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Yeah, fuck people for living abroad and wanting to come home for Christmas. They should walk if they're that bothered.

That's the thing, I could actually take the "Hallelujah" track last year because - whether you approved of it as a fan of Real Proper Music or not - at least they were doing something with the song that was different to the Cohen/Buckley interpretations, had a vaguely seasonal feel to it, etc. Whereas not only is "The Climb" effectively a karaoke version using near enough the same backing track as was in the charts just a few months earlier, but the production on it is exceptionally cheap even by X Factor standards; the sheer amount of autotune on Average Joe's vocals almost lapses into parody. You can't imagine they ran short of cash for studio time so he could do a second or third vocal take - and the lad can obviously hold a tune under normal circumstances, after all - so it's all quite puzzling. I think ultimately, the whole X Factor thing felt particularly half-arsed this year - "chuck anything out there and they'll lap it up" - so it's appropriate that this is the year the project got a bloody nose. Of course it won't change a jot in the grand scheme of things and it'll be normal service next year, but hey, it's been good for a Yuletide giggle.

Seen that for Finns with the bottom line as "Finland wins the Eurovision Song Contest". A nation's humourists went into mourning after Lordi's victory.

For any chart geeks out there, here's how the battles for Christmas #1 have shaped up over recent years:

Also said that Joe will go on to sell more albums than Rage have ever done. And I used to think he didn't have a sense of humour.

"I ♥ facebook like you ♥ cock"

There is a tangible difference though, surely? OK, RATM wouldn't have got to #1 without the story being ultimately picked up by the mainstream media, but even if you take the rest of the tale as being identical, I still see it as a healthy sign that a mass brainwashing campaign can originate from somewhere that isn't the inside of Simon Cowell's mind. As for sales figures, Joe's single shifted about 110k less than Alexandra's last year - so no, in other words.

At the very least. And/or before depending when people are out and about.

Fuck's sake. Friends were meant to be arriving for the weekend tonight but all three EasyJet flights from Schönefeld to Gatwick have been scrapped because we are shit at weather.

I don't think you've thought that through Watford's full of fucking puffs as I'd expected (no offence Martin ) some of them are justifying not getting in their cars to drive 3 miles to the office on the grounds that it must be bad because GMTV used Watford as it's 'outside snow broadcast' this morning..... A friend of mine on Facebook posted something about how we should respect her husband and his colleagues for working all night to keep Stansted open. Just after posting about how she's staying home from work all day because she can't walk on snowy pavements.

McElderberry's only 9,000 behind now, anyway, with tomorrow's uninspired Christmas shoppers still to come. Game over.

There were less coloured buttons involved in that one though. And probably a whole lot more "How you doin'?", "Could this game be any dumber?" and "Oh. My. God".

The only thing more annoying than that is the assumption that everyone who buys the RATM song has exactly the same agenda.

He makes a lot more people happier than your average charity worker has ever managed. </stir>

Which led me quite neatly to this: http://velvetcoalmine.wordpress.com/2009/1...s-the-x-factor/

She can't be racist. One of her best friends is Alexandra Burke. Aye, but just wait till she's a toilet attendant in two years' time.

3 strikes? Is that how many times she hit that "black bitch" of a toilet attendant?

Whoa there tiger. Someone's been listening to a bit too much angsty teen rock this morning!

I just love the idea that this is apparently David vs. Goliath but with the grassroots Facebook campaign as Goliath.

C4 Teletext was great for a while mind, with Digitiser and all.

Aye, he knows how to push people's buttons - it's what his entire career is based on. That said, I'm not saying the Cowell machine is ready to jump the shark just yet, but I do wonder if he's in the process of crossing a line here - there comes a point where playing the pantomime villain and the wounded victim won't wash even with the ditziest of spoonfed ITV viewers. The less said about Cheryl Cole and her attempts to win over the BRITTUN IS BEST plebs with her "campaign by an American band" comment, the better...

Hurrah and huzzah!

This is the sheer chaos as viewed from my window just now: .....uh-huh. Some friends are arriving into Gatwick tonight; what odds the place being crippled anyway?

Do amazon downloads definitely count towards the charts? They do. The 29p ones are something of a loss leader for them, but they definitely count.