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Nice to see after a couple of days, the 'peeing in the streets' thread has taken on the usual format.
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Well why don't you just bend over and take it up the ar** this is why we are here is it not? GBC who has never pis*** in the street or should I say has never been caught Pis*** in the street?

The one thing I know about you GBC is you would give them just what they want, regardless :wink:

Enjoy your retirement you've earned it, and some :roll:


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Point 1: Keep your sexual fantasy's to yourself.

Nothing fanciful about it, you've earned it why not take the credit for it?

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Point 2: I'll never be caught, because I apply common sense to the situation.
You mean you actually break the law and the PCO haven't caught up with you yet? And here's me thinking it's just us? What we have here is a smart criminal who never gets caught?

Point 3: I've never had to 'give them' anything to them as you say, but then I've got had an unblemished record for 21 years now. :D
Maybe thats because I just get on with driving a Taxi without making a big hoo ha and constant drama out of it?
Its quite easy really, start the engine, drive into London, then people start waving at me saying 'I want to give you some of my money'
Nothing could be simpler. :wink:

Ye kissing butt doe's become a habit and after 21 years I doubt you would notice anything else?


Point 4. Thanks, I'll try. \:D/


Trust me GBC you don't have to try? :roll: I would be more surprised if you did?

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If you cut and paste the quote, then use ctrl and V, you can then reply to each individual segment.

To look at the above most people will just look at the bottom bit of your reply about me trying harder?

I must say as retirement grows closer I fully intend 'trying' even less.

I can't recall ever having kissed a bum at any stage, I mean thats where you poo from, so I would imagine it smells somewhat?


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[quote="greenbadgecabby"]If you cut and paste the quote, then use ctrl and V, you can then reply to each individual segment.

That's pretty good thanks for that :lol:

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It seems nowadays if someone does something wrong or illegal, it always turns into a personal attack on that individual, an injustice of the highest kind, not that in fact they've been caught red handed, and at the end of the day after they have spent a fortune defending their unlawful actions and making lots of noise in the process, they're still found to be at fault.



A very perceptive and eloquent passage, which I concur with entirely.

A related problem is that some will take that view in relation to the conduct of others, but not as regards their own.



Yes I would agree entirely but how many times do you punish someone? Who administers the punishment and to what extent before justice is served?

You can’t seriously think the PCO or the council should be handing down punishment on top of what the law decides?



I might not call it 'punishment', but in principle surely a regulator should be able to take steps over and above the more general law? I mean it's like saying that if someone was punished by the courts for a driving offence then the LA could take no cognisance of it? Or that when a rapist gets out of jail then he couldn't be denied a driver's badge because that would be punishing him again?

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Or, to take it to it's logical conclusion, no one could ever be deemed not fit and proper?

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Or, to take it to it's logical conclusion, no one could ever be deemed not fit and proper?


Local authorities are not the law and should not be handing down punishment to anyone.

Justice is not served when people are punished by politicians with political agendas. If the law gives someone a licence the law must take it away. It should be the law who decides who is "fit and proper".

Suspending someone for a couple of months hardly serves the justice system or anyone else for that matter.

I would imagine "not a fit and proper person" means you are a threat to society. If this is the case then it's up to the local authority to prove it in court.

How could this apply to pis**** in the street or the non-payment of a parking fine?

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My logical conclusion is let the law decide not politicians. :wink:

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Well I'm inclined to agree with what you say to a large extent Skull, but in my two posts I merely said what I thought the position should be in principle not how it should be applied in particular cases.

I agree that politicians shouldn't be responsible for these things, and I didn't comment on the harshness or otherwise of particular cases.

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Well I'm inclined to agree with what you say to a large extent Skull, but in my two posts I merely said what I thought the position should be in principle not how it should be applied in particular cases.

I agree that politicians shouldn't be responsible for these things, and I didn't comment on the harshness or otherwise of particular cases.


Fair play :wink:

Consider this, GBC goes out tomorrow and some 14 year old girl falsely accuses of him of advising her to use contraceptives with her boy friend. GBC denies this of course. His accuser sticks to her guns and won’t budge from her statement. Where does this leave GBC?

I’ll tell you where, hung, drawn and quartered that’s where. Do the rules apply differently to taxi drivers than they to the general public? You bet they do.


A Joiner is accused of the same. Do local authorities stop him working in someones house? What if he was a Plumber or an Electrician or a carpet fitter?

The Government and Local Authorities know this system can only exist if no one challenges the legislation in court.

This is the greatest legal system in the World…If you have money.


BTW the lawyers sitting in on these meeting would not allow themselves to be judged or have punishment handed down to them by a bunch of bent politicians.

Makes you wonder why they think it's good enough for us?

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Consider this, GBC goes out tomorrow and some 14 year old girl falsely accuses of him of advising her to use contraceptives with her boy friend. GBC denies this of course. His accuser sticks to her guns and won’t budge from her statement. Where does this leave GBC?



Slim chance of that, as kids not accompanied by an adult don't enter my cab. (Our daughter being the exception of course :D )

Luckily you don't get hailed by youths in London, and single pizzed women are another rareity in the GBC cab.

Suits with briefcases going to the airport are always welcome. :wink:


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Consider this, GBC goes out tomorrow and some 14 year old girl falsely accuses of him of advising her to use contraceptives with her boy friend. GBC denies this of course. His accuser sticks to her guns and won’t budge from her statement. Where does this leave GBC?



Slim chance of that, as kids not accompanied by an adult don't enter my cab. (Our daughter being the exception of course :D )

Luckily you don't get hailed by youths in London, and single pizzed women are another rareity in the GBC cab.

Suits with briefcases going to the airport are always welcome. :wink:


Nothing less than I would expect from an old pro like you GBC but not everyone has your worldly experience.:D

Take me for instance, I've led a very sheltered life :D imagine me out there with it all to lose, who looks after me, not the PCO or the Council that's for sure :wink:

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Take me for instance, I've led a very sheltered life :D imagine me out there with it all to lose, who looks after me, not the PCO or the Council that's for sure :wink:



We would adopt you, but there's no room for two cabs on the drive. :wink:


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greenbadgecabby wrote:
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Take me for instance, I've led a very sheltered life :D imagine me out there with it all to lose, who looks after me, not the PCO or the Council that's for sure :wink:



We would adopt you, but there's no room for two cabs on the drive. :wink:



Looks like I'm just going to have to take my chances eh :roll: like everyone else :roll:

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