YouTube Gets a Vuvuzela Button (Seriously) 305
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."
Now also for Slashdot! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Annoying... (Score:5, Funny)
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?
So... (Score:4, Funny)
MOD PARENT UP!! (Score:4, Funny)
I Like This!
Oblig. (Score:4, Funny)
For the americans (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:Oblig. (Score:3, Funny)
vuvuzela? (Score:5, Funny)
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
Re:Oblig. (Score:5, Funny)
And this: http://www.sharenator.com/Vuvuzela_Compilation/patrick_stewart_1276646087-67688.html [sharenator.com]
Re:For the americans (Score:5, Funny)
Re:dreaded? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:dreaded? (Score:3, Funny)
So I was thinking earlier about which artists from each continent will stick in my mind when I look back to music at the beginning of the century. When I contemplated of African music, Ladysmith Black Mambazo [youtube.com] came to mind; when I thought of American music, I couldn't get Britney out of my head.
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.
Re:For the americans (Score:5, Funny)
> 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
Presented Without Comment (Score:5, Funny)
Vuvuzela Concerto in B Flat [youtube.com].
Full Score (Score:3, Funny)
And here is the full score [posterous.com], so you can play it at home.
Re:Or how about... (Score:4, Funny)
ha ha ha, Blocked by my workplaces internet filter for "proxy avoidance"
Anyone using that to avoid a proxy is insane.
Re:Annoying... (Score:3, Funny)
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...
Re:Annoying... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:So... (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, I hate it when people act that way!
Re:Or how about... (Score:3, Funny)
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...
Re:dreaded? (Score:2, Funny)
Like this tune? [imagehost.org]
Re:dreaded? (Score:3, Funny)
I think that proves my point exactly.
Re:Or how about... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:dreaded? (Score:2, Funny)
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.
Re:dreaded? (Score:5, Funny)
Come one, it's just a trumpet
REMEMBER JERICHO !!
Re:dreaded? (Score:3, Funny)
I think one of John Cage's works [wikipedia.org] really brings out its finer qualities.
Re:Annoying... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, for once in your dreary, lonely life, just laugh and appreciate harmless spontaneity, you hopelessly miserable, cynical person.
Re:Presented Without Comment (Score:3, Funny)
OMFG, goatse for the ears!
Re:How about a filter? (Score:3, Funny)
Well that's what it's for. After watching YouTube like this all day, your brain will filter out the annoying horns!
FlashMob Anyone? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I tried watching... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Or how about... (Score:3, Funny)