Author Topic: Whamageddon 2023  (Read 5944 times)

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Re: Whamageddon 2023
« Reply #50 on: 14 December, 2023, 11:02:27 pm »
That would be cheating! And besides, then I would be out. ;)
It’s not cheating to listen to it. And besides, if you don’t know it, how do you know that you’re not already out?

You have to recognise it to know that you are out!

My extremely limited exposure to popular music over the past fortnight (well, all my adult life to be fair) means that it is highly unlikely that I will have heard the song in question. Given that it is quite old (did someone say 1980s?) I've managed the best part of 40 years without ever knowingly hearing it. I rarely listen to the radio, neither do I watch television, so it's most unlikely that I would be exposed to the sort of channel that would play it. Most of my food shopping is at Waitrose, and I haven't ever noticed them playing any music to get me into the mood to part with my cash - I do that anyway without their help!

But I have always taken an interest in this thread when it turns up, because it demonstrates how diverse we all are, which I suppose is to be celebrated. My guess is that the majority of people who play this game actually get knocked out in the first 24 days of December, and I kind of wonder how.

By comparison, today I attended a funeral in a high C of E church. There was "communion". I think this is the second or possibly third time in my life that I have witnessed this ritual. For the first 60-odd years of my life I don't think I was even aware of its existence. OK, I had heard of "holy communion" but I had absolutely no idea of what it involved, or what it was meant to represent. I think it's incredibly weird and unhygienic, but what I find even weirder is that a very high percentage of people seem to think it's normal behaviour. Diversity again.
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Re: Whamageddon 2023
« Reply #51 on: 14 December, 2023, 11:16:12 pm »
That would be cheating! And besides, then I would be out. ;)
It’s not cheating to listen to it. And besides, if you don’t know it, how do you know that you’re not already out?

You have to recognise it to know that you are out!
Is that a rule?

(Paul, still knowingly in  ;D)
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Re: Whamageddon 2023
« Reply #52 on: 14 December, 2023, 11:19:43 pm »
Not a rule, but pretty basically obvious I would have thought!

PS If it were horribly saccharine-flavoured pieces of trite Christmas music by John Rutter, then I would be out every year. It seems that we sing hardly anything else in our choir. There's a part of me that wants to boycott our annual Christmas concert because of this, but I'm a choir committee member and I think it would be poor form/showing lack of commitment. My fellow choristers are amazed that I don't like his stuff.
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Re: Whamageddon 2023
« Reply #53 on: 14 December, 2023, 11:23:32 pm »
...Given that it is quite old...

Not as old as Bach.

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Re: Whamageddon 2023
« Reply #54 on: 14 December, 2023, 11:25:09 pm »
...Given that it is quite old...

Not as old as Bach.

Indeed - but Bach wrote all the right notes in the right order, so he never gets old.
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Re: Whamageddon 2023
« Reply #55 on: 15 December, 2023, 07:14:23 am »
(Bach on topic)

Sainsbury's were playing it on Wednesday night.  I'm already in Whamhalla but I thought that was pretty low.  I expected to see people dropping to their knees in the mince pie aisle, crying "NOOOOOO!".
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Re: Whamageddon 2023
« Reply #56 on: 15 December, 2023, 12:03:54 pm »
Not a rule, but pretty basically obvious I would have thought!
Well, if the rules are just what is obvious, you must also need to recognise it to know that you're in.
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Re: Whamageddon 2023
« Reply #57 on: 15 December, 2023, 01:44:32 pm »
Not a rule, but pretty basically obvious I would have thought!
Not necessarily. You could be in a place with other people, for instance in a ye pubbe with the ACME crew, when a change in the cheery background music has them clutching at their hair (and pints), breaking into floods of tears and generally suffering a pre-Christmas breakdown, all because they've been Whammed. Then you would have been Whammed too. They might even tell you so.
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Re: Whamageddon 2023
« Reply #58 on: 15 December, 2023, 02:31:04 pm »
I’m out because my husband CHOSE to play it after I said I hadn’t been Whammed yet!
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Re: Whamageddon 2023
« Reply #59 on: 15 December, 2023, 10:16:08 pm »
For the first time in a number of years I'm out. I'm doing a gig and the bloody drummer put it on in the interval.
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Re: Whamageddon 2023
« Reply #60 on: 15 December, 2023, 10:25:40 pm »
Another plus for drum machines.

Re: Whamageddon 2023
« Reply #61 on: 15 December, 2023, 10:37:49 pm »
Good luck trying to pass off the retribution as a bizarre gardening accident.
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Re: Whamageddon 2023
« Reply #62 on: 16 December, 2023, 12:47:40 am »
 ;D ;D
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Re: Whamageddon 2023
« Reply #63 on: 16 December, 2023, 07:58:26 am »
I’m out because my husband CHOSE to play it after I said I hadn’t been Whammed yet!
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Re: Whamageddon 2023
« Reply #64 on: 16 December, 2023, 08:54:03 am »
I’m out because my husband CHOSE to play it after I said I hadn’t been Whammed yet!

That’s grounds for divorce, or at least breakfast in bed.
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Re: Whamageddon 2023
« Reply #65 on: 16 December, 2023, 11:17:46 am »
I was doing so well until this morning's spin class. >:(

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Re: Whamageddon 2023
« Reply #66 on: 16 December, 2023, 04:41:24 pm »
Never get out of the boat!
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Re: Whamageddon 2023
« Reply #67 on: 16 December, 2023, 07:38:44 pm »
I’m out because my husband CHOSE to play it after I said I hadn’t been Whammed yet!

That’s grounds for divorce, or at least breakfast in bed.
We don’t breakfast but he says he will bring me tea in bed tomorrow morning so that is some consolation.

We were visiting Christmas Markets in Mannheim today, going in and out of shops, and we had our work Christmas do last night with music on all the time - and not one Wham!
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Re: Whamageddon 2023
« Reply #68 on: 16 December, 2023, 07:56:48 pm »
Stepped out the front door and was whammed! by Santa driving his sleigh down my road.  At least I no longer need to live in fear of the kitchen (with Alexa's Christmas playlist).
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Re: Whamageddon 2023
« Reply #69 on: 17 December, 2023, 01:13:52 pm »
My extremely limited exposure to popular music over the past fortnight (well, all my adult life to be fair) means that it is highly unlikely that I will have heard the song in question. Given that it is quite old (did someone say 1980s?) I've managed the best part of 40 years without ever knowingly hearing it. I rarely listen to the radio, neither do I watch television, so it's most unlikely that I would be exposed to the sort of channel that would play it.

Similarly, while I was a radio listener in my youth, I fell out of the habit when I ended up living in the broadcasting doldrums of Kent, where reception of anything but the BBC was impractical on a analogue PSO budget.  I then met barakta, at which point playing anything in the background on speakers became contraindicated.  I effectively lost the plot with popular music (well, music in general, tbh) in 1999, and am under the impression that I haven't really been missing much.

These days I'll listen to radio the same way as I watch television - sparingly, on demand, with headphones.  Which is pretty Wham-proof unless perhaps it crops up in the soundtrack to some drama.

And then the coronalurgi put paid to indoor socialising, which means the main risks are Mr Sainsbury's public address system, and Taxi Driver FM.


I'm fairly clueless about the whole communion thing too.  I've read about it, of course, but it seems that the off-the-wall theology that would appear to contradict the laws of physics described in textbooks has little to do with what most churchgoers actually experience, which seems to be more about comfortingly familiar, if objectively peculiar, rituals.  In practice, it mostly seems to serve as something for Christians to disagree with other types of Christians about.  Of which, like vocoder-heavy hip-hop, there seems to be an almost infinite supply.

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Re: Whamageddon 2023
« Reply #70 on: 22 December, 2023, 01:21:05 pm »
I'm out.
My fault really.  I should have kept clear of the kitchen.
Admission.  I'm actually not that fussed about cake.

Re: Whamageddon 2023
« Reply #71 on: 22 December, 2023, 01:46:21 pm »
Still in - last night was MrsH hosting her "book club" (which started out reading books about 20 years ago, but to the best of my knowledge the remaining half dozen or so members do nothing but go around to each others houses every month for a meal without bothering with a book - which, to be fair, seems like quite a pleasant thing to do). And she asked me to put a Christmas playlist on for background music, so thought I'd be out at some point during the evening - but checking the list, and the first entry was Wham. So I just started it on the second one.

The big question is - will Wham finally hit the Christmas top spot this year? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67772109

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Re: Whamageddon 2023
« Reply #72 on: 22 December, 2023, 02:36:49 pm »
Mr Sainsbury’s House of Toothy Comestibles appeared to be playing ersatz versions of Crimbletunes just now.  That certainly wasn’t Greg Lake anyway.  So should be safe from here on in.
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Re: Whamageddon 2023
« Reply #73 on: 22 December, 2023, 03:34:21 pm »
No idea if it counts. I’ve heard the song, but not by the eponymous artists. Not that I care one way or the other.
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Re: Whamageddon 2023
« Reply #74 on: 22 December, 2023, 03:45:24 pm »
I'm out.
My fault really.  I should have kept clear of the kitchen.
So close!
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