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Irish Taxi Driver stickers

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  • #62
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Deleted User wrote: »
    So you admit it was funny but you don't think it's funny anymore so it's now not funny for anyone. :confused:


    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.

    So that's why you started to take the bus ;)


  • #63
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The truth had to come out eventually.....


    That's the second mention of it today.. Am I now known as bus piss guy?


  • #64
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Deleted User wrote: »
    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.

    I wonder if you told a female taxi driver that you can't pay the fare, would they let you perform other services instead? :pac:


  • #65
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,098 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    I think this is a great idea, I personally would not get in with a foreign taxi driver in this country, I support Irish taxi drivers 100% rather than having their industry under cut by drivers from foreign countries using sat navs who don't even know the city or know how to speak English properly.


  • #66
    douglashyde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 693 ✭✭✭douglashyde


    Stinicker wrote: »
    I think this is a great idea, I personally would not get in with a foreign taxi driver in this country, I support Irish taxi drivers 100% rather than having their industry under cut by drivers from foreign countries using sat navs who don't even know the city or know how to speak English properly.

    Yeah those dirty sat nav er takin er jobs


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  • #67
    douglashyde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 693 ✭✭✭douglashyde


    Deleted User wrote: »
    So you admit it was funny but you don't think it's funny anymore so it's now not funny for anyone. :confused:


    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.

    If you read the cab charter that most cabs dont display - one of the rules is " you are entitled to a quiet journey"


  • #68
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,098 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    douglashyde wrote: »
    Yeah those dirty sat nav er takin er jobs

    :rolleyes: Have you ever driven with one of them on roads you already know, they will invariably always lead you on some roundabout long way round wild goose chase journey. The are great and will get you from a to b but I don't to be paying extra in my cab fare because some lad over from Nigeria or Pakistan hasn't a clue where he is going, i'd rather take a local taxi driver like boards own volvoboy who has been driving the streets for years and will shoot up some back alley as a shortcut and get me there in half the distance and with less time and cost to me.


  • #69
    douglashyde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 693 ✭✭✭douglashyde


    Stinicker wrote: »
    :rolleyes: Have you ever driven with one of them on roads you already know, they will invariably always lead you on some roundabout long way round wild goose chase journey. The are great and will get you from a to b but I don't to be paying extra in my cab fare because some lad over from Nigeria or Pakistan hasn't a clue where he is going, i'd rather take a local taxi driver like boards own volvoboy who has been driving the streets for years and will shoot up some back alley as a shortcut and get me there in half the distance and with less time and cost to me.

    I pick my taxi by how comfortable the cab looks not on if the driver is brown or not.

    I also give my taximan directions on which way to go because I know the way.


  • #70
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,098 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    douglashyde wrote: »
    I pick my taxi by how comfortable the cab looks not on if the driver is brown or not.

    I also give my taximan directions on which way to go because I know the way.

    Well it is a good job you have such a photographic memory and can recall at wim every single map and atlas you have ever looked at isn't it. I doubt if the general population (or myself) is at good at directions however.


  • #71
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    douglashyde wrote: »
    If you read the cab charter that most cabs dont display - one of the rules is " you are entitled to a quiet journey"

    In practice yes, but part of me would be weary to tell them to button it


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  • #72
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    douglashyde wrote: »
    I pick my taxi by how comfortable the cab looks not on if the driver is brown or not.

    .

    Do you ever skip the first couple of cars on the rank?


  • #73
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    OPENROAD wrote: »
    Do you ever skip the first couple of cars on the rank?

    I do & quite regularly. Generally I'll tell the first taxi driver that I want a fixed rate fare, ask him how much it will be, then ask the next driver if he can beat the price.

    By the time I've asked the 3rd or 4th driver, the price has come down, sometimes by €10-15 depending on where I'm going.

    I look at it this way - you can take me to my destination at a rate which I find acceptable or you can sit on the rank for another hour or two, twiddling your thumbs & listening to Joe Duffy.


  • #74
    john-joe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 797 ✭✭✭john-joe


    So, can I refuse to get in the first taxi in the queue?

    I saw it happen where a guy would not get in to the first taxi on the queue (not sure why) and all hell broke loose, other taxi men start shouting at the guy to take the first cab in line, is this normal/??


  • #75
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    john-joe wrote: »
    So, can I refuse to get in the first taxi in the queue?

    I saw it happen where a guy would not get in to the first taxi on the queue (not sure why) and all hell broke loose, other taxi men start shouting at the guy to take the first cab in line, is this normal/??

    You have the right to choose whichever cab you want. And I certainly wouldn't stand for another taxi driver telling me which taxi I can or cannot take.


  • #76
    john-joe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 797 ✭✭✭john-joe


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    You have the right to choose whichever cab you want. And I certainly wouldn't stand for another taxi driver telling me which taxi I can or cannot take.

    I agree :)

    I walk down O'Connell street most afternoons and I must say that the taxi men leaning on their cars, smoking, music pumping from speakers, really would put me off getting a taxi ( at that rank anyway)

    Anyway get the bus if you can, cheaper and no small talk needed.


  • #77
    Plebs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭Plebs


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    I do & quite regularly. Generally I'll tell the first taxi driver that I want a fixed rate fare, ask him how much it will be, then ask the next driver if he can beat the price.

    By the time I've asked the 3rd or 4th driver, the price has come down, sometimes by €10-15 depending on where I'm going.

    I look at it this way - you can take me to my destination at a rate which I find acceptable or you can sit on the rank for another hour or two, twiddling your thumbs & listening to Joe Duffy.

    ^^^ Really nice guy. The kind you'd love to spend 20 minutes with.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=67452419&postcount=2

    Do you eat at McDonald's by any chance? Do you feel a smug sense of superiority when you get to make your order and watch the proles while you wait for your fix of fat, salt and sugar to arrive?


  • #78
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Plebs wrote: »
    ^^^ Really nice guy. The kind you'd love to spend 20 minutes with.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=67452419&postcount=2

    Do you eat at McDonald's by any chance? Do you feel a smug sense of superiority when you get to make your order and watch the proles while you wait for your fix of fat, salt and sugar to arrive?

    What's up newb? Haven't quite got the swing of it yet, have ya?


  • #79
    Plebs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭Plebs


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    What's up newb? Haven't quite got the swing of it yet, have ya?

    You're also a snob by all accounts. (and a uppity little one at that).

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=67297108#post67297108

    Renting in D6W are we?


  • #80
    john-joe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 797 ✭✭✭john-joe


    Plebs wrote: »
    ^^^ Really nice guy. The kind you'd love to spend 20 minutes with.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=67452419&postcount=2

    Do you eat at McDonald's by any chance? Do you feel a smug sense of superiority when you get to make your order and watch the proles while you wait for your fix of fat, salt and sugar to arrive?

    Oh now your'e in for it.................








































    waiting for the fireworks to go off..............
    :cool:


  • #81
    john-joe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 797 ✭✭✭john-joe


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    What's up newb? Haven't quite got the swing of it yet, have ya?



    BANG


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  • #82
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Plebs wrote: »
    You're also a snob by all accounts. (and a uppity little one at that).

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=67297108#post67297108

    Renting in D6W are we?

    Sorry, I don't talk with plebs.

    I find them rather irritating.


  • #83
    Plebs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭Plebs


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    Sorry, I don't talk with plebs.

    I find them rather irritating.

    Your attitude problem will get you in trouble some night my boy.


  • #84
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Plebs wrote: »
    Your attitude problem will get you in trouble some night my boy.

    Maybe, but my wit is of a calibre that could diffuse the threat of any violence or misadventure.


  • #85
    Plebs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭Plebs


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    Maybe, but my wit is of a calibre that could diffuse the threat of any violence or misadventure.

    Keep working on the abs. Typing from a dark room really helps.


  • #86
    bytey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 266 ✭✭bytey


    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.

    and no none gives a phuck either, wingin taxi drivers make me wanna puke


  • #87
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Plebs wrote: »
    Keep working on the abs. Typing from a dark room really helps.

    Don't make me throw a sheep at you.


  • #88
    Plebs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭Plebs


    bytey wrote: »
    and we honestly dont give a phuck either

    Fair play to you.


  • #89
    Plebs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭Plebs


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    Don't make me throw a sheep at you.

    Is this you?

    qydeyt.jpg


  • #90
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Plebs wrote: »
    Is this you?

    qydeyt.jpg

    Is this you?

    http://www.crywalt.com/blog/images/20100220/troll.jpg


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  • #91
    Plebs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭Plebs


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    Is this you?

    http://www.crywalt.com/blog/images/20100220/troll.jpg

    I know who'd I'd let into my taxi. (not that I have a taxi or would ever consider going into the business).

    But nobody ever said dealing with the general public was easy...

    Gotta take the rough with the smooth eh?


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