BBC Recieves 545 "vuvuzela" Complaints

[Servo]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10317767.stm



Obviously, 545 morons can't figure out that the BBC has no control over noises made by the crowd during a live football game. I mean, did they think the BBC had added them for atmosphere?

 

[marillion]

I would have been one of them if I had thought it would make any difference.. It's been SOO hard to watch the matches with the constant buzzing. The only saving grace was watching the US/UK match at a bar with the sound turned down.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I've just ordered a vuvuzela. It arrives this weekend.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

I had one of those once, some cream from the doctors cleared it right up.

 

[stoneroses]

I guess it's like ringing up the weather man to complain about the weather.
... That said the horns are making this world cup less enjoyable for most people all over the world to watch.

Could they be banned, well they started to apear hear in Germany a while back and they banned them so it could be done
I like to hear the singing and the drums even the trumpets which are played during the match but not all the time by British fans or the Brazilian drums which are fine too.
This just makes every match the same. I hope they never host it there again.

The vuvuzela poem
The boaring horns of twenty ten
Hope I never hear them again
All game long on and on
Those annoying horns drown our songs
In my ears it hurts the most
No more world cups will Africa host!

 

[Zulu Romeo]

The vuvuzela poem
The boaring horns of twenty ten
Hope I never hear them again
All game long on and on
Those annoying horns drown our songs
In my ears it hurts the most
No more world cups will Africa host!

Very Betjemanesque.

 

[firehawk12]

I really don't get the hate.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I think it adds to the atmosphere, rather than detracts from it. The last thing you want to hear on the television is a quiet and disinterested stadium interspersed by the shouting of the players themselves on the pitch.

 

[Danny99]

I think it adds to the atmosphere, rather than detracts from it. The last thing you want to hear on the television is a quiet and disinterested stadium interspersed by the shouting of the players themselves on the pitch.

I'll disagree. People in the actual stadium could suffer significant hearing loss from this, more so than a regular sporting event would.

People at home can hit the mute button, people sitting next to these horns can. Like I said in another thread, the South Africans need to realize that this is a world stage.

 

[firehawk12]

But at that point you can wear ear plugs or something... and even then, if you were there, that's probably the last thing on your mind.

 

[Ethros]

I just thought it was those swarms of African flies

 

[HappyDayRiot]

African businessmen are making a killing from selling anti-vuvuzela earplugs. Keep them if they help local business!

 

[Starkers]

I think it adds to the atmosphere, rather than detracts from it. The last thing you want to hear on the television is a quiet and disinterested stadium interspersed by the shouting of the players themselves on the pitch.

My problem with them isn't the noise so much as the constant nature of them, and the fact that they drown so much other noise out, making the atmosphere more of a monotonous drone. If they just blew them after a goal, or for a few minutes at a time so there was more of an ebb and flow of the noise I wouldn't find them so annoying.

 

[scotpens]

I have a couple of vuvuzelas in my front garden. They're very pretty, but they grow like a sonofabitch if you don't prune them regularly.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I can see now how Vuvuzela seems to drive everybody Caracas.

 

[Mr. B]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10317767.stm
Obviously, 545 morons can't figure out that the BBC has no control over noises made by the crowd during a live football game. I mean, did they think the BBC had added them for atmosphere?

Why do you think viewers would be unaware of the source of the noise? While it would be hard for a broadcaster to completely eliminate the sound, they do have full control of the crowd and field mics so they could make some efforts to mitigate the noise.

 

[Servo]

Obviously, 545 morons can't figure out that the BBC has no control over noises made by the crowd during a live football game. I mean, did they think the BBC had added them for atmosphere?

Why do you think viewers would be unaware of the source of the noise? While it would be hard for a broadcaster to completely eliminate the sound, they do have full control of the crowd and field mics so they could make some efforts to mitigate the noise.

Did you even read the article? An audio expert said that there was nothing they could do to reduce the vuvuzelas without reducing the quality of the rest of the audio.
In light of that, the BBC have offered an alternative audio track via the red button, but it's just the commentary from the BBC's sports radio station, and is pretty poor and lacks the atmosphere of the TV commentary.

Regardless, no-one really anticipated how intrusive the noise would be, so the BBC aren't at fault for people finding it annoying. Complaining to them is stupid.

 

[Raxor]

After watching a few games, i was annoyed by them for maybe the first game but after that i have no problems with them and want them to come over here .

(though the england game was bad on ITV when i couldnt hear the commentators over their noise)

 

[Zulu Romeo]

(though the england game was bad on ITV when i couldnt hear the commentators over their noise)

To be fair, that Steven Gerrard really doesn't know when to stop talking.

 

[firehawk12]

Given the British stereotype of the drunken hooligan, I'm surprised people are so touchy about it over there.