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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."
http://www.vuvuzela-time.co.uk/slashdot.org Such a soothing sound...
Well you've got to mimic the Facebook, otherwise how will you attract all those cool, intelligent people who use social networking sites to your services?
Being that I'm from the US, I didn't need yet another reason to hate soccer... but, thanks Youtube for giving me another one!
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Soccer is what the rest of the world follows for sports as they don't have access to baseball or football or basketball or hockey.
Some americans do play soccer, mostly because mothers consider it to be more harmless then a sport where you hit others with a baseball and spit on your balls, gay men jump each other, or the kid ain't black or japanese or the mother is against open warfare on ice. (European impression of US sports).
The vuuzela is something soccer fans blow because they are bored out of their mind and hate their neighbour but rioting is forbidden. Average EU soccer fan does hockey on the stands.
As an EU citizen who has been to both EU and US sports events, don't bother Americans. Your sports might be impossible to comprehend for non-natives but the atmosphere is a thousand times better.
For the EU soccer fans, attent a US sports event once and make it clear you are a foreinger, the Americans will welcome the newbie and show you everything, just remmeber that they like to play pranks and so will offer you a drink of cooled piss and pretend it is beer. Just smile politely and drop it somewhere. It is all part of the experience.
Oh yeah BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
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sounds like some part of a woman's anatomy
vuvuzela button: sounds like some part of a woman's anatomy i'm not aware of, but should be aware of
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Bad things? The trumpet gets blown by an angel. I guess it depends on the angel whether this is a bad thing...
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On-topic, since I dislike football and love bees, I actually sat through one whole televised football match just to hear the vuvuzela and enjoy the mental image of a swarm of angry workers greeting the crowd. Unbarbed, of course - I wouldn't want them to waste the ultimate sacrifice on footballers.
Vuvuzela Concerto in B Flat.
"In prison you just have to shut your eyes and take it. Here you have to shut your eyes and give it."
And here is the full score, so you can play it at home.
"In prison you just have to shut your eyes and take it. Here you have to shut your eyes and give it."
ha ha ha, Blocked by my workplaces internet filter for "proxy avoidance"
Anyone using that to avoid a proxy is insane.
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I guess you don't have time for things like that what with having to get those damned kids off your lawn all the time...
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It's hard work keeping a lawn free of ruffians and hooligans.
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Particularly awesome while browsing the local obituaries, as it sounds like a massive swarm of flies.
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...
Like this tune?
I think that proves my point exactly.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
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The stadium arch is visible from my lounge, and bedroom, and when there's no volume knob to turn that noise down, boy does your brain leak out your eye sockets. Big game days it carries on till early am. Delusions of gagging people with their vuvuz keep me sane.
Come one, it's just a trumpet
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I think one of John Cage's works really brings out its finer qualities.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Oh, for once in your dreary, lonely life, just laugh and appreciate harmless spontaneity, you hopelessly miserable, cynical person.
Well that's what it's for. After watching YouTube like this all day, your brain will filter out the annoying horns!
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Sounds like a great flashmob idea... txt out a venue where folks are watching a world cup match and show up with either real Vuvuzelas or just your cell phone making the noise... Then avoid getting the @##@ beat out of you by enraged soccer fans.
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Maybe that was the exact value, you just assumed it was unending.
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How about listening vuvuzelas non-stop? There is an online radio broadcasting vuvuzela sounds 24/7 @ http://www.vuvuzela.fm/ My neighbours love it, or so I guess... :D