Do Vuvuzelas get on your nerves when watching matches or should the be banned.

 

I think they should be banned as sometimes you can't even here the commentators over the top of them - for me they spoil the atmosphere.

I personally dont care either way, but the people who are calling for them to be banned are idiots in my opinion.... It's just being dismissive to another culture's traditions, and this IS taking place in Africa, so how can anyone actually tell them what to do in their own countries..? And this actually DOES have cultural significance to a lot of Africans... How would any of you like it if a bunch of African fans came over here and started telling you that you couldn't shout obscenties at the ref or sing your team's football songs at the matches...? You wouldn't like it, would you...?

Of course they should be banned..Those stupid African people have no education and their culture sucks and they don't even have Cheryl Cole.

 

 

Of course they shoudl stay people complaining should get a life-SKOB I really hope you are joking

ATMOSPHERE AT A FOOTBALL MATCH? BAN IMMEDIATELY.

 

I agree with what Grim wrote, it's ignorant and stupid calling for them to be banned. If there was that much noise and atmosphere in most Prem games over here we'd be wanking ourselves over it.

I personally dont care either way, but the people who are calling for them to be banned are idiots in my opinion.... It's just being dismissive to another culture's traditions, and this IS taking place in Africa, so how can anyone actually tell them what to do in their own countries..? And this actually DOES have cultural significance to a lot of Africans... How would any of you like it if a bunch of African fans came over here and started telling you that you couldn't shout obscenties at the ref or sing your team's football songs at the matches...? You wouldn't like it, would you...?

It's not as if they're a traditional instrument dating back for many decades though so their cultural significance is very limited. They're not too bad when there are only a few people blowing them but they become very annoying when more people join in.

Of course they shoudl stay people complaining should get a life-SKOB I really hope you are joking

 

Of course I was...Bad sarcasm :P

 

I like them. The only problem is that the audience on stadium might have some hearing problems afterwards. So it's a health issue

When in Rome, etc.....

 

Personally, I can't stand them ..... and they would fail UK health & safety criteria to be admitted into grounds on account of their loudness. But each to there own.

When in Rome, etc.....

 

Personally, I can't stand them ..... and they would fail UK health & safety criteria to be admitted into grounds on account of their loudness. But each to there own.

Wouldn't almost any noise be the same. A firework, a music concert, music in a disco wouldn't these also fail UK health & safety criteria?

Of course they should be banned..Those stupid African people have no education and their culture sucks and they don't even have Cheryl Cole.

:rofl: POST OF THE DAY.

:rofl: POST OF THE DAY.

 

It's not true anyway, take a look at track 5 on South Africa's most recently released version of their domestic Now compilation :kink:

 

http://www.take2.co.za/music-now-54-cd-5827466.html

 

The girl is EVERYWHERRRRRRE :w00t:

Hmm at least she doesn't live there and here either.

 

(Next time I mention Cheryl Cole in some context please ban me.)

 

 

 

I'm indifferent either way, but I'm glad they are not banned :) . I personally don't get the annoyance and find that they add a little to the atmosphere. They are only like the horns you get elsewhere anyway. There's no big deal. But, if people actually find them that annoying, which I deem a little petty, then so be it. But I don't see the problem, to be honest.

When in Rome, etc.....

 

Personally, I can't stand them ..... and they would fail UK health & safety criteria to be admitted into grounds on account of their loudness. But each to there own.

Surely that wouldn't be much of a problem to you? You could just mute the volume on your TV...

Vuvuzelas have been used here in local soccer for decades, it's a trademark and duh they won't just ban them, South Africa needs every bit of advantage they can get to win at least one game. . :rolleyes:

 

And the teams and viewers will get used to it anyway, get over it. . All the foreign tourists here have their own vuvuzelas as well, how can it spoil the atmosphere? You don't experience the atmosphere through a TV screen. . Come to a live match and you'll see that the vuvuzelas actually make the atmosphere. . I'm almost certain that the tourists enjoy more excitement with the vuvuzelas at this world cup than just plain screaming and waving a flag at the last world cup. .

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs221.snc3/20848_132410930119219_100000509372157_303274_3948310_n.jpg

:lol:

 

That joke never gets old

I don't really care. I watch the matches to watch the teams play football; not to hear the crowds chant their songs.

I'm indifferent, I've not really noticed them too much and it does add something different to the 'atmosphere' and a bit of traditional African heritage, which I guess is why FIFA wanted to host the tournament in South Africa in the first place :P?

 

If they're hurting peoples' ears, they can take ear-plugs - I've had to do that for every F1 race I've been to and I'm sure they're not as loud as F1 cars, anyway :lol:.

It's not as if they're a traditional instrument dating back for many decades though so their cultural significance is very limited.

 

Katherine's post would seem to contradict that mate, and she's South African, so she would know..... LOL...

 

You have to look at the cultural significance, I mean, if it goes back decades, then it goes back to the days of Apartheid, where football was one of the precious few avenues where black South Africans could express themselves, and yeah, make a bit of noise.... I would say it does have significance to a lot of South Africans in that case, wouldn't you...?

 

So, I kinda hope all the dullards who call for a ban on them take that into consideration...... :rolleyes: