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I'm actually willing to accept the argument that these things are an integral part of the South African football experience.
I'd also support the decision to never allow them to host the World Cup again. Or any other soccer-related event. The IOC should probably take note too.
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When I was a kid I lived next door to a boy who owned a vuvuzela. They are indeed incredibly loud but also a lot of fun to blow. It was awesome for getting the attention of every child in the neighborhood for Important Things.
At the time I didn't understand why adults got annoyed about the sound so quickly (compared to other little kid noisy things) but I can definitely see why nowadays.
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Did anyone catch the reporter on ESPN saying "I have 5 children at home, so I find the vuvuzelas quite relaxing."
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*grin* Same here, Nighthawk. We get all our TV off the computer in the living room, and my wife was convinced there was either something wrong with our signal or the speakers. "No, no," I insisted. "They have these annoying horn things, and they keep blowing them."
She didn't believe me. It actually offended her sense of rightness that a) large numbers of people would voluntarily and even eagerly make such an annoying noise; and b) that broadcasters wouldn't simply strip the noise out before broadcasting (isolating the relevant frequencies and muffling them), or at least turn the crowd noise down below the level of the color commentator's audio.
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I dont mind the noise, and I understand that they're an integral part of South African football. They're hosting this tournament, and you cant go into their stadiums and tell them how to be fans. Thats just wrong.
However, I do extrememly dislike them. Because well, it ruins some of the fun atmosphere and crowd noise. We don't here the singing, the change in tempo, the awe of the crowd. That quiet right before a shot, and that unbelievable rush of emotions and sound after it went in, or is stopped, is amazing. And we're missing it.
Also, when a stadium collectively gasps, or awws, it's cool.
But it's absolutely the right thing to embrace them and go with it, because bannind them would just be wrong.
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No, banning them would offend the South Africans. But it is okay to offend the South Africans, because their stupid soccer tradition is stupid.
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Personally i love the sound it makes. I am glad they aren't going to ban them. That buzzing "swarm" sound gives the game a more intense and foreboding feeling to it. It really made the last few minutes of the Spain/Swiss match more intense.
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Ever since I heard about these horns and heard what they sound like in a soccer game, I have decided that I'm not missing anything by not watching the world cup games. Let the South Africans blow their horns...I'm not going out of my way to watch a soccer game with annoying sounds in it.
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