Cabby John 1 wrote:
The so called "term" CN is not a term....it is slang from a nation that is full of class derogation. The nation concerned also have many other serious issues......do we need to bring their slang here, slang that has no place in a normally accepted dictionary.
It is disgraceful that the slang is allowed.....but other everyday words are edited out!
As usual the contributor has dredged his so called superior knowledge from an Urban dictionary, I guess a step lower than the beano/dandy/daily mail/youtube that he likes to plagiarise.Strangely enough, although I have to say not really surprising, there are never any quotes/extracts from any substantiated quality articles. Usually whatever is quoted is ridiculed by other far superior minds.
And then you have others who give him some credibility (god only knows why) with a degree of intelligence!
A bright/intelligent person would have an acceptance /tolerance of the views of others.......ah well - that is the first part proven of extinct intelligence, all we need now is for the unnamed culprit to step forward.
Once again you seem to be all over the place so let me help you out.
The term Cab****er was first coined by James Taylor right here on TDO. However the word "nigger" you will find in any modern dictionary and this is just one of its definitions : "a disparaging term used to describe a member of a socially, economically or politically deprived group"
So Cab****er is a wholly appropriate term when applied to a group of taxi owners and drivers who are socially, economically or political deprived because of the job they do.
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I know, what about the 3500 Cabn****rs in Edinburgh who have no political say in their trade, whatsoever and are denied unfettered access to the tools of that trade to earn a living?

Or what about the rights denied to Cabn****rs as a whole, when faced with an allegation from a member of the public?

Oh and then there's the inordinate amount of hours spent in the saddle to pay a stipend to an "owner" just to earn a crust and to keep his pretendy little business afloat?

And let's not forget that you can't own a plate and it has no intrinsic value.

It is, in fact, public property and can't be legally sold or transferred.

All you are buying is a job or access to the tools of your trade which should be yours by right.
Now is any of the above untrue?
So the term Cab****er[S] is a disparaging but no less an appropriate term when used to describe taxi owners or drivers either individually or as a group.

You bought it, you wear it
