Vuvuzelas

What is everyone who has been watching the World Cup opinions on them? In my personal opinion they are ruining a big part of it. You can't hear the singing and chants of the fans. There is basically just buzzing the entire time.

Sounds like the bee hive in my grandmas dead tree when went to try to cut it down - I didnt like it then and I dont like it now.

I love them. I thought they were buba-zelas, though.

The first time I heard the word, I though they said bougainvillea.
Which would be considerably less noisy but not any less distracting if fans were brandishing them.

ZOO wrote: I love them. I thought they were buba-zelas, though.

I have no idea what any of you are talking about, but "b" and "v" sound pretty much exactly the same in the spanish language, and that looks like a spanish word.

football, all the violence and action is on the field. soccer, all the violence and action is off the field.

IMO, they are berkeleying annoying, and each person who's got one should have it shoved down their throat. Seriously, I can't watch soccer because of them; the sound drives me nuts...

Those things are as retarded as the folks who blow into them for 90 straight minutes.

I was pretty disappointed that FIFA decided not to ban them. In England the BBC was working on filtering them out of the broadcast. I was really disappointed that in the Brazil game, you could hear their fans playing the drums and such.

I was wondering what that damned buzzing was when I was watching one of the games. Very annoying.

Some smart TV audio engineer should be able to figure out how to notch the frequencies out. Although since buzzing is a really complex series of overtones, it might be impossible.

There is a place England which is taking bets on if they are going to be banned from the EPL.

Here are some various methods to filter the buzz out:

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/06/15/filter-the-vuvuzela-horn-out-of-the-world-cup-learn-jack-routing-on-linux/

I'm not bothered by them

With such an international presence, soccer is a big part culture. Banning them (and drums in Brazil) would make FIFA very unpopular, and likely subject to visits from irate soccer mobs.

(Not to be confused with irate soccer moms, which might actually be worse.)

DILYSI Dave wrote: Those things are as retarded as the folks who blow into them for 90 straight minutes.

No different than certain ethnic groups who feel the need to set their car alarms off endlessly or bounce their engines off of the rev limiter endlessly when at a car show.

There just happen to be 100 thousand of them in a stadium.

93celicaGT2 wrote:

For some reason I laughed my ass off at this.

Stay classy, England.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1286912/WORLD-CUP-2010-Vuvuzelas-selling-out.html

Cover your ears for a vuvuzela invasion: World Cup horn a hit with British shoppers By CHRISTIAN GYSIN and ARTHUR MARTIN Last updated at 7:56 AM on 16th June 2010 Comments (110) Videos Add to My Stories It's caused more controversy in the World Cup so far than anything on the pitch, and has had many armchair fans reaching for their earplugs. But it seems the 140-decibel blast of the vuvuzela - the £2 plastic horn that has become the soundtrack to this summer's football festival - could soon be all around us, and we won't even be able to get rid of it by switching off the TV. Despite many fans claiming the instruments make an unbearable racket, 'vuvu fever' has quickly spread from the stadiums in South Africa to supermarket shelves in Britain. Sales of the traditional African horn in Sainsbury's have reached one every two seconds. Sainsbury's has already sold 40,000 red vuvuzelas this month at £2 each and says its total stock of 75,000 could sell out by Friday. Online retailer Amazon has seen sales of the horn rocket by 1,000 per cent. Thousands of English fans, mostly among the younger generation, have changed the ring tone of their mobile phone to mimic the sound of the horn. The news will come as a disappointment for critics of the horn, coming just as the BBC offered them hope by revealing it was working on a 'vuvuzela-free' version of its TV coverage, to be accessed by pressing the red button on remote controls. The corporation has received more than 550 complaints about the horns' cacophony from football fans, while thousands more have vented their frustration on internet forums. In response to these complaints the BBC is planning to provide 'clean' coverage which would strip out most of the crowd noise. But it said it would keep the noise on its coverage on BBC1 as it was committed to reflecting the atmosphere.

A friend is in Durban for her honeymoon. She said the Vuvu's go from 6:30 am until 4 a.m. the next day. I would be homicidal by now.

It cracks me up that over 550 people called the BBC to complain about them - If you are really upset call FIFA maybe but what can the BBC do about it. I can see some engineer from the BBC on the PA system before the game politely asking the crowd to not use them as it upsets the chaps at home.

Here is how they are doing it, http://www.waves.com/content.aspx?id=5798

Signed your audio guy.

http://www.vuvuzela-time.co.uk/grassrootsmotorsports.com

soccer is hard for me to watch in the first place, these annoying things just did it in for me. I record a game i want to watch, load it to my portable hard drive, hook it up to ps3 and watch the game at 1.5x speed, makes BZZZ less annoying and you can watch a game soooo much faster and makes it way more entertaining.

updated Air Horn app has these annoying horns as well on Android Phones (not a friend maker)