Ironic foray into football orcdom

[yakalskovich]

Because the German football team was playing the Australian one tonight, the Nazgul and I went to the Australian pub around the corner, hoping to see blood. Or at least some creative crowd control measures.

We ordered a Fosters each and waited, metaphorical popcorn at the ready.



There were these two sad Australian hipsters right in front of us (cut out of this picture because, honestly, taking pictures of perfect strangers with the express purpose of mocking them online is not nice) that first had their drinks taken away again (because somebody else had ordered the same combination first, it seems) and then sat there, earnestly sharing a portion of potato wedges. The bloke had taken out a little plush koala with that sort of grabbing mechanism and put it on the lapel of his shirt as a sign he supported Australia. The rest of the Australian supporters were these people in yellow shirts.



However, everything went perfectly peacefully. There was no blood, nor any sort of enmity. Only glumness, as the poor Aussies didn't want to be seen being sore losers. After the German team had scored the first goal, a camera team with a big professional-looking TV camera came to film some Australian fans being unhappy, which they achieved when the second goal was scored. Luckily, only a single person in the whole pub had one of those infernal vuvuzelas. But the droning sound from the TV was unlike any other football noise before.

essayel had said in thread earlier that Aristophanes compared the sound of bagpipes to a wasp farting in a bottle. A stadium full of vuvuzelas sounds like a million of those wasp-farts.

And no, having only one and blowing it from time to time is pointless. The point is to have many and create the wasp-fart effect, or more correctly, drone.

Somebody ought to have told that to whoever it was who kept on forlornly tooting his vuvuzela through the sound of heavy rain that we heard after we came back at half-time and made dinner. Whether the TV team scored any footage of bawling Australians, we don't know. At least the rain precluded all noisy victory celebrations.

In unrelated news, my cats are snoring.-

Comments

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

They're like insane mosquitos. The vuvuzelas, not the Aussie fans.

I didn't know what all the fuss was about before the Cup started. I kept thinking "But what about all the air horns people keep blowing? Why is that okay, and vuvuzelas aren't?"

Okay, an air horn sounds like a loud, musical fart. A vuvuzela sounds like a wasp fart in a bottle. They're *both* annoying.

[yakalskovich]

The poor Aussie fans were like damp mosquitoes huddling out of the rain without making a sound, poor things, while the German fans cheered and blew their one single vuvuzela.

I know somebody who knows the woman whose idea it was to export vuvuzelas to all over the world as a PR gag for this championship. I wonder whether she's hiring bodyguards now...

[i-open-doors.livejournal.com]

The first Cup game I watched had me cringing and wondering what that awful sound was. I think I would go insane if I had to actually be at a game with those things.

[yakalskovich]

These things are so LOUD! Yesterday, before the Italian game, the three Italian places in the little pedestrian zone (two restaurants, and the café where I sometimes stop on my way home from work) had put up flags and flatscreens and were warming up for the game. They were having a vuvuzela-off with merely three or five of these things.

The noise was deafening and completely drowned out the cheerful Bollywood music from my in-ear earphones.