Numbnuts

You’re so right re management. I also know a ex fireman from there and this is what he’d told me too.

I think your right but what’s even more relative no one to crew it. Airport firemen don’t want to know due I believe to training issues to crew it.

Yes indeed , our police get bad press from time to time but this is a great result. Tbh I’ve fallen foul of the police before and always found them fine ,professional and with empathy. Mind you ,I’m old school and still respect authority . I also never kicked off on them and gave them a reason to get angry.

I’ve got quite a few apps on my iPad and never had a problem before with any of them. No big deal as don’t go to airport very often especially with car. I’ll just wait for them to drop it and deal with whatever they replace it with. Thanks again .

Thanks for that much appreciated. Wonder being on the IOM is that why. Though lots seem to be doing it but likely to be on there phones.

Tried to install Ringgo on my I pad last night , 3 times in all , and each time I couldn’t get anything to happen on the opening screen. My i pad is only a year old and has the most updated OS version installed okay. Anyone had this happen to them. It’s not life threatening but maybe in the future it might be handy to have.

If you extend what there saying, if a country wants to deport them and your already in a country how is that managed. No country is going to take them for obvious reasons. Hence the reason lots coming to Britain have ‘lost’ there documents and therefore it’s a long winded affair to remove them. . Even if it’s possible which in many cases it isn’t.

Isn’t the issue that if they arrive with paperwork they can be deported out to there country and if they don’t no country would accept them as failed asylum seekers as they have no obligation to do so. They all know this hence they dump there passport and anything proving where there from. Happy to be proved wrong on this.

Yes , spent many a hour scrambling with my mates back in the day . Great place to hang out and the Putts on Victoria road another place.

Probably do . I mean they have to justify the 400k

Sorry didn’t really answer fully. There’s scales they work depending lots of factors including geographical, materials and labour rates. Then the type of job and recommended supervision needed etc. They used to work of there ‘bible’ with all the breakdown of materials etc. They then work out the meterage and apply the labour rates related to job and location. Now of course it is all computerised which probably makes it quicker but for sure won’t be cheaper. Also there recommended % for unknowns will be added on the end of the contract and a PC sum also for unknown. Clearly in this case it won’t be as detailed or difficult or shouldn’t be ! Also in the real world there’s a % profit margin added too but that shouldn’t apply for government contracts but bet it does .

I’d say works are priced out through perhaps a in-house Quantity Surveyor . And if you’ve ever dealt with QS ‘s they are incredibly heavy on the pencil.

No totally as I said in my earlier post there taking the P ……..

Not really sure if that’s a credible example tbh. Was on a coaching course once and one of the guys on it owned a sign making company. He explained the processes involved , very interesting ,but the coatings alone to allow for the weather and the likes made it a lot more complicated than I thought. He did mention also ,as he knew I was from an Island ,that you have to allow for a coating to protect from salt too.

I’d really love to see a broken down price per sign supply and fit. Think it will be a lot less than the open ended figure of 400k. They ,in my opinion using it to put some signs up in limited places there needed and the rest into the DOI coffers.