Rage Against the Machine for Christmas Number one
So, I'm guessing most of you know about this but I just wanted to make sure.

As X Factor finished last night ready to create the Christmas number one there is a counter movement to get Rage Against the Machine's Killing In The Name as Christmas number one.
The band are giving all profits to Shelter.

Now this is the important bit. For your purchase to count you need to buy it from somewhere selling it for over 40p.

Come on guys, we need to keep the insipid arse water that is X Factor off the number one spot by a song with the chorus of 'Fuck you I won't do what you tell me'.

At the time of writing it has just slipped to number two in the iTunes chart.

Go one, you know you want to.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Mon 14 Dec 2009, 19:49, 98 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

That's worth buying just for the title!
I'll download it now.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 19:50, Reply)

Ha ha!
Already done. Hope it gets to number 1.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 19:57, Reply)

Does anyone over the age of 15 give a toss what happens in the charts?
So what if xfactor is number 1? This whole rage for number one thing is the lamest protest ever - and I'm a long time fan of Rage.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 20:00, Reply)

But it means they'll
have to play it on the radio!
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Mon 14 Dec 2009, 20:02, Reply)

So why not listen to one of the rock stations on Digital that play it all the time?
ADDED BONUS: No X-Factor Goblins.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 20:11, Reply)

Agreed.
For some reason only the rock stations work on our dab, no matter how much the x-factor loving nurses fiddle with it. Can't quite think why.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 20:54, Reply)

Hehe you're sneaky - I like it!
Does anyone really care what gets to number 1 for Christmas anyway!? I can't remember the last time I looked at the music charts...
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:05, Reply)

I think the last time I looked at the charts was when the chart show was still going. Even then I only watched it once a month when they showed the indie chart
Edit: If I'm going to be cleaning up bum gravy from an incontinent dog for most of the day, then I'll damn well listen to music that'll make me not want to strangle someone ,)
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:10, Reply)

Ah, I remember The Chart Show! :D
I remember sitting on the floor in my bedroom with my sister taping the music charts on cassette whilst being really quiet so our voices wern't recorded in the background... ah memories!

Edit: Ewwww yeah, you should be allowed to listen to what you want!!
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:13, Reply)

I remember doing that for the radio on a Sunday night and pressing pause so I didn't get the annoying dj's voices ruining it
We had video pretty early on and I had a constant supply of blank video tapes that I used to record them all.

OOoooh, cool beastie on BBC1 right now
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:18, Reply)

Hehe are you watching Life?
They look like Gollum/Bats! :S
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:22, Reply)

Yeah, I've missed the rest of the series so I'll have to look around for it. I'm a total Attenborouth fangirl

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:30, Reply)

The dude with the big eyes?
He rocks!
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:22, Reply)

Yup, I still love that THX youtube video :)

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:30, Reply)

RING TAIL LEMUR ALERT!!
Best of all the Madagascarn primates!
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:26, Reply)

Erm!
Aren't you two in the same room?
( girlinthehole, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:27, Reply)

Sort of
I'm on the computer at the desk and DiT is wandering around with his iPhone... ah the magic of interwebs!
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:31, Reply)

Is this the new alternative to talking to each other?
If so, it seems like a good alternative. I wouldn't want to talk to DiT if I could help it.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:32, Reply)

Something like that
Although he gets double trouble from me. I annoy him via the internet and by shouting at him in the house - he's a lucky man! :D
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:33, Reply)

It's not as if I listen to you, darling wife of mine.

( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:35, Reply)

*belms*

(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:37, Reply)

Hmm, to pity him or not?
Gonna go with probably not.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:35, Reply)

Mwuhahahaha

(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:36, Reply)

It's like you're turning the world against him.
Seems to be going pretty well.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:37, Reply)

It's hard to turn against him
Step one is meeting him
Step two is him opening his mouth
Step three is when he makes you do a flesh newtons cradle
(Bazongaloid, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:43, Reply)

I saw the picture.
I couldn't un-see the picture :(
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:44, Reply)

Are you facebook friends with DiT?

(Bazongaloid, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:47, Reply)

Nope
But I am with that JSBX.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:48, Reply)

I see

(Bazongaloid, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:48, Reply)

Indeed
I never bothered friending DiT for some reason.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:49, Reply)

Probably because I haven't got boobs.

( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:51, Reply)

You should fuck him up good and proper for that.

(Bazongaloid, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:52, Reply)

Please don't
I think it would make me do a sad :(
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:55, Reply)

There
Happy now?
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:54, Reply)

Me too.
and it has been noted!
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:51, Reply)

Aww
Do you want me as a friend DiT? Would it help you feel loved?
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:51, Reply)

The only way I can feel loved is when I feel the gentle thwap of another mans testes against my own.

( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:52, Reply)

BANG
and the friendship's gone!
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:53, Reply)

It's for the best I'm afraid, they'll only find you, friend you and write lots of shit on your wall.

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:54, Reply)

Did you just defriend me for that?
Hang on, now I understand why.

*slow*
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 22:01, Reply)

What were you doing at the party?
You wrongun
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:45, Reply)

It was your husbands idea
Honest
(Bazongaloid, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:47, Reply)

Yeah yeah
that's what they all say... then comes the crying and the fear and the hospital trip.
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:50, Reply)

Whipps cross, 24 Dec 05, around 2:30am, were you there too?

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:55, Reply)

HEY!

( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:35, Reply)

WHITE KNIGHTS...nah can't be arsed, you're a big boy now

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:39, Reply)

yeah he is.

(Bazongaloid, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:43, Reply)

Oo er missus!

( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:46, Reply)

Aww
Are you feeling ignored and unloved?
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:40, Reply)

I am rather, yes.
If only I was a girl! Then blaireau could defend me with his witty repartee and incredibly clever and well punctuated defences. Online.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:44, Reply)

Maybe if you had pert breasts then you would be more loved
Or at least pandered to and faux stood-up-for.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:45, Reply)

If you were a girl
I would have to bully you.

AWWWWW LOOK AT THE CHIMPANZEES!
(Bazongaloid, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:46, Reply)

Here's lookin' at you babe!
Awwwww, they are really cute.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:47, Reply)

Your sentence. It makes none of the sense dear boy.

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:46, Reply)

It's his damn iPhone typing.

(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:48, Reply)

Deepest apologies.
Flim is hogging the computer so I am stuck on iPhone!
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:49, Reply)

You don't want to stand for that
tell her to get back in the kitchen and do the washing up.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:52, Reply)

MY COMPUTER!
I'm using it because all the stomping/dancing on Saturday made a sword fall on the charger cable for the MacBook and now it won't charge so I'm getting reacquainted with the Mac.
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:52, Reply)

I shoudn't laugh because I love you, but
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA APPLE FAIL.

take it to an apple shop and they'll fix it really fast I'm told
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:57, Reply)

They'll probably just throw a new one at you
They do like throwing things.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:58, Reply)

APPLE FAIL INDEED
I think we just need to buy a new charger for the MacBook and we'll be fine and dandy... in the meantime using the Mac has given me an opportunity to muck around with Photoshop, so its all gooooooda! :D
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:59, Reply)

Awesomesauce
One of these days I'll gain the patience to learn how to photoshop thing well. Until then I'll just keep using paint and the absolute basics of photoshop
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 22:01, Reply)

It is fun
once you get you grips with it! There is still a lot I can't do with it but I'm learning! Hehe
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Mon 14 Dec 2009, 22:07, Reply)

The best thing's
Just to get thrown in and have to do stuff. Then you just have to learn it.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 22:09, Reply)

That's just it, I'll never have to do stuff with it, I just like playing with it every now and then

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 22:23, Reply)

I'll never need to be /board good at it, but it would be nice to be able to use more of it than crop and change colour sometimes.
I find that I learn something new and cool on it one day and by the next time I go to use it again - usually several months later, I've completely forgotten, so have to relearn it again. :)
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 22:22, Reply)

It's the future of the DiT/Flim flam marriage. She's my wife now.

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:31, Reply)

I am, I am
Would you like some pegs Dave? I've got some pegs here!
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:32, Reply)

MOAR PEGS WIFELET

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:34, Reply)

Huzah
Ma wife broke your toilet Dave, but I fixed it
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:36, Reply)

I fixed it with pegs and lots of sticky brown tape. The tape hides my poos

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:37, Reply)

Woo
for poo!
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:41, Reply)

Poo
the best of all waste material to be extruded from the body (I am aware it is not technically an excretion)
(Bazongaloid, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:49, Reply)

Dunno, we call it excretion at work, as in faecal matter has been excreted via the rectum or orally in some cases.
extruded I know not.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:58, Reply)

It's not true excreta
as it is simply stuff passing through the body from one end to the other as opposed to a waste product produced in the body and then excreted, which urine or sweat is.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 22:18, Reply)

But then how do you account for haemorrhagic diarrhoea?

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 22:20, Reply)

Missing the irony, no?
So, sticking it to 'the man' by buying a song that's published by Sony Epic.

And you're proudly stating that the chorus of said major-label (isn't Sony the same label that X Factor winners are on?) song is "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me", when someone has in fact told you to buy it.

Go you!
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 20:04, Reply)

^Verrrry much this.

( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 20:12, Reply)

Should we not choose a totally arbitrary song?
Like Happy Birthday Sweet 16 (which should be the national anthem of 4chan?)
( Maladicta, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 20:08, Reply)

But it's a pointless protest.
It doesn't matter if it's 'Song A' or 'Song B' - no-one has to *like* whatever turgid nonsense that the X-Factor turns out, but a lot of people do. And the people that do tend to be...? The people who dictate the charts - i.e. teenage girls who like teenage boys singing teenage type songs.

Which leaves those of us who have grown up to listen to what we like, without caring about what's in the charts.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 20:14, Reply)

For all the difference it'll make you do have a fair point.
I've long since learned those of us who don't give a shit about X Factor, Strictly etc are very much in the minority and looked at funny by those who do. I stopped caring about the charts in about 2002, partly because I was too old and partly because the kind of music I loathe became prevalent about then.
( Maladicta, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 20:19, Reply)

A couple of points
1) I hate x-factor.

2) The Rage group has lots of members.

3) I really, reaaaaaally hope that Lady Gaga swoops in for a surprise number 1. That'd show them all.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:23, Reply)

Member
sniggers
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:31, Reply)

Correction: lots of members
Just the way you like it.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:33, Reply)

I like Lady Gaga
even though she is a mental... I like her music! :D
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:35, Reply)

She is a proper mental
She can sing good though.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:36, Reply)

I hold her responsible for my resurrection on Saturday night. If it wasn't for poker face, I might have been sitting on the floor eating water biscuits for a lot longer

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:38, Reply)

Hehe
That was my doing - you're welcome! :D
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:41, Reply)

Cheers love :) Was better than being at Al's crotch level for sho!

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:41, Reply)

Sounds like you gals have been having quite the run up to Christmas
Whereas I'm still finishing off work for a large, reasonably smelly man. Bring on the holidays!
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Mon 14 Dec 2009, 21:43, Reply)

A few points
1. I didn't buy it to stick it to the man I bought it because I think it will be funny.
2.
3. Profit
( Peej, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 9:07, Reply)

The problem is,
everyone is going to buy it too early, it'll peak too early, drop down the charts and X Factor will jump in after it has peaked and get the Xmas No.1.

Instead of RAtM, they should've got everyone to download Slade's Xmas song, or maybe Wizzard so we can have a proper Xmas number 1.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 10:50, Reply)

Errr....
...the bit about it having to cost more than 40p is slightly wrong.

It's the seller who has to buy it for at least 40p, not the public buying it.

If Amazon/Tesco/HMV/Whoever, want's to see it at a loss, then they are welcome to, and their sales are still included in the official charts just so long as they themselves paid 40p or more for it.
(dchurch bah, Tue 15 Dec 2009, 11:11, Reply)