victorian dad Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 (edited) Spend hundreds of pounds just to get there & end up sleeping over the remnants of many generations of local dickhead families who's blood, sweat & piss taint the very ground, nice. Hope they get the little Woman from "Poltergeist" to exorcise the place (safety first). Edited January 29, 2022 by victorian dad 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Johnson Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 2 hours ago, 2112 said: I’m sure the Starship Enterprise will need a team of civil servants to run the ‘camp site’. I hope it makes a wonderful financial return, for all the work preparing, running and dismantling the portakabins. I am assuming that the Starship Enterprise is actually running the camp site, they have made the planning application? A good use of taxpayers resources, another Allinson bright idea. The prison site full of imported cabins CAN NOT be a money making enterprise, the numbers just don't add up. FFS Josem if ever there was a FOI request needed................. this is it. This has stunk since the first time they had those fancy cabins at the rear of the Pits. Someone is making money out of this and it is costing us taxpayers a fortune....................... If no one is making money, then we are yet again, as IOM taxpayers, spending money on a lost cause thats days are very numbered. We have spent a lot of money to try and save life over the last 2 years.... Now we will spend a lot of money to see death of competitors, riders, spectators and local drivers when it goes tits up.................................................... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Non-Believer Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 DfE will be panicking over potential lack of accommodation for this year's event, particularly given the lack of enthusiasm to date by homestay providers. They'll be working with the same abacus that predicts 50,000 visitors attending for the full two weeks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hissingsid Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 Panic is absolutely the state they are in and this is when bad and expensive decisions are made. The Marshall situation could be solved by a reinstatement and apology, the course situation could be solved by starting the repairs now, the accommodation will sort itself out as I do not believe the numbers they are quoting will come, people are skint after Covid and it is not a cheap trip. None of this will happen of course because they know the lot or they think they do. It would cost less to lose the revenue of a couple of hundred bikers than the money spent installing these cabins. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hooly Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 (edited) 🤡 Edited January 29, 2022 by Hooly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0bserver Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 3 hours ago, Boris Johnson said: The prison site full of imported cabins CAN NOT be a money making enterprise, the numbers just don't add up. FFS Josem if ever there was a FOI request needed................. this is it. This has stunk since the first time they had those fancy cabins at the rear of the Pits. Someone is making money out of this and it is costing us taxpayers a fortune....................... If no one is making money, then we are yet again, as IOM taxpayers, spending money on a lost cause thats days are very numbered. We have spent a lot of money to try and save life over the last 2 years.... Now we will spend a lot of money to see death of competitors, riders, spectators and local drivers when it goes tits up.................................................... But the TT is a massive commercial success and without it the island as we know it would cease to exist. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0bserver Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 Personally I suspect this is where they'll house the stars of the new DfE TT TV network. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Passing Time Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 5 hours ago, victorian dad said: Spend hundreds of pounds just to get there & end up sleeping over the remnants of many generations of local dickhead families who's blood, sweat & piss taint the very ground, nice. Hope they get the little Woman from "Poltergeist" to exorcise the place (safety first). What the hell are you drinking? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victorian dad Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 (edited) The tears of victims of local hoodlums, some who ended up in wheelchairs with permanent brain damage, thanks to those who spent multiple visits to Victoria Road Prison back in the 80's. Stomping on someones head outside the Casino. I apologise, nothing to do with the TT, still a little raw after all these years. Edited January 29, 2022 by victorian dad 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Power Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 12 hours ago, 0bserver said: But the TT is a massive commercial success and without it the island as we know it would cease to exist. I think you're absolutely right! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omobono Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 7 minutes ago, Max Power said: I think you're absolutely right! when is someone in government going to realise that without the good will and cooperation of the people of the isle of Man , weather it be the race officials ,marshals , scrutineers homestay providers ,and everyone else who literally alters their way of life and suffers inconvenience during the TT and MGP , for the good of this island ,and its economy . I fear that we are starting to loose the good will that has been generated by many volunteers who provide essential support for these events , time for Alfred Cannan to step in and bring some common sense to bear before the lot comes crashing down ,and we never have a TT or other forms of road racing again , 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hissingsid Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 You are spot on Omobono add on to that we have had two years without the TT and people have got used to it and some have not missed it. At least the access road should have been improved it is dreadful especially when ambulances are trying to get through they have had two years to do it. I realise that some businesses do well and rely on the TT but a lot do not due to access difficulties with closed roads. The public houses who are feeling the pinch may not see a lot of business with 1886 on the town square and Bushys in the Villa. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2112 Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 (edited) 22 hours ago, Banker said: I would think the MDC & Chris Thomas’s housing board will be looking at this site Why does it take the newly created MDC and the Chris Thomas Housing Board (notice the I in board!) to look at this site? This site has been idle for years, the old prison demolished therefore it is empty, and has been ripe for redevelopment over a number of years. It isn’t as though the site has been of use to Government. Park Road site is used by contractors to park plant and machinery and is used by an Auctioneer to sell Government vehicles and plant and equipment, along with motor dealers cast offs (hope the taxpayers get something for the use of the land?). If a site like this is empty, IOMG will exploit it for their own purposes, and bend the rules to suit themselves. Chris Thomas is an established Douglas MHK who over the years would be familiar with Victoria Road, Nobles Park and the surrounding area. Surely he and other Douglas MHKs could have pushed for the redevelopment of the site. Even selling it to the usual developers would have created employment, improved the vicinity and solved an problem. Now we have continue to have an empty site, exploited by others, and the site will probably lay empty by the time Chris Thomas comes up for re-election, the same applying to the Park Road site. It would be interesting the views of @Amadeusbeing a Douglas Town Councillor, I wonder if the Council had ideas for the use of the site? Eta - Ashie for years prior to his election to the HOK and his opportunity to play with the big boys, would in a position to explain why this site hasn’t been developed. He was a Douglas Councillor for years. Though he did have a deep and meaningful understanding with a chewing gum removal machine. Edited January 30, 2022 by 2112 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2112 Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 1 hour ago, Omobono said: when is someone in government going to realise that without the good will and cooperation of the people of the isle of Man , weather it be the race officials ,marshals , scrutineers homestay providers ,and everyone else who literally alters their way of life and suffers inconvenience during the TT and MGP , for the good of this island ,and its economy . I fear that we are starting to loose the good will that has been generated by many volunteers who provide essential support for these events , time for Alfred Cannan to step in and bring some common sense to bear before the lot comes crashing down ,and we never have a TT or other forms of road racing again , Goodwill? There was goodwill even in 2019, but I think the DfE are chancers and users. Civil Servants who haven’t a clue, not had much life experience, and very rely and like the idea of free labour to run the event. The pandemic has changed the rules, life’s moved on and peoples priorities too. People respond well to being appreciated, not being dictated to. Homestay providers are fed up with being demonised like Landlords, expected to accept unnecessary risks in their own homes. I’m sure that the DfE will bend the rules for other service providers, while slavishly enforcing the rules for others. Alfie stepping in? Not a prayer - he is too much of an Manx establishment figure, wedded to the system. Like ex CM Quayle was too much reliant on his own bullshit, and bullshit from his flunkies, to actually believe the experience of marshalls, race officials etc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quilp Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 Your optimism and positivity is always a welcome read... ☺️ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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