Alas, Middle-Earth didn't make it through qualifying
June 28, 2010 10:05 AM Subscribe
...and you have my BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!! Taking the Hobbits to South Africa. (SLYT)
I wish I could shit on the carpet of everyone who plays a vuvuzela, including the people who do it ironically to make another joke about vuvuzelas.
posted by shmegegge at 10:12 AM on June 28, 2010
posted by shmegegge at 10:12 AM on June 28, 2010
I am actually laughing out loud at that dog. Holy shit indeed. You win, dog.
posted by GuyZero at 10:15 AM on June 28, 2010
posted by GuyZero at 10:15 AM on June 28, 2010
What's a vuvuzela? Is this something you would need to use the Internet to understand?
posted by tittergrrl at 10:15 AM on June 28, 2010 [2 favorites]
posted by tittergrrl at 10:15 AM on June 28, 2010 [2 favorites]
They sell these things at the hockey games here, but they're used more for air-horn type of sounds rather than blowing on them Kenny G style for minutes at a time.
I didn't know they had a real name, they were always just $5 plastic horns.
I am kinda wishing that they take off and start showing up at NFL and other major sporting games here Stateside.
posted by daHIFI at 10:18 AM on June 28, 2010
I didn't know they had a real name, they were always just $5 plastic horns.
I am kinda wishing that they take off and start showing up at NFL and other major sporting games here Stateside.
posted by daHIFI at 10:18 AM on June 28, 2010
So now that soccer's getting kinda popular in the states, does this mean football (the game with the oblong spheroid held in one's hands) is going to have to change its name in deference to the sport involving a ball and feet?
Or: will the world finally accept that "soccer" is a good name too, and start using that instead?
posted by The Winsome Parker Lewis at 10:31 AM on June 28, 2010 [1 favorite]
Or: will the world finally accept that "soccer" is a good name too, and start using that instead?
posted by The Winsome Parker Lewis at 10:31 AM on June 28, 2010 [1 favorite]
They'd certainly jazz up a drowsy afternoon of televised golf.
posted by crunchland at 10:32 AM on June 28, 2010 [2 favorites]
posted by crunchland at 10:32 AM on June 28, 2010 [2 favorites]
So now that soccer's getting kinda popular in the states, does this mean football (the game with the oblong spheroid held in one's hands) is going to have to change its name in deference to the sport involving a ball and feet?
Or: will the world finally accept that "soccer" is a good name too, and start using that instead?
Or: Neither? Americans will still use "soccer" and "football" while the rest of the world uses "football" and "American football". Why would anything change?
posted by kmz at 10:38 AM on June 28, 2010 [1 favorite]
Or: will the world finally accept that "soccer" is a good name too, and start using that instead?
Or: Neither? Americans will still use "soccer" and "football" while the rest of the world uses "football" and "American football". Why would anything change?
posted by kmz at 10:38 AM on June 28, 2010 [1 favorite]
If people start palying vuvuzelas at football games here I will walk past them and play my silent but deadly butt trumpet!
posted by Daddy-O at 10:39 AM on June 28, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by Daddy-O at 10:39 AM on June 28, 2010 [1 favorite]
Call it handegg.
(Not to be confused with Handegg, where they play football.)
posted by ardgedee at 10:40 AM on June 28, 2010 [1 favorite]
(Not to be confused with Handegg, where they play football.)
posted by ardgedee at 10:40 AM on June 28, 2010 [1 favorite]
Something loved by nerds + meme du jour = new link to be posted on metafilter, reddit and digg.
posted by milarepa at 10:45 AM on June 28, 2010
posted by milarepa at 10:45 AM on June 28, 2010
Watch it with YouTube's vuvuzela 'feature' enabled. Double the annoying, half the price!
posted by djgh at 10:47 AM on June 28, 2010
posted by djgh at 10:47 AM on June 28, 2010
Sometimes the Internet acts like a 13 year old, sometimes like a 4 year old.
(from a comment in a link in another post)
posted by furtive at 10:48 AM on June 28, 2010
(from a comment in a link in another post)
posted by furtive at 10:48 AM on June 28, 2010
After hearing one in person, I've internalized a vuvuzela as being "a power kazoo". That's pretty much all it sounds like to me.
posted by boo_radley at 10:49 AM on June 28, 2010
posted by boo_radley at 10:49 AM on June 28, 2010
Oh! Also, I'd like to see someone do this with vuvuzelas.
posted by boo_radley at 10:52 AM on June 28, 2010 [5 favorites]
posted by boo_radley at 10:52 AM on June 28, 2010 [5 favorites]
Or: will the world finally accept that "soccer" is a good name too, and start using that instead?
So the "world" should change it's lexicon because some yank fucked up naming a sport played mainly in the US?
kmz has it, the rest of the world will say "American football" vs football and Americans will continue to say soccer.
posted by edgeways at 10:56 AM on June 28, 2010
So the "world" should change it's lexicon because some yank fucked up naming a sport played mainly in the US?
kmz has it, the rest of the world will say "American football" vs football and Americans will continue to say soccer.
posted by edgeways at 10:56 AM on June 28, 2010
So now that soccer's getting kinda popular in the states....
Ha ha ha ha!
posted by cjorgensen at 10:58 AM on June 28, 2010 [1 favorite]
Ha ha ha ha!
posted by cjorgensen at 10:58 AM on June 28, 2010 [1 favorite]
Ugh. It's gotten to the point that I prefer vuvuzelas over the vuvuzela meme.
posted by Plutor at 11:02 AM on June 28, 2010 [3 favorites]
posted by Plutor at 11:02 AM on June 28, 2010 [3 favorites]
I caught the Spielberg/Cruise 'War Of The Worlds' for the first time Friday night on TV. The first time one of the baddies started hooting, I just about sprained something laughing. Space Vuvuzela!
posted by pupdog at 11:14 AM on June 28, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by pupdog at 11:14 AM on June 28, 2010 [1 favorite]
So am I the only one who has the song "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns n Roses stuck in his head every time I hear these things?
That constant drone of the A/A# note reminds me of the guitar intro that Slash does at the beginning of the song.
I love football, I don't mind these vuvuzelas, but lord help me if I start to like Guns and Roses after this tournament!
posted by bitteroldman at 11:19 AM on June 28, 2010
That constant drone of the A/A# note reminds me of the guitar intro that Slash does at the beginning of the song.
I love football, I don't mind these vuvuzelas, but lord help me if I start to like Guns and Roses after this tournament!
posted by bitteroldman at 11:19 AM on June 28, 2010
I do appreciate the (autotuned?) vuvuzela version of the LOTR theme.
posted by dhens at 11:20 AM on June 28, 2010
posted by dhens at 11:20 AM on June 28, 2010
That was stupid. A++++, would lol again.
posted by mccarty.tim at 11:27 AM on June 28, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by mccarty.tim at 11:27 AM on June 28, 2010 [1 favorite]
As a person who dislikes sports and likes trolling vicariously, I have to say the vuvuzela is the greatest invention ever. One (relatively small) country ruins an international, widely anticipated game everybody.
posted by mccarty.tim at 11:30 AM on June 28, 2010
posted by mccarty.tim at 11:30 AM on June 28, 2010
To all the Europeans who think that "soccer" is an awful and arbitrary name, allow me to introduce you to our Imperial units.
posted by mccarty.tim at 11:32 AM on June 28, 2010
posted by mccarty.tim at 11:32 AM on June 28, 2010
I do appreciate the (autotuned?) vuvuzela version of the LOTR theme.
It's actually a few years old.
posted by empath at 11:38 AM on June 28, 2010
It's actually a few years old.
posted by empath at 11:38 AM on June 28, 2010
So the "world" should change it's lexicon because some yank fucked up naming a sport played mainly in the US?
9,962 warheads totaling 2330MT.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 11:47 AM on June 28, 2010
9,962 warheads totaling 2330MT.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 11:47 AM on June 28, 2010
The word "soccer" was invented by the English, as sort of a humorous shortening of "association football." So say various sites, including Word Origins.
posted by lore at 12:31 PM on June 28, 2010
posted by lore at 12:31 PM on June 28, 2010
I didn't know they had a real name, they were always just $5 plastic horns.
That's the problem. They are just plastic horns. But the "exotic" name "vuvuzela" validates their abuse.
Instead of "ugh those damn plastic horns" it's "Oh that's so wonderful, because as you know the vuvuzela is part of the culture there."
posted by L'OM at 12:45 PM on June 28, 2010 [1 favorite]
That's the problem. They are just plastic horns. But the "exotic" name "vuvuzela" validates their abuse.
Instead of "ugh those damn plastic horns" it's "Oh that's so wonderful, because as you know the vuvuzela is part of the culture there."
posted by L'OM at 12:45 PM on June 28, 2010 [1 favorite]
they really fucked this thing up by adding the music
posted by nathancaswell at 1:08 PM on June 28, 2010
posted by nathancaswell at 1:08 PM on June 28, 2010
Sometimes the Internet acts like a 13 year old, sometimes like a 4 year old.
And?
posted by Danf at 1:21 PM on June 28, 2010
I've just spent way more time than I'd like to admit watching dogs freak out on Youtube. Tomorrow's agenda: Find a vuvuzela and a dog.
posted by Mamapotomus at 7:25 PM on June 28, 2010
posted by Mamapotomus at 7:25 PM on June 28, 2010
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