HAPPY WORLD CUP

Jack-Flash-Jr

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THAT'S ALL!

aubs1

I sincerely hope Bafana Bafana make it past the first round, and perhaps beyond..............

...........however, Brazil WILL win the final............. Eli is rooting for England, because of Rooney and ManU.........

Happy World Cup to all of South Africa.............. ?

dee

Before the end of this world cup, I am going to beat someone with a Vuvuzela.

You just watch this space....

Conrad

I also really hope we can beat Mexico today. I have never seen the country this happy and I think that feeling needs to be perpetuated.

Now I just need to learn the rules of soccer so I can interpret the activity on the TV screen.

IceCreamMan

magical time to be in ZA currently....

its alive

its going t obe awesome , total avalanche on all forms of media and i am a soccer nut. hoping to catch about 54 games on the telly and some live (we have tv's at work)

only 7 teams have won the the world cup and after this world cup i dont think that figure will have gone up ...i reckon England deserve a bit of luck and thus will host the cup come 11 july

(hopefully no penalty shoot out)

inflames

Indeed exciting times for South Africa, I got 'gees'!

Before the end of this world cup, I am going to beat someone with a Vuvuzela.

dee, dude I hear you! I know that one should accept the vuvuzella as part of the festival and 'gees'.

This is what happened to me:
Our company bought Official match shirts for everyone. We booked a table for 30 people at Dros.
We had a chat to the manager when we made the booking and he said it is a Vuvuzela free zone.
In the second half these 2 idiots started blowing the vuvuzellas at each other across the bar. Seeing who is the loudest.
This was in the non smoking section of Dros. It really spoiled the game, because you could not hear a darn thing.

It was pissing everyone off, so one guy in our group walked up to the one prick and asked him nicely not to blow the vuvuzella until after the game.
As my friend walked away, he just started blowing it again at him. Needless to say my friend is 6ft tall, 142kg's and 4 brandies strong.

He "gently" removed the guy from the bar and placed him on his ass outside.
When he walked back into the bar people applauded him.

I still think it was unnecessary for this to happen. We had such a good time and was in the spirit of things.

I really home SA do well, the entire SA is behind them!!!

singemonkey

Well, I couldn't hear a damn thing with the plastic soccer-trumpets howling. And I was watching on a tv with a super shaky image. It took nothing away. I think I teared up a little when they scored that goal. And usually I couldn't give a tinker's cuss for football.

Bob-Dubery

inflames wrote
Before the end of this world cup, I am going to beat someone with a Vuvuzela.
dee, dude I hear you! I know that one should accept the vuvuzella as part of the festival and 'gees'.

Well I'm getting a bit sick of the whole vuvuzela thing. Not the vuvuzela itself actually, nor the fact that people feel the country has something to celebrate, but the incessant, thoughtless blowing of the darn things. Doesn't it occur to anybody but that there are people who don't want an incessant noise? I work in a hospital. This week the vuvuzelas have been in action by 7am most mornings and there's not let up until 15:00 at least. Now you'd think somebody would have thought about the patients (though, to be fair, some of them seem to be pretty enthusiastic vuvuzelists), but there's other problems too. Like sometimes you can't hear properly when you're trying to have a telephone conversation, or that some of us have a job that requires some concentration and that gets a bit harder when there's this non-stop honking noise.

This isn't "gees". It's just mindless and frankly inconsiderate. It's like many things in life, there's a time and a place for it, but it's not appropriate in every situation and all the time.

The vuvuzela actually is fine, or no worse than other noisy implements that people like to take to sporting events. What I don't like is the utter lack of discretion and consideration with which they are being deployed. This is a people problem, not a vuvuzela problem. I'd be just as "anti" if it were the old fashioned football racket or whistles or some other cheap to manufacture noise maker. I'd even be "anti" if it were guitars (which it wouldn't be, because you need at least a little skill to make a noise on one of those).

I also don't understand the seeming need that is imposed on us in this current age to make a racket in order to show that you are having a good time. I want the tournament to go well and I'm behind Bafana Bafana (even though, like SingeMonkey, I don't usually give a rodent's rear end about soccer). I just don't see the need to have to keep my neighbours awake, tick off my workmates and drive like an idiot to demonstrate my loyalities.

>☹ etc etc

inflames

Well said Bob!

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For a very selfish reason I enjoy the vuvu's, because my job is THAT annoying (even more) every day. For other people to experience even a small splice of that insanity is so gratifying. And those vuvu's are like music to my ears, not even a little bit annoying. Seriously, If you want insanity inducing chaos, work at a nursery school for 2-4's. Everything else is mild in comparison.

Ray

I dont follow soccer at all but I must say I watched the game yesterday and it was too grand when we scored that goal. But I still dont really know what was going on. As for the droning of the vuvus it makes me crazy. I actually enjoy watching when there is some noise but the singing, cheering type. But these plastic bugles - Cheez. You know, I'm not supporting any side in particular and go into each game I watch hoping for the oke who everyone thinks is going to lose. BTW check all the clenched fist stuff at the opening ceremony.

But tonite! At least early hours of tomorrow morning is going to be a fight hey. I think it has the makings so get your skinny ass out of bed and watch SS2 at 2AM. Could be a good one.

Sean

Ray wrote BTW check all the clenched fist stuff at the opening ceremony.

Yeah! That I thought was rather amusing. Someone should tell R Kelly that he's more than 3 decades too late :?

IceCreamMan

IceCreamMan wrote magical time to be in ZA currently....

its alive

its going t obe awesome , total avalanche on all forms of media and i am a soccer nut. hoping to catch about 54 games on the telly and some live (we have tv's at work)

only 7 teams have won the the world cup and after this world cup i dont think that figure will have gone up ...i reckon England deserve a bit of luck and thus will host the cup come 11 july

(hopefully no penalty shoot out)

I was wrong !!!! (dont tell my wife i actually admitted to being wrong)

We will have a new team lifting the cup on Sunday night as neither spain nor netherlands have ever won it afore.

i am nearly all socered out btw .... stadium experience has been awesome (been to 4 games and angling for the final) , 3D at conemas been awesome , pubs bene awesome , all in all a great experience.