Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: john m on December 18, 2019, 05:15:01 am
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Fitzwilliam card club and casino set to close .Girl I know worked for Powers over Christmas for the last twenty years said they are not taking on dial a bet staff this year to cover all the Christmas race meetings .When the bookies and Casinos are cutting back its time to sit up and take notice .
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They lasted through the last recession alright.High rents and online gambling probably to blame.Good riddance.
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New gambling regulations are the cause I hear.
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How did I know JohnM would be the OP lol
The Fitz card club could be a property play considering all the development going on in town now.
Re the bookies, who uses phones for phone calls nowadays :P Punters are probably using an app to place their bets?
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New gambling regulations are the cause I hear.
Any links? I haven't heard of the same but if it were up to me I'd ban all casinos and bookmakers from the State, they're nothing but parasites preying on addicts.
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Never ever played a game of chance or poker on line .What kind of idiot would play against a machine that knows what cards it dealt you .
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one of my favourite movies is a flick called Croupier starring Clive Owen.
yiz should look it up.
it's gift.
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Chips the movie is a good laugh " not a whole lot to do with poker thou"
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Online or on the street, they're not there to lose money, erm. If licensed bookmakers were required to accept bets in a similar way as taxi drivers are required to accept taxi fares they wouldn't survive. Preying on addicts is the name of the game.
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If and wen I'm running the country....paddy power be hanged outside the gpo as a parasitical cnut along wit leo....all junkies and dole merchants wud have to work ...sweeping the streets and pulling shite out of the canals....
The only gambling allowed wud be a new national lottery ...
Wer ya get free tickets credits for bein nice ...and fuk all if yur a waster junkie or causing trouble
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https://www.independent.ie/business/world/britains-highest-paid-boss-takes-67m-pay-rise-38796250.html (https://www.independent.ie/business/world/britains-highest-paid-boss-takes-67m-pay-rise-38796250.html)
Britain's highest-paid boss has kept her place at the top of the charts after pocketing a £57m (€67m) basic PAY RISE last year.
Denise Coates, chief executive of Bet365, took home a basic salary of almost £277m (€326m) in the year ended March 2019.
It comfortably makes her the highest-paid boss in the UK, and comes on top of the around £45m she is believed to have received in dividends as a major shareholder.
Ms Coates, 52, founded the online gambling company in the early 2000s after spotting the potential of internet betting to revolutionise the industry.
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https://www.independent.ie/business/world/britains-highest-paid-boss-takes-67m-pay-rise-38796250.html (https://www.independent.ie/business/world/britains-highest-paid-boss-takes-67m-pay-rise-38796250.html)
Britain's highest-paid boss has kept her place at the top of the charts after pocketing a £57m (€67m) basic PAY RISE last year.
Denise Coates, chief executive of Bet365, took home a basic salary of almost £277m (€326m) in the year ended March 2019.
It comfortably makes her the highest-paid boss in the UK, and comes on top of the around £45m she is believed to have received in dividends as a major shareholder.
Ms Coates, 52, founded the online gambling company in the early 2000s after spotting the potential of internet betting to revolutionise the industry.
She should try bootleg from a taxi, now that's where the real money is! 8)
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New gambling regulations are the cause I hear.
Any links? I haven't heard of the same but if it were up to me I'd ban all casinos and bookmakers from the State, they're nothing but parasites preying on addicts.
https://www.thejournal.ie/fitzwilliam-card-club-casino-closing-4936145-Dec2019/ (https://www.thejournal.ie/fitzwilliam-card-club-casino-closing-4936145-Dec2019/)
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I also heard about the lease being up and it being redeveloped although the article is quiet detailed so maybe not.
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Online or on the street, they're not there to lose money, erm. If licensed bookmakers were required to accept bets in a similar way as taxi drivers are required to accept taxi fares they wouldn't survive. Preying on addicts is the name of the game.
Taxi drivers are not a whole lot better. Down here in Cork the last few very busy Chrimbo weekends a lot of the drivers are back Acting the Maggot again, pulling in, asking pax fer their destination with doors locked and if'n they don't like exactly what they hear, then they drive off.
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Fitzwilliam card club and casino set to close .Girl I know worked for Powers over Christmas for the last twenty years said they are not taking on dial a bet staff this year to cover all the Christmas race meetings .When the bookies and Casinos are cutting back its time to sit up and take notice .
The new online game killed the old game as we know it John M, the only reason any bookie shop is open these days is because they are stuck in a long lease and/or with old staff who would require big redundancy if'n they were to close. As the old staff retire and the leases expire expect to see less and less bookie shops on the high street. Not that they are still not trading profitably but they are doing it all online.
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Same with shopping everyone doing online shopping or even click and collect at super value
The phone culture ruined the high street
But in John's defence I think there a dip or recession on the way
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Same with shopping everyone doing online shopping or even click and collect at super value
The phone culture ruined the high street
But in John's defence I think there a dip or recession on the way
To be honest don't like the online shopping gig, especially grocery's , be afraid I'd get a stale Sliced Pan
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Credit card companies say less spent on CCs in the last two months .Im going to work full time and if possible get a PAYE number next year ,all the signs of 2008 are there again but this time there is no room for the state to bail out anybody we signed up to the Fiscal Treaty which limits what we can borrow and spend so only way is more tax and big cuts
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Erm the time to start working full time was probably three years ago.I need to save at least 10k next year.If I don't make it I'll be driving around in a Dacia logan, not even the executive edition..
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I recon Boris and the EU will put the boot in we might get another good year out of it then the Shit airconditioner interaction will put us all under pressure .Goal for next year to pay off me loans need to work full time or get a part time job .See Amazon looking to open a distribution warehouse in Ireland thats going to create a few low paid jobs and close a lot of shops .The world of work is changing we are slowly becoming Americanised you will have more than one source of income if you are a blue collar worker ."0 hour contracts so employers can avoide certain commitments seems to be very popular .
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Why don't ye take a gap year from here John,the Donald,Boris and Kim might have even pushed their respective red buttons by then!!
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Why don't ye take a gap year from here John,the Donald,Boris and Kim might have even pushed their respective red buttons by then!!
OK .
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Why don't ye take a gap year from here John,the Donald,Boris and Kim might have even pushed their respective red buttons by then!!
OK .
When they say it's too good to be true!! lol
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They're entitled to ascertain whether the client is fit to travel or not and whether the destination id within 30 kilos. Although I'm not aware of any provision within the regulations, NTA have also told us that we can refuse a fare on safety grounds which presumably entitles drivers to fear certain areas or travellers or immigrants or whatever. I actually had a woman in the car a few months back complaining that the taxi was going to cost her the guts of a tenner because Dublin Bus had terminated her bus service (to Ballyfermot) due to anti-social behaviour. FFS, says I... I should be charging you danger money if the buses won't go there... aah but it's happening all the time, says she...