Oi! Poms! Hands off our intellectual property!

Bob-Dubery

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/7878181/British-retailers-risk-penalties-if-they-call-a-vuvuzela-a-vuvuzela.html

singemonkey

About time we gave the EU a taste of their own medicine. Even though the whole name thing is a farce.

AlanRatcliffe

singemonkey wrote About time we gave the EU a taste of their own medicine. Even though the whole name thing is a farce.

+1.

Bob-Dubery

As you all know, I was recently in the UK. In one of the papers I read that Sainsbury's had sold something like 40000 vuvuzelas in 2 days. The stores had no stock, demand was up, and they had lots of requests for a toddler's version that would put less strain on the little dears lungs.

Sean

Fantastic. I was wondering if the thing would take off internationally, I think the irony is sweet considering all the complaints about the thing from abroad.

Gearhead

Sean wrote I think the irony is sweet considering all the complaints about the thing from abroad.

I think the irony is on SA for inventing the most annoying thing this century; it is not going to go away now. I also think that no-one enjoys said sweetness with a Vuvuzela being blown into one's ears from point blank distance.

Sean

Gearhead wrote
Sean wrote I think the irony is sweet considering all the complaints about the thing from abroad.
I think the irony is on SA for inventing the most annoying thing this century; it is not going to go away now. I also think that no-one enjoys said sweetness with a Vuvuzela being blown into one's ears from point blank distance.

Well, I don't think it was ever going to go away anyway :-\ and yes, having the thing being blown in ones face is not sweet... as I think the rest of the world will soon discover ?

Bob-Dubery

Gearhead wrote
Sean wrote I think the irony is sweet considering all the complaints about the thing from abroad.
I think the irony is on SA for inventing the most annoying thing this century; it is not going to go away now. I also think that no-one enjoys said sweetness with a Vuvuzela being blown into one's ears from point blank distance.

We went out narrowboating (or barging, or whatever it's called) one day. I was steering the barge down the South Oxford Canal, nobody else in sight, fields and hedgerow all around, nothing to hear but cows lowing and sheep farting and then.... there it was... wafting across the Northamptonshire countryside. Some ~~asshole~~ enthusiastic person blowing a vuvuzela. They don't sound that much better across the water, though the impact is diminished.

We reached our destination which was a pub in the middle of nowhere adjacent to a winding hole (turning point). The barman handed us the menus and then said "kan jy Afrikaans praat?"

I'm pretty sure it wasn't him who had been blowing the aformentioned vuvuzela. I'm pretty sure it wasnt' a cow either.