“IS ANYONE ELSE SUFFERING FROM TINNITUS FROM WATCHING WORLD CUP?” asks one of our favourite American bloggers YoYenta.”
She says her husband, whom she refers to as “El Yenta Man,” has had the volume “turned up from dawn ‘til dawn on various soccer matches all week and normally, I’m not one to object to sexy men of all global flavours kicking and sweating!”
And, says YoYenta, though she’s always appreciated the drunken enthusiasm displayed by football fans worldwide, she is “about to book a midnight flight to South Africa just so I can grab up all those GAWDAMN PLASTIC HORNS AND SHOVE THEM WHERE THE SUN DON’T SHINE.”
To make matter worse, she writes, “the company that’s responsible for supplying the most of the world with these horrific instruments of deaf is from Israel.” YoYenta jokes that “to paraphrase Tablet’s Marc Tracy, the world might now actually have a legitimate reason to hate Israel.”
“Eh. In the meantime, I’m wearing earplugs. And if any joker decides to break out a vuvuzela at Rosh Hashanah as an ersatz shofar, I will start a riot to put the Scottish to shame.”
She says that her “dear friend and acoustical genius Jory Prum just informed me that a company, Waves, has already come up with an innovative plug-in that specifically reduces vuvuleza noise. Of course, you know Waves is based in…wait for it…Israel. Let the conspiracy theories begin. [See screenshot of Waves’ website, below -ED]
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