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Sunday, June 27, 2010

Vuvuzela

6 comments:

  1. Spare a thought for your English readers who yesterday had to listen to vuvuzelas AND watch England being outplayed by Germany at the same time :). Talk about Hell!

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  2. Heh. The original version of that was funny, but THIS really makes it awesome! :-D

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  3. This cartoon was probably drawn by someone who has never watched a live soccer match blowing his own vuvuzela.

    I was at the U.S. vs Algeria game and my son and I blew our vuvuzelas along with thousands of other American, Algeria and generic fans. It was an amazing amount of fun.

    From my experience, as a South African, is that those who complain about the vuvuzela have never been at a game with their own vuvuzelas.

    It adds an amazing amount of excitement to watching a game.

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  4. Yeah, I was sad to see England go down to Germany too! England has such great players too. A commentator noted Sven Goran Eriksson was able to accomplish more with (arguably) less talent in the years he was head coach for England than Fabio Capello has done with his very talented squad. Alas.

    On the plus side, at least England didn't go down in flames alongside France and Italy in the group stages! :-)

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  5. True, I don't know how fun and exciting blowing the vuvuzela might be if you're present at a live game. But like many others who sadly can't travel to South Africa for the World Cup (sigh) I definitely know it's not so much fun when you're watching a game on TV! :-(

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  6. William Dicks writes:

    This cartoon was probably drawn by someone who has never watched a live soccer match blowing his own vuvuzela.

    I've never watched a soccer match holding a foghorn to my ear either, but intuition suggests it wouldn't be pleasant at all.

    From what I've read, the vuvuzela causes permanent hearing loss. I can't stand loud noises as it is, let alone being forced to suffer them for the entire duration of a sports match.

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