Zarley

38 minutes ago, WTF said:

nobody wants to topple the first domino 

So it's as I suspected; theres no rule against, it's just not the "done thing". Fecking useless, the lot of them. 

2 hours ago, Numbnuts said:

Zarley, good to exchange views. Thanks for engaging 

Yes, it's been good. Thank you too. 

13 minutes ago, Moghrey Mie said:

One year but you don't have to register to say you are living here. So I don't know how that would work.

https://www.tynwald.org.im/spfile?file=/business/bills/Bills/Assisted-Dying-Bill-2023.pdf

 

You could show proof via rent/mortgage contracts and utility bills. 

Yep. I've just about given up too. If it weren't for my family, I totally would have by now. It's their future I worry about, not mine. 

9 minutes ago, Numbnuts said:

In my opinion , and I think not just mine , the MHK’s are totally dependent on the CS and the CS know this. They have incredible power and on top of that CEO’s a salary in the region of 120k upwards . What do most of MHK’s really know about the workings of departments ? Very little I would say.

But surely they know enough to understand losing £160,000+ of taxpayers money due to a lack of due diligence means the CEO is incompetent? Why do we allow incompetent people to hold power over us? Why do we give in to bullies? Why can't we at least fine the incompetence? Maybe that would sharpen a few minds. 

I just don't understand why senior civil servants are bullet-proof. Something's got to give and I'm sick and tired of it always being ordinary people who do the giving.  

Just now, Numbnuts said:

Think revenue stream and benefits in staying…that’s why. . 

Are you saying thats why he wouldn't resign?

Is there any reason why MHKs can't put the pressure on and call for his resignation? Maybe if MHKs made more noise about CEOs making a mess of things, the CEOs might be a bit more careful about ensuring due diligence has been carried out. 

12 minutes ago, Numbnuts said:

How is a senior CS removed from his or her post though. Clearly gross misconduct etc yes but anything else just doesn’t happen. 

If Lewin had any self-respect he'd resign. What's stopping MHKs calling for him to do so? Is there a rule against them doing so, or is it just a case of "it's not the 'done' thing"?

9 minutes ago, Happier diner said:

Every one loves a big tug

Speak for yourself. 

15 hours ago, Twitch said:

Surely the Minister and CEO of DFE need to be accountable. The Minister ultimately responsible for all activities in any case. This isn't the only cock-up under Lewin's watch either. The department is so dysfunctional I don't think it matters who the minister is but Johnston seems particularly lightweight.

15 hours ago, Numbnuts said:

Tim Johnston was only appointed in January 2023 and before that there was only a shared post between Dept of Health and DoE . Lewin was the CEO though . Also there had been 4 ministers I think from 2021. And I agree. Totally dysfunctional with seemingly no accountability or limit on their expenditure .  

Sounds to me like the person who really needs to resign is Lewin. Until the CEOs of dysfunctional departments are held accountable, nothing is ever going to change regardless of how many department ministers resign or get sacked.

Getting rid of ministers is shuffling deck chairs while the ship is sinking, when they should be fixing the engine. 

15 minutes ago, Ringy Rose said:

Men tend to choose more violent methods of completing suicide. 

A mate of mine’s an express train driver in the UK and has hit someone on a couple of occasions now. Luckily they’re a fairly robust character but, even so, each time they had to take months off work to recover from the shock. Some drivers never recover.

My friend was an empathetic, kind-hearted person and his death was (for me) all the more troubling for knowing that the train driver would have also suffered greatly. He must have been truly in a bad place to inflict that kind of horror on another human being. It breaks my heart in so many ways. 

14 minutes ago, Omobono said:

There are states in America which permit  or facilitate  assisted dying , sounds like the balance of his mind was disturbed and he just couldn't bear the pain any more , Sad ending 

Pennsylvania isn't yet one of those states, but they're currently working to try to change that. 

https://deathwithdignity.org/states/pennsylvania/

I've only skimmed through the proposed bill, but it looks like he wouldn't have been eligible anyway as his illness was chronic, not terminal, although it could have gone that way given a few more years. 

But yes, a very sad ending to a good man's life. Sad either way really as the pain he endured must have been horrendous. A lose/lose situation. 

15 hours ago, Albert Tatlock said:

If you get hit by a train and you've got terminal cancer...cause of death will still be hit by a train...any inquest will say that.

...if deliberate, you might be glad you went that way...and probably for a moment feel chuffed to bits you chose that way out.

 

A friend of mine (in Philadelphia) ended his life that way five years ago this November. He didn't have a terminal illness, but he did have a chronic illness that caused him immense pain and suffering and hugely impacted his quality of life. Due to the opioid crisis in the US, he struggled to obtain adequate pain relief. 

It was a traumatic shock to all of us who knew and loved him. None of us saw it coming as he'd always been quite stoic about his circumstances. He left a note apologising, saying he just could no longer face the pain. Why he chose a train with which to end his life, he didn't say. 

Assisted dying (as the bill is written here) wouldn't have helped him but I do wish he had had a more dignified option for ending his life. 

I miss him. 

8 hours ago, HiVibes said:

Great times, no internet and everyone was just so simple...

Theres a lot to be said for bygone days when people weren't expected to carry a phone and be contactable 24/7. When the internet and social media didn't dominate people's social lives. When disinformation and conspiracy theories weren't available at the touch of a button that you carry with you everywhere. 

The other day someone said they were posting from a pub while watching sports and having fun with a few friends. I wondered how this could be so when he was busy arguing with someone here. Doesn't sound like a fun time to me and either he was neglecting his friends, or they were ignoring him and so he may as well argue on here. 

You see this behaviour everywhere. People limiting their face-to-face interaction with others because they're too busy arguing with an anonymous stranger on an internet platform. 

Even the way old school TV is being taken over by on-demand streaming will have a detrimental effect on social interaction. It used to be that at work or school, people would discuss the latest popular TV series the morning after it aired. Today you get asked not to, as some are saving it for the weekend and don't want to hear spoilers. A small thing perhaps, but the internet is encroaching on face-to-face human social interactions in a myriad of small ways and they add up.

As we are social animals, I can't see the increasing drive to live our lives online ending well. Maybe younger people don't see what's happening because they've grown up in the digital age. 

For clarity, this doesn't make me angry, it just makes me sad that younger generations are seemingly welcoming increasing social isolation with open arms. Is it really any wonder why depression, anxiety, and polarisation is increasing in today's society? 

TLDR: pushing people to utilise the internet in every aspect of their lives is a recipe for social disaster. 

2 hours ago, John Wright said:

It was t actually a sea wall. They were bull noses on the back walls of the houses on the seaward side of Sand Street.

Ah... so it wasn't a stand-alone wall? I've been down there for a look (inspired by chat here ages ago) but thought it was remnants of a stand-alone. Thanks John, learn something new every day. 

25 minutes ago, The Phantom said:

Simon has about 50 channels now!  Hardest working man on Youtube (or his script writers are at least).

Never been called Phants.  But I'll allow it. 

And to think I nearly called you Phanny! 

12 minutes ago, John Wright said:

If the drugs weren’t found in the car or on the persons arrested there’ll have to be extensive forensics, prints, DNA, etc, from vehicle and drugs packages. Takes weeks. Beyond PPA holding powers and custody time limits.

They’ve got the car, the people and, at least, some, if not all of the drugs, but not enough evidence to charge, yet. And no longer reason to hold.

Isn't there also a possibility the cops have a tail on them, hoping they'll lead them to any additional stash? Or is that only "as seen on TV"?

Thanks for that Phants. I'm a fan of his channel but I hadn't seen that particular video before. 

57 minutes ago, WTF said:

is it on fire ?

No that was just CrazyDavey passing through. He's hot stuff. Allegedly. 

49 minutes ago, newaccount said:

Shit layout as well. Most people use that doorway by the cash point as enterance or exit. Would make sense to have a doorway for arrivals and a doorway for departures. It's a dimly lit bottle neck.

There is an arrivals doorway down at the far end. On the right if you're outside the building facing it.

I'm not sure the existing cash machine gets enough use these days to warrant a second one at arrivals, if that's what your beef is. If in fact you had a cash machine beef rather than just not realising there's an arrivals entrance to begin with.  

4 minutes ago, WTF said:

user name No. 97 takes to the keyboard ..................................😂🤣🤣😂

Ignore it. Maybe it will get bored and go away. 

12 hours 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!!!

11 hours ago, mollag said:

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

I think Kopek must have confused Indian Muslims with Indian Hindus. Sacred cows are Hindu.

3 minutes ago, Gladys said:

5) Dogs longer have the discarded Subway products to graze on, so they poop in protest. 

You're welcome! 

And where do they stage their poop-in? You guessed it... Peel beach!

11 hours ago, Moghrey Mie said:

How has a thread about TESCO taking over nine Shoprite stores become yet another moan about dog poo and litter?

It's a tangential six degrees of separation thing. You can link any subject to doggy doo or litter in six steps or less.

1) Tesco takes over Shoprite.

2) Subway closes as a direct result.

3) Main demographic affected by said closure is teenagers.

4) Teenagers will no longer have Subway wrappers and take away cups to throw on the ground in the surrounding neighbourhood.

So there you have it; Tesco to litter in four simple steps. 

19 hours ago, Harry Lamb said:

If the school keeps them on the premises they need staff to supervise them. This has a cost implication and there is also the difficulty of recruiting suitable people. And kids like the freedom and independence of going out, so some of them are liable to kick off. How about parents drumming it in to their little darlings that dropping litter is anti-social and unacceptable?

So they hire a few extra dinner ladies, or dinner gents for that matter. There're plenty of people for whom a couple hours over dinner would suit to top up a pension or ease back into work from being on incapacity.

But then I remember that government only ever wants to increase the numbers of higher paid office grunts, not lower paid boots on the ground grunts. 

Kids have plenty of time in a day in which to exercise their freedom and independence. During school hours they should be concentrating on learning, not roaming around the town littering and generally being prats. I'm willing to bet that kids who have been off campus for lunch take much longer to settle back down to their afternoon lessons than kids who've stayed on campus. 

I think what gets me most about kids littering is, well, they're contributing to the pollution of a planet they're going to have to live on for decades to come. They're damaging their own future. I understood that from an early age, how can these kids not also see it? 

17 hours ago, Happier diner said:

I hear myself moaning and think my god I sound just like my dad did. 

😂 Right?!? Only in my case I remind myself of my mum. I don't get my knickers into quite the twist she did, which is a small consolation. 

15 hours ago, Blade Runner said:

Filming purposes?

 

Eh? If that's the first place your mind went to following my comment, then you're sick in the head. Maybe someone needs to have a look at your hard drive. 

2 minutes ago, Lilly said:

 

Maybe the school could provide better food choices for the kids and some incentives for them to stay on the school grounds.  Should we also  encourage our kids to make good food choices? 

 

I agree. The school should provide a decent, nutritious hot lunch (with cold options available) and keep them on campus throughout the whole school day.

As a bonus, there'd be a huge reduction of litter around Peel if they did this. Yes, QEII students littering during their lunch break is a pet peeve of mine. Theres a noticeable reduction in litter during the summer holidays, so its obviously the kids doing it. I've seen them walking past bins and dropping their wrappers/bottles etc on the ground anyway. Grrr. 

End of today's rant.