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Cat Whistle- Flattering or Offensive?

the_bob_delusion — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 08:03:43 GMT

If you received one, how would you feel?

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grapes_collector — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 08:06:22 GMT

well if I got one at my age (63) I certainly would be flattered.

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imastawka — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 08:06:42 GMT

Hahahahaha.

Got one last week. Then when they got in front of me, I got

"Aw, sorry, missus!"

Hahahahaha

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lyndal1838 — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 08:18:52 GMT

What is a cat whistle?

When I was young it was a wolf whistle and at my age I would be thrilled to receive one

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patchoo78 — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 08:19:15 GMT

@**freethinker_bob** wrote:
If you received one, how would you feel?

Don't you mean a wolf whistle?

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the_bob_delusion — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 08:22:31 GMT

Oops. Wolf Whistle makes more sense.

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lurker17260 — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 08:28:52 GMT

I got one today in the carpark!

I was quite chuffed until I turned around and realised it was just one of the blokes I was due to play golf with He's a sad, sad man

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freshwater-2 — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 09:12:36 GMT

I thiink a wolf whistle is harmless, and quite lovely.

Makes a gal of any age feel good.

It is a compliment from a distance.

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lind9650 — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 09:26:42 GMT

Many years ago, my first husband, a friend of his and I (sitting in the back set) drove along St. Kilda beach, when the men saw that gorgeous slim figure in short shorts, with below the shoulder, long, wavey coppery hair, swaying along on the footpath.

They stretched their necks out of the car window and performed with their best Wolf Whistling.

I nearly wet myself laughing when the person turned around to reveal a beautiful trimmed, thick coppery beard.

Erica

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azureline** — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 10:07:07 GMT

We don't get excited by wolf whistles here............... grandaughter's cockatiel does them perfectly!

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icyfroth — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 10:18:53 GMT

@grapes_collector wrote:
well if I got one at my age (63) I certainly would be flattered.

Same.

I think it's either "cat call" or "wolf whistle",

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the_hawk* — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 12:12:13 GMT

@lind9650 wrote:
Many years ago, my first husband, a friend of his and I (sitting in the back set) drove along St. Kilda beach, when the men saw that gorgeous slim figure in short shorts, with below the shoulder, long, wavey coppery hair, swaying along on the footpath.
They stretched their necks out of the car window and performed with their best Wolf Whistling.
I nearly wet myself laughing when the person turned around to reveal a beautiful trimmed, thick coppery beard.

Erica

I got caught out one night while sitting in a truck when this couple of well dressed what I thought to be a couple of really hot chicks walked past and I gave them a whistle, Oh boy did I shrink when they turned around to thank me with a very deep husky voice.

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Anonymous — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 12:13:23 GMT

Lol hawk and Erica ..ha ha !

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cosmosgrove — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 12:36:01 GMT

Intimidating.

Doesn't happen very often these days, but as a teenager/young woman I remember finding it intimidating. I walked quite a distance home from school or to and from friends houses, cars slowing down, wolf whistling, yelling obscenities was not that uncommon.

These were often groups of young men, sometimes it would be solitary men. Creepy, intimidating, demoralizing. Nope, not generally a fan of the wolf whistle at a complete stranger.

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crystal**flake — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 21:21:34 GMT

Offensive.............an educated man wouldn't do it.

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freshwater-2 — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 21:33:37 GMT

I agree, Crystal. But so what?

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darksideofthemoon — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 22:27:07 GMT

If you received one, how would you feel?

Surprised!

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kengillard — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 22:53:47 GMT

surprised? me too!!!

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imastawka — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 23:53:15 GMT

It used to be the norm when walking past building sites.

But not these days. It is considered to be sexual harassment.

Building site bosses don't want the law suits

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polocross58 — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 02:38:35 GMT

In today's age of trying to find an acceptable partner via online dating sites, it might be a surprise for younger, wolf-whistle-free women to learn that in the bad old days, a lot of relationships commenced with a wolf-whistle, lol

I know women now of the older generation who say they met their spouse when he whistled at them or expressed some other sound or gesture of appreciation

He whistled

she grinned

He spoke up

she spoke back

They both smiled

He came down from the scaffold

She blushed

He asked her out

She agreed

They married a year later

Today he still whistles

and she says, ' You'll never change, you randy old coot '

Their grandkids wonder how they kept romance alive through fifty years, lol