Not necessarily sucky just...wha?

[greek_jester]

If you have an iPod, get an iPod-> car audio device. Plug into cigarette lighter. Set it to a particular station. Boom

At the moment I'm saving up to replace the car stereo (would you believe they don't do repairs any more? One perfectly good radio/CD system in the bin because of one frigging part) after, of course, family Christmas presents, so I can't justify spending out on something I'll only use until I've got the model I want (which includes a plug for MP3 players).

[fireheart]

This is when I bemoan the fact that the anti-shock has gone on my car CD player, so I'm not going to be able to blast my highly seasonal AC/DC, Queen and The Jam

If you have an iPod, get an iPod-> car audio device. Plug into cigarette lighter. Set it to a particular station. Boom

[sms001]

I just love the contrast to all the smaltzy crap

Ah. That I can totally understand.

[greek_jester]

Awesome tune, but a smile? It's such a sad song. I almost always tear up at "and kept 'em with my own..."

I don't tend to have much sympathy for drunken emoting (bad family history), and coming off of belting out:

You're a bum
You're a punk
You're an old slut on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
You scumbag, you maggot
You cheap lousy faggot
Happy Christmas you arse
I pray God it's our last

it's hard to bring the mood back down into empathy. I just love the contrast to all the smaltzy crap that pollutes the airwaves at this time of year. This is when I bemoan the fact that the anti-shock has gone on my car CD player, so I'm not going to be able to blast my highly seasonal AC/DC, Queen and The Jam At least my home stereo is still working so I can dress the tree to the traditional Headbanger's Bible...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Headbangers-...dbangers+bible

[sms001]

"Fairytale of New York" by the Pogues,

Awesome tune, but a smile? It's such a sad song. I almost always tear up at "and kept 'em with my own..."

[greek_jester]

There is one, and only one, Xmas song that I will listen to at any time of the year, on repeat, with a smile on my face.

"Fairytale of New York" by the Pogues, featuring the late Kirsty MacColl

http://www.pogues.com/Releases/Lyric...Fairytale.html

Imagine howling that out at top volume along with the radio as the partner of the firm decides to wander into your office... then imagine the partner grinning and joining in with the last chorus!

[dalesys]

... done in a country and western style. Very. Very. Badly.

The ships were licking the pictsies to offset the taste in their ears...

Winter Wonderland, New York Stylee

[fireheart]

And Christmas music has hit a new low....

Browsing in yon Kmart last night and I heard "silent night" (or at least I think it was silent night) done in a country and western style. Very. Very. Badly.

[wolfie]

My bad - been a while since I did any programming, and didn't use octal. Can't remember the prefix to show a number was Octal.

[dalesys]

... while "0x31" would be the day of the month on which Christmas falls.

The 49th? Hey guys, wolfie just gifted you with another 24 days of dealing with demented shoppers!

(now 31 octal...)

[wolfie]

Well I guess that when the 0x is dEAd, you have to cook you some bEEf...

The "0x" wasn't part of the "fill" value (a hexadecimal character is a 4-bit number, so it takes 8 of them to make up a 32 bit value, and you can't show "x" on a 7-segment display). In the C programming language, "0x" is a prefix to show that a number is in hexadecimal (without it, it's assumed to be decimal) - I just entered it out of habit, since "dEAdbEEf" is a valid hexadecimal value, but not decimal - without the prefix, it would be taken for a variable name). "31" would be the day of the month on which Halloween falls, while "0x31" would be the day of the month on which Christmas falls.

[Shalom]

I was in the Pursue bank the other day, and they already had the xmas music on the overhead. I asked as to the reason for this, and the teller said that there were only certain radio stations they were allowed to play, and that particular station had started the xmas music early. (When I worked for the Pharmacy Chain Named After Two Streets in Downtown Manhattan, they had a similar rule: seems they'd paid those stations enough that they were given an exclusive on pharmacy advertising. Wouldn't do to have someone shopping at the PCNATSiDM and hear an ad for the Chain of Verylarge Stores come on, would it. I wonder if Pursue has a similar deal.)

One of the advantages of working for a Hasidic-owned pharmacy is that I don't have to listen to xmas music. In fact I just bought a Hanukkah CD there.

I swear that my former place of employment and a $2 shop NOT affilitated with each other use the same soundtrack. I wandered in there today out of curiosity and BAM! They were playing the version of "Twelve days of Christmas" I used to hear all. the. time.

Probably bought the service from Muzak. I often had to call another pharmacy chain for a prescription transfer, and while on hold, heard the same music coming out of the phone as what was on my overhead speakers. (Sometimes with a half-second delay; this was before streaming audio via Internet was available, so the stuff was fed by satellite. Depending on how many jumps it had to make, you could get a bit of a lag.)

What's so special about it? It's also 0xdEAdbEEf (capitalization based on how hexadecimal is usually done on 7-segment displays).

Well I guess that when the 0x is dEAd, you have to cook you some bEEf...

[fireheart]

I swear that my former place of employment and a $2 shop NOT affilitated with each other use the same soundtrack. I wandered in there today out of curiosity and BAM! They were playing the version of "Twelve days of Christmas" I used to hear all. the. time.
I wanted to run

[Kogarashi]

I was in NYC over Halloween- While this pic was taken a few days after, I swear these decorations went up on Nov 1. WTF, Junior's?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31217544@N07/10974272215/

Good grief. Now I can kind of understand stores putting out their Christmas stock right after Halloween, so there's more time for people to purchase it. I really don't mind that part, that much.

But decorations? (And in many stores, the music.) Good grief.

[Amanita]

I was in NYC over Halloween- While this pic was taken a few days after, I swear these decorations went up on Nov 1. WTF, Junior's?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31217544@N07/10974272215/