Favourite pictures v2.0

[Ellen Kuhfeld]

Political nundu is okay, I guess, but I'm old-fashioned. I still think Basement Cat. After all, why elect the lesser evil?

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[Té Rowan]

Now that would be an interesting fight.

[Té Rowan]

As you can tell, the A380 maxibus and the A318 minibus differ in size.

[Té Rowan]

I have no idea if this image is on board here already, but I'm hanging it up as a precautionary measure in case TheKeep goes down for good.

[Té Rowan]

It took me long enough to find this image again. So, just in case...

[Té Rowan]

Oktoberfest brings out the Wurst (Wurst is German for 'sausage'. Take it as you will.)

[Té Rowan]

https://www.chickenwingscomics.com/comics/about-to-crash/
https://www.chickenwingscomics.com/comics/carbonated-radio-traffic/
Maybe it is the time of day, but I found these hypoxia-inducing.

[Spica75]

[Té Rowan]

Silly redhead. Ice cream needs no excuse.

[Té Rowan]

Mercury looks kinda miffed here, to me anyway:

[Spica75]

[Té Rowan]

How often do you see someone not just jump onto a bandwagon but offer to repair it, too?

[Té Rowan]

I should be so lucky,
lucky, lucky, lucky…

[Té Rowan]

I had one of these radios, second-hand, around the turn of the century. Later I gave it to a friend that fancied it. I was not so short of radios that I had to be stingy.

The Tandberg Sølvsuper 9 receives broadcasts on longwave, mediumwave, shortwave (1.8—23 MHz in two bands) and VHF FM.

Also: Bunnies for the Win(dows)!

[Spica75]

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I had one of these radios, second-hand, around the turn of the century. Later I gave it to a friend that fancied it. I was not so short of radios that I had to be stingy.

The Tandberg Sølvsuper 9 receives broadcasts on longwave, mediumwave, shortwave (1.8—23 MHz in two bands) and VHF FM.

I still have 2 of our really old ones, the "light one" is an AGA, almost this model:
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I think the other one is a Telefunken or maybe Graetz, from sometime early 50s or late 40s.

Anyway, i always found it amazing just how much you could receive with these. Back in the 80s, the absolute best modern radios? Total crap in comparison if you wanted anything beyond your borders.

The "ultimate success" was when my brother used the hook from a fishing rod to connect a wire from the port for an external antenna, to the gutters on our house. Because at the time, we lived in a row house, so that gutter went all alongside 18 7.5m wide houses, with 6m tall downspouts every house. So, an antenna 130-140m horizontally with another 18 vertical downshoots.
The reception we got from that was absolutely hilariously good. Not clear reception, as there were way too much too close to each other, but the distance suddenly became global.

Japan, Australia, Argentina, Maldive islands, St Helena... As long as there was a frequency to search for a station, it was just a matter of finetuning at a time when there wasn't any bad weather in the way(which of course you never knew, so just had to try again and again).

Also: Bunnies for the Win(dows)!

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Ah, totally cute. Just wish windows in general could give that kind of positive impression. Ever.