Originally posted by NickFitz
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Shocking news!!!
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I wonder what this will mean for IPSE?I was an IPSE Consultative Council Member, until the BoD abolished it. I am not an IPSE Member, since they have no longer have any relevance to me, as an IT Contractor. Read my lips...I recommend QDOS for ALL your Insurance requirements (Contact me for a referral code).Comment
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Originally posted by Mordac View PostYou're a cheeky little bugger, ain't ya?
Here's a little tip, from a senile old git who's experienced the same problem as you, but had the good sense to create a workaround solution, thus: if you are going out of an evening on the weekend, don't leave it until the last minute to organise your going home facilities or you will have to wait a bit longer, and may have to travel home in a vomit-stained limousine courtesy of others of your generation who got there first.Comment
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Originally posted by tiggat View PostAnd this is preferable, or as good, as uber, how?
You can also store cab numbers in your mobile phone.
Or you can take the tube home. There is no need to get so drunk you can't."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Originally posted by Mordac View Post(About 3 weeks ago, by the sound of it)
When was the last time you waited 40 mins for a cab?
In the end I ended up getting an uber.And the lord said unto John; "come forth and receive eternal life." But John came fifth and won a toaster.Comment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostThey aren't cabbies. Cabbies train for several years to acquire the Knowledge, and are tightly regulated. These are just randoms with a satnav.
I feel sorry for them, because as Uber pretends they're self-employed, they're completely shafted by this. But you can't equate them with London cabbies.
*cue somebody recounting one bad experience with a London cabbie because anecdote is the singular of data*
Until I got fed up with them and moved to Uber last year because I got sick of begging the twats to do what they were being paid for. I would use a black cab twice maybe three times a week. Using my experience as a heavy cab user I can state happily that I have not got into a black cab in the past decade that wasn't using a SatNav...
I have consistently met drivers that apparently do not know an entire side of London despite having said sat nav next to them and who have consistently shown willingness to drive around in circles to improve their fair thinking that they had an idiot in the back.
Uber in comparison have provided me with polite drivers that are willing to go where I need to go in a clean car. They never deviate from the route without first asking (even if it is bad English) and even if I have gone to sleep and am snoring like a drain I am delivered to my digs in a safe state.
The whole drives around on a bike doing the knowledge thing is well past its sell by date with every phone able to do a better job...Comment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostMost idiotic conspiracy theory so far: Google are building a new HQ in the King's Cross area, and Google have invested in Uber rivals Lyft, therefore…
What I've heard on the grapevine is that there is a lot of evidence to back up the allegations enough that I suspect Uber isn't going to win an appeal...merely at clientco for the entertainmentComment
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Originally posted by Scruff View PostI wonder what this will mean for IPSE?merely at clientco for the entertainmentComment
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Originally posted by bobspud View PostAs recently as last year I can remember walking from the back of Oxford street way to Liverpool Street just to find a black cab that would go East. They are a shocking shower of tulipe and thoroughly deserved the kicking Uber were giving them.His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...Comment
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Originally posted by bobspud View PostI don't do tubes while inebriated. Especially in the summer when its warm.His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...Comment
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