One day after we had acquired a dog, I was cooking tea whilst watching telly and suddenly the dog ran to the door, she did this 3 times each time no-one was there, then on the fourth time I realised the bloke on the T.V. kept whistling and she thought her dad was home and I smiled to myself with the same warm feeling that I just got when you made me think of him. Sorry for rambling, but you made me think of a nice memory. x
I've been writing an essay about the decline of Australian comedy, focusing on how all Aussie comedians have become authoritarians and painfully unfunny. You can't be funny when you're terrified of saying the wrong thing and offending someone. I heard an interview with the founding member of The Chaser, a formerly audacious satirical group, and it was like listening to someone after he'd been replaced by a pod person.
Knowing how important music is to the human brain and memories, connection etc, i used music with my mum who had dementia. I would try to find a song to sing that I thought she would know and that matched what activity we were doing. I hoped it would get through to her brain in a different way than talking!
Watched an interesting film based on a play by J.B.Priestly called They Came to a City. Made during the war, about 9 strangers from different backgrounds/classes looking for a utopian place to live.
As always, agree with you. You've brightened my day at .. 14:00 ..Mrs Twazzock's wotsits 🤣 Howling 😁🤣 I watch Sam Vaknin to expand my mind a bit. You've got me humming the Jurassic Park theme too (I can't whistle) 🦖🎶
I agree whole-heartedly with you Barry. I couldn't say it any better. We are moving further away from freedom and moving ever nearer to authotitarianizm. Children are not being taught the basics that they need in life in order to have a fulfilling life.
I fully agree with your comments that we should make the 'the march towards freedom' and away from authoritarianism. That said, whistling should be banned in public AND at home.
wasn't that whistling that Boooorn Freeeee as free as the wind blows etc etc song? I know that from charity adverts, do they still use it? also I'm a woman and I sing, hmm and whistle when I'm out and about especially singing to myself when I'm walking down really loud busy roads when I think no one can hear me I mainly sing the intro to neon genesis evangellion , I can whistle both ways too breathing in and out, my son can't whistle at all he just ends up blowing raspberries when he tries.
Aw...you burst my bubble over Australia's ban for under 16s. I must admit I was confused that it would be Australia doing this. Now I see it. Thank you. 😒
For years I used to whistle the theme tune to a TV program called Combat!. The best part of the film Xanadu was the sound track - a great sound track.. The film itself has dated badly.
Why are we giving it all away is a really interesting question. It seems that freedoms have decreased at the same rate as a sense of personal responsibility but I haven't given it enough thought to say whether that's causation or just correlation. Either way it feels like we're living through some Great Infantilisation (and I'd include myself in that tbh, the tendrils of it seem inescapable)
used to go round in a gang as a teen in the 80's. not bad kids like now, when if you got in trouble with the bobby your mam knew before you got home and gave you a good hiding. we had derelict bombed out Terrance's and mills to play in. we whistled, the two finger high pitch, the blade of grass or privet leaf, can you hum and whistle at the same time? I'm so glad I had a internet /moblie phone free youth. we live in a society were narcissistic personality disorders is fashionable. its a faux-collective though, as we know not all pigs are made equal.
I had some arguments with WPUK, over their treatment of KJK and more recently their occasional ignorant spoutings on Israel/Gaza, but for the most part they were a decent campaign group. I'm not entirely sure why they feel the need to close down - the Labour government is still a threat to women's rights, afaic. I'll be a lot sorrier to see them go than the WEP, though!
Personally, I myself want the right, if I can, to decide for myself the circumstances of my own death. I don't want a prolonged lingering subsistence due to dementia. Nor do I want to linger after a stroke that leaves me unable to speak or read and unable to recognize friends and family. I want the right to make that my living will so that in the event I end up in those circumstances I have already specified what should happen. I have seen what it is like for a family member to linger years with demential. Nobody wins out of that except the shareholders of drug companies.
I’ve never even been able to whistle! Tried to learn it when I was younger, and I just couldn’t! Given up now. Just like I have also given up on other things, like EVER teaching myself to actually enjoy beer. 😛 Also, I always get songs stuck in my head that have lyrics directly related to stuff I have been thinking about! (The other day, when I was super mad about all the lies in the media, I got a song stuck in my head that starts out like: “lies, lies, lies, you love those lies! You tell them straight, straight to my face! They feel so good, they keep you safe!” Etc. 😛) Anyway, yeah… These posters glorifying assisted dying are distasteful, dispiriting, exploitative, and just generally GROSS!! I personally don’t mind it if a poison pill is offered to a patient who is in EXCRUCIATING pain, is terminally ill and guaranteed to soon die ANYWAY, and requests that for herself / himself. But there have to be STRICT limits, and the slippery slope is scary as hell!!! Plus speaking as a nurse who regularly gives people morphine on their death beds..? I also don’t really think we NEED it, because morphine already gives such great pain relief to people in that situations! Plus also, as the doses and intervals increase, it also inevitably leads to respiratory depression, which means these patients will eventually die from that, anyway. Which is something everyone really knows, but we rarely talk about it. And I have no problem with it, either, because the alternative, of already dying patients maybe living for a few days longer, but suffering in EXTREME pain all the while..? Is INFINITELY worse! I know I’ll want morphine on my death bed, too. Although I also believe people should have the right to DECLINE it, and make it clear that they do NOT want it on their death beds, if that is indeed how they feel about it. Although, gotta say, it would be hard to watch that, speaking as a nurse with empathy. But I still think, that is a decision people should be able to make, due to personal autonomy! Anyway, digression… Assisted dying is one HELL of a slippery slope, so I also really sympathize with people thinking it just needs to be COMPLETELY illegal, period! And I am ALMOST there, myself. Partially due to the slippery slope effect, (as can be seen in, for instance, Canada), and partially because WE ALREADY HAVE MORPHINE!! Yes. Also, not that I love dogmatic, conservative, traditional, sexist religion, but atheism also did not work for me, which is why I am now in the “spiritual, but not religious” camp. And while I do think atheism seems to work for SOME people, and I don’t mind that one bit..? (I also fully admit that the atheists could be RIGHT! Hence why I’m also an AGNOSTIC believer.) There clearly are also a lot of people for whom it does NOT work! And I fully think, what we’re seeing in the West, with all of the increasing loss of values, existential crisis, commodification of human life and existence, loss of dignity and integrity, DISSOCIATION from our bodies, and the lack of anything that is considered truly SACRED..? Is largely due to the collapse of traditional Christianity, which used to fill a certain function for people, even though it wasn’t perfect, and all of the increasing secularization, with no good alternative to fill that spiritual / existential void! Except for the “gender identity” religion, and overall woke stuff! And it is interesting how so many Christians have NOT been infected with these mental viruses… I think there’s decidedly a reason for that! And that is something our society needs to take SERIOUSLY! Not that it is at ALL easy to just invent a new, better religion, with actually good values, no sh1tty sexism, and no dangerous delusions that COMPLETELY defy what we know about reality. But I think, if that HAD been invented, and it actually took of..? It could have largely helped this Western existential crisis! End of ramble. Gotta get ready for work now. :)
Luckily, I do not whistle, but I always have a soundtrack. Last night Why do birds suddenly appear by the Carpenters, suddenly changed into the Wanderer by L'Orange and Kool Keith. Humans are strange.
Lol my late mother always expressed irritation with "Pensioner whistling". Especially if behind her in a queue, such that she could feel it on her neck as well as hear it. You're a bit young to be a pensioner, but that doesn't make it OK - although it is the *tuneless* whistling I find irritating. A tune is OK. Well, not so bad. Although - there was a sketch in , I think is was, "Smack The Pony" where a random woman stops alongside a bloke table drumming and starts dancing. Maybe I should do that, rather than glare and hiss under my breath Or I could break into song - a descant (I sound like cats fighting).
I had a mate, who would start singing a song relevant to what you just said. So we had a day trip to Beverley War Museum (We hailed from Manchester). Mark was driving my mate Stan mental, singing at whatever he said. It got so bad, that while we were having a brew at a cafe, Stan said ' No more bloody singing, I have had enough. Utter one more lyric, and you're walking home. Got it?!' Mark, 'I can't help it mate, sorry. Promise, no more singing!'
Stan, 'right lets hit the road' Mark, 'Hit the road Jack and........awwwww fuck!'
I think whistling has decreased with general happiness levels.
My dad used to whistle God rest his soul.
Hi lovely 😊
I've never left a comment to you before, but your observations about gendered (lol) whistling made me recall my old grandfather Arnall Robinson muttering
"A whistling woman and a crowing hen brings the devil out of his den" with all earnest.
We used to laugh ourselves silly at his old fashioned beliefs. Turns out he had a point.
Me grandad was gender critical before it was even known about!
Love your updates! Thankyou xxx
RE: MAiD, my mother at age 100, could have been allowed to stay in her home, the one I grew up in, and have a peaceful death. Instead, my older sister, her health proxy, forced her into a hospice just before Mom turned 99. In some US states, a hospice stay of over a year is allowed. (not NY, where I live) Mom told me she wanted to go home, but when I said I have no power, you have to tell Joan, she suddenly said, "I guess it's not so bad, I can't be a burden." They repeatedly asked her if she''d like morphine and she declined, saying she's not in pain. I actually snuck in ibuprofen, in case her arthritis was bothering her. If she'd requested that, she'd have gotten morphine. I hired a carer to go visit her, cut her fingernails and toenails, as they were neglecting her daily care. You are right, this is a culture of death mills. I did what I could and my indoctrinated sisters cut me off. They also believe my odious, lying, deceitful ex-husband "is a woman." Thanks, Barry!
Awful. I hope you've been able to get over all that.❤
@@arandorapress7561 Thanks. I choose to remember the good times. When they said they planned to sell her house 6 months before she died, what do I want, I took only 1 thing. Her 1943 wedding dress. I have a dress form which it fits perfectly. I keep in touch with 2 cousins who agreed with me about it all. In the last few months, my sisters were saying she's not taking visitors. This was absolute rubbish and I told these cousins and their children/grandchildren they are welcome, she'd love to see you. And they went.
Ahh Barry, you have made me think of my lovely husband, he used to whistle as he came through the front door after work. It was something I always knew but never noticed (if that makes sense) as in, it was a given, the door opened and he walked in whistling, like something that's always been there but you only notice when it's gone. One day after we had acquired a dog, I was cooking tea whilst watching telly and suddenly the dog ran to the door, she did this 3 times each time no-one was there, then on the fourth time I realised the bloke on the T.V. kept whistling and she thought her dad was home and I smiled to myself with the same warm feeling that I just got when you made me think of him. Sorry for rambling, but you made me think of a nice memory. x
Agree on assisted dying. Cheaper than palliative care, social care and disability access
I've been writing an essay about the decline of Australian comedy, focusing on how all Aussie comedians have become authoritarians and painfully unfunny. You can't be funny when you're terrified of saying the wrong thing and offending someone. I heard an interview with the founding member of The Chaser, a formerly audacious satirical group, and it was like listening to someone after he'd been replaced by a pod person.
Well said. Self censorship is pernicious evil. We've got the "non crime hate speech " nonsense here. Orwell must be spinning in his grave.
Knowing how important music is to the human brain and memories, connection etc, i used music with my mum who had dementia. I would try to find a song to sing that I thought she would know and that matched what activity we were doing. I hoped it would get through to her brain in a different way than talking!
Watched an interesting film based on a play by J.B.Priestly called They Came to a City. Made during the war, about 9 strangers from different backgrounds/classes looking for a utopian place to live.
As always, agree with you. You've brightened my day at .. 14:00 ..Mrs Twazzock's wotsits 🤣 Howling 😁🤣
I watch Sam Vaknin to expand my mind a bit. You've got me humming the Jurassic Park theme too (I can't whistle) 🦖🎶
I agree whole-heartedly with you Barry. I couldn't say it any better. We are moving further away from freedom and moving ever nearer to authotitarianizm. Children are not being taught the basics that they need in life in order to have a fulfilling life.
My Mum told me that I was whistling nursery rhymes before I could recite the rhymes themselves 😅
I fully agree with your comments that we should make the 'the march towards freedom' and away from authoritarianism.
That said, whistling should be banned in public AND at home.
Go away. 😃😃
@@edijester Authoritarian!
wasn't that whistling that Boooorn Freeeee as free as the wind blows etc etc song? I know that from charity adverts, do they still use it? also I'm a woman and I sing, hmm and whistle when I'm out and about especially singing to myself when I'm walking down really loud busy roads when I think no one can hear me I mainly sing the intro to neon genesis evangellion , I can whistle both ways too breathing in and out, my son can't whistle at all he just ends up blowing raspberries when he tries.
Aw...you burst my bubble over Australia's ban for under 16s. I must admit I was confused that it would be Australia doing this. Now I see it. Thank you. 😒
“A whistling woman and a crowing hen are neither fit for God nor men”.. 🤣 I heard this saying once when I was a young girl and it’s stuck 😚😅
The version I heard was, "A whistling woman and a crowing hen would frighten the devil out of his den."
I'm not going Left or Right, I'm going Up, up and away from the one size fits all blob whistling as I go. 😂🎉
WPUK are unable to criticise the Labour Party so they have no choice but to stop now.
For years I used to whistle the theme tune to a TV program called Combat!. The best part of the film Xanadu was the sound track - a great sound track.. The film itself has dated badly.
Why are we giving it all away is a really interesting question. It seems that freedoms have decreased at the same rate as a sense of personal responsibility but I haven't given it enough thought to say whether that's causation or just correlation. Either way it feels like we're living through some Great Infantilisation (and I'd include myself in that tbh, the tendrils of it seem inescapable)
used to go round in a gang as a teen in the 80's. not bad kids like now, when if you got in trouble with the bobby your mam knew before you got home and gave you a good hiding. we had derelict bombed out Terrance's and mills to play in. we whistled, the two finger high pitch, the blade of grass or privet leaf, can you hum and whistle at the same time? I'm so glad I had a internet /moblie phone free youth. we live in a society were narcissistic personality disorders is fashionable. its a faux-collective though, as we know not all pigs are made equal.
I had some arguments with WPUK, over their treatment of KJK and more recently their occasional ignorant spoutings on Israel/Gaza, but for the most part they were a decent campaign group. I'm not entirely sure why they feel the need to close down - the Labour government is still a threat to women's rights, afaic. I'll be a lot sorrier to see them go than the WEP, though!
💕
Personally, I myself want the right, if I can, to decide for myself the circumstances of my own death. I don't want a prolonged lingering subsistence due to dementia. Nor do I want to linger after a stroke that leaves me unable to speak or read and unable to recognize friends and family. I want the right to make that my living will so that in the event I end up in those circumstances I have already specified what should happen. I have seen what it is like for a family member to linger years with demential. Nobody wins out of that except the shareholders of drug companies.
We need a revolution
I’ve never even been able to whistle! Tried to learn it when I was younger, and I just couldn’t! Given up now. Just like I have also given up on other things, like EVER teaching myself to actually enjoy beer. 😛 Also, I always get songs stuck in my head that have lyrics directly related to stuff I have been thinking about! (The other day, when I was super mad about all the lies in the media, I got a song stuck in my head that starts out like: “lies, lies, lies, you love those lies! You tell them straight, straight to my face! They feel so good, they keep you safe!” Etc. 😛)
Anyway, yeah… These posters glorifying assisted dying are distasteful, dispiriting, exploitative, and just generally GROSS!! I personally don’t mind it if a poison pill is offered to a patient who is in EXCRUCIATING pain, is terminally ill and guaranteed to soon die ANYWAY, and requests that for herself / himself. But there have to be STRICT limits, and the slippery slope is scary as hell!!! Plus speaking as a nurse who regularly gives people morphine on their death beds..? I also don’t really think we NEED it, because morphine already gives such great pain relief to people in that situations! Plus also, as the doses and intervals increase, it also inevitably leads to respiratory depression, which means these
patients will eventually die from that, anyway. Which is something everyone really knows, but we rarely talk about it. And I have no problem with it, either, because the alternative, of already dying patients maybe living for a few days longer, but suffering in EXTREME pain all the while..? Is INFINITELY worse! I know I’ll want morphine on my death bed, too. Although I also believe people should have the right to DECLINE it, and make it clear that they do NOT want it on their death beds, if that is indeed how they feel about it. Although, gotta say, it would be hard to watch that, speaking as a nurse with empathy. But I still think, that is a decision people should be able to make, due to personal autonomy! Anyway, digression… Assisted dying is one HELL of a slippery slope, so I also really sympathize with people thinking it just needs to be COMPLETELY illegal, period! And I am ALMOST there, myself. Partially due to the slippery slope effect, (as can be seen in, for instance, Canada), and partially because WE ALREADY HAVE MORPHINE!! Yes.
Also, not that I love dogmatic, conservative, traditional, sexist religion, but atheism also did not work for me, which is why I am now in the “spiritual, but not religious” camp. And while I do think atheism seems to work for SOME people, and I don’t mind that one bit..? (I also fully admit that the atheists could be RIGHT! Hence why I’m also an AGNOSTIC believer.) There clearly are also a lot of people for whom it does NOT work! And I fully think, what we’re seeing in the West, with all of the increasing loss of values, existential crisis, commodification of human life and existence, loss of dignity and integrity, DISSOCIATION from our bodies, and the lack of anything that is considered truly SACRED..? Is largely due to the collapse of traditional Christianity, which used to fill a certain function for people, even though it wasn’t perfect, and all of the increasing secularization, with no good alternative to fill that spiritual / existential void! Except for the “gender identity” religion, and overall woke stuff! And it is interesting how so many Christians have NOT been infected with these mental viruses… I think there’s decidedly a reason for that! And that is something our society needs to take SERIOUSLY! Not that it is at ALL easy to just invent a new, better religion, with actually good values, no sh1tty sexism, and no dangerous delusions that COMPLETELY defy what we know about reality. But I think, if that HAD been invented, and it actually took of..? It could have largely helped this Western existential crisis!
End of ramble. Gotta get ready for work now. :)
Luckily, I do not whistle, but I always have a soundtrack. Last night Why do birds suddenly appear by the Carpenters, suddenly changed into the Wanderer by L'Orange and Kool Keith. Humans are strange.
Same here. I have on rotation in my head(and sometimes sung out loud), the theme from 'Cheers', merging into 'Don't stop believing' by Journey. 👍
Ah, so you whistle Journey to the Island. I saw Jurassic Park 12 times at the cinema (I was 12), mostly for that sequence.
Lol my late mother always expressed irritation with "Pensioner whistling". Especially if behind her in a queue, such that she could feel it on her neck as well as hear it. You're a bit young to be a pensioner, but that doesn't make it OK - although it is the *tuneless* whistling I find irritating. A tune is OK. Well, not so bad. Although - there was a sketch in , I think is was, "Smack The Pony" where a random woman stops alongside a bloke table drumming and starts dancing. Maybe I should do that, rather than glare and hiss under my breath Or I could break into song - a descant (I sound like cats fighting).
🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯hate whistlers 😤