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31 minutes ago, Kopek said:

Anyone whose Mom forgot about them and left them outside Woolworths will have plenty of time to look at the Robinsons alongside Woolies !!!😀

48 minutes ago, TheTeapot said:

Just to bring it back to Tesco, their 'finest' loose leaf earl grey tea is shite.

Apols for the distract, I am ok with Tesco, dont miss Shoprite, but as withEarl Grey, Tesco English breakfast teabags went down the swanee a while back, the foil packs were removed and the bags left a orrible residue in the cup---Bad Tesco 😒

1 hour ago, Gladys said:

Fabulous history, thank you.  Often wondered where the name for the Dogs Home came from - had assumed the dogs was really a reference to the reprobates who frequented it! 

At the junction of Drumgold/Nelson/Market st was another linked Pub, The Shepherd Inn, roughly where the Premier Inn is now, as it's a flock of sheep, surely Sheepflockers would be a better description 🤫

14 hours ago, Gladys said:

Thanks for that, always thought the name came from overhanging gutters, not fish guts. 

Just for balance, the Guttery was more likely the reference to the Gutteries,---abattoirs in the area, It links from Cattle Market st to Howard slip. There were at least 3 tannerys in the close area, the last being Fayles yard on Well rd hill.  

Mostly Herring processing was done close by the harbours, as in Peel, in Douglas the Herring houses were on South Quay, It seems daft to ship the fish from the harbour, by horse cart,  all the way to Market St for processing.

In later years the Cattle market was behind the Saddle pub, butchers would buy and employ drovers to drive the beasts to Market st for slaughter, the hides to the tannerys. Ths Drovers would retire to the Victoria Tavern in Drumgold st, tying their droving dogs outside, hence "Dogs Home" this is but one tale told with bellys to the bar. 

Could they not do what the Government does and rent in some "Pay to condemn" surveyors" ? did the church not also do this in the North?.  But then again, both failed when the light was shone on them. 🤔

Just had a flier for Eliza's Magic wok through our door., Waverley Terrace, it was plain old Magic Wok, any changes other than the name ?

1 hour ago, The Phantom said:

Same thing.  Gunnels is just a shortening of Gunwhales.  Like Forecastle becomes Fo'c'sle.

They don't like using long words on boats for some reason. 

What does the Bosun reckon 🤔

5 hours ago, english zloty said:

I thought it was funny 🤣 

Me too 😁

4 hours ago, emesde said:

If you're so keen to buy from Aldi why don't you open an account and get on line delivery. I had one a few years back and they delivered wine to me on the isle of man. I don't know if they deliver food lines ,but sign up and see.

Aldi stopped mail order last year ☹️

What tw@t named it a "Lisp", bloody hard to prononce when you have a lithp 🤐

Generally souvenir and coffee shops, taxis and coach owners are the ones who benefit from cruise visits, pubs and restaurants very little, side benefit, charity shops do fine from crew members as customers.

People employed to promote the visits also benefit.🤔

There was a prog a few years back on Liners to Shetland, essentially saying the returns were poor considering the outlay spent on dredging, berthing upgrades etc, sounds like something our Gov would excell at

7 hours ago, alpha-acid said:

We were never independent idiot, original inhabitants, celtic, norse scots , fool

What aboot the original Pictish /British they wus here before the Celt comeovers 🤔

Will my Clubman card still work in Victoria Road ?  🤔[asking for an MHK friend] 

Is she Lord of Mann or is that just King Chuck 🤔

Would this be a Judy Jolly then 😉

12 hours ago, woolley said:

It's utter gibberish too. "The Isle of Man Public Service is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates."

What does that mean? Do they have frequent parties to celebrate?

"Your candidate experience is important to us." 

What a pile of bullshit.

Government shitspeak we call it, it is disrespectful imho, verbal camouflage. Lessons have not been learned. 🤔

Re The Airport, "Corporatise" is new to me, is that not just shitspeak for privatise?

59 minutes ago, TheTeapot said:

The taste difference between an Allansons of Jurby head of broccoli and a tesco or coop own brand one is worth the extra 30p. 

Thats a subjective choice, i have tried neither,  price though is a different matter, not all Local produce is better quality to justify a higher price, Lamb for ex, best I ever bought was NZ lamb.

Tesco today had a large Noa's bread display at the entrance , I had a look, saw the price, walked away, I kept obbo on the display as we shopped, I didnt see a single pick up.

1 hour ago, NoTailT said:

That's simply not true. Manx Meats are a prime example where the opposite is true and I often find the creamery cheese products to be more cost effective than most of the other product stocked by Tesco, not all, but some.

It simply is true in my experience, cheese, milk and butter, local always dearer, Manx meats have recently reduced prices, still ahead of imported though. Flour? best quality and price M&S where bread flour flies off  of the shelves. Best spuds, price and quality Tesco and COOP.

7 hours ago, CallMeCurious said:

On average, everything we buy on island will always be more expensive than the UK as the majority of it is shipped in. It's highly unlikely any franchise would subsidise the IOM customers from UK profits long term after an initial setting up period. 

Sadly home produced goods tend to be more expensive than imported with shipping surcharge  🤔

I drank in a bar that Josef Karma used, a nice chap but we had a Mate there who some swine had convinced that if you made eye contact with him, you would end up buying his drinks all night, even if you made contact through the mirror behind the bar, ah, such fun we had  😁

17 hours ago, emesde said:

Not one word of this makes sense. 

Are you confusing Body Shop  with 

Ann Summers? 😂

A Ken Dodd parody?

On 2/16/2024 at 7:37 PM, Kopek said:

The problem with opposite Tesco is '[how to shore up' the riverbank and how to do it cheaply to not affect home prices????

Similar to the Milest0ne/sports centre, it worked well there

44 minutes ago, John Wright said:

They’re both Anglo transliterations of the original. Neither is exactly the phonetic of the original, although in the dialect of the region Sczechuan is possibly nearer but since romanisation (pinyin) in the 1980’s Sichuan is the Chinese official.

But Brits ( and Germans and French ) have always been good about not using original names, Roma, Firenze, Venezia, København, etc

Them fellas is the same with Darby an Andress 🤔

13 minutes ago, TheTeapot said:

See, the climate change thing is bollocks, they're always going on about too much CO2 but clearly there just isn't enough.

Get your fire lit!

Word is there is a bit more global warming coming our way for the next few days, thermal culottes or Capri pants folks 🤔