Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness

"Last Christmas" is the official UK Christmas number one!

(Only four decades late, but better that than ending up in second place again. I guess Sam Ryder made a good-natured joke about always coming in second but, dude, I think Wham notoriously was stymied in second place before you were born. And they didn't even get to host Eurovision the next year anyway, heh.)

After my multi-year campaign to redeem "Last Christmas," I could not be happier with this birthday present.

(But the t-shirt I got from diffrentcolours, which he picked in the brightest color available (orange) and which has a dumbbell on it and says "chonk & stronk," is my second-best birthday present.)

May this be the death of the mean-spirited, boring, arguably-queerphobic #whamageddon!

This year we got rid of "those sausage roll bastards" (as Lee Chaos called Ladbaby on the Doof last night) and "Last Christmas" being what feels like the first "proper" Christmas number one in many years fits right in with that. Because, as Lee pointed out, you never actually hear any of those Ladbaby songs played. No one likes them as songs. Their job isn't to be good songs. Finally we have a good song again, that people are demonstrably actually listening to.

Enough of this shit -- and I include both whamageddon and Ladbaby-type gimmicks in that. Things are shit enough, let's actually try and let's actually get to enjoy things.

This is, after all, a song about improving on the past!

Fuck whamageddon, let's just never speak of it again.