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Can one of them answer the question, why wasn't the promenade refurbishment carried out in sections?

There has been Covid during all this. It was wheeled out as a reason for a couple of delayed/extra cost projects in last week's examiner. Many more to come. Covid. Thank god for Covid.

Is this now a thing? OK, I appreciate that it is different maybe living on IoM but in my day we were lucky to get a lift to the boat (only 1 person in my year used the plane) with a rucksack on our back. Even the rest of the uni/poly kids from mainland Britain made their own way, although a few were picked up at the end of the year. I think that was all part of the education. That loan tentative step onto the boat was the beginning of the big university journey.

I see in last week's Isle of Man Examiner, uber fuckwit and every goggle box TV couch potato's lovable rogue Goldie, did a wee bit of time in the nick for breaking lockdown rules, but perhaps more relevant is the sentences dished out by Isle of Man's new bestie Guernsey, where two English workers face months in a Guernsey jail after being fined £9,000 for breaking their self-isolation by going to the pub [source Manx Independent 30/7/20 p2] And whinging selfish gets on the Isle of Man think they've been hard done by.

Covid-19 saved (new) Manx Radio.

A bit long-winded article but fair enough. I'm still bemused by the amount of white thrusting (I'm not sure what that word means in context but it seems to fit) young women who are doing all the shouting. Oh, and I'm glad I'm not one of that woman's 'friends'. I bet she knows where they all live too. She has certainly picked up the spirit of the movement, to be fair. From the article: ETA: Hah, hah, there's a guy in the middle of that group with a big grin on his face. He's found himself in a target rich environment.

How was the IoM?

I wish IoW all the best, however the Isle of Man TT has taken over 100 years to evolve and to adapt - and that is happening all the time. For example, the 1980s/90s saw enough hotel rooms on Douglas Promenade after the drop off in tourism, along with pubs and nightclubs etc looking for business. Then the upsurge in new flats took off and the Douglas Promenade changed, so Homestay was phased in (late 1980s) along with a proliferation of campsites/glamping. The IoM TT racing itself and the course has evolved, including the installing of marshals, the policing and emergency services, the general infrastructure adapt accordingly. Our local businesses, such as restaurants, pubs, petrol stations etc are geared up for the TT upsurge. All retail outlets know to what extent they need to stock up for May/June. It's 'in the DNA'. The general population, for or against the TT, know and more-or-less accept what is going to happen. No one has been on the Isle of Man longer than the TT. Not anymore. If you don't like it there's a boat...etc (and many do of course). The boys organising the IoW racing is one thing and I wish them the best of luck, but the TT is a lot more than just the racing. And no single person, not even a large committee, can organise and arrange it. The IoM TT happens because many 1000s of people make it happen, as they have done for decades.

The TT is more-or-less at capacity as it is, but in any case, something like this would only bolster the TT. Incidentally, I bet there are a few greedy self-aggrandised Isle of Man Government motorsport employees sniffing the lure of money. There's been previous. They know who they are.

Yes, specialist lawyers in UK. (ie not some Athol Street shyster) Edited to add: Not that there are any Athol Street shysters. At all. ETA It's just a phrase. A figure of speech. Not relevant here anyway.

It deffo wasn't. At first it was pre-recorded but was live from 1997 from his byre in Scotland. edited to add: So re the technology not being 'quite there' Chris Kinley, as usual, was talking crappity crap. The technology has been there for a couple of decades at least, but certainly it's even better and more accessible this past few years. It's just that Manx Radio don't have the desire to use it due to being spoon fed barrow loads of taxpayers money each year.

Appropriate masks (ie with a layer of HEPA filter) and used properly (it's not rocket science) would stop this virus and as good as eradicate it. As simple as that.

This sounds like something that would be written for a 1st April news article. Maybe during one of those rainy non-racing days at the Isle of Man the guys got together in a pub and someone came up with the idea and it rained all after noon and more beer was drunk and in the morning they convinced themselves it was a goer. As a starter, they need to read Steve Hislop's book "You couldn't do it now". Well, just read the title should be enough. I say good luck to them, but it won't work.

Chris Kinley just saying on his show why they did the show from Peel and the studio during lock down, and also how the technology isn't quite there yet. Which I knew of course, but fair play to him.

Recent films depicting Great Britain in the first half of 20th century and earlier now have their fair quota of black faces, even if it distorts history in doing so. It all seems a bit false, but I suppose once my generation fucks off and all die, history can be wrote as 'they' would rather it was.

Because it is. I really can't answer that one, only you can say if you are upset or not. Endear is another matter. Regarding the direction or which way the 3 legs face, the jury is out and won't ever come back on that one, but you don't need to proclaim your couldn't be arsedness, I think we would know that. An upside down flag in any country is disrespectful and worse, but the 3 legs upside down is kneeling and er, erm, Manx people don't do that for anyone. Except maybe at the behest of the mighty BLM. So maybe it's me out of hilter on this (actually I'm not)

Manx Radio: The Hardy Commission Oh, that depiction of the Three Legs is going to endear an awful lot of Manx people, but I don't think they care anyway, the indigenous seem to be the chosen enemy for these people. It's all about them.

It's the way forward. One day we will look back at Manx Radio with its prime location and multiple presenter format and fancy studios etc. You could run a radio station from under your stairs/spare bedroom these days. Lockdown has only accelerated the process. I gotta laugh at BBC though. The Archers has a silly one player only format due to lockdown and social distancing procedures. Such as the independently produced programmes just got on with it and used freely available and easy to use technology. The Manx Radio stunt of using Chris Williams to broadcast from his home during isolation (with the other guy in the MR studio - is it a local law that Manx Radio must have 2 or more presenters?) demonstrated this fully. Looks like that one was ended before people started asking why they don't all just stay at home.

Hold on there la', the sun isn't over the yardarm yet. Although I did look up the meaning of that phrase and some ships considered it meant it was time for an alcoholic drink once the sun had risen above the yardarm. Society is so wuss these days. I went back to my work after a bit of a break and luchtime drinking had become very much frowned upon. Looking back, that pie and a pint for me dinner was about the only reason I went into work in the first place.

Just to clarify, this is a quite from a 1970 film, Watermelon Man, about a white guy who wakes up one day to find he has turned black, and shows how life and people's attitudes changed towards him . Maybe a bit too poignant for many at the time, probably even now.

They are fascistic. And Helix our kid, you're starting to lose the not inconsiderable respect you were gaining.

"A black man running...he must have stolen something"

I think I can, yes. You have selected just the last sentence of my post. Can I then take it that you fully understand and agree with the rest of the post?

. . . . I think you do ETA: Maybe should have said: liberal left, and beyond

History can be distorted. By its nature it is going to be taken out of context. Many people from British Isles died horrendous deaths during the second world war, either volunteered or conscripted. You may know that only as a simple throwaway fact, or you may actually know that. I'm not sure. They have no voice. Only through those they left behind, but they are dying off now too. The liberal left are inching in with every death and memory.