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You don't need a dating site for that, the dessert section in M&S is full of them

Bluemonday outside Mc Deaths last Saturday talking to traffic and scaring passers by

I saw him at Tynwald chatting up Alan Bell. Fixed Take the piss all you want - the moustache stays

Fresh bap from Pat-A-Cake, 2 rashers of grilled smokey bacon. 1 Gellings free range egg, fried. Perfect

Hah what a post,you must stand for election.Cheapest way is to increase tax on fuel?And then when everyone goes for the free transport the fuel tax will have to be increased as there will be less road users. "there will be less road users". = less congestion

Building a bigger roundabout at QB will not ease congestion, it will simply shift the congestion to other parts of the town and the DOT know this full well What it will do is succeed in increasing the annual budget of the DOT, which as I have stated with monotonous regularity on this forum, is the real purpose of the DOT Fucking up the traffic is just a by-product of the department's lust for our hard earned money If you really wanted to cut down on traffic the cheapest way to do it would be to make public transport free and pay for it with an extra tax on fuel. Simple really

If its cheap beer your after the Co Op in Duke St is good I'll stick to the "Dogs", there were six lads knocking fuck out of each other outside McDeaths last week after the football Not my kind of pub

The new " Dogs Home" is fast becoming my local,, Robert is the perfect pub landlord and keeps a good house Small wonder that many of the "Dogs" regulars are drifting back there, albeit older & wealthier

Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) used to eat raw pork before bedtime in order to give him weird dreams which inspired his paintings See: "The Nightmare"

I think the clue is in the name of the thread - "MF spotting" Are Ms Widdecombe and Mr Grant MF members? Could Anne lurking here as "Charles Flynn"? If they are MF members, what names do you think they use? You'd be on very shakey ground accusing any female MF member of being Anne Widdecombe There are a few candidates for Russel Grant though

there was a similar set up thru a shop on Prospect Hill "horroks?" It was demolished for Victory house and a new right of way established to the side, the original , i think, linked right to Drumgold street and then Callows Slip [ Regent Street} We were always Falcon drinkers, the Tartan bar was the best around [circa 1970] The dogs i never liked, i was banned by Mrs Mc Aleer on my first visit! Used to have a drink with Max Glanz in the snug in later years, i was esentially his office then. The Tartan Bar had the best jukebox selection, but the Dogs was a close second Max later decamped to the Golden Egg where he would sit with Colin Fick , Willie Kirkpatrick and several other local movers & shakers pouring over the FT

As I said, it was a fantastic pub in the days of Mr McAleer and for several years afterwards was still easily the coolest pub in town. Unfortunatley the Dogs became managed rather than tenanted and was then "done up" with acres of dark stained wood & burgundy carpet. The original clientelle departed for the Grosvenor on Athol St, Razzles in Walpole Ave. (now Guys & Dolls) and Zhivagos the former Yates Wine Lodge which became Busheys To say that the Dogs was full of druggies is inaccurate by todays standards, even in it's latter years it was only a few dope smokers and the autumn mushroom trippers Not a "Druggie Pub" as we would understand it today

Many of our older readers may remember the Dogs Home pub in Drumgold St (now M&S lingerie dept) In it's truly great days it was run by a Mr Peter McAleer and was the coolest pub in town , a sort of Busheys in the 1960s /70s but had gone off a bit by the 80s and was demolished to make way for our treasured department store The real name of the pub was the "The Victoria Tavern" but nobody ever called it that, it was always "The Dogs" Today in Victoria St the former "Cork & Bottle" bar, closed after the sad and untimely demise of Declan, unveiled it's new name: "The Victoria Tavern" and it is to be run by Robert McAleer son of the legendary "Dogs" landlord. Refurbishment appears to be underway but I have no idea of the opening date

Cammag followed by Hunt the Wren That's my boxing day sorted

Spotted gorgeous Gladys delicately picking apart a lobster on Saturday night

"In the United Kingdom especially in the Isle of Man, it is common to find "chips, cheese & gravy" for sale in a Chip shop or "chippy". This usually consists of brown gravy and grated mild Cheddar cheese." This quote from Wikipedia on the subject of Poutine the Quebec version of Chips Cheese & Gravy They reckon the dish started in 1957 but can only trace the origin of the word Poutine relating to CC&G from 1978 Any of you gourmets out there remember when you first discovered this delicacy ?

Spotted a Manx reg green Range Rover in Hastings on Monday and a black Harley with a Manx flag & "Proud to be Manx" on the (English no.plate) in Rye on Wednesday Anyone own up to these ?

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Yeterday I thought I saw Homarus. But when we met it was neither of us. What a relief for both of us

I am a Manxman who has been homeless in his own "home" In 1984 the bank reposessed the hotel we had been running and we ended up staying on a friends floor, two of us plus our toddler son. There were over 2000 people on the dole here, jobs were scarce and our benefits came to £52.00 a week We spent the winter days sitting in Barry Noble's amusements to keep warm. After a few months of this we moved to London, got jobs, worked hard then moved back here when things picked up. It's about choices, if you choose to devote your life to drink then don't come whingeing when you live in shit, get out and earn a fucking living like the rest of us.