Taxi Driver Online

No it's not.

Just the second leg of the Inter-Toto last qualifying round for the EUFA Cup second qualifying round proper.

Premiership starts on 16th August & Championship starts a week earlier.

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Kind regards,

Brummie Cabbie.

Type a message, post your news,
Disagree with other members' views;
But please, do have some decorum,
When debating on the TDO Forum.

The Public Carriage Office are taking it so seriously that they've issued a notice about it.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/ ... -14-08.pdf

'Illustrious'

I'm extremely sorry but according to Mr GA and MrT cab drivers don't have jobs, so can you please use the correct terminology by stating he had to give up his business otherwise they will undoubtedly be offended.

Regards

JD

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I think Taxi's Alf Townsend's review of this 'programme' is shared by many in the trade.

''Like many other London cabbies I was really
looking forward to seeing how the BBC’s
up-market Arena programme viewed our
trade. Sadly, again like many other cabbies,
I switched it off well before the end! I found
it a totally boring, bitty, mish-mash of a show
and completely unrepresentative of our
great trade.
The producer set out his stall early on
by having this foul-mouthed yob - supposedly
a cabbie, but I don’t know the gentleman
concerned, spitting expletives into the
camera in a very aggressive manner. So
right from the off the watching audience
have pre-judged us as rude and aggressive
and foul-mouthed!
Now cut to Sid James, Tony Hancock
and Charles Hawtrey gallivanting around
the dock side from a BBC programme of the
fifties. Then we had the old cabby in his
nineties who spoke confidently and lucidly,
closely followed by dear old Harry ‘Wing-
Nuts’ who looked totally out of his depth on
camera. Cut again to Sid James and company
- all of them now long gone, while they
pretended to read a map and learn some
runs.
Cut to cabby Harry Harris, another gentleman
I don’t know. This interview really
was ‘doom and gloom’ with the aforesaid Mr
Harris saying that he had to get out of the
trade because it was causing him mental
problems and driving a cab was like, ‘being
shut in a steel cage for twelve hours’.
He said that a cabbie-mate of his had
committed suicide by driving his taxi over a
cliff - he must have had a bad week!! Apparently
his mental problems are no more and
he is back on the cab - but still just as morose.
Cut again to Sid James about the cab
sitcom over fifty years old. I honestly couldn’t
understand why the producer was always
cutting to this ancient epic! Then we had the
Knowledge boy who was genuinely working
his socks off for his family and another interview
with an equally moody cabby, Lenny
Fox.
I’ve known Len for many years, but I’ve
never known him to be so melancholy and
pensive. He rambled on miserably about
taking a course in Birmingham because he
felt trapped in his cab and started working
Heathrow because he ‘desperately needed
friends to talk to’. In fact, according to Len,
‘he enjoyed talking so much he didn’t want
to leave when his number came up on the
board!!’
I’m sorry, but I have never heard such
codswallop in all my 45 years experience.
For sure our job has got its drawbacks, but
what other job brings you in to daily contact
with some really lovely human beings? And
what other job allows you to work long after
you’ve been destined to the Pensioner’s
Prison! And you can crack away at any time
of day or night if needs be. I can recall back
in the sixties coming back from family holidays
in Spain absolutely skint. So I got out
the cab and went to get some food money!
Not only do the general public now perceive
us as rude, aggressive and foulmouthed.
They now think we may well be a
bunch of nut-cases. I honestly believe this
BBC producer has done more to harm our
image than any other TV programme I have
ever seen!''

And,as GBC posted, 'The Public Carriage Office are taking it so seriously that they've issued a notice about it.'...
Shows just how out of touch the PCO are.
Surely they should be promoting the industry they licence.
Or are they just civil servants doing a job counting down the days to early retirement?

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Charlton's lost past http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsFKWGlrze0
London's future? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... rants.html

The yob was an actor.

I thought it was a younger version of a certain poster on this site?

Are'nt we all.

No.

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IDFIMH

What? With all your wealth?

Can't think of anything worse than staying in all day watching Trisha and Ophra, and/or spending all day with Mrs Sussex.

No this trade is for me until the wooden overcoat arrives.

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IDFIMH