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A journalist is defined as 'one who keeps a journal'.

Always thought Gandeys were serial litterers; The circus is here for a week or two but their posters are on any building they can get away with, rotting away all year round.

If you were a snidey utility provider that wanted to extract more money from your customers, why would you want to do it via a costly replacement of meters when you could simply increase tariffs?

It's a cult. The cult tells the uneducated that they're gifted, special and better than all the rest, a feeling they've perhaps wanted to feel all their lives. For them, shouting 'educate yourself' to others is the ultimate thrill because they were never good enough academically to be the professional people they are emulating. Reminds me of the Melanesian cargo cults but in this case they're cosplaying as lawyers, medics, biologists, etc.

I would say the argument is subtly different. It's not absolving from responsibility as much as accepting that removing online gambling businesses from the Isle of Man would not help people on the island struggling with gambling addictions. The protesters likely drove past betting shops, supermarkets with National Lottery stands and pubs with fruit machines to congregate outside of a business that mostly works with businesses located outside of the UK.

If I had left the island and was missing it terribly, maybe regretting my decision I'd write something like this.

I agree, Courtenay is very unlikely to accept help because right now because he's never felt better. His belief system is constantly telling him that he's special, he's gifted, that he's one of the enlightened few. He's buzzing; he can't wait to get up every morning, march into town in his blue shirt and leer at passers by.

Giving him the benefit of the doubt perhaps, but I read his post originally as being tongue in cheek. A sort of 'bye-bye, deary' with feigned affection. He clouded this with his personal views about Abbotswood, admittedly.

The verdict some weeks ago made him seemingly double his efforts, at least as was visible on on his Twitter account.

manxcare-48-audio.mp3 For those who thought a 7 gig file for 2 hours of speech was a tad excessive...

Every crank theory has to fight for its own survival, or it gets forgotten about. The crank theories that refer to and support other theories are mutually doing each other a favour and tend to stick around more.

When I lived there the cleverest people drove around in Aston Martins on an island with a maximum speed limit of 40 mph.

No I agree that they do seem to be doing better. Jersey is the centre hub airport for a total population of about 170,000 people, so I don't know, maybe we should potentially see over twice the flight connections the IOM gets if they were compared?

Indeed, but the Channel Islands are an archipelago which necessitates quite a bit of air travel between the islands for its own residents. External visitors might want to go to Guernsey or Alderney but must do it via Jersey, for example. So there's a lot of 'island hopping' in that locality that we simply don't have here, and I have always been curious as to how that is represented in their air travel statistics.

If somebody described to me a picture where there was a group of determined, ignorant people repeatedly not listening to sense, lining themselves up for failure and humiliation, whilst someone with their feet on the ground and a reasonably objective point of view was pointing out their mistakes in vain, the person standing on the riverbank would not be representing your point of view, put it that way. In fact, to extend the metaphor, the conspiracy theory sailing team repeatedly plummets off the cliff face of humiliation, lands at the bottom and willingly climbs back to the top to give it another go. The fact that your cult occasionally hits the truth by pure coincidence amongst a multitude of bad takes does not prove that your methods are sound or that you know remotely what you're talking about - a broken clock is accurate twice a day, but it doesn't make it a reliable timepiece.

This is like every interaction I have with the conspiracy lot. "Here's a picture of..." - turns out to be bollocks "Here is a recording of..." -turns out to be bollocks. "They're doing this [technical thing]" - person with skills and knowledge of [technical thing] proves it to be bollocks. Where did you get your 'research? - A highly reputable resource known as a YouTube video link nestled amongst woo-woo grifts like 5G reflecting amulets and other such nonsense in Telegram. But my guess is that you will not be shaken by this one bit because you've basically joined a cult that repeatedly tells you you're special. No doubt they'll say that everyone on here is a sheeple and not ready to see the amazing wisdom you possess.

People can be very intelligent and still suffer from delusions or paranoia - 'They want to poison us, they're surveilling us, they're lying to us, I'm especially gifted and insightful and the ordinary people can't see it' - all common themes in the conspiracy theory community that are also symptoms of psychosis. For the most part whenever I read output from the usual sources and they move onto certain subjects where I do have knowledge and experience, I can immediately see that it is risible gibberish and I have no further reason to examine the remaining parts of their argument.

Two things strike me on that subject (pun not intended). 1. Like most of these theories, it requires an absolute absence of baseline education on the part of the "conspiracist" on the subject matters of ballistics, groundworks, geology, architecture, metallurgy, fire prevention etc. This comes as standard with all popular conspiracy theories. 2. It's like a 'Moon Landings Were Faked' claim - There are countless hostile powers who would love to muddy the waters and claim that the US government demolished a building in their own city, but don't, just like Russia/USSR could have made the claim that the US landing on the moon was faked, but they didn't. ^Doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. You saw a couple of camera angles that, to you, did not sufficiently show enough damage to cause a collapse. That doesn't prove it was not damaged.

It's all driven from some baseline delusions, no? Some hidden 'they' are poisoning us, want to control us, want to track us, - all to appeal to a paranoid mindset.

I described the IOMToday comments section as being 'unimaginably worse than Manx Forums' the other day.

I'd love to hear a psychiatric opinion as to what is (most likely) going on in that head of his.

One has probably inspired the other.

I think I heard it on Radio 4, to be honest.