scottdisco
rip this joint please
though i will say i appreciate the way M_B is posting and keeping it constructive and polite, from their pov they clearly don't like them that much, their loudness etc, so that is something
Pointless But It Does My Head In
mixed_biscuits
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It's yet another bandwagon for people to jump on, that's true.
btw Yesterday, I lodged my protest against the jingoism in my street by hanging my cross of St George upside down.
Just cos you read a small paper doesn't mean you have a small mind!
Ban the England band!
grizzleb
Well-known member
Thre's a difference between something being loud and something being impossible to sign over. I don't think the vuvuzelah is impossible to sing over.
You blow into it.
I doubt that it would be possible, as you imply that the vuvuzelah is so prevelant to go round the whole stadium and find by chance a place where there is no vuvuzelahs. And EQing would like dampen quite a large part of any other noise too. Various broadcasters have said they wouldn't be doing anything like that I think anyway.
That's what I think is a bit rubbish. When it comes to something as silly as the noise levels at the stadium (and essentially an entirely 'cultural' phenomenon) then the host nation should feel entitled to do what it wants IMO. Infrastructure, transport, health and safety are all issues that any potential host should be accountable for. But atmosphere - no.
I assume when you are holidaying in the Costa Del Sol you have your full English breakfast in the Queen Elizabeth and then shout loudly and slowly at anyone who doesn't understand your heavily accented, broad English...(joke!)
matt b
Indexing all opinion
Y(eah) well (d)on't (or) I'll h(av)e to give you (a) (det)ention
Bang Diddley
Well-known member
Wonder if the African nations will bring them to the London Olympics?
Boris Johnson said he would bow to public consensus. But somehow I don't think it'll happen.
Boris Johnson said he would bow to public consensus. But somehow I don't think it'll happen.
Slothrop
Tight but Polite
As a friend of mine put it:
Tbh banning them would be retarded, I don't find them particularly offputting and they're obviously part of the local vibe, but on an objective level they are still fairly shit. I've not noticed any particular variation in dynamics in any of the matches I've seen - at least, not in the way that you could tell what's going on in an English game just by listening to the crowd noise. I guess it's like those things that you quite like when you're on holiday because it's a bit local and different even though they'd piss you off if you had to deal with them all the time.
Tbh banning them would be retarded, I don't find them particularly offputting and they're obviously part of the local vibe, but on an objective level they are still fairly shit. I've not noticed any particular variation in dynamics in any of the matches I've seen - at least, not in the way that you could tell what's going on in an English game just by listening to the crowd noise. I guess it's like those things that you quite like when you're on holiday because it's a bit local and different even though they'd piss you off if you had to deal with them all the time.
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grizzleb
Well-known member
Heheh.After which I raise a toast to my excellent hosts!
Dr Awesome
Techsteppin'
Dr Awesome's images are superb i must say
It's all the multimedia hobos around other colon's of the internet I frequent, they dredge them up out of god knows where.
grizzleb
Well-known member
Ouch, that's pretty harsh but not that bad I suppose - it's only one man after all.Missing the last bus to go to see Oneman because your brother gave you the wrong bus times
Tentative Andy
I'm in the Meal Deal
Allow me a vaguely Daily Mail style moment, but the ammount of Father's Day messages along the lines of 'I never knew my Dad' that I'm seeing on Twitter today is making me a wee bit sad.
Tentative Andy
I'm in the Meal Deal
The build-up to the 12th of July that is already in full swing here. Seriously folks, grow up and sort your ideas out.
The build-up to the 12th of July that is already in full swing here. Seriously folks, grow up and sort your ideas out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelfth ??
Tentative Andy
I'm in the Meal Deal
Yeah that's the one.
The worst thing about this is that I really like my neighbourhood. It's a very friendly, ordinary place to live... for the rest of the year.
There were folks setting off fireworks last night. Pathetic. This event has no relevance to people's lives here.
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
Politics is an extension of war by other means. Arguments are soldiers. Once you know which side you're on, you must support all arguments of that side, and attack all arguments that appear to favor the enemy side; otherwise it's like stabbing your soldiers in the back - providing aid and comfort to the enemy. People who would be level-headed about evenhandedly weighing all sides of an issue in their professional life as scientists, can suddenly turn into slogan-chanting zombies when there's a Blue or Green position on an issue.
This writer would be way better off confronting the deeper truth that most arguments/debates are about individual ego/self-esteem. "Once you know which side you're on" applies far more fundamentally to individual dogma than to party politics - once you've selected your own position, you must defend it!
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