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Bill FJ Quinn

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Early-retired layabout. Drifting around Australia since 2013, but dropped anchor on the eastern seaboard. ✍️🎙️🦘🐨 No DMs pls. 🙅🚫 www.OverheardProductions.com

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Bill FJ Quinn @billfjquinn.bsky.social · Nov 19

My article for next edition of Trad And Now magazine.

Eulogy for Frank Hodges who died on Sunday 17 November 2024.

#Bicton #Perth #Freo #WA #Australia #Yorkshire #radio #liveoriginalmusic

www.overheardproductions.com/2024/11/19/vale-frank-hodges-late-of-bicton-radio-fremantle-and-york-minster/

Valé Frank Hodges, late of Bicton, Radio Fremantle, and York Minster

“I’ll see you when I’m looking at you.”

www.overheardproductions.com

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Bill FJ Quinn @billfjquinn.bsky.social · 9h

Ooh, you're not going to like my country.

Redheads routinely called 'Blue', for example.

Bill FJ Quinn @billfjquinn.bsky.social · 1d

"... and kids, that's how I met your grandfather."

Bill FJ Quinn @billfjquinn.bsky.social · 1d

Almost 40yrs ago, I worked early mornings in a newsagency before my office job.

If there was a royal on the cover of the women's weekly/monthly magazines, we'd sell out. If no royal, we'd have overs to return.

Saddened my little socialist heart every time.

Bill FJ Quinn @billfjquinn.bsky.social · 2d

A hill I'm quite prepared to die on: there's a special place in hell for people who take medium to large wheelie bags on airplanes as hand luggage.

A cabin attendant told me a while back the airlines were going to crack down on this arsehole behaviour. Hasn't happened.

Just don't.

a man wearing a louis vuitton sweatshirt is walking with a suitcase

Alt: A man wearing a Louis Vuitton sweatshirt is walking with a suitcase.

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Bill FJ Quinn @billfjquinn.bsky.social · 3d

Just over 12 years car-free for me. I've never sat down to work out the savings, but they'd be astronomical. Especially given my penchant for owning money-hungry lemons before selling my last horseless carriage for scrap.

And as you say, the less stress part is invaluable.

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Bill FJ Quinn @billfjquinn.bsky.social · 3d

Albeit a decade or two after its first run.

Bill FJ Quinn @billfjquinn.bsky.social · 3d

Um...

scrump
noun
ˈskrəmp, -u̇-
plural-s
dialectal, England
: something that is shriveled or cooked to a crisp

Bill FJ Quinn @billfjquinn.bsky.social · 5d

Reading this gave me indigestion and diabetes.

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Bill FJ Quinn @billfjquinn.bsky.social · 5d

It's tomorrow here today, and hearing that the Orange Cheeto Arse Clown didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize and that someone very worthy and worthwhile did - that'll cheer me no end today, tomorrow, and the next days.

Bill FJ Quinn @billfjquinn.bsky.social · 5d

If you can access it, there's a New Zealand and Australian show called Guy Montgomery's Guy-Mont Spelling Bee.

Four seasons (two filmed on either side of the Tasman Sea) of silliness with trademark Antipodean humour.

Bill FJ Quinn @billfjquinn.bsky.social · 5d

The whole franchise is unadulterated bullshit.

I've heard that real forensic types watch it like they would a sitcom, dissolving into uncontrolled laughter at the scenarios and pseudo-science.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 6d

Imagine being mad you didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize while you’re busy stirring up Civil War in your own country.

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Bill FJ Quinn @billfjquinn.bsky.social · 5d

Me too, though I get a similar charge from depositing them once read in a street/little library where they can go on to new readers.

(I get grief from other bibliophiles for not keeping books.)

Writers festival in my current city in two weeks, so I'll temporarily have a stack to read and release.

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lynnechester cathedral 🎶🗽 @lynnh1.bsky.social · 7d

If they want English Only for the Super Bowl halftime show, let’s just have
Morgan Freeman read the
Epstein files aloud.

😉🏈

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Bill FJ Quinn @billfjquinn.bsky.social · 6d

On topic, So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright. I welcomed the evolution of the skip button for that one.

More generally, Lost In The Supermarket by The Clash. One of the most un-Clashiest Clash tracks. #WhatWereTheyThinking?

Bill FJ Quinn @billfjquinn.bsky.social · 7d

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Bill FJ Quinn @billfjquinn.bsky.social · 7d

Jesus wept, you people don't deserve out precious oxygen.

Look up what 'sport' means and then leave it alone and take up tiddly-winks.

See, outside of the US, we appreciate the game, applaud good play by either side, and don't have a toddler tantrum and leave if our side is losing. Generally.

Bill FJ Quinn @billfjquinn.bsky.social · 7d

If you 'hate' any sporting team, you should a) look up the meaning of the word 'sport', then b) dry your $&!§ing eyes, and finally c) give up sport, and take up knitting.

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Bill FJ Quinn @billfjquinn.bsky.social · 7d

Walked past Belconnen's infamous Penis Owl last week for the first time in many years.

I have, however, been wearing the socks for the last year.

Belconnen's Penis Owl. A statue that (in)advertently resembles a large phallus on the slump.

Bill FJ Quinn @billfjquinn.bsky.social · 8d

Agreed, but to trundle out the old cliché, he's very much the lesser of two weevils. 🤷

Bill FJ Quinn @billfjquinn.bsky.social · 8d

Vive le difference, but I tried them once 37 years ago (a la mode vous avez écrivez) and they looked, felt, and tasted like snot to me.

Glad for you to like them so I don't have to. 😁

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Denise Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 8d

So - let me get this straight…

They’ll ban social media for under 16s even though most experts say it WON’T work

But they won’t ban gambling advertising & other key recommendations even though most experts say it WILL work

What? #4corners #auspol

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Bill FJ Quinn @billfjquinn.bsky.social · 9d

Says the fake pic and made-up name guy.

Tell it to the mirror, Nigel.

Bill FJ Quinn @billfjquinn.bsky.social · 9d

Statement of fact, anonymous made-up name man.

Maybe you'll see one eventually.

Bill FJ Quinn @billfjquinn.bsky.social · 9d

No, not at all. I'm just stopping unwanted traffic coming my way. That's all.

I once mentioned something once here about those places people go to exercise, and for months after, I was getting post after post of mûßçlé bois flexing their abs and pecs.

If you're reading more into it, I can't help.