vuvu stoppers...

[SteamWake]

Put an end to the vuvus !!!

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.efd19d609b2f893c2a9387c67e46a53 a.1b1&show_article=1

[krashkart]

Who woulda thought a national tradition could cause so much earache? :hmmm:

[SteamWake]

Id like to know how many clicked that link to find out what a vuvu was.

I wonder if the mods had to check to see if it was 'suitable' content :rotfl2:

[Jimbuna]

Watching Germany v Australia and all I can think about is how much the Vuvuzelas sound like a fleet of bombers heading over to bomb the sh!t out of our chip-shop.

The Germans must be loving it :DL

[Oberon]

Watching Germany v Australia and all I can think about is how much the Vuvuzelas sound like a fleet of bombers heading over to bomb the sh!t out of our chip-shop.

The Germans must be loving it :DL

:har::har::har:

Jericho Trompete! :o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn5PT8MD75s

[Schroeder]

The Germans must be loving it :DL
Actually, I find them awfully annoying.:shifty:

[Wolfehunter]

:har::har::har:

Jericho Trompete! :o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn5PT8MD75sThis is GREAT! :D

[Admiral8Q]

:har::har::har:

Jericho Trompete! :o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn5PT8MD75s

You have to respect the Stuka! :hmmm:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PzfGAZvT5M&feature=PlayList&p=4165C05818E72533&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=11

[HunterICX]

Actually, I find them awfully annoying.:shifty:

You don't say :damn:

I haven't watched a game in full thanks to that annoying horn.
it's like there is a beehive in the stadium.

HunterICX

[Skybird]

It's not the sound itself that annoys me, that I take just a "typical" for the place the tournament is held at. What annoys me is the constant monotony that prevents any variation, any expression of changing moods that reflect the events of the pitch, and preventing any other fan action: singing, drumming, fanfares, boooooing, whatever. It's like watching football with the sound channel turned off, or blocked in this case. Awful. It really reduces of the atmosphere.

[Skybird]

it's like there is a beehive
Actually a meadow full of bees or a beehive nearby is a very relaxing sound. In summer, I love to sit in a green place near my home and just three, four meters away from a beehive. The insects swarm around me, but I never had a problem with them.

With wasps in late summer, that is something different. :-?

[Skybird]

Found this http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/6/147811


Doch schon damals widersprach die FIFA, der Ausrichter der WM. Sie sah darin einen westlichen oder eurozentrischen Angriff, der kein Verständnis für die Eigenarten und Besonderheiten der südafrikanischen Kultur zeige. Weil man die Südafrikaner aber nicht vor den Kopf stoßen dürfe, sondern die Andersartigkeit ihrer Kultur würdigen müsse, könne man das auch nicht verbieten.

Kein Kulturgut

Das, was natürlich wie so oft gut und politisch korrekt gemeint war, ist in der Sache aber falsch. Musikalität, die man den Afrikanern bisweilen gern unterstellt, besitzt die Vuvuzela beileibe nicht. Und bis vor wenigen Jahren waren die Tröten in Südafrika auch noch gänzlich unbekannt.

Erst seit einigen Jahren kommen sie in den Fußballstadien zum Einsatz. Einerseits, um das eigene Team zu unterstützen und anzufeuern, andererseits aber auch (und mehr noch) um die gegnerischen Mannschaften gezielt einzuschüchtern. Durch das unentwegte Tröten wird nicht nur deren Nervenkostüm auf Dauer mächtig strapaziert - aufgrund der Dauerbeschallung kommt es auch mächtig ins Flattern.

Hinzu kommt, dass die Plastikröhren gar nicht südafrikanischen Ursprungs sind. Sie werden, wie vieles andere auch, in China gefertigt und von dort importiert. Hier also von einer Kultur zu sprechen, die man achten und würdigen müsse, ist schon sehr weit hergeholt, da es eine Tradition hierzu gar nicht gibt.

It says that the Vuvuzela neither can be seen as an expression of musical temperament, nor that is it is a typical item of South African culture. The Vivuzelas already were known from the Confed Cup, but were invented just some years before that - thy are new and anything than "typical African". Also, they are made in China and then gets exported. The author concludes that it is very far fetched to talk of a culture-typical characteristic here, that the Vuvu has no tradition and history in South Africa at all, and that FIFA's respect for the local "tradition" and "culture" thus may express an eagerness to behave politically correct, but nevertheless is completely misled and unfounded.

[Skybird]

and this: http://www.faz.net/s/Rub0880D9546AD54B17BA97B50EF7058A13/Doc~EF9C0A6047783469BA39ADD91EDD7D9D4~ATpl~Ecommon ~Scontent.html

Das Ganze war ja ein Marketing-Gag, mit dem die Südafrikaner 2004 zur Vergabesitzung nach Zürich zogen, um ein Alleinstellungsmerkmal zu kreieren. Sie wollten sich bei den Mitgliedern im entscheidenden Gremium der Fifa im Gedächtnis verankern.

The author, who has written a whole book about fan culture in football, says that the Vuvus were just a marketing trick, used by the South Africans at FIFA's conference in Zurich 2004, in order to impress with one unique feature, to makw FIFA deciding in favour of SA.

He also points out - from a music-psychologic perspective - that the Vuvu is what in science is called a "distrctor", meaning that it has no intention to form a rythm or melodic interchange between sounds, but that it's only purprose is to interrupt any other signal by overloading it with "white noise". Even comparable instruments historians know for Africa and the Kelts, that produced just one single tone, too, were used in exchnage with other instruments as well, to produce different sound sequences, rythm, variation.

the Vuvu is just white noise. Indeed.

[Skybird]

We need a subsim petition against Vuvuzelas.

[Skybird]

A UN resolution as well.

[Skybird]

Boycott the world cup in SA!

[Skybird]

Bomb the Chinese!

[Schroeder]

You have to respect the Stuka! :hmmm:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PzfGAZvT5M&feature=PlayList&p=4165C05818E72533&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=11
That documentary was awful.:dead:
You don't black out when releasing the bombs, you black out while recovering from the dive AFTER you dropped the eggs.
Vulnerable to Spit and Hurri...and they show a downed 109.:damn:
New soviet fighter...and they show a MiG 15 jet fighter....from after the war:damn:
etc...
But I'm derailing that thread again.:oops:

[papa_smurf]

They should be confiscated as soon as you enter the stadium. Very distracting watching the Germany match, even when I switched over to 5 Live commentary, all I could hear was those blasted vuvus.

the Vuvu is just white noise. Indeed.
:agree:

[Jimbuna]

I've just received an email from a friend who is actually at the tournament, apparently there are signs at every entrance to the stadiums:

Instruction to South Africans: Honk if you have AIDS.

:DL:03:

[SteamWake]

They should be confiscated as soon as you enter the stadium. Very distracting watching the Germany match, even when I switched over to 5 Live commentary, all I could hear was those blasted vuvus.




You may get your wish

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ghUbctrzM88GqP_A_qJZppPbhjVw

[Oberon]

Or not...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2010/8737455.stm


http://www.oliversart.co.uk/acatalog/images/jpgs-lrg/Robert_Taylor_aviation_art/0047_Stuka.jpg

[CCIP]

http://i.imgur.com/kTKdx.jpg

[Oberon]

:har::har::har::har::har:

[Thunder]

'Tis not only bad at the games. Afterwards we have carloads of people driving around till all hour blasting the bloody things.

http://banvuvuzela.com/

I really hope they ban these things, a plastic trumpet, not unlike one i had as a kid, being heralded as African uniqueness...all made in Taiwan.

[Jimbuna]

I wonder if it will stop next week when SA are knocked out of the tournament? :hmmm:

[Oberon]

'Tis not only bad at the games. Afterwards we have carloads of people driving around till all hour blasting the bloody things.

http://banvuvuzela.com/

I really hope they ban these things, a plastic trumpet, not unlike one i had as a kid, being heralded as African uniqueness...all made in Taiwan.


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:har::har:

[Skybird]

English football association has encouraged and invited people to introduce Vuvuzelas as part of English football culture, too. I read it today in either BBC's news, Independent, Times, or Guardian today - these were the four British papers I skimmed today, and in one of them they had a long article about it. They want every club selling them in the club's colours.

Well, then I even prefer the club's hooligans. From them you can at least run away. :D

I did not trust my eyes at first, but they were serious.

In Germany, many cities have banned Vuvus from Rudelguck events (=public viewing)

[Jimbuna]

Has nobody ever advised you......never believe what you read in the British press :DL

[antikristuseke]

All vuvus should be burned I ****ing hate that drone

[Task Force]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph34UpAZKyA&annotation_id=annotation_480250&feature=iv
Hmm, Vavuzela techno remix.:har:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMxEycuSn0o
(origional)

They need a person to conduct them... play some music.(only one note tho)

[CCIP]

http://i.imgur.com/wAoY2.jpg

[Weiss Pinguin]

http://cheezcomixed.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/129209988005715232.jpg

[Skybird]

Has nobody ever advised you......never believe what you read in the British press :DL
Since Britain is the world's capital state of political correctness I have learned to believe everything absurd in the British press! ;) :D :lol:

[Matt86]

Vuvuzela is ancient African tradition like BMWs, R Kelly, says defiant SA

http://www.hayibo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Blow-me.jpg (http://www.hayibo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Blow-me.jpg)PRETORIA. The South African government has come out strongly in defence of the controversial vuvuzela, describing it as an ancient African tradition invented in Mexico in 1973. “The vuvuzela is as proudly African as R Kelly, BMWs, Breitling watches and thousands of other inventions from the Motherland,” said an outraged spokesman this morning.
The raucous plastic trumpets have been accused of destroying World Cup spirit by preventing fans from singing uplifting traditional songs such as Ronaldo Is A Wanker, Henri Is A Wanker, Messi Is A Wanker, and the evergreen German favourite, Rooney Ist Eine Wenker.
Some teams have urged FIFA to ban the vuvuzela outright, saying that top international stars are unable to hear their coaches shout important tactical instructions like how to breathe and run at the same time.
However, this morning the South African government sprang to the defence of the vuvuzela, describing it as one of Africa’s oldest and proudest traditions.
“These plastic vuvuzelas, we have been blowing them back through the mists of time, right back to 2001,” explained Sports Ministry spokesman Monotoni Tshabalala.
“It was then, the legend tells, that a wandering mystic mlungu called Neil van Schalkwyk was given seed money by the Elders in the accounts department at the magical South African Breweries and lo! The plastic vuvuzela was born!”
Asked why vuvuzelas were being promoted as an African invention when they were originally designed by Mexican football fans in the 1970s, Tshabalala said Mexico was historically part of South Africa.
“It’s called incontinental drifting,” she said. “It’s science. You can look it up.”
She explained that “almost everything” was an ancient African tradition or invention, including BMWs, Breitling watches, and singer R Kelly.
“Mr Kelly was carved from basalt by the forest spirits of Abyssinia and released from the living rock when it was split asunder by the righteous flatulence of Comrade Robert Mugabe after he had eaten a liberation-burrito made of the bones of BBC agents,” said Tshabalala.
“As for Beemers, they are made in Bavaria, which used to be part of the Ciskei but since 1994 it’s been run by the Lutheran Church, I think.”
She said she hoped tourists enjoyed their stay in South Africa, adding that if they had any complaints they were welcome to “blow them out of their arses”.
“This is our show,” she said. “If you don’t like it you can ******* off back home. Just leave the Euros on the nightstand on your way out.”



Hayibo.com (http://www.hayibo.com/sa-defends-ancient-african-traditions-including-vuvuzelas-bmws-r-kelly/)

[Jimbuna]

Since Britain is the world's capital state of political correctness I have learned to believe everything absurd in the British press! ;) :D :lol:

Me too :DL

[Spoon 11th]

http://pics.kuvaton.com/kuvei/bzzbzz.jpg

[Blacklight]

So THAT'S what that !@#$! sound was !! I was at a party last weekend and my wife's step brother had the sports channel on and all I could hear from the other room was what sounded like 500 hives of angry bees fighting each other. I looked and it was coming from Soccer. I seriously thought that something was wrong with the broadcast audio or the TV speakers !

I guess in future Soccer video games, the sound designers are only going to have to make one sound for the game.