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out yesterday. Playing in the background of a work call, of all things. Should be a disciplinary, frankly.


 
Posted : 18/12/2020 9:35 am
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I was out 5 days ago. As I feared it was the radio at work, I was sat in the staff room telling one of the staff about whamageddon, it was the next song that came on. I made her spray tea everywhere when I shouted ****!


 
Posted : 18/12/2020 9:43 am
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I don't think I've ever made it this far before!


 
Posted : 18/12/2020 9:45 am
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Surprisingly I'm still in, even after putting the local radio station on for a bit yesterday.

Helped mostly by listening to podcasts in the car and not going shopping.


 
Posted : 18/12/2020 9:45 am
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I'm still in. I'm wfh 3 days a week so no danger there. Main danger is that I'm working part time as a supermarket delivery driver. In a different van every shift and the radio is left on, and also have to walk through the store at the start of every shift.


 
Posted : 18/12/2020 9:48 am
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My most imminent threat is next doors builders radio....

So far, so good..


 
Posted : 18/12/2020 10:11 am
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I thought I'd lost it, but turns out it was just a cover. Live to fight another day.


 
Posted : 18/12/2020 10:34 am
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Bloody TOTP2 has done for me this year. Wasn't even watching it, just flicking through the channels, but half a second was enough!
Note to self - must check Radio Times (BBC) and TV Times (ITV) in future for possible danger.
Hah, remember those days?🙄🤔


 
Posted : 18/12/2020 10:40 am
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NOOOOOOoooooo should of known it would happen, come to see my parents for two weeks over Christmas and mum listens to smooth radio and I've just been hit! *falls down as if struck by death*


 
Posted : 18/12/2020 12:04 pm
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I was whambushed by a colleague in a Christmas Zoom call last night.


 
Posted : 18/12/2020 12:08 pm
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I'm still alive. I'm usually out immediately but I'm sitting in a huge, empty office while everyone else 'works' from home.

6 music on the radio and I'm going home in a hour. I think I'm safe now unless I get stung by the telly at home. Although, I might have to visit a supermarket at some point.


 
Posted : 18/12/2020 12:18 pm
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‘Whambushed’

****in brilliant


 
Posted : 18/12/2020 12:34 pm
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Damn it, I'm out! Whambushed by a colleague putting Christmas radio on! How dare she! That's the furthest I've ever got though...


 
Posted : 18/12/2020 12:40 pm
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Still in thanks to a Whamageddon tip off by the DJ on local radio. Is that cheating?


 
Posted : 18/12/2020 3:46 pm
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Whammed at 2.45pm. Local hardware store. I only went in to pay for a Christmas Tree. Fair enough, I s’pose.


 
Posted : 18/12/2020 4:34 pm
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DO NOT, repeat DO NOT, listen to @nedboulting playing his recorder.


 
Posted : 18/12/2020 6:00 pm
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Still in. Radio 3 is serving me well...


 
Posted : 18/12/2020 6:08 pm
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effortlessly in. Unless completing lyrics in a work quiz counts. Once bitten, but twice shy, I keep my distance...

(Hearing it playing in your head doesn't count either, does it?)


 
Posted : 18/12/2020 7:41 pm
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put myself out last night - daughter was wrapping presents and moaning she didn't have any christmas music

A deep, cold, cold fear gripped me as I uttered the phrase "Alexa - play some christmas music"

bitch !


 
Posted : 18/12/2020 7:49 pm
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Still in. Radio 3 is serving me well…

It's a little oasis isn't it?

“Alexa – play some christmas music”

Well I guess that's what passes for a traditional Christmas these days.


 
Posted : 18/12/2020 9:28 pm
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I'm still in, well past my previous best of 14th so any extra day is a bonus.


 
Posted : 18/12/2020 11:03 pm
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Still in. Made it to Christmas Eve last year before a lift with a friend, radio on... whammed.

I'm living dangerously with MsBeej and her morning crappy radio station though.


 
Posted : 18/12/2020 11:12 pm
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I scored an own goal last Sunday. Putting up the Christmas tree with the kids I put on a Spotify Christmas mix. Guess what the second song was 🤦‍♂️


 
Posted : 19/12/2020 9:43 am
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So far all good here. Should be easy this year no parties and many shops not playing music.


 
Posted : 19/12/2020 10:29 am
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I'm out ffs. Walked into store this morning to start my shift and boom, first thing I heard!


 
Posted : 19/12/2020 10:51 am
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Listening to Planet Rock. Crappy Ozzy ballad comes on. Ms Beej says "hey, we could put on R2 and laugh at Rylan". I say "Ah, but he might be playing Christmas songs". Agree to live dangerously.

Turn over at 15.07.

Boom.

And now he's gone and apologised to anyone playing Whamageddon!


 
Posted : 19/12/2020 4:14 pm
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I don't go shopping. I don't have to listen to music at work. The only radio station I listen to when I can't Spotify is Absolute Rock. So unless it plays whilst I watch rugby on the telly (I hit mute whenever adverts come on.) I'll be good til the end.


 
Posted : 19/12/2020 5:11 pm
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I'm out.

Mrs_oab switched the radio on in the car....halfway through the wrong song.


 
Posted : 19/12/2020 5:40 pm
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So I knew I was quite safe given my social and listening activities. Popped out for a short evening ride and got Whammed by the Round Table Santa float. Bugger.


 
Posted : 20/12/2020 9:50 pm
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My daughter keeps putting Heart radio on in the car when I see her but so far I have managed to avoid getting whamkered.... I bet I'll get hit when I see her on Wednesday


 
Posted : 20/12/2020 10:03 pm
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Still in, Pretty sure I’ve not made it this far before. Thought I was done for when I heard the opening bars but Mrs Sims was listening to a version in French, so all good.


 
Posted : 20/12/2020 10:07 pm
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I got Whammageddoned by the bloody Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh this evening, bah.


 
Posted : 20/12/2020 10:56 pm
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Whammed at 2.45pm. Local hardware store. I only went in to pay for a Christmas Tree. Fair enough, I s’pose.


 
Posted : 20/12/2020 11:21 pm
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Actually despite singing it to myself. I AM STILL in!


 
Posted : 20/12/2020 11:22 pm
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FFS - league of their own Xmas special...


 
Posted : 22/12/2020 9:19 pm
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A little over 24 hours to go and I’m still in.


 
Posted : 23/12/2020 12:02 am
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I'm still in!


 
Posted : 23/12/2020 1:24 am
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Had a lucky escape today. It was going to be the next song on the radio when I parked to do a food shop. Thankfully at 6am there was no queue to get into Tesco's car park


 
Posted : 23/12/2020 1:27 am
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Yeah I was so close the other day with a similar thing I was in the car with the wife who tried to turn it back to sing along. That wasn’t happening.


 
Posted : 23/12/2020 1:54 am
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Still going...even the junior Fazzinis haven't Whammed me 🤣


 
Posted : 23/12/2020 7:23 am
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I’m still in, never started out to avoid but as more days past I realised I was doing well, and become an active avoider 😂


 
Posted : 23/12/2020 7:31 am
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Not sure where I got 24 hours from. 😂

Anyway close call jumping in the car to charge it and the DJ announces that it had just played.


 
Posted : 23/12/2020 8:29 am
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Still in!


 
Posted : 23/12/2020 9:34 am
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I heard it at Carrow Road on Saturday. I don’t care though as I really like the song AND the video*, so there!

*It reminds me of happy Christmases long ago. Hurrah for Wham!


 
Posted : 23/12/2020 9:42 am
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God WHAM it! 10.30 this morning. Start the engine and before I can even press the CD button I hear the ominous line "once bitten, twice shy..." emanating from the car stereo. I'm out


 
Posted : 23/12/2020 5:31 pm
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