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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."
...on ANY website?
Why is it that all of these big web giants are doing stuff like this? It has been enough with Youtube adding the "like" button to mimic Facebook when upvoting or downvoting made more sense. But now we have Google automatically adding backgrounds to the search page when you don't want anything to change because it's distracting and works as it is already.
Not that the web should be completely static, but it's annoying when you have change for the sake of change in widely used sites.
Dreaded? Incredibly annoying? Come one, it's just a trumpet. I get the feeling that after all the prophets of doom predicted the stadiums wouldn't be finished and the fans would be murdered by criminals, they have nothing left to complain about except the little trumpets.
http://www.vuvuzela-time.co.uk/slashdot.org Such a soothing sound...
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.
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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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Just don't click it. It's not like it's labelled 'Do Not Click'.
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The one legacy the vuvuzela will have after the World Cup is the future exclusion of South Africa from ever again hosting any international sporting event.
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Vuvuzela Concerto in B Flat.
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"In prison you just have to shut your eyes and take it. Here you have to shut your eyes and give it."
Agreed. Baseball has to be one of the most boring sports ever. The announcer will often discuss bratwurst at greater length than the game.
I'm from Milwaukee and I grew up listening to bob ueker, truly one of the all time great announcers. I swear, only 10% of everything he's said was actually describing the game.
Football is a game where you move the ball with your feet, not with your hands.
>Of course you could just be an ignorant British ethnocentrist who doesn't realize that you're about the only ones calling it by that exact word.
The name is not only used in English (the language of England) but also in German (Fussbal), French (football), Spanish (fútbol), Portuguese (futebol), ...
>most of the English speaking world call it soccer
According to wikipedia, you are wrong.
>so fuck off
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Here in America, we Americans don't put apostrophes in "American's" unless it's possessive. i.e. "Scientific American's in-depth article on electronic Vuvezeula noise filtering". It's possible apostrophe rules are different where you live, such as England or South Africa, but I doubt it :)
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Vuvuzela's are South African culture, if you dont like it, dont what any of the games, we couldnt care less what you did.
No, the vuvuzela is not part of South African culture. It's a freaking Mexican horn, and wasn't even available in South Africa until 2001, when some crappy plastic company started churning the god-awful things out down there.
It's no more part of their culture than OS X is.
If the biggest complaint to come out of the first world cup in Africa are the cheap noisemakers, I'd call that a win. Sure, your typical South African may be upset that people are complaining about the horns, but the organizing committee has to be thrilled that people are not complaining about violence, a lack of organization, or any of the other things people were worried about when South Africa was announced as the host.
Everybody loves Vuvuzela, I even made an Android app for it: http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/sports/vuvuzela-soccer-world-cup_hyzb.html :)
More than 10000 downloads in 3 days! People will soon learn how to play Vuvuzela at musical school
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Those triompet in their form at footbal match are only commercialized recently. The traditional one don't even have that form or noise.
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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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There's a difference between using correct punctuation (i.e. an apostrophe) and following style guidelines (i.e. italics, underlining, etc.). It's a little less pedantic to complain about punctuation than style.
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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Football is a game where you move the ball with your feet, not with your hands.
Actually, some games called "football" forbid moving the ball with your feet. The etymology is not clear, but there's a strong case that the term refers to the fact that the players are on foot (as opposed to, say, being on horseback).
most of the English speaking world call it soccer
According to wikipedia, you are wrong.
Really? You're using India, Chad and the Sudan as counterexamples? Let's take a look at countries where English is the primary language, and...whoops, there goes just about every blue spot on your map! Anyway, what they really call it in India is "not cricket so who cares?" :)
(To be fair, I've seen sources that suggest that Australia and Ireland should be in the "disputed category" rather than the "soccer" category.)
I also note that the article linked to that map you referenced says of those countries that call it "football", "In many of these countries, the term "soccer" is also widely used." This leads to the possible conclusion that both the statements "most of the English-speaking world calls it 'soccer'" and "most of the English-speaking world calls it 'football'" are both true. Without further hard evidence, I have to conclude that both you and the person you're responding to are talking out your asses. :)