Roger Ram Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 6 minutes ago, Happier diner said: Not really. Statistically far less likely. How? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happier diner Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 34 minutes ago, Roger Ram said: How? Well..for starters a cruise ship party is 100s for a day with few interactions. TT is thousands for 2 weeks with lots of interactions 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A fool and his money..... Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 51 minutes ago, Happier diner said: Not really. Statistically far less likely. Statistically 😄. Never trust a statistic that you haven't made up yourself. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A fool and his money..... Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 10 minutes ago, Happier diner said: Well..for starters a cruise ship party is 100s for a day with few interactions. TT is thousands for 2 weeks with lots of interactions Yeah the bloody TT again, propping up our tourist industry with its thousands of visitors, we should ban the bloody thing! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happier diner Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 7 minutes ago, A fool and his money..... said: Statistically 😄. Never trust a statistic that you haven't made up yourself. I didn't make it up. It's facts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happier diner Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 18 minutes ago, Happier diner said: Well..for starters a cruise ship party is 100s for a day with few interactions. TT is thousands for 2 weeks with lots of interactions @Roger Ram what's so funny? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A fool and his money..... Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 24 minutes ago, Happier diner said: I didn't make it up. It's facts. No it's not. You have no more idea where the 12 unfortunate people in hospital with COVID caught it from than anyone else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hairy Poppins Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 34 minutes ago, A fool and his money..... said: Statistically 😄. Never trust a statistic that you haven't made up yourself. 50% of them are false. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred the shred Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 The cruise ship the other day had 2666 passengers so not just hundreds and there have been three visiting in the last 10 days so the numbers do add up. I think both the TT and the Cruise ships bring valuable business to the Island and boy do we need it. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Helmut Fromage Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 (edited) 4 hours ago, A fool and his money..... said: Yeah the bloody TT eh? It's got a lot to answer for, two bloody global pandemics since it started, two world wars, earthquakes, tsunamis, wild fires, countless wars, Cuban missile crisis, World Trade Centre, they're all linked. Anyway, it won't be for long, I've heard from Soichero Honda himself that this is the last year of the TT! The government are still going to pay Nathan Harrison £5million a year to do a parade lap though. I imagine your MD Racing / Honda fleece is back in the cupboard. Let’s see which local boy gets the next “upgrade” based on potential…… Edited June 28 by Mr Helmut Fromage Sausage fingers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A fool and his money..... Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 15 minutes ago, Mr Helmut Fromage said: I imagine your MD Racing / Honda fleece is back in the cupboard. Let’s see which local boy gets the next “upgrade” based on potential…… We have a FOI act now you know, makes things much easier to substantiate. Not so good for pure fantasy from your own imagination though - which is presumably why you haven't made a request - or offered any form of evidence whatsoever. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Helmut Fromage Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 19 minutes ago, A fool and his money..... said: We have a FOI act now you know, makes things much easier to substantiate. Not so good for pure fantasy from your own imagination though - which is presumably why you haven't made a request - or offered any form of evidence whatsoever. Touché - go for it on the FOI I’ll update you on the next Government funded ride when I hear of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A fool and his money..... Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 3 hours ago, Mr Helmut Fromage said: Touché - go for it on the FOI I’ll update you on the next Government funded ride when I hear of it. Burden of proof is with the claimant fella. I don't need an FOI to know you're talking bollocks. Why wait for the next one? Fire one in for the two you've already heard of (IE. Made up) 😄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joebean Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 I’m neither for or against TT, I’m ambivalent about it these days. It’s just a fact of Island life. This year I chose to be somewhere else. However, TT “fans” seem to have a very defensive attitude towards anything that might suggest negative aspects to it. They become TT Deniers. Yes, it brings many visitors and yes, it supports our hospitality sector, much of which would flounder without it. We choose to continue the event despite the negative aspects that come with it. We don’t need to recap what they are. I suggest that to that list we may well have to add annual Covid spikes and reactions like reintroducing mask-wearing in healthcare facilities, until our reaction to Covid itself becomes more measured. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A fool and his money..... Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 Personally I've never defended any negative aspects of the TT, it is what it is, warts and all. What I do defend is the large amount of baseless bullshit written on these pages about it, and the faux outrage when anything bad happens from people who really dislike it for far less laudible reasons. There is one particularly odious individual who is guilty of this, although they make poor attempts to disguise their bigotry over several usernames. Their true colours are well known here and not limited to the TT. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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