Foreign Policy reports: From the captain obvious department: a study in the latest issue of South Africa's Medical Journal claimed that vuvuzelas, the obnoxiously loud trumpet played at football matches in South Africa, can cause permanent hearing damage:
Participants in the stadium study were "exposed to high-intensity sound far exceeding the current legislated average exposure and peak exposure levels for occupational noise".Worse, the study used stadiums that simulated the noise of only 30,000 people -- many of the crowds expected at World Cup matches are expected to be three times that amount.
Tests on the 11 after the match showed a "significant" decrease in hearing sensitivity.
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Second Laugh of the day:
List of nuisances provoked by the object:
-Significant loss in political understanding.
-Significant loss in sens of nuances.
-The hearing of the object each week on TV for several hour might cause permanent brain damage.
-The hearing of the object might also cause hysteria, or deep depression.
The object is: President of Venezuela.
Test Subject: King Carlos of Spain.
("Porque no te callas?")
That was the poor euphonic joke of the day :)
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