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PostPosted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 12:48 pm 
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Ali i'm not here to be a clone of you, i don't need to do anything against the system, i'm happy living with the rules of the game as 98% of us do :D

If you need to hide behind a computer and play beating the system then that's your game not mine :wink: Now my perception of guy's like you is that you are sad and lonely, yes you have beat the system and you got a massive orgasm from that fact but AliT you are the one living in the bubble mate, you will alway's get off on the fact you beat the system WOOO

Who gives a feck, no one control's me, i'm free to do what the feck i like, no need for re-programming, happy to play the game fairly and without discrimination :D

Now away and play with yourself on your big life's achievement W-nk W-nk :lol: :lol:

well since you've started the insults Dougie i might as well put it to you how it is :wink:
if your that happy living within the rules then why join city cabs why try to start a quorum,when it didnt go your way :lol: :lol:

PR Response: EH!!! The reason i joined is because i like playing within the rules :D And income protection

i didn't beat the system Dougie,you've got that all wrong.as per usual :roll:
it was the council who where running and still do run there own version of the system with little regard for the rules of that system.

PR Response: This is only your opinion, the council act in my opinion with the cards they are dealt with :D

Dougie far from being sad and lonely,ive just sold my plates so im very happy as it goes :lol: :lol: .

PR Response: Well done!!! Now go and buy yourself a bottle of buckie and a Kebab, i' not saying i hope you choke on your new found wealth, i'm not a jealous kind of guy :lol:

lonely!me? this is where your programing comes in,putting everything in pigeon holes,have you ever had a thought of your own that wasnt simply a clone of what was done before by other failures.
every things Grey Dougie,not black and white

PR Response: Nothing is new everything is just a re-working of something before, but if you would like to en-lighten us with something original Then come ahead, gives us an original opinion :?:

Dougie you are not free to do as you please no one really is.
some are free to think for themselves,and thats sometimes a painfull process,a pain that you will never have to endure.

PR Response: I Think for myself, no government rule stopping me from posting on this forum, but if you would like to give us an insight to your free thinking abilities then go ahead :?

your to stupid to question what you've been told.
happy and secure in what you've been given by your betters,to scared to even question if there is a better way,to lazy to move out of your comfort zone.

PR Response: Now that isn't true i do question the rules of the game, that's why i debate and lobby idea's to make our trade better, i'm a member of the SNP for that reason, but the difference is my idea's and views are viewed constructively not viewed like taylors as de-structively :lol:


happy in the middle of the flock.baa baa

PR Response: If that is your opinion then yes i'm happy to be in the middle, never wanted to be a top man :D

oh and btw your arguments are all over the place and make no sense what so ever , coupled with that nervous rocking from foot when your talking to people is a sure sign of something not quite computing in your head.

PR Response: They make no sense to you but hey you have a twisted mind and everything i say, you take it as a personel attack, the nervous rocking is due to the caffiene level but a bit of movement is good for the cirrculation, you know i do work my Taxi, my mind works trust me :wink: Muli interest's unlike you and your 2 bummers who 's sole ambition is to beat the system :lol: :lol: :lol:

maybe you've questioned your own blinkered view of the world ?? and its causing a slight short circuit . :lol: :lol: :lol:

PR Reponse: Yes your righ maybe my view on you was blnkered!!! When i used to think you where a nob and then maybe not, your right my view was blinkered, you are a NOBEND :lol: :lol: :lol:

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not much happening in there Dougie, is their.


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not much happening in there Dougie, is their.

Your responses are sooooo original in in aw :lol: :lol: :lol:

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rocking and stuttering :lol:

the bridge might not be to far away Dougie.

mind and close your eyes :wink:


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well i could buy quite a lot of buckie but ill stick to the lager thanks :wink:
and a few more fresh applications :wink:


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Dougie. You're just perceived as a joke. Your value to us is a distraction, entertainment. But it is getting wearing.

Anyone with half a wit would realise they are being ridiculed. Curiously your ridicule threshold is so high your zest for masochism is now embarrassing.


Didn't somebody just say something like that about you?


Your a Dougie fan? A clone. Also meek and compliant? Just another guy who's happy with his lot :lol:


I no more know Dougie than I know you or you I. I just asked if somebody had said that about you recently cos I seem to have read it somewhere :wink: I'm far from meek and compliant :lol: :lol:

You're right about one thing tho, I am happy with my lot but my lot, by all accounts, is a much happier than yours :D

What you fail to understand is it makes no difference to me if areas are de-restricted or not. You dislike taxi barons, myself personally see a need for rented plated vehicles for those that don't want to buy or in some cases can't buy. As I've said before a free plate should never be allowed to be sold it should be returned to the council when it's no longer required and given to the person at the top of the list if in a restricted area. I see no real problems with managed growth nor do I see a problem with restricted areas providing there is no unmet demand. I do however have a problem seeing people obtain a free plate only to sell almost immediately, that type of person in my eyes is abusing the system that they say is immoral thus making them equally immoral and greedy

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Jim 98% of the trade w[/color]e work in is happy and willing to work with regulation and controlled growth :D

Dougie, you're making this up. That makes you a liar.

If your ambition is to beat the system you are taking your time YAWN, Your IDOL AliT has done it to be fair but You following in his footsteps!!! If that is your ambition you are one sad mother fecker :lol:

I don't care about the system.

But I don't care how long it takes, I'm in no hurry. What's important is that it costs as little as possible. The victory will be the greater for it.

In fact the longer the process is drawn out the more damage we can inflict on those responsible. If it carries on much longer the public inquiry is going to be irresistible. The council's actions merely bring the political process they hold dear into disrepute.

Ask yourself Dougie, how can the system be maintained when those its supposed to control no longer respect it and wish to see it changed.

The age of the internet means that people can become more easily informed and collect together to bring about that change. Consider the fairer vote campaign under way and overlay that process onto other issues like the Monarchy and ran and privilege; Parliament; the justice system &etc.

The potential for change is enormous Dougie. As you're not even on the radar you will be shunted aside. Remember that you heard this here first.


Taking on the Quorum was put to me by a large number of non voters

why are you shy with precise numbers here? Not able to make this one up?

who recognise my passion for the Trade,

You're passion is for yourself Dougie, nothing more. You don't care about anyone else. Certainly not the paying public whom you're happy to rip off and deny the service quality they deserve. or the drivers who you see as just another commodity to be exploited by the privileged few. In fact, I can't think of any other group who have such little regard for others than most of the taxi owners in the companies in Edinburgh's taxi trade.

i put my hands up right away to lead a quorum but inside i knew it was out of my league, the only reason i never pursued the idea was through my own choice, i was offered help from older City Cabbers but as i did put my hands down because of lack of knowledge i'm leaving the quorum idea to someone else with more experiance.

I can admit when i'm wrong or something is to big for me, can you :?:

Most defo. When I'm wrong I admit it. Not a problem for me. You're difficulty is that you can't bring yourself to understand that what we're doing is the right thing to do.

We're looking jealously at the London model where the professionalism is invested in the driver. And the respect earned through tihis. And the rewards which they glean s a consequence.


Now away and have a wet dream about your idols achievments :lol:

This the best you can come up with? Not the best put down attempt we've ever seen. Nevertheless, thank you for your "kind" thoughts. At my age this would be something of an event :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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not really
what it does is make a mockery of that system and as people become less tolerant of it,then the system will have to change.

far more effective than joining the snp for example :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


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Dougie. You're just perceived as a joke. Your value to us is a distraction, entertainment. But it is getting wearing.

Anyone with half a wit would realise they are being ridiculed. Curiously your ridicule threshold is so high your zest for masochism is now embarrassing.


Didn't somebody just say something like that about you?


Your a Dougie fan? A clone. Also meek and compliant? Just another guy who's happy with his lot :lol:


I no more know Dougie than I know you or you I. I just asked if somebody had said that about you recently cos I seem to have read it somewhere :wink: I'm far from meek and compliant :lol: :lol:

You're right about one thing tho, I am happy with my lot but my lot, by all accounts, is a much happier than yours :D

What you fail to understand is it makes no difference to me if areas are de-restricted or not. You dislike taxi barons, myself personally see a need for rented plated vehicles for those that don't want to buy or in some cases can't buy. As I've said before a free plate should never be allowed to be sold it should be returned to the council when it's no longer required and given to the person at the top of the list if in a restricted area. I see no real problems with managed growth nor do I see a problem with restricted areas providing there is no unmet demand. I do however have a problem seeing people obtain a free plate only to sell almost immediately, that type of person in my eyes is abusing the system that they say is immoral thus making them equally immoral and greedy

This is the profile of ALIT carpetbagger extrodinaire

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oh dear must have hit a chord..... :wink:

your confusing morals with legislation their Dougie. :oops:

the system of justice we have, is justice to the legislation! Dougie
not the preconceived ideal of justice that you have preprogrammed in your mind.that type of justice doesn't exist imo

an easy mistake for someone of your caliber. :lol:


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dougie have you read your signature at the bottom of your posts

tightening the grip

on who or what might i ask do you wish to tighten your stranglehold on.

the drivers perhaps :?: :?: :?:


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ALI T wrote:
dougie have you read your signature at the bottom of your posts

tightening the grip

on who or what might i ask do you wish to tighten your stranglehold on.

the drivers perhaps :?: :?: :?:

Tightening the grip on carpetbaggers like you ALIT or did that one escape you :lol: :lol: :lol:

Controlled growth and did that one escape your superior free thinking :lol: :lol: :lol:

Your post proves your freethinking is self based, you only think about yourself :roll:

Individually speaking concerns multi plate holders, i'm for 1 plate and 1 plate only no 2nd plate ever :wink:

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no such thing as controlled growth dougie....

its called restriction, their is no growth and hasn't been for years,apart from the challenges from the carpetbaggers :D in fact if it wasn't for the plate value and the income from drivers, their would in fact be contraction.

as for tightening the grip on me ........ :lol: :lol: :lol: you clearly don't have what it takes.
you couldn't even lead a few dumb taxi drivers to sign up to a quorum

but perhaps you could show me,how you managed to lobby your mp and what precisely he is going to do about the local government.

of course i know you cant show anything dougie
your just one of those guys how shouts his mouth off,because he's unhappy about somit or other.

tell you what just drop an innuendo and a :wink:
so that all us simpletons think you know something. :lol: :lol: :lol:


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ALI T wrote:
no such thing as controlled growth dougie....

its called restriction, their is no growth and hasn't been for years,apart from the challenges from the carpetbaggers :D in fact if it wasn't for the plate value and the income from drivers, their would in fact be contraction.

as for tightening the grip on me ........ :lol: :lol: :lol: you clearly don't have what it takes.
you couldn't even lead a few dumb taxi drivers to sign up to a quorum

but perhaps you could show me,how you managed to lobby your mp and what precisely he is going to do about the local government.

of course i know you cant show anything dougie
your just one of those guys how shouts his mouth off,because he's unhappy about somit or other.

tell you what just drop an innuendo and a :wink:
so that all us simpletons think you know something. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Havent got the ego to prove anything, it's the taking part that counts

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What does dumbkopk Dougie note understand about growth?

Since I joined the trade taxis have increased by around 40%.

Private Hire has increased by over 300%.

Dougies restriction has given our work away to private hire.

And a private hire that is independent and which we have no control over. So that when they reduced their tariff it hurt us.

If taxis had grown according to market conditions there would have been less opportunity for PH, and we would be controlling the market through our tariff, not theirs.

Perhaps the only solution to Dougie's stupidity is a 9mm injection to his medulla oblongata?

I'm at a loss to accept that we should all suffer because he and his vested interest compadres are crazy and the council is protecting them.

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