BP, meet vuvuzela. BP is in the shit right now over its Mexican Gulf oil spill, and its seemingly inept handling of the aftermath. They must be the most loathed company around right now. And loathed also, is the vuvuzela, the plastic horn responsible for the sound of the soccer World Cup in South Africa.
So given these two things are about as popular as each other – actually thats being generous to BP as I think in most people’s views they are worse than vuvuzelas – Adam Quirk of Brooklyn USA has decided to put these two negatives together. He is trying to organise a protest outside BP’s headquarters in London that will see 100 people playing vuvuzelas for a day.
Here’s hoping it will be loud and obnoxious to the BP executives in their offices. Hopefully the building doesn’t have good soundproofing. If I was organising the protest I’d be amplifying the vuvuzela noise.
Some interesting vuvuzela gripes:
- at 127 decibels, they are louder than a referee’s whistle
- have been responsible for noise-induced hearing loss in barrackers
- spread cold and flu germs with more gusto than any coughing or shouting
- the noise they make has been compared to a swarm of angry bees, a goat about to be slaughtered, a stampede of noisy elephants and even a dive-bombing Messerschmitt
Nasty things for sure. But BP is much, much worse for what it has done in the Gulf.
