I Fucking Love the British
Dec. 20th, 2009 07:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
debithaThere is a long standing British tradition of the UK Christmas Number One. It is A Big Deal.
For the last four years running, it has been won by the winner of that year's X-Factor. This year someone decided they had had enough, and a grass-roots, no-budget campaign was launched to beat out this year's X-Factor winner with Rage Against the Machine's 'Killing In The Name'.
You know, this one:
It has just been announced that they have, in actual fact, won.
I am MADE OF GLEE!
For the last four years running, it has been won by the winner of that year's X-Factor. This year someone decided they had had enough, and a grass-roots, no-budget campaign was launched to beat out this year's X-Factor winner with Rage Against the Machine's 'Killing In The Name'.
You know, this one:
It has just been announced that they have, in actual fact, won.
I am MADE OF GLEE!
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Date: 2009-12-20 08:40 pm (UTC)That is beyond awesome!!
Shows that you don't always need money to make things happen. The person who started that campaign must be jumping up and down right now:D
BTW? Your icon? You win an internets cake!
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Date: 2009-12-21 07:15 pm (UTC)I feel kind of bad because I nicked it in my early days on LJ, before I knew about creditting, and now I have no idea who made it. But they are awesome, because sometimes a situation just calls for Vyvyan.
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Date: 2009-12-21 07:25 pm (UTC)*goes to google Vywyan* I have no idea who he is, but the haircut is amusing :) Icon itself is awesome and oh so appropriate :)
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Date: 2009-12-22 06:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-22 10:32 am (UTC)Thought it might have been 80s look. The haircut and clothes said it all :D
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Date: 2009-12-21 07:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-21 07:16 pm (UTC)FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME MERRY CHRISTMAS.
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Date: 2009-12-21 07:20 pm (UTC)All three are most amusing.
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Date: 2009-12-21 11:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-22 06:54 am (UTC)