Does everyone look ridiculous when they play the whistle?

Post by **Nanohedron** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 5:08 pm

Flyingcursor wrote:NO. I look ridiculous all the time.

Oh, you, too?

Jennie · Post by **Jennie** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 6:56 pm

Ennis Traveler, let me be the first to tell you that you don't look ridiculous. You look like a whistler.

Not a bad photo at all.

I think it's just that we don't look at ourselves so very often, especially not when we're doing something as intimate and revealing as playing whistle. (At least I don't.)

For contrast, just have someone take a picture of you eating. That's always worse. I've heard no one is allowed to photograph the queen eating.

Jennie

ennistraveler · Post by **ennistraveler** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 9:57 am

Jennie wrote:Ennis Traveler, let me be the first to tell you that you don't look ridiculous. You look like a whistler. Not a bad photo at all.

I think it's just that we don't look at ourselves so very often, especially not when we're doing something as intimate and revealing as playing whistle. (At least I don't.)

For contrast, just have someone take a picture of you eating. That's always worse. I've heard no one is allowed to photograph the queen eating.

Jennie

Oh. That's good. Noone's allowed to photograph me eating either. They just don't get punished for it.

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 10:07 am

Jennie wrote: ...... I've heard no one is allowed to photograph the queen eating.

Jennie

Probably just as well...

Would you want to open your morning paper only to see such a photograph...please.

Slan,
D.

brianormond · Post by **brianormond** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 8:03 pm

-Paul had it right: Andrea Corr looks fetching rather than ridiculous when playing whistle, as she does doing nearly anything imaginable in my sedate, limited, non-scandalous and pc imagination.

MikeyLikesIt · Post by **MikeyLikesIt** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 8:12 pm

I really don't know whether or not I look riduclous or not. I play for my friends every now and then, but they never mention that I look odd while I play, or perhaps they're watching for their own amusement at my expense.

-Mike

Crevan · Post by **Crevan** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 9:36 pm

'Tis a fine lookin' whistle stance.

jbarter · Post by **jbarter** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 5:23 am

Does anyone know how I can stop looking ridiculous even when not playing the whistle?

Jeff Stallard · Post by **Jeff Stallard** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 8:16 am

Beauty is a function of action, like how a horse is more beautiful running, or how trees are more beautiful when their branches are swaying in the wind, or how a dancer is more beautiful when dancing. Unfortunately, photographs of things in action usually look worse than had they not been moving at all.

dwinterfield · Post by **dwinterfield** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 8:32 am

jbarter wrote:Does anyone know how I can stop looking ridiculous even when not playing the whistle?

Why would you want to? I think this is the whistle variation on the very positive life lesson someone shared with me years ago - "If you don't make a complete a**h*** out of yourself at least once a day, you're doing something wrong".

TyroneShoelaces · Post by **TyroneShoelaces** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 8:43 am

jbarter wrote:Does anyone know how I can stop looking ridiculous even when not playing the whistle?

having never seen you before, i can't really say. for me, it's just a matter
of turning out the light.

Les Cruttenden · Post by **Les Cruttenden** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 1:32 pm

I am often to be found practising in my car...(stationary of course) it's sometimes the only private place to be...but I must look pretty silly to drivers who pass...sitting behind the wheel with a whistle in my hand...sometimes a low D at that. The responses can be wuite amusing!!!!
Les.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 1:43 pm

dwinterfield wrote: "If you don't make a complete a**h*** out of yourself at least once a day, you're doing something wrong".

Je parait ridicule, donc je suis.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 1:53 pm

avanutria wrote:Yes, everyone does.

Speak for your own self!

buddhu · Post by **buddhu** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 1:53 pm

ennistraveler wrote:I don't care what hands I use as well as it works well and sounds good...

To get that result I'd have to be using someone else's hands...

And yes, I look ridiculous - and not just because I play Feadogs...

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Does everyone look ridiculous when they play the whistle?

I look absurd when I play mine!