Nope. British Crown Dependency.
It has its own money which isn’t legal tender in England. But English money is LT here.
It has a few other variations on British law - E.g. the ‘National Speed Limit’ is “As fast as you like as long as you drive safely”
There are 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 roads but there are also NSL roads on which there is no actual upper limit.
Learn somethin’ new every day. I always thought you were English.
I am. I spent my first 21 years there.
I don’t consider myself Manx. I’ve only been here 7 years.
I was born in Blackburn, Lancashire. Lived in Accrington for 21 years.
I’m more English than the Royal family and half the Cabinet.
I read the news today, oh boy!
Sorry. I’ll just be going now. 
I don’t understand this post.
So…your tail then…is it at least getting shorter?
Fucked up story, by the way. Still not enough to make me a death penalty proponent though. I don’t think the perp should be incarcerated as much as studied.
A Day In The Life Lyrics. Funny allusion. Sort of. I thought it too but…nevermind
Me too, but what I thought was, Hmmm, 400 holes, was it? [boy is this ever a hijack]
Collin Abrahall?
As Inigo Montoya pointed out, it’s lines from the Beatles song “A Day In the Life” from Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
The last verse starts out:
I read the news today oh, boy
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
Best response so far.
Well whose fault is that now? It WAS perfectly correct before you wandered off in London during that LAST time travel adventure thankyouverymuch.
ETA: And “wondered” was a perfectly legitimate alternate spelling of “wandered” too. 
I remind you that the purpose of the last time travel adventure was to erase the history in which you were eaten alive by mutant chimpanzees on October 31st, 2008. Admittedly, I didn’t ASK you first if you were okay with me changing history in such a fashion, but I thought your answer was easy to guess.
Look, when a baby cries, you gotta pound it. Otherwise it’ll never learn not to cry. Basic negative reinforcement. Why is that so hard to understand?!
Jesus Christ. How many more children have to DIE before we finally abolish parenthood entirely???
There was a surveillance video on the local news last week, showing a man casually kicking around his two-year-old stepson. He was arrested, but only because the abuse (which seemed disturbingly routine & non-emotional) was accidentally witnessed on video. All I could think of was the thousands, perhaps millions, of children who are treated every day like that, usually by stepfathers who just want to fuck the child’s mother and view the child as nothing more than an annoying animal.
/pedantic nitpick
Negative reinforcement is a reward, taking something bad away in order to continue or increase a behavior. You mean punishment. Negative reinforcement and punishment are not the same thing.
/end pedantic nitpick
Yes, I suck the life out of parties, too.
For those of you wondering who Victorie Climbieis…
And explain to me why we still can’t protect children from those who would harm them? Wasn’t it an old UL that in the first child abuse case prosecuted, the attorney had to get the girl legally declared an animal just so he could get her protection under animal abuse laws, since child abuse laws did not exist?
Well, social services could have done something, but since the mom worked with them so well, they decided to return the baby to the home. 
Calling the doc to get SS off her back? An innocent person would at least comply with what needs to be done.
I heard about this. Poor little mite was still trying to smile even after he’d had his back broken.
Oh, and lissener… is lissener, and frankly, that’s punishment enough.
Then why do supporters of it claim that it’s purpose is to deter people from committing murder?
Meh. I am not disputing the ass holiness of lissener (I cannot, for the life of me, bring to mind a single post of his, or yours, for that matter, I am scatterbrained like that, and weird about long sentences and commas, like this), but I am a lot more troubled by this:
The OP is RO, and whining about people not feeling the outrage is kinda lame. So here we are all dutifully saying silly things about these men balls and death and all that to make seem like we care about a piece of news we hadn’t heard about.
YMMV.