Friday, November 12, 2010

World Cup 2010 Blog: “Vuvuzela Earrings: The Perfect Christmas Gift” plus 1 more

World Cup 2010 Blog: “Vuvuzela Earrings: The Perfect Christmas Gift” plus 1 more

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Vuvuzela Earrings: The Perfect Christmas Gift

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 12:00 PM PST

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Looking for a Christmas gift for that special someone who loves football and isn’t picky about wearing plastic, possibly ridden with spittle, jewelery? Look no further than the vuvuzela earrings.

These are the same earrings which won the design contest from a few days back, but this is the first glimpse we have of the actual product prototype. They’re…colorful. And yes, they’re actually going into mass(ish) production.

I can’t imagine you’ll find these at Cartier anytime soon, though you can bet someone will try, but hey, it’s certainly a great improvement on their more popular use and they wouldn’t look at all out of place with a decent makarapa. (Also not to be found at fine, upstanding jewelers.)


Wang Dalei Suffers The Fate Of Football’s Future

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 09:13 AM PST

3701499Today is a very, very sad day. Not 24 hours ago we had such promise on the footballing horizon in the form of Wang Dalei, a man who loved microblogging and we loved his candor.

Since his soul pouring outrage he has been suspended indefinitely, been forced to issue an apology which sounds closer to castration and the entire blogging site has been shut down by Chinese authorities.

Don’t they know they’re biting the hand that feeds?

And all this when his “tirade” wasn’t even that bad.

“I’m sorry for my ‘microblog things’. I want to say sorry for all the fans and reporters in China,” he said.

“My childish and irresponsible words harmed the image of my team, the delegation and China’s sports.”

“And I also pleaded to all the fans, especially the fans hurt by my words, to forgive me this time. Please understand me. We were not easy (in the tournament),” he added.

And so continues the further sterilization of football interviews. The powers that be won’t be happy until everyone’s reading from preselected, preapproved answer cards which have shown not to upset women ages 18-45, men ages 32-59 and pygmy aeronautic engineers with cleft palettes.

The whole sport’s going downhill.