Comments on: Vuvuzela wars: The philosophy

By: razvanserbu

razvanserbu — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:04:18 +0000

Ernesto is lucky, in Romania we don’t have filters for vuvuzela annoying beeeeees. We must to turn off the sound from our TV. Vuvuzela is killing all others sounds.
All the people I know are against this noise.
If you, in SA, love so much this sound, put on speakers with 200dB for all time and give a break to the vuvuzela people, for the rest of us it doesn’t change anything.

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By: Ernesto

Ernesto — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:47:46 +0000

German broadcasters Sky and ARD now have an option to filter out the annoying vuvuzela beeeeees. Now lets party without the vuvuzela. Blow now as much as you like. Blow 24h-365d. Blow the Vuvuzela! Blow it louder than ever for filter testing.
Peace. Have fun with the games. :-))

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By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:51:04 +0000

The constant buzzing of noise irrigardless whether or not the game hasn’t started yet, the game is 0-0, the game is 4-0, a play is injured and down, whatever doesn’t matter what the condition in the field is there’s this constant non stop and non fluctuating noise.. which is has become unbearable to listen to from my computer (Can’t imagine what it would be like for those attending live)… sometimes I can barley make out what the announcers are saying and most of all the worst part is it cheapens the SA experience. SA has beautiful musical culture that are accompanied with various instruments that strike all the musical notes A REAL TREAT FOR EARS. But for some reason people chose to use this cheap plastic that only seems to have a single tone (B flat) and no melody/vibe/groove to it. With all the money SA has poured out why kill the experience from something like this? By the way part of the enjoyjment of world cup is hearing those unique sound of fans that accompanies their respective countries. For instance ever since I can remember, I know how the Argentines root, I know how the Brazilians root, I know how British fans root…..so when in those game and all the others the single main thing you hear is buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz it takes away from the world cup experience. I can hardly heard beating of drums, that solo trumpet in back ground, the chanting, clapping, cheering a and booing. All that is gone and replaced with buzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Now don’t take this in wrong way… I am not someone who doesn’t understand cultural significance because I do as a fellow African from country that dates back to Biblical time and over 80 langues spoken. But as host nation to FIFA…there should be consensus about maintaining country’s tradition and FIFA’s tradition too. I am afraid this might jeopardize future possibility of being a serious contender for big sporting events such as world cup..The world cup is not only about SA….it’s better to serve than to be served.

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By: owen

owen — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:00:53 +0000

Sorry, but it is just an awful noise. How does anyone blow the thing and watch and enjoy a game. Who are these idiots who blow it non stop for 90 mins?

Yes blow it when something happens but non stop for 90 mins is just sheer stupidity.

I have not watched most of the games as I cannot stand the noise. They have kinda spoiled the WC for me.

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By: Ernesto

Ernesto — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:58:14 +0000

SA Supportes have shown the whole world, that they are the loudest around the globe. You have won. No other supporters crowd can be heard. No chants, no singing, no drums. No argentine, german, japanese supporters. Just an annoying 90 min lasting 120 to 140 decibel woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Congrats again. You have won. And spoiled the tournament.

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