John Worsnop

IN!!!! Stockholm....
Stupid auto correct!!

Out of curiosity I checked. There are no IKEA stores within a 50 mile drive of my house. Good job I don't eat meatballs and I last had Swedish Herring on Stockholm.

Am I unusual in never having been in an IKEA?

Thanks for the photos!

Just Googled of the band I saw in Leeds. 3 survive, Bert Ruiter passed away in 2022. Oh they were such fun. I particularly remember the Yodelling In "Hocus Pocus" and Pierre van der Linden's drum solo.

"Top" as my Dutch friends would say!

Blimey!! I last saw them in 1972...
Are they all still alive?
Jan, Burt, Pierrre, Thys?

Good morning from thr Fen Edge. I had the same response to ep 1. Suppose I should give Ep 2 a go.
Our Polski decorator finished yesterday. Top bloke !
Today we go to buy carpets and furniture!

Nice

What is it ?

Is it 'wanking'?

Now do that with a rusted-on one.

That was a bit too easy! 9L8MD Sierra Leone worked on 24.898MHz CW up 2 2nd Call. They're now calling CQ

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The Chinese Box and Turing Test: Is AI really intelligent? No, it's just good at mass-production copy and paste. And yes, we're correctly applying Betteridge's Law Opinion  Remember ELIZA? The 1966 chatbot from MIT's AI Lab convinced countless people it was intelligent using nothing but simple pattern matching and canned responses. Nearly 60 years later, ChatGPT has people making the same mistake. Chatbots don't think – they've just gotten exponentially better at pretending.…

The Chinese Box and Turing Test: Is AI really intelligent?

HF SSB contests are are a bit like FT8 but with more shouting.
Mainly EU, a few USA plus V28B Antigua and Barbuda worked. Gave up calling 7A2A (Indonesia) Loud but huge pileup.
300W to 3/4 wave vertical and short (20m long) Beveridge on RX works pretty well.

#CQWWSSB One hour of search and pounce on 15m this afternoon and I'm shattered!
Just go remind me why I don't do contests.

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a green wall and saying `` marvellous '' . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a green wall and saying `` marvellous '' .

'course you can......

Absolutely. There are some delicious pumpkin soup recipes.

The Big Yin had the right idea.....

"Is it a SONG yers wantin ?"

........Noooo!!!

Jaws
Local Hero
Star Trek - First Contact
Don't Look Now
The Enforcer...

Oh no!!!

Too hot........ loads of Internet use for games....Is it just me that sees the connection here?

And me!

My exact thoughts!

Do you know what it is yet ?

Pleasant surprise in the post today!
#gettingold

There are just TOO many dashes at the start of that callsign!

Now they make coffee machines and people STILL, buy them despite their history.....

You don’t get to bankroll a genocide…

Embolden and cheer on the perpetrators

…and then call yourself a hero for pulling the plug.

Only if they are Guinness Zero cans. Sadly, the rules don't allow encouragement of substance abuse. 😇