Whistling noses

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When my nose does that whistling thing I sniff and sniff until it stops. My breathing is pretty much silent.

Why then, do some peoples noses whistle like fuck? Aren't they aware of it? Do they like it? Don't they realise other people can hear it?

Maybe I'm a little sensitive to this because my ex-boyfriends used to breathe really audibly - I mean it was bad, it was as if he was forcing air through a straw.

Now I've got a very corpulent colleague who seems to have problems keeping his breathing respectable. I want to punch him, mash his nose into his face and give him a reason to breathe like a pair of bellows.

Am I alone in getting really wound up about this? Is it a silly thing to be pissed off at?

― Rumpie, Thursday, 21 April 2005 08:57 (twenty years ago)

Ex-boyfriend singular that is.

― Rumpie, Thursday, 21 April 2005 09:00 (twenty years ago)

God, I've just made myself sound like an intolerant freak.

― Rumpie, Thursday, 21 April 2005 09:08 (twenty years ago)

You intolerant freak! Oh wait...

Well, it's a pretty trivial notion, but it can definitely prove unnerving if you allow it to let it get to you, of course.

― Ian Riese-Moraine. To Hell with you and your gradual evolution! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 21 April 2005 09:12 (twenty years ago)

It would be better if I could get over it.

― Rumpie, Thursday, 21 April 2005 09:20 (twenty years ago)

You need to take a ten-mile hike.

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

So seriously - no one else gets annoyed about this?

― Rumpie, Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

I hate it, but I only come across it in exams. I filter these people out in normal life.

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

Since bagging the boyfriend this only affects me at work, especially when the office is otherwise silent. If only this guy didn't sit right next to me.

― Rumpie, Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

Yes, it's annoying as hell. I used to sit next to a woman who would sigh with EVERY breath. "eh ......eh.........eh........eh"

Most of the time, I can tune it out. But sometimes it's distracting as all get out.

It's cute when a dog does it though.

― diedre mousedropping (Dave225), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

i share your pain rumpie. i had to share an office with a throat clearer for a while last year. it made me so angry i had to move offices, the throat clearing being the sole reason. although i must say i have a much nicer office now with a window, so my intolerance actually worked out really well for me.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

Wow, that must have been so annoying - how can you drown out throat clearing? At least nose whistling gets covered up when the office is noisy.

I turned round yesterday afternoon and hissed "sniff goddamit", but he just smiled at me. He knows! He's doing it on purpose! Either that or he didn't have a clue what I was saying.

― Rumpie, Friday, 22 April 2005 05:29 (twenty years ago)

i felt like i could never ask my office-mate to stop clearing his throat. it made me feel bad that i could get so incredibly irate about something that seems quite trivial. but i honestly could not concentrate with 'aaaaahhheem' going off every 30 seconds. i had to come up with a false reason for moving offices, i can't remember what it was. it was SUCH a relief to get to my new office though, the novelty of the silence lasted for weeks.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 22 April 2005 05:31 (twenty years ago)

My particular favourite time for whistling noses and heavy breathing is when I go to the cinema and the person who I didn’t choose to sit next to starts whistling a tune for the exact length of the film, amazing.

― bored (cavern1), Friday, 22 April 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

What's the tune?

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 22 April 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

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