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Click here for audio .    Don’t believe all you read on the internet. That’s the title of today’s “Thought for the Day”.   Sometimes when I’m cycling and listening to a talk on YouTube, it goes straight to an advert, and since I don’t want to stop my bike and skip it, I’m forced to listen to several minutes about some product, apparently proved by scientists that is going to change my life, or make me millions, or save me from oral hygiene disaster. I’m sorry I don’t believe it. I’ve got all I need thank you very much, I don’t need your gadget. As we turn more and more to Chat GPT and Google AI to do our thinking and possibly our homework for us, we need to be a little careful. Here are a few examples of things that you will find on the internet that aren’t true. 1.      The word “strawberry” has 2 ‘R’s in it 2.      You should add glue to pizza to stop the cheese sliding off . 3.      Cats can breathe ...

Click here for audio  Lynn Crawford, 71, Susie Matthews, 73, Rose Sulley, 74, and Christine Goodwin, 80 are all grandmas from Wales who have been friends for more than 40 years. They had an interesting plane journey recently when they went to take Rose’s late husband’s ashes to be scattered in Las Vegas. Due to a confusion about seating, they found a very well built young man called DeReiss Gordon sitting in one of their seats on the plane. They kindly asked him to move but he was convinced he was in the right seat. Well things got a bit heated, but eventually all was sorted out and one of the nans asked the young man why he was going to Las Vegas. It turned out that he’s a professional wrestler known as “ Man like DeReiss ”, and he got chatting to the women and invited them along to see him wrestle a couple of days later. Well they kept their promise and went along to their first wrestling match. They got a message through to DeReiss and he later said “I was at the merch ta...