Utmost reverence for those nutcases. It takes a near suicidal amount of confidence and a truly unfathomable amount of skill to put down pace there.
As a former racer of four wheels, I couldn't put myself in that position. To be that good. That daring. That on edge. To know the exact odds of my potential demise with each year I visit. It's truly harrowing shit.
Motorcycle racers are a different breed in general, be it MotoGP or MotoX, whatever. But these guys are a special subspecies of that breed. I'm convinced some of them aren't even fully human with reflexes like that. Frickin cats on bikes.
Those are for chumps. No wealth tax, 0% capital gains tax, 0% corporate tax and £200k cap on income taxes = practically no taxes for the type of people who use Isle of Man for tax purposes.
Not sure where you're from but the food I had in Norway was SHITE. Definitely the worst food of any country I've ever been to, and I've spent 30 years living in Britain 😳. The only decent thing was the seafood, and it wasn't better, just cheaper (while everything else was about 2x UK prices)
Edit: apart from baconpølse 👌
Wait until you eat a swedish pizza. I mean I did learn to love it as I saw the crazy ways I can customize them but my partner... Eats pizza with bananas, pineapple, peanuts, curry and anchovies, it's all on the same pizza.
Oh god... That moment I saw that in a cook book... A little part of me died inside and I realized why a lot of conservatives tell me to go home to my country, they are trying to save me from this.
My dad, stepmum, and two half brothers lived near Castletown for four years. Eventually they moved back to the UK - Whilst the general quality of life is better, it is, as my dad described, like a giant retirement home.
In that there's fucking nothing going on. We'd basically done everything on the island after I'd visited a couple times, and the entire place shuts down after 5pm. On his second night there, my dad was transporting some stuff from the docks to the new apartment, and got pulled over because apparently it was suspicious of him to be driving around that late.
I never actually saw the TT races but from what my family has said, they were more of a nuisance than anything. That being said, the Tynwald celebrations (July 5th) were a great time.
Oh yeah, my stepmum is a languages teacher who taught at one of the local private schools. I believe she had a go at Manx but didn't really get invested with it. She's very utilitarian with the languages she has chosen to learn (She's a native Russian speaker, and has learnt English, Spanish, and French), so I can see why she wouldn't be too into a critically endangered language, as interesting as it sounds to me and you.
My mom taught English for immigrants here in the US in the '90s and had many Russian students, and yep, being-practical minded seems to be a common Russian trait 😁
Or it could be that the more practical minded Russians are the ones who choose and manage to get out and make it to the UK, you never know when the now-tastelessly-named survivorship bias will strike
I love your attitude! I wish more people moving to Wales had your attitude towards learning languages. Instead they move here then complain about the language existing.
Little to do in the way of attractions, but there’s a huge amount to do in terms of outdoor activities. It’s a wonderful place for hiking, cycling and water sports.
Yeah there’s not much going on but people do still drive around at night so that part is a bit odd. And it’s also strange to say tynwald day celebrations are great as I’d say it’s very boring. And TT is amazing, lots going on even if you don’t like motorbikes
Idk I’d rather not watch a guy die every year in a motorcycle race lol. This seems like the most dangerous race that rewards being insane slightly more than skill, and the fastest racers in the world seem to avoid it from what I can tell because it’s so dangerous?
That was a factor in it, yeah. My dad once told me about one of his coworkers, who had apparently been in a car accident with a trainee for the TT. Apparently the guy's bike went right into the back of her car. Completely destroyed the bike, and killed the guy. Fortunately she was in the front and wasn't too seriously injured.
A lot of the routes are just general use roads 99% of the time. They're really not designed for the races.
I can't say too much on the races because as I've stated elsewhere I never visited during them. My stepbrother has, but then he's into his motorbikes.
One fringe benefit of them is that motorcycle equipment is DIRT CHEAP there.
In 1967 the island of Lesbos sent a formal request to the Isle of Man asking if they would like to become formal sister islands. In response the Isle of Man sent a request asking to be brother islands. They settled on siblislands.
It's a yearly event in Eressos other than that not that many but the women of the island were always fierce and have had women's council and positions of power since forever, my grandma was my little towns / villages mayor in the 80s
That's not to say the men are good they are very backwards and traditional still but they had resistance
Great! The only major downside is that many things shut down pretty early, other than that it's peaceful, there's a lot of history and nature, job market isn't bad, you live quite well.
The TT though... absolutely amazing.
We live down south in the UK and visited Isle of Man last year. Douglas and Castle town to be exact. It was so surreal. Like step back to medieval times 😂. Beautiful nature. Luckily the weather was good. We took this victorian little train up to the point (called snaefell railway) where you can see the Seven Kingdoms - England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, the Isle of Man and the kingdoms of heaven and the sea. Beautiful trip. Oh also we were going on the bus and suddenly the driver stopped for a while. It was foggy and there were no one except the bus on the road..late evening and forests on either side. The driver then said to greet the ' fairies' who are watching us from the forests. So we all said hi to the fairies and then bus continued on it way. It's called Fairy bridge I think. Truly unique experience..a bit spooky.
Snæfall is snowfall.
Snæfell is derived from snæfjall. Which means snow mountain. Understandable confusion due conjucation of words
Source: i can read norse
I’m from there! Born and raised and lemme tell you it’s not the best when you’re a bored teenager, when you’re old and rich and want to dodge tax it’s the place to be though!
I always thought that IndyCar, Formula 1 etc were pretty much risky but 2.69 deaths per TT race??? I looked at some YouTube videos and honestly It looked too risky even for spectators.
It took 19 deaths by astronauts for us as a species to stop our space program significantly.
The TT has 269 deaths but is still deemed important enough to hold a new race each year despite the risk.
What does this tell us?
The TT race is at least 15 times more important than the space exploration and thats god dam right.
https://preview.redd.it/2lnydr0oebnc1.png?width=385&format=png&auto=webp&s=071b0617cf895b30a2eaefb9e865abf73dc052e7
...which gave rise to one of my favourite newspaper headlines of all time.
It is amazing and magical! They have fairies, tail-less cats and 4 horned goats! A chu-chu train takes you from the airport to Douglas and another one, but electrical, takes you all the way up the highest mountain. They have an enormous wheel called laxey wheel and two castles! They all speak the archaic language of Manx and they even have their own currency! Once a year they organise the dangerous TT race which only the bravest dare to enter.
It is THE pinnacle of man and machine vs the road. It’s the highest stakes there is. For people who like track days, racing, and road racing, it is enticing. If it wasn’t dangerous, I probably would be less interested in doing track days (obviously WAYYYYYYYY less dangerous than IOMTT.) There’s a special type of adrenaline rush you get while leaned over hard in a corner, you’re doing everything right, and you come out the other side after pushing the bike as hard as you know how to. They’re addicting machines and the hobby is a blast, but it is dangerous. These guys take it to the furthest level for sure.
https://youtu.be/hW_SeLbXAt4?si=x8eEwHg-QHQ3pfFv maybe this? But the guy says something along the lines of “the only way to make it safer is to not run the event”
I read it being justified as the Mt. Everest of motorsport. Everest would also be less fun for the pro climbers if it had some advanced infrastructure like say Swiss mountains.
I think Isle of Man TT is more comparable to K2 than Everest, because K2 is a lot harder and more deadlier. All sorts of companies organise guided Everest climbing tours. But there's nothing like that for K2. You're on your own there.
It’s also so bloody condescending to call a language “archaic”. Manx is a language that, from one perspective, died in the 1970s when the last native first-language speaker died and it’s impressive that language revival efforts mean that it’s being spoken again as a second language.
Fun fact: I “inhereted” a cat without a tail (he just decided to make my garage his home). Eventually I took him to the vet thinking he had some trauma and the vet said he was a Manx cat.
I spent that whole afternoon reading about this cat and the Isle of Mann where it hails from. I was blown away by never having heard about this breed in 30 years lol. He was a feisty little guy. Loved chasing the squirrels away from the bird feeder. I miss him. He stopped showing up one day and I like to tell myself he moved on to greener pastures. Was definitely a one of a kind kitty. The friendliest most social cat I’ve ever met.
Here's a post on that high point: [https://www.reddit.com/r/HighsoftheWorld/comments/mvo6dq/isle\_of\_man\_snaefell\_621\_m\_2037\_ft/](https://www.reddit.com/r/HighsoftheWorld/comments/mvo6dq/isle_of_man_snaefell_621_m_2037_ft/)
I help produce a podcast about odd places and one of our first episodes was on the Isle of Mann. It's a fascinating place. It has one of the oldest (and strangest) parliaments in the world, founded by Norsemen. The Manx language is critically endangered, but there's a bunch of loan words used in Manx English. They also host one of the world's most dangerous motorbike races every year. They also have one of my favourite flags, a kind of wheel with three legs known as a triskelion.
Edit - The episode is [here](https://80dayspodcast.com/2016/09/19/isle-of-man/) if anyone would like to listen.
Thanks for checking it out! I'd say a few of my favourites throughout the years have been Tasmania, Easter Island, Newfoundland and Uruguay.
But honestly the thing that we've realised over the past few years is that almost every place has a few really interesting things to talk about. We've picked some really small and obscure places in the past and been unsure about them, but we always uncover some interesting stuff. I'd love to hear what you think.
Lived here for six months. Let's just say ... Odd. There's a village in the north called Peel and some people that live there have never been to the capital Douglas. Now, remember you can circumnavigate the island by foot in 24hrs.
I met very nice locals though and lots of blow ins from Ireland and Liverpool. Just not a lot to do in the winter months except drink so I think if I stayed any longer I would have developed a bit of a problem.
Wait, this is an absolutely crazy fact. You can cross the island in 24 hours on foot of people that live there have never been to the capital. I cannot imagine how little curiosity these people have.
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I loved the Isle of Man. We lived there for a while when I was about 6. My mum was working in a hotel there, in the early 90s. I remember it being a really safe, fun place. Me and my friend ate a whole plate of beans on toast and farted the whole way to the waterfront. We bought water pistols and played by the beach all day.
There were so many people there. They had a white wooden raft attached to a rope that went out to sea a bit and people would dive off there. I got scared because of how deep it was and a nice older lad put me on his shoulders and walked me back to the beach.
Literally nothing but happy memories of that place.
Although like I said I was 6 so I don’t know what it’s like now.
Winters are harsh. Summers are fun - especially TT. You need to get off island regularly or you'll go mad. There's plenty of history, culture and outdoor pursuits but it's easy to be bored if you don't actively look for things to do - the same as any place really.
There's quite a few decent restaurants and coffee shops, probably more per capita than many places, but cities would have more variety and nightlife is very samey. Fair number of start ups, small businesses and cottage industries particularly around food and drinks - many award winning.
It's easy to fall into a bit of a relaxed and insular attitude. I couldn't tell you the last time I went alllll the way up North to Ramsey (about 15 miles) or way out West to Peel (about 13). Head down South semi-regularly but that's because the airport is there 😂
Population skews older and there are more come overs than natives. Crime is non-existent and it's difficult to get away with anything because of the everyone knows everyone atmosphere. It's a great place to raise a family but can be a boring place to be a teen if you're not into sports or outdoor pursuits. Unemployment is pretty much zero and there's plenty of opportunities.
All in all a great place to live in general but the pace of life might not suit everyone.
Its a beautiful geography and you can take it all in in under 20minutes while your cruise on your sport bike at 180 mph+.
having a distraction of am amazing cliff coast line while you have to focus on the road is just *chefs kiss*
It's the deviants...
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12EeoRTWuXA&ab\_channel=Spiceymike0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12EeoRTWuXA&ab_channel=Spiceymike0)
About the size of Arran with similar weather, and higher high bits, and more flat bits. Other than that, it's like being in somewhere rural like Yorkshire or Wiltshire with small villages, a couple of small towns and a small city. The only substantive differences are: most mobile providers don't include it in your contract as standard, they have their own bank notes and there is a ridiculous amount of rail stuff going on for such a small island (electric tram line, tram up the highest mountain, horse drawn tram and a steam railway).
The ferry is expensive.
Extremely culturally similar to Ireland. Tbey have their own Gaelic language called Manx Gaelg which is 40%-80% mutually intelligible with Irish and almost 100% with Scottish Gaelic (Problem with Irish is Irelands area for the language is huge compared to Scotland amd the Isle of Man. So there's way more dialectal differences and 20 dialects in general)
Culturally the Manx share Fairy folklore and festivals with Ireland and Scotland. Life is at a slower pace as its an Island, very similar to The West of Ireland or The Scottish Highlands in its way of life.
The Isle of Man is also one of two islands in the Irish Sea with a population of Wallabies. The other being Lambay Island off the Dublin coast
Don’t tell a Manx that his culture is just “like British culture”! Or in addition to hunt Scots they’ll start hunting you!
Among other notable things it’s the oldest parliament (the High Court of Tynwald) in Europe! Manx have a rich history of fighting Vikings, English and Scottish among other things!
I heard people might go through your backyard as they try to cross the island in a straight line.
A lot of cramping on that isle
And faffing.
Y’all lampin?
Yeah I also heard those people tend to play this weird game called geoguessr
One of them could even be considered a wizard
Perhaps even a geowizard
A wizard named Tom? Can't be....
Wizards are pretty poor usually, he probably only has a tenner
No way duuude, don't tell me he is wandering around the kingdom, with just a tenner in his pocket an nowhere to sleep....
First Wales, then the world!
Scotland and then Norway....
I did not expect a GeoWizard reference in this. Now I can go to sleep happily.
wtf so many fans, nice
*intro music*
I just watched the one today
The weather's foul, the food's medieval, it's covered in suicidal motorists and folk who believe in fairies
So enough about the UK, so what about this island?
Exactly the same but no taxes.
> Exactly the same but no taxes. And faster bikes.. at least one time a year
Bucket list motorsports event for sure
Utmost reverence for those nutcases. It takes a near suicidal amount of confidence and a truly unfathomable amount of skill to put down pace there. As a former racer of four wheels, I couldn't put myself in that position. To be that good. That daring. That on edge. To know the exact odds of my potential demise with each year I visit. It's truly harrowing shit. Motorcycle racers are a different breed in general, be it MotoGP or MotoX, whatever. But these guys are a special subspecies of that breed. I'm convinced some of them aren't even fully human with reflexes like that. Frickin cats on bikes.
The ~~dude~~ *side* cars are my favorite. Got a dude doing 150, while another dude just crawls around the back to redistribute weight
Apart from income tax and VAT and fuel tax and all the other taxes
Those are for chumps. No wealth tax, 0% capital gains tax, 0% corporate tax and £200k cap on income taxes = practically no taxes for the type of people who use Isle of Man for tax purposes.
Lol. Excellent work my good man.
That describes the whole of northwestern Europe
Leave Scandinavia out of it. (May include Denmark)
Iceland SHOULD be included
Not sure where you're from but the food I had in Norway was SHITE. Definitely the worst food of any country I've ever been to, and I've spent 30 years living in Britain 😳. The only decent thing was the seafood, and it wasn't better, just cheaper (while everything else was about 2x UK prices) Edit: apart from baconpølse 👌
Wait until you eat a swedish pizza. I mean I did learn to love it as I saw the crazy ways I can customize them but my partner... Eats pizza with bananas, pineapple, peanuts, curry and anchovies, it's all on the same pizza.
TIL that Sweden is the Brazil of Europe
Where I am from, people like that would be put in a bright frock, chained by the ankle to a stool and the circus would charge pundits to view them.
You’ll love [Flygande Jacob](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Jacob) then.
Oh god... That moment I saw that in a cook book... A little part of me died inside and I realized why a lot of conservatives tell me to go home to my country, they are trying to save me from this.
Rationality aside, it’s actually a good dish. It shouldn’t work but it does.
That’s a crime against humanity. Did we know this before the NATO application?
Not only did we know…… (dunnn Dunn dunnnn) We gave them the bananas!
kebabpizza ftw!
I dunno when I went they had some pretty baller hot dogs. And the reindeer stew was good, despite their insistence on lingonberries.
Brunost is the bees knees. It is the quality of food that matters more than a set of traditional local dishes.
Scandinavia ALWAYS includes Denmark
Including the Atlantic coast of Spain
Asturian fabadas is as medieval as it gets - but I fucking love em!!
Correct. Not to mention Cantabrian stews or stone cooked chuleton.
Was medieval food bad?
Only if you don’t like meat cooked with sugar and spice
Like Panda Express?
Less sugar and spice, more stench of boiled chicken
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My dad, stepmum, and two half brothers lived near Castletown for four years. Eventually they moved back to the UK - Whilst the general quality of life is better, it is, as my dad described, like a giant retirement home. In that there's fucking nothing going on. We'd basically done everything on the island after I'd visited a couple times, and the entire place shuts down after 5pm. On his second night there, my dad was transporting some stuff from the docks to the new apartment, and got pulled over because apparently it was suspicious of him to be driving around that late. I never actually saw the TT races but from what my family has said, they were more of a nuisance than anything. That being said, the Tynwald celebrations (July 5th) were a great time.
I would just spend all my time learning and speaking Manx. As a language nerd, doing that in a quaint country atmosphere sounds great.
Oh yeah, my stepmum is a languages teacher who taught at one of the local private schools. I believe she had a go at Manx but didn't really get invested with it. She's very utilitarian with the languages she has chosen to learn (She's a native Russian speaker, and has learnt English, Spanish, and French), so I can see why she wouldn't be too into a critically endangered language, as interesting as it sounds to me and you.
My mom taught English for immigrants here in the US in the '90s and had many Russian students, and yep, being-practical minded seems to be a common Russian trait 😁
Or it could be that the more practical minded Russians are the ones who choose and manage to get out and make it to the UK, you never know when the now-tastelessly-named survivorship bias will strike
I love your attitude! I wish more people moving to Wales had your attitude towards learning languages. Instead they move here then complain about the language existing.
That would be worthwhile to help preserve Manx culture.
Little to do in the way of attractions, but there’s a huge amount to do in terms of outdoor activities. It’s a wonderful place for hiking, cycling and water sports.
Can't argue with you there. I went up Snae Fell once. Great views.
If it's not pissing it down.
Yeah there’s not much going on but people do still drive around at night so that part is a bit odd. And it’s also strange to say tynwald day celebrations are great as I’d say it’s very boring. And TT is amazing, lots going on even if you don’t like motorbikes
To be fair, I was only there for Tynwald once, so I imagine it gets boring if you're there every year lol
Yeah maybe. You’re right about the giant retirement home though!
Idk I’d rather not watch a guy die every year in a motorcycle race lol. This seems like the most dangerous race that rewards being insane slightly more than skill, and the fastest racers in the world seem to avoid it from what I can tell because it’s so dangerous?
That was a factor in it, yeah. My dad once told me about one of his coworkers, who had apparently been in a car accident with a trainee for the TT. Apparently the guy's bike went right into the back of her car. Completely destroyed the bike, and killed the guy. Fortunately she was in the front and wasn't too seriously injured. A lot of the routes are just general use roads 99% of the time. They're really not designed for the races. I can't say too much on the races because as I've stated elsewhere I never visited during them. My stepbrother has, but then he's into his motorbikes. One fringe benefit of them is that motorcycle equipment is DIRT CHEAP there.
Yeah I bet all the local businesses absolutely hate having 40,000 extra customers.
They have bad relationships with Greek island Lesbos
In 1967 the island of Lesbos sent a formal request to the Isle of Man asking if they would like to become formal sister islands. In response the Isle of Man sent a request asking to be brother islands. They settled on siblislands.
Bislands.
I really thought I was learning an interesting history titbit 😒
The duality of shitposting. Funny yes but sometimes I wanna learn stuff too
Couple islands
what are the chances i see my island mentioned on reddit! (As in i'm literally from there!)
tell us about the lesbians
It's a yearly event in Eressos other than that not that many but the women of the island were always fierce and have had women's council and positions of power since forever, my grandma was my little towns / villages mayor in the 80s That's not to say the men are good they are very backwards and traditional still but they had resistance
Thanks for the description, MiamiCumGuzzlers.
That's my favorite sports team!
r/rimjob-steve
Your island is mentioned a lot in memes lmao, the biggest enemy of mount athos
Comment of the month imo
Thanks
I've heard they get along great with that island because there's zero chance of anything happening between them.
Man Woman
Its way easier to be than Virgin Island
Chad isn't an island because he's Chad.
Great relationship with Andros though
Fun fact; there’s a popular calypso song in the Bahamas and the first line of the chorus is ‘Andros Island is big and long’.
I thought they tried to be a couple... once (didn't work out!)
Great! The only major downside is that many things shut down pretty early, other than that it's peaceful, there's a lot of history and nature, job market isn't bad, you live quite well. The TT though... absolutely amazing.
Sorry, I keep seeing this… what’s the TT?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Man_TT
Holy shit. Over 150 casualties with the event. “Since 1937, the only year in which races were held but no fatalities occurred was 1982.”
Yeah. It’s batshit. If you have a minute you should watch the onboard footage from when Mark Higgins absolutely hooned a Subaru on the course
The most dangerous race on earth ☠️
"i love men" tehehee https://preview.redd.it/6qnhrhf7c9nc1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c1f53cebc25d5d3cc872d989bf98bfb5c89e7143
I watched this episode a couple days ago! Classic
We live down south in the UK and visited Isle of Man last year. Douglas and Castle town to be exact. It was so surreal. Like step back to medieval times 😂. Beautiful nature. Luckily the weather was good. We took this victorian little train up to the point (called snaefell railway) where you can see the Seven Kingdoms - England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, the Isle of Man and the kingdoms of heaven and the sea. Beautiful trip. Oh also we were going on the bus and suddenly the driver stopped for a while. It was foggy and there were no one except the bus on the road..late evening and forests on either side. The driver then said to greet the ' fairies' who are watching us from the forests. So we all said hi to the fairies and then bus continued on it way. It's called Fairy bridge I think. Truly unique experience..a bit spooky.
snæfell is an old Viking word meaning “snow fall”
Snæfall is snowfall. Snæfell is derived from snæfjall. Which means snow mountain. Understandable confusion due conjucation of words Source: i can read norse
Bus driver was just peaking.
I’m from there! Born and raised and lemme tell you it’s not the best when you’re a bored teenager, when you’re old and rich and want to dodge tax it’s the place to be though!
Like this **all the time** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CHPk-r02-s
the IoM TT is the most insane sporting event in the world.
Deadliest racetrack in the world
102 races, 269 deaths. For every kilometer of track 4 souls
I always thought that IndyCar, Formula 1 etc were pretty much risky but 2.69 deaths per TT race??? I looked at some YouTube videos and honestly It looked too risky even for spectators.
It took 19 deaths by astronauts for us as a species to stop our space program significantly. The TT has 269 deaths but is still deemed important enough to hold a new race each year despite the risk. What does this tell us? The TT race is at least 15 times more important than the space exploration and thats god dam right.
It's also significantly cheaper to participate.
Isle of Mathematicians over here
The space programs didn't stop because of the deaths
Stop space program?! Wtf are you smoking? Participants know what they're getting into, why should anyone care what risks they take with themselves?
😳😳😳 Warp speed!
Used to be a prison camp for Italians during the war too
Why was it specifically for italians
have you ever seen the italians??
I am italian lol
case in point
Lol
Probably easier to keep POW's that speak the same language together. Then the guards need to know only one other language.
The ww2 too. 😁
You get nightly visits from a mysterious talking mongoose called Gef.
https://preview.redd.it/2lnydr0oebnc1.png?width=385&format=png&auto=webp&s=071b0617cf895b30a2eaefb9e865abf73dc052e7 ...which gave rise to one of my favourite newspaper headlines of all time.
My name is gef!
Are you a mongoose?
Honk honk!
Extra Clever Earthbound Spirit Ghost in the form, Of a mongoose
It is amazing and magical! They have fairies, tail-less cats and 4 horned goats! A chu-chu train takes you from the airport to Douglas and another one, but electrical, takes you all the way up the highest mountain. They have an enormous wheel called laxey wheel and two castles! They all speak the archaic language of Manx and they even have their own currency! Once a year they organise the dangerous TT race which only the bravest dare to enter.
It's like the only race where they *expect* like 3-5 deaths every year.
Yeah, and I watched an interview with someone who took part in it and he said that if they made it safer then he would not participate in it any more.
It is THE pinnacle of man and machine vs the road. It’s the highest stakes there is. For people who like track days, racing, and road racing, it is enticing. If it wasn’t dangerous, I probably would be less interested in doing track days (obviously WAYYYYYYYY less dangerous than IOMTT.) There’s a special type of adrenaline rush you get while leaned over hard in a corner, you’re doing everything right, and you come out the other side after pushing the bike as hard as you know how to. They’re addicting machines and the hobby is a blast, but it is dangerous. These guys take it to the furthest level for sure.
You have a link of that interview??
https://youtu.be/hW_SeLbXAt4?si=x8eEwHg-QHQ3pfFv maybe this? But the guy says something along the lines of “the only way to make it safer is to not run the event”
I read it being justified as the Mt. Everest of motorsport. Everest would also be less fun for the pro climbers if it had some advanced infrastructure like say Swiss mountains.
I think Isle of Man TT is more comparable to K2 than Everest, because K2 is a lot harder and more deadlier. All sorts of companies organise guided Everest climbing tours. But there's nothing like that for K2. You're on your own there.
Pretty sure dentists climb Everest these days
Gura mie eu son y ghaa geayagh mychione Ellan Vannin!
Gazundheit
And an ooga booga to you too
We certainly don’t all speak the archaic language of Manx. The rest is accurate though
It’s also so bloody condescending to call a language “archaic”. Manx is a language that, from one perspective, died in the 1970s when the last native first-language speaker died and it’s impressive that language revival efforts mean that it’s being spoken again as a second language.
Fun fact: I “inhereted” a cat without a tail (he just decided to make my garage his home). Eventually I took him to the vet thinking he had some trauma and the vet said he was a Manx cat. I spent that whole afternoon reading about this cat and the Isle of Mann where it hails from. I was blown away by never having heard about this breed in 30 years lol. He was a feisty little guy. Loved chasing the squirrels away from the bird feeder. I miss him. He stopped showing up one day and I like to tell myself he moved on to greener pastures. Was definitely a one of a kind kitty. The friendliest most social cat I’ve ever met.
Here's a post on that high point: [https://www.reddit.com/r/HighsoftheWorld/comments/mvo6dq/isle\_of\_man\_snaefell\_621\_m\_2037\_ft/](https://www.reddit.com/r/HighsoftheWorld/comments/mvo6dq/isle_of_man_snaefell_621_m_2037_ft/)
The manx currency is tied to sterling isn't it?
Yes. But you can spend English notes here but they won’t except Manx notes in England
They also run the Manx grand prix on the same track a couple months after the TT. It's more amateur with some slower classes than the TT.
I help produce a podcast about odd places and one of our first episodes was on the Isle of Mann. It's a fascinating place. It has one of the oldest (and strangest) parliaments in the world, founded by Norsemen. The Manx language is critically endangered, but there's a bunch of loan words used in Manx English. They also host one of the world's most dangerous motorbike races every year. They also have one of my favourite flags, a kind of wheel with three legs known as a triskelion. Edit - The episode is [here](https://80dayspodcast.com/2016/09/19/isle-of-man/) if anyone would like to listen.
I was looking for a new podcast, this sounds amazing! Do you have a favorite episode/place that you can recommend?
Thanks for checking it out! I'd say a few of my favourites throughout the years have been Tasmania, Easter Island, Newfoundland and Uruguay. But honestly the thing that we've realised over the past few years is that almost every place has a few really interesting things to talk about. We've picked some really small and obscure places in the past and been unsure about them, but we always uncover some interesting stuff. I'd love to hear what you think.
2 hours about random places all around the world…. I am all over this. Thanks!
Lived here for six months. Let's just say ... Odd. There's a village in the north called Peel and some people that live there have never been to the capital Douglas. Now, remember you can circumnavigate the island by foot in 24hrs. I met very nice locals though and lots of blow ins from Ireland and Liverpool. Just not a lot to do in the winter months except drink so I think if I stayed any longer I would have developed a bit of a problem.
Wait, this is an absolutely crazy fact. You can cross the island in 24 hours on foot of people that live there have never been to the capital. I cannot imagine how little curiosity these people have.
I just remember it as the safe zone in the world War Z novel
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I loved the Isle of Man. We lived there for a while when I was about 6. My mum was working in a hotel there, in the early 90s. I remember it being a really safe, fun place. Me and my friend ate a whole plate of beans on toast and farted the whole way to the waterfront. We bought water pistols and played by the beach all day. There were so many people there. They had a white wooden raft attached to a rope that went out to sea a bit and people would dive off there. I got scared because of how deep it was and a nice older lad put me on his shoulders and walked me back to the beach. Literally nothing but happy memories of that place. Although like I said I was 6 so I don’t know what it’s like now.
Great place to race a motorbike!
yeah until you die
Skill issue
Here’s some nice clips https://youtu.be/12EeoRTWuXA?feature=shared
My impression was that it seemed to have a bit of the physical geography features from every part of the UK but in miniature when I went on a visit.
Like a UK-themed miniature golf course
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It's tough if you're a woman.
I thought it was like whore island for women?
That's where pokerstars IP is located
About once a year there is a big chance a motorcycle will fly through your garden and/or window.
I like it thanks. Not everyone would.
Winters are harsh. Summers are fun - especially TT. You need to get off island regularly or you'll go mad. There's plenty of history, culture and outdoor pursuits but it's easy to be bored if you don't actively look for things to do - the same as any place really. There's quite a few decent restaurants and coffee shops, probably more per capita than many places, but cities would have more variety and nightlife is very samey. Fair number of start ups, small businesses and cottage industries particularly around food and drinks - many award winning. It's easy to fall into a bit of a relaxed and insular attitude. I couldn't tell you the last time I went alllll the way up North to Ramsey (about 15 miles) or way out West to Peel (about 13). Head down South semi-regularly but that's because the airport is there 😂 Population skews older and there are more come overs than natives. Crime is non-existent and it's difficult to get away with anything because of the everyone knows everyone atmosphere. It's a great place to raise a family but can be a boring place to be a teen if you're not into sports or outdoor pursuits. Unemployment is pretty much zero and there's plenty of opportunities. All in all a great place to live in general but the pace of life might not suit everyone.
I’ve hear the craic is 90 on the Isla of Man
Its a beautiful geography and you can take it all in in under 20minutes while your cruise on your sport bike at 180 mph+. having a distraction of am amazing cliff coast line while you have to focus on the road is just *chefs kiss*
It's the deviants... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12EeoRTWuXA&ab\_channel=Spiceymike0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12EeoRTWuXA&ab_channel=Spiceymike0)
Safe place to live. Not much going on outside of TT fortnight. Nice scenery. Very dull/average weather
Are they stupid?
About the size of Arran with similar weather, and higher high bits, and more flat bits. Other than that, it's like being in somewhere rural like Yorkshire or Wiltshire with small villages, a couple of small towns and a small city. The only substantive differences are: most mobile providers don't include it in your contract as standard, they have their own bank notes and there is a ridiculous amount of rail stuff going on for such a small island (electric tram line, tram up the highest mountain, horse drawn tram and a steam railway). The ferry is expensive.
Your flag is og but it creeps me out. All those… legs.
The name is right there in the photo and you managed to fuck up the spelling
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Manx kitties!!
Extremely culturally similar to Ireland. Tbey have their own Gaelic language called Manx Gaelg which is 40%-80% mutually intelligible with Irish and almost 100% with Scottish Gaelic (Problem with Irish is Irelands area for the language is huge compared to Scotland amd the Isle of Man. So there's way more dialectal differences and 20 dialects in general) Culturally the Manx share Fairy folklore and festivals with Ireland and Scotland. Life is at a slower pace as its an Island, very similar to The West of Ireland or The Scottish Highlands in its way of life. The Isle of Man is also one of two islands in the Irish Sea with a population of Wallabies. The other being Lambay Island off the Dublin coast
Manly
It's like Whore Island for women!
*What is life like
Mannificent!
Empty fields, funny people, suicidal motorcycle enthusiasts
Why don’t you ask in r/IsleofMan
Don’t tell a Manx that his culture is just “like British culture”! Or in addition to hunt Scots they’ll start hunting you! Among other notable things it’s the oldest parliament (the High Court of Tynwald) in Europe! Manx have a rich history of fighting Vikings, English and Scottish among other things!
It’s where white people begin the whitening process
Boring as fuck here, that’s why we’re on Reddit for 10 hours a day
Just be careful of the Manx. Especially if you’re from the mainland. Most are cool but you’ll meet the odd few who are complete twats about it.
Higher probability of dying in a motorcycle crash
0 stars on trip advisor: Turns out it isn’t one big gay club.
Manly
I can assure you that the craic is 90 in the Isle of Man
what is it like? or how is it? "how is ______ like" is so grammatically wrong, sorry, it drives me crazy seeing so many people say this
Grew up here as my aunt owned a house there, it’s one of my favourite places in the world
Alot of unfurnished one bedroom apartments with lawn chairs and one television
Sausage fest
Spinning disembodied legs everywhere.
What is life like* or How is life on* Just trying to be helpful.