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I usually do quite well being a bit of a holiday grump and having some hearing loss. Consider yourselves challenged.
The Little Drummer Boy Challenge, styled LDBC, is an informal internet competition in the United States to avoid hearing any version of the song "The Little Drummer Boy" for the duration of the Christmas and holiday season shopping period beginning at 12:01 am on the day after Thanksgiving known as Black Friday, and extending until December 24, Christmas Eve.[1][/url] [url= ][2] Versions of the game have reportedly been around since as early as the 2000 holiday season, with variations including competitive elements and alternative starting and ending dates. The game has been placed in a genre referred to by one writer as "tests of obliviousness."
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Conceivably I could succeed at this. The big risk factor for me is the grocery store. But I am not going there today, so game on!
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I've already lost..... Christmas music started yesterday in the showroom..... Christmas in Killarney playing as I type..... Heard Drummer boy yesterday... 2 or 3 different versions....
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You corpse-of-a-haggis-strangled-by-a-whale-penis!!!! I have avoided this monstrosity thus far but It's almost a dead cert to be playing the next time I go into a store......
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lumberjim wrote:
I've already lost..... Christmas music started yesterday in the showroom..... Christmas in Killarney playing as I type..... Heard Drummer boy yesterday... 2 or 3 different versions....
Thoughts and prayers for your sanity.
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Here in the UK we play Whamageddon. There's some xmas toon by wham that you have to not have heard by 25th December. I win all the time because I work from home!
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Controlling your environment is crucial!
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Come they told me
Pa rum pum pum pumA new born king to see
Pa rum pum pum pumOur finest gifts we bring
Pa rum pum pum pumTo lay before the king
Pa rum pum pum pum,
Rum pum pum pum,
Rum pum pum pum
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TLDB is one of my favorite Christmas songs, almost who ever sings it.
You guys avoid it if you must, means more for me!
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**marked safe form Drummer Boy Doom and Whamageddon so far......**
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It might (or might not) help if you think of it at a fart porn song. Cum they told me ...parumph........
I'll get my coat
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Also safe.
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I lost the game, I heard the Little Drummer Boy at 11:10 CST two days ago and I was too broken up to say anything.
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thoughts and prayers, Fargon
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So much carnage!
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Those of us who are still uninfected should form a cult that expressly forbids any interaction or commerce with those filthy exposed creatures.
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no earplugs though. .....or vaccines.... They're just tunes...............
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Earplugs are dependent on orthodoxy.
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Clodfobble wrote:
Those of us who are still uninfected should form a cult that expressly forbids any interaction or commerce with those filthy exposed creatures.
Musicians are zombies?
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griff wrote:
Earplugs are dependent on orthodoxy.
I think that's only if you have an iphone?
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Marked unsafe at 2:25pm 12/23/2022. A bitter pill to swallow.
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STILL SAFE!
I did play Christmas music while putting the tree up today (yes, I'm weird). I took deliberate action to ensure this track -which is usually on the list but I tolerate it -was not going to happen.
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Having made it all the way to Christmas Eve, and not planning to leave the house until the 26th at the earliest, I will now make the rashly overconfident declaration that I will not be contaminated by The Song this year.