@iowbants Controversial overnight sensation

Twitter account grab:

If you didn’t see it, you’re too late. It popped up, and just as quickly as it appeared, it vanished. In the meantime it picked up over 800 followers.

It was like an Uzi on full auto. It pumped out, minute after minute rumours about the alleged sexual exploits of pupils at school on the Island.

Those being spoken about were easily identified as their names/nicknames were used.

It certainly didn’t hold back, providing the most intimate details.

It was a modern version of discussions of what’s happened behind the bike shed… but shot wide across the Internet.

The fact that it vanished overnight will be greeted with some relief this morning we suspect.

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Island Monkey
19, February 2014 10:46 am

The economy here is strangled by the lack of a fixed link. Without cheap and easy access to the mainland jobs market, our unemployment figures will always be higher than our near neighbours.

The government well knows this and eventually it is the desire to take more tax from the Island’s population that will focus their attention on building a bridge or tunnel.

The sooner the better.

peaceful_life
19, February 2014 11:59 am

@Isand Monkey.

A fixed link to an overall failing economy won’t remedy a smaller extension of it.

It isn’t a link that’s lacking, it’s an autonomous sense of creativity that’s needed.

Cynic
Reply to  peaceful_life
20, February 2014 6:57 pm

Crossing the Solent by a fixed link would not be any cheaper UNLESS it is built by and its operation subsidised by the Government.

How likely is that so don’t hold your breath while you wait!

tiki
20, February 2014 5:48 pm

stop harping on about a fixed link. Plenty of places on the mainland have high unemployment as well. We’re an island GET OVER IT

temperance
20, February 2014 10:25 pm

We have a generaly lower i.q. here due to the more academic people leaving and creating this lacking gene pool so can not imagine IBM or the likes of NASA rushing to come here and start a buisness. Price you pay for living here.

Cynic
Reply to  temperance
21, February 2014 8:23 am

@temperance “We have a generaly (sic) lower i.q. here…”buisness sic)”

Q.E.D.? :-))

Joseph Moore
Reply to  Cynic
21, February 2014 9:37 am

Bit harsh, Cicero? I think you misjudged that comment.

Some of the cleverest folk I know are dyslexic and have taken a real battering to their confidence over the years through responses like that.

Whether that applies to temperance or not, I don’t know; but taking the mick is unlikely to be constructive.

Cynic
Reply to  Joseph Moore
21, February 2014 10:02 am

@ Joseph Moore Yep! You are right! Abject apologies to temperance for my comment! To get back to the salient point though, how does temperance justify his/her comment that the average Island IQ is generally lower than elsewhere other than by speculating about the available gene pool? It might be true if the Island was isolated with an inbred population as in other parts of the UK… Read more »

Joseph Moore
Reply to  temperance
21, February 2014 9:13 am

I think I’d have to disagree there – I’ve met plenty of intelligent people on the island and world class engineering already takes place here. I’m sure the same can be said for other industries.

Companies will follow the talent – or the subsidies, if they’re large enough – but mostly the talent.

Jacqui
20, February 2014 10:28 pm

I know of a 58 year old man with mental health problems who having lost his right to ESA because ATOS deemed him fit to work, signed on for JSA and lost in within TWO WEEKS as he was deemed not to be trying hard enough to find work. He is bewildered. He has no help with aCV, skills updating, job search techniques, confidence building or interview… Read more »

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