FIFA Has No Sense Of Fun
The Bavaria Brewery of the Netherlands have done it again: Two women in court over World Cup Dutch ‘beer stunt’.
This was a much better looking, from my point of view, than the 2006 stunt. Orange mini-dresses on 30 young women is certainly preferable to orange lederhosen with lion tails.
Why American Budweiser is allowed to be the official “brew” of the World Cup, is beyond me. It’s not like many of the people who would watch the World Cup would actually drink it, even if it were free. FIFA is all about money.
At least they haven’t banned the vuvuzelas. A B♭ plastic trumpet isn’t everyone’s idea of fun, but at least they drown out the commentators so you can watch the game. They at least switched to plastic from the original metal versions, which has reduced medical costs, as well as the cost of the horns.
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It wouldn’t be so bad if the “octave” weren’t so out-of-true. The player in the video is obviously a competent player of cupped-mouthpiece instruments, but even he can’t play a true octave on the thing. It’s a noisemaker, pure and simple.
Why would anyone try to play it? It’s a “drone”, single note instrument, and no more in tune than any plastic tube. You can get a note out of a vacuum cleaner tube.
It’s cheaper than an air horn and almost as loud, which is the point – get drunk and make noise at a football match. It’s not like you could compare the singing at football matches in England to an oratorio. You get the noise without having to pretend you remember the words.
I can tell you from experience that they won’t let you into a game with a brass hunting horn [the original military bugle] or any other large metal object.