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20 minutes ago, hissingsid said:

  It is a two edged sword indeed.

And it looks like your glass is half empty.

(fair points though)

15 hours ago, NoTail said:

Since when did street lights become lighting columns? Maybe you pay more for a lighting column

 

Whatever happened to the old street lights? Were all those 3 legs that were in the auction from them?

3 hours ago, Non-Believer said:

If nothing else, this unplanned sabbatical could be used for a review of the TT classes, to look at what's sustainable and what could be looked at to try and improve safety. New race/capacity classes have evolved on short circuits while the TT has largely stuck to its formulas of the last 16 years.

Perhaps it's time to look at whether the blind pursuit of higher and higher speeds to promote motorbikes in classes with falling sales figures/production is really the way forward?

It's not altogether certain who and what drives the classes of the TT these days, just as long as the Island is filled to capacity it's ok. And this past decade or so, that may well have been good enough. 

Back in the day the Isle of Man TT drove the industry. If a bike was tried and tested on real roads over many laps, then who could ask for a better advert. These days it is more the industry in charge. But as long as the campsites, pubs, B&Bs and restaurants are full it doesn't really matter. 

Things will have to radically change with the way the world is going, such as more emphasis on the marmite that is the electric bike, full circuit internet broadcasting etc. Then it may survive.

The Isle of Man's high;y unique position needs to be seen as an opportunity

2 hours ago, Albert Tatlock said:

"Takeaway deliver driver jailed for breaking isolation laws"

https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/takeaway-deliver-driver-jailed-for-breaking-isolation-laws/

The hearing was told the restaurant owner had initially refused to make a statement to police, and customers who’d dealt with Dimitrov that night now had to be traced and might have to quarantine themselves.

Little fucker should be banged up too.

10 minutes ago, dilligaf said:

I don’t think the tourist industry could have been kept alive without massive subsidy. It was a victim of the availability of new inexpensive european holidays, with sunshine and cheap everything. The whole of Britain lost out, not just us, but we in the IOM mad3 it worse by hiking up prices so often.

Aye, we had cheap stuff here. It's rarely mentioned or admitted to, but a big factor for the holiday industry was the cheap booze available on the Island. Oh, and all day pubs.

For many that was paradise.

In the 1980s, UK started afternoon pub hours so we lost out there, and we couldn't compete with cheap sangria etc in the sun. 

We just have to watch the situation in UK and see if there is anything we can offer people that they don't get at home. It looks like the continent, due to Covid and Brexit, is going to be a bit of a no-no.

Be careful you young people.

This is Katie's story:

https://gefthemongoose.com/blog/i-have-covid-19-i-am-ok-others-wont-be

11 minutes ago, dilligaf said:

All. I blame one person.

 

Then you is a knacker.

So for example what about the big team/s of legal advisers on 'both' sides (there was only ever one side - and they all wanted more of that lovely money, money, money).

21 minutes ago, dilligaf said:

Is the MEA loan STILL a scandal after all these years. ?

Too fucking right it is.

In fact it is a scandal that it isn't a scandal.

They all got away with it. The greedy , nasty, spineless, greed-ridden gets.

A bit like the woman who eats a water melon with her legs open to keep the flies off her food, I think the Promenade is doing a very good job of taking the focus of stuff like the MEA huge mega loans scandal, IRIS, incinerator and many more.

31 minutes ago, thommo2010 said:

I went through governors firstbyjing this morning then this afternoon, I'm sorry but if you cant see those road markings you shouldn't be driving.

You're right of course. And yes aren't people stupid.

But I wonder what you think about the people who designed that previous (albeit temporary) layout?

1 hour ago, John Wright said:

The Guernsey one was a Guernsey resident who was a patient who had returned to Guernsey after treatment in UK.

The IoM Gov will not release such detail, and even The New Messiah on the matter, our Rache, has proclaimed it thus on Twitter.

I think it is useful to know such details, not for pitchforkian reasons but to be aware of how and where an infection has arisen.

4 hours ago, Southfork said:

A few near misses in Onchan today. Everyone’s got so used to driving on the wrong wide of the road through Governor's Bridge they’ll be lucky if there isn’t a head on there now it’s back and few advisory signs up. 

3 hours ago, Neil Down said:

Says more about the knuckle dragging morons in cars. The road signage is very clear. Just read and follow. Police should be up there confiscating driving licences of any idiots not following the signs

Yep, the road layout is back to how it was before.

There does need to be warning signs that the layout has now changed (back) with maybe a footnote "...ok, we fucked up" 

1 hour ago, Gladys said:

As soon as the case was announced the FB eejits were calling for naming and shaming.  It is unbelievable how dense many people are.  Everyone looks at the number of positive cases in the UK due to wider testing and not the almost negligible death rate there now. 

Aye Manx Forums is sheer hell but to be fair, Facebook makes this place look like a cool, calm and collected retired professors debating society. 

1 hour ago, TheTeapot said:

Doesn't need a Sunday morning press conference for that really does it? 

45 minutes ago, Declan said:

I can't believe they held a press briefing about something so trivial. All this psychopathic display of self-importance does is breed hysteria. Quayle's ego knows no limits.

Amongst fear and fanfares they wheeled out the Guvnor to tell us someone had copped their wack

2 hours ago, Holte End said:

... the Government are going to start charging residents £50.00 for a Covid -19 test,

 

 

It would probably make more sense to give people £50 to be tested.

Manx Radio is a hotbed of nepotism.

"The Isle of Man is a very small place and nepotism is unavoidable" is a load of old bollocks

3 hours ago, HeliX said:

That stream of consciousness was a journey.

It must be Kopek o'clock

57 minutes ago, Roger Mexico said:

Hidden at the end of that statement: The Broadway junction will remain closed until the end of October.

Now a news item

Seven-week delay to reopening of Broadway in Douglas

7 minutes ago, thesultanofsheight said:

You’re right but then again without wishing to be too unkind the coffins are generally piling up in shithole countries where disease (any disease) always runs rife. Places like India and Brazil where poverty is widespread and people in cities live in top of each other and basic services are poor.

Actually I had in mind New York and various cities in Italy. And BArcelona etc. Do a [Covid Coffins] search

But I see your point.

22 minutes ago, Nom de plume said:

I’ll put it another way.

The virus is not even close to being as deadly as was first suggested.

In fact I would go as far as saying we are witnessing the most unnecessary over reaction in the history of mankind.

I truly believe that.

You've seen the pictures of coffins piled up and mass burials etc. That really happened you know.

OK, not here but elsewhere in the world. It happened.

You're right, the virus hasn't been as deadly as was first suggested, but If the world was full of Nom de plume's it would have been.

And on the Isle of Man the  NSC (or wherever) would have been coffin central. 

28 minutes ago, Two-lane said:

But you all already know this stuff. But what can one do. I voted for Allinson and Hooper in the hope that they would change things, but Allinson in particular has just become part of the problem.

Tynwald and Isle of Man government knew exactly which buttons to press to make Allinson come-right-along-onside, but actually I think he was already there. The ego button is the easiest and most accessible.

16 hours ago, Dirty Buggane said:

 All they had to do was relay the bloody tarmac

There's a lot to be said for that.

Oh and why didn't they do the promenade in manageable sections, or erm, has that already been asked.  

15 hours ago, Numbnuts said:

Here we go ! Or maybe its a disgruntled TT visitor who didnt get their money back from these low lifes .

I don't know the full situation with the Ellan Vannin and the TT visitors, but if you don't have the money to give back how do you give it back? It's a shit situation, but we're all in a shit situation. 

55 minutes ago, thommo2010 said:

The infection rate is high because theres more testing being done. I have no doubts covid is on the island but theres no testing going on unless you get symptoms or go to the hospital.

Careful now Thommo lad, @rachomics will have you branded a conspiracy theorist.

52 minutes ago, thesultanofsheight said:

But we’re still Brigadoon. 

You are Howard's scriptwriter and I claim my £5