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Title: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Legs on 21 November, 2023, 12:37:27 pm
I hope it doesn't start until 1 December, because I've just heard it playing on Heart...
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: T42 on 21 November, 2023, 05:10:13 pm
Damned thing was on France Info last week.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: spesh on 21 November, 2023, 05:23:44 pm
Quote from: Legs on 21 November, 2023, 12:37:27 pm
I hope it doesn't start until 1 December, because I've just heard it playing on Heart...

That is correct. As RZ helpfully posted at the start of 2020's thread:

Quote from: rogerzilla on 25 November, 2020, 10:10:10 am
You know the rules: you're out of the game if you hear Wham's 1984 festive lament "Last Christmas" at any time from the start of December until 2359 on Christmas Eve.  Cover versions are safe, and there are many (thankfully the Crazy Frog version is rarely played).

ETA - per the 2021 thread opener (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=121660.msg2677711#msg2677711), how much or little of the Wham! song you hear is immaterial.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 November, 2023, 05:46:12 pm
Again, never knowingly having heard any of it makes this a pretty safe bet. I wouldn't recognise it if I heard it.

My Good Friend Penelope sang a bit of it to me last year, but it didn't ring any bells - which of course all the best Christmas songs do!
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: rogerzilla on 01 December, 2023, 07:04:19 am
Whamageddon is NOW ON.

A reminder of the rules:https://whamageddon.com/

Be careful out there.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Jaded on 01 December, 2023, 08:02:50 am
I’m in a 24hour cafe that is playing Deborah de Luca tracks.

So I am safe for now.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Jaded on 01 December, 2023, 08:17:25 am
Don’t f’ing believe it.

After 20 mins of Deborah de Luca…

Yup. I’m out.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Legs on 01 December, 2023, 08:32:32 am
My colleague's just put it on - mutual destruction!  What a git!  ;D
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: fd3 on 01 December, 2023, 12:04:53 pm
Day one and my wife and #1 son are both out.

...

They asked Alexa to play Christmas music.  :facepalm:
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Snakehips on 01 December, 2023, 01:01:17 pm
You've heard the song, now buy the jumper.

(https://media.4rgos.it/i/Argos/tuc142739345-Navy_R_Z001A?w=1196&h=1620&qlt=70&fmt=webp)
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: rogerzilla on 01 December, 2023, 06:05:07 pm
It looks a bit like the Screwfix Christmas jumper, which is a real thing.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/site-screwfix-christmas-jumper-multi-coloured-large-45-chest/768ka
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 01 December, 2023, 08:24:15 pm
That ^ is a real thing too. Buy it now at Mr Sainsbury's Emporium of Toothy Comestibles and General Tat!
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 December, 2023, 08:34:20 pm
Saw a photo of one in Mr Zuckerberg's Walled Garden yesterday which read “FUCK THE TORIES” in large friendly letters.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Jaded on 01 December, 2023, 11:54:32 pm
Apparently there’s a X one you can buy that just says “FUCK YOU”
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Basil on 02 December, 2023, 06:27:03 pm
Not Wham, but we always said, "It's not Christmas until Noddy says it is."
Bloody hell, I got Noddied tonight.
"It's Christmas!
Bum. That's early.  I'll have to put the lights out the front.   :(
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: hellymedic on 02 December, 2023, 06:44:37 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 01 December, 2023, 06:05:07 pm
It looks a bit like the Screwfix Christmas jumper, which is a real thing.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/site-screwfix-christmas-jumper-multi-coloured-large-45-chest/768ka

I quite like it but it's shaped for men's shoulders.

D dumped leaflet advertising this on my desk...
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: rogerzilla on 02 December, 2023, 09:05:36 pm
Quote from: hellymedic on 02 December, 2023, 06:44:37 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 01 December, 2023, 06:05:07 pm
It looks a bit like the Screwfix Christmas jumper, which is a real thing.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/site-screwfix-christmas-jumper-multi-coloured-large-45-chest/768ka

I quite like it but it's shaped for men's shoulders.

D dumped leaflet advertising this on my desk...
A heavy hint?  That's his present sorted
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Snakehips on 02 December, 2023, 10:04:51 pm
As if all this wasn't bad enough, every street performer seems to be doing that goddam piece of crap the Fairytale of New York at the moment and probably will be for the foreseeable future.
 
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Karla on 03 December, 2023, 02:44:29 pm
I got both Whammed and Pogued yesterday at Hampton Court.  I insist it doesn't start until Advent though, which means today onwards.  But hey, what use, my current office manager has Heart FM playing the whole time so I'm get caught again in about three milliseconds.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: gibbo on 04 December, 2023, 08:20:53 am
Got Whammed twice in the space of 15 mins yesterday. Was genuinely a bit upset.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: L CC on 04 December, 2023, 08:35:07 am
I was waiting for No1Daughter to finish at the gym, idly scrolling instagram for cat videos.
Saturday 2nd @ 15:00. Ridiculous!
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 04 December, 2023, 10:13:56 am
At an open mic thing yesterday, a bloke comes up with a guitar and says he's going to sing the best Christmas song of all time. Surely he doesn't mean... but he did. Yes, I know cover versions are safe, so I'm still in, but you know what? Stripped back to an average guitarist and a half-decent singer, it's actually a decent song underneath all the hype. Still mawkish though.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: hellymedic on 05 December, 2023, 03:08:54 am
Quote from: rogerzilla on 02 December, 2023, 09:05:36 pm
Quote from: hellymedic on 02 December, 2023, 06:44:37 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 01 December, 2023, 06:05:07 pm
It looks a bit like the Screwfix Christmas jumper, which is a real thing.
https://www.screwfix.com/p/site-screwfix-christmas-jumper-multi-coloured-large-45-chest/768ka
I quite like it but it's shaped for men's shoulders.
D dumped leaflet advertising this on my desk...
A heavy hint?  That's his present sorted

Nah, he wants a cordless drill...
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 05 December, 2023, 12:29:57 pm
Quote from: hellymedic on 05 December, 2023, 03:08:54 am
Quote from: rogerzilla on 02 December, 2023, 09:05:36 pm
Quote from: hellymedic on 02 December, 2023, 06:44:37 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla on 01 December, 2023, 06:05:07 pm
It looks a bit like the Screwfix Christmas jumper, which is a real thing.
https://www.screwfix.com/p/site-screwfix-christmas-jumper-multi-coloured-large-45-chest/768ka
I quite like it but it's shaped for men's shoulders.
D dumped leaflet advertising this on my desk...
A heavy hint?  That's his present sorted

Nah, he wants a cordless drill...
Sorted!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186173179001
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on 05 December, 2023, 01:39:54 pm
I was taken out of the game last night. HK laughed, which is a bit mean.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: rogerzilla on 06 December, 2023, 05:42:48 pm
Got whammed at the Xmas do yesterday.  Only the 5th - not a vintage year!
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Karla on 06 December, 2023, 06:31:32 pm
Whammed and Pogued in the office today.  I was off yesterday and the office manager was off the day before - as soon as I had contact with her Heart FM habit it was bound to happen.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: ElyDave on 06 December, 2023, 07:25:10 pm
didn't go into the office this week due to rail strikes, so still in
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: gibbo on 07 December, 2023, 01:59:03 pm
I've been whammed 5 times so far this year. That's 5 times more than last  :facepalm:
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: spesh on 08 December, 2023, 05:06:51 pm
I'm out. Got Whammed en route to court for jury service this morning.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Wowbagger on 08 December, 2023, 08:50:39 pm
Is that grounds for a lifetime exemption from jury service?
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: spesh on 08 December, 2023, 09:12:39 pm
Probably not, TBH.  ;D
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Jaded on 09 December, 2023, 08:53:05 am
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-67659010

How to wind up 7,000 people.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: spesh on 09 December, 2023, 12:33:04 pm
Quote from: Jaded on 09 December, 2023, 08:53:05 am
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-67659010

How to wind up 7,000 people.

I did giggle immoderately on reading that one first thing this morning.  ;D

There's a non-zero possibility of a radio station with national coverage Whamming a similar number scattered across the country, but you have to admit that Whamming that many people in one go at one location is quite an achievement.  :demon:

(Apropos of nothing, had I avoided being Whammed yesterday, I would have got done this morning on the way back from the shops. Either way, I've lasted longer than I was anticipating I would have done, because my neighbour had been playing Crimbo songs on her Alexa starting late last month, so I had been expecting to have been out last weekend.)
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Paul on 09 December, 2023, 02:02:00 pm
I'm still in here, but I have to travel a bit next week, so I think it's only a matter of time.

Does it count if you do it to yourself deliberately? I don't know why anyone would - it's not like you can claim on your insurance. But would it be like the catholic view on suicide?

And what if you hear all the right notes, but in the wrong order?

I'm overthinking this, aren't I?
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: ElyDave on 11 December, 2023, 11:29:43 am
still in, but a trip into the office on Wednesday plus lunchtime errands...
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Auntie Helen on 11 December, 2023, 01:11:52 pm
Still in but I have to walk through our shop on the way to and from my office so it’s pretty dicey.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 11 December, 2023, 04:09:03 pm
I didn't realize Portsmouth had sunk down into League One. I see they're top though. Meanwhile, I'm still in but apparently I'm going to a pub tonight.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Kim on 11 December, 2023, 04:19:20 pm
The chuggers dressed in Santa costumes in Mr Sainsbury's Emporium of Toothy Comestibles had the Die Hard soundtrack on a loop, so I'm still in.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Basil on 11 December, 2023, 05:33:39 pm
Spent most of the morning in Carmarthen.  The big Tesco's.  Got away with that one.  Day's department store for breakfast. Christmas music playing, but got away with it unWhammed.  Children's choir in the Square, likewise.
I'm playing with fire now, but I'm getting away with it.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: cycleman on 11 December, 2023, 07:04:46 pm
Heard the dreaded tune in tescos while shopping this afternoon but it was a instrumental. That was close 😳  :)
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Jaded on 11 December, 2023, 09:14:18 pm
It’s just as well covers don’t count, even though I am out.

Kim Wilde just sang a version…
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Snakehips on 14 December, 2023, 05:38:50 pm
I've just been done in the booze aisle  in Sainsbury's. Only myself to blame I suppose, I do tend to loiter there.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 December, 2023, 06:20:45 pm
I've been in motorway services two or three times since 1st December, but haven't heard anything that I think is the song in question. I don't care about the game itself, because this is my 70th Christmas and I've never knowingly heard the song. But I sort of want to know what all the fuss is about.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Paul on 14 December, 2023, 08:10:42 pm
Well, you could just look it up.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 December, 2023, 08:24:46 pm
That would be cheating! And besides, then I would be out. ;)
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: SoreTween on 14 December, 2023, 08:58:48 pm
Damnit.  This thread, or specifically the linked beeb article, has just provided excellent present ideas for some difficult rellies (Whamageddon merch store).  Too late unfortunately, I need to deliver them on Saturday.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: HTFB on 14 December, 2023, 09:13:29 pm
If one must be Wham!med then class 2O's rendition during the school show wasn't the worst way. They are still quite cute, and Christmas Through the Decades gets much better singing out of them than Christmas Around The World last year. But they used the Wham! recording as their backing track, so I am well and truly out. I don't think I've ever been made to listen to it right through before.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Paul on 14 December, 2023, 09:41:06 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 14 December, 2023, 08:24:46 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?
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Jaded on 14 December, 2023, 10:56:38 pm
Quote from: Paul on 14 December, 2023, 09:41:06 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 14 December, 2023, 08:24:46 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?
Indeed
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 December, 2023, 11:02:27 pm
Quote from: Paul on 14 December, 2023, 09:41:06 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 14 December, 2023, 08:24:46 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.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Paul on 14 December, 2023, 11:16:12 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 14 December, 2023, 11:02:27 pm
Quote from: Paul on 14 December, 2023, 09:41:06 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 14 December, 2023, 08:24:46 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)
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Wowbagger 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.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Pingu on 14 December, 2023, 11:23:32 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 14 December, 2023, 11:02:27 pm
...Given that it is quite old...

Not as old as Bach.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 December, 2023, 11:25:09 pm
Quote from: Pingu on 14 December, 2023, 11:23:32 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 14 December, 2023, 11:02:27 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.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: rogerzilla 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!".
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Paul on 15 December, 2023, 12:03:54 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 14 December, 2023, 11:19:43 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.
 ;D
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 15 December, 2023, 01:44:32 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 14 December, 2023, 11:19:43 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.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Auntie Helen 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!
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: nicknack 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.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Pingu on 15 December, 2023, 10:25:40 pm
Another plus for drum machines.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: spesh on 15 December, 2023, 10:37:49 pm
Good luck trying to pass off the retribution as a bizarre gardening accident.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: nicknack on 16 December, 2023, 12:47:40 am
 ;D ;D
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: rogerzilla on 16 December, 2023, 07:58:26 am
Quote from: Auntie Helen 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!
Someone's getting ein Stück Köhle und ein Rosenkohl in their stocking.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Mr Larrington on 16 December, 2023, 08:54:03 am
Quote from: Auntie Helen 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!

That’s grounds for divorce, or at least breakfast in bed.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 16 December, 2023, 11:17:46 am
I was doing so well until this morning's spin class. >:(
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Paul on 16 December, 2023, 04:41:24 pm
Never get out of the boat!
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Auntie Helen on 16 December, 2023, 07:38:44 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 16 December, 2023, 08:54:03 am
Quote from: Auntie Helen 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!

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!
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: fd3 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).
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Kim on 17 December, 2023, 01:13:52 pm
Quote from: Wowbagger on 14 December, 2023, 11:02:27 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.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Basil on 22 December, 2023, 01:21:05 pm
I'm out.
My fault really.  I should have kept clear of the kitchen.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: MattH 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
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Mr Larrington 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.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: rafletcher 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.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: rogerzilla on 22 December, 2023, 03:45:24 pm
Quote from: Basil on 22 December, 2023, 01:21:05 pm
I'm out.
My fault really.  I should have kept clear of the kitchen.
So close!
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Snakehips on 22 December, 2023, 03:53:51 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington 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.
Not so my local branch. I had to put up with what seemed like the original version of Driving Home For Christmas, and to make matters worse the bloke near me in the wine aisle was intoning along with it.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: SoreTween on 22 December, 2023, 04:04:09 pm
Out. Pub. Sigh.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Kim on 22 December, 2023, 05:12:48 pm
Survived a trip to Mr Sainsbury's Emporium of Toothy Comestibles un-Whammed, quite possibly because the crowd density[1] was such that I wouldn't have been able to hear it even if they had played it.

Astoundingly, they still had semi-skilled lactose-free milk.


[1] Which necessitated going and rescuing a trolley from the car park.  It's never been that busy before.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Jaded on 22 December, 2023, 05:49:17 pm
So hopefully you weren't all listening to the Festive Top 40  ;D
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Mr Larrington on 22 December, 2023, 06:27:59 pm
Shittens!  They just played it on the Six O'Clock News, and I didn’t manage to reach the mute button in time.

The bastards.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Pingu on 22 December, 2023, 06:31:18 pm
We'd better be careful watching C4 News then.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: mattc on 22 December, 2023, 06:57:29 pm
Quote from: MattH on 22 December, 2023, 01:46:21 pm
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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Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Feanor on 22 December, 2023, 07:02:05 pm
Does it count if it was apparently played when a group of you were in the room, but you are too deaf to have heard it (or indeed any of the music that was apparently playing) yourself?
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: cycleman on 22 December, 2023, 07:12:56 pm
Christmas shopping in tescos this afternoon a intsermentel  version again  :)
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Pingu on 22 December, 2023, 07:46:45 pm
Quote from: Pingu on 22 December, 2023, 06:31:18 pm
We'd better be careful watching C4 News then.

Mrs P didn't get the memo  ::-)
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 22 December, 2023, 08:25:33 pm
Quote from: mattc on 22 December, 2023, 06:57:29 pm
Quote from: MattH on 22 December, 2023, 01:46:21 pm
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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I thought this year was supposed to be Pogue-mas?
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 22 December, 2023, 08:27:25 pm
I haven't been to Sainsbury's. Instead I went to Lidl, which a) is next to a train station, 2) is cheaper, iii) was not crowded, D) does not play tunes. Still in, despite two pub visits in one week (which is about equal to my total for the rest of the year).
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 22 December, 2023, 08:28:13 pm
By the way, I've been informed that the Younger Generation play Mariah Carey-pocalypse instead.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: cygnet on 24 December, 2023, 05:16:43 pm
Dammit!
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: MattH on 25 December, 2023, 10:38:00 am
Success!
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: PaulF on 25 December, 2023, 10:47:17 am
What do I win?
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: MattH on 25 December, 2023, 11:00:02 am
Well, for me, it was MrsH not insisting on putting on a Christmas playlist when we had my eldest over for our normal Christmas-eve lunch yesterday. That's a big enough win for me!
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 December, 2023, 11:40:13 am
Quote from: PaulF on 25 December, 2023, 10:47:17 am
What do I win?

A night out with Andrew Ridgeley.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Basil on 25 December, 2023, 11:43:46 am
^  ;D
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Afasoas on 25 December, 2023, 02:10:59 pm
Also survived completely "unwhamed".
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: barakta on 25 December, 2023, 04:39:52 pm
Quote from: Feanor on 22 December, 2023, 07:02:05 pm
Does it count if it was apparently played when a group of you were in the room, but you are too deaf to have heard it (or indeed any of the music that was apparently playing) yourself?

I don't think I've ever been whammed - cos I probably didn't hear it </deaf card>
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 December, 2023, 04:51:49 pm
I still haven’t heard it, despite listening carefully on the very few occasions I might have encountered it.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: Kim on 25 December, 2023, 05:02:56 pm
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 22 December, 2023, 08:28:13 pm
By the way, I've been informed that the Younger Generation play Mariah Carey-pocalypse instead.

I'm sure it used to be Fairytale of New York that we were supposed to avoid.  (Which is good advice generally, as it often functions as an excuse for rowdy homophobia.)  Hence the term 'Pogue-rolling'.

Avoiding Mariah Carey is a whole other level, on account of her ability to cut through crowd noise with superhuman warbling.
Title: Re: Whamageddon 2023
Post by: MattH on 25 December, 2023, 11:03:00 pm
Quote from: Kim on 25 December, 2023, 05:02:56 pm
Avoiding Mariah Carey is a whole other level, on account of her ability to cut through crowd noise with superhuman warbling.

"All I want for Christmas, is " the ability to hold a note whilst singing.