# Request to all international soccer fans: STOP THAT FUCKING BUZZING! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 12, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942 "2010-06-12T18:49:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/61 "2010-06-13T00:16:35Z")
> [@akennett](#): > > The main common bond here, of course, is that both groups are a lot more masculine than British men. Which makes you wonder why American women swoon over us all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Cort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/77aa72/32.png) [@Cort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cort)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/62 "2010-06-13T00:17:10Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > 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. Yeah, it’s rubbish! I hate games where scoring actually means something! > [@Shagnasty](#): > > I am worried I could become a fag just by changing to the wrong channel this month. Maybe I’m reading too much into this, but if you’re just one minor technological mishap away from becoming a full-blown cockhound, doesn’t that kind of imply you’ve already developed a taste for it? Embrace your identity, man. Those closet doors only open from the inside. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/63 "2010-06-13T00:17:40Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > I don’t LIKE the buzzing sound (I loved the chanting and singing other countries had) but I also respect it. It’s South African culture, and they have generously agreed to host the cup. As long as the games are on their turf, I can take it. > > If this spreads to other countries, though… Generously agreed? That’s in interesting way of saying “spent a load of cash wooing FIFA so they could get it”. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/64 "2010-06-13T00:20:28Z")
> [@amanset](#): > > Generously agreed? That’s in interesting way of saying “spent a load of cash wooing FIFA so they could get it”. Yes. Yes it is.😃 ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/65 "2010-06-13T00:33:45Z")
> [@amanset](#): > > Generously agreed? That’s in interesting way of saying “spent a load of cash wooing FIFA so they could get it”. Well, the last one was stolen from them by Germany. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/66 "2010-06-13T00:35:44Z")
> [@amanset](#): > > Which makes you wonder why American women swoon over us all the time. It’s the accent–doesn’t matter which accent. For sure it’s not the dentistry or the tan or the height or the fashion “sense” or…\* \*It’s a joke, mate. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/67 "2010-06-13T00:40:46Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Millions? :dubious: > > That’s rather… optimistic. 😉 OK, hundreds. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/68 "2010-06-13T00:45:03Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > The thing that gets me is that soccer IS a sport for primitives. It was designed for it. Kick a rock, some sort of ball, or a human head towards a goal…I get that. You can play that even when you and your tribe are starving to death in the Saharan desert. It has extreme utility as a game that way which is admirable except it still sucks. I am worried I could become a fag just by changing to the wrong channel this month. I am still laughing. My husband watches World Cup soccer. I hate it with a passion. The buzzing only makes it worse. I never wanted to know what 100,000 amplified kazoos sounded like. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/69 "2010-06-13T00:45:24Z")
I take it that, in soccer, there’s no radio broadcast that doesn’t have the crowd in it, right? Because then I’d watch the game with the audio on mute, and use the radio announcers. Or is it so loud that wouldn’t even work? I don’t have TV anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Carmady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@Carmady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carmady)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/70 "2010-06-13T00:45:43Z")
As an American, I don’t mind the buzzing at all. It just makes the whole spectacle more exotic. A bunch of people playing some bizarre, mysterious sport under a cloud of inexplicable buzzing. Cool. ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/71 "2010-06-13T02:15:30Z")
> [@Carmady](#): > > As an American, I don’t mind the buzzing at all. It just makes the whole spectacle more exotic. > > A bunch of people playing some bizarre, mysterious sport under a cloud of inexplicable buzzing. Cool. Excellent! My American friends are always bemused by the lack of score! One - Nil - is that it? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/72 "2010-06-13T02:15:55Z")
If you can hear the buzz, you are doing it wrong. Football is not something you do by yourself. Get your lazy ass out of the house and go to a bar- preferably one with international customers who are excited as hell about the World Cup. Order a drink and enjoy the excitement and buzz around you. It’s okay to goof off during the routine parts- the shouts will let you know when you need to be looking at the screen. If you’re attracted to men, enjoy the hot, hot, hot men on the screen. Have fun with the improbably national matchings and the rivalries. I love the World Cup, and I love that it’s in Africa! ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/73 "2010-06-13T02:17:50Z")
> [@orcenio](#): > > To tell you the truth… that was my feeling too :o > > Maybe ebay can satisfy me… Also I’ve been doing the South Africa goal scoring dance all day! ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/74 "2010-06-13T02:21:41Z")
> [@amanset](#): > > Which makes you wonder why American women swoon over us all the time. Only the ones who have visited here and discovered deodorant. and shit. . . ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/75 "2010-06-13T02:25:13Z")
I play a real sport. But I do like the english soccer ball. BUT I HATE THOSE FUCKING HORNS!!! ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/76 "2010-06-13T02:36:26Z")
> [@amanset](#): > > Which makes you wonder why American women swoon over us all the time. The answer can be found in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=563259). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/77 "2010-06-13T02:48:31Z")
My wife and I actually planned to watch the match today (UK vs. US), something we’ve never done before in our lives in re: to soccer/football. After 10 minutes we turned it off. It was just too irritating. Now she thinks all soccer matches are like that. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/78 "2010-06-13T03:04:33Z")
> [@spark240](#): > > 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. > > See [here](http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/tinyikosammaluleke/2010/06/12/an-ode-to-the-vuvuzela-on-occasion-of-fifa-world-cup-2010-in-south-africa/) for a wax lyrical on the subject. If this is what South Africa has to offer football culture, that’s pretty pathetic. > [@DragonAsh](#): > > By all accounts the sound is supposedly quite amazing and does add to the atmosphere _if you’re watching live in the stadium_ It’s not. It might be worse. > [@HISSNLISSN](#): > > This is probably one of the craziest threads I’ve read on SDMB. > > Complaining about the vuvuzela on the internet is just about as obnoxious as the sound of the thing you’re complaining about. Nothing is as obnoxious as those horns. > [@Babale](#): > > I don’t LIKE the buzzing sound (I loved the chanting and singing other countries had) but I also respect it. It’s South African culture, Not all culture is equal. If the crowd was giving us traditional African music or somesuch, that I’d respect. Cheap plastic horns? Not so much. South Africa should be embarrassed that they’re passing this off as culture. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/79 "2010-06-13T03:26:15Z")
So there’s this site, called Reddit, sort of a clearing house for net weirdness, some of it pretty cool, some of it Beavis, you know the drill. Also a very prominent contingent of snotty techno-geeks, arguing with great passion over subjects that have nothing to do with politics, God, or fucking. Anyway, somebody starts a thread about how would you fix it so you don’t hear the buzzing from your TV. First answer: “I would use a shotgun.” Soul brother. ---
**Author:** ![Jules\_Andre](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jules_andre/32/9334_2.png) [@Jules\_Andre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jules_Andre)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/80 "2010-06-13T03:55:27Z")
I didn’t think I’d be the only one, but it appears I might be. I love the buzzing. Seriously. I turn it up until I can _feel_ it. It adds something to the event that other sports don’t have. It’s like that drone that happens during a scary movie when someone is about to jump out from the shadows and cut someone else… it builds suspense. And since nothing ever actually happens in soccer, I at least need the illusion that the game is suspenseful. Really. I can’t get enough of it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942.md?page=5)