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09-15-2024 , 07:14 PM

#726

lastcardcharlie

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 10,649

Tell a lie, I get more long jobs than that. Today, Beckton. The most obscure, the most extreme part of the East End. London was the busiest port in the world. I had been there only once before, in the 1980s, as a despatch rider, although I cannot imagine why. A place you go once and it imprints on your mind. Grey, dusty, archetypal. Row upon row of cubical, terraced, gardenless, movie set dockers' houses and nothing else; no trees, colour, street markings or outsiders. All gone now, according to my passengers.

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09-19-2024 , 07:31 PM

#727

lastcardcharlie

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Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 10,649

There are beggars at some traffic junctions. This young guy in Aldgate the other evening, apparently possessed of a cheerful disposition, has got one leg. The other amputated, no doubt, owing to injection of drugs, or what passes for them, in the doorways and alleys of Whitechapel. And that didn't stop you? What kind of mad childhood leads to that?

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09-20-2024 , 03:21 AM

#728

jalfrezi

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Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 15,886

Or else he’s ex squaddy. Plenty of broken ex military on the streets.

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09-20-2024 , 01:42 PM

#729

Zeno

Le Misanthrope

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 22,614

Charles Dickens wrote about this years ago. Not much has changed.

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09-27-2024 , 04:19 AM

#730

jalfrezi

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Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 15,886

Charlie, can you help with a ruling?

This has been causing some controversy. To me the cabbie did nothing wrong and I’d have done the same as a private car driver but this guy seems to think otherwise (I also don’t agree he was slamming his brakes on).

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09-27-2024 , 06:31 AM

#731

lastcardcharlie

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Yes, I think I can help. He's pulling over to let a fire engine on its way to put out a fire through, FFS.

And if there's one part of the Highway Code I would like to be made compulsory in schools, it's that you can stop on a box junction when turning right, and only oncoming traffic is stopping you turning right. Rule 174. People don't do this all the time. They stop before the box junction and block the traffic behind them, because they think you can't ever stop on one. Drives me mad.

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09-27-2024 , 07:54 AM

#732

jalfrezi

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Yes I know. The cyclist tweeter is complaining that he shouldn't have pulled over into the cycle lane for any emergency vehicle, which seems completely wrong to me and I think many of us would instinctively pull over as soon as it was safe.

However, the law seems to back him up, which is why I wanted your opinion.

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09-27-2024 , 08:02 AM

#733

lastcardcharlie

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Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 10,649

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Originally Posted by jalfrezi

However, the law seems to back him up, which is why I wanted your opinion.

Oh I get it. I'll bring it up with the police, next time they want me to move when I'm stopped at a red light and they're in a hurry.

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10-18-2024 , 01:02 PM

#734

lastcardcharlie

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Some enforced days off. The cab is in for its yearly overhaul and relicencing. Time for some culture. There is a long queue outside the National Gallery, but round the corner is the recently refurbished National Portrait Gallery. Some are familiar, some are very skillful, and some are inimitably of their time. I like Meredith Frampton, but I feel like a tourist, and I think I prefer drinking beer up the road in Wetherspoons for £3.49 a pint during the day. It's October, right?

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10-18-2024 , 01:07 PM

#735

Phat Mack

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Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 12,463

Neatly combed hair goes a long way towards making a favorable first impression.

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10-20-2024 , 03:25 PM

#736

lastcardcharlie

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I never understood the connection between appearance and competence, beyond personal hygiene. Something I remember about being 18. I'm aware that's a minority view, but I still do a job where appearance is irrelevant.

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10-20-2024 , 04:22 PM

#737

golddog

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Join Date: Feb 2013 Posts: 7,472

Similarly, how does wrapping some colored fabric around one's neck make one a better worker?

Seems like that's mostly died off in USA#n, outside of government jobs.

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10-20-2024 , 06:10 PM

#738

lastcardcharlie

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10-28-2024 , 04:02 PM

#739

Zeno

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Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 22,614

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Originally Posted by lastcardcharlie

What’s with the British fetish for metals and silly uniforms.

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10-28-2024 , 04:09 PM

#740

Zeno

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Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 22,614

General Grant mostly dressed like a disheveled private, and he was instrumental in the North winning the war between the States.

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10-28-2024 , 09:09 PM

#741

Ray Zee

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if someone judges you by your hair or dress f==k[em

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11-03-2024 , 08:07 PM

#742

lastcardcharlie

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Is it the Catholics who say that feeling sorry for others is a sin? A Scottish lady left £60 in cash in the cab yesterday, and I put it in an envelope, addressed "By Hand. FAO The Scottish Lady..." and posted it today in her concierge-less, Mayfair apartment block, and maybe it was to create art, but maybe it taught me a lesson. A lady with a highly disabled boy going to North Finchley last night, a lady with learning difficulties going to Old Street this afternoon, both from King's Cross. Why not do such jobs for free and create more art? In any case, I'm going up north again for a few days' holiday before the mayhem of xxxxmas, paid for with my money.