P!$$ing Taxis!!

[William Wallace]

Taxis are stupid. I called for a taxi outside of the shops and I waited, standing up, for HALF AN HOUR, and it did not come. Then I called for another one and it came after a 15 min. wait. (I had groceries and a friend with me, so it was inconvenient.)Then this mullet-wearing fool pulls up and slams me groceries in the car and goes in, proceeding to waste 10 min. of my life checking his map. Then he goes up and down the street, looking for this other customer. 5 min. later, this skank comes in and asks us if she can smoke. "Yes, we mind if you smoke," was the answer from my friend. Then the skank start whining and whinging and told the driver to huury and put us off so she could smoke. So we went home and the chap drove off.

Why can't these taxi drivers clean out their car once in a frigging blue moon, eh? The taxis are ALWAYS crumby, dusty, leafy and sticky. A vacuum wouldn't hurt, dipshit. And the cars are always in disrepair, not to mention the behavior of the drivers if you keep them waiting for a few seconds. They can't wait, but YOU can.
In short, taxis blow. :mad:

[Smeagle]

Taxis may be unreliable, but they are essential in certain situations...

For example, if you're really pissed and you need to get home from town at half 2 in the morning...

Or if you've just got off a plane and you need to get home with 2 full suitcases...

[nNski]

Dirty taxis are dirty. Dirty taxis are less common than clean ones.

Taxis are useful.

[cadex]

dude, you must live in a really shit area.


the taxi's I get are usual clean and smoking is definatly not accepted.

they may be late because they are busy, but they're not that bad.


think you need to take a chill pill man.



(oi, I sound like a hippy, heh.)

[Anti - Squirrel]

In certain situations (such as the Airport + Suitcase scenario stated above) then I would resort to taking a taxi. Otherwise, I live about a 30 minute walk from the main shopping/drinking/vomiting/pouring fairy liquid into the water features area of Bristol, so I walk whenever I get the chance.

[Pod]

YAY! A Poll with TWO 'comedy third options'
i never use Taxi Taxis, i use my friends that drive :D

[goody 2 shoos]

yes taxis are veeeeeeeery dirty. I actually agree with bill... oooohhh thats wierd. ya, they aleays smell like airplanes and gasoline... and the driver farts a lot, especially if your on the highway. and they usually don't even speak english. or they speak it like " pok der.. no peepl... fow senty nony"... my mother gets very frustrated... WE ALMOST MISSED THE FERRY!!
soooo... i think we should all go to college (not community college.. if that's even in europe".. then become something lke a dr. or lawyer. then you can afford a nice clean non smelly, not hard to understand accented driver, stocked with refreshments, t.v service, LIMO!! bling bling babay!!!
:rawk:

oooohh.. these lil' mario mushrooms are soooooo cute!
:mushroom: :mushroom: :mush2: :mush2: :mush2:
it's like BADGERS!:badger: :badger: :badger:

[William Wallace]

I never thought i'd live to see the day that Goody would agree with me. :evil: The End of the World must be near. :twisted: That'd rock my socks.:nana: :nana: :nana:

And about those taxis...I'm talking about American Taxis, not the Uk taxis. UK Taxis are nice.

[Hydralisk]

Originally posted by William Wallace
I never thought i'd live to see the day that Goody would agree with me. :evil: The End of the World must be near. :twisted: That'd rock my socks.:nana: :nana: :nana:

And about those taxis...I'm talking about American Taxis, not the Uk taxis. UK Taxis are nice.

Right. I don't live in america, so I don't really care.

I just chose clean option 'coz they usually are.



clean,duh!

[donkey_pie]

why do ye get so angry about taxis? I never noticed a problem, I just get ill when I sit on backwards fold down seats in some BIIIIGGG taxis. thats all. do u really have a serious issue with taxis or be u an angry individual?

oooh yes, and happy speak like a pirate day to ye all

[goody 2 shoos]

ya, i mean, why are you sooooo p$$$$$ed about taxis? sont use e'm. geeez...............
and i have agreed with you... once... even if i regret it..... PATRICK MOORE TEEEEEEEEESS!!!!
and... world domination.... don't use nuke bombs... i want to die a painless death... when i've expeienced a good long life, of course.
thanx sweetums!;)

u like these... tooooooooooo much :nana: :nana: :nana:

[Dr-Electro]

Taxis reek of tobacco smoke.
I am allergic to tobacco smoke.
It always makes me cough and choke!
I'll never ever want to smoke.
Smoking is a terrible joke.
Please don't make me breathe your smoke.

Poor Dr. Suess imitation.

I don't like taxis on many counts. I prefer to do my own driving. I also prefer to breathe on occasion. Ok, I used to be a heavy smoker, but since I quit five years ago, the allergy has steadily gotten worse.

Cadex, that not hippy talk, that Valley talk, also known as Val-speak.

er, Goody, have you been at the opium? Please save some of that enthusiasm for Beginners. Write like a human in debates, please.:D

[Micky]

Looks like this is really about American taxis, but I thought I'd put in a good word for the London black cabs - not only can you fit a double bass into them, they're nearly always very clean and comfeh, and the drivers are normally very friendly too


Originally posted by goody 2 shoos
don't use nuke bombs... i want to die a painless death...

I'd say a nuclear bomb would cause a pretty painless death (if you're close enough to the centre of the radiation burst, of course) - but that's another matter

[Cabbage]

Taxis in Glasgow can be pretty scaffy, but the drivers know where they're going, so i chose the "wibble" option.

Hate me if you want.

[Tofufi]

taxis in bristol are varied......
buses are better, and cheaper, even if they dont turn up when you want them (im not paid by bus companies, honest)

[William Wallace]

Yes, London and GLASGLOW taxis are bloody good. American taxis suck, though. This hag had me in her taxi with the windows up, smoking like a bloody smokestack. Barf. Good job it was a short ride to the shops, or I might have choked the f!ck out of her.

But don't worry. The ciggarettes will do that for me soon enow...

[Yoggerflame]

Originally posted by William Wallace
Yes, London taxis are bloody good.

I beg to differ m'dear.

After numerous failings from these supposed professionals who are apparently supposed to know the streets like the back of their grimey, hairy hands, I thought it clever to equip myself with a small A-Z one day when I had to get somewhere by cab....

... due to an unfortunate night out (during my Uni days whaich wasnt too long ago), taking some happy pills, my vision was altered and I ended up loosing a tooth to the pavement. Now I have a falsy but you wouldn't know to look at it. But anyway...
It was the day before an important DJ set and the tooth bloody went and broke! HAD TO GET IT FIXD ASAP! Called the emergency dentists all over west london and mangaed to find out. It wa totallly out of the way, need a cab but couldnt remember the names of any cab firms..... sh*t! What to do?
I know, I thought, I'll go to the local tube station and get a cab from there...

...fifteen minutes later I'm there and with 30mins to get to the dentist..... no problem for any cabbie, I thought.

Got the cab and off we went.

I had, before leaving the house, lookd in me little A-Z and found out where it was and how to get there, just in case the cabbie got a bit confused... a situation I have landed in many a time!

Literally, two minutes from the station, the f*ckn cabbie pulls over and gets out his bleedin street map.

Im like... look mate, Iv got a road map here... (show him the page and point...) and I wanna get from here to here.

The c*ck is adamant that his map is better.... he cant blood speak english properly, was reading his bloody map upside down and and was insistent that he knew where he was supposed to be going, although when I later looked on the passenger seat in front of me when we stopped at the lights that he had completely the wrong f*ckn page open!!!!!!!!

What a pr*ck!

(Appologies for the profuse usage of profanities, but the cleanliness of a cab is important, but surely I think, the intitial criterea of a cabbie, is to know what the f*ck hes doing!

I'm not even going to mention the time when a cabbie drove off with me shopping still in the boot..... or the time when a cabbie picked me up from a gig in central London, with two heavy record boxes and me mates turntables and mixer and nearly crashed into a bus cos he was chatting away on his f*ckn mobile fone and still insisted that I pay the £45 fare!

Too many more stories, but I aint gonna bore ya.
Life's too short to think abaout things.... lets' just hope they all f*ckn loose their licences. B*st*rds!

Amen!

[Cabbage]

Edinburgh taxis aren't bad either...

But, of course, not as good as Glasgow ones.

Of course.

Yes

I will keep telling myself this until i believe it.

[William Wallace]

Rigt. But if you want bad, try an american taxi. This hairy arse bloke drives us all over fcuking New York City for an HOUR before he found my favorite. EBGame shop. Fucking cunt.

[Dr-Electro]

For a ride that will both leave you sick and more frightened than all the world's greatest roller coasters in one, try a cab ride in Taiwan. Those maniacs can't drive, thrive on road rage, smoke incessantly, scream at the tops of their lungs and honk their horns incessantly and take every corner on two wheels or fewer.

Yes, I actually saw a cab roll over right in front of my hotel in Kaoshung! Three American sailors in the back seat all screaming like girls, fearing for their very lives. They got out of the upside-down cab without serious injury (a miracle) and the stupid cabbie was hanging by his seat belt bellowing for the sailors to pay the damned fare!

I have ridden taxis in the USA, of course, Japan, The Phillipines, Mexico, Hong Kong, Singapore (the most polite cabbies in the world), Canada, Australia (damned good ride in Sydney once), Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and South Africa. I can honestly speak from experience and tell you that none are as bad as Taiwan.

I did get a kick out of riding the pedicabs in Thailand. Water taxis abound in the orient, but they are nothing but a boat ride. One rickshaw ride in Hong Kong was sufficient for life.

Oh, almost forgot the Jeepneys and Sidecar-motorbikes in The Phillipines. Smogville of the world, all open-air transportation.

[goody 2 shoos]

sorry if i'm not a regular human... just a fun human.... if you wanted me to be like a regular human this page'd be boring... so why dont i try:

yes, confucious does refer to that passage, yet, he is not trying to make the point that you are tlking about....

unto are next topic... sanitation in american taxis.... they smell so bad... yes, yes, but, might i add, it does help you get where you need to go, plus, your only in there for a bout a half an hour, so stop complainin' if ya wanna go to a broadway show or somethin'.... were not forcing ya to go in that smelly car, everyone. like i said before.... take a limo.

yes, lovely schnopps, dear. 'nother one please if you dont mind. bit more. just a bit more.... thats the ticket.:p

[William Wallace]

expensive that, ain't it love.

[squealpiggy]

Cabs you take your pick, sometimes you're lucky and sometimes you're not. My experience of London cabs has overwhelmingly been very good, the guys are polite, the cabs clean and they know the city ridiculously well. Same with in Manchester. In Canada it was this huge sedan I went in with blocked out windows. I would have felt like a proper G-Starr if it wasn't for the "Taxi" sign on the roof. Taxis that are bad? Romania has some dicey taxis! Jesus, the direction you drive on the road is dictated by concensus, not by law!

[matthew g]

I get a taxi to college every day. I haven't had many problemms. Like hendrix, santa and just about everything eeelse tonight, taxis rule.

[basstard]

Originally posted by Micky
I thought I'd put in a good word for the London black cabs - not only can you fit a double bass into them, they're nearly always very clean and comfeh, and the drivers are normally very friendly too

I just have to point something out here - my old double bass teacher always took her 3/4 size double bass in her car. So, you ask? She had an original Mini.

But I suppose taxis are good, after all my friend got chucked off the train with her double bass by the conductor (because it was TOO BIG!), and a taxi rescued her and took her to Edinburgh.