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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 🤔

1 hour ago, The Phantom said:

I get the bags of salad and have noticed that if you don't open them, they'll last pretty far beyond the sell by date.  However open them and they're done within a couple of days.   Only recently discovered they've got 'modified atmosphere' in the bags.  Extra Nitrogen and Carbon Dioxide and reduced Oxygen. 

A folded piece of kitchen towel placed in the clipped bag and will give a couple more days acceptable freshness. 

I recently tested a wide range of whiskies against a supermarket brand for colour, scent and taste. The final result was that I was escorted out of  Lake road Tesco and I'm in front of the Beak on Monday..😬 

4 minutes ago, Passing Time said:

Which begs the question why? Hardly going to get inundated with passing footfall

My thoughts as well, lots of passing traffic but nowhere handy to stop,cept the pay for carpark, i reckon it will be more a bijou drinkery for the pub crawlers, nice work if you can get it.😋

An opener this time, a Sarnie shop,--OK, sounds like a plan, Our wonderful news folk forgot to say where, --tis Church Road Marina, opposite the Market St junction. 🙄

https://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/sandwich-shop-and-cafe-plan-could-breathe-new-life-into-empty-douglas-office-building-663763

6 hours ago, woolley said:

There you go: https://www.manxforums.com/forums/index.php?/topic/53980-google-discrimination-on-the-iom/&do=findComment&comment=1760843

 

Cheers Wooley 👍

My access to My 5 seems to be blocked, are they treating IOM and CI as outside the UK now I wonder?    PC not a smart tv.

The winding is the stator, [not moving]  the squirrel cage is the rotor, [spinning] of an ac motor, DOL or Star/Delta.

Try Joking 🙄

Everthing went through the scan, just some a little faster than the others 😬

Last week in in Tesco, my Trolley dash came to £145.30, I canceled the sale, put the goods back into said trolley and went through self checkout with it, that got it down to £48.60, a smashing result I think 🙄

Oh no he isnt!---well not in Chevy Chas's case, cost him lots, still  you can defame a dead man with impunity, us olders recall the bitchfest.

https://www.newsweek.com/chevy-chase-feels-regret-remarks-he-made-about-cary-grants-sexuality-1751964

Firm closing--ish, 35 years in the Peter Luis building, relocating to---maybe internet sales only? 

Rising lease costs plus possible plans for fast food type outlet on the ground floor seems to be the decision maker, a shame to see it go 😒

Manx rumour, 🤔 Fried chicken type business in the offing for the Peter Luis premises 😐

1 hour ago, John Wright said:

I’ve no idea.

He was a gents hardresser at Glen Falcon 🤤

1 hour ago, Gladys said:

I think so.  The one opposite the Bowler was seasonal, the other one was all year round. May have got the street names wrong, but that is what I remember.  The one opposite the Bowler became a Chinese take away. 

The chippy on Melbourne street was operated by my ould Auntie, Molly Bridson, later on it was Henry Cambell's chippy, for the last maybe 20 years it has been a private dwelling. Henry had the chippy in Falcon st prior, this became the City cottage, ending as James Wong.s, both fine takeaways, miss them much.

Bathurst st as a takeaway venue was so busy at one time, between 09.30 and 13.00 the white van fleet [WV] was in, no spare parking for a quarter mile it seemed, then it all changed, the cute chippy didnt take off, neither did the european takeaway, v good one IMHO , the Asian takeaway never seemed to open, Mr B's held out untill RB closed, the WV Workers transfered to Shoprite, Victoria road, Logans on Bucks road and of course Peel road KFC etc grabbed a lot of the business-- a moveable feast indeed 

51 minutes ago, Kopek said:

If it was a Muslim Indian restaurant, I don't think they use Beef at all for their personal religious beliefs. Nor alcohol sometimes!

I'm sure really good Prawn Crackers may? have some dried Prawns in them but the ones we get have probably not seen more than a swish of a Prawns tail, or chemical flavouring??? Or maybe Beef!!!

Pork is Haram in Muslim culture, Beef {Dana} is Halal, if correctly blessed.

5 hours ago, Gladys said:

Hence the Keep Britain Tidy campaign. 

Find a bin to put it in, Pick it Up !

Any armed officer turn out? I mean there is a remote chance of eyes being put out , best be safe, get the ballaclava bobbies on it.👍

I thought a work permit was needed to be able work on the IOM, is one needed to reside here?

1 hour ago, John Wright said:

I owned and was involved in managing and running the Savoy Hotel on the promenade between 1987 and 1996

Post Rigby's ?

6 hours ago, Roger Mexico said:

To be mega-pedantic it's the River Douglas flood plain as the maps show the combined river is called that after the confluence of the Rivers Dhoo and Glass behind the Power Station.  The Glass, as you pointed out before, also has its own floodplain in Port-e-Chee Meadows

Perhaps not for a retail store, especially if measures have been taken to protect services etc.  But it's not good for housing, which is what someone had been suggesting for the area.

There is housing there already, and an apartment complex with below road level parking, a pub, a Railway station and various businesses, all on the level of the Lake road, you build to your enviroment, for that area lifting the levels with infill would work, lest we forget North Quay was not always that level, it was raised to the Quay side walll level.