Cambon

8 hours ago, CrazyDave said:

Arrow can’t dock until after Manxman leaves in the morning.

So stuff is much later getting u loaded.  Hence the impact to businesses and hence my post.

Why? There are two link spans. Manage it in the summer with manannan and Arrow at times.

55 minutes ago, thommo2010 said:

Realistically do we need a bus station? Other than people who don't like change has it actually been missed?

No. We have a purpose built, perfect covered area with toilets, waiting area, welcome centre, WHSmith and Costa at the Seaterminal that is begging to be used.

2 hours ago, 2112 said:

Today’s nonsense brought to you by the NPM this morning, is a request via a FOI over the costs of leaflets printed and distributed to households, from ManxCare. The leaflet informs citizens of the healthcare options available. 
 

Needless to say the FoI was refused, on the grounds of commercial confidentiality. ManxCare does say each leaflet costs 0.19p. I wonder how many printing firms on the island would be affected by commercial confidentiality? Are the actually producing them on island or they printed off island? Considering IOMG and its Arms Lengths are obsessed with the environment, I wonder how many miles those leaflets have arisen? Also most IOMG propaganda goes straight in the bin. 
 

How much would it have cost to deliver each leaflet, using either the newspaper delivery or the post office? It’s ironic really if the use the Courier, as I’ve never had a Courier for ages, and I’ve seen the Courier littering the streets. 

Thing is, it would probably cost more to process and produce the FOI than the leaflets cost in the first place. FOI is a Complete waste of money.

On 12/24/2023 at 8:28 AM, CrazyDave said:

Dude.

You upload your docs via a secure app for verification.  This includes a photo of you that has to be verified as a true likeness.

When someone wants to check your ID in person they use their unique QR code that you physically have to scan in front of them and it tells the app the age you need to be verified as being.

Without you or them doing anything else on the phone and in front of their very eyes it then loads a pic of you that has been verified and needs to be an actual likeness before they will let you in/buy something.  
 

At that point it tells them if you are old enough or not and they check the pic against your actual face.

So yes.  I don’t think John understands the process and if he does I am interested to know how you “pretty easily” fake something that has been developed by some of the top people in the world to specifically not allow that to be the case.

Or just use the fake ID you have been using for months. 

16 hours ago, La Colombe said:

Pints of wine. 

Quite funny really. British wine is expensive compared with most of its competitors. The answer is to sell it in smaller bottles (most likely for the same price as the competitor’s full bottle). Shrinkflation at its finest! 

13 minutes ago, La_Dolce_Vita said:

I don't doubt you. Though how many people do you think know what one is, nevermind have one?

The problem is one of sharing this information.  The company wouldn't necessarily encourage one method and discourage another because the failure of electronic and online things is that the payment is seen as a discrete aspect of the use of their service and one that is really about their customer's wider use of technology. 

I don't think there are an easy answers to this problem. But first people have to be aware that there is a problem with the way they're doing things.

There is one easy answer. Put the barrier and machines back. Takings are way down since Ringo. Needs to be scrapped and returned to the system that worked and was cost effective. 

3 hours ago, monasqueen said:

Just to make everybody happy, Father Christmas has presented the Steam Packet with amazingly big supplies of red ink.

Spot the sailing that will definitely operate over the next few days. (Tonight's is already cancelled).

Will Arrow be allowed out for a couple of runs??

Manxman, if cancelled, will bedue to “Woke” health and safety rules. No worries about Arrow. 

Should have built the new school in ballasalla where the new housing estate is, and then knocked down the old castle Rushen and built the houses there. It was suggested at the time, as Castletown has the shops, pubs and infrastructure required for houses, Ballasalla doesn’t. Schools don’t need it. Simple common sense. 

5 hours ago, Two-lane said:

In a place I recently visited, on the (there is only one tram line there) inside roof of the tram are QR codes at intervals. The  locals get on, point their smart phone at the QR code and sit down.

I had an old-fashioned paper ticket.

As a ticket inspector walked down the tram, he pointed a device at passengers who pointed their smart phone at the device, and the ticket inspector continued on his way.

I have no idea how it works, but theoretically the tram ticket app could also record time and GPS.

 

What’s the point? Just make buses free! People would use them then. Free up parking in town. Take loads of cars off the road. Less drug driving. Less congestion. No administration and accounting of fares. No brainer really. I am surprised government has not thought of it. 

38 minutes ago, Cueey Lewis And The News said:

I was talking about actual facts not Banker or Fantasy Dave “facts”. She wasn’t targeted because she was trans. That seems to have been reasonably well established from the court reporting. 

Then is was a very frenzied attack for something with little or no motive, according to you. She was stabbed at least 28 times. 

20 hours ago, Happier diner said:

What makes you think they are useless. Great for new well insulated houses. I wish I could have one but our old house is not suitable. 

I'm not sure what all the whining is about. I reckon they are no more expensive than an oil boiler and tank. 

Yes they work great, but cost a lot to run. More than straight forward electric heaters.

3 hours ago, P.K. said:

Let's tell it like it is.

Every racist would have voted for brexit and you share a common goal with them...

Well, more people voted for brexit than voted for the current government. Or the previous one. And, the only thing wrong with brexit is the current shambles that it the uk government. 

11 hours ago, The Voice of Reason said:

That happens a lot does it?
 

More than you think. Why do you think so many europeans vacated uk when the benefits gravy train stopped? 

11 hours ago, P.K. said:

@Cambon

You need to stop reading the Daily Mail...

I can’t. You bought the last copy! 

11 hours ago, HeliX said:

You can make up your own definitions if you want, but it won't change the accepted definition.

Woke definition! It is rubbish. Your made up definition basically means EVERYONE is a racist! 

4 minutes ago, HeliX said:

"Racism is prejudice or hostility towards a person's race, colour, language, nationality, or national or ethnic origin"

So yes, it is.

Bollocks! It is nothing to do with demonyms 

22 minutes ago, The Voice of Reason said:

I’m not sure how you can get free treatment on the NHS without living here. How would that work. Get a UK doctor flown out to Gdańsk or somewhere.?

But now the UK is liberated from the EU it can negotiate reciprocal arrangements should it wish, without being told what it can and can’t do.

The other way around. Fly / drive the sick person to uk and take them to hospital. More realist situations were bring pregnant woman to uk to have “British “ baby, for benefit purposes. 

10 minutes ago, HeliX said:

You can be racist against people who are the same ethnicity as you. For example, I despise the french.

I am not so keen on the French either, but they are the same race, so it is not racism. 

2 hours ago, P.K. said:

We know it was driven in part by racism. 

Not everyone who voted for Brexit is a racist but everyone who is a racist did vote for Brexit. Why would they not?

Of course, trying to figure out the proportion of who voted what and why is the tricky bit.  Especially as it's highly unlikely that anyone would actually admit to being a racist. But face it, Farage splashed around his infamous "Breaking Point" poster for a reason and it wasn't because he wanted to plumb a new low in UK politics - that was just a happy accident.  However in the weeks before the referendum 52% of those who were likely to vote Leave mentioned "immigration" as their most important issue.

Read into that what you will...

Being against unfettered immigration does not make one racist. Is being Polish a different race? French? German? It has nothing to do with race.

However, it has everything to do with someone from Poland working in the uk and claiming benefits for his whole family who live in Poland, and have never contributed to uk society. Much higher rates than are paid in Poland. When they got sick, they got free treatment on the NHS. UK pensions, everything, without even living here.

Is that racism? No. Ethnicity has nothing to do with it. So stop calling it racism! 

20 hours ago, P.K. said:

 

Perhaps not.

But they know they've been taken for mugs...

But have they? All the media is talking about is rubber boats of illegal immigrants, numbering a few tens of thousands a year, which serves for nothing but winding people up. At the same time, legal immigration from mainly outside the EU, numbers hundreds of thousands a year. This is kept rather quiet by comparison, but these people are needed and welcomed, to do the jobs the British cannot be arsed to do. Someone has to pay the taxes to support the cost of benefits Britain! 

2 hours ago, Shake me up Judy said:

Excellent post Two-lane. Sums it up perfectly. It'll be the top of the range Rolls-Royce option* as usual. What other upgrades were considered ? It'll also be nearer two million by the time it's installed. I saw the money they spent down at the Gaiety in the '90s when it was fully refurbished. Eye-watering I assure you, best of everything and no expense spared. We've already discussed the enormous cost and design flaws of the new Villa Marina at length on here, so I won't repeat them. Suffice to say, the taxpayer owns and subsidises a theatre and a concert hall, not a hundred yards apart. By all means replace the sound and lighting, but we all know that where public money is concerned, we're always buying Rolls Royce's.

* Who can forget Manx Heritage wanting £6 million (?) for a boathouse.   

The thing is, with LED lighting, each light can put out multiple colours. Therefore, much less lighting is actually required, so it is relatively cheap. Loudspeaker technology has not really changed, so not a lot really required there. Modern amplification is Class “D”, which is cheap compared to the Class “AB” of 20 years ago. Wireless microphone systems are quite expensive, I’ll admit, but not eye watering. So, where is the 1.6 million going? 
 

10 minutes ago, loaf said:

£1.6 million over the 19 years since the last major refit it's the cost of a little over an MHK's standard salary per annum. I'd rather get rid of one of our numerous gravy trainers than reduce the viability as a venue for visiting artists because it's too costly to ship in a lighting and sound package each time.

If the Villa/Gaiety goes into decline and out of action, you'll have to travel a bit further than 4 miles to see a decent show.

Big, decent shows always have their own lights and sound. Any changes made will not impact really big shows. 

On 12/9/2023 at 5:09 PM, swoopy2110 said:

It's 2023.

If old people want a landline they can get talk over fibre for as low at £9.87 a month with no internet access (with a whopping connection charge).

https://www.manxtelecom.com/personal/home-phone/talk-over-fibre/

 

There's no point in putting in copper lines when they're old tech that few people use now and will be expensive to maintain.

That is roughly double the low rate tariff over copper. I only have my land line for two reasons. Firstly, many people know the number as I have had it for nearly four decades. Secondly, regardless of where my mobile is, I know exactly where my land line phone is in case of an emergency. 
If I cannot keep my number, there is even less reason to have a land line. If they come to install fibre to my house, they can do so to the box outside. Not required inside. 

42 minutes ago, Happier diner said:

Yes. 20 zones though should be first put in areas where there are likely to be small children.

The problem with 20mph zones on iom is that they are not patrolled and the limits not enforced. That was straight from the horses mouth. I asked. So, I live on a close, 20mph, but the speed of some of the vehicles is astounding. May as well stick the no limits sign up! 

This government can absolutely bankrupt our island, and it will make absolutely no difference to anybody’s future. 
Tractor run was brilliant!