Employees of a U.K. Burger King will hear Toto’s “Africa” 108 times today

"KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time" (kngt) 08/09/2018 at 12:22 • Filed to: Keep oppo Africa, shitpost, shitposting

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A U.K. Burger King location will continuously bless the rains down in Africa today as it plays Toto’s earworm “Africa” through its speakers on constant loop. All day. Seriously.

The Camden Town Burger King will play the 1982 epic as the result of a Twitter contest; B.K. tweeted that it would play the song on loop if the tweet received more than 1,000 retweets. It ended up with 6,600 and counting.

AestheticsInMotion > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/09/2018 at 12:24

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That sounds miserable 

facw > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/09/2018 at 12:26

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I think I could do it, and still keep my sanity... It’s a catch enough tune, but also one that fades into the background pretty easily.  

E90M3 > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/09/2018 at 12:26

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Well, we know where Blue Mazda 2 went. 

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > AestheticsInMotion 08/09/2018 at 12:26

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It could be worse. 10 hours of the intro and the song never starts. You keep waiting..and waiting..and waiting

LOREM IPSUM > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/09/2018 at 12:27

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What is the equivalent to WorkSafe/OSHA over there? Whomever they are, this is almost cause for filing a complaint as it no doubt will create unsafe conditions for employees and guests alike.

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > facw 08/09/2018 at 12:32

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There should be a 10 hour version on Yotube somewhere that you can test yourself on. But the real test is, can you do all day of Nyancat and keep your sanity ?

InFierority Complex > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/09/2018 at 12:32

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Ash78, voting early and often > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/09/2018 at 12:34

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As a former fast food employee who had to hear 15-song loops, a single-song loop (even if it’s a good song) is horrible.

In my case, I know stuff like “Islands in the Stream” and the Wings classic “Listen to what the man said” backwards and forwards. And Jimmy Buffet’s “Come Monday.”

Almost 25 years have passed and I still can’t shake them. Yet for some reason I can’t remember anything else they played.

WilliamsSW > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/09/2018 at 12:34

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BlueMazdaTwo would approve.

CalzoneGolem > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/09/2018 at 12:36

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A couple lifetimes ago, w hen I worked at Taco Bell, every shift we’d hear Drift Away and I grew to hate that song. I imagine by the third replay I’d be ready to stab someone with something not very sharp.

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > CalzoneGolem 08/09/2018 at 12:38

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This is also the reason why you never ever keep any song that you might even remotely like,  as a morning alarm on your phone

facw > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/09/2018 at 12:38

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I’m giving it a go:

Deal Killer - Powered by Focus > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/09/2018 at 12:38

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Yeah, I’d give up after about two hours.

Spanfeller is a twat > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/09/2018 at 12:38

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Real test: do it at 0.5 speed

ttyymmnn > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/09/2018 at 12:39

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What a great way to encourage a workplace shooting. Aside from the shitty food, yet another reason to stay away from Burger King.

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > ttyymmnn 08/09/2018 at 12:40

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Hah! Joke’s on you! This is the UK, there will be no workplace shooting.

There will be a stabbing, though .

facw > Ash78, voting early and often 08/09/2018 at 12:41

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I work for a retail company, and I feel so bad for our store people around the holiday season when they have all those holiday songs on repeat.

For our regular music, we did move from crappy covers to actual real music by the original artists a couple years  ago and the brick and motor employees considered it just about the best thing ever.

E90M3 > CalzoneGolem 08/09/2018 at 12:42

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Or you embrace it and sing along EVERY SINGLE TIME. 

Ash78, voting early and often > facw 08/09/2018 at 12:51

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I used to work in a cube at an ad agency right across from our sound engineer. When he’d be working on the winter campaigns, it would often be very, very loud renditions of the same old stuff...but just the first 10-15 seconds. HUNDREDS of times in a row.

He was an old hippie type and I asked him how he tolerated it. He just smiled and I knew.

KevlarRx7 > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/09/2018 at 12:52

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Everyone is too stoned in Camden to care! 

Just Jeepin' > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/09/2018 at 12:54

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That would absolutely cause workplace violence.

Your boy, BJR > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/09/2018 at 12:56

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That’s genuinely awful. This meme has gone too far.

Mid Engine > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/09/2018 at 13:07

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This version could work

user314 > ttyymmnn 08/09/2018 at 13:14

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Well, it’s the UK, so it’ll be a workplace aciding, but same general idea.

Chariotoflove > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/09/2018 at 13:14

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We are members of the Dallas Zoo for the last 10 years. Every single time we visit, the entrance is playing the same jingle on the loud speakers. Every single time. Over the last 10 years.

I have often wondered how none of the employees sitting in the booths underneath those speakers have gone nuts and initiated a massive catastrophe.  My theory is they give them free soft drinks and put thorazine in them.

CalzoneGolem > E90M3 08/09/2018 at 13:26

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No, no I’d definitely get stabby.

CalzoneGolem > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/09/2018 at 13:26

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I learned this the hard way and ruined one of my favorite CDs one summer.

facw > Mid Engine 08/09/2018 at 14:04

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I think that version would be harder. Sure it’s a good cover, but I think it would be a lot more difficult to tune out.

user314 > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/09/2018 at 14:08

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Some jackass of a DJ once left MC Hammer’s “ Pumps and a Bump ” playing on the college station (which was pi ped into the cafeteria where I worked ) for 25-30 minutes, and I was ready to take an ax to the speakers. Much as I like Toto, the thought of ‘Africa’ on a continuous loop terrifies me.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/09/2018 at 18:02

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Just throw this version in there once every hour or so and it would look like the church scene from Kingsma n.

bubblestheturtle > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/09/2018 at 18:51

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Actually would not bother me. Working at a low end job like this would however.

ranwhenparked > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/09/2018 at 19:46

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And maybe a very spirited argument, interspersed with impolite  words.

ranwhenparked > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/09/2018 at 19:49

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This sounds worse than the grocery store I worked at in high school, which only had 4-5 Christmas songs on a continuous loop all season. Wonderful Christmast ime came up about every 10 minutes or so. And it kept playing even during the overnight stock shift when the store was closed, until one night when someone jimmied the lock to the computer room and shut it off.

GLiddy > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/10/2018 at 10:46

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Maybe they could mix it up a bit with Weezer’s cover:

Then again, I don’t know if I’d know the difference. Weezer covers it pretty much note by note.

sdwarf36 > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/11/2018 at 11:10

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Here-I’ll help save you.