# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/121 "2010-06-13T14:34:50Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > [Blow the Virtual Vuvuzela!](http://www.spitorswallow.co.za/blowme.php) > :rolleyes: “For those who love the vuvuzela: BLOW ME” Couldn’t have said it better myself! ---
**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, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/122 "2010-06-13T14:55:55Z")
[QUOTE=Danny Jordaan] In the days of the struggle (against apartheid) we were singing, all through our history it’s our ability to sing that inspired and drove the emotions. [/QUOTE] See? Now that would be real culture. That’s what South Africa could be offering. Instead we get vuvuzelas. Massive fail for South Africa. Although France blaming their crappy play on them is pretty laughable. How lame is that? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/123 "2010-06-13T15:02:10Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > Although France blaming their crappy play on them is pretty laughable. How lame is that? Well, it _is_ the French. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/124 "2010-06-13T15:12:30Z")
The bloody horns have all the imagination of a caravan site, or a dead ant,or a multi-storey car park. Samba drums are brilliant and the genuinely do add something, I’m not at all keen on the British lot with their theme from the great escape and tin-pot band but at least its an attempt at something. I still stand by what I said about locals getting tickets, if FIFA could have sold them all to Europeans at the highly inflated prices they charge for these matches, they would have done so. FIFA has got too greedy and the result would have been either to climb down on the price of the tickets (and also the jacked up flights and hotel prices) or to end up with almost empty stadiums that would have displayed to the results of their greed to everyone in the premium event in world football. So instead what do they do? Virtually give away tickets to the locals, yes they get full stadiums, but the result is the constant attention seeking noise that some fucking wanker has the temerity to describe as a form of South African ‘culture’ With an established ‘tradition’ of ooooooo just over a decade or so, don’t make me fucking laugh. From a nation that genuinely does have some real traditions they could proudly show off to the whole world, they pick on some dumb tuneless tubes of cheap throw away crap - yeah, what a thing to be proud of. Sort of like holding the world cup in Britain and then giving tickets to benefit claimants in regulation council estate shell suits and carrying stolen mobile phone mp3 players and claiming its a proud British tradition (which it unfortunately is) If this tournament had taken place in Europe or South America, there would not be the slightest danger of empty stadia, you’d be paying scalpers three or four times the face value of the ticket. If this tournament had taken place in India it would have had plenty of life but without the shitey racket, there are a hundred differant places that would have filled up those stadia and in return would have offered something special to the world cup, fuck me, it would have been better held in Vietnam. I also think Nigeria would have made a better job of it too, along with Egypt, Kenya, or a number of other places. ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/125 "2010-06-13T15:20:14Z")
> [@amanset](#): > > Which makes you wonder why American women swoon over us all the time. That’s not swooning, they just want your help with their hair and makeup. ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/126 "2010-06-13T15:22:50Z")
I don’t think foreigners should try and change South African culture. Where would we be if people had done that? ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/127 "2010-06-13T15:24:22Z")
> [@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. Don’t be silly. How much sense would it make to pat teammates on the butt if they didn’t have tight pants? ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/128 "2010-06-13T16:40:16Z")
It’s not true that horn blowing is only a decade old. What’s new is the cheap plastic trumpet, before that it was Kudu horns, brass bugles, even kelp trumpets. Me, I could take it or leave it, but I’m used to it by now, so it doesn’t lessen my enjoyment of the Beautiful Game. But I do have a Mirliton - sort of a double-walled tubewith a rubber diaphragm. But that isn’t a monotone. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/129 "2010-06-13T16:44:13Z")
I’ve been trying to watch the games. I’m no connoisseur of the game, but the play seems good. Still, I have to agree with the OP–the buzzing is irritating! I wouldn’t mind if the fans cheered, booed, sang songs, whistled, whatever; hearing those kinds of things add to the fun of watching the game on TV. The buzzing, though, takes away from the fun. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/130 "2010-06-13T16:50:28Z")
> [@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. **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. Hot, hot, hot men? Aside from the legs of steel (which I’m told many women love), the guys playing the US vs England match I watched yesterday were ugly as sin. And my wife agreed. ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/131 "2010-06-13T16:57:17Z")
> [@DanBlather](#): > > That’s not swooning, they just want your help with their hair and makeup. There’s only one way to solve this argument: Google battle. Google image result for [“typical American male”](http://scienceblogs.com/denialism/fat-blogger.jpg). Google image result for [“typical British male”](http://jakemcmillan.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/james_bond_11_18ts7z.jpg). Britain rests its case 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/132 "2010-06-13T17:01:49Z")
> [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](#): > > There’s only one way to solve this argument: Google battle. Google image result for [“typical American male”](http://scienceblogs.com/denialism/fat-blogger.jpg). Google image result for [“typical British male”](http://jakemcmillan.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/james_bond_11_18ts7z.jpg). Ah, the British way. When you can’t win, cheat. In other words, that’s not the first image for “typical American male.” ---
**Author:** ![alexandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@alexandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alexandra)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/133 "2010-06-13T17:08:06Z")
> [@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. [QUOTE=Capt Ridley] You know who else, apart from American men, doesn’t like football as a rule? British women. It seems the two groups have a lot in common. [/QUOTE] I’m sorry is it 1952…or just Be a Bigoted Fuckwit Month? ---
**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, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/134 "2010-06-13T17:09:57Z")
Isn’t that second fellow a native of Britain’s penile colony? ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/135 "2010-06-13T17:16:50Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Aside from the legs of steel (which I’m told many women love), the guys playing the US vs England match I watched yesterday were ugly as sin. And my wife agreed. Your wife thinks Carlos Bocanegra is ugly as sin? Is she _human_? :eek: Now Peter Crouch, I’ll give you… ---
**Author:** ![alexandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@alexandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alexandra)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/136 "2010-06-13T17:22:36Z")
Not overly bothered about this chap myself, but he entertained my flatmate throughout the dull-as-fuck Uruaguay-France match: [http://flash-news.over-blog.com/article-30618718.html](http://flash-news.over-blog.com/article-30618718.html). Video **NSFW**! Anyway. The vulvawhatevers do suck. ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/137 "2010-06-13T17:24:54Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Ah, the British way. When you can’t win, cheat. > > In other words, that’s not the first image for “typical American male.” Who said it was? There, there. Don’t cry. ---
**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, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/138 "2010-06-13T18:54:46Z")
> [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](#): > > Who said it was? There, there. Don’t cry. [This](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f98opUNuVXc/SRAYtrK7OiI/AAAAAAAADjU/FFClQh7UJA8/s400/woman.jpg) is the first image that came up for me when I googled “typical American woman”, though. It looks like they’re a good match for each other. ---
**Author:** ![yendis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ed8c4c/32.png) [@yendis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yendis)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/139 "2010-06-13T18:58:44Z")
Busy watching the Germany Australia game and the stadium noise is turned right down, so obviously the broadcasters are responding to the complaints. ---
**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, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942/140 "2010-06-13T19:04:51Z")
> [@yendis](#): > > Busy watching the Germany Australia game and the stadium noise is turned right down, so obviously the broadcasters are responding to the complaints. It’s just as noticeable on U.S. TV. Maybe the South African broadcasters have closed the windows of their booth. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/request-to-all-international-soccer-fans-stop-that-fucking-buzzing/542942.md?page=8)