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Vuvuzela's are part of the African football culture, just like we have to listen to endless repats of "they think it's all over, it is now'' they have the vuvuzela. Give me the fucking horns anytime.

Btw. Germany will win the tournement, vuvuzela or no vuvuzela.

The vuvuzela has only been used widely in South Africa since the 1990's so to say that it is an integral part of South African culture is bollocks.

Its a moronic instrument played by morons in order to produce a moronic sound which is potentially a health risk to your hearing.

Anybody attempting to use a vuvuzela at British grounds should have it confiscated and inserted into an appropriate orifice as a warning about trying to use it again.

It makes the chant "Who are ya, Who are ya" sound like high art.

CHeers
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Apparently the BBC has received over 500 complaints about these horns, and they are trying to edit them out on the 'red button' facility so you can watch the matches without hearing them. That will mean no crowd noise at all though which will be a bit weird! The crowd singing and cheering is obviously a major part of what football is all about and this is the only tournament ever where you cant hear it!!

Could the BBC not just "dub in" 90 minutes of Benny Hill style canned audience reactions for "red button" viewers - I feel it could work quite well with Mark Lawrenson's dry comedy perhaps ... nah on second thoughts stuff it I think I would rather chance listening to 60,000 Africans on the horn for 90 minutes.!wink!

I see the problem that a lot of twats over here have bought the bloody things and we will be hearing them when our season starts.

Crowd of youths turned up next door to watch the USA game and I had to listen to them coming through the wall, damn irritating!

Just what we need, something else for the local hoodies to make a nuisance of themselves.

They won't get them into the stadiums because they can be used as weapons. If someone does manage to get one in, all you have to do is take it from them and chuck it onto the pitch. Instant vuvuzela ban.

I read somewhere yesterday (can't remember where) that some "enterprising" company has already started marketed them here and that they're selling like hot cakes.

If they take off in a big way next season, they threaten to kill stadium atmosphere stone dead, IMHO. I'm all in favour of an instant ban on the fucking things. Nip the problem in the bud.

And as DJ rightly says, claiming that they're a traditional part of South African culture is utter cobblers.

- Eric

Flat_Eric wrote:

> I read somewhere yesterday (can't remember where) that some
> "enterprising" company has already started marketed them here
> and that they're selling like hot cakes.


Saw some in Argos this morning.

Peter wrote:

> Saw some in Argos this morning.

Apparently Sainsbury's have ordered 50,000 of the sodding things.

"Part of South African culture"?

They've been around for about ten years in SA. The claim that this mass produced plastic horn is part of South African historical culture is fictional marketing, made up by Neil van Schalkwyk, the co-owner of Masincedane Sport, which manufactures the Vuvuzela. His firm patented and began mass producing the Vuvuzela in 2001.