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Certainly agree with that. Flew with them on the Liverpool flight tonight. Obviously basic, no frills but a clean and tidy plane, perfectly suited, as you say... As we taxied to a stop, a bloke stood up before the seat-belt indicator went out, and quick as a flash, in strong Scot, a rather strident, tartan-bedecked, Doubtfire-esque stewardess came over the intercom, and barely disguising her astonishment at his brevity, and in almost-shout declared, "Err, the seat-belt light has nae gone out yet and you're standing up!" "Sit down and fasten your belt!" "Till the seat-belt light goes oot!" Travel-weariness showing, the bloke was oblivious that he was now the centre of attention and it could have looked as if he was deliberately ignoring her so she rapidly barked out the same order, with increasing disbelief. Even then it took a few seconds for him to realise, at which point, in a flash they simultaneously swapped roles; he hurriedly sat down looking like a guilty schoolboy as she braced herself, and, seat-belt unclipped, half-stood. Strong hands gripped the arm-rests, brow narrowing at the continued impertinent disobedience (like teachers of old would do). At that point, with almost comic timing, the seat-belt indicator went out with a ping. This cliff-edge drama was momentarily be-stilled, witnesses blinked and with some showing smiling-bemusement a quiet, polite and orderly disembarkation took place. You had to've been there, an'that... Anyway, ideal for the Island.

For a moment I thought that read Premium tool. I immediately thought, "oh I say!" then I put my glasses on.

Page 666. Talk of sacrificing. Spooky.

As the great George Dubya so perfectly put it “There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.”

I'll take it. Been called worse.

well consider yourself told now then.

Did you work on iris? The project was another catastrophe, massively over budget, scoped changed to onchan and Douglas only, consultants messed up the flow rate by 100+%. And we are still paying for their mistakes, look at the laxey and peel pumping station palava. From this very forum:

Did she not say "you cannae push your granny off a bus"?

They should put the Peggy in the HOM. Make it into a nautical museum with Odin’s Raven and the fishing industry stuff

The bit that frightens me is point one….They all use experienced consultants and contractors to do the work. I am sure the consultants and contractors who were used for Douglas Promenade, Liverpool Landing Stage and other memorable ventures were experienced but things did not go to plan. You are obviously hell bent on having a wind farm or two on the Island to save the world but are we in a position financially to proceed , I feel sure it will be many, many moons before a decision will be forthcoming on where to put them. Other places that have gone down this road successfully have much more space available to place them without affecting the inhabitants both human and animal that live in the chosen area. When in doubt do nowt is an old saying and a wise one. Virtue signaling is a very expensive pastime.

Plus Roundels, mystery crossings and Horses pulling the Peggy.

Perspex screens. Awesome protection. They'll save lives.

It's where the name Russia comes from: The Rus' (Old East Slavic: Роусь; Belarusian, Russian, Rusyn, and Ukrainian: Русь; Old Norse: Garðar; Greek: Ῥῶς, romanised: Rhos) were a people in early medieval eastern Europe. The scholarly consensus holds that they were originally Norsemen, mainly originating from present-day Sweden, who settled and ruled along the river-routes between the Baltic and the Black Seas from around the 8th to 11th centuries AD. In the 9th century, they formed the state of Kievan Rusʹ. So basically the Russian state was founded in Ukraine by a bunch of Swedish vikings.

The headline seems to be a bit of mischaracterisation, seems the bus driver is as much concerned about physical safety when dealing with disruptive/drunk passengers than anything to do with catching an illness.

Ukraine have the hryvnia. Stick with Kopek, its easier to say.

That's all very well but does it have a Death Star Canteen?

Pulling out isn't always the solution. My daughter is a testament to that.

I just spotted the old Bottle Monkey store appears to be being converted into a new bar. Builders have been doing some work in there for a couple of weeks and there is now a poster on the window for 'Adventurer's Tavern' and a funky squid or kraken logo. @jackwhite any info? Or have you lot caused him to have a breakdown?

It’s slightly more than just the headline that’s shocking Roger. The whole episode is quite shocking. I love MF. A man dies after being ejected through the sun roof of his moving car while having a wank watching porn while driving and you two are debating the grammatical nuances about whether he was wearing one or two pairs of pants before he wasn’t wearing any.

6) The weird 'sculpture' hidden behind the Civic Centre stairs Jake's folly progress pictures of his renovation in an attempt to keep the structure standing. Jake Mangel-Wurzel armed with a sealant gun at work renovating his 2004 folly. Hidden behind a large flight of concrete stairs, next to Kirklees Magistrates Court is a bizarre sculpture. 'Joker Jake's Civic Folly' was erected by Huddersfield self-styled 'King of the Eccentrics' Jake Mangle-Wurzel in 2004. The three-metre folly replaces a seven-metre sculpture which Mangle-Wurzel – born John Gray – built without planning permission on the site. Kirklees Council threatened to demolish the folly, which had fallen into disrepair, in 2018. But the council relented after Mangle-Wurzel, also known as T.H.E. Occupier, repaired it.

Interesting - you’re comparing (at least superficially) Dr Andole’s six months’ secondment to England with attempts at European domination in the last century, two world wars and countless deaths? Fails the “reasonableness “ test - so I think I’ll leave you to your contemplation.

I don’t think there are any financial supervision regulations that might make Zurich pull out of the IoM motor market. It’s much more likely to be poor claims experience linked with claims admin. Their market share is probably not large. One huge claim may completely skew their claims experience figures. The claims admin is another thing. Big, or specialist, insurers deal with most of their claims in-house. When it’s complex, especially when proceedings are issued, they use specialist claims defence solicitors. Those solicitors are screwed down on price and process and operate an insurer approved claims handling programme that logs all correspondence, time, documents, pleadings, experts reports, in a standard way and can be accessed by the insurer 24/7 and which produce regular reports. It maybe that whoever does this for Zurich said they couldn’t provide an IoM service. I’ve been approached to act as agent for a number of firms, as and when required. It’s too onerous and not lucrative. Below legal aid rates. I suspect other firms have taken the same view. Much more likely the reason than cross jurisdiction regulatory stuff.

IOM Bank is not fit for purpose, never mind their travel insurance!

May I just point out goats and sacrificing should not be mentioned as this may bring on accusations of a consortium with Beelzebub within the pages of this thread, Also we do not need the Bish getting bent out of shape. gibber gibber blah

Aye, they used to employ someone trained in the old ways to do that - we’re losing all the old trades and crafts in this shiny age with its new-fangled changes…

Animal cruelty? What about you and your goat, then..?

And stop shitting in a bucket and leaving it in the corner as part of the authentic smell of the round house 😁

No but letting them dictate your mood and demeanor going forward does.

Why do you bring your goat when you fly? Support animal? If you leave it at home they can't get it.

Good on her. People who do that and those that ignore the safety briefing ( continuing reading etc) really get my goat.

No thats" you cannae hit your granny with a shovel" (it leaves a nasty impression on her mind). Classic.

Indeed he was. Which rather undermines the whole “they’ve stuffed the Steam Packet with idiot civil servants who know nothing of the sea” argument. The MD isn’t a classic civil servant either, what with his degree and career in marine engineering. Still, I’m sure people on Manx Forums know better about ships.

Yeah and sweetcorn in Pat a Cake tuna and mayonnaise baps

I believe it was a cosmetic action as someone in their wisdom must have dreamt up the flawed idea that broken edged concrete was aesthetically pleasing. Probably the same guy that dreamt it up is a senior manager in DOI now.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-66708859 Tell me again why we need the MUA who have zero experience of solar or windfarms to build a £40m (probably £60m in truth if any recent gov project is a guide) and it's taken them decades to sort out two sewage treatment plants for two villages? If we could negotitate an agreement with a large concern to lease the sea bed in exchange for access to the power generated at or below commercial rates? Leave the MUA to deal with the local infrastucture and eventually get the interconnectors in place so that we only need to generate emergency power on site at critical sites which you must have anyway so it is at no extra cost. Instead, if the offshore windfarm is viable, they'll probably sell the license for a few sheckles to pay off the MUA loan while pissing more money away on a vanity project (just like the Liverpool ferry terminal) as we watch off shore turbines merrily generating 'free' electricity which we'll have no access to.

Dr Hudson is a good psychiatrist and has worked here for a number of years.

They use a small telehandler to both load and unload and trying to negotiate live traffic lanes when loading is near impossible.

City flights cancelled again, crew issues

Never 'erd of em! That's a lie, actually. Correct Declan. The half time hanging on the end of the riff is an excellent bridge. Everyone would have to be on the ball for that given the manic tempo, to make it convincingly tight. Loved it.

IRIS was DoT project

Slinky Devil does it for me. Premium too!

It's been reproduced all over the place since. A google search will bring up many sources.

Who needs a private pilot license anyway...it's not like somone is going to pull you over?

I'm afraid not. It was on a Q&A site called Quora. Someone posed the question "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" and that was the response by someone called Nate White. A fine effort I thought. It has since been taken down from Quora. Probably due to pressure from the GOP and the MAGA nutters. But not before it had leaked out to Facetube and so forth... Thankfully!

HAHAHA You are completely off your tits man

@Expat. @Cueey Lewis And The News I was in Leeds last evening. Beggar/s at both entrances of the train station, although they were passive enough. On the way back in I was approached by a bloke with a paper cup who asked for 30p for a cup of tea (original but effective, although 30p hasn't bought a cup of tea since I was a student). A walk up through The Trinity Centre a couple more. I thought about Manx Forums. Should I take a few photos or would that be uncalled for? Actually I think it is called for. Maybe I'll give them £1 if they let me take their photo, then everyone will be happy. The evneing would cost me an extra £10 maybe but it would at least show that the folk do actually exist. Huddersfield, just look 0-50 metres radius of MacDonalds doorway will show you some more beggars, including occasionally a legless woman in a wheelchair and a black woman with a dog (both not the usual demographic for beggars). Yes, yes and yes again, you can walk these places and see none at all. But I travel these routes often and 9 times out of 10 a beggar/s are there. Incidentally, I find Leeds and Huddersfield both wonderful places and will be sad when our contract ends.

Probably someone messaging their husband to pick up some Tomato Puree but had the wrong tab open when typing and didn't notice. Easy mistake to make, I'm forever sending pornhub.com to my clients in emails I've had open in another tab.

One of the most remarkable things is that none of our politicians ever seem to be aware of this whilst these people are actually in post.....