# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/101 "2010-06-13T11:59:24Z")
> [@even\_sven](#): > > Wow. > > Anyway, how dare those third world natives not bow to the whims of the superior first-world football culture! Don’t they understand they are worthless next to our money? Why, in my day we didn’t even let them in the same stadium! First-world football culture is subordinate to the money-making machine of FIFA, too. If a bunch if delinquent, yobbo Europeana and their “culture” interfered with FIFA’s cash flow, their behavior would be banned, too. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/102 "2010-06-13T11:59:42Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > . I am worried I could become a fag just by changing to the wrong channel this month. Considering the fact that American football and baseball have the WORLD’S TIGHTEST PANTS of any sport known to mankind (yes baseball and American football pants are more worthy of ridicule then EVEN Sumo wrestling gear) it is extremely difficult to imagine how REAL football could make you fancy men’s bottoms more than your choice in sport clearly does. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/103 "2010-06-13T12:03:16Z")
> [@even\_sven](#): > > 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. Oh, yeah, that would be fun. I can’t imagine anything better than heading out to a bar at 6:30 in the morning to try and watch a game with a bunch of drunken yahoos more interested in being goofy drunken yahoos than watching the game. And I don’t care if those horns are first-world, third-world, or out-of-this-world, they get on my last nerve. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/104 "2010-06-13T12:06:58Z")
> [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](#): > > [BBC Sport - Football - World Cup 2010: Organisers will not ban vuvuzelas](http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/world_cup_2010/8737455.stm) > > Blimey! They’ve got their work cut out if they try to ban these things. Did you link to the right article? I don’t read it the same way at all. ---
**Author:** ![Marmite\_Lover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Marmite\_Lover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marmite_Lover)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/105 "2010-06-13T12:13:01Z")
> [@akennett](#): > > But if they stop, then how the fuck are they going to stay awake while watching this boring-ass child’s game? 😃 American Baseball = British children’s game of rounders mostly played by girls. American football:D Firstly they hardly touch the ball with their feet so why it is called football:confused: Second it is BORING!!! Third It’s the children’s version of rugby.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Marmite\_Lover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Marmite\_Lover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marmite_Lover)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/106 "2010-06-13T12:16:31Z")
> [@calm\_kiwi](#): > > Considering the fact that American football and baseball have the WORLD’S TIGHTEST PANTS of any sport known to mankind (yes baseball and American football pants are more worthy of ridicule then EVEN Sumo wrestling gear) it is extremely difficult to imagine how REAL football could make you fancy men’s bottoms more than your choice in sport clearly does. 😃 and they’d wet those tight pants if they saw an All Blacks warm up Huka 😃 ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/107 "2010-06-13T12:30:55Z")
Not football but sevens rugby…as this video shows the ‘annoying’ noise is one of the reasons for being there! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK6BJRDoc5s&feature=related](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK6BJRDoc5s&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/108 "2010-06-13T12:45:56Z")
> [@Jules\_Andre](#): > > I love the buzzing. Seriously. I turn it up until I can _feel_ it. You could just _buy_ a vibrator, you know. > [@](#): > > It adds something to the event that other sports don’t have. So would nerve gas. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/109 "2010-06-13T12:47:03Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > Oh, yeah, that would be fun. I can’t imagine anything better than heading out to a bar at 6:30 in the morning to try and watch a game. Welcome to the other side of the world! We don’t generaly go to a bar but we OFTEN have to wake up in the middle of the night or early morning to watch live sporting events. ---
**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, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/110 "2010-06-13T12:58:39Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > Did you link to the right article? I don’t read it the same way at all. That’s what I meant to link to: “South Africa’s World Cup organising chief Danny Jordaan may ban vuvuzelas from inside stadiums after complaints from broadcasters and supporters.” ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/111 "2010-06-13T13:02:09Z")
> [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](#): > > That’s what I meant to link to: > > “South Africa’s World Cup organising chief Danny Jordaan may ban vuvuzelas from inside stadiums after complaints from broadcasters and supporters.” Oh. Your comment made it seem to me as if the article was discussing the difficulty of such a ban. I misinterpreted, I guess. ---
**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, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/112 "2010-06-13T13:04:56Z")
> [@Marmite\_Lover](#): > > 😃 > > and they’d wet those tight pants if they saw an All Blacks warm up Huka 😃 Aussie rules rules in terms of eye candy shorts! ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/113 "2010-06-13T13:07:31Z")
> [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](#): > > Aussie rules rules in terms of eye candy shorts! Except for the fact that Aussies are wearing them! ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/114 "2010-06-13T13:13:57Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > The quoted part of that article makes it sound like some long-standing tradition, but per [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuvuzela), 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. Interjection totally off post// Damn, another guy from the “tute”🆒🆒//end off post interjection class of 71 ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/115 "2010-06-13T13:16:36Z")
Aussie Rules go for SHORT where baseball and american football go for TIGHT. Both are are good looks if you enjoy looking at arse. But if you need to dazzle the crowd with your bum…well…ummm…well then you should have a really good bum! ---
**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, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/116 "2010-06-13T13:37:51Z")
> [@calm\_kiwi](#): > > Except for the fact that Aussies are wearing them! How did I know you’d come back with that? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/117 "2010-06-13T13:55:14Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > Vuvuzela… fun to say! Sounds like an Italian word for a female body part. _[Matilda](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C-DShN82mc)! [Matilda](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY2zWuUx92A)! [Matilda, she take me money and run vuvuzela](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGqJWfoQdJM)!_ ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/118 "2010-06-13T14:04:52Z")
Rumour has it Australia and Ghana are planning a didgeridoo v vuvuzela face-off. That should be exciting. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/119 "2010-06-13T14:20:06Z")
[Blow the Virtual Vuvuzela!](http://www.spitorswallow.co.za/blowme.php) :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/120 "2010-06-13T14:23:50Z")
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