I have a love/hate relationship with the infamous vuvuzela. I think they are a ridiculously funny-sounding instrument (potty humor gold), but they can be horribly inappropriate and annoying after a while when used in situations where it's obviously dumb to do so. I agree the dork blowing it during the Taiko concert should have had it taken away, followed by a sound beating to the beat of the drums :P

Which leads me to the comparison between them and a brief experience that my father-in-law had in a bathroom in Japantown not only briefly broke the language barrier (he doesn't speak English, only Italian) but had him laughing harder than I'd ever seen him do (the man is a very calm, mellow guy, so seeing him laugh hard enough to have tears in his eyes was a glee for me). Part of it had to do with D finding the photo of the guy on the bike with one coming out of..well, a very uncomfortable place, and not the back of his Volkswagon.