There *are* some nice black/taxi/gardai out there!

JohnCleary

Rightio, here we go...

Fell into a taxi there a while ago, absolutily w4nkered drunk. Asked the black taxi driver to take me home, along with the GF. I didn't say too much to him along the way (was too busy with the missus ooh er) apart from the usual sh1te. Anyhow, got home, fare was 7.45 - I gave him 7.50 and went along my way

An hour late rI realise i've no phone. Rang and rang ang rang - Was so locked I forgot I got a taxi, so I decide to WALK back to the chineese where I thought i'd left the phone (After ringing the phone loads of times from the landline) - When I get back the oul man says a Guard rang the landline (from the mobile) saying the phone was handed in to the local station - Turns out I left the phone in the Taxi, taxi driver handed it into the station. So I pop on down in my drunken state, arrived at the desk and decided to try my Irish skillz Best response from the Guard ever "Come back here, the door is open, my hands are covered in sh1te" :eek: - I looked down, he had the gloves on :eek: Anyhow he brought me in, the phone there on the desk

I thanked him in Irish, and we had a quick convo - I asked if the taxi driver left a number/contact detail which he didn't - Tried leavin the Guard a 20eur note as a thanks but he told me to feck off and he didn't have a contact for the taxi driver so no chance of givin him the few quid

Pointless post really, but just goes to show that there ARE honest black/taxi/gardai out there! - My faith is restored, not *everyone* is a cnut!

Senna

No i dont think there are any black taxi driving Garda out there.

Overheal

So which was nicer, the Black the Taxi or the Garda?

seanybiker

i got done for drink driving tonight. I fully admit it. I will say one thing the guards where sound out. I was fair with them and they could not have been nicer to me. The two lads couldnt look at me getting blood taking with needle and we was all laughing about it. Anyways dont drink drive. I was grand to ride bike but over the limit in all fairness

Mitch Buchannon

Sorry to hear that seanybiker. Hope everything works out for ye

connundrum

seanybiker wrote: »

I was grand to ride bike but over the limit in all fairness

Not being funny, but you clearly weren't grand to ride the bike.

Sorry to hear bout that, but swings and roundabouts and all that.

I've never actually seen a black garda.. is there one?

arybvtcw0eolkf

JohnCleary wrote: »

fare was 7.45 - I gave him 7.50 and went along my way

Your generosity knows no bounds!.

:P

Kinetic^

JohnCleary wrote: »

Pointless post really

Agreed.

AnonoBoy

Mairt wrote: »

Your generosity knows no bounds!.

:P

I like how he was so drunk he'd forgotten he got a taxi but still remembers the exact amount the fare was and how much he gave to pay it. It's all in the details OP!

arybvtcw0eolkf

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I like how he was so drunk he'd forgotten he got a taxi but still remembers the exact amount the fare was and how much he gave to pay it. It's all in the details OP!

See this is why most ppl learn to double, then triple check their posts, then do it over again before releasing it to you savages :P

The devil is in the detail OP.

MagicMarker

Your post is laughable. You're actually surprised that there was a black person who didn't steal your phone. Guess what? There's more than one!:eek:

Samurai

left my passport in a taxi once, he didn't hand it in... He was white

AnonoBoy

Samurai wrote: »

left my passport in a taxi once, he didn't hand it in... He was white

Lesson learned: Never trust Whitey.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9XQDofW17A

Ludo

Dear god...are you seriously surprised that there happens to be some nice black people, some nice taxi drivers, some nice gardai?

Maybe you should try getting out more and opening your mind a bit. It may help with your racist attitude!

Dudess

"Some nice people in the world shocker" :eek:

hottstuff

Suppose the OP is right to be surprised.
I would have expected the black Taxi driver to be going on throughout the whole journey about how "White workers are taking all the jobs".

Don_Cookie

I think that mentioning that the taxi driver was black was pointless. Fair play to him you got it back tho. I know a few taxi drivers and I'd say bout 50/50 of them would hand it in. I wonder did the guard have fun with you and his gloves..:eek:

Kold

.... OP.... Seriously. Get a clue?

Irlbo

I refuse to get a taxi that isnt driven by an Irish driver,everytime I have got a taxi driven by a Nigerian,Romanian,Chinese etc Ive had problems,such as wanting to go to Ballymun and him heading towards Ballyfermot,getting in at Ameins Street, and not knowing where East Wall is,depite it being less then a minute away,trying to tell me the way home and making an obvious detour to make afew extra quid,roaring on the phone the whole journey in their own language,so now I stick to my own to get me around,mind you,Ive come accross afew chancers,but for me its a safer bet

qbasic

is this what you were talking about..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Negro

Dudess

LOL

Irlbo, a Cork driver might not know the way round Dublin too well either. When you say you'll stick with "your own" do you mean Irish or Dublin?

antodeco

OP did the taxi man ask for bank account and sort code by any chance?

Kold

Dudess wrote: »

A Cork driver might not know the way round Dublin too well either. When you say you'll stick with "your own" do you mean Irish or Dublin?

I think he means racists.

SheroN

I've met an equal amount of scummy white taxi drivers as I have scummy black taxi drivers.

Dudess

Kold wrote: »

I think he means racists.

I had a feeling Irlbo, despite his "Northern Ireland is repressed and brutalised by imperialists, and republicans are fighting for democracy" stance, would think like that about "foreign" taxi drivers all right...

Dragan

Irlbo wrote: »

I refuse to get a taxi that isnt driven by an Irish driver,everytime I have got a taxi driven by a Nigerian,Romanian,Chinese etc Ive had problems,such as wanting to go to Ballymun and him heading towards Ballyfermot,getting in at Ameins Street, and not knowing where East Wall is,depite it being less then a minute away,trying to tell me the way home and making an obvious detour to make afew extra quid,roaring on the phone the whole journey in their own language,so now I stick to my own to get me around,mind you,Ive come accross afew chancers,but for me its a safer bet

You mean white, not Irish. Or do you ask them specifically before you get in the taxi?

I ****ing doubt it. It's so much easier to be a racist on the internet.

Rock on.:rolleyes:

Dudess

Yeah, people who have reservations about "foreigners" generally seem to forget that white English/Scottish/Welsh/American/Australian/Canadian/Kiwi people are also foreigners...

Irlbo

Im talking about incompetance here,someone who doesnt know how to drive,communicate or most importantly,know where their going,dont care whether their black,white or a greyish blue,unfortunatley there are more foreign taxi drivers who are incompetant,for obvious reasons,being in the country a week and getting a taxi license for one,obviously not knowing were their going is going to be an issue,huge sat nav sales at xmas,and yeah I want Dublin drivers,none of the culchie menace,lol

Irlbo

Dragan wrote: »

You mean white, not Irish. Or do you ask them specifically before you get in the taxi?

I ****ing doubt it. It's so much easier to be a racist on the internet.

Rock on.:rolleyes:

Well obviously I make an assumption by the way they look,and when get in,I look at the name,and Im not a racist,and Im as vocal about my views in person,then I am on the internet my friend

SheroN

Irlbo wrote: »

Well obviously I make an assumption by the way they look,and when get in,I look at the name,and Im not a racist,and Im as vocal about my views in person,then I am on the internet my friend

Not a racist. Nor likely to get a job as an editor anytime soon.

Kold

Irlbo wrote: »

Well obviously I make an assumption by the way they look,and when get in,I look at the name,and Im not a racist,and Im as vocal about my views in person,then I am on the internet my friend

1. Even if they are a different ethnicity or have a foreign name, who's to say they haven't lived in Dublin their whole life?

2. If they have GPS surely you still get to your destination so what's the problem? Apart from you being a racist of course.

Irlbo

Nah probably not,but hey the job Im in will do

Dragan

Irlbo wrote: »

Well obviously I make an assumption by the way they look,and when get in,I look at the name,and Im not a racist,and Im as vocal about my views in person,then I am on the internet my friend

Sorry, have me met?

And personally, i doubt it, you are all ready backtracking here about how you are not a racist, I would have at least respected you had you stuck to your guns but just like most closet case Stormfront wannabe's it's all changing now that the voice of reasoned thought has implied that you might be talking out your ass.

AckwelFoley

Mairt wrote: »

Your generosity knows no bounds!.

:P

how much for a taxi from tp's to the mercantile? :pac:

komodosp

That black taxi driver might have seemed nice, but did he compensate you for all the irish sunlight his dark skin has absorbed?

Irlbo

Dragan wrote: »

Sorry, have me met?

And personally, i doubt it, you are all ready backtracking here about how you are not a racist, I would have at least respected you had you stuck to your guns but just like most closet case Stormfront wannabe's it's all changing now that the voice of reasoned thought has implied that you might be talking out your ass.

No you implied that Im someone who expresses there views via the internet,because Im afraid to in real life,not the case,I very open and proud my views,and to compare me to Stromfront,a unionist nazi garbage inter warrior dickh*ad site is a wrong assumption,if you want meet up or want my address to discuss and accuse me of talking through my hole,no bother pal,I just posted my views,I dont think its fair be ridiculed

JohnCleary

Epic replies, I love AH

:pac:

MIN2511

So as usual this thread has turned into another racism thread:rolleyes:


OP, there are decent black people and gardai out there...
You would never know who to trust until you are in a situation


I don't think Irlbo is racist

Sometimes i have problems with foreign cab drivers who don't know where they are going, we end up driving in a circle and i end up paying the price:mad:

Ass

There is an arsehole in every story like this. The only difference between this story and all of the others is that where the arsehole is usually a Garda, or a taxi driver (usually foreign), the arsehole in this case was... you.

Between being so pidley eyed to the extent you lost basic functionality of things like keeping track of simple objects, and wasting garda resources, you should be ashamed.

On a serious note though, when ever friends of mine have lost phones in taxis the taxi driver usually dropped it back to the house they picked them up from, or the house they dropped them off to. It's a pretty sound thing to do for them since time is money and all.

Also, I love the thread title. Let's break it down.

There *are* some nice black out there!
There *are* some nice taxi out there!
There *are* some nice gardai out there!

Only the last one makes sense, and it's not even true.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Nice of the taxi man to do that for you, not so nice of you to use descriptive words such as "Black" and your tarnishing of Africans to be law breakers. It's what you are insinuating.

Irlbo, that is a pretty backward, uneducated, narrowminded, 19th century view you have there of foreign taxi drivers. All the taxi's I got, I find IRISH taximen to be the worst. But I won't tarnish them all. Most are fine, they do their job and do it well. It's not fair for you to say that foreign taximen are trying to rob you, don't know where this or that is. You are just biased and if one non national does something wrong you have it in for the rest of them.

Kold

MIN2511 wrote: »

Sometimes i have problems with foreign cab drivers who don't know where they are going, we end up driving in a circle and i end up paying the price:mad:

Yes but would you refuse to get in the cab dependent on their skin colour/name?

JohnCleary

But i'm racilist :pac: against de blacks, de taxi drivers and gardai y'see so my post made perfect sense. Really nice of the BLACK taxi driver to drop in my phone considering I was at the local KKK XMas party - we were in full costume n all :pac:

longshanks

so as soon as somebody mentions skin colour they're racist? the op was just stating what happened and then gets slated. real nice. if he had said a bald taxi driver would he be baldist? if the black taxi driver said he had some drunk white passenger would he be racist?
and how come its always the same few posters who start bandying about the racism spiel?

arybvtcw0eolkf

Ludo wrote: »

It may help with your racist attitude!

Don't start throwing that sh*t around.

The OP just thought he/she was had a counter argument to whats usually posted about the people named in the thread title.

When I see this crap I usually feel the originator is scrapping the bottom on the barrel for something to say, or to make others think they're holier than thou.

The rest of the thread was a bit of craic at the OP's expense, its what happens in AH and the OP is around long enough to know there's nothing caustic in the replies.

Kold

longshanks wrote: »

so as soon as somebody mentions skin colour they're racist? the op was just stating what happened and then gets slated. real nice. if he had said a bald taxi driver would he be baldist? if the black taxi driver said he had some drunk white passenger would he be racist?
and how come its always the same few posters who start bandying about the racism spiel?

The OP isn't racist, just hilariously ignorant. The guy stating he'd discriminate against a foreign taxi driver, that's pretty racist but probably more ignorant still.

SheroN

longshanks wrote: »

so as soon as somebody mentions skin colour they're racist? the op was just stating what happened and then gets slated. real nice. if he had said a bald taxi driver would he be baldist? if the black taxi driver said he had some drunk white passenger would he be racist?
and how come its always the same few posters who start bandying about the racism spiel?

I think it's more the insinuation that a lot of black taxi men are out to rob the general public that is annoying a lot of people. He has insinuated this by expressing his surprise at a black taxi driver handing back his phone, almost as if he was expecting him to keep it because the driver was black.

Terry

longshanks wrote: »

so as soon as somebody mentions skin colour they're racist? the op was just stating what happened and then gets slated. real nice. if he had said a bald taxi driver would he be baldist? if the black taxi driver said he had some drunk white passenger would he be racist?
and how come its always the same few posters who start bandying about the racism spiel?

Mairt wrote: »

Don't start throwing that sh*t around.

The OP just thought he/she was had a counter argument to whats usually posted about the people named in the thread title.

When I see this crap I usually feel the originator is scrapping the bottom on the barrel for something to say, or to make others think they're holier than thou.

The rest of the thread was a bit of craic at the OP's expense, its what happens in AH and the OP is around long enough to know there's nothing caustic in the replies.

Unfortunately most people here can't see past the word "Black".

Dudess

Louise Thousands Bandit wrote: »

Nice of the taxi man to do that for you, not so nice of you to use descriptive words such as "Black"

Huh? If a person has black skin, they're black - just like if a person has white skin, they're white. Please don't tell me you think "coloured" is acceptable?

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Wasn't this thread locked? Why was it reopened???

Dudess, I don't see why the OP would use black or white to describe the taximan. No I do not use coloured, I don't use anything. That's the point. He's a taxi man. We don't say "white taxi man" now do we?

JohnCleary

I'd almost guarantee that if I hadn't mentioned the colour skin of the taxi driver i'd have been asked if the taxi driver was a foreign national or Irish - All I did was answer the question before it was asked

Jeez some of you PC freaks need to get a life. Taxi Drivers/Foreigners/Gardai get an awful going over on these forums, all I was doing was telling about my POSITIVE experience. FFS it's a lose/lose with some of you muppets, had I come on b1tching that the taxi driver kept my phone, i'd be called a racist/whatever, and when I come on DEFENDING them i'm being called names too. Find a fcuking hobby instead of being an Internet hero, guarantee a lot of you wouldn't say a word if you passed someone on the street actually shouting racist comments, yet some people get all high and mighty behind their keyboard at ANY chance they get.

Anyhow, was p1ssed when I started the thread, it's prob better off locked

mike65

seanybiker wrote: »

i got done for drink driving tonight. I fully admit it. I will say one thing the guards where sound out. I was fair with them and they could not have been nicer to me. The two lads couldnt look at me getting blood taking with needle and we was all laughing about it. Anyways dont drink drive. I was grand to ride bike but over the limit in all fairness

I hope they nail your ass.