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@marcopolo
Taxi drivers are the biggest hypocrits ever. The sheer amount of times they have done a dodgy uturn and swung round in front of me, or just swung into the curb for a fair without indicating to get a fair is unreal. Happened every single day when I was working.
Then they give out to you for absolute nothing. Plus they get away with almost everything in the eyes of the law because the police like every other fucka often see them as some iconic british thing that we should all just respect.
Dont get me wrong there are some nice cabbies, but far too many of em are absolute scum bags. Ive heard stories of them deliberately knocking people off bikes and even chasing a cyclist down the road with a knife.
Everyone always seems to see them as these cheeky chappy londoners when in reality loads of em are just a bunch of scruffs that cant deal with the fact london has changed.