Irish Taxi Driver stickers

scorpioishere · 15-08-2010 04:34PM

PCPhoto wrote: »

maybe its due to the recent report that Irish taxi drivers were amongst the top ten in the world or some sh1t like that.

I cant be ar$ed looking for a link - go find it for yerself if yer interested.

Its a mistake, irish taxi drivers are amongst the top ten in the world for being rude, cheeky, lazy and dirty.

Biggins · 15-08-2010 04:39PM

scorpioishere wrote: »

Its a mistake, irish taxi drivers are amongst the top ten in the world for being rude, cheeky, lazy and dirty.

Link?
Personally I disagree totally.
The vast majority I use are clean and friendly.

pappyodaniel · 15-08-2010 05:08PM

I think it's illegal to display a sticker with a tri-colour or 'Ireland' written on it on a taxi as it encourages racism. Personally I think it's bull****. A taxi can display advertising on it's bonnet, sides, back...basically the car can be wrapped in ads. I'd love to do this with my taxi.... though it would probably attract the wrong type of customer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX36cwpL4a8

Plebs · 15-08-2010 05:09PM

Personally, I think drivers should be allowed charge what they like and refuse to carry passengers if they don't like the look/sound of them.

Just as many annoying passengers out there as annoying drivers. Dealing with the public is not an easy job. Especially after having being through an economic boom and there still being a lingering bad unfriendly attitude/entitlement complex in the mindset of many consumers.

Plebs · 15-08-2010 05:10PM

scorpioishere wrote: »

Its a mistake, irish taxi drivers are amongst the top ten in the world for being rude, cheeky, lazy and dirty.

Srsly mate, you should really have your own chauffeur. Like your neighbours in Ballsbridge.

mikemac · 15-08-2010 05:14PM

Plebs wrote: »

Personally, I think drivers should be allowed charge what they like a

It's not streetwise locals who know the areas and know what going rates are that will suffer.

It'll be tourists arriving at ports and airports and they'll be ripped off.
And they'll be struggling to negotiate if they can't speak English.

Or people arriving in new cities for work or job interviews or whatever.

The maximum fares protects them

gbee · 15-08-2010 05:14PM

Cmdr Keen wrote: »

So yeh, just got a cab home there and there was a big sticker on the side saying 'Irish Taxi Driver'... I only noticed it getting out of the taxi. Had I seen it before getting in, I would have gotten a different cab. Somebody told me they'ld seen it before on other cabs also...

You are entitled to your opinion.

I've been known to get a bus where I don't see this sticker.

Plebs · 15-08-2010 05:16PM

feelingstressed wrote: »

It's not streetwise locals who know the areas and know what going rates are that will suffer.

It'll be tourists arriving at ports and airports and they'll be ripped off.
And they'll be struggling to negotiate if they can't speak English.

Or people arriving in new cities for work or job interviews or whatever.

The maximum fares protects them

So much for the elusive "free market".

VinnyTGM · 15-08-2010 05:20PM

Irish taxi drivers are great, there under an illusion where they think they own the road.

I Was VB · 15-08-2010 05:23PM

OP did the taxi driver spout off about the woes of taxi life? Bore ya to tears?

bobblepuzzle · 15-08-2010 05:30PM

I Was VB wrote: »

OP did the taxi driver spout off about the woes of taxi life? Bore ya to tears?

Oh yeh "there's a load of more paki and Asian drivers after showing up in this area at the rank recently" and here's me sitting there... really, do I give a ****!!

Plebs · 15-08-2010 05:36PM

Cmdr Keen wrote: »

Oh yeh "there's a load of more paki and Asian drivers after showing up in this area at the rank recently" and here's me sitting there... really, do I give a ****!!

On certain ranks, blacks/asians/Muslims aren't welcome. Especially the ranks in suburbia.

The Gresham mafia have a strangle hold on O'Connell Street. The "non Irish" therefore are forced to drive around and/or queue illegally outside nightclubs.

Plebs · 15-08-2010 05:42PM

I don't know how drivers make money. You're better off on the dole or sweeping the streets.

If you crash your car/someone crashes into you, you're focked. The amount of hoops you have to jump through to licence a new vehicle and get it on the road is unreal. You won't get a cent from anyone during those months. It's also bloody expensive: all the inspection/smart cards/stickers have been outsourced to private companies.

I'd say all those 07/08/09 cars are on hire purchase with €10k final payments: basically, the car will never be yours. The only option you have is to roll over and get another car on hire purchase.

Taxi driving is also very unhealthy: mentally and physically. Not very conducive to family life either. Tax returns are a pain in the hole too. Nobody pays you to sit down and fill in your tax forms.

Don't know how a driver can afford to keep a car on the road, pay for health insurance, life assurance and a pension. I honestly don't.

I Was VB · 15-08-2010 05:46PM

Cmdr Keen wrote: »

Oh yeh "there's a load of more paki and Asian drivers after showing up in this area at the rank recently" and here's me sitting there... really, do I give a ****!!

Well i hope you took his number and report him, there is absolutley no defending this kinda talk. If a driver makes you feel uneasy in a taxi report him.

Plebs wrote: »

On certain ranks, blacks/asians/Muslims aren't welcome. Especially the ranks in suburbia.

The Gresham mafia have a strangle hold on O'Connell Street. The "non Irish" therefore are forced to drive around and/or queue illegally outside nightclubs.

There is Irish taxi drivers do exactly the same who que illegally outside nightclubs. You a taxi driver Plebs? Or are you looking in from a outsiders view point? Always belive half of what you see and none of what you hear.

Jesus Wept · 15-08-2010 06:17PM

Plebs wrote: »

Tax returns are a pain in the hole too. Nobody pays you to sit down and fill in your tax forms.

Outrageous.

OutlawPete · 15-08-2010 06:18PM

Plebs wrote: »

The "non Irish" therefore are forced to drive around and/or queue illegally outside nightclubs.

Absolute bollox.

The "non Irish" drivers that are queuing illegally are doing so out of CHOICE, cause they are CHEATS .. not because they have to.

No Irish drivers stop 'Non Irish' taxis joining queues once they do so in the same manner as Irish drivers.

I see it most nights in Dublin.

Irish AND 'Non Irish' will join a queue single file like the one on Harcourt Street and 'Non Irish' drivers will cheat and drive down and jump in front of the queue causing chaos.

The guards are sick of them up there and will take names now and then but they just come back five minutes later.

Same crap happens on Dawson St, the Taxi rank there will have both Irish and 'Non Irish' drivers and other 'Non Irish' drivers will come along and park in front of the rank at the junction of Sth Anne St.

They have a fcuking cheek and give their fellow 'Non Irish' taxi drivers that are decent, a bad name by their actions.

MrMatisse · 15-08-2010 06:25PM

OutlawPete wrote: »

Absolute bollox.

The "non Irish" drivers that are queuing illegally are doing so out of CHOICE, cause they are CHEATS .. not because they have to.

No Irish drivers stop 'Non Irish' taxis joining queues once they do so in the same manner as Irish drivers.

I see it most nights in Dublin.

Irish AND 'Non Irish' will join a queue single file like the one on Harcourt Street and 'Non Irish' drivers will cheat and drive down and hump in front of the queue.

The guards are sick of them up there and will take names now and then but they come back five minutes later.

They have a brass neck.

Same crap on Dawson St, the Taxi rank will have both Irish and 'Non Irish' drivers and other 'Non Irish' drivers will come along and park in front of the rank at the junction of Sth Anne St.

They have a fcuking cheek and give their fellow 'Non Irish' decent taxi drivers a bad name by their actions each and every night.

Muppet.

OutlawPete · 15-08-2010 06:27PM

Really-Stressed wrote: »

Muppet.

Good point.

Tar.Aldarion · 15-08-2010 06:30PM

Plebs wrote: »

I don't know how drivers make money. You're better off on the dole or sweeping the streets.

If you crash your car/someone crashes into you, you're focked. The amount of hoops you have to jump through to licence a new vehicle and get it on the road is unreal. You won't get a cent from anyone during those months. It's also bloody expensive: all the inspection/smart cards/stickers have been outsourced to private companies.

I'd say all those 07/08/09 cars are on hire purchase with €10k final payments: basically, the car will never be yours. The only option you have is to roll over and get another car on hire purchase.

Taxi driving is also very unhealthy: mentally and physically. Not very conducive to family life either. Tax returns are a pain in the hole too. Nobody pays you to sit down and fill in your tax forms.

Don't know how a driver can afford to keep a car on the road, pay for health insurance, life assurance and a pension. I honestly don't.

Last half dozen I used all had iphones, um I think a lot of them are grand.

me-skywalker · 15-08-2010 06:32PM

Bet he was a ginger?

chosen1 · 15-08-2010 06:44PM

feelingstressed wrote: »

No problem PCPhoto, don't mention it

In overall rankings Dublin drivers are improving apparently

Hard to disagree with that.
London cabbies are great.
Roman cabbies are lunatics :eek:, but most drivers in Rome are.

The presence of Bangkok up there among the best in the world makes a joke of the whole survey. When I was there you had to argue with them for ages to make them turn on the meter as they try and give you a price of at least double.

On topic, I have had more bad experiences with foreign drivers here than local ones, ranging from them not having a clue where they were going to them deliberately going the wrong direction to get a bigger fare. Wouldn't put me off getting them as its probably a small minority of them that are like this

Táck · 15-08-2010 07:10PM

no to foreign games

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OvD7y01oznw/SclohCBrE8I/AAAAAAAAD6Y/fb2XDc_7loA/s400/No+to+Foreign+Games+RSF+style.jpg

me-skywalker · 15-08-2010 07:42PM

Táck wrote: »

no to foreign games

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OvD7y01oznw/SclohCBrE8I/AAAAAAAAD6Y/fb2XDc_7loA/s400/No+to+Foreign+Games+RSF+style.jpg

Still gets me everytime

bobblepuzzle · 15-08-2010 08:09PM

me-skywalker wrote: »

Still gets me everytime

Thats not funny anymore tbh

me-skywalker · 15-08-2010 08:59PM

Cmdr Keen wrote: »

Thats not funny anymore tbh

To you

tbh

Tefral · 15-08-2010 09:03PM

After numerous bad experiences in Dublin with "Non Irish" taxis, i simply dont get into them anymore.. My girlfriend is the same, one Non Irish taxi driver actually pulled out a map..

Its my choice what taxi i take and if i see a sticker saying an Irish Taxi, thats the one ill get into.

Fair play to them i say.

Bonito · 15-08-2010 09:27PM

Bet you wouldn't say or do shít if it were a person who was born here to Non-Irish parents African/Asian/American/Indian etc etc etc (making them Irish) and were a taxi driver and they had an "Irish taxi driver" sticker on their car.

The Aussie · 15-08-2010 09:29PM

me-skywalker wrote: »

Bet he was a ginger?

If i saw that before i got in the cab i would have found another, filthy red heads...

Tefral · 15-08-2010 09:36PM

Bonito wrote: »

Bet you wouldn't say or do shít if it were a person who was born here to Non-Irish parents African/Asian/American/Indian etc etc etc (making them Irish) and were a taxi driver and they had an "Irish taxi driver" sticker on their car.

Got into a taxi recently where the driver was wearing a turban, nice guy, here 35 years paying taxes etc, longer than im on the planet, this in my book makes him Irish in that sense. Knew everything, and was even learning irish in night school.

Unfortunately, the bad experiences of a few has sort of wrecked it for the geniune lads and ladies.

15-08-2010 11:41PM

Cmdr Keen wrote: »

Thats not funny anymore tbh

So you admit it was funny but you don't think it's funny anymore so it's now not funny for anyone.

I don't have to deal with taxis much but I hopped into one last week, woman driving a lovely mercedes so I thought it'd be sound but I had to listen to the whole racist spiel. You should get a discount for having to listen to it.

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