I often whistle to myself alone around the house, and I do use both mouth and a plastic one to call Jules, and any other dog who comes to live with me.
But just now I was whistling away to the radio while walking towards the bathroom and caught sight of my reflection in the mirror there. Then I looked closer and saw to my surprise that it was only the left hand side of my lips that were open.
I tried with the centre section and then the right side, nothing, silence. Never knew that before. Am I alone, or have others got this affliction too?
@David_Spardo look in the mirror while you recite out-loud your favourite poem (whatever)
Just to make sure itās only the whistling which is wandering to the left
faces are facesā¦ some people will find a face attractive/beautiful, while others will consider the same face to be quite the opposite and anything in betweenā¦
I think it must be, just nipped to the mirror and began āThe Boy Stood on the Burning Deckā, which was as far as I could remember but nevertheless carried on talking to myself on the subject, I do do a lot of that, and the evidence is in, I am perfectly well balanced in the talking to oneself department at least.
BTW, on a linguistic note, fed up with being pulled up by a rogue spellchecker when writing alot, I checked with Google and apparently alot is wrong, it must be a lot. I donāt entirely agree but canāt be bothered to go into it now.
Thereās a massive amount of research from the last thirty years demonstrating trans-cultural positive responses to higher than average levels of facial symmetry. Itās a genetically relayed instinctive preference and so is probably pre-cultural. Facial and other areas of morphological symmetry are indicators of general health, and in the case of young, post-pubescent women, optimum fertility.
One strand of my doctoral thesis argued that the canons of beauty in classical art, were a cultural rationalisation of this pre-cultural preference: the classical Greek canons of proportion were perpetuated through an interplay of genetic and memetic relays (centuries of academic classicism).
Ironically, my own face is asymmetrical, due to a Bellās palsy; usually associated with a stroke, but in my case the right side facial nerves were damaged when I fractured my skull.
Apropos @David_Spardoās post above, one consequence was that I could no longer whistle. My motherās response when I told her, āWell at least something goodās come out of itā.
I know about the verb allot, but I was talking about alot, many, whereas a lot is something you buy at an auction. (Other meanings are available, a piece of ground on which to build a house for instance )
@Roger_Lapin funny that, if it is important to know, just ask somebody to whistle.
If I whistle at all, I do it in the car. I can whistle, but donāt do it on a regular basis. Some time ago, while driving the car, I started to whistle, usually do so when I feel in a good mood, but only airy blowy sounds came out ā I couldnāt whistle.
I wet my lips, wrestled with my mouth and lip muscles, but still couldnāt whistle. Over a few days of practicing I started whistling again. I put it down to those muscles being out of practise, unused.
faces are facesā¦ some people will find a face attractive/beautiful, while others will consider the same face to be quite the opposite and anything in betweenā¦ 
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