When I was a kid, I remember reading some spy novel or other which made the ridiculous sounding claim that gay men can’t whistle. This sounds preposterous to me, but I thought that its the kind of question that STW excels at answering authoritatively.
So does anyone know for sure that this is rubbish? I think the same book advised never to trust a man with a beard.
It wasn’t any spy novel, it was The Man With The Golden Gun by Ian Fleming. The idea was that Scaramanga was gay as he couldn’t whistle.
The profile (read by M) also delves into his background and psyche. Among other things, the profile claims that Scaramanga might be a latent homosexual, since he cannot whistle – based on the popular (but unfounded) theory that a man who cannot whistle has homosexual tendencies.
Can gay dogs hear dog whistles?
I do know that bi-curious white cats are deaf and can’t look up.
In all seriousness I met a French tour guide a while ago who insisted that black people do so well in athletics because they have a different spinal structure.
His wife was a GP and believed the same thing.
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There may be something in this. I have a test for you, stick a finger in your mouth (or maybe a carrot of courgette if you have one handy) and try whistling.
Ian Fleming used to make up all sorts of shit in the bond books, apparently sumo wrestlers ‘massage their testicles so they ascend into their bodies through the inguinal canal from which they originally descended’ supposedly so it didn’t hurt if kicked in the plums
I hope not, I assumed that we had reached the stage where we can joke about this sort of thing and everyone realises the butt of the joke is the person making the anti whistling assumption (Fleming in this case) rather than anyone unable to express their gaiety with a little wind assisted lip action.
Then departed Pau-Puk-Keewis, Whistling, singing through the forest, Whistling gayly to the squirrels, Who from hollow boughs above him Dropped their …