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."
Or how about... (Score:5, Informative)
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.
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BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...
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Annoying... (Score:2, Insightful)
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.
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Also, it's youtube. You know what's more annoying than websites all mimicking each other? 99.9% of the content on youtube, that's what.
The vuvuleza sound is actually quite an improvement. For instance, this morning one of my friends had sent me a link which turned out to be two minutes of a video of a rabbit, not doing anything. The buzzing sound gave it an ominous tone which was highly amusing, like the bunny was very very slowly moving toward a swarm of evil robotic bees.
The top youtube videos, what you might expect to be the cream of the crop, are even worse: "Justin Bieber LOVES Chinese Guy!" I can't imagine a horrible buzzing noise degrading the quality of that one. A bunch of clips from the world cup, most having already been taken down, a buzzing noise would at least be something. "Seattle Cop Punches Woman - Raw Footage " didn't have the option, a buzzing noise masking the incoherent shouting would have been nice.
It really failed to improve "Super Mario Beatbox" though.
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?
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Do not want!
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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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MOD PARENT UP!! (Score:4, Funny)
I Like This!
I tried watching... (Score:2)
I had to turn it off after a few minutes. That drone of those horns just blew it for me. They are especially bad if you have a slight hangover...at first I thought something was wrong with my set, then figured something was wrong with the audio portion of the transmission.
They really needed to filter that shit out much earlier, as that it may have cost them some American's possibly trying to learn about and watch this game since
Re:I tried watching... (Score:4, Informative)
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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Here in Portugal they're selling them by the thousands. It's terrible, I tell you.
Re:Annoying... (Score:5, Insightful)
Far more annoying than either of these are the fucked-up popup "slide window" ads that obscure the bottom 1/3 of every fucking video on Youtube these days.
I've taken to just clicking the Download Helper button and downloading whatever video to my desktop, so I don't have to see those stupid annoying ads and can actually see the video I was looking for.
Re:Annoying... (Score:5, Informative)
Adblock Plus takes care of these, haven't seen one ever on my desktop/laptops.
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Turn on HTML5 mode, install flashblock and you won't see any ads on YT videos. The ones that do have ads are forced to use flash.
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Yes, how many products did you buy because of YouTube ads last year? Was it enough? Meh.
Your comment seems very similar to "every download is a lost sale", because, to me, at least, it's pretty clear that "Moryath" isn't going to buy anything advertised in that irritating way --- in fact, I wouldn't even be surprised if he might actually consider boycotting products pushed by "those stupid annoying ads". In that case, his avoiding the ads is doing the advertisers a favor.
And you know what? I even think he's
Re:Annoying... (Score:4, Insightful)
Your comment seems very similar to "every download is a lost sale", because, to me, at least, it's pretty clear that "Moryath" isn't going to buy anything advertised in that irritating way --- in fact, I wouldn't even be surprised if he might actually consider boycotting products pushed by "those stupid annoying ads". In that case, his avoiding the ads is doing the advertisers a favor.
Remember X10, the little computer-interfaced security camera company? I was actually interested in buying a number of their products -- mostly to satisfy vague James Bond-only-nerdy urges -- ha ha, I can see it's the pizza guy who just rang my doorbell without leaving my computer!
That is until they began a marketing blitz of pop-up ads. I recall it as the first such assault I experienced. And I vowed never to buy products from such a company. And I haven't.
If blocking the pop-up ads on Youtube hurts the advertiser, and especially if it hurts Google, then good. Maybe they'll recognize that they're being hurt by their own behavior, and change their policy.
Re:Annoying... (Score:5, Insightful)
No, I'm not a "leecher."
On the other hand, I came to see the video. If they want to run a 5-10 second bit before the video plays, like many other video sites do, I have absolutely no problem with that. They need their advert money, fine. If they want to put ads down the right side, as long as they're not neon flashing crap or those annoying expanding "a truck runs all across your screen covering up the article you came to read" flash ad crap, fine.
Where I get annoyed is that the ads are actually BLOCKING MY VIEW OF THE VIDEO. Many times, it's blocking my view of a foreign news clip or something else that has subtitles (like Auto-tune The News), which means the subtitles themselves are getting blocked.
Google/Youtube needs to learn: STOP FUCKING COVERING UP THE VIDEO. It's damn annoying and no, it does NOT make me more likely to buy the advertised product. Far from it, I'll get even more pissed off if I mis-click the tiny-ass little "x" button to get the fucking thing to go away, and then either have a new page popup happen, or have my browser wander away from the video entirely.
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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.
Whats funny is the day Google introed the backgrounds and showed samples, everyone at work thought something was wrong with their computer. Google prided themselves with (and others lauded) their simple vanilla search page. Then they go and try and copy Bing.... yeah, copy one of their biggest competitors.
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Something else annoying on Google lately, when you search for something, and the result you click on is a forum thread, when you go back to the google search, after several seconds the entry for the forum thread you were just looking at expands to have a 'More threads from this forum' or somesuch link. And this invariably happens JUST as you're about to click on the next search result.
Re:Annoying... (Score:5, Informative)
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 [blogspot.com]
Cheers.
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Re:Annoying... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, for once in your dreary, lonely life, just laugh and appreciate harmless spontaneity, you hopelessly miserable, cynical person.
dreaded? (Score:5, Insightful)
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It's like a thousand angry bees trying to force their way into your brain via your ears. Though to be fair I have largely tuned it out now - at least it's a consistent sound so it's easy to ignore - and the England game yesterday was the first one where I couldn't actually hear the vuvuzelas over the sound of the crowd.
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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
Re:dreaded? (Score:5, Insightful)
No it isn't. You can get a tune out of a trumpet.
Re:dreaded? (Score:4, Informative)
Bollocks. You can get a tune out of a vuvuzela, too [bbc.co.uk]. Don't know if that video is visible for non-UK viewers, so here's a clip of it on YouTube [youtube.com].
I don't know how to play a keyboard, and if I bang the keys and make a racket, does that mean it's no longer a keyboard?
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I think that proves my point exactly.
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Like this tune? [imagehost.org]
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I think one of John Cage's works [wikipedia.org] really brings out its finer qualities.
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Re:dreaded? (Score:5, Funny)
Come one, it's just a trumpet
REMEMBER JERICHO !!
Re:dreaded? (Score:5, Interesting)
Dreaded? Incredibly annoying? Come one, it's just a trumpet.
Have you actually fucking heard the noise just coming over the television? Are you deaf? Or is your opinion simply irrelevant to any normal person's perception of what is annoying?
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Now also for Slashdot! (Score:2, Funny)
So... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:So... (Score:5, Insightful)
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I take great pride in hating Zurich Financial ala Farmers Insurance (farmersreallysucks.com) because they're assholes.
Now if you mean strictly hating something incapable of harming you if you watch it (like football [fifa.com],football [nfl.com], or rugby), then yeah I agree with you.
Re:So... (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, I hate it when people act that way!
Or hate at all, even. (Score:2)
Re:So... (Score:5, Insightful)
That's what I was asking myself all the time, then with every single FIFA World Cup I am reminded why:
Incompetent referees: US being denied TWO game winning goals in TWO different matches (no refs, those weren't off sides). Brazil scoring a goal after a double handball (that fucked CIV for sure). Villa from Spain slapping a Honduras player: no infraction (should have been a straight red card)! And I won't even mention the hand of Henry. While most major sports have evolved to use video replay, not the FIFA! No sir! And even if you have clear video of players blatantly cheating, the FIFA won't do shit: see Ireland being fucked over by Thiery Henry and France. The FIFA is so stuck up and stubborn that even when Henry said: "Yes I cheated", they didn't do a thing.
Cheaters: Asshole Italian (De Rossi, I know, I am shocked too, Italian divers, who would have tought?! He did same exact thing in 2006.) dives in the Kiwi penalty area to get his team a penalty shot. I am pretty sure Italians have discovered a new force in nature because being pulled back from your shirt, somehow miraculously they fall forward! Endresult: Kiwis are fucked. Italy, France and Brazil along with Christian Ronaldo are masters of diving. As soon as one of their players is touched, they dive. Couple this with incompetent referees and a broken referee system and you got a clusterfuck of bad calls.
Playacting: Kaká being sent off with with double yellow card because Keita from CIV was "writhing" in immense pain on his head after being touched in the chest. I wish I had this insane ability of Kaká, just touch someone and this dude is in mega pain! Oh and let's not mention Miroslav Klose from Germany sent off as well because of obvious play acting from the serbian side. His first yellow card was completely unwarranted.
Every single game, watch players agonize in pain as if they are dying, 20 seconds later they are back on their feet and trucking along. Now watch a hockey game with a player receiving a puck in the face, losing a few teeth, bleeding, sits down on bench a few minutes, gets patched up and goes back playing. All this without one single moment of agonizing in pain, and I am willing to bet he was in infinitely more pain than the football player. Football is slowly becoming a joke, becoming almost as bad as WWE wrestling. The difference between WWE and football is that football is only partially acted out versus WWE is all acting. This is very unfortunate because the game is beautiful, but it's being ruined by a federation, the FIFA, stuck in a 1920 mentality and of course by the hordes of players who abuse the system to cheat.
PS: GO ORANJE [wikipedia.org]!
Re:So... (Score:4, Insightful)
It's not about stubbornness, it's about corruption. Bear in mind that FIFA is a predominantly French organisation, or it would have the letters in a sensible order. As it stands you can fix a game by bribing one person, who always has plausible deniability that he was unsighted or some other bullshit.
When England or the USA win the final with an Argentina style "header" - that's when FIFA will introduce video replay - retroactively.
P.S. Were you looking for your bike?
Re:So... (Score:5, Insightful)
The FIFA could give each team three video decisions (like the three substitutions they have) challenge opportunities. When a team notices a ruling against them that has serious consequences (red card, goal disallowed, handball, etc...), they can stop the game and ask for a video ref's ruling. It would only interrupt games something like six times max per game. Yes it would lose a bit of fluidity but for the integrity of the sport, video replay is required.
Also, post play, referees could go through the footage and identify divers and play actors. Those will be sanctioned post game with red cards and/or suspensions. Worse, if they notice chronic play acting or diving from a team (I am looking at you Italy!), then they could suspend the entire team.
Unless the FIFA starts reclaiming the integrity of the game with serious sanctions against players and/or teams, the game will be plagued by cheating, diving and acting.
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Manchester Untied owe the banks around £2.2 Billion (a million million, not a US thousand million).
That's just plain silly. It's the US-style billions (10^9) that Man U owe. Nobody in Britain uses the word "billion" to mean 10^12 these days.
Re:So... (Score:5, Insightful)
There's no evidence that the degree of popularity of football in a society contributes to greater levels of violence and racism.
It is perhaps defensible that popular football provides a focus for the violence and racism already in a society, but that's a very different thing than causing violence and racism.
Re:So... (Score:4, Insightful)
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
You are only seeing the downsides because you choose to ignore the upsides; how many people's quality of life becomes better due to these games? There is more to life than just work work work after all.
Also, saying that football causes violence and racism is like saying the Ku Klux Klan caused violence and racism - they don't, they're just an excuse to be violent and racist. If your people weren't already violent and racist, football wouldn't cause them to behave that way.
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What reasons would that be, as opposed to those to call handegg [wordpress.com] boring? ;)
(In terms of sports, I’m a shooter (online) and rally (offline) guy, so if you think I care about “sides” here, it’s all in your head.)
Re:So... (Score:4, Informative)
What reasons would that be, as opposed to those to call handegg [wordpress.com] boring? ;)
(In terms of sports, I’m a shooter (online) and rally (offline) guy, so if you think I care about “sides” here, it’s all in your head.)
I'm sure you've heard them before, but let's see how much of my still bad karma I can burn into oblivion answering honestly:
The games are long and boring.
The goal nets are too small.
They don't score enough points (prolly due to the net's small size).
The transitions are obvious.
The players are wimps.
The refs are blind.
The fans riot violently; often causing mass destruction.
Now add vuvuzelas!
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No, it already has an appropriate name [motivatedphotos.com].
Re:Football man, Football!! (Score:4, Insightful)
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 [wikipedia.org], you are wrong.
>so fuck off
so grow up
Re:Football man, Football!! (Score:4, Insightful)
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 [wikipedia.org] 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 [wikipedia.org], 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. :)
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And this: http://www.sharenator.com/Vuvuzela_Compilation/patrick_stewart_1276646087-67688.html [sharenator.com]
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.
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There was an interesting interview on NPR this week. It was pointing out that quite a few schools in the US are dropping American football for soccer sports programs (basically due to cost as to outfit a soccer team you basically just need a field and a ball compared with suits of armor) so a huge number of kids are playing it. But when it comes to watching sports they all watch American football.
It also suggested that part of the reason for not watching soccer is a distaste for a draw - there has to be a
Re:For the americans (Score:4, Interesting)
It also suggested that part of the reason for not watching soccer is a distaste for a draw - there has to be a winner, someone has to win and someone has to lose no matter how well the game is played.
First of all, American Football used to have draws, and people watched it just as much.
Second, why do people keep searching for some mystical explanation for why Americans don't watch soccer? It's not that complicated. The United States has a HUGE number of sports to watch. It's a mass market. Individuals gravitate to which sports are the most interesting to watch. The market has spoken. 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."
Re:For the americans (Score:5, Interesting)
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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Re:For the americans (Score:4, Insightful)
A physically slow kid playing football is very much like a physically weak kid playing rugby: unless he *vastly* compensates for his shortcomings in other areas he's going to get himself and his team owned, and hard.
But perhaps you just don't notice because in the US the competence level in football is fairly poor to begin with, so as long as you've still got two legs you aren't that far from the average. In a country like Argentina however, you'd be fucked.
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American Handegg (Score:2, Informative)
Foot + ball = Football
Hand + egg = Handegg [thecollegevoice.org]
Wrong button... (Score:2)
it was meant to be a reply to the GP.
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
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To be 100% fair, good American beer does exist. I remember I could buy a pretty good lager from Samuel Adams at most shops near Chicago, for example; but the really good ones are from microbreweries. Flying Dog has a fantastic selection, for example. Their imperial porter (called Gonzo) is one of the best beers I've ever tasted. I highly recommend it to anyone.
American beer isn't bad at all. Mass-marketed American beer is pure cooled piss.
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What people think of as "American" beer (Budweiser, Miller) are actually not American at all; the last major American brewery (AB) sold out to foreigners a couple of years ago. Sam Adams and the other REAL American beers (St Pauly Girl and Rolling Rock are good American lagers) are indeed good beer.
So anybody dissing American beer are ignorant. Bud Light and Miller Lite are NOT American; they're brewed by foreign owned breweries.
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Haha, I have always thought that American Football is the "pussy" version of Rugby.
A couple of weeks ago I went to Clermont-Ferrand and had the opportunity be there when their team won the France Rugby Championship. As it was on a weekend, I went to the central place to watch the game and the people. Ignoring the fact that people smell, I had a very nice time.
After watching the game I reassured my thoughts about American Football... oh how I would love that the "tough" American Football players had a go aga
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"[It is] rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should be compelled to strap on 40 pounds of protective gear in order to play a simple game of Rugby"
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Richard Tardits, the frenchman who played both American football in the NFL as well as rugby has this to say:
"two completely different types of pain. American football is the more violent, rugby is the greater physical challenge".
Run scared indeed.
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Wait, U.S. football games have longer breaks between commercials than normal U.S. Television does?
Memes (Score:4, Insightful)
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
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Reminds me of a line from the late great Dennis Wolfberg:
'My students would ask me "do all women have volvos?"
To which I would then reply 'no, only Swedish women!"'
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I'm aware of it, I just can't find it!
the uvula is very sexual (Score:2)
it's a dangling conical fleshy lobe
in other words, the uvula is a cervix, in the back of the mouth
and if you want to completely gag, click this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvula_piercing [wikipedia.org]
there's no images for the article (Score:2)
and even if there were images, it would only be of someone's uvula
but, bolstering my point about the uvula, i think someone's initial impressions of a picture of someone's pierced uvula would be that it was sort of extreme fetishistic sexual piercing on the order of goatse.cx
Warning! Sensible Recommendation Ahead! (Score:3, Informative)
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And if you do click it, click again to disable the sound.
Weel, didn't expect that (Score:2)
South Africa and the vuvuzela (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:South Africa and the vuvuzela (Score:5, Insightful)
Just because it's labeled "culture" doesn't make it any less of an annoyance, if not to everyone then at least to international spectators at stadiums or at home.
South Africa should have taken a lesson from China. In preparation to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, China outlawed spitting in public. Spitting, clearly part of China's "culture", is considered an annoyance to international visitors. China considered these visitors their guests and appropriately catered to them.
A cultural tradition dating 9 years ago (Score:5, Informative)
Untrue (Score:5, Informative)
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.
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Why would that make me hate you more? Mexico isn't the one annoying the world right now.
Here in South Korea there is plenty of complaining about the Vuvuzelas, the hatred seems pretty universal.
How about a filter? (Score:2)
Before reading the summary, I thought that YouTube had done something useful and added an optional filter to remove the frequencies that the vuvuzelas produce. That would have been cool.
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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!
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.
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OMFG, goatse for the ears!
I like it (Score:2)
Weird effect on this video (Score:2)
Something strange happens with this one. Sometimes I get the button, sometimes I don't.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 [youtube.com]
not that bad... (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
FlashMob Anyone? (Score:3, Funny)
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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.