Kopek Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 Kev. Or any other type of lawyer!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Flint Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 1 hour ago, Lost Login said: That surprises me as it never looks like we get more than 200 entries from across for a rally so to raise a million each would have to spend £5,000 in the local economy. Now I know petrol ain't cheap over here but............ It’s because 4 wheel Motorsport types don’t tend to work on a shoe string, stay in hotels, Eat in restaurants etc. they also burn a lot of petrol - which probably the s bad for the biosphere... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finlo Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 Hairdressers car's anyway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTeapot Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 YES! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2112 Posted July 12, 2018 Author Share Posted July 12, 2018 53 minutes ago, Derek Flint said: It’s because 4 wheel Motorsport types don’t tend to work on a shoe string, stay in hotels, Eat in restaurants etc. they also burn a lot of petrol - which probably the s bad for the biosphere... Ahhhh HRH The Chief Minister’s favourite Biosphere bollocks, which he loves to spout. It’s so important that, the fumes emitted from Audi TT must have a negative impact on the environment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finlo Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 17 minutes ago, 2112 said: Ahhhh HRH The Chief Minister’s favourite Biosphere bollocks, which he loves to spout. It’s so important that, the fumes emitted from Audi TT must have a negative impact on the environment. Their emission figures will have been massaged anyhow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the stinking enigma Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 Audi you like that? Seems to me that whoever wrote that is hoping to attract the attention of the sun's talent scouts. Seems more of an opinion piece to me -not that i've read it. but i'm not sure why i'm supposed to be more pissed off about this closure than any other? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost Login Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 10 hours ago, Derek Flint said: It’s because 4 wheel Motorsport types don’t tend to work on a shoe string, stay in hotels, Eat in restaurants etc. they also burn a lot of petrol - which probably the s bad for the biosphere... I appreciate that they may not work on a shoestring but the idea that the odd couple of rally's we have bring in millions to the Island seems fanciful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lxxx Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 13 hours ago, Galen said: Only if you want to increasingly get those who live on the Island for reasons other than sporting activities, really cheesed off. It is not as though many of the companies who IOM Govt court to come over here are on the proverbial financial bones of their backsides. Why should they not pay something directly into our society? If indirect income was so lucrative, then Govt would surely abandon direct taxation of residents and just depend on indirect means such as VAT etc. However, the IOM Govt is no different to any other Govt in that it wants its cake and wants to eat it, so we pay twice, directly and directly. Given the IOM Govt now own the SPCO, no doubt they, sorry we, paid Audi's ferry fares too. I'm not cheesed off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lxxx Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 You could turn the island into one big race track for me. Let's face it, we have little to nothing else to offer the world apart from e-gaming (temporarily), tax advantages and the manx cat. We need to be in the market of finding niches, however small or spurious, and capitalising on them. If moaning Arthur from Greeba objects to his roads being closed for a few days here and there so he can maintain living on a safe and attractive island then he is going to have to get used to it. The same people who moan about road closures will moan about immoral- e-gaming and offshore finance. They would do well to consider the oft used phrase containing boats and early starts that they use to comeovers who occasionally moan about living here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karellen Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 1 hour ago, Lxxx said: You could turn the island into one big race track for me. Let's face it, we have little to nothing else to offer the world apart from e-gaming (temporarily), tax advantages and the manx cat. Manx Cheese - don't forget our cheese. That could be more than a niche if we marketed it to tourists. Have you been to Amsterdam? Cheese shops on every street corner, packed with tourists from around the world who go there to buy cheese. And stroopwafels. We might not have stroopwafels, but that Dutch cheese isn't a patch on our Manx Red Leicester. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
La Colombe Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 24 minutes ago, Karellen said: Dutch cheese isn't a patch on our Manx Red Leicester. Yes it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thie Veg Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 4 hours ago, Karellen said: Manx Cheese - don't forget our cheese. That could be more than a niche if we marketed it to tourists. Have you been to Amsterdam? Cheese shops on every street corner, packed with tourists from around the world who go there to buy cheese. And stroopwafels. We might not have stroopwafels, but that Dutch cheese isn't a patch on our Manx Red Leicester. Amsterdam also has cafes selling cake - these would be enormously popular over here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlieBrown Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 http://www.iomtoday.co.im/article.cfm?id=41807&headline=Government closes road for seven afternoons for Audi - and it doesn't get a penny for doing so§ionIs=NEWS&searchyear=2018 ’It has been positive to work with such a significant, international company and the event shows clear affirmation to our TT co-existence agreement with Audi and the continuing draw of our famous mountain course.’ Wonder did Audi ask DED to stop making the TT brand look so fucking tacky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Raekwon Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 On 7/12/2018 at 10:50 PM, the stinking enigma said: Audi you like that? Seems to me that whoever wrote that is hoping to attract the attention of the sun's talent scouts. Seems more of an opinion piece to me -not that i've read it. but i'm not sure why i'm supposed to be more pissed off about this closure than any other? IOM Newspapers seems to have become little more than a printed version of the kind of daft moaning that you get on the local facebook sites. It's like the misguided rabble rousing of a 14 year old who's just found about Che Guevara, but with worse spelling and use of the English language in general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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