Whamageddon 2022 - Wham! Harder

[Self Saboteur]

Last Christmas I gave you my heart
But the very next day you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special

If I read this in George Michaels voice does that count?

 

[Tulpa Girl]

Last Christmas I gave you my heart
But the very next day you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special

Covers don't count! No matter how good your singing voice is!

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Covers don't count! No matter how good your singing voice is!

Thank you for your confidence in my singing ability!

 

[Mankcam]

Jeeezuzzz!!!
I was going okay until yesterday, turned on the car radio and suddenly got WHAMMED !!!
The original version was playing, no remixes, not even a Buble cover, it was bloody WHAM in all their glory, I was totally shot down
It's only early December and I'm already out !!!

 

[Stumpydave]

For the last two years I've not made it past 3 days. Managing a week is a sign of 80s pop avoiding prowess.

 

[gruagach]

 

[Voros]

Doing good so far! Have to do some Xmas shopping though so we'll see how it goes.

 

[bleys21]

Must stay inside, turn off all random audio devices, stay away from internet video sources...

 

[PolarBlues]

A cautionary tale...

"Last Christmas I posted a link to the Last Christmas video
But the very next day I got banned from the forum
This year, to save me from tears
I'll refrain from posting links to the Last Christmas video."

 

[soltakss]

I got done at Harrod's this year, still better than last year's 1st of December.

 

[JAMUMU]

Whamageddon: DJ sorry for playing Last Christmas by Wham!

Matt Facer apologises for potentially eliminating 7,000 from a game in which players avoid the song.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[PolarBlues]

Whamageddon: DJ sorry for playing Last Christmas by Wham!

Matt Facer apologises for potentially eliminating 7,000 from a game in which players avoid the song.

www.bbc.co.uk

Wow, that's impressive.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Whamageddon: DJ sorry for playing Last Christmas by Wham!

Matt Facer apologises for potentially eliminating 7,000 from a game in which players avoid the song.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Self Saboteur]

Just got whammed at the christkindel market

 

[Fenris-77]

Man down! Man down! The very last truck in our Santa Claus parade this weekend was playing the song that shall not be named.

 

[gruagach]

So far, my hermitish nature keeps me away from public spaces where I might get randomly sniped by the song.

 

[Lofgeornost]

So far, my hermitish nature keeps me away from public spaces where I might get randomly sniped by the song.

Ditto. It also helps to be impervious to musak, which I often am. My wife told me she had heard the song somewhere in the last week or two while shopping; maybe I did as well, but it didn't register.

 

[3rik]

So far, my hermitish nature keeps me away from public spaces where I might get randomly sniped by the song.

Same here. It's usually either the radio at my work or the muzak at the supermarket that does me in. As I'm currently on sick leave I'm probably still safe for the next couple of days.

 

[gruagach]

I work from home, and during a good chunk of the day have the ol' homestead to myself. And neither my spouse nor the spawn who live with us are into WHAM!. So, quite safe.

I do all the marketing (groceries, sundries, etc) for the household, so I'm out and about, but so far haven't heard it playing over any store audio systems...yet.

And I am not oblivious, especially not this time of year. I hate that retail stores start blaring out Christmas music around 1 November, and so the music is on my conscious mind whenever I'm in a store.

 

[Acmegamer]

Ditto. It also helps to be impervious to musak, which I often am. My wife told me she had heard the song somewhere in the last week or two while shopping; maybe I did as well, but it didn't register.

Yup, my wife does most of the shopping and I don't go out much during the holidays as it is. The only way I could get stung is if the radio in the parrots room were to be playing it as I came in to feed them or play around with them. I could happen but the odds are good that I'll get by without getting Whammed.

 

[Tulpa Girl]

 

[Kilted Rob]

Walking into work and going by the History teacher's room. The bastard had this blaring at full volume. Which covered up the wave of profanity thst erupted.

 

[thebigh]

Bah! Got slammed at the supermarket. Damn.

 

[Simon Hogwood]

DJ forced to apologise after playing Last Christmas by Wham! at football stadium

Potential 7,000 people have been knocked out of Whamageddon game

www.independent.co.uk

 

[bleys21]

I mean, I'm totally going to jinx it by saying this, but folks here have been dropping like flies, and I'm still alive!

 

[thebigh]

And on a vaguely related note, when did "Keeping the Dream Alive" become a Christmas song? Not that I'm complaining- those harmonies are super crisp- but the lyrics don't seem at all Christmasy to me. Yet after not encountering the song at all for at least 20 years I've heard it mixed in with carols and stuff four times this year already.

 

[3rik]

I mean, I'm totally going to jinx it by saying this, but folks here have been dropping like flies, and I'm still alive!

Shit, you beat me to it. We indeed seem to be dropping like flies at the moment.

 

[PolarBlues]

Shit, you beat me to it. We indeed seem to be dropping like flies at the moment.

It's called Wham-AGEDDON not Wham-MILDLYTHREATENING for a reason.

 

[3rik]

It's called Wham-AGEDDON not Wham-MILDLYTHREATENING for a reason.

Might I suggest everybody call in sick and stay at home till New Year's Eve?

 

[PolarBlues]

Might I suggest everybody call in sick and stay at home till New Year's Eve?

I've heard worse plans.

 

[Rich H]

I mostly work from home and we don't really do Christmas at all apart from visiting family on the 25th and 26th so I'm pretty confident of avoiding the god awful song and others like it.

 

[Lofgeornost]

I do all the marketing (groceries, sundries, etc) for the household, so I'm out and about, but so far haven't heard it playing over any store audio systems...yet.

And I am not oblivious, especially not this time of year. I hate that retail stores start blaring out Christmas music around 1 November, and so the music is on my conscious mind whenever I'm in a store.

I tend to notice Muzak when it's either a song I like, or one I despise. So when Christmas-themed Muzak assails me with any rendition of "Santa Baby" I'm quite aware of it. My reaction to "Last Christmas" is more 'meh' so I'm less likely to notice it.

 

[Tulpa Girl]

A moment of panic today during my lunch break, until I realized it was a cover version that was being played.

 

[gruagach]

 

[Andrew J. Luther]

I was worried when I was in line at security at the Orlando airport this morning, as they were playing a string of Christmas songs and it’s not like I could go anywhere else.

But luck was with me and it didn’t come on during the 30-odd minutes I was stuck there.

I’m still alive, baby.

 

[Tulpa Girl]

 

[Voros]

I'm out. Heard it at my wife's staff holiday party.

 

[Godfather Punk]

I’m still alive, baby.

 

[3rik]

I start working again on Sunday evening ... Bear with me, guys.

 

[Acmegamer]

I'm out. Heard it at my wife's staff holiday party.

Oh man, you fell for the slippery office party maneuver! My wife asked me if I wanted to go to hers and I just looked at her. She likes to check in with me on those sort of things occasionally. heh.