In all honesty I don't hate that slide whistle.
I wouldn't mind if it wasn't there and if they decided to remove it I wouldn't care but there is so much hate for it but it just makes me shrug when I think about it.
Maybe it's because I was a kid when I first saw it but it's never really elicited the extreme response that so many people seem to have to it.
(Not that I don't get why they have that response)
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