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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not me, but back in the 70s my older cousins took their three little kids to see Grizzly, thinking it was a Gentle Ben Disney type of movie. When the camper's severed arm landed in the middle of the campground they all knew it wasn't.

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thanks! I had heard of that also satisfying story - in fact I was reminded of it, though I couldn't recall the details or the jerk's name, when reading about this case in India - but it's worth revisiting when you want a bit of justice finally served.

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What a story! For the reasons given it took way too long to put an end to his crimes but those women finally got to deliver him a fitting comeuppance if ever I heard of one. And it was great how they all stuck together like Spartacusses. I didn't know about this incident so thanks for the link.

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm reading a biography of writer Elspeth Huxley and at one point before WW2 she is studying in New York and working part time as a waitress and it says she was earning $3.50 an hour, which seemed like a good wage and not that much less than what some earn now and this was like 80 or 90 years ago

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

She was terrific wasn't she. That bit where she is told X is dead and misunderstands who is being referred to and how she initially reacts sticks in my memory.

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes it's an excellent movie, along with Maurice, Howards End etc - all those period pieces from that era. Another good one, though sad, is the film of Waugh's A Handful of Dust. Having said that, as romantic as the kiss is, had I been Helena I'd have been fluttering my eyes at that Italian coachman

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As others have said, there's nothing mind boggling about it. I loved the 'big American road trip' me and friends did 20+ years ago but you couldn't pay me to visit the USA these days and no-one I know has any interest in travelling there. Beyond all else they've chucked tourists in ICE prisons FFS!

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Their version is great but this one from the Australian TV show Rockwiz is pretty good too. The show featured many terrific performances from local and o/s artists. Big praise for Like a Rolling Stone, Heart of Gold, Drove Old Dixie Down and many more. Lots on youtub www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIdp...

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Troy Cassar-Daly & Ella Hooper - Islands In The Stream

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Blood Surf (2000). Has surfing, sharks and a gigantic salt-water crocodile rampaging around and eating everyone.

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's quite old and I don't know where it might be streaming or available but every kid I knew, and the adults too, loved the movie The Indian in the Cupboard.

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I sometimes look back on the 'olden days' when you were travelling and met up with and travelled around with other travellers and then, when it came to a parting of the ways, you'd give them your parents' address back home as it was the only constant in your young person's life.

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The length from the inside of your elbow to your wrist is the same as the length of your foot.

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

All yours did better than mine: Ganges Plain kid who died of dysentery at two months.

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Ganges Plain, 1915 BCE, a bloke whose life expectancy was 27 and who most likely died of typhoid fever or dysentery, with a 51% chance of that happening before the age of 15. Makes my current life look positively rosy.

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I read a lot of those posts and liked the ones where I liked your song choices. It's also why I followed you. But to be contrary, I think Luxury Liner is one of Emmylou's best: When I Stop Dreaming with Dolly, Hello Stranger with Nicolette Larson, Tulsa Queen, She, and of course Pancho and Lefty.

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm Australian but did it just to see and it appears that in a previous life I lived in Rhode Island. And there I was thinking I'd been an Egyptian princess.

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Songs like Gulf Coast Highway don't work nearly as well if the lyric goes 'He worked the oil rigs in the Gulf of America ...' Nah, doesn't work at all.

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I only found out recently, from listening to PG Wodehouse audio books, that 'valet' is pronounced with a hard T at the end. I always said it in a 'French' kind of way.

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Thank you - it looks like fun. It's lucky I'm a country fan - so many place names in country songs!

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I remember Arizona from when I was a kid. It was a hit here in Australia and I liked it way back when. This is your thing, but for B, Boulder to Birmingham would doubly fit the bill!

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

No wonder Hegseth's worried about his warriors getting fat.

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Johnny Cash Rosanne Cash Emmylou Harris The Pretenders Split Enz Midnight Oil The Pogues, with Joe Strummer and Kirsty MacColl Elvis Costello and T-Bone Burnett Linda Ronstadt Bette Midler

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

An oil company sends an employee to a remote village to negotiate a deal.

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Jolene would lock the doors of the bargain store and put up a closed sign every time she saw Dolly approaching.

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

What's the Bette Davis quote after some Hollywood mogul died? Something like 'They say you should only speak good of the dead. He's dead. Good'.

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Kill Tim Faust 💀 @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/08/2026

my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Yes it's nauseating seeing praise for Dolly coming from people who act completely the opposite to her when it comes to how you should treat others. She kept out of politics but did a lovely version of Woody Guthrie's Deportees. The person you're talking about likely hates that song.

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I hope that just maybe Dolly's passing will shine a light, in a way no speech could, on exactly what you're saying. The difference between her and 'them' is so stark, and them praising her so hypocritical given what they do to others, kids included, that they'll be seen for the cruel ghouls they are

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dollywood was one of the highlights of my American road trip 25+ years ago. It and the Carter Family Fold and Burning Man and Al Green's church: a musically eclectic journey! The Grass is Blue had just been released and I bought the CD at Dollywood. It and Trio will be getting some spins today.

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I loved a book called The Wild White Stallion. It was just kicking around at home and I re-read it many times and because of it I visited the Camargue region of France many many years later. Also liked a series set on Romney Marsh but haven't made it there yet.

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Good chance that he left the salads and vegetables. All the little desserts would be gone though.

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Good news but it's only 4:15 PM here in Australia! Ah well, I guess I can always have an afternoon nap.

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I saw a before and after photo and yep, all the detail is gone along with the beauty of the weathering over the years. Now all the 'life's' gone and they look like they came out of some cheap tacky mold. Artistically criminal as well as probably illegal in all sorts of other ways.

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I need to track down the latest couple of series but I love the episode where Colin goes to confront the troll he's having an online fight with and it turns out to be a literal troll that lives under a bridge. Very very funny show, as is the original movie. 'We're werewolves, not swearwolves.'

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Very enjoyable article and I'm glad you found your way to good country music like Guy Clark. I think my 33 and 1/3 would be on an Emmylou Harris album, with me tossing up between Luxury Liner or Wrecking Ball and probably opting for the latter because it was so different for her and country overall.

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

On an unrelated and more personal note Mrs Bowers, are you sorry that a certain website closed down today after 30+ years? I know I am. You may not know what I'm talking about, which might be a good thing, but I somehow suspect you will.

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Got 785 for my first time - I really need to look at more maps of South America but I did land just 40 kms from Haarlan in the Netherlands.

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It's years since I saw it so I'm not sure how well it fits your criteria but I'll put in a vote for Sexy Beast as it's so good and Ben Kingsley is terrifying in it - even his old friends/cronies are scared of him.

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Another 70's selection with I Did What I Did for Maria. What did he do? Well whatever it was, he did it for Maria

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

And another good one is Louise, written by Paul Siebel and recorded by Linda Ronstadt and Bonnie Raitt among others.

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Blood Red and Goin' Down, recorded back in the 70s by a teenage Tanya Tucker. A Southern Gothic short story in three and a half minutes.

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Me too, most of the time. I like looking at the Departure boards at big airports like Doha or Istanbul: so many exotic sounding places: Timbuctoo, Mombasa, Mandalay etc.

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Reminds me of when a friend, quite a big bloke, went off a diving board at a pool. He ran along the length, did a big bounce and ... shot nearly half the length of an Olympic-sized pool. It was 30 years ago and the look of surprised fear on his face as he flew through the air still makes me laugh

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Was it the South Park film? Anyway, we're never going to agree so we should put it to rest. I think the red card was valid and you don't. And both our teams are out now anyway. I don't really want any of the four left to win though I guess I'd rather France or Spain than England or Argentina.

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rohrhide.bsky.social @rohrhide.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

No, I don't, but the rest of his statement sounds supportive and there was no ambiguity about the other two's posts. There's no real 'proper channels' to follow. He got given a red, maybe fair, maybe not, but you wear it and bitch about it for years and let 'we was robbed' become part of your story

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