After 6 months off, I come back to blog about something that has the world up by storm, the Vuvuzela. Don’t know what it is, it’s a 130 dB annoying buzzing sound that you hear at every world cup game this year. The South Africans play this thing till no end in sight. The talk is that they are so annoying they ought to be banned. Well I just want to say that is a bunch of hogwash. This is the way they enjoy the game. Its not my thing, but its their thing. If you don’t like it, turn the sound down, or wear earplugs.
They aren’t hurting anyone. The argument seems to be. “They’re so loud we must ban them cause we can go deaf.” It’s true they are loud. 130 dB is a lot. Remember it’s a logarithmic scale, so something 130 dB is 10 times as loud as 120 dB. I hate when people aruge like this. No one wants these things banned because they are worried they are going to lose their hearing. Those who fear that are watching the World Cup at home. People want it banned because it annoys them or in the case of some players it even makes their job harder.
Go figure, a home field advantage. To make Africa watch soccer the same way Europeans watch soccer is shameful. Thankfully FIFA seems to agree with me. Mike Huckabee drew some heat for once saying in South Carolina regarding the confederate flag: "You don't want people from outside the state coming in and telling you what to do with your flag. If somebody came to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we'd tell 'em what to do with the pole."
