Seriously. What the fuck? How do those kazoo things enhance the game at all? It sounds like there’s a swarm of bees on the field. It’s not even like people just blow them when there’s a goal or a good play or something. It’s constant from start to finish. It’s like watching a game while getting your teeth drilled. What is the point? Are there people who enjoy that?
Do you know that millions of Americans are probably smacking the shit out of their TV’s right now trying to figure out what the fuck is wrong with their audio?
Someone please make it stop. It’s like simulated tinnitus.
It’s an African thang. FIFA considered banning them for the World Cup, but the South Africans made the case that it was an indispensable part of their football culture.
So this guy thinks that annoying everyone else in the whole world is a valid way to advertise the common plight of all Africans?
How old is this guy? Eight?
The quoted part of that article makes it sound like some long-standing tradition, but per Wikipedia, it only became popular in the 1990s. But at my alma mater, we used to hand out a souvenir at a particular hockey game each year (RPI, Big Red Freakout) and it used to be a noisemaker. In a 1987 game against Brown University, it was a horn very similar to that, and it created such a noise that the NCAA passed a rule against noisemakers in the stands.
What are you doing watching soccer in the first place? I am sure that it is annoying but I would never know. There are probably exactly 28 old ladies in the U.S. who dropped the remote and are now looking in closets trying to locate the sound. Somehow, I don’t see this as a major point of conversation within the U.S.
First it was Mississippi State and the cowbells. Now this shit. I hate soccer anyway, but if they’re trying to convert my type to at least tolerating the game for the sake of national pride and all that, they’re going about it all wrong.
The announcers are also dull and boring. Add that to an hour’s worth of running around with little or no scoring and these fucking horns or whatever, and it’s worse than The View.
A flamboyant boss once gave me a great piece of advice: “Let the primitives indulge in their silly little rituals. It keeps them occupied so that we can control them.”
I saw a web page somewhere that showed how to adjust a particular model TV set to eliminate the frequency the sound is on. If you’re lucky, maybe you can find it with Google and it’ll turn out to be your TV set.
Actually, the more you blow it the more marginalized you get. Do you really think that FIFA, after they get all the complaints about the endlessly annoying droning that cause people to tune out, will ever let the World Cup return to South Africa again?
Talk about getting it about as wrong as wrong can be.
Typed with my ears still ringing from being deafend by vuvuzelas while inside a pub when South Africa scored their goal against Mexico.
While I understand that the sound may be annoying if you are not used to it, it will quickly fade into the background after watching a couple of games. Hell I even saw some old school racist types who don’t watch local soccer and hate the vuvuzela as a black thing, blowing for all they were worth and having a hell of a party during the opening game. And watching the match on local TV I don’t really have a problem because they just reduce the level of the stadium noise and increase that of the commentator.