Barlow

Yep, in other words a greedy tw@t that has sold their soul. If I won the pools/the lottery I would pay £20k to everyone who has a plastic chimney to write the name of the architect* on the side of it in big letters. (It might cost less to pay to have a proper chimney rebuilt but that would be less fun) ETA: * and the Planner (who back in my day, UK, were generally failed architects anyway) who insisted on the laughable enforcement.

If I was an architect/draughtsman and someone told me they wanted fibreglass chimneys my very words would be "I'm not having that against my name, fuck off and find someone else"

are the Isle of Man planning people still insisting on chimneys, so builders putting in plastic/fibre glass false chimneys (*sniggers*)

Loch Promenade was built as a single project, beautifully designed homogenetically, with an asymmetrical balance about it. One building goes it should all have gone. I suppose the rot set in with the church replacement, at a time when the church had too much money. Then a particularly ugly dormer (built at a time when such things did not require planning permission. The knocking down of the snooker hall/Freemasons set the trend. The Villiers block could and should have been saved but money talks. Interesting that the then owner is now being dragged through an unpleasant bankruptcy and even his granddaughter, a local advocate, does not appear to be able to help him. The al'man would be spinning in his grave. What is left of Loch Promenade is great but is only a token of what it could have been. Like that part of the sea wall behind WH Smith, just an artifact. Incidentally, there was more of that sea wall at the Villiers that was listed to be saved but an Irish lad driving a digger knocked it down, by mistake of course. I doubt he had to buy any drinks that weekend.

Bring back Snitz Forums, everything was much better them days.

There might be a First Day issue yet. I'm still waiting for the Jurby Prison/'Goldie' stamps issue.

Bollocks I mean no disrespect but the last time you used that one was when it was said a senior policeman blatantly lied to cover up for an advocates wrongdoing. You were provided details in PMs and eventually capitulated to the effect that it was ok for police to lie in the situation because of who the person was that was being lied to. In my assertion above, I think the relevant phrase is 'need to know basis'.

Not necessarily. This is the Isle of Man courts we're talking about here. Court cases can be carried out on a 'need to know' basis.

I can't believe that people are bringing the police into this subject in the context they are. If in doubt blame the government. If in doubt blame the police. Jeez

Maybe in an ideal world we all get smacked off our heads for breakfast every day.

Interesting. Perhaps there should be a human equivalent of this, if that erm, doesn't sound a bit Nazi Germany-ish. Maybe we're all part of such an experiment right now and we don't know it (which is a bit Douglas Adams-ish of course)

I have to admit that the big druggies I know (and knew..) were much the opposite. We all have our problems of course and they are all relative. Some wanted to be rock stars and had the drugs and hellraising bit and I suppose the talent too, but just like Pearl the Singer, they never made it. Others just think it's so fooken cool to take drugs. The having a hard life bit then becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. I wonder do people who have been in a war zone, lost family to the war, seen horrors and I mean real horrors, lost home and everything else, etc, etc. Do majority of them become heroin addicts? I s'pose some do, but I wonder if they come to a drugs party on the streets of UK what they think of the reasons our druggies became druggies? I know some of them, the worst I have heard is "My Mum died and my life went down from there". That one was from a forty year old man on the streets of Leeds. ETA just thinking, in fairness he could have been 14 when that happened, but even so, I bet he had never even heard of say, Gaza.

There's a few Facebook groups on how tenants cab fuck over their landlords, especially when leaving.

There is a "code of conduct" that runs in general life too, about not being an utter dick. The other problem of course, is when someone is apparently a newbie and starts getting personal behind an anonymous name. We've not had a chance to 'tab' you yet to find out who you are IRL.

What's with all the newbie accounts injecting personal venom into political figures. Maybe they need to stop bullying from behind their anonymous usernames.