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[World Cup] "The Green Error" to live in infamy, vuvuzelas are omgterrible

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    GoslingGosling Looking Up Soccer In Mongolia Right Now, Probably Watertown, WIRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Come on, Bafana. These are just little, basic things you have to be able to do. You have to make passes like that.

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    GoslingGosling Looking Up Soccer In Mongolia Right Now, Probably Watertown, WIRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Wet Bandit wrote: »
    Zen Vulgarity wrote: »
    I HATE THOSE FUCKING HORNS

    Is that what that dull droning noise is in the background?

    Those are the vuvuzelas you've heard so much about. It was this, every minute of every match during the Confederations Cup last year.

    Every. Single. Second. You can't even hear the whistle.

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    Evil_ReaverEvil_Reaver Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Gosling wrote: »
    Wet Bandit wrote: »
    Zen Vulgarity wrote: »
    I HATE THOSE FUCKING HORNS

    Is that what that dull droning noise is in the background?

    Those are the vuvuzelas you've heard so much about. It was this, every minute of every match during the Confederations Cup last year.

    Every. Single. Second.

    Eh, it's not that bad.

    I'll take the Bee Apocalypse over the idiots with drums at every MLS game.

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    SanderJKSanderJK Crocodylus Pontifex Sinterklasicus Madrid, 3000 ADRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Yeah those horns make me want to choke people.

    I also want to choke the NOS, because they said "we have a tested capacity for 120k viewers" yet at roughly 40k viewers their website exploded.

    Nice going.

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    saint2esaint2e Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Drums at least have some sort of beat. This is constant... I'm seriously going insane here. I can't imagine how the players are coping.

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    WMain00WMain00 Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Bogart wrote: »
    WMain00 wrote: »
    Football. Yay. Go anyone but England.

    *sigh*

    Why?

    I'm Scottish. Nuff said.

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    Wet BanditWet Bandit Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Gosling wrote: »
    Wet Bandit wrote: »
    Zen Vulgarity wrote: »
    I HATE THOSE FUCKING HORNS

    Is that what that dull droning noise is in the background?

    Those are the vuvuzelas you've heard so much about. It was this, every minute of every match during the Confederations Cup last year.

    Every. Single. Second. You can't even hear the whistle.

    Fuck these things are annoying. It creates such a bizarre atmosphere, like they're trying to cover subliminal messaging.

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    Zen VulgarityZen Vulgarity What a lovely day for tea Secret British ThreadRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    I like my footie like I like my beer

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    Evil_ReaverEvil_Reaver Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    saint2e wrote: »
    Drums at least have some sort of beat. This is constant... I'm seriously going insane here. I can't imagine how the players are coping.

    I think they're probably happy that they haven't been hit with road flares.

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    LeztaLezta Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    WMain00 wrote: »
    Bogart wrote: »
    WMain00 wrote: »
    Football. Yay. Go anyone but England.

    *sigh*

    Why?

    I'm Scottish. Nuff said.

    Not really. If England hadn't got through but Scotland had you bet your arse I'd be supporting my neighbours.

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    GoslingGosling Looking Up Soccer In Mongolia Right Now, Probably Watertown, WIRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Wet Bandit wrote: »
    Gosling wrote: »
    Wet Bandit wrote: »
    Zen Vulgarity wrote: »
    I HATE THOSE FUCKING HORNS

    Is that what that dull droning noise is in the background?

    Those are the vuvuzelas you've heard so much about. It was this, every minute of every match during the Confederations Cup last year.

    Every. Single. Second. You can't even hear the whistle.

    Fuck these things are annoying. It creates such a bizarre atmosphere, like they're trying to cover subliminal messaging.

    And you get to spend the next month with them!

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    quovadis13quovadis13 Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    The first dive!

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    Zen VulgarityZen Vulgarity What a lovely day for tea Secret British ThreadRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Lezta wrote: »
    WMain00 wrote: »
    Bogart wrote: »
    WMain00 wrote: »
    Football. Yay. Go anyone but England.

    *sigh*

    Why?

    I'm Scottish. Nuff said.

    Not really. If England hadn't got through but Scotland had you bet your arse I'd be supporting my neighbours.

    If the US hadn't gotten through I'd support Mexico or Canada to the fullest

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    GoslingGosling Looking Up Soccer In Mongolia Right Now, Probably Watertown, WIRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Free kick to South Africa. Come on. Convert. Show why you never, EVER bet against the hosts.

    ...agh.

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    Evil_ReaverEvil_Reaver Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    I'm wearing my England top at work today. I already got a, "Did you forget which country you live in?" comment.

    Look, I'm kind of ashamed of the US national team. Sorry for backing our cousins who will probably train wreck just as badly as we do.

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    WMain00WMain00 Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Lezta wrote: »
    WMain00 wrote: »
    Bogart wrote: »
    WMain00 wrote: »
    Football. Yay. Go anyone but England.

    *sigh*

    Why?

    I'm Scottish. Nuff said.

    Not really. If England hadn't got through but Scotland had you bet your arse I'd be supporting my neighbours.

    Good for you.

    We're not!

    (and I very much doubt you (royal you) would either).

    Let's not get into this argument. I'm not supporting England. Simple as that.

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    Zen VulgarityZen Vulgarity What a lovely day for tea Secret British ThreadRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Gosling wrote: »
    Free kick to South Africa. Come on. Convert. Show why you never, EVER bet against the hosts.

    ...agh.

    But the ball flies so highhhh

    Even though we've been playing with this ball for weeks now

    YELLOW

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    Evil_ReaverEvil_Reaver Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    First yellow card!

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    PantsBPantsB Fake Thomas Jefferson Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    First dive followed by first yellow, its on officially!

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    KyouguKyougu Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    And we got the first yellow card.

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    ArikadoArikado Southern CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Really? That's a handball?

    EDIT: GIO! :(

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    saint2esaint2e Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    First yellow of the tournament.

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    KyouguKyougu Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Damn, that would have been a beautiful goal.

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    Zen VulgarityZen Vulgarity What a lovely day for tea Secret British ThreadRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Gio that was an easy play

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    GoslingGosling Looking Up Soccer In Mongolia Right Now, Probably Watertown, WIRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Very nice save!

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    saint2esaint2e Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    I would've given a card for that foul

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    Zen VulgarityZen Vulgarity What a lovely day for tea Secret British ThreadRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Very nice snag by the keeper

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    KyouguKyougu Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Man, SA can't complete any long passes.

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    PantsBPantsB Fake Thomas Jefferson Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    20 minutes in, SA isn't embarrassing itself if nothing else. A point is definitely achievable

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    Zen VulgarityZen Vulgarity What a lovely day for tea Secret British ThreadRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Nerves I bet have a large part of that

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    saint2esaint2e Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    So I'm watching a stream at work. I just got up to get a drink ,and removed my earbuds, and instantly my ears had residual ringing. Craziness.

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    SixSix Caches Tweets in the mainframe cyberhex Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
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    quovadis13quovadis13 Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    South Africa needs to switch the field when they are attacking. They are bunching up too much on one side and not even looking to open up the middle

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    Zen VulgarityZen Vulgarity What a lovely day for tea Secret British ThreadRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Those fucking horns should be banned

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    BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited June 2010
    WMain00 wrote: »
    Bogart wrote: »
    WMain00 wrote: »
    Football. Yay. Go anyone but England.

    *sigh*

    Why?

    I'm Scottish. Nuff said.

    Oh, I see. Perfectly understandable.

    For anyone not in the know, the Scots always support whoever England is playing against. It could be Pol Pot's Choice 11 Great Monsters From History and the Tartan Army would be bellowing them on against the Auld Enemy. It's just the way it is and no one really minds this side of the border.

    Hell, we think it's kind of cute. Besides, it gives the Scots something to do while the World Cup is on because it's for damn sure they won't be playing themselves.

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    PantsBPantsB Fake Thomas Jefferson Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    ESPN 3 has their highlight system going for the WC. They usually don't for soccer games, but now it will mark where a big play happened and you can rewind back to it. That will be useful
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    Zen Vulgarity wrote: »
    Those fucking horns should be banned

    That's what we said in 09. Supposedly its part of SAfrican heritage

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    GoslingGosling Looking Up Soccer In Mongolia Right Now, Probably Watertown, WIRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Zen Vulgarity wrote: »
    Those fucking horns should be banned

    They briefly considered it after the Confederations Cup.

    They decided against it; it's too much a part of the South African soccer experience. In fact, while doing the club-soccer book, I've been finding them all over southern Africa.

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    Zen VulgarityZen Vulgarity What a lovely day for tea Secret British ThreadRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Bogart I love you

    But tomorrow I will be telling you to fuck off for most of the day

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    PantsBPantsB Fake Thomas Jefferson Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Zen Vulgarity wrote: »
    Bogart I love you

    But tomorrow I will be telling you to fuck off for most of the day

    I'll be rooting for England every game except against the US or if their winning would hurt the US

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    GoslingGosling Looking Up Soccer In Mongolia Right Now, Probably Watertown, WIRegistered User regular
    edited June 2010
    South African guy: "Wait, seriously, I'm getting carded? Come on!
    Ref (smiling, half-laughing): "Ah, don't worry about it, buddy. We card EVERYBODY at the World Cup. Soon I will card a fan in the nosebleed section."

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