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perhaps we should start up a group complaint thread
name the cabbie his license plate and the cabbie id number
we can then all call up and make random complaints until they get sacked
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You are withnail and I claim my two large gins and two pints of cider.
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Love the photo shop BDW.
@Skully, You are correct, and while I don't wish to antagonise, I also don't want to be intimidated, it's complete bullshit. Oh well it's just another experience to make me more jaded.
Did you get his Taxi plate # or lic. #?
No, I regret that, if ever he was close enough to read I was concentrating on his driving, then when I had the opportunity, I just wanted shot so let it go. I know Hippies road altercation 101 get the number plate, I failed your class clearly.
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FYI - I've always found the PCO number much easier to remember than the licence plate. also (when shit like this has happened to me) i've tried to strike up a conversation with the passenger to use them as a witness. shouting "get me the cab number" through the window tends to draw them in from being a bystander to being involved in the actual incident.
shit experience tommy, glad you've got it out of your system
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Wayne thats class!
Tommy you are my Hero of the day. You dealt with that perfectly. Don't beat yourself up about not getting his details, by being the bigger man he walks away having to do some long hard thinking.
All i'd add is next time try not using so many curse words, maybe a list of substitutes taped to your handlebars could help
"blimmin" "dang" "What on earth" "Confound it" and so on -
The un-toward fashion of your automobile manuvas is not begetting of you!
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Shut up, Platini. It's your kind that lets these Black cab tough guys perpetuate this unacceptable dangerous kind of behavior.
Well done Tommy for having the self restraint to back down. For a while you'll feel like shit but it will pass.
Some of us here are NOT fighters and there is NO shame in that. Some of us here are a lot more willing to fight fire with fire. They should be thanked over being mocked; how many stories have read of decent folk being harangued, harassed and run off the road by idiots that are nothng more than bullies who have turned to the police for help and justice only to have the door shut in their faces. The next person that gives that driver what he was asking for will make him think twice about doing it again. For what ever reason these kinds of drivers see cycling as a sign of weakness.Disclaimer: I'm not suggesting that this is the way to deal with the large majority of situations but this constant call of passivism aint always the way.
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Are you suggesting Fisty-cuffs MG?!
Well i am aghast!
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All I am saying is, passivism isn't for some. Don't beat them down. They are doing more a service for cyclists than any police force are willing to do. FACT.
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'sactly
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I am with Edric on this, being born in a cider village 50yds from a cider farm i will take out my teeth to put in a safe place, stop kissing my sister, tighten the string holding my trousers up and lay down the law with these oversized red fat fists.. on anyone who disses mothers earth juice!
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OK heres your revenge. (taken from a great Norwegian short film)
An old guy who has car trouble and is stood by the side of a desserted winter road. The old man is looking for help when a cab driven by a young man drives past and stops. The old man runs after the cab. The cabbie, does that pretend to stop, drive off, pretend it was a joke and stop again, drive off thing. Then eventually desserts the old man laughing.
On a later date in town the old man spots the cabbie at the back of a taxi que. He gets into the first cab in the que, and offers to blow the driver for a lift home. He is told to fuck off. The old man repeats this, along th que, untill he gets to the young cabbie who had desserted him, yet fails to even reconise him now.
He gets into the cab and gives the cabbie his address and some money.....
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Most Normandy and Breton cider makes pretty much all english (commercial) cider look like what it is: money for old rope.
Not true about scrumpy. Scrumpy can be awful but it can be wonderful.
Good derail!
Yeah Multi I agree with you. Constant turning of the proverbial blind eye isn't doing us all favours in the long run. I'm a chicken shit scaredy, but am able to attempt to engage with people who really are talking the piss, if I get the chance and if I'm feeling able to get into it. The phone handset thing really ought to become mandatory for all of us to have a word: you're four times more likely to be in an RTA using a handset whilst driving. Tell them!
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No no no don't put ice in cider! Here in Somerset where real cider comes from that is frowned upon
There is a Facebook group called cider it's not Irish and it's not made for ice ..how true!!
No you leave it in barrels outside in the winter, and remove the ice crystals, formed overnight, with a sieve each morning. You then repeat this untill you have reached your desired alcohol percentage.
Devon > other apple related booze places.
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A taxi driver acted in a psychotic manor toward me. Cannon St -> Tooly street
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Did you get his Taxi plate # or lic. #?