The vuvuzelas ARE AWFUL. No chants, no songs, no roar of the crowd during a long run, no crescendo on corner/free kicks…just incessant buzzing. They really should ban them after we get out of group play.
Oh, and YES, I join with arkady in wishing everyone a happy Bloomsday.
“British Beatitudes! … Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops.”
– Stephen Daedelus
“… and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.
– Molly Bloom’s Soliloquy
“Everybody talks about the vuvuzelas but nobody does anything about them.”
They’ll be (even more) deafening this afternoon when South Africa plays again. Worst sporting event invention ever. I would rather watch the wave for 90 minutes.
No, dibs, it doesn’t have to drain. What it really does is give greater surface area for underground water to not get dammed up – esp. on a slope. Mine helped prevent flooding for several neighbors both above & below me just through the miracle of science.
“Everybody talks about the vuvuzelas but nobody does anything about them.”
Ban them???
How would that go over re: political correctness??
You want to play a third world sport in a third world country then accept the third world form of entertainment.
Lessons learned???
The vuvuzelas ARE AWFUL. No chants, no songs, no roar of the crowd during a long run, no crescendo on corner/free kicks…just incessant buzzing. They really should ban them after we get out of group play.
i can’t even watch soccer with that noise. I tried to watch the Portugal/Ivory Coast game last night on mute and promptly fell asleep.
ExTex, are you really preggo?
Oh, and YES, I join with arkady in wishing everyone a happy Bloomsday.
“British Beatitudes! … Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops.”
– Stephen Daedelus
“… and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.
– Molly Bloom’s Soliloquy
“Everybody talks about the vuvuzelas but nobody does anything about them.”
They’ll be (even more) deafening this afternoon when South Africa plays again. Worst sporting event invention ever. I would rather watch the wave for 90 minutes.
ENY, I heard on talk radio the answer why. They say Europeans need to adjust to the African style of play, like the flares they fire off in Brazil.
You could put a large 3′ wide by 3′ deep catch basin in the yard with the botttom lined with gravel.
This could work, Dibs, I think….
No, dibs, it doesn’t have to drain. What it really does is give greater surface area for underground water to not get dammed up – esp. on a slope. Mine helped prevent flooding for several neighbors both above & below me just through the miracle of science.