They should ban those horns. I was watching the US vs Brazil soccer game yesterday (US-2 Brazil-3 :( ) and there were too many sounds. The commentators, the game, the people screaming and yelling, and worst of all, those stupid horns that the people get. The people who control the sound could easily just turn that sound down but nooooooo. They just have to let it go. It really annoys me that those things aren't banned either. And they're completely pointless. They don't do ANYTHING!!!! Aaaaaaaaaagh!
Maybe they'll ban them some day. I hope.
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Philip--
ReplyDeleteThe Ol' Mariner is heading to his next port--
but before he goes, he wants you to know about a man named Gordon Hempton, and a book about Hempton called ONE SQUARE INCH OF SILENCE. Hempton travels the world looking for places where everything is totally quiet--these places are very hard to find--and then records the quiet of, or otherwise analyzes, those places, as a way of telling the rest of us that maybe it would be a good idea if we would just...
...PIPE DOWN!
I thought of him as I was reading your
comments about air horns--and thought you
might be interested in tracking him down
on Google or reading his book. I think you
and he would get along.
More on what you wrote later.
Cocky, my invisible sea-farin' parrot--he
had a case of rabies, but he's okay now--
says hello.
Just kidding, of course. He didn't have
rabies...just scurvy.
Thar she blows,
The AM
Philip:
ReplyDeleteThere's a particularly great sentence within
your comments on air horns.
It reads, "And they're completely pointless."
You are nine, and you already understand that
some things are "completely pointless."
You're off to a great, great start in life.
You've already reached a point, by realizing
that some things are "completely pointless," that many adults never reach.
I think of Jesus referring to the "tradition
of men." Or saying, "Let the dead bury their
dead."
I think, though He wasn't directly
referring to air horns at soccer games, that
He was letting us know that a good bit of
what we come up with during this life is...
Pretty pointless.
I bet, at the end of a
soccer game long ago, someone set off an air
horn. And, that there wasn't much of a reason
why--probably, they just liked the way it
sounded. (They also probably liked setting
off fire alarms in retirement homes, waking up their immediate family with a bull-
horn each morning, and looking up the word
"decibel" in the dictionary.)
And so, the air horn thing is now a..."tradition."
I mean, you're so right. Even if some dimwit didn't set off an air horn at the end of each
soccer match, I think everyone involved
would still know the match was over. (Same
in the NHL, where not only air horns
but sirens and flashing lights go off at the
end of each game--and at the end of NBA games, where a horn sounds, too, albeit a bit more quietly than at soccer matches.)
And even college football games, I now realize, usually end with someone shooting off a cannon. Why? Sometimes, sadly, even the mascots are harmed as a result.
Not really. Just wanted to see if you were
still asleep.
I like baseball best as a sport--and perhaps,
though I never thought of this before you
wrote what you wrote, it's because when the games end, there's usually no loud signal
at all--just the players running off the
field, then shaking hands with and hugging
each other.
Except, wait a minute: I think in some baseball stadiums, when the home team wins, the stadium staff does
set off fireworks right away.
You know, you are brilliant...the pointlessness you identify is even more rampant than I realized.
I guess that's why I love Christ so much.
Quite a transition, huh?
Anyway, a great thing about Him is that everything He said had a point--and a rather
ultimate point, at that.
But I don't need to tell you that.
Telling you that is like bringing coal to
Newcastle.
Ask your parents what that means. It's a
compliment.
Anyway, I hope we get more new rants from you soon, because there are other things out there that we all need to think about for a
moment, and if you don't keep writing, how
will we think about them?
Maybe you could write about how people don't
know any words any more other than "cool"
or "awesome."
If I end up writing you from prison, it'll
probably be because of an incident triggered
by one or both words--along with someone
doing some prolonged "uptalking"?
And me finally snapping?
Your faithful reader,
The AM