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On 12/16/2020 at 11:35 PM, John Wright said:

He even gets rejected by MF, and we’re well known for letting almost anyone in.

You do let almost everyone in but then as time goes on you become more anal about the criteria for using your power to ban.

Anyway, I will concede I could have been kinder and take that on boatd for the future.

Back on topic...borders open in May subject to what's happening elsewhere...but there's them out there (some 'top' science and science advisors reckon thisyear is fucked as far as normality is concerned and that normality won't be until 2023/2024 ...even though Boris bumbling twat Johnson is 'optimistic' about people having summer holidays. I wonder what Quayle et al are thinking.

8 minutes ago, Roxanne said:

That's a pretty brutal comment about someone who you don't know and who has just found herself in the middle of a media storm without asking for any of it.

Ask me if I give fuck....nope, I've just checked, absolutely no fucks given whatsoever.

2 minutes ago, kevster said:

She, or whoever took the pictures, will still own the copyrights

No she won't, read the small print from tbe social media platforms, as soon as you post any and all photos tbey become the sole (not shared even) property of the social medoa platform owners.

2 hours ago, Roger Mexico said:

You do hope the young lady got paid for that, but knowing the Mail they probably stole it off social media and the rest of the story from elsewhere.  What's fascinating to observe with this story is just how little original reporting there has been (even for his own local paper in Irvine).  Only the New York Times seemed to make any effort, which highlights how useless the British media are.

Incidentally I think he is wearing gloves in those photos, but the are light-coloured.

It's not stealing if she puts up photos on a publically accessed social media platform though is it? Plus, she's showing cleavage....big fucken deal and she's probably a right munter when you strip away the make-up, not that she's owt to look at with make-up on...and lastly, she's probably got the IQ of an earthworm..so all in all, fuck all.

1 hour ago, jaymann said:

They say we receive a proportionate number of vaccines based on population from the UK.

So why is it that the UK intends to have their 25M vulnerable population vaccinated by April? Am I missing something? Surely proportionality says we too should be completed by the same time of our vulnerable population.

Or is it so simple as to say that they aren't talking about completing it by September, what they're actually saying is that they'll have it completed by the election?

It could be that proporrionally we have double the amount of vulnerable people.

1 hour ago, Happier diner said:

Does anyone know what the real bottleneck is? Is it

A) availability of the vaccine

B) Logistics of administering it 

C) getting it to IOM

Very disappointed to hear that it will take until September just to do all the over 50's. Its not just not a speeding silver bullet, it's not anything like bullet like at all is it? More a silver slow thing.

If it's just A) then will the Oxford vaccine change this?

I'd imagine that at the point of the announcement there was only one licensed vaccine and that as always with Government they give worse case scenario, however, once more vaccines get approval then things will speed up and the likelihood is that all the over 50's and all the rest of the vulnerable people will all be vaccinated by Easter and that the borders will be at least at level 2.

10 hours ago, Happier diner said:

You mean you are just guessing 

Er....predicting is pretty much guessing you halfwit!

1 hour ago, Neil Down said:

You have to remember that we appear to be living in a society where minority rules...

Ain't that the truth!!

On 12/4/2020 at 9:47 AM, wrighty said:

Not sure it helps to reduce everything to "X doesn't agree with my position therefore he's an idiot".  There are as many, if not more, people against legalisation of cannabis as for it.  As a politician he's going to be gauging public opinion and treading a fine line between upsetting the pro camp on the one side with the antis on the other.

 

Hang on a sec, by what right have the NO people got to impose tbeir wishes on the YES people? Surely this is even less important than the abortion debate ffs, a set of people who WON'T imposing their wishes on those that WILL even though every adult should be able to do whatever the fuck they like with their bodies (cannabis)...admittedly when it comes to abortion this is a lot more sensitive as there is a human life involved that doesn't get to choose.

Ooh, ooh, I don't legitemately need to have it because I've had anaphylaxsis reactions in the past...happy days!

1 minute ago, quilp said:

The way to go initially would be the issuing of permits to grow one's own. Obviously with a limit to quantity, say half a dozen plants in rotation at any one time, whether artificially under lights hydroponically or a summer crop in the greenhouse. Easy to police, big fines and revoking of the permit if found to be supplying others. No public use, age restricted and above all, proper scientific research into what level in the blood qualifies intoxication for drivers. 

It's logical and sensible thinking and planning like this that should be in place but our 'tits in power' don't have the desire to rock the boat and do the right thing.

47 minutes ago, Apple said:

I disagree. Different books and songs etc may be written instead. I don't think Shakespeare used it.

 

The use of cannabis for those with mental health problems and severe mental illness can and does often exacerbate symptoms, sometimes increasing risks to themselves and /or those around them. 

This though is only about the medicinal use, not the decriminalisation of all use. If that is what is being proposed then a whole new government department will need to be setup for government oversight of the import, growth, use, quality, etc etc. Leaving it all up to users to govern it's use will lead to problems. 

Ypu don't half write a load of shite.

Just now, MadAsHell said:

MHK's and estate agents first.

And Advocates, tbey should get it first and hopefully that'll be the bad batch that'll not kill 'em but make them ill enough to review their career choices.

44 minutes ago, Nom de plume said:

I'm reading that they are firing it into care home inhabitants pretty much from the get go.

It's clearly going to be the elderly & vulnerable first (quite rightly too).

We'll have our lot sorted by the New Year if they get their skates on and the shit arrives on time.

And health workers and Nursing Home Staff and emergency services staff.

1 hour ago, Albert Tatlock said:

IMO...prior to the completion of the bulk of the roll out here - 'not vaccinated' should mean 'no entry' for visitors to the island.

Why, surely if everyone, or at least, most people on the island have the vaccination then it'll not matter at all if people coming to the island are vaccinated or not?

7 minutes ago, Lxxx said:

The rest of the world isn't fucked at all.

Having just returned from the middle and far east everyone is making plans to find their niche in a new world. The west is stuck in a state of paralysis while everyone east of Cyprus is powering on. The island needs to start working out where it wants to sit from here on in. There are more attractive tax-friendly jurisdictions out there now which are a lot closer to the action.

Well I'm glad to hear some optimism because if one just focusses on the IoM it wouod seem we are made to be hermits until fuck knows when and if you go further afield to the UK, well, that looks like a complere basket case. Is the runway at Ronaldsway long enough so that we can fuck the UK right off and have planes go to fairly far away places that have got their shit together direct and back again?

We're fucked, the UK is fucked and the rest of the world is fucked. No one has a clue about what to do, even if vaccines are rolled out they'll take a year (according to Anne 'she who doesn't say much' Corlett).

8 hours ago, The Duck of Atholl said:

I'll definitely have it. So amusing to watch those brave and bold people who didn't mind/care if they got the virus (and in so doing not knowing how it would affect them) now hand wringing over the safety of a clinically tested vaccine.

I won't have it because I'm as hard as fuck and have beaten every bastard thing life has thrown at me, this virus will have fuck all affect on me..I'll scare it away.

1 hour ago, Two-lane said:

Ok, so that's a serious question. I lived for most of the 1980s and 1990s in Germany. When I moved from London to Frankfurt I found the standard of everything to be substantially better than in London. As a simple example, the interior doors in the cheap flats I lived in were better quality than the front door of the house I lived in in London. An assumption is that they had more money, but that is not the real reason - the GDP per capita of Germany and the UK does not seem to be much different. The difference is that I thought they were always reluctant to spend money, but when they did so they spent on good value. In relation to this topic, they have acres and acres of dull, boring, grey, block paving. Pavements, city centre shopping areas, trams stations, parking areas - all the same. And no 6 inch concrete plinths under the paving. But it all looks ok because it is always clean, tidy, and well maintained. And there are flowers - always red geraniums - I think it must be a rule. That is what I would do. Keep it simple and easily maintained. Grey block paving on the pavement and tarmac on the road. And be prepared to spend money to ensure that it is kept in good condition.

 

 

I agree that that is where the DoI fail, they construct or have constructed but neglect the maintenance which means the longevity is very much shortened and thus they have to replace with new which in turn means a lot more money spent than is necessary. I hope that the DoI chiefs read this so that they ensure resources are available on a regular and periodic basis to carry out the requred maintenance.

18 minutes ago, Two-lane said:

Taste is a matter of taste. The multi-coloured layout of pink concrete, many shades of composite granite (including green, for God's sake), bits if this and that everywhere - has all the style of a fake Gucci, diamanté encrusted, tart's handbag carried by someone wearing 6-inch red stilettos and wearing fake leopardskin leggings. Some people like that kind of thing. And once the horse trams start running and the usual deposits the nags have made have worked their way into the surface, that nice pink concrete is going to end up partly pink interspersed with unsightly brown stains. Probably Longworth has a plan to solve that problem.

(I still don't understand how they can plan to run a horse tram through the pedestrian area at the south end. How will they deal with children running around, and blind people? And the piles of horse manure on the footpath - will they put up signs telling blind people to watch their step?)

 

And your alternative to everything you've criticised would be what exactly?

1 hour ago, Sheldon said:

An incidental point, but does "tw@t" really need the final "t" there?

Not a question that would probably have occurred to me when sober, and certainly not one I'd have posted. Beer, eh?

That's a very vslid point...tw@ it is and shall be from here on.

1 hour ago, NoTailT said:

Thinking about this further, a cancellation at this point of TT is basically an admission by COMIN that they expect us to be locked down in our lovely COVID Island bubble for many months to come.

Not necessarily, the TT in its entirety takes a hell of a lot of planning therefore I would imagine thst due to the vast amount of unknowns and uncertainties they've decided to play it safe and cancel it for 2021.

27 minutes ago, Amadeus said:

Do you kiss your mother with that mouth? 

No...she's been dead for quite some years and was cremated.

19 hours ago, Amadeus said:

Such beauty. Like an unfinished symphony of tarmac and paint. 

https://twitter.com/Amadeus_IOM/status/1332000223242149889?s=20

I think it looks pretty damn good actually and the unfinished  bits will be finished and then the whole Prom will look ace.

19 hours ago, Amadeus said:

Such beauty. Like an unfinished symphony of tarmac and paint. 

https://twitter.com/Amadeus_IOM/status/1332000223242149889?s=20

Ride your bike on the road you tw@t