Those fucking horns

[Soup]

Here's one of the fuckers

 

[Dan Vito Corleone]

I hope he fucking chokes on it.

[col06]

World Cup horn risks permanent damage to hearing

 

JOHANNESBURG — Football fans attending the World Cup risk permanent damage to their hearing from the vuvuzela horns which are the must-have accessory at the tournament in South Africa, a study said Monday.

 

The din emitting from the tuneless plastic horns is louder than that from a drum or a chainsaw, according to the survey by hearing aid manufacturer Phonak.

 

It said tests had shown the sound emitted by a vuvuzela was the equivalent to 127 decibels. The sound from a drum was put at 122 decibels while the sound from a referee's whistle registered 121.8 decibels.

 

"Extended exposure at just 85 decibels puts us at a risk of permanent noise-induced hearing loss," Phonak said in a statement on the SAPA news agency.

 

"When subjected to 100 decibels or more, hearing damage can occur in just 15 minutes."

 

While the horns have gone down a storm among South African supporters, players from rival teams have been less enthusiastic.

 

Spain midfielder Xabi Alonso has called for it to be banned as it impedes players' concentration but FIFA chief Sepp Blatter has defended it as a part of South African football culture.

 

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article /ALeqM5j3vbSMaqg_pgOuWHjwPOeqNKXA0Q

[zigackly]

I keep thinking the title of this thread is "Those fucking homs" and it's about the owners.

[Dan Vito Corleone]

Well said Xabi lad.

[RedKnight]

Liking Brownie's style. I've booked a week off at the end of June for round 2 and the quarters.

[Johnni]

I was happy that it was in SA this year as the games will be on at a reasonable time but i'd trade it for it the 2002 WC with the shitty time difference any day cos those horns ruin the games for me.

I watched the Confederations Cup last year and watched most of the games. Even during the final i was still pissed off by them.

[WaltonRed]

I'm unemployed so i'll be watching the lot.

[Guest PurpleNose]

Getting wireless sorted at the pub. Probably be there the whole month.

[jackofdk]

I guess the only thing we can hope for is that TV ratings are lower than projected because of the tinnitus inducing horns and that FIFA's sponsors will use their influence to cause a ban. Blatter is a complete tool but he likes money a lot.

[DJLJ]

Hope Blatter has to sit through each and everyone of the games and listen to those fucking horns and he gets a bad bad case of ear aids because of it. Gobshite that he is, no fucking way are these pieces of plastic, any part of African history or culture.

[Red Phoenix]

If they're damaging people's hearing they should be fucked off. It's ok saying 'they're part of their culture' etc, but if a load of english fans turned up with trumpets or something messing people's hearing up would they put up with it? They need to stop skirting around it and ban them if it's causing hearing damage, people's hearing quality for the rest of their lives is more important than blowing a horn for 90 mins at a football game.

 

I reckon a lot of african footie fans will be facepalming in the future when watching/listening to coverage of this tournament, because they'll possibly have long since been banned.

[23_Carra_Gold]

Are BBC not offering a horn free viewing experience on the digital?

 

Mark Lawrenson nearly cried when he heard....

[Red Phoenix]

Are BBC not offering a horn free viewing experience on the digital?

 

Mark Lawrenson nearly cried when he heard....

 

They should offer coverage free of the sound of their fucking commentators too. Probably causes equal ear (and brain.) damage.

[Rex Banner]

I'm hoping there will be less of them at the proper games. In these friendlies and the confederations cup they give away a lot of free tickets and a lot of children were at the games. I'm hoping people who have to pay for the tickets have a little more brain power and don't find blowing a horn non stop entertaining, it may be false hope though people in general are pretty stupid.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

but FIFA chief Sepp Blatter has defended it as a part of South African football culture.

 

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article /ALeqM5j3vbSMaqg_pgOuWHjwPOeqNKXA0Q

 

Fuck off Blatter, you've probably bought shares in the company that makes the plastic shitty things. Won't be laughing when one set of fans who get a dodgy pen decision decide to pelt the officials with the things. Diving players getting whacked on the head.. etc etc Just know it's going to happen.

[Rex Banner]

Sepp Blatter is a massive tool but that old fool Lennart Johansson would of been even worse.

Why does the FIFA president have to be so old, it's a senile old boys club that FIFA.

[gkmacca]

Lunchtime today: walking down the high street, suddenly what sounded like a swarm of bees started up. It turned out to be loads of little kids coming out of ASDA with those fecking plastic horns. It's going to be bloody murder!

[WaltonRed]

Fucking sack them off.

 

Ruining it already.

[gkmacca]

Imagine a heatwave, some unemployed bloke sitting stewing in some tiny house somewhere, and then those horns start up - he'll snap. They'll be loads of stories of people going nuts after a week or so of this hooting and droning.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

I'm hoping that when South Africa get a dodgy penalty the Mexican fans launch the horrid things at the officials thus prompting FIFA to ban the stupid fucking things.

[WaltonRed]

That first game will be a total nightmare.

 

I hope South Africa go out early.

[magneto]

You forget that most of us south africans have tickets to other games as well.

 

I hate the Vuvuzelas, and have bought ear muffs and plugs but theyre gonna stay throughout the world cup,...unfortunately

[Dan Vito Corleone]

They need to be fucked off - immediately.

[Redexile]

You forget that most of us south africans have tickets to other games as well.

 

I hate the Vuvuzelas, and have bought ear muffs and plugs but theyre gonna stay throughout the world cup,...unfortunately

I spoke to a lot of guys who went to the Super 14 semi in Orlando and they said the vuvuzelas made the atmosphere really good. I'll reserve judgement until after the Brazil Ivory Coast game personally.