vuvu stoppers...

[SteamWake]

Put an end to the vuvus !!!

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1

[krashkart]

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

[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

[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

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by 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

Jericho Trompete!

[Schroeder]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

The Germans must be loving it

Actually, I find them awfully annoying.

[Wolfehunter]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Jericho Trompete!

This is GREAT!

[Admiral8Q]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Jericho Trompete!

You have to respect the Stuka!

[HunterICX]

Originally Posted by Schroeder

Actually, I find them awfully annoying.

You don't say

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]

Originally Posted by HunterICX

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/Rub0880D9546AD5...~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.