Football chants vs. Vuvuzelas?

photon

photon

Suspended / Banned
Messages
5,123
Edit My Images
Yes
Phone-in on Radio 5 Live today, 14th June, until 10am.
 
this has got to be the most one sided poll ever created. Who on earth would ever pick an irritating bee horn? I think I might be able to guess which way the poll is going to go.
 
I'd vote for it.

The thing is that it's a part of the culture of the country hosting the competition. Why should we try to impose the european way of doing things on them? This is something different and I'm really enjoying it at the moment :)
 
I'm in two minds on this one,

1. vote for it because it's different

2. don't vote for it because it's bloody irritating


i'm erring on the side of number 2, because it sounds like I should be wearing a bee suite instead of an England shirt :lol:
 
Haven't a clue, as I have no interest in the football, so won't even be bothering to find out. :)
 
dod said:
I'd vote for it.

The thing is that it's a part of the culture of the country hosting the competition. Why should we try to impose the european way of doing things on them? This is something different and I'm really enjoying it at the moment :)
Click to expand...

something different? It's just a horn with a different name - you get this ridiculous bee sound at every world cup
 
joescrivens said:
something different? It's just a horn with a different name - you get this ridiculous bee sound at every world cup
Click to expand...

first time I remember it being an issue though :shrug:
 
the noise from them gets on my considerably large breasts ,,,,
 
the constant buzzing bees is doing my head in! I want to watch the football, but I can't have it loud because it's so annoying.

It's a shame you can't hear the crowd chanting or cheering when their team scores, but at the same time, I think it's a shame to ban their instrument of choice...can't they put a bung in the end like you do with a trumpet!
 
I don't have a particular problem with them, but it would be nice if it wasn't for the entire game, or if they at least tried to get some form of a tune gong. I have watched every game so far and there was only one hint of a tune going for about 2 minutes...that is an awful lot of monotonous buzzing.

I would prefer to hear the chants and tunes (from the bands, etc) from each country, but I really don't think it is as big a problem as the commentators make it out to be.
 
I can't believe the dreary attitude in Britain towards these horns, there fantastic!
I've just come back from Joburg, they contribute towards the party atmosphere and makes it different.
One tournament where we don't have monotone singing and people cant handle it; pathetic.
 
I dont mind the noise, ive watched nearly all the games and it becomes that you hardly notice it.

Moaning and complaining about it is just sad, and as for the players not being able to hear each other, how would they cope with deafening crowd chants? Pathetic.
 
mgrowcoot said:
I can't believe the dreary attitude in Britain towards these horns, there fantastic!
I've just come back from Joburg, they contribute towards the party atmosphere and makes it different.
One tournament where we don't have monotone singing and people cant handle it; pathetic.
Click to expand...

i wouldn't call it pathetic. I've watched every game so far and felt no atmosphere at all. There is much more of an atmosphere with singing, playing a horn is very unoriginal, you just blow, coming up with words for a football song and getting the whole crowd to join in is a fantastic feeling, original and much more about fans at footy matches! :thumbs:
 
its an atmosphere thats foreign to us, which we haven't adjusted to.
This is an african tournament, and its an african atmosphere.
its more original than the bloody brass band with that tune they play at every england game, thats all I ever hear when there not in south africa
 
A few animal horns blown in a natural landscape is completely different to the near monotone and lack of dynamic range of these Chinese-made instruments of sonic torture, rasping en masse.
 
nilagin said:
Haven't a clue, as I have no interest in the football, so won't even be bothering to find out. :)
Click to expand...

It's very much the same with me and because of that I haven't watched a single match (even Saturday's England one) so far. But mother had it on and within 5 minutes of hearing what sounded like a plague of bees heading my way, I had to leave the room otherwise the laptop I had on me would have ended up being embedded in the TV screen.
Maybe that was a bit overdramatic, but even mum who is more into this World Cup lark found that sound irritating after a while.

And I have a 60% hearing loss - I feel for those who aren't able to turn their hearings off to block that sound out.
 
mgrowcoot said:
its an atmosphere thats foreign to us, which we haven't adjusted to.
This is an african tournament, and its an african atmosphere.
its more original than the bloody brass band with that tune they play at every england game, thats all I ever hear when there not in south africa
Click to expand...

the brass band is exactly whats needed, gets the crowd singing and the audience watching on tv sing too, particularly in the pubs. You dont hear the tv watching public making the vuvuzela noise!

i really do hope the bbc drown out the feed, it's ruining the world cup!
 
joescrivens said:
the brass band is exactly whats needed, gets the crowd singing and the audience watching on tv sing too, particularly in the pubs. You dont hear the tv watching public making the vuvuzela noise!

i really do hope the bbc drown out the feed, it's ruining the world cup!
Click to expand...

we need to embrace the vuvuzela, take it to all the grounds, drown out the crowd with its beautiful music
 
it's just a noise a horrible one at that, the England crowd need a PA to drown out the sound of the angry bees
 
Embrace it - it's not like the South African's have just invented this for the world cup. It's their world cup and they should run it how they like.

It's preferable to "My Grandfather killed your Grandfather" and "Does Posh Spice..........."
 
joescrivens said:
I almost took you seriously then, until you said beautiful music, then I k ew you were joking!
Click to expand...
ok well maybe not all the time, but i agree with bobby dazzler
this is south africas world cup, let them provide a south african atmosphere
 
joescrivens said:
i really do hope the bbc drown out the feed, it's ruining the world cup!
Click to expand...

Apparently they can't if they did you wouldn't be able to hear the comentators using the letter "e" something to do with the pitch of those bloody horns but it would make watching the matches funny as hell.
 
Keenbfb said:
Apparently they can't if they did you wouldn't be able to hear the comentators using the letter "e" something to do with the pitch of those bloody horns but it would make watching the matches funny as hell.
Click to expand...

Are you watching this game?

They've dimmed it. It's miles better
 
I'm off the fence - I think they're great, adding loads of atmosphere.

yuyuyuyu.gif
 
They suck the big one. I'm working out in Spain and the only channel in the hotel I can understand is German europsort. For their world cup coverage they've got this south african woman who dared to compared those stupid plastic trumpets to the sounds of british singing and south American drumming. I'm sorry you dullard but those crappy bugles are neither tuneful nor rhythmical. Get them melted and turned into coke bottles.
 
Now I know these things are part of the culture and football is all about respect but I really don't understand the point of them. There is no rhythm or skill involved and all they do is create background noise resembling a swarm of killer bees in a cheap "B-movie". Still we all know that there's just no chance in hell that they will be banned by FIFA so we'll just have to get along with them until the end of this competition. On a bright side it was nice to see the English fans outsing them during the Algeria match, if only the players put half as much effort into their game :shake:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top