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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."
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.
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
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
And this: http://www.sharenator.com/Vuvuzela_Compilation/patrick_stewart_1276646087-67688.html
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i have never understood why some people take such great pride in hating something
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.
> will offer you a drink of cooled piss and pretend it is beer
Yeah, last time I visited the US they pulled this one on me in every single bar I went. Even the shops sold it in cans, pretending it was real beer! You guys sure love your pranks, that's for sure! :-P
Adblock Plus takes care of these, haven't seen one ever on my desktop/laptops.
Your assumption regarding the rating system of youtube is wrong. The like/dislike system was adopted as a consequence of the rating habits of youtube users not in an attempt to mimic facebook. The majority of the videos on youtube were either 1* or 5* with mostly nothing in between.
The like/dislike mechanism is an evolution of a system that is trying to adapt itself to its user base.
You can read more about this on the official youtube blog - http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2009/09/five-stars-dominate-ratings.html
Cheers.
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.
Lol! You can increase the volume (a.k.a. going to eleven) by doing: http://www.vuvuzela-time.co.uk/www.vuvuzela-time.co.uk/www.vuvuzela-time.co.uk/www.vuvuzela-time.co.uk/www.vuvuzela-time.co.uk/www.vuvuzela-time.co.uk/www.vuvuzela-time.co.uk/www.vuvuzela-time.co.uk/www.vuvuzela-time.co.uk/
Oh, for once in your dreary, lonely life, just laugh and appreciate harmless spontaneity, you hopelessly miserable, cynical person.
Soccer is less interesting to most individuals in the United States than other sports.
It really is that simple. I can go into the reasons *why* soccer is less interesting than other sports to me, but it's not because of some stupid reason like "it wasn't invented here."
I would buy that, except Americans watch fucking golf, the world's most boring sport. (Thanks a lot, Scotland.)
And let's face it, baseball can be pretty freaking boring too. Throw the damned ball already! No, not to first base! And there are how many more innings of this?!
(Disclaimer: I'm joking and American.)
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