Vuvuzelas - one stop shop for whining.

365 replies · 43,571 views

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Vuvuzelas may be banned afterall. . . .

http://www.thespoiler.co.uk/index.php/2010/05/28/fifa-threaten-crackdown-on-vuvuzelas-in-world-cup-games

http://sport.stv.tv/fifa-world-cup/countries/south-africa/180190-vuvuzelas-face-possible-world-cup-ban/

Please let this be true . . .

The troubles can be the violences using them as a weapon but the foremost is that if an important annoucement over the speaker done like a life and death situation would anyone be able to hear it. If the players and coaches and managers is unable to talk to each other, how is anyone able to hear the speakers?

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

yes, if only for the mental health of more than a billion football watchers

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Sorry what are these things?

How do they differ to the "horns" that some people bring and blow at local sporting occasions?

Are they louder or do more people tend to use them hence a mass effect?

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

For the love of God they better be

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

ahmad wrote:

Sorry what are these things?

How do they differ to the "horns" that some people bring and blow at local sporting occasions?

Are they louder or do more people tend to use them hence a mass effect?

They are very loud and will be used by pretty much the entire South African population of every attendance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA_GRYSX6JQ here's an example, and no, there isn't a bee behind your ear.

You know we belong together...

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Please make it so

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I'm going to buy a carton of them to use at NZFC games etc.

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Find out who bought the old Knights merchandise, they'll have hundreds.

How's my driving? - Whine here

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

yeah ban them. they noisey as hell. sounds like a flock of flys looking for a big pieace of tard to sink into ..

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I quite like them. And they will drown out that awful sound of the Eccklesfield Colliery Brass Band (B) playing The Great Escape... now that's offensive

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Stick That Up Your Tuba

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Theyre good in small numbers, ie. 1 or 2 thousand. but f**k having 50,000 going off...

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Listening to vuvuzelas > listening to News on the radio.

Incredible stamina. No shame. Yellow Fever.

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Listening to vuvuzelas > listening to Deaks on radio sport

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

ban them. chants are better

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

the cameroon boys had them yesterday and they were pretty shocking.

Supporter world's best and worst football teams: Waikato/WaiBop, Kingz, Knights, Phoenix, The Argyle, The Whites & the All Whites

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

This could be the best news all year! I thought it was great South Africa got hosting rights, but those plastic tubes (apparently part of their culture!?) will make this the sh*test world cup ever, redeemed only by the fact we are there!

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I did think it was funny they had them at the Super 14 final. Just one more reason why not to watch!

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Please, please, please someone throw a vuvuzela on the field in the first game

a.haak

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

valeo wrote:

Please, please, please someone throw a vuvuzela on the field in the first game

I will personally bludgin the nearest person to me using one with it. Hence getting them removed/insighting a riot and the All Whites getting a miracle draw with Italy

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

brumbys wrote:

valeo wrote:

Please, please, please someone throw a vuvuzela on the field in the first game

I will personally bludgin the nearest person to me using one with it. Hence getting them removed/insighting a riot and the All Whites getting a miracle draw with Italy

If White Noise are gonna be in the middle of a riot they had better get some training done... not saying you guys are soft - but

and if these horn things are what was making all that noisy racket during the AW/Mexico game then yeah they are a right pain in the cochlea

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Those things are horrible, and they just go for the whole match... Listening to hundreds of blaring trumpets continously in a mono-tone for 90 minutes shouldn't just be banned at the World Cup, it should banned from... The world.

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

darkhorse wrote:

ban them. chants are better

this^

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Advocating for the Big Bad Man, but I don't think they should. They are a right pain, they sound awful, and they strike me as something you should grow out of when you turn four. but they are a part of South African footballing tradition, and you shouldn't blow that away, so to speak, for the TV networks.

Imagine if they tried to ban chanting because it was too loud.

Classic exchange from the first article:

Some random wrote:

ï¿½columbiaï¿½ is the university, ï¿½colombiaï¿½ is the country. [/quote]

[quote=Author]

Iï¿½m attempting to set a new record for elementary spelling errors. Well spotted, cheers.

14/11/09

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

No I'm not really in to 20/20 Indian League cricket but when I have flicked it on at times, don't they have these vuvuzelas going non-stop in their crowds too?

It drives me nuts, half the reason I won't watch 20/20 cricket.

The other half is that it's a sham.

But my point is... Are those the same annoying things?

If so, ban them.

Dwyer2010-05-31 16:32:38

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

The thing is it's hard to make really painfully loud noise at irritating frequencies by chanting. Chanting is much more social, and requires much more organisation and commitment than mindlessly blasting on loud high pitched trumpets...That goes for thunder sticks too...

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

please oh please if there is a god, destory these horns, watching the denmark game and fearing might be watching the world cup on mute...

Calling all fans in Japan, come down and support the mighty nix in Osaka

http://www.facebook.com/WellingtonPhoenixClubMembersSupportersGroupOsaka

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Same here - I already knew it was bad after watching the Confeds but jesus

Who, in their right minds, think that this creates a good atmosphere? I don't get it.

a.haak

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Just finished watching socceroos v denmark & that was only a taster.

Oh christ they (the horns, not Aus) are annoying.

Why couldn't have someone introduced "them" to Irish
Harps, Cellos or even...bongos FFS.

Traitor2010-06-02 01:57:01

"Sharing rewards the weak"- Steven Colbert

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Triangles?

"Sharing rewards the weak"- Steven Colbert

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Addicks wrote:

apparently that's not actually true and they've been around for about 4 or 5 years and were basically given away by marketing men etc as advertising for some beer products

Normo's coming home

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

james dean wrote:

Addicks wrote:

apparently that's not actually true and they've been around for about 4 or 5 years and were basically given away by marketing men etc as advertising for some beer products

Totally seems like one of those gimmicky things sponsors hand out before games that kids use to annoy their parents.

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I'm taken ear plugs in case, I won't let my w/c experience be ruined by them!

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

stealthkiwi wrote:

brumbys wrote:

valeo wrote:

Please, please, please someone throw a vuvuzela on the field in the first game

I will personally bludgin the nearest person to me using one with it. Hence getting them removed/insighting a riot and the All Whites getting a miracle draw with Italy

If White Noise are gonna be in the middle of a riot they had better get some training done... not saying you guys are soft - but

No worries. It's Italy. They'll surrender as quickly as you can say Sicily.

"Phoenix till they lose"

Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion.

Genuine opinion: FTFFA

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Junior82 wrote:

stealthkiwi wrote:

brumbys wrote:

valeo wrote:

Please, please, please someone throw a vuvuzela on the field in the first game

I will personally bludgin the nearest person to me using one with it. Hence getting them removed/insighting a riot and the All Whites getting a miracle draw with Italy

If White Noise are gonna be in the middle of a riot they had better get some training done... not saying you guys are soft - but

No worries. It's Italy. They'll surrender as quickly as you can say Sicily.

Just need to be careful if we play the French then. Don't want to be blamed for the chaos and injuries when they run away.

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Hopefully they hand them out at each game.

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

For goodness sake . . .

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/world-cup/3768236/No-curbing-vuvuzela-noise-at-World-Cup

. . . is this the only way for South Africa to gain some home advantage?

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

They are worse than Hitler.

Permalink

almost 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

kiwi pie wrote:

They are worse than Hitler.

Godwin's, and proud of it obviously

If they are a gimmick, as James Dean says, like T****erst**ks, then the f***ers should be banned.

This is just like de beers with diamonds in the 50's. Pricks. I blame capitalism.

14/11/09

Permalink