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The Peel to KM coast road is getting pretty close to the cliff edge in places - the fence posts hanging in mid-air on the sea-side of some of the fields, and the undercutting, visible from the sea, is a bit scary...

So is this the reason why IOM TV/Paul Moulton has been slapped with the SLAPP? The powers-that-be must be really fearful and with good reason. Poor, poor woman. To ask for help and be destroyed for it. Utterly shocking. 

12 hours ago, Willy Brennan said:

The strikes next week have been called off.   Apparently talks are at an ‘extremely delicate stage’. 

Where did you hear that? 

21 hours ago, cissolt said:

Toryboy lite strikes again. Any legislation backing the removal of people to strike for better conditions will not be tolerated by the public.

 

And more to the point, how would he advocate the insistence that teachers adhere to their terms and conditions when that’s what they have done so exactly for nigh on 2 years?

40 minutes ago, manxfisherman said:

That's right, it's my fault!

It definitely doesn’t help matters...

2 minutes ago, Wavey Davey said:

Not sure about that. It’s about being a professional worker. People who dig holes in the road get overtime, as do people in retail or low level office work. Most people in professional roles accept that people aren’t paying you for your time they’re paying for your expertise and some extra unpaid hours come as part of that professional pathway. It’s irrelevant for teachers anyway as 6 weeks off is more than enough compensation for a few extra hours worked. 

There’s a big shortage of teachers atm. I’m sure the profession would be eager to welcome you into it...

6 minutes ago, Wavey Davey said:

It’s the same in absolutely every other profession you could care to mention. 

So how does that negate the teachers’ efforts to change this? Why aren’t others making a stand? 

2 minutes ago, manxfisherman said:

Kids like to mess about. Always have. Mine has recently made the move to big school, I've told him its fine to mess around, the way to get through school is to do it laughing, but do your work first

And here lies the root of the behaviour problem. There’s a time and a place for ‘messing about’ and in lessons isn’t it. There are usually 29+ other young people in the same room, most trying to learn, and while your boy might get his work done, due to the messing, an awful lot of time is wasted and others will follow his example and mess too...

5 minutes ago, Wavey Davey said:

What planet do you live on? The last time I got paid overtime was 1997. It comes with the territory when you have a responsible job that you work the hours needed. FFS overtime! 😂

The trouble has been that over the last 30 years, teachers have taken on more and more responsibilities and tasks, curricular and other, for the good of the pupils and  because they took pride in their job, wanting to do their utmost best for them. However, these ‘extras’ (overtime, I think you call it), have become the norm at every level of the profession and between these and coping with disruption, it has become an almost impossible job. 

I can’t say that many teachers would be in favour of corporal punishment, even if it was permitted! 

On 9/29/2019 at 12:45 PM, The Dog's Dangly Bits said:

The biggest mistake of the MDF was Orson Wells.  That was poor. Not sure a witch hunt about it will resolve much?

IOM today (front page preview) are posting that the long-awaited report into losses in the Manx film industry is out. Does anyone have a link please?

6 hours ago, Ann said:

Seen in shop windows:

Doctors for COVID Ethics

1. Risk of dying from COVID-19 is comparable to seasonal Influenza in most age groups and significantly lower than influenza in children.

2. Up to 90% of covid cases could be false positives.

3. UK Yellow Card shows deaths and disabilities following vaccination.

https://doctors4covidethics.org/

Is @Anna bot? 

4 hours ago, Ann said:

Anna de Buisseret explains:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/AYvCetnuH5aG/

FWIW, I didn’t watch the video - the comments from the crazies underneath were enough...

13 minutes ago, oooohtony said:

Will be interesting to see how the island reacts when today’s figures are announced……

Do you have inside information, Ooooh? 

I do now think we are in the same situation as the UK, i.e. let it rip through the younger/unvaxxed population and taking a gamble that it won’t mutate and come back and bite them on the arse. 

1 hour ago, The Dog's Dangly Bits said:

Why would you "love" to know?

a) like most people, I’d like to be prepared if it was all going to kick off again, especially as I’m in a job in which close contact can’t be avoided, and I have a very frail parent to care for, and

b) I’m nosey 🤓.

Thanks for asking! 

42 minutes ago, 2112 said:

3 new cases according to the Nations Propaganda Mouthpiece. 

I’d love to know which, if any, of these cases are the result of a repeat test after initially testing negative then experiencing Covid symptoms...?

35 minutes ago, Major Rushen said:

Getting your NHS number is no problem just google how to get my NHS number and follow the instructions. 

Also, If you have any meds, your NHS number should be on the prescription slip from the chemist which accompanies them. 

16 minutes ago, Augustus said:

https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/house-price-rises-here-to-stay-says-cowley-groves-chair/

 

Looks like mini Gymbabe will be living at home for the foreseeable! 

@rachomics, I feel an awful lot more confident, ‘going forward’, with you as part of the EAG rather than without. 

Hopefully, with the conditions set that you mention, the new CoMin will listen! Good luck.

Elsa is obviously out for what she can get, as I got the same message and I’m very definitely heterosexual! 

I wonder if anyone will click the link...

4 hours ago, Nomadic Raptor said:

This extra week is just pointless...one of the lines they have given is to allow teachers to prepare...what have they been doing for the last six weeks? And don’t say teaching because that is simply not true....my boys have video calls every other day at a time that suits the teacher otherwise it gets in the way of their day and no teaching takes place in these calls......last week of term the home schooling was read a chapter a day of a book.......

 

schools have already said in reality they can’t social distance so what are they preparing for....

I’m more of the opinion that the gradual opening of schools is to observe and assess if there is any effect in letting a reduced number of staff and children mix in close quarters, before opening to all pupils and staff. If there were to be a school-based outbreak, it would be more manageable to contact trace etc.

3 hours ago, Apple said:

That is not the issue.

Manx Care should have been delayed during a pandemic crisis. There was time to do it, but political ambitions came into play in my view. That's all it is. 

What it created though was very much linked to what has been referred to by Dr Glovers evidence. Anyone in and around the DHSC for the past 5 years or so knows it, and those responsible. 

Apple, is there really no hope that Manx Care will succeed?

2 hours ago, Nom de plume said:

..... and I’m being vaccinated today

Me too! 

Don’t know whether I’m more excited about the jab, or the fact I get to visit the Big Smoke...

2 hours ago, pongo said:

If everyone banks online then we don't need cheques any more.

True, but until they do...

If we are all going to have to bank online, including the elderly, then the Isle of Man bank app really should have a facility to deposit cheques (like the Lloyd’s app provides). An app can’t be a half-way house with some services online and some where you are forced to physically go into a (far-distant) branch - tricky, if you’re in your 80s with mobility problems.