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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

[morganmuffle]

There have been 545 complaints to the BBC about the noise of the vuvuzelas. It's kind of mind boggling really that that many people care that much, and that they think there's a sensible way to stop it!

[babycakesin.livejournal.com]

"Schadenfreude", my favorite word in the German language lol

[ihlanya.livejournal.com]

*blows vuvuzela*

[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.)

[fourth_rose]

this is what football always sounds like

Speaking as someone who had to suffer through the European Football Championship happening practically under my window two years ago... WORD. And I don't even dislike football ;-)

[dementedsiren.livejournal.com]

Heh. One of my colleagues brought in a megaphone that not only magnifies his already impressive voice, but also plays cheers (in Dutch). And, of course, when NL played Denmark our entire work cantine was turned into a pub-without-beer for 3 hours *sigh*.

I don't know why I'm using this icon, really, except I think letting loose a team of Dalek Power Rangers on a crowd of rowdy Dutch football fans would be terribly entertaining.