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Plastic Horns and Online Din This World Cup: Meet the Vuvuzelas!
The one-metre long plastic trumpet is as essential an item to South African fans as getting decked out in the national colours or painting one's face and they have been out in force in the opening days of the tournament.
Eighty thousand of them being blown at full volume sounds like a swarm of angry bees buzzing in your ear, or, as one newspaper put it, an elephant in distress.
It is a tuneless din that takes getting used to, and they are not just being blown at stadiums, but in hotel lobbies, in shopping malls, and on the streets.
"It's our way to motivate players, to express happiness and how do you feel in the stadium," said 23-year-old Sazi Mhlwatika as he shopped in Johannesburg.
"We are used to them and you can't enjoy the game without vuvuzelas. If there's no vuvuzelas, there is no game. It's just a traditional thing in South Africa. Abroad, they sing from the first minute to the end, here we blow vuvuzelas from the beginning to the end."
But not everyone is embracing them with shops in Cape Town running out of "vuvu-stopper" earplugs.
"I could have sold 300 pairs of earplugs yesterday if I'd had the stock, and the same today, but I've only got 200 pairs and that's just about finished," one local shopkeeper said.
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