GD4ELI

12 minutes ago, User Name said:

Ayre Mowers up at Jurby has closed apparently.

 

What ???

3 hours ago, Anthony Ingham said:

Lots of people on Facebook this morning sad about the closure of Looneys of Ramsey

Doubtless the same people who never actually buy anything in there.

Part of my life growing up near Ramsey, sad to see that store come to an end.

3 minutes ago, Cambon said:

We have already paid towards the uks green ambitions by currency devaluation due to uk government borrowing to pay for the infrastructure and associated subsidies. 

Scard will cost £100 millions minimum. Completely ill thought out. The brown field site of Jurby, which has easy access to the sea for delivery, and good road access makes the most sense. The hills just south of Peel also make sense. But, Scard is possibly the most stupid place windmills could possibly be put. 
 

I am not against windmills. I am against stupidity and waste! 

You don't seem rather bright though.

2 hours ago, Happier diner said:

You are speaking for yourself, which is fine and understandable. However I prefer the scan and shop. We are all different in our preferences. It does have something to do with customer convenience, if Tesco had it and Asda didn't I would favour Tesco, that gives them more custom and saves them money.

Mutual benefit. Me/ Tesco. 

At my ASDA we have ~30 scan & pay requiring just two members of staff and they take up far less room than a serviced till. Getting checkout staff isn't easy, we have many pensioners on zero-hour contracts which they love. Work ~20 hours a week, discount on what you buy, earn roughly as much as the state pension.

9 minutes ago, John Wright said:

 

Try thinking slightly outside the box. It’s only popular because it may save time. Why may it save time? Because the retailer never has enough staffed checkouts open, so there are queues. Hence shoppers are pushed to scan & shop and self checkout.

It’s nothing to do with customer convenience, its retailer cost cutting.

That being said, one supermarket chain, small, I grant, is removing self checkout tills from its stores, and reverting to serviced checkout.

Your opinion. Saves time & money, what's not to like?

2 minutes ago, Happier diner said:

That's not 100% true. It seems the majority of customers choose the scan and shop for convenience and many even choose the self checkout even though it's less convenient. Yes of course the supermarkets are very much driven by saving on staff costs but it seems to me there is a mutual benefit going on here

Indeed there is. Very, very popular at my local ASDA.

8 hours ago, Anthony Ingham said:

It’s not missing the point, it’s making a comparison.

If you want someone with extensive experience and you don’t need them full time or want to pay them a full time wage, then you have to pay the going rate, which is normally £1000 a day or more for a consult, non exec director etc etc

And that's on the low side. I was charging more than that over 30 years ago.

1 hour ago, Manxman1234 said:

Wetherspoons are closing in large cities as not breaking even, they also reply on the people on the dole who want a cheap pint for breakfast,  I’m not sure there will a a day time market for them here, just look at all the pubs that no longer open in the day as there is no business for them.

 

Uber - isn’t cheap, can be more expensive than a normal taxi at peak periods, if the attraction is the App, then elegance have or had one

 

nandos is nothing special, better food and atmosphere in Barbary coast, at a similar price, passed 2 Nando’s recently when off island and both almost empty, 

 

what will keep teenagers on island is more affordable housing, more affordable and more importantly more reliable transportation for weekends away. 

Any teenager with an ounce of gumption will get off the rock and see more of the world.

9 minutes ago, code99 said:

And why not? E.g., wind turbines in England are eligible for grants including “RCEF or its urban equivalent, UCEF” of up to £100,000…etc.

It is not about naysayers, it is about having realistic expectations about how much the proposed IOM wind farms will actually cost, and what benefits these farms will actually bring. If recent projects like the Liverpool Dock are a good guide then the final cost will be more like £100m than £40m, and the electricity produced will be intermittent.

Incidentally, there is also the uncertain cost of the proposed electricity Interconnector to the UK.  

So the IOM government gives a grant to the MUA which it owns one way or another.

4 minutes ago, Happier diner said:

Yes. Just tracks. The ones proposed here are in a very small area. Therr are already tracks onto it. It won't be an issue at all. Minimal impact on the heathland. 

Gives the anti-anything brigade something to moan about though. Plenty of turbines round here, not a big issue at all.

3 minutes ago, hoopsaa said:

The size of the wind turbines, presumably we are going to have to build new roads to access the beautiful heathland they are going to be built in.

 

Doubt it - plenty here accessed via tracks.

1 hour ago, Happier diner said:

Policemen at 67 years old? That will be fun. Dad's police force? Could be an idea for a comedy programme 

Plenty of 60+ police in Switzerland. They take pride in keeping themselves fit. Any who can no longer be on patrol work in the station, generally customer-facing.

There's no excuse for being a fat slob.

7 hours ago, x-in-man said:

Maybe put a stop on new joiners for a bit to stop the dating junk spam?

How about moderating creation of new threads?

53 minutes ago, Albert Tatlock said:

In the UK currently. Popped into the printers to get some docs printed. They have a machine - passport, photos and all £82. All applied for in seconds - saw 3 people do it while waiting.

Did it online from home, took a few minutes, few days later new passport.

4 minutes ago, Fred the shred said:

People in England are kicking off as the price of renewing a passport has risen to £88 .50. on the Island it has risen to £100 the reason that has been given for our increase was to keep it in line with across.     Am I missing something here ?

No. Just being ripped off as usual. Blind leading the blind etc.

6 hours ago, Albert Tatlock said:

Welcome to the private sector. 

AKA the real world.

8 hours ago, A fool and his money..... said:

Or another way, £2.49 billion is an obscene amount of profit.

The time has come to start taxing them appropriately on the IOM (actually it's long overdue).

No it isn't, it's £4.30 for every £100 customers spend. Most shareholders are pension funds. 

19 minutes ago, Kopek said:

I hear that Tesco  made over 2 billion profit! Most of that from Castletown express store!!!

Union are calling for them to cut their prices a bit.

Actually £2.49 billion on a turnover of £57.6 billion. Another way of looking at this is a profit of 4.3% on sales.

23 minutes ago, Two-lane said:

The annual accounts for Ramsey Commissioners for the year ending March 2023 have not been published.

On 28 April 2024 I spoke to the Town Clerk who told me that the accounts were not yet signed off by the auditor.

Yesterday I contacted him again, and got the same response.

What is the deal with Commissioner's accounts - is a time period of over a year typical for signing off the accounts?

That's clever stuff. DeLorean maybe?

12 minutes ago, Two-lane said:

All that rainwater flowing into the sea and increasing the sea level....

[Well, all the rainwater that once would have fallen on open land and gone downwards, but now falls on concreted land and now flows directly back to the sea. No doubt someone has done some research on this]

Well, if you want to hold back the water to avoid flooding then look at the measures taken in the alpine areas of Europe.

1 hour ago, La Colombe said:

If you're lucky there might be a little bit of fish in it. 

Carp possibly.

2 hours ago, Holte End said:

I took 'she who must be obeyed' for a McDonald's, I counted it . Them happy meals aren't cheap any more and they should be done under the trade description act, as it didn't make her happy on her Birthday.

Cruel.

32 minutes ago, GD4ELI said:

Good move.

Company cars are a way of avoiding tax, this stops it.

1 hour ago, Anthony Ingham said:

It clearly takes someone much more cleverer than me to understand the logic behind this.  Does anyone want to enlighten me?

https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/benefit-in-kind-tax-changes-take-effect

Good move.