craggy_steve

Actually impossible to cure in my case But at least I don't have your problem

I'm calling bullshit on this @Nom de plume, you're lying again, no way would I be wearing pink gloves.

Yawn...

Took a few days for my Moderna booster to appear, but it was on the app within a week. HTH.

Really? I'm certainly pissed off by our dodgy PCR testing and a dodgy testing strategy - total waste of resource and not protecting anyone. I think our border restrictions / controls are pretty pointlesss - this is a situation where you do all or nothing because a half-hearted "control" is no control, and since end of June there has been no point because our current border bureacracy is not protecting anyone. I was pissed off with Ashford & Quayle under-reporting deaths. And I'm similarly pissed off with Hooper saying we're following JCVI vaccination policy then doing the opposite. I'm pissed off that we don't have air filters in all school classrooms, that Allinson and now Edge have made minimal effort to protect children. Maybe some kids get harmed, maybe they don't, but we should try to minimise risk (evidence is that some have been harmed). I'm pissed off that we've had three very damaging lockdowns when we would not have needed them if CoMin had responded promptly instead of sitting on their hands for a week or two playing wait 'n' see while Covid ran riot among an unvaccinated population. In short I'm pissed off, very very, pissed off, with our Government response to Covid. Cost us all a fortune for a very poor result. Lives and livelihoods fucked up due to a lack of strategic thinking. Since July our infection rate and death rate per capita have both been worse than UK. But Omicron? Get real.... I leave that sort of panic to Boris and his experts. Might be a blessing, might be a curse, have to wait a bit longer to know for sure. Be a bit stupid to assume it's all over yet. What you mean is you object to people actually chatting about Covid or taking an interest in the numbers because you can't cope with reality. Your problem, don't put it on me, you need to fix your own head. The real world isn't going away and me chatting with similarly interested observers isn't going to change it. And unlike you, this is my first post on Covid in Manx Forums. Jeez, nearly three thousand pages of manic panic wittering in this thread, almost three hundred and fifty in the vaccine thread, a couple of dozen pages in the NHS App thread and you, Blondie et. al. whine about my tweets, under my own name? FFS Get a life.

Self-employed - dunno. Running your own one man company, generally not a problem. The employer has to apply for it, so first you incorporate your company, then your company applies for a work permit for you as CEO. Certain occupations are exempt, for instance Digital/IT workers earning over £25K.... crypto might fall into that space. Feel free to message me if you want to meet up and pick my brain over a coffee.

Seems that Manx Gaelic is a little lacking in profanity??? https://www.youswear.com/index.asp?language=Manx+Gaelic

Bit pricey

Ha ha! Mrs Craggy suggested I start a station to cater for reactionary folk like me who have abandoned MR. Gave it 30 seconds thought. Anyone can set up and broadcast over t'internet - it's literally child's play. Maybe that's the answer, Manx Community Radio.

New MR MD on MTTV Good on him for doing the interview. Confirms what I suggested earlier in respect of the new schedule, obviously going after an audience of which I am not part - so nice to be excluded - more to the point though he honestly accepts that MR are in competition with the other stations for advertising revenue, which seems to mean that we no longer have three radio stations trying to address separate segments of the audience in the IoM, because MR appears to be seeking to broaden its appeal into the demographic niches dominated by the other stations. Really not sure how that can work, a state subsidised station seeming to be in direct competition with the private sector for audience segments to bolster its advertising proposition. Not Mr Sully's fault, he's just here to make MR as successful as it can be within the rules set by Tynwald, but Tynwald need to get a grip. Either each station has its own target franchise / audience segment, or the market becomes a free for all with one having the advantage of state subsidy - ostensibly to do the PSB bit but nevertheless giving it a resilience and critical mass which the others cannot duplicate. Increasingly looking like the only rational solution is to take MR out of the commercial sector and fund it solely as a PSB.

I think a lot of folk turned off then either because they were leaving for work, or because they'd arrived. For many it was probably the only MR programme they reliably listened to. And as workers interested in IoM current affairs they were probably the most lucrative demographic on the island for advertising revenue.

Just not my style. Music I don't like, continuity I didn't enjoy, news thin, I'm clearly not the target demographic. Came across like a poor imitation of Radio 2, which also gets the off switch, further diminished by the annoying adverts. I expect it has been researched and will suit some folks, but not for me. I got on OK with the old Mandate, I would turn on the radio to listen to that, but by default the radio is off, I switch it on to listen to specific content, I'm not a background radio listener.

OK, so I tried the new MR. Not for me, I held out for 7 minutes of the breakfast show but I'm clearly not part of the target demographic so switched off. Turned on again for the news at 8, but I don't think that 5 minutes a day is really the listening time the new boss was hoping for and the news summary was thin - wanted to turn it off again but hung on in there for the whole 5 minutes to give them a fair trial, I guess I must be one of the Internet generation.

Darn!, If they put that gig out to tender I missed it. When I were a yoof and sound engineer of a notorious onshore pirate station the jingles were recorded by me and my mate Hank, both "singing", both playin' guitar, in my bedsit and me doing the recording. Cost less than two pints of lager and a packet of crisps, and no complaints from the listeners Radio stars of today don't know they're born. Seriously, dunno how much these cost but I do wonder whether quite such lavish production is appropriate in these straightened times. I'm planning to listen to the new MR tomorrow to give it a chance, but as I previously only bothered turning on for Mandate and Talking Heads I'm not very optimistic.

Ah well, can't help you there! Caring about the UK and its politics is probably detrimental to one's health, that place has been a f*** up for decades.

Your Prime Minister? Maybe. Not mine, I live in the Isle of Man ;P Instead we have HQ to put up with Seriously, I don't get why so many dwellers of Manxland get so het up about the UK Brexit farce. Just enjoy the show, what will happen will happen. We'll cope somehow. Just be thankful we don't live in the UK or come under the numpties in Westminster; the only Manxies who really need to care are the comeovers who want to go back.

Try asking in the Isle of Man Facebook groups (e.g. "Isle of Man What Where When" .....). You may find a private let which will likely be better value and more flexible than going through a letting agency / estate agent. When I moved to the island I brought two large dogs, got a super 6 month let - nice house where the owners were totally happy with our dogs because they were dog owners themselves. Can't say that the agent made it easy, but I pushed and overcame the agent's default "No Pets, No Smokers" policy.

I think Lxxx meant "these". Prices do seem to have increased significantly, nearly £500 for a fully flexible return to MCR. You can get a scheduled return Manchester to Los Angeles for less. Looks like Flybe are handing Easyjet more business. But then Flybe were in dire financial trouble on the basis of their previous pricing, so maybe some increases were to be expected.

Flybe holding co sale has gone through at 1p per share, hopefully bringing some stability to this sorry saga http://www.travelweekly.co.uk/articles/325610/shareholders-approve-flybe-deal

Not if we have a good LHR substitute. Personally I prefer LCY but reality is that there's not much to choose between LCY and LGW for access to the bits of London I visit (I guess some finance folks might prefer LCY access to Docklands), and LHR is a better hub for the rest of the world than either of those. If LCY is diplaced tho' the replacement needs to include slots for early morning into London and evening home so we can still do business day trips. Personally I don't see it, LHR slots are too valuable to waste on our little London business flights. Might be possible using Southend (Stobart's home airfield), but that's a whole hour to L'pool St vs. the 35 minute Gatwick Express to Victoria or the 45 minute DLR to Embankment / CharingX.

Nothing amateurish about setting up stations which trundle on year after year growing in popularity without public subsidy. MR's community / Manx current affairs content will always be an overhead, hence the subvention, but I suspect they could still learn a lot from the others in cost control.

Probably me being fussy, because I don't look at the MR website, I read it (the news) every day. I don't care how pretty or colourful it may be, all that matters is how well it works as an electronic document. Whoever did that refresh needs to be beaten over the bonce with a stack of typography textbooks.

Sorry, but WTF have Manx Radio just done to their website? Design refresh seems to have made it quite horrid to look at and read. Dunno who developed this or who approved it but I really hope that no taxpayer funds went into it, because it's simply awful. Better on mobile than desktop, but what a total waste of money, really unpleasant to use.

Yep ... The IoM has carved out quite a big vessel management and crew payroll niche, some tech / IT supply & support for on-board comms and IT, maritime financing & insurance, stuff like that. Amazingly it seems we even get customers who have VAT-registered their vessels elsewhere. Got to suspect that between greater VAT stringency, potentially being outside the EU VAT system post Brexit, and the Beneficial Ownership transparency that there will be a significant decline in new registrations though. Others on here know far more about this than me, but tax management is only a part of the IoM Shipping offering, the folk who have created this little local industry have genuinely created real value beyond tax.

It's maybe £50M tops for the marina side to fund because half the development would be residential property which would be sold / leased. Rental of the berths is merely the start, you then supply shore power, boat security & mooring checks as a service, sailing lessons, chandlery, boat maintenance & servicing, sailing club bar & restaurant, yacht brokerage etc. Basically a little goldmine for extracting dosh from well-heeled boaty people for whom you either provide services or let out on-site premises so that others can provide services. Dunno any of the detail of the Ramsey proposal, but in any private sector marina the berth rental is merely the tip of the iceberg, so I think you can assume the marina element of the proposal would have half the financing costs and double the income potential at worst case (and if not it wouldn't be worth doing).