What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[hairnet]

Like Southport but less scousers

[captain_70s]

1 hour ago, comfortablynumb said:

Last time I got a taxi into our local town, 4 miles cost me £15....😱 

Next time I'll walk

My last taxi the meter started at £8 and the 11 mile trip from one side of Glasgow to the other cost nearly £30.

I'd actually have been better off finishing work 3hrs early and getting the last train...

[New POD]

16 minutes ago, hairnet said:

Like Southport but less scousers

Not many scousers in Southport.  Its all Romanians. Or something like that.  They come over here harvesting our cabbages* 

Drinking in our pubs, shopping at Lidl, paying tax and national insurance and generally being normal people

 How dare they. 

* other vegetables are needing harvesting too. 

 

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, maxxo said:

I’d say around a mile to a mile and a half, took about 5 minutes or so I reckon

i don’t know the going rate for taxis, but I must admit considering how cold and icy it was it was worth every penny

Not really the right thread for this, and @warren t claim will have more info, but round here Rate 1 (not Sundays, Bank holidays or Christmas etc) is £2.60 start then £1.60 a mile for the first 5 miles, £2 a mile thereafter, so you did well there. Note these are hackney prices, PH are likely to be a bit less.

1 hour ago, comfortablynumb said:

Last time I got a taxi into our local town, 4 miles cost me £15....😱 

Next time I'll walk

Ouch! Though, that might have been his only job for an hour so not that lucrative.

19 minutes ago, captain_70s said:

My last taxi the meter started at £8 and the 11 mile trip from one side of Glasgow to the other cost nearly £30.

I'd actually have been better off finishing work 3hrs early and getting the last train...

Sounds like a rip-off.

[comfortablynumb]

My son in law had to go to Norfolk and Norwich hospital for a knee op, daughter MK2 hasn't got a full license, so since he had to be there for 7am they looked at a taxi, from watton, which is about 20 miles away .

Obviously it's an early run, so you'd expect to pay extra, but they were getting quoted £85.

Guess what came next?  "Dad....." 😁

[New POD]

26 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

My son in law had to go to Norfolk and Norwich hospital for a knee op, daughter MK2 hasn't got a full license, so since he had to be there for 7am they looked at a taxi, from watton, which is about 20 miles away .

Obviously it's an early run, so you'd expect to pay extra, but they were getting quoted £85.

Guess what came next?  "Dad....." 😁

Just had a return quote to Manchester Airport a distance of 52 miles. 

£75 each way. 

 

[IronStar]

I keep saying how modern SUVs are stupidly large and van-sized and wondering why the fuck do buy something the size of the moon. Mrs. Star thinks I’m talking BS and exaggerating. So today, there was a facelift Vivaro A parked next to a Q7, with Q7 dwarfing the Vivaro which is a bit taller than Q7. 

- See what I’m telling you? They’re buying the fucking delivery-van sized SUVs for no apparent reason. 
- They must have a miniature penis. 
- 🤣

 

I fully expect next-gen or generation after it Q7 to be LWB Ducato sized if this stupid trend continues. 

[hairnet]

I got taxi to aeropuerto 22 quid one way ( manxhester)

Its 11 miles 8 quid was the dropp off charge and uber tax

But only cos of the weather and it was dark

Id crash getting off rhe drive

Itll be the tram back on monday

[captain_70s]

3 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Sounds like a rip-off.

Thursday, 1am, freezing, gale force winds. Was going to Uber but there were 3 cars active across the whole city. 

Think they realised they could charge whatever they liked as I was otherwise out of options...

[hairnet]

Soon

[hairnet]

Burp

( Ive gotta drive home lol)

[hairnet]

Wtf and lol all at the same time

 

https://imgur.com/a/kepzjSr

[Markeh]

4 hours ago, New POD said:

Just had a return quote to Manchester Airport a distance of 52 miles. 

£75 each way. 

 

I need to start charging my parents more, from Mansfield I've been doing it for £40 for both runs - I think they think it'll be cheaper if we take the E-3008 as well!

[auntiemaryscanary]

3 hours ago, hairnet said:

Burp

( Ive gotta drive home lol)

Good on ya!

[Neil clark]

8 hours ago, New POD said:

Just had a return quote to Manchester Airport a distance of 52 miles. 

£75 each way. 

 

Buying work that is, very cheap

[New POD]

5 hours ago, Neil clark said:

Buying work that is, very cheap

I was pleasantly surprised. 

[BorniteIdentity]

Typical Mainstream Meedyuh innit. 😡 

[Split_Pin]

12 hours ago, hairnet said:

Burp

( Ive gotta drive home lol)

That's fine, I'd describe Gin and Tonics as a 'driving drink'.

[willswitchengage]

My lunch found in a pasta restaurant yesterday 👌🏻

Spoiler alert: the pasta actually looked nothing like a Fiat 500.

[Rustybullethole]

[richardmorris]

Other sexist blonde jokes are also available….

[richardmorris]

[Remspoor]

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

Other sexist blonde jokes are also available….

I will not be able unsee that now.

[gm]

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

Other sexist blonde jokes are also available….

yours is just taking a casual dump, the dashboard man in my volvo is really straining ! or has fallen asleep 

[hairnet]

Truck dakar ftw

Tv nacional 1 hehe

Remember rtl or sat1 german tv in the 90s

That

[hairnet]

That @Jerzy Woking

Amigo muoy bueno

Gracias

 

[Metal Guru]

6 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Who’s the good looking one on the right?

[maxxo]

reckon I’ll donate more next month

this sort of thing makes me really happy

im glad I could have helped

[Yoss]

Just changed trains in Pardubice, ČZ, and the overhead lines are absolutely full of crows. I mean thousands upon thousands of crows. All chattering away. It was the strangest experience. Unfortunately I had quite a tight connection and I realised I had three minutes to be three platforms away and I was at the end of a long platform or else I would have stayed and savoured the atmosphere. 

As I turned and ran I noticed they were packed even tighter on the lines through the platforms but I didn't have time to stop. 

 

[EyesWeldedShut]

Looks like the De Lorean flux capacitor I ordered yesterday will be delivered last Friday good old Evri and eBay, champion!