vuvuzuela
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Love the vuvuzela. It's a characteristically South African expression of joy and excitement at soccer matches. When I lived there the passion for soccer was unbelievable. Games between top teams at 60,000 seat stadiums would sell out, then 10,000 people would stand around outside the stadium during the game.
Here's a funny article about it in The Onion:
"South African Vuvuzela Philharmonic Angered by Soccer Games Breaking Out During Concerts"
http://www.theonion.com/articles/south-african-vuvuzela-philharmonic-angered-by-soc,17625/
Here's a funny article about it in The Onion:
"South African Vuvuzela Philharmonic Angered by Soccer Games Breaking Out During Concerts"
http://www.theonion.com/articles/south-african-vuvuzela-philharmonic-angered-by-soc,17625/
As if soccer fans weren't intolerable enough already.
A monotonic roar that resembles the sound that the QM2 would make if a giant stuck his finger up the ships' rhetorical ass.
A monotonic roar that resembles the sound that the QM2 would make if a giant stuck his finger up the ships' rhetorical ass.
Love the game, but ban them outside of Africa. I want to hear the chanting and the songs, notsome god damn horn.
I call fad. Less than a year and they'll be mostly gone anyway. At least after this World Cup.
Most of the internationals were considering selling them until the games started and it became an issue. They're not going to now, EPL and Italia said they'd rather have the fans chanting than the horn so they just won't sell them... no word about them banning them, but I can't imagine too many of them getting back to the respective countries, let alone the individual team games which would go on to make anywhere near as much a ruckus as at the World Cup games.
On a side note: MLS should consider it just to draw attention!
Most of the internationals were considering selling them until the games started and it became an issue. They're not going to now, EPL and Italia said they'd rather have the fans chanting than the horn so they just won't sell them... no word about them banning them, but I can't imagine too many of them getting back to the respective countries, let alone the individual team games which would go on to make anywhere near as much a ruckus as at the World Cup games.
On a side note: MLS should consider it just to draw attention!
What's the difference between the annoying vuvuzuela and the annoying horns the mexicans play at all the soccer matches in the states? Mostly at the Chivas games, but others as well.
AMCM Disco said:
They were a fad here in the good ol' US of A - 45 years ago. These cheap plastic horns were all the rage at high school football (not soccer....) games, and then they just disappeared. Banned? Fad faded? Dunno...they just went. Good thing, too....
i just wish they wouldnt play them in the background on TV and instead just play the announcers voice.
ptschram
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apg said:
LOL, they were prizes at school events when I was in elementary school.
I didn't realize they were called vuvzelas until now.
Tugela said:
Man, I wish I was from South Africa.
Because if I was, I would insist that everyone call me a Norwegian/African/American.
ptschram
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group captain mandrake said:
Calling himself an African/American got AfiRover (Gary Grey) in trouble at work.
He was born in Pietermaritzburg.
Worse yet, he's an engineer! Yes, he's an African Engineer! Purdue educated no less.
PT, a friend of mine in college from South Africa had a similar situation. It was surprising how bent out of shape people got over it.
If you are born in the United States and are the fourth generation of European immigrants who moved here in the 1800s, you have a pretty convincing case that you are American.
If you are born in South Africa and are the fourth generation of European immigrants who moved there in the 1800s, you should have an equally convincing case that you are South African. But when this guy claimed he was South African, nobody bought it. Especially nobody in the financial aid office.
Plus we were at the University of Michigan, which is a couple notches up from Purdue.
(Just razzin' ya, Indiana Schram and the Temple of Doomed Rovers. Keeping the Big 10 rivalries going.)
If you are born in the United States and are the fourth generation of European immigrants who moved here in the 1800s, you have a pretty convincing case that you are American.
If you are born in South Africa and are the fourth generation of European immigrants who moved there in the 1800s, you should have an equally convincing case that you are South African. But when this guy claimed he was South African, nobody bought it. Especially nobody in the financial aid office.
Plus we were at the University of Michigan, which is a couple notches up from Purdue.
(Just razzin' ya, Indiana Schram and the Temple of Doomed Rovers. Keeping the Big 10 rivalries going.)