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YouTube Gets a Vuvuzela Button (Seriously)
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."
I wonder if people would hate on vuvuzelas less if Soccer was actually interesting to watch? It seems like the final proof that soccer really is more boring. In Basketball, Baseball, Football, and Hockey there is a rhythm to the cheering, varying with the action on the field. An hour and a half or more of droning, monotone cheering seems indicative that nothing happening on the field is worth changing the tempo.
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
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.
I wrote my first program at the age of six, and I still can't work out how this website works.
The 'African experience' flavour of soccer is absolute crap. If they can't stick their damned horns up their black asses, I hope the world cup never sees that continent ever again.
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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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.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
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.
If you break them all off apart from one then I guess it'd sound quite similar.