Annoymouse

Are they also fitting new water meters to properties? I saw MUA go around one estate and they’ve dug up and replaced every single water meter, is that going to be the new stealth tax?

Just another example of why there should be an all island rate system, my rates pay towards the Western Civic amenity and I think I’ve been there once in 10 years, I always use the Northern amenity because it’s more convenient for me.

These increases will really start to bite now, there were already very few incentives to stay on the IOM and there is even less now.

Roads were really icy this morning around 7am, my car was twitching quite a bit especially Bray Hill and QB but I did 20-30mph most of the way, some absolute clowns about jamming the anchors on and sliding about, clearly expecting magic to happen between the contact patch and icy road surface. After skating about a bit I dropped 5 PSI out of both front tyres and that helped tremendously, wonder if anyone else did the same? Asking for a friend but if you can see someone is about to plough into the back of your stationary vehicle can you legally jump a red? because clearly quite a few had never heard of something called engine braking down Bray Hill and I was certainly eying up the left hand turn as an exit route.

Any skid pan training won’t help when most drivers just pick the cheapest tyres possible when replacement is due.

I first started gambling with Hittin it big around 15 months ago, I’ve probably spent in the region of £500-600 in that time and won nothing so far, but it’s only money I was spending on lottery tickets anyway, I would say in that time the odds have winning have actually gone down, very rarely do you see a comp that’s only sold say 40-50% of tickets which was fairly common when I started. Biggest thing is don’t believe the posts saying it’s a low number of entrants and thus better odds, by the time a few of those posts go out it’s never shy of being 80% sold through. I tend to go for the big cash, car or instant win comps which are typically £1.99 - £2.99 a go. The entry list is viewable to all so I do believe it’s kosher, however you’ll see people buying £30-£50 worth of tickets in one go.

Bus driver should have checked the bus was completely empty, judging by this guys state I’m guessing he fell asleep and was slumped out of initial sight. Young man in video is extremely agitated, you can see he’s not thinking clearly whatsoever, anyone else would’ve located the emergency exit using the torch on their phone or called the emergency services, especially when it appears the gates were locked and it was difficult to get out. Two lessons will be learnt, driver will check his bus every single time and the angry young man will question some of his life choices, hopefully he’ll avoid the criminal damage charges by just paying up for the replacement window.

It’s a service provided to the public, so I’m glad they haven’t made a substantial profit, I’ve no doubt there will be cost savings to be had though.

Yes that is something I’ve weighed up, but a charger installation was around £500 when I last looked, it seems MUA then install a separate meter which I assume they’ll be another fee, it’s also only for off peak electricity, handy for fridge/freezer but I wouldn’t be able to run the likes of a washing machine at night without annoying the neighbours. Anyone buying a new EV will benefit from a service plan, things like charger installation but will be absolutely hammered with depreciation which will likely wipe off any savings initially made. In the second hand market the servicing difference between an EV and regular ICE car isn’t that much, I service my own car and the only difference would be oil, oil filter and an air filter, oil + filter costs me around £40 every 6 months, air filter was about £8 and I replace that once a year. VED is the same price as my current diesel, I get 55-60mpg consistently and I rarely have any need to park on Douglas prom so again, no benefit there.

I’ve been quite tempted with an EV after seeing used Nissan leaf price drops recently but with electricity costs rising, VED increase and now insurance +150% it’s put me right off. I can’t see there is any incentive to owning an EV now.

Morgan’s pies which is a shame, a relatively new business who worked extremely hard to establish themselves and appeared to have a decent market for their products, I wonder how much energy costs are to blame? must put quite the squeeze on original margins. Ross bakery was also for sale around the same time, has anyone bought them yet? Another very similar story of someone working hard to build up their business from scratch.

I quite like some of the Sainsbury’s products but some of them are 2 or 3 times the price that Sainsbury’s charge, how on earth is that justified? If they could just pick a store and run a franchise I think it would be a lot more successful.

It’s actually stopped me going there, if he could just tone it down a bit the videos would be a lot more palatable, it’s just all the jumping with excitement like a little puppy I find too much, toxic positivity is the new name for it I believe.

I hope this is being factored into specific EV insurance rather than hitting everyone’s pockets. Within time I suspect we will see a battery restorer/dismantler locally who could either make the battery safe for onwards shipping or repair the whole thing locally.

I was quite surprised to see her actually listed as doing a gig here, I would’ve thought she’d have regarded the IOM as some sort of backwater. If she doesn’t do a gig here and then rip the back out of the Isle of Man at some point in the near future I’ll be very surprised. I don’t actually mind her views, probably because I don’t take anyone’s views that literally, somewhere in the middle is the truth and all that jazz.