Blogging A to Z: Y is for that Bloody Awful Noise Otherwise Known as “Yodelling”

What I want to know is how do people in Austria and Germany live with all that unbearable yodelling echoing down the mountains, blasting around your head and giving you 24 hour non-stop migraines?

It’s no wonder Hitler was insane. No doubt he spent a tortured youth being subjected to hours of incessant yodelling. It must have been like having severe tinnitus whilst simultaneously having your head trapped between two cymbals.

You know, I’m really surprised some great historian like A J P Taylor never came up with yodelling as a suggestion for the cause of Hitler’s insanity.

So I’m going to change all that today. Now my historical credentials are excellent as I have a degree in History and this means that no one can challenge my expertise (much). The fact that I haven’t looked at a history book for thirty years should be not be an issue as, luckily, I read The Daily Mail which keeps me up to date with all the latest facts and historical opinions.

So, in my capacity as a historical expert, on this day, April 29th 2015, I am putting my theory out to the world.

Hitler was driven insane in his youth by merciless and relentless high-pitched yodelling.

As proof of this I am now going to use musical evidence in support of my claim.

You can easily see from this video how yodelling causes insanity as the gentlemen starring in it has taken to wearing a chimney brush on his head and wearing trousers that are too small for him.

Now in Britain this sort of attire would lead in to incarceration in a lunatic asylum. In Germany and Austria is it leads to madness and an obsession with world domination.

So there you have it – my theory proven. I await my Nobel Peace Prize for research in due course.

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Wendy says:

29 April 2015 at 12:05 PM

I managed about 15 seconds of the video! It's worse than tinnitus – you can mask that with quite low level noise. It would take a lot of noise to drown out the yodelling!

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Door2Lore says:

29 April 2015 at 7:26 PM

Yodelling and bagpipes drive anyone insane! Fun post! @Door2LoreSue
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Jane Turley says:

5 June 2015 at 12:29 PM

Blimey, I can't believe I've been so slack and not replied to you yet, Wendy. That video is awful isn't it. Makes me want opt out of Europe just that grounds alone:D

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Jane Turley says:

5 June 2015 at 12:31 PM

Apologies for the late reply, Sue. I seem to have got way behind and muddled with that month of blogging! I'm delighted you enjoyed the post. Many thanks for dropping in:)

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