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YouTube Gets a Vuvuzela Button (Seriously)

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the just-stop-watching-sports dept.

teh31337one writes "YouTube always has had a way with pranks. Some time in the last hour, the world's largest video portal activated a new button on some videos that looks like a tiny soccer ball. Clicking it will activate an endless, incredibly annoying sound that sounds vaguely like a swarm of insects. Or, for anyone who has been watching the World Cup, like the dreaded vuvuzela — an instrument commonly played in South Africa at football (soccer) games. South Africa is, of course, the host country for this year's World Cup, and fans watching the games have been subjected to the vuvuzela's mindless drone for hours on end. The noise is so annoying that television networks have taken measures to filter it out, and guides have popped up showing viewers how to block it from their TV sets and computers. I'm not seeing the button show up on all videos, but it is definitely appearing on some clips that aren't soccer-related."

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  1. Re:For the americans by sqldr · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "as they don't have access to baseball or football or basketball or hockey."

    There's plenty of access to American football here in blighty, since we invented it. We just prefer the 2 other versions of football which doesn't involve some fat fucks in armour kevlar armour calling themselves "athletes" whilst not being man enough for rugby, and we decided we didn't need commercial breaks or hotdogs every 15 minutes to presumably cope with the lower attention span.

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  2. Re:Football man, Football!! by should_be_linear · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That bastardised version of the blessed game Rugby, that Americans call Football, should really be called Throwball.

    Or, alongside rugby itself, "Boringball".

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  3. Re:So... by Hognoxious · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_scale#UK_usage

    You fail it, you miserable old cunt. You stink of piss and so does your lawn.

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  4. Shut up, nigger - both of you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    He's humming into the Godforsaken thing. By the same logic an empty coke bottle, a heating duct and the exhaust manifold from a 1996 Toyota Camry are all musical fucking instruments too.

    I don't know how to play a keyboard, and if I bang the keys and make a racket, does that mean it's no longer a keyboard?

    If you break them all off apart from one then I guess it'd sound quite similar.