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The Sound Of Plastic Trumpets!!!! (vuvuzelas)

CAPE TOWN – The vuvuzela trumpet might be synonymous with South African football fans, but not everyone can stand the din and Cape Town shops report they are running out of "vuvu-stopper" earplugs.

Vuvuzelas can record noise levels of up to 130 decibels, compared to the 100 produced by a chainsaw, and it seems many people need some peace.


"I could have sold 300 pairs of earplugs yesterday if I'd had the stock, and the same today, but I've only got 200 pairs and that's just about finished," one local shopkeeper told the Weekend Argus newspaper.
"We can't keep up," said the owner, who has ordered 1,000 more.


The earplugs, marketed as the "Vuvu-Stop", have a label on the back of the packet which reads: Highly effective noise reduction. Uses include soccer, rugby, or for couch potatoes to block out your wife's moaning."
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Fuckin annoying - jsut a constant drone.

The ebbs and flows of crowd noise - the reaction to near misses, goals, fearsome tackles, sending offs, booing the play acting nancy boys, the obsence chants - are what gives live football its atmosphere.

How anyone can think that all that being blotted out by an incessant, ear shattering drone is utterly beyond me.

Ban and burn the fucking things. And throw the Ingerland brass band on top of the pyre for good measure.
 
big eejit said:
It's an African tradition you racists. Blowing tatty plastic horns is traditional.
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Couldn't they just play the djembe instead (or any percussion instrument)? Those are real traditional instruments and make a much better sound. :mad: :p
 
wonder what the vuvuzela noise will do to veiwing figures?

although really not a footie fan i was going to watch the main games. after trying to watch a couple of games though not too sure i will bother
 
Was really fucking annoying last night, gave me a headache. Really couldn't hear the singing or cheering or anything. Couldn't even hear the ingerland band, which I would have thought to be a blessing, but on reflection I'd rather have that shite than the constant drone.

Fuck knows what it's like to be in the stadium. If someone was stood next to me for a couple of hours blowing that in my ear the only time you'd hear it blow next would be when the cunt farted.
 
I was glad of the trumpets last night...they drowned out the fucking pain in the arse England band :mad:

Nice one South Africa :)
 
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jer said:
Doesn't bother me in the slightest; it adds to the atmosphere, I reckons.
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Oh you're so terribly cultured! So much so that not only can you not criticise Africans from doin summat annoyin you have to actually support them! I know who I'm voting for in the most liberal middle class post award this month!

iROBOT said:
Me neither, it how the South Africans support their teams and we are in THEIR country.
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Fine. Do it for THEIR team an fuck off doin it for everybody else's
 
France captain Patrice Evra has already blamed the noise generated by the vuvuzelas, which has been likened to the drone of thousands of bees, for his side's poor showing in their opening group game against Uruguay, which finished goalless.

He said: "We can't sleep at night because of the vuvuzelas. People start playing them from 6am.
"We can't hear one another out on the pitch because of them."
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Evra thinks they should be banned, good enough reason to keep them imo...
 
Anyone who draws comparisions between the infernal din produced by these nasty items and crowd chants must have already had their hearing affected by them and not realised.

If thats what the tournament hosts want to play at their teams matches I dont see the problem, or even at the other African nations. Though the vuvuzela isnt a traditional African instrument, but a recent development exclusive to South Africa, which is disliked by many people there and ear plugs make a roaring trade. The players dont like it. Fans dont like it. But it seems FIFA in a cynical attempt to create noise, have enoucraged them and the most of the sheep like herd in the media are pretending it isnt an issue.

I always thought one of the most basic criteria to host any international sporting tournament was you had to be accodommating to your guests, but here its the other way round and its interesting isnt it that for the first time (though hardly anyone noticed) the hosts ,and not the defending champions, started proceedings. Thats because this is a political event, with the football a secondary concern.
 
leftistangel said:
Anyone who draws comparisions between the infernal din produced by these nasty items and crowd chants must have already had their hearing affected by them and not realised.

If thats what the tournament hosts want to play at their teams matches I dont see the problem, or even at the other African nations. Though the vuvuzela isnt a traditional African instrument, but a recent development exclusive to South Africa, which is disliked by many people there and ear plugs make a roaring trade. The players dont like it. Fans dont like it. But it seems FIFA in a cynical attempt to create noise, have enoucraged them and the most of the sheep like herd in the media are pretending it isnt an issue.

I always thought one of the most basic criteria to host any international sporting tournament was you had to be accodommating to your guests, but here its the other way round and its interesting isnt it that for the first time (though hardly anyone noticed) the hosts ,and not the defending champions, started proceedings. Thats because this is a political event, with the football a secondary concern.
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you forgot your [cynic] [/cynic] tags
 
Vuvuzelas have been controversial. They have been associated with permanent noise-induced hearing loss, cited as a possible safety risk when spectators can't hear evacuation announcements, and potentially spread colds and flu germs on a greater scale than coughing or shouting. Commentators have described the sound as "annoying" and compared it with "a stampede of noisy elephants," "a deafening swarm of locusts," "a goat on the way to slaughter" and "a giant hive full of very angry bees."

The sound level of the instrument has been measured at 131 dB(A) at the opening of the horn and at 113 dB(A) two metres in front of the opening, both dangerously high levels for unprotected ears
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They are feckin annoying in fairness..
 
leftistangel said:
and its interesting isnt it that for the first time (though hardly anyone noticed) the hosts ,and not the defending champions, started proceedings. Thats because this is a political event, with the football a secondary concern.
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:rolleyes:

The hosts have been involved in the opening game in 7 of the previous 18 tournaments. Germany were in the opening game of the last World Cup. England were in the opening game of the 1966 World Cup.
 
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