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Poo to copyrights! We're not allowed to watch it over here, for some licensing-related reason which I don't fully understand (i.e. couldn't be arsed to read).
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I shall defiantly look up alternative JM snippets
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Now THIS is a cry song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6nfpxZ2Nz4
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Hmmm....I can't think of a Joni MItchell song that makes me cry. But speaking of the '70s, she did the decade very tastefully, I feel. ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyOUk1q12O0

My mom was big into Broadway musicals - I also listened to a lot of that because she had all the records. So I think Freddie Mercury just fit my idea of what a rock singer should really be - bigger than life, commanding, a presence. But I guess I only ever saw it as performance, like a Broadway showman. Not meaning that in a bad way! I admired it, he was fantastic, and the whole band was brilliant, so it was....maybe my young version of mom's beloved Broadway shows, lol.
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I'm sure there are lots of Australians on the forum so I'd better mind what I say. But you know how the seventies were the decade that taste forgot? Well, geographically...

I'm in two minds about whether to bother with Mamma Mia 2. What I liked most about the first one was how much fun the cast had with it and I don't think you can replicate that. On the other hand, this one does have an actual singer in it.

I was eleven when I first saw a picture of Freddie Mercury, may he rest in peace among the blessed. He was wearing a LOT of make up and had long purple fingernails; and even though we were all used to T Rex and David Bowie there was just something deeply, deeply disturbing about him. But I think probably gets my vote for most creative and inventive front man in rock; yes, even with David Bowie in the same paragraph.

I don't know about depressing but it has got me recalling songs that reliably make me cry - Joni Mitchell, j'accuse! Oh dear. Perhaps I had better dig out my cassette of ABBA Gold after all and get bopping.
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80 degrees sounds awesome. I swoon longingly for 80 degrees. It is fluctuating between 92 and 102 here. Yes, in Canada. It will probably go to 104-5 by the end of the month.

I think I went through a very brief ABBA phase around 1977? Like every kid was doing (I was 9? 8 maybe?).....but I'll be darned if I can remember anything from then! There was a movie that I recall being slightly insane about, but I don't remember it, either. The most ABBA I know now is probably from what I've heard in Australian movies, lol. They say the Aussies are the most fervent ABBA fans in the world! I wonder how that came about?

Right after ABBA came Queen, for me. I heard that big, loud, dramatic hard rock, and I knew I'd found my people. ;-) Queen to Journey, then the 80s was Iron Maiden, Rush, Yes, and Deep Purple for me. Oh and Big Country. (They were Scottish, and not country music. They could make their guitars sound like bagpipes.) But I was raised on everything from Aretha Franklin to Simon and Garfunkel to Elvis Presley. And Anne Murray. Anne Murray was huge in Canada. Had her own show, too.

But right now Joni Mitchell is my muse and Buffy Sainte-Marie is my spirit animal.
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80's in Britain.....ah geez! I made it to Cozumel .. 2 days left..... 90's and with humidity, the feel-like is low 100's. B UT, I took the pedometer on a walk today and made just under 4 miles and made I back in time for 2-1 haPPy hour Pina coladas and tacos.
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I roller-skated to ABBA, Van Morrison - Brown-Eyed Girl, zoned out on Montego Bay as boyfriend and I arrived at Daytona Beach.... and Jerry was a Bullfrog, etc.

Mamma Mia 2 is coming out soon, and I cannot wait to see it!!! The other movie always makes me so happy and dancing in the living room.
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Mally, Never too old for good tunes!!
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Becky, at 16 I played Dee Dee Sharp, Diana Ross, and Dionne Warwick in my room every night - long after I was supposed to be asleep! Recently bought them again on CD; who's going backward in time?
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Grew up listening to Motown and beach music. Junior high then college family always spent 6 weeks summer vacation at the beach. Nothing better than shag dancing the night away at an oceanfront beach pavilion.
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Abba..............................Hmmmmm.

Songs that depress me? Anything by Leonard Cohen. I Can feel it Coming in the Air Tonight by Phil Collins. Stairway to Heaven by Led Zepplin. I basically hate all those rock anthems. They are too long and remind me of days I'd rather forget.
Like the one time in my life where I took magic mushrooms not having a clue what they were but the guy that gave them to me said "Just try them" So being young and dumb and wanting this guy to like me I took them. I remember "All of My Love" by Led Z playing in the background and I thought that song would never end. Ugh!!!
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Abba,, Ah the only time I ever got a driving ticket was because of Abba! Several of my friends and I had to been to an Abba cover band show, and then I had to buy an Abba CD for the car.. because we all carpool to work together. So a few days later we are at a stop light on our way home,, sitting and singing. and the light took forever.. so with us being the only car at the light,, off I went.. Yep, I owned that ticket!
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You're right, CM, that's a good point, I hadn't thought of UTI but it certainly would make sense. I think what I'll do is buy one of those home UTI testing kits from the pharmacy, and bring it up there to her nurse. I have a refill on one of her meds that I need to bring too anyway. If it comes back positive, I'll call her doctor's office and see if he will call her in an antibiotic.

If we actually have to GO to the doctor, I know I'll have a hard time actually getting her to (she'll balk and say she's fine), which is why I'm hoping if it's a UTI he can just call it in.
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I hope your mother quickly settles back down again, Frazzled. If not, is it uti testing time do you think? The repetitiveness of the requests is the worry, isn't it, rather than what she's been asking for.
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Oh thank you very much, Golden - now I really do have an earwig. I'll be bursting into "I belieeeeeeeeve in angels... " all round the house all night long. Great.
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Ok, I do feel like whining a little bit now....yes, it's mom again.

So, yesterday was her birthday so hubs, kids and I took her out to dinner at her favorite Mexican restaurant, and she asked if she could order a margarita. I said, sure, why not? It does run up her sugar a bit, but in moderation a drink every now and then if she wants it, I don't see the harm.

Now mom has never been a big drinker, has in the past been addicted to prescription painkillers and muscle relaxers (which doctor weaned her off of a couple of years ago), but drinking has never really been a thing for her except very rarely on special occasions.

So imagine my surprise when I just got a call from the nurse at mom's facility telling me that mom has been knocking on her neighbor's door several times today asking if she would go buy her a pack of wine coolers. The poor lady, sweet as can be, told her no that she didn't think she should, and the nurse said the lady is running out of excuses, but doesn't want to hurt mom's feelings.

They also said that mom is wanting to check her blood sugar 5 or more times a day, despite the fact that they've told her they only check it twice. The glucometer was locked up in their lockbox but mom was bothering her neighbors to check her blood sugar and using their testing strips so they went ahead and let mom keep the glucometer in her room, which I guess is better than her bothering other residents, so I said ok, I can buy extra testing strips for that.

Lord have mercy, I don't know if talking to mom about the wine coolers will do any good, and she may yet find a way to get them, but I don't want to buy them either because I don't want her starting another bad habit. I also don't want her to get kicked out for disturbing the peace and bothering others.
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I have a dream...

Maybe, to make it a whine, I had a dream...
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Now I have Waterloo stuck in my head
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CM, Winner Takes it All is one ABBA song I hadn't heard (or if I did, I didn't listen to the words), ...reminds me of one I hate, that's Beast of Burden by the Rolling Stones. Catchy music, yes, but the guy in the song sounds like a lazy bum who's just using the poor lady.

Yes Book, I find Hotel California depressing too (but it has a good guitar solo).

Becky, I love motown and beach music too. They don't make a lot of "feel good" mainstream music anymore. I like the happy tunes. I listen to a lot of different genres, but I never could get into the screaming metal music either. You can't even understand what they're saying! Lol
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I love ABBA. I have 2 sets of CDs of their best music. One for the car, and one in my bedroom. When I'm surfing the net, I opened a window and play their Mix 50+ …

CM, how you feel about The Winner Takes it All - is how I feel Every Time I hear the music by Rupert Holmes: Escape (the Pina Colada song). When you listen to the lyrics, both partners were going to cheat on the other. They both answered the ad to meet someone else. I can't stand that song.

A song that I find so very depressing, I mean really depressing, is the song Hotel California. I'm talking about just hearing the words at face value. Not about the deeper hidden meanings. Just the words at face value. Very depressing. You can check-out but you can never leave.... Almost reminded me of my years of caregiving.... You cannot escape...
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I knew nothing about ABBA until Mama Mia. Grew up on Moetown and beach music. My cousin Pam and my brother Jay used to drive me nuts with their heavy metal headbanger music. But to each his or her own. Enjoy.
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No, it is true that London is hotter. But that's because they've coated the city entirely in asphalt and glass, and every building that runs a/c is, after all, pumping out heated air into crowded streets. It is always a degree or three hotter than the rest of the country.

It's 41ºC in Tokyo, which really is getting a bit sticky.
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BBC news lists London temperature at 35° - I thought that's pretty significant for a city without A/C. Is that hyperbole?
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There is only one ABBA song I genuinely loathe, and that is 'Winner Takes It All.'

I hated it from first hearing: the Uriah Heep of break-up songs. I groaned, threw things at the radio and generally created every time it came on the first time around, when I was sharing a dormitory with five or six other girls.

"OH F*** OFF WOMAN!!! Get over it! Spit in his face, kick his shin, scratch her eyes out, or just leave the room with a single sweeping glance of contempt, whatever. Sit there grovelling, you deserve everything you get!"

I didn't have a lot of sympathy for the protagonist, shall we say.

Some decades later, I expressed a similar view (I hadn't mellowed) when the dam' thing came up on a golden oldies slot Daughter 2 and her boyfriend had playing. D2 laughed, but b/f went very quiet and was seen to wipe away a manly tear.

And that is their secret. That people who ought to know better, like Stephen Fry and b/f - an Oxford graduate of English Literature, by the way, and no mean lyricist himself - get ambushed and hooked for life.

I still think she needs a good slap.
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Richard Harris played Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator; and I think he has died since. The one who died during filming, though, was Oliver Reed who played the slave trader; and what a way to go for him - hamming it up on location with old cronies and young pretenders, he couldn't have asked for a better exit. May he rest in hellraising, which I only say because I'm certain it's what he'd have chosen.
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Leave the frustration behind and have a little party in the bar you will feel okay.
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You know how in Britain we hate panic and we always try to keep a stiff upper lip?

BRITAIN AT THE MERCY OF DEADLY HEATWAVES is today's front page newspaper headline. The article is written by "the Science Editor."

I am embarrassed to tell you this, but today's expected high is 80.6º F.

It is true that ED's up and down the land have seen a steep rise in the number of patients attending with heat stroke and severe sunburn. That is because they have taken off their clothes and lain down on the beach all day. They suffer from a condition for which there is no known cure. Sadly, it appears to be increasingly contagious.
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Behaving badly?
caregivers
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Well, I have plenty of whines but they're the same old ones so I'm trying not to annoy you

Is this the same Richard Harris as in Camelot?
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There is a thread s o m e w h e r e, that I started, that I cannot find now.
I recall that Cwillie is always there, showing up with support if I am up early to post. Then, others have a similar schedule, but mine is always changing.
That is because my dH's schedule is changing. It is his schedule that I am trying to keep.

I cannot remember the name, because AC changed it.
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