100% Irish Taxi Drivers

xzanti

Sorry if this has been done before. I just heard on the wireless, some afternoon talk show, that Irish taxi drivers have started sporting bumper stickers reading “100% Irish” obviously indicating that the driver is Irish as opposed to a foreign national and some people are up in arms saying it’s going to cause discrimination..

What do you guys think of this? One caller on the show made an interesting point saying that we can go into a supermarket and pick a food product with Guaranteed Irish on the label, so is this discrimination against foreign food producers??, i.e. in the same vein we the public should be able to choose guaranteed Irish service providers if we want..

Sherifu

No dogs or naggers allowed.

gibo_ie

Drivers in Galway City earlier this year had "This driver is local" plastered down the full side of the car and caused quite a stir!!!
They said it was so local people knew that they would know the areas better etc...
I have no issue with people doing this. Its always better to have a driver who actually knows where they are going...

KTRIC

Freedom of choice, why not.

If I get a taxi I want to know that I can guarantee to be brought home in a mid-nineties smelly Merc with the driver complaining about "Dose Fordiners" and telling me about his failed marriage.

You just don't get that sort of service from Mikhail or Pavel. They're too cheery and happy to have a fare.

Tweeter

I think it's a very good idea to be completely honest.

I think the foreign drivers will simply get their own 100% Irish stickers. What would you say if you got into one of these cabs??

Dyr

A taxi driver I know is half chinese but he's as dublin as coddle, he could do with one of these signs :pac:

iMax

xzanti wrote: »

One caller on the show made an interesting point saying that we can go into a supermarket and pick a food product with Guaranteed Irish on the label, so is this discrimination against foreign food producers??

She obviously hasn't shopped in a number of years so... The "Guaranteed Irish Program was outlawed by Brussels a number of years ago !

CiaranC

Wow, manna from heaven. I know which taxis i wont be getting into. No more listeing to these clowns 'expert' opinions on immigration/the economy/politics/lisbon/etc.

You KNOW the type of clown who would put 100% Irish on his cab is exactly the same guy!

krpc

I'd much prefer a sticker that said "Guaranteed to get you home, without stealing your belongings".

Dragan

The majority of taxi's now seem to have sat nav.

As such i have started to prefer foreign taxi drivers as they don't insist on telling me about their day, their kids, what has recently pissed them off and how Irish taxi drivers are ruining it for them.

NeVeR

I dont see a problem with it, Like the guy on the radio said we have Irish products with labels.. Why not taxi's.

Slow Motion

It's an absofcukinloutely brilliant idea! Now I can tell which is the one driven by the opinionated racist overcharging prick, and can go with the quiet hardworking foreigner who has no interest in talking to me! Well done Irish taxi drivers, I finally have something to commend you about!

Zangetsu

Was in a taxi with a french driver last night, he didn't charge us while we loaded a **** load of gear into the car (about 20 mins), we had a great laugh over the show 'Ello Ello' and wierdest thing was he spoke pretty decent irish, better then most of my mates infact!

Twas a good laugh, MUCH better then the irish driver with his small talk about the weather and hasn't a ****in clue where anything is outside of the city center.

And scene ///

Gran Hermano

Well based on recent threads on here, how about "100% Eastern European female taxi driver" bumper sticker?

Zangetsu

Female driver? Pffffft

Fratton Fred

Could they not get a "This Driver Uses Deodorant" sticker. That would get them more trade.

LeahBaby

The other day I got a lift from the train Station to my house. Only about a 20 minute walk but it was lashing.

Irish guy charged me 4.50
Foreign guy charged me 8 euro and didnt turn on the meter
Feck that *<<only gets irish drivers*

Slow Motion

LeahBaby wrote: »

The other day I got a lift from the train Station to my house. Only about a 20 minute walk but it was lashing.

Irish guy charged me 4.50
Foreign guy charged me 8 euro and didnt turn on the meter
Feck that *<<only gets irish drivers*

In fairness that's your own fault for not checking the meter was on! I would not have let him drive without it!

LeahBaby

Slow Motion wrote: »

In fairness that's your own fault for not checking the meter was on! I would not have let him drive without it!

Too shy

gixerfixer

Dont matter two ***** to me but i know for a fact that the wife wont get into a taxi if there is a black guy driving it. Go figure

LouOB

Brilliant idea - Irish men all the way
Least the local guy knows where he is going and can talk

Every foreign taxi driver Ive gotten was really rude and didnt have a clue where the place was

Dyr

*hugs* for local taxi drivers, *shrugs* for dem fordin ones

Varkov

I blame the blacks

Fratton Fred

LouOB wrote: »

Brilliant idea - Irish men all the way
Least the local guy knows where he is going and can talk

Every foreign taxi driver Ive gotten was really rude and didnt have a clue where the place was

Does Cavan count as foreign if you're in Dublin?

Zangetsu

Any chance of a poll? curious what the population thinks about foriegn vs irish drivers...

Slow Motion

LeahBaby wrote: »

Too shy

Fair enough, but you need to get tougher, at the very least if he doesn't switch the meter on you should ask him what the cost will be. On further reflection if the meter is not on he might not be legit, and therefore may not be safe, for your sake check in future, I am sure you would rather be embarressed than sorry!

topper75

Advertising something along the lines of 'driver has white skin' would be out of order.

But 'driver is local' is fair enough. All businesses should be allowed to shout their competitive advantages from the rooftops in a free market economy.

There is no enshrinement of special rights for 'foreigners' in our law, and rightly so.

How much business would I as a turnip-headed Paddy get in Sofia/Paris/Lagos/Krakow as a cabbie compared to local cabbies?

xzanti

How do I add a poll? I've done it before but I can't remember how now..

Slow Motion

Thread tools I think!

gixerfixer

topper75 wrote: »

Advertising something along the lines of 'driver has white skin' would be out of order.

But 'driver is local' is fair enough. All businesses should be allowed to shout their competitive advantages from the rooftops in a free market economy.

There is no enshrinement of special rights for 'foreigners' in our law, and rightly so.

How much business would I as a turnip-headed Paddy get in Sofia/Paris/Lagos/Krakow as a cabbie compared to local cabbies?

Yeah never thought of it like that. Fair point

LouOB

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Does Cavan count as foreign if you're in Dublin?

Everything outside Dublin is foreign to me
Even the language:P

xzanti

Poll added..

arybvtcw0eolkf

Well my passport says I'm Irish, my car reg. plate say's its an Irish car and its registered in Dublin. On the left sleeve of my uniform I've an Irish flag, even when I serve under a UN flag.

I wear Irish rugby tops when we play Rugby and Irish soccer tops when we play soccer, I train Judo with the Irish judo masters team.

And on Paddy's day I wear the shamrock.

To top it all off I've got red hair and was christened a catholic.

I guess that makes me, and a lot of other's the most racist shower of fvckwits out there!.

As regards to taxi's and foreign driver's, give me an Irish driver any day of the week. Someone to have the craic with, no speakh da pidgeon english, sh*t talk about things common to us both and if I'm in company or have to spend time on the phone I don't spend the journey interupting those conversations to give directions for each and every turn.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Dragan wrote: »

As such i have started to prefer foreign taxi drivers as they don't insist on telling me about their day, their kids, what has recently pissed them off and how Irish taxi drivers are ruining it for them.

I'm surprised at you!.

Your working door's long enough now to have been told a million times (by visiting tourists) how friends Irish doorstaff are compared to other nationalities, same goes for taxi driver's, shop assistants (when you can find thegood old fashioned Irish woman now), bar staff etc.. We're reknowned for our friendliness and charactor, having a chat and sh*t talking about bollox is what each and everyone of us do best - for crying out loud isn't that what we spend 90% of our time on boards doing.

Cookie_Monster

xzanti wrote: »

“100% Irish”

The car Irish too is it?


I'd prefere a driver who actually knew where they were going tbh

Executive Steve

LeahBaby wrote: »

The other day I got a lift from the train Station to my house. Only about a 20 minute walk but it was lashing.

Irish guy charged me 4.50
Foreign guy charged me 8 euro and didnt turn on the meter
Feck that *<<only gets irish drivers*

why did you take two taxis home from the station?

Cunny-Funt

I don't care where the taxi driver is from.

I don't care about the stickers either.

Gummy Panda

I prefer a driver who didn't talk crap to me and by crap i mean complaining about his ex girlfriend texting him, foreign taxi drivers and the government. Infact don't talk to me.

If i'm getting a taxi i'm either one of the following:

a) Hungover
b) Sick (real illness not from booze )
c) tired and need to get home quick

gixerfixer

Well ive honestly come across loads of dickhe*d foreign taxi drivers myself and loads of dickhe*d Irish ones. Thats life aint it. Pr*cks everywhere you go. I will say this, when i get in a taxi it bugs the hell otta me when the driver keeps asking for directions...FFS a sat-nav is only what 200 bucks.

kraggy

There seems to be as much generalistion about racist-taxi driver-divorcees in this thread as there is made about foreigners by some Irish people.

Perhaps a bit of over-correction by the PC crowd?

SheroN

Be they foreign or be they Irish, they're still taxi drivers.

Dirk Gently

Slow Motion wrote: »

It's an absofcukinloutely brilliant idea! Now I can tell which is the one driven by the opinionated racist overcharging prick, and can go with the quiet hardworking foreigner who has no interest in talking to me! Well done Irish taxi drivers, I finally have something to commend you about!

Took the words right out of my keyboard. I'll take a genuine foreign driver over a moany Irish right wing bigot any day. I always try not to generalise but I make an exception with taxi drivers. :pac:

stovelid

xzanti wrote: »

I just heard on the wireless, some afternoon talk show, that Irish taxi drivers have started sporting bumper stickers reading “100% Irish” .

I want to get a sticker reading: 100% striking, moaning, over-charging, premiership-loving, talkative cnuts.

Might need a bigger bumper though.

Plug

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08_5o8Iir1c

knird evol

LeahBaby wrote: »

The other day I got a lift from the train Station to my house. Only about a 20 minute walk but it was lashing.

Irish guy charged me 4.50
Foreign guy charged me 8 euro and didnt turn on the meter
Feck that *<<only gets irish drivers*

You must remember that space and time are relative concepts, and the absolute journey time from the train station to your house must be taken in context of large bodies of mass, electomagnetic fields and how close to the speed of light the environment is moving at.

hopalong85

once they know where they're going, it's all the same to me. irish drivers do have a tendency to spout off all sorts of crap you don't wanna hear about politics, foreigners, etc. this is annoying specially when they don't get the hint that you're not there for a chat!

dsmythy

There seems to be a lot of prejudice here. Against Irish taxi drivers.

inforfun

I dont care who drives me.
What i do care about is that i dont end up in some piece of jap crap from '94 (the car that is, not the driver)
Always feel ripped off when the fare is more than what the car is worth.

click4444

as long as I get to where I'm going I could not give a [EMAIL="f@ck"]f@ck[/EMAIL].

MOH

LouOB wrote: »

Brilliant idea - Irish men all the way
Least the local guy knows where he is going and can talk

Every foreign taxi driver Ive gotten was really rude and didnt have a clue where the place was

Only drivers I've ever had who didn't know where they were going were Irish. Got a guy in fairview once, didn't know where mount street was. Had difficulty with anything south of Trinity.
And another guy driving us to a restaurant who didn't have a clue where he was going, despite being clearly given the address. Ended up having to ring them for directions and talk him there. And he still charged full whack on the meter. If he'd just said up front he didn't have a clue, there were plenty more taxis at the rank.

Forget €200 on a satnav - A street atlas of Dublin only costs about €12. Any taxi driver in Dublin, regardless of nationality, should have at least that.

Blisterman

"100% Irish Driver" - Not quite racist, but close.
If I was getting a taxi, in Dublin. A corkman would probably have as much chance of getting lost as a foreigner.

"Local Driver" - Perfectly fine.
It's a big advantage, if they're local ,they probably know the area well.

"English Speaking driver" - Perfectly fine
You need them to understand you.