GTPlanet vs. Wham - Thread of the Year!

[Aki Ko]

I for one want to see you win, especially since everyone is after you.

I was only after him for quick giggles at the start. He can win for all I care now.

 

[MrUnknown]

While on the other hand...


*Sees people with "Last Christmas" album*


... There are some people that reeeeeeaaally want him dead.


So...

... "Good night and good luck."

 

[Ken]

I was only after him for quick giggles at the start. He can win for all I care now.

Now where's your spirit?

 

[Driving Park]

Now, now. Every Christmas thread needs an Ebenezer.

 

[Aki Ko]

Now where's your spirit?

Lacking one at the moment

 

[Ken]

Lacking one at the moment

Well, that's no good. Maybe you need a good Whamming.

 

[Aki Ko]

Well, that's no good. Maybe you need a good Whamming.

I went to multiple stores today that played no Wham! music.

I am not scared of being Whammed.

 

[Driving Park]

I am not scared of being Whammed.

That's when you're the most vulnerable.

 

[Minty]

Looks like I'll be doing my Christmas shopping on Amazon this year. Count me in.

 

[ProjectWHaT]

There's a Christmas album ad on Spotify and I think Wham! is on it. Luckily I took my headphones out until the ad ended just in case.

 

[Robin]

I went to multiple stores today that played no Wham! music.

There are others?....It's an entire genre now?

Do we have to avoid their entire back catalogue?

Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!

 

[Epic B]

I went to multiple stores today that played no Wham! music.

I am not scared of being Whammed.

The Walmart that I go to has never played Last Christmas as long as I can remember. Though then again, my memory sucks. Selectively. Sometimes.

Wait, what were we talking about?

 

[Aki Ko]

There are others?....It's an entire genre now?

Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!

Loling.

The Walmart that I go to has never played Last Christmas as long as I can remember. Though then again, my memory sucks. Selectively. Sometimes.

Wait, what were we talking about?

All of the Wal-Marts I've been to play no music except for the sample CD things. 5 Wal-Marts...

 

[Dagger311]

My Wal Mart plays it every Christmas eve I can remember.

 

[FoolKiller]

It's a shame that some of you will ruin the best parts of the holiday season to try to win this.

 

[Robin]

The Walmart that I go to has never played Last Christmas as long as I can remember. Though then again, my memory sucks. Selectively. Sometimes.

Wait, what were we talking about?

Wal-Mart and George Michael don't get along... they were going to buy Snappy Snaps until he messed it all up.

Enemies ever since...

 

[Dagger311]

It's a shame that some of you will ruin the best parts of the holiday season to try to win this.

What do you mean, exactly?

 

[Aki Ko]

There's a Christmas album ad on Spotify and I think Wham! is on it. Luckily I took my headphones out until the ad ended just in case.

Spotify playlist to AVOID: Christmas Hits. The single version is there.

It's a shame that some of you will ruin the best parts of the holiday season to try to win this.

It's all in fun. What, to you, is the best part of the holiday?

 

[Dagger311]

It's all in fun. What, to you, is the best part of the holiday?

Why, it's of course the gifts!

Nah, the spending time with family and free BBs are cool.

 

[ProjectWHaT]

Spotify playlist to AVOID: Christmas Hits. The single version is there.

I only listen to my Monstercat playlist and the Chillstep playlist made by Spotify so I'm safe apart from the ads.

 

[Aki Ko]

I only listen to my Monstercat playlist and the Chillstep playlist made by Spotify so I'm safe apart from the ads.

Top Aki Top Tip: Never let a song on Spotify end to avoid the ads.

 

[Vitocorp]

I think I can make it, this song is rarely used here in Italy, but who knows...
Count me in

 

[Ken]

It's a shame that some of you will ruin the best parts of the holiday season to try to win this.

Bah humbug, my friend.

 

[Driving Park]

It's a shame that some of you will ruin the best parts of the holiday season to try to win this.

I don't not participate in anything I would participate in otherwise, if that's what you mean.

 

[SomePlayaDude]

While we already have people on the Whall of Shame, it's their sub objective to bring the players to join them before they reach the Whall of Fame.

Also, by chance any Wham plays on Doctor Who: The Snowmen?
Brothers are watching it now and no, they don't know.

 

[Epic B]

While we already have people on the Whall of Shame, it's their sub objective to bring the players to join them before they reach the Whall of Fame.

Also, by chance any Wham plays on Doctor Who: The Snowmen?
Brothers are watching it now and no, they don't know.

I don't think Wham plays in The Snowmen at all. But I don't remember. But for the upcoming Christmas special, I have no idea. After all, it is titled Last Christmas.

 

[Dagger311]

Good thing I hate Doctor Who.

 

[FoolKiller]

What do you mean, exactly?

Avoiding Music, general celebrations, etc. I have my plans ready to go. My holiday movie selection is organized and my laser light decoration is ordered, I've pulled out my egg nog recipe, and I'm pulling out all my heart-healthy holiday recipes.

It's all in fun. What, to you, is the best part of the holiday?

The movies. I love the old classics with Jimmy Stewart and Bing Crosby. I even pull out the obscure stuff like The Bells of St Mary's and The Shop Around the Corner (the original version of Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail).

Here is my collection.

I might be adding The Holiday because my wife wants it.

Pro tip: The Holiday is a great film for getting women in a "festive" mood. And it has Jack Black, so it is tolerable.

And I love my songs. Classics only for me, please. Burl Ives, Nat King Cole, Sinatra. I actually own the Christmas with Frank and Bing CD.

A little Royal Guardsmen don't hurt either.


I love that song, as it harkens back to the Christmas Truce of 1914. Nothing reflects the spirit of Christmas more than soldiers disobeying orders, calling an impromptu truce, burying their dead without fear of attack, and then sharing food, drinks and a few games of football.

We are actually getting Christmas cards made this year with the poem A Carol from Flanders

In Flanders on the Christmas morn
The trenched foemen lay,
the German and the Briton born,
And it was Christmas Day.

The red sun rose on fields accurst,
The gray fog fled away;
But neither cared to fire the first,
For it was Christmas Day!

They called from each to each across
The hideous disarray,
For terrible has been their loss:
"Oh, this is Christmas Day!"

Their rifles all they set aside,
One impulse to obey;
'Twas just the men on either side,
Just men — and Christmas Day.

They dug the graves for all their dead
And over them did pray:
And Englishmen and Germans said:
"How strange a Christmas Day!"

Between the trenches then they met,
Shook hands, and e'en did play
At games on which their hearts were set
On happy Christmas Day.

Not all the emperors and kings,
Financiers and they
Who rule us could prevent these things —
For it was Christmas Day.

Oh ye who read this truthful rime
From Flanders, kneel and say:
God speed the time when every day
Shall be as Christmas Day.

I love the last line. It is why I love Christmas. When you remove the commercialism it is the one day where we act like we always should. Unfortunately, I feel we are losing that, if it isn't lost already. Every schmuck and hack musician puts out a Christmas album and inevitably tries to create their own new hit. The only new artist Christmas album I bought was She and Him. They stick to the classics without changing it too much. Plus, Zooey Deschanel has an awesome voice.

Bah humbug, my friend.

I have four versions of your tale. They all end the same.

EDIT: Five versions. I forgot Mickey's Christmas Carol, aka the birth of Uncle Scrooge.

 

[Dagger311]

Avoiding Music, general celebrations, etc.

I personally don't do either of those. In fact, if I did, this would be an easy and boring challenge.

 

[FoolKiller]

I personally don't do either of those. In fact, if I did, this would be an easy and boring challenge.

Some are claiming to go out of their way to avoid holiday stuff to prevent hearing this song. Ironically, I'm a Christmas nut and have never heard it.