GTPlanet vs. Wham! - Round 3 (Endorsed by George Michael!*)

[Boffin]

Add my name too please!

I played last year although I didn't sign up. I was really pissed off with my friend as he started typing the lyrics through facebook not knowing I was trying to avoid it. Now looking at the rules again it seems like I won last year as I was actively listening and didn't hear the actual audio anywhere.

Guess it isn't played as much in Australia as it is in America.

 

[Liquid]

It's played by far in Europe, thanks to Wham! being a famous British band and that song being one of the annoyingly most popular songs in British supermarkets at this time.

But I've already been Whammed! thanks to QI, so I now have no fears, and will continute listening to symphonic metal as loud as I want, as I usually do in the car.

 

[250 GTO]

So far I've been whammed 15 times this season... Yesterday alone I was hit three times - It's dangerous to change the channel on the radio this time of year!

 

[Steele_obsidion]

AGAIN! im on wham number 4. this time it was an internet radio station. i just cant win.

 

[nealcropper]

Survived another day.


Don't ask me how, I have no idea.

Real radio seems to be safe lately. We have had it on all day, and I could hear it, they didn't play it, maybe they played it when I was on a break.

Tomorrow I endure another day.

 

[photonrider]

So far I've been whammed 15 times this season... Yesterday alone I was hit three times - It's dangerous to change the channel on the radio this time of year!

Changing channels is a NO-NO.

The only time you are safe is pre-set channels that you know are not going to wham you. The virus spreads like lightning if given a chance. One copy at any Radio Station is enough - doesn't matter if it's covered in dust and deep in the archives . . . some DJ will be down there searching for it - and when it first appears in the hands of this person as he proudly shows it off in the Station cafeteria . . . that's when the hysteria sets in. It will eat its way into every program that Station plays - even if it's Professor Foonbong giving a speech on the filamentary habits of Spyrogyra.

Actually . . . shopping malls are the most dangerous place. They'll wham you from all sides without a single 'Thank you, Ma'am' before you realise that you've whammed, bammed, and slammed into the brain-dead shopping zombieism that makes you know you're never going to beat Last Christmas.

 

[axletramp]

So the answer is: Don't go shopping for presents this Christmas. What would you rather deal with: angry relatives or losing this challenge? Yep, thought so.

 

[m8h3r]

Changing channels is a NO-NO.

The only time you are safe is pre-set channels that you know are not going to wham you. The virus spreads like lightning if given a chance. One copy at any Radio Station is enough - doesn't matter if it's covered in dust and deep in the archives . . . some DJ will be down there searching for it - and when it first appears in the hands of this person as he proudly shows it off in the Station cafeteria . . . that's when the hysteria sets in. It will eat its way into every program that Station plays - even if it's Professor Foonbong giving a speech on the filamentary habits of Spyrogyra.

Actually . . . shopping malls are the most dangerous place. They'll wham you from all sides without a single 'Thank you, Ma'am' before you realise that you've whammed, bammed, and slammed into the brain-dead shopping zombieism that makes you know you're never going to beat Last Christmas.

That's why I not only have all my Christmas shopping done, but did it all online. No shopping centres for me.

 

[Monatsende]

Whammed - damn TV-show trailer on RTL (German Television) - I´m out!
Only about 5 seconds of refrain but I guess that counts as "WHAMMED!"

 

[E28]

I find avoiding social contact, not going out, watching only Dave or Dave ja vu and muting the adverts, browsing the internet and playing games you know do not contain Wham are all safe things.

Remember, when playing online mute all other players. You wouldn't want to get Whammed by a madman would you?

 

[m8h3r]

I find avoiding social contact, not going out, watching only Dave or Dave ja vu and muting the adverts, browsing the internet and playing games you know do not contain Wham are all safe things.

Remember, when playing online mute all other players. You wouldn't want to get Whammed by a madman would you?

Good idea, Last Christmas wasn't made by the time the program's on dave were produced.

 

[Dooblewasur]

T f n

 

[dudeondacouch]

I found this thread from the funny pics thread LITERALLY 5 minutes ago.

Didn't know what the song was, so I listened to about half the yootoob link, while I had the TV paused. (DVR, and all. )

I stopped and figured there would be no way I'd remember this well enough to keep track, and went back to my program. First commercial break... Wham!

WTF?

 

[Dooblewasur]

T f n

 

[Crash]

Haven't been Whamed yet, though I have gone to the shops a few times. I'm not worried about getting Whamed either.

Christmas is near! I can taste it!

 

[ghskilla]

I've spent the past five minutes on Pandora doing Wham! Roulette on radio stations such as "80's Christmas" and "Wham!" and the general "Christmas" radio, and still no Last Christmas in sight. Trying to shoot myself in the foot, yet I keep missing. Meanwhile, some people are getting Whammed daily! I'm never going to lose!

Jinx.

 

[Northstar]

Well, it's only a matter of time now as the covers have started looping at my work(Heard one version 4 times in 8 hours). That is how it started last year, I might as well commit Wham!icide and get it over with.


...I think I will wait though.

 

[boiltheocean]

Put me down, I've played the last few years. Won in 2010 and lost in 2011, this year I'm in with a good chance of winning again!

 

[Deko Wolf-GTPT]

I've survived that shopping trip yesterday. But strangely enough, I've been hearing a lot of covers and remix versions. While the original, still remains away from my hears...this is making me paranoid...I would just rather listen to the original and get it over with!

Also, we've been receiving a lot of new participants. However, I'm affraid your entries aren't valid.

I'll cut off all sign-ups at December 1st. Make sure you've posted here before that and you can stay in.

We have people playing this since mid-November. Far longer than most of you guys. So, it wouldn't be fair.

 

[Watchman]

 

 

[The Bman]

Going out to lunch and going to some stores a bit later. Wish me luck, which considering the luck I have, will not have any effect.

Speaking of bad luck, I NEVER heard this song before I signed up for this last year. Then of course, it starts playing everywhere.

 

[David]

I don't care what that song is, there is no way I am clicking that link. Lol.

This is a safe zone. I know the rules haha. The song I posted is a crappy Paul Mccartney Christmas song.

 

[Nero9]

Yesterday during a commercial break I was browsing the TV channels as Last Christmas was on 4Music. Thank goodness the TV was muted.

 

[bluemoon_19]

I said I wasn't playing but since my name is on the entry list I might as well play and post an update. Haven't heard it yet but its only a matter of time as the Christmas songs have started on the radio wasn't to bad today just a fairytale of new york got played.

 

[Katiegan]

I had a close call this morning. Real Radio have been playing Christmas songs, and my dad knows about me avoiding Wham!, and kindly changed the station in the car to Radio 1 ready for when I get in. Both my parents know - I was a bit weary of telling them at first but they're helping me avoid it! Driving to school, Nick Grimshaw says he's going to play a Christmas song. Yesterday he played Mariah Carey, and I was skeptical as to what he was going to play today. We'd stopped off at the Post Office, my mum went inside, I sat in the car. My fingers were hovering over the radio buttons, I was ready to change to any station - Radio 2, Capital FM, anything other than Radio 1. But Radio 2 has been playing Christmas songs too, and what if Capital has joined in? I hovered some more. Perhaps Nick would be nice and announce the song he was going to play, and if he did utter the words Wham I would be able to quickly press the button for another station before I heard the song.

However, it was only The Pogues. I was safe.

But then I had another close call at school. Lots of forms are doing sales for charity, it's a challenge all forms have been set and my form isn't really doing anything. We get given £1 and we have to make as much money as possible out of it. We gave our £1 to a Year 9 who made an 80p loss by spending it on food for himself and came back with 20p for the form. My friend's form were selling hot chocolate, and she wanted us to go. But they were playing... Christmas music. I said to her, "I can't go. I don't like hot chocolate and they're playing Christmas music!" in which she replied, "It's on a very low volume, so you won't hear it much."
"But if I hear Last Christmas by Wham!, I'm screwed!"
"Oh, don't worry, that's not on the playlist."

We didn't end up going for the hot chocolate anyway.

 

[The Bman]

Survived 4 and a half hours going out. Had to cover my ears when I was in several stores in case that the radio played 'it' (they didn't play 'it', thank goodness).

 

[Jimlaad43]

Luckily the radio station I listen to is only playing Mariah Carey and Michael Buble . Still to hear Wham! luckily.
Great news is that my Christmas compilation album contains a fully instrumental cover version of this song.
YES.
Just have to hope Mr Boombox isn't in town.

 

[TheBook]

Went to the mall yesterday.
Didn't get Whammed.
[/success kid]

 

[bluemoon_19]

Noooo!! Got whammed at work today. The radio station so far this week has only played about 5 Christmas songs and they had to chose that crap.

 

[Deko Wolf-GTPT]

Day 19....

The fear of wham has grown considerably since I first started.

So far, I've had a near miss with a song very similar to the wham. It turned me and my wife against each other, only for her to be taken away from me when I wasn't looking.

Then, two weeks later, I'm hit hard by a disco/dance remix. Casualties...1 food plate.

I set my target of survival for December 1st. Now, that day is long gone, and I regret not being taken along my dear wife.
Others have begun to fall really quickly. Some got whamed when they were surrounded by friends and families...poor things, at least they went together...even when alone, wham still got to them...it even turned best friends into the worst enemies...

Our latest casualty was bluemoon_19...poor fella. I barely knew him. He thought the odds were on his favor as his source of entertainment at work was being kind to him...but he was wrong, and got whamed on the face when he least expected!

Now, they are just a bunch of wham zombies trying to get the last few of use. We are few, but united. We WILL survive!