Black taxi drivers

Whiskey Devil · 27-09-2009 1:29am

brummytom wrote: »

The title's just confusing me.

Here, 'black taxi' means a taxi that's black, nothing to do with the Driver (the majority of whom are Indian); but over there it means a taxi driven by a black person?

We haven't had an influx of those damn black cars YET!! We'll have to pay for their petrol and insurance no doubt! :rolleyes:

Taxis here are standard cars with taxi plates, nothing like black/yellow cabs.

brummytom · 27-09-2009 1:32am

Whiskey Devil wrote: »

We haven't had an influx of those damn black cars YET!! We'll have to pay for their petrol and insurance no doubt! :rolleyes:

Taxis here are standard cars with taxi plates, nothing like black/yellow cabs.

Oh right, okay. Just wondered. Over here black taxi's the colour of the car (http://heidthebaw.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/taxi.jpg) - these are probably the most common types of taxi, and the most trustworthy/reputable normally. People are more wary of 'normal' cars.

Anyway, I digress.
I really don't feel the nationality of the driver should be an issue at all so long as he gets you from A to B

Whiskey Devil · 27-09-2009 1:32am

marko91 wrote: »

their mad funny when your pissed....got the radios pumping...feels like we are about to do a drive by in compton with my home slice

Got taxis in Drogheda a fair bit due to where I was living. A lot of the African brothers had some Bob Marley on the box if requested. Beats listening to some Charlo telling you how the business is gone to the dogs....................

Whiskey Devil · 27-09-2009 1:35am

brummytom wrote: »

Oh right, okay. Just wondered. Over here black taxi's the colour of the car (http://heidthebaw.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/taxi.jpg) - these are probably the most common types of taxi, and the most trustworthy/reputable normally. People are more wary of 'normal' cars.

Anyway, I digress.
I really don't feel the nationality of the driver should be an issue at all so long as he gets you from A to B

Judging by your reply, I'm not sure you got my awful attempt at humour.

Exactly. We've got one earth one Earth on which to live.

billy the squid · 27-09-2009 2:43am

neuromancer wrote: »

I wouldn't be asking the question if I knew the answer.

Somewhat off topic, but Ireland looks to be a dumping ground for asylum seekers, and they get treated better than Irish folk.

Some asylum seekers drive taxis too.

I totally agree, your post is completely off-topic.

starbelgrade · 27-09-2009 2:51am

Anything is better than a Dublin taxi driver.. I have often thought that Dublin taxi drivers take up that profession as a cheap option to therapy - instead of venting their moans, gripes & whinges on a (costly) therapist, they actually get paid for venting their spleens to the poor, unwitting customer.

Black, white, yellow... as long as they're not from Dublin, I'm happy out.

Piste · 27-09-2009 3:00am

seanybiker wrote: »

A few months ago meself and the lack

What the hell is a lack?!

Louise~ wrote: »

Yeah I just came to say Blaxi, it's really all I have to add as I'm not a racist, only like the word play... :pac:

Snap. I only clicked on this thread cos I wanted to say blaxi. Blaxi.

starbelgrade · 27-09-2009 3:04am

Piste wrote: »

What the hell is a lack?!

Snap. I only clicked on this thread cos I wanted to say blaxi. Blaxi.

Now that you've said it, I hope you feel proud of yourself. What a fulfilling life you must lead.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 27-09-2009 7:04am

Whiskey Devil wrote: »

Town to Clondalkin - how long does that take? :eek:

About four hours from my town.

Azureus · 27-09-2009 11:09am

Kinda goes against my natural inclination to be accepting of everyone yada yada, but I have to say Ive had one too many uncomfortable experiences of foreign taxi drivers
1:leaving me in the wrong place,
2:charging me 45euro form town to swords then getting quite aggresive/calling the cops when i refused to pay.. needless to say called the regulation comittee peoples and didnt have to pay it but was damn inconvenient
3: talking on the phone in foreign language while driving
4: driving through red lights and when i asked would he stop doing that his reply was 'oh if the police stop us just say we were waiting there ages!' .. granted it was about 3am down roads in Rush which are fairly quiet, but it was through makeshift lights where you couldnt see what was coming around the corner.. i was petrified!

I have never had these experiences with local drivers,although that is of course not to say that they dont happen, but I would feel much more comfortable sitting in a car with someone who spoke my language fluently and knew exactly where they were going withou the aid of gps or a mate on the other end of the phone! Plus I think we need to support Irish jobs.
If there is a queue of foreign drivers, with one Irsh guy way down the line, I will bypass the ones on front and go to the Irish driver. Ive been called racist for this, Im not at all, I just dont think I should be forced to either walk/sit in a taxi where i feel uncomfortable. After all, Im paying for a service, should I not be allowed choose my driver?

muboop1 · 27-09-2009 11:55am

another bad experience...
Last night my sister was in town on harcourt street, they were getting a taxi to donnybrook to a house party after club ended.

My sister wasn't drunk or anything.

She told taxi driver the address, and told him she knew the way if he came through donnybrook/N11 area...

Bare in mind she was in Harcourt street, so this would of been the best and fastest route anyway.

So the taxi driver decided to go via Sandyford? Cant understand this route myself!
But then the girls said they didn't know how to get there from Sandyford and why didn't he go through Liason street etc like they had asked.

They asked him to just bring them to donnybrook and they will walk. He started shouting at them saying why didn't they know the way. Like up in her face screaming(my sis was in the front seat)

Then started saying he was kicking them out and they had to pay. They said no he again started screaming at them.
He pulled over and continued to abuse them calling them stupid etc reducing my sis to tears she was scared he would hit her.

They got out and walked off, he tried to follow them shouting at them...

Thats just wrong imo...
If you agree a fare somewhere you should know how to get there.
If you don't and they say they know a particular route, you should take the route.
If you **** up you shouldn't get aggressive and start shouting and try to kick them out demanding a fare.

My sis forgot to get his reg in all this... lucky for him.

Piste · 27-09-2009 2:04pm

starbelgrade wrote: »

Now that you've said it, I hope you feel proud of yourself. What a fulfilling life you must lead.

I slept very well after posting that

Azureus wrote: »

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Ive been called racist for this, Im not at all, I just dont think I should be forced to either walk/sit in a taxi where i feel uncomfortable. After all, Im paying for a service, should I not be allowed choose my driver?

You are though, discriminating against foreign taxi drivers because they are foreign is racist. Now this doesn't make you a bad person, I think in your case the racism is totally justified as you've had several bad experiences with foreign taxi drivers. A lot of people seem to have this primary school idea of racism, that all racism is very bad and if you discriminate then you are automatically a bad person, whereas a lot of racism is quite understandable.

Hootanany · 27-09-2009 2:11pm

I would refuse to get in to one of them Blaxis,dont encourage them

arybvtcw0eolkf · 27-09-2009 2:14pm

Hootanany wrote: »

I would refuse to get in to one of them Blaxis,dont encourage them

/Please don't take the bait, please don't take the bait, pleas... FECK IT..

Why not?.

And what is a "blaxis"?.

caseyann · 27-09-2009 2:22pm

Personally wont get in taxi with them,I only give my fair to Irish

MizzLolly · 27-09-2009 2:30pm

My God, all the ignorant folk in this thread.

.. and we wonder why the country is fúcked! (every damn day in another moany thread)

ejmaztec · 27-09-2009 2:51pm

MizzLolly wrote: »

My God, all the ignorant folk in this thread.

.. and we wonder why the country is fúcked! (every damn day in another moany thread)

It proves that ignorance isn't bliss after all.:o

mikemac · 27-09-2009 3:11pm

muboop1 wrote: »

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She told taxi driver the address, and told him she knew the way if he came through donnybrook/N11 area...

Bare in mind she was in Harcourt street, so this would of been the best and fastest route anyway.

So the taxi driver decided to go via Sandyford? Cant understand this route myself!
But then the girls said they didn't know how to get there from Sandyford and why didn't he go through Liason street etc like they had asked.

Do you mean Sandymount? How would Sandyford get involved in this?

Hootanany · 27-09-2009 3:15pm

Analia Rich Bandage wrote: »

/Please don't take the bait, please don't take the bait, pleas... FECK IT..

Why not?.

And what is a "blaxis"?.

Give the money to our own but then again i dont get Taxis they are all robbin vermin, how dare they not pick me up on the street because i had a wooley hat on in the winter

dlofnep · 27-09-2009 3:17pm

Piste wrote: »

What the hell is a lack?!

Lack is Waterford slang for girlfriend.

dlofnep · 27-09-2009 3:17pm

caseyann wrote: »

Personally wont get in taxi with them,I only give my fair to Irish

What if he's a black Irishman? What do you do then?

Coriolanus · 27-09-2009 3:30pm

dlofnep wrote: »

What if he's a black Irishman? What do you do then?

In certain world views, there can be no such thing.

eightyfish · 27-09-2009 3:30pm

Azureus wrote: »

If there is a queue of foreign drivers, with one Irsh guy way down the line, I will bypass the ones on front and go to the Irish driver. Ive been called racist for this, Im not at all, I just dont think I should be forced to either walk/sit in a taxi where i feel uncomfortable.

Skipping the black guys in front of the queue and going for the first driver of a white race, how is this not racist? Judging all black taxi drivers by a bad experience with a couple of them, how is this not racist?

caseyann · 27-09-2009 3:35pm

dlofnep wrote: »

What if he's a black Irishman? What do you do then?

Black Irish man

:eek:

arybvtcw0eolkf · 27-09-2009 3:41pm

ejmaztec wrote: »

It proves that ignorance isn't bliss after all.:o

It proves nothing...

Things are not always that black & white.

:P

ladyinwaiting · 27-09-2009 3:48pm

Spore wrote: »

How comfortable are you with a black Irish industry?

Tonight I passed by Barcode Nightclub in Clontarf and I couldn’t help but notice that the entire taxi line was composed of black taxi drivers. I’ve also noticed that the entire College Green taxi rank is now black. I was just wondering what the greater Irish public felt about this niche of Africanised industry? It’s obviously pushed many an Irish taxi driver to state his Irish provenance by placing some sort of Irish sign in their taxi plate.

Basically I just wondered how ready are we to accept an obviously un-Irish niche of industry in this country. It’s not uncommon for foreign workers to ‘colonise’ an industry e.g. Vietnamese dry cleaners in America, Chinese restaurants in Parnell St, Irish navvies in England etc. etc.

Thoughts?

WOAH!!!!
Maybe I will educate you just a teeny tiny bit. Any one of those black men in those taxis could be from other places other than AFRICA! What a huge generalisation you just made! And in reference to Parnell Street being 'colonised'...that's a laugh!

ladyinwaiting · 27-09-2009 3:50pm

Nevore wrote: »

In certain world views, there can be no such thing.

WOW, what a racist scumbag.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 27-09-2009 3:53pm

ladyinwaiting wrote: »

WOW, what a racist scumbag.

Banned.

tippdar · 27-09-2009 4:59pm

ok lads, like my username suggests im not from dublin, but have been living and working here for the last seven years.

anyway, all my experiences with foreign and irish taxi men have been good. but just to explain that my recent experiences with 2 foreign lads have been good

the first when i was getting a cab from coppers, i asked teh the drive, i think he was asian , i asked him how much the fare was and i told him i'd need to get some money out on the way, he said fine no probs and brought me to the nearest atm , got home grand

the second was this week , the foreingn lad, the black driver made a mistake and realised straight away that he was bringing the longer route, i said to him no probs and that these things can happen. anyway we arrived at my house, the fare would normally be 8, it said 10 euro on his meter but he said he'd charge me only 8 because he made a mistake, i thanked him and said he was great etc, fair play to him

my question for those who don't like black taxi lads, is taht what happens when i come out of coppers the next time, i get to the rank and see a que of taxis, all black lads , and there is an irish lad at the back. am i to go to him at the end, .... i dont' think so

anyway thats my tuppence worth on this subject

caseyann · 27-09-2009 5:11pm

tippdar wrote: »

ok lads, like my username suggests im not from dublin, but have been living and working here for the last seven years.

anyway, all my experiences with foreign and irish taxi men have been good. but just to explain that my recent experiences with 2 foreign lads have been good

the first when i was getting a cab from coppers, i asked teh the drive, i think he was asian , i asked him how much the fare was and i told him i'd need to get some money out on the way, he said fine no probs and brought me to the nearest atm , got home grand

the second was this week , the foreingn lad, the black driver made a mistake and realised straight away that he was bringing the longer route, i said to him no probs and that these things can happen. anyway we arrived at my house, the fare would normally be 8, it said 10 euro on his meter but he said he'd charge me only 8 because he made a mistake, i thanked him and said he was great etc, fair play to him

my question for those who don't like black taxi lads, is taht what happens when i come out of coppers the next time, i get to the rank and see a que of taxis, all black lads , and there is an irish lad at the back. am i to go to him at the end, .... i dont' think so

anyway thats my tuppence worth on this subject

I have to be honest i would wait or walk and flag down one of our own.
I have actually done that and i am not ashamed to say so.Why should i get in a taxi with someone i don't feel comfortable with and things have happened to people i know and to myself when i did so never again.

eightyfish · 27-09-2009 5:22pm

caseyann wrote: »

one of our own.

And herein lies the problem, this "us" and "them". IMO, if someone is living here and working here legally, just like me, they are one of our own.

caseyann · 27-09-2009 5:27pm

eightyfish wrote: »

And herein lies the problem, this "us" and "them". IMO, if someone is living here and working here legally, just like me, they are one of our own.

Sorry i disagree for me they are not. The same as if we were in their countries and working and living they would never see you as one of their own.

procure11 · 27-09-2009 5:27pm

caseyann wrote: »

I have to be honest i would wait or walk and flag down one of our own.
I have actually done that and i am not ashamed to say so.Why should i get in a taxi with someone i don't feel comfortable with and things have happened to people i know and to myself when i did so never again.

Ok let me get you clearly...You would not go in a cab with a black driver because you are not comfortable with them.
Do you adopt the same approach to :

> Black occupants in a Bus- you generally aviod sitting next to them

>Black bus drivers

>Black People at the tills in a supermarket etc etc.

You have every right to dislike a particular kind of people or stick with as you put it" one of our own"...that is your prerogative.It just sounds a bit convoluted to purposefully and consistently aviod black drivers /people.Fairplay to you tho!

>

Coriolanus · 27-09-2009 5:31pm

ladyinwaiting wrote: »

WOW, what a racist scumbag.

Whoosh. :rolleyes:

In fairness to Caseyann, she probably skips past dodgy looking white fellas in taxis too. We have a whole set of visual and body language cues we use to decide whether someone is "ok" to be around, but when it comes to foreigners of all stripes, those signals go a little haywire.

procure11 · 27-09-2009 5:32pm

caseyann wrote: »

Sorry i disagree for me they are not. The same as if we were in their countries and working and living they would never see you as one of their own.

Who are they that you are referring to ?

All foreigners or a particular set of them.As far as I know the Irish working in other parts of the world are given the rights they are entitled to ,I am pretty sure you are fully aware of this indisputable fact.

Or perharps I misunderstood you!

eightyfish · 27-09-2009 5:32pm

Also, I know loads of people who've been ripped off by white taxi drivers over the years. Plenty of tourists who've been taken on the sightseeing tour from the airport, plenty of people who got taken advantage of because they didn't know where they were going. Some single girls have been attacked by white taxi drivers.

Therefore, I feel uncomfortable in a car with a white driver, I feel justified in refusing to take the white cab. I either take a black cab or the bus. But they're mostly driven by whites too.

eightyfish · 27-09-2009 5:37pm

caseyann wrote: »

Sorry i disagree for me they are not. The same as if we were in their countries and working and living they would never see you as one of their own.

One of my Irish friends is married to a man who happens to be black. They've been happily married for four years. They have two Irish children. Yet you immediately judge him as not one of our own because of the colour of his skin. I find that attitude disgusting.

procure11 · 27-09-2009 5:37pm

Nevore wrote: »

Whoosh. :rolleyes:

In fairness to Caseyann, she probably skips past dodgy looking white fellas in taxis too. We have a whole set of visual and body language cues we use to decide whether someone is "ok" to be around, but when it comes to foreigners of all stripes, those signals go a little haywire.

But he/she just said she would skip all black drivers! Are you seriously alluding that all of them would fail her signalling index?:rolleyes:.

MizzLolly · 27-09-2009 5:41pm

eightyfish wrote: »

One of my Irish friends is married to a man who happens to be black. They've been happily married for four years. They have two Irish children. Yet you immediately judge him as not one of our own because of the colour of his skin. I find that attitude disgusting.

I also find it disgusting. Judging by some of her other posts on boards the woman should be ashamed of herself. I'm actually so angry at the idea that any of my black friends could be judged like this. It's totally uncalled for.

caseyann · 27-09-2009 5:51pm

eightyfish wrote: »

One of my Irish friends is married to a man who happens to be black. They've been happily married for four years. They have two Irish children. Yet you immediately judge him as not one of our own because of the colour of his skin. I find that attitude disgusting.

Only four :rolleyes:just joking

NO i simply judge not one of our own because he is not Irish.

procure11 · 27-09-2009 5:51pm

caseyann wrote: »

Black Irish man :eek:

Irish American

:eek:

You need to educate yourself mam!

Snakeblood · 27-09-2009 5:52pm

caseyann wrote: »

Sorry i disagree for me they are not. The same as if we were in their countries and working and living they would never see you as one of their own.

I've got an adopted brother who is black, are you seriously telling me he doesn't belong here?

MizzLolly · 27-09-2009 5:53pm

caseyann wrote: »

Only four :rolleyes:just joking
NO i simply judge not one of our own because he is not Irish.

How the hell do you figure black = non-Irish?

FFS!

Coriolanus · 27-09-2009 5:53pm

What if he was a black guy originally from France?

caseyann · 27-09-2009 5:55pm

procure11 wrote: »

Ok let me get you clearly...You would not go in a cab with a black driver because you are not comfortable with them.
Do you adopt the same approach to :

> Black occupants in a Bus- you generally aviod sitting next to them

>Black bus drivers

>Black People at the tills in a supermarket etc etc.

You have every right to dislike a particular kind of people or stick with as you put it" one of our own"...that is your prerogative.It just sounds a bit convoluted to purposefully and consistently aviod black drivers /people.Fairplay to you tho!

>

Yep thats how it is

The rest no i would smile and greet them as nice as they would me.If they don't they get same attitude back.
I don't get the bus anymore thank god don't get me started about the freaks on buses:eek: good god

Kev_ps3 · 27-09-2009 5:55pm

Its a disgrace that Irish workers are finding it hard to make a living because of the flood of Africans driving taxis. If they are taking Irish jobs then they should be sent home.

MizzLolly · 27-09-2009 5:57pm

Kev_ps3 wrote: »

Its a disgrace that Irish workers are finding it hard to make a living because of the flood of Africans driving taxis. If they are taking Irish jobs then they should be sent home.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha............

Let's focus our attention on those Damn Brits first though, right? :rolleyes:

caseyann · 27-09-2009 5:57pm

Snakeblood wrote: »

I've got an adopted brother who is black, are you seriously telling me he doesn't belong here?

aww no Hun i am not saying that

he is one of our own Irish family rearing then he is Irish.

tippdar · 27-09-2009 5:58pm

my issue with taxis is not whether they're white,black , yellow whatever,:D its the inconsistencies with prices. i get taxis quite regularly , short journeys from the house to the dart station, its usually around 8 euro but now it seems it depends on the driver etc.

another thing i don't get is why do all the fares start at around e4.50

eightyfish · 27-09-2009 5:59pm

caseyann wrote: »

NO i simply judge not one of our own because he is not Irish.

What about his kids? They're fairly dark-skinned. If one of them grew up to drive a taxi would you refuse to board because they're not "one of our own"?

Black taxi drivers

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