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Post by everso on Jan 8, 2009 16:05:44 GMT
I may have mentioned this before, but the reason I listen to Radio 4 in the morning is because they don't play music. If I listen to music first thing I get an "earworm" for the rest of the day, which drives me mad.
Unfortunately, I made the mistake of buying the twins a DVD at Christmas - "Winnie The Pooh" - and it's the new favourite thing. It's almost like it's on a loop tape and they are never satisfied unless it's playing in the background. Being their Nanna I naturally let them have pretty much what they want but this damn DVD is doing my head in. The music ("winnie the pooh, winnie the pooh, tubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff, etc.") is now deeply ingrained in my brain and I find myself singing it all the time.
What can I do? Time was when an earworm could be scourged from the memory simply by running through a few bars of "Rio" by Duran Duran, but even this doesn't seem to have any effect.
Does anybody have any ideas? Please don't tell me to confiscate the DVD. The moment "The End" appears on the screen, Beth and Dan start up with "Bear, bear, bear", meaning "put it on again Nanna". What else can I do?
>waits for Patrick to suggest it's time to contact the chimney sweep<
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Post by riotgrrl on Jan 8, 2009 16:33:57 GMT
Everso
The trick is to wear your iPod at all times other than while travelling and to listen to music at all times when you're not doing something else.
I have so many songs in my head all the time that no single one takes over.
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Post by Patrick on Jan 8, 2009 17:56:21 GMT
>waits for Patrick to suggest it's time to contact the chimney sweep< I hear the West Coast Mainline need some small drain cleaners! ;D Oddly enough, I used to find the cure for getting a song out of ones head was to play it. That usually helps if you've thought of it yourself of course. Not exactly the problem here. Hmmmmm. Try this...............
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Post by everso on Jan 8, 2009 22:58:44 GMT
>waits for Patrick to suggest it's time to contact the chimney sweep< I hear the West Coast Mainline need some small drain cleaners! ;D Oddly enough, I used to find the cure for getting a song out of ones head was to play it. That usually helps if you've thought of it yourself of course. Not exactly the problem here. Hmmmmm. Try this............... There is no way that bloke is playing the concertina for real. I have fond memories of that song! Believe it or not. We'd just moved house and our kids were toddlers. Ahhhhh.
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Post by trubble on Jan 8, 2009 23:12:20 GMT
I have fond memories too. We have a stuck-up-their-own-behinds aunt and uncle. They left their little brat in our company for the weekend while they swanned off somewhere posh and we taught the little angel that song. The following week my aunt was round our house crying and wailing that she'd had to smack her child or something equally nasty for being the rudest child on the planet because when told to eat her dinner by her mum she had said 'shut up your face'. How we laughed.
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Post by trubble on Jan 8, 2009 23:13:59 GMT
I always heard tell that you have to pass the song on to get rid of...by whistling or humming it when some unsuspecting stranger passes by, the worm jumps into their ear and out of yours.
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