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[donnaimmaculata]

Apparently, some people find the noise pollution during the World Cup in South Africa annoying. I had to endure a radio interview with a pompous German guy who has launched an anti-vuvuzela petition on my way to work.

Guess what? For someone like me, who does not care about football one bit and who would even go so far as to say "dislike", this is what football always sounds like. Hundreds of people making a lot of noise. It really doesn't make a difference whether it's them shouting, chanting, rattling, whistling, vuvuzeling or throwing up under my bedroom window on their way back from a match.

My attitude is precisely what Germans coined the beautiful phrase "Schadenfreude" for.

Comments

[trobadora]

I actually have to disagree. I don't care about football, I haven't watched and won't watch a single game, but those things annoy the ever-living fuck out of me. The sound is horrible. (And yet I will for some unknown reason refrain from strangling anyone in the neighbourhood who insists on using those things.)

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

I... hadn't really noticed them until they exploded all over the media! The visuals are much more ubiquitous and annoying: German flag-pattern gimmicks everywhere.

This morning, I saw a wizened old lady with a German flag-pattern shopping bag. That was quite great, actually.

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

And it's good to know there are still some people out there who Don't Care! *waves tiny "ignoring football" flag*