Taxi Driver Online

As previousley posted regarding not being able to display the St George for the World Cup,
Glad to see common sense prevails.

http://www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk/NEWSM04.html

A little victory against poliitical correctness and for common sense in my opinion.

They have weighed it up and realised that it isn't worth the aggro.

Pity they couldn't have done it in the first place.

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IDFIMH

I will keep my theory that Common Sense won, as banning flags/stickers would have only brought more [edited by admin] on their toes.

http://www.24dash.com/content/news/view ... ewsID=6026

None there though

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George Carlin

So they've taken their flags down then?

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If your meaning Oldham, no, us mere morcels are allowed to flow the flag high,
plus are gathering support from the 'minorities' and outsiders as regards the matter,
Little victories

These flags, are fixed in place by keeping the windows closed. Therefore, passengers, in midsummer, will not be able to open the window if they wish. The only window you never see a flag flying from is the drivers window. Not hard to figure out why, is it? Maybe councils should allow them to be flown from the drivers window ONLY?

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Former taxi driver

Hasn't air-con reached your parts yet?

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IDFIMH

In a metrocab?

Even WITH air-con, how would you stop a passenger opening the window? Is it legal to deny them an opening window?

And I do not need air-con around my parts, thank you very much!!!

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Former taxi driver

driving with a window open increases your fuel consumption by 20%, by opening the window with aircon on furthers more increases your fuel consumption even more

that will be a pound sir, to cover costs.

when they start asking for a window to be open late at night is this the ticking time bomb of the spewer

opening a window reminds me of something that happened few years ago, the driver is now well retired

It was a freezing cold night, the black cab sat ticking over as first cab on the rank, the driver enjoying his pipe

A lady comes to the cab and gets in, she says to the driver, "your not smoking that thing are you, I like fresh air", the driver gets out of the cab without a word, openes both side windows on the black cab, gets back in his drivers seat, closes the communication window and his drivers window, hoisted up his heater, still sucking and blowing on his pipe, away they go

at the end of the journey the woman was frozen stiff, but never complained
well she did insist that she liked fresh air.

a lot of people at night abuse the use of windows

f ing about with the switch, up and down, up and down, hey look at this lads leccy windows

hanging out the window and passing remarks to people in the street, a good way to get your cab door kicked in by the other party

I retain tight control over windows for these purposes, anyway who wants to breathe in car fumes all night in the city.

And by how much do flags reduce fuel consumption?

I am personally sick of the sight of the damn things. It instantly says "chav on board" to me. The World Cup hasn't even started yet, and it seems like for months they have been flying on, (and off!) cars. If they were only flown on match days, they would have been a terrific visual impact. And as for the St. George's crosses you see with "ENGLAND" printed on them, don't the wuckfits know which is their flag without this helpful hint printed on it?

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Former taxi driver

Now thats a fair and amusing point

Captain Cab

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

So jimbo, given that that allowing flags on vehicle seemed to be considered as a victory for common sense, presumably you think the emphasis is on the 'common' rather than the 'sense'?

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