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Title: Whats your best Guess
Post by: john m on June 07, 2020, 08:32:35 am
Is the dizzeezs going to go away or will it come back and we have another lockdown ?Korea and Germany seem to have gotten a bit of a second wave but nothing really serious .So what do you think will drunks be doing the twelve pubs this christmas or the twelve off licences .I think Leo is rolling the Dice he dosent know but is getting ready for another election .I really dont know where this is Going .Do you ?Im staying on the 350 for as long as possible and looking for alternative employment .A lot of risks a lot of costs a lot of uncertainty .Everything just seems too quiet bit like the old Cowboy films .John Wayne says it seems very quiet out there just before the Indians would attack . ::fds ::fds ::fds ::fds ::fds
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: dalymount on June 07, 2020, 08:50:57 am
Id say we'll be seeing the tumbleweed blowing passed the saloon door anytime now
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: john m on June 07, 2020, 09:04:16 am
Im sort of with you Dalymount .I think things will be hugely different .We have enjoyed a lifestyle way beyond our means since the 90s .The bill for this Epidemic will be paid in spades .State borrowing will need to be repaid welfare will have to be raised so taxes will have to go up a LOT less disposable incomes so less pubs restaurants ,night clubs .The EU will be after our corporate tax rate and Brexit will fuck up the Agri sector .As I said its the lull before the storm .
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: maxi on June 07, 2020, 09:06:21 am
Is the dizzeezs going to go away or will it come back and we have another lockdown ?Korea and Germany seem to have gotten a bit of a second wave but nothing really serious .So what do you think will drunks be doing the twelve pubs this christmas or the twelve off licences .I think Leo is rolling the Dice he dosent know but is getting ready for another election .I really dont know where this is Going .Do you ?Im staying on the 350 for as long as possible and looking for alternative employment .A lot of risks a lot of costs a lot of uncertainty .Everything just seems too quiet bit like the old Cowboy films .John Wayne says it seems very quiet out there just before the Indians would attack . ::fds ::fds ::fds ::fds ::fds
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Well i said that before and i will said again watching this gov is like watching Kindergarten trying to invent some kind of solution same time create a chaos.
Love is love and I don't care what that half man he's doing in his bedroom. What i am interested is that he will take an ownership for everything he's create. Another thing is Government is not our savior. Ireland is very valuable these days. Yes John a risks are way to big in our trade. Personally I won't play John Wayne .
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Dr. Martin Gooter Bling on June 07, 2020, 09:33:47 am
it's all a loada bollocks.
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: john m on June 07, 2020, 09:40:42 am
it's all a loada bollocks.

Thank you Doc for participating and we value your contribution .
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Punter on June 07, 2020, 10:17:23 am
I would be in same mind as John M--they will have to come up with something special to keep industry viable---before we know where we are the fleet owners will be slashing rental rates to get some revenue with our German masters offering discounts to the punters at our expense !
In Germany all cabs have to charge the agreed rate with no discounting allowed hence there was no Medical promotion there !
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: john m on June 07, 2020, 10:25:18 am
I would be in same mind as John M--they will have to come up with something special to keep industry viable---before we know where we are the fleet owners will be slashing rental rates to get some revenue with our German masters offering discounts to the punters at our expense !
In Germany all cabs have to charge the agreed rate with no discounting allowed hence there was no Medical promotion there !

Punter I never said they will come up with anything .We are running a business just like any other if we cant make it pay we go broke thats business .Taxi driving always was led by market forces .If there was a Match or big concert everybody worked but Tuesdays were usually dead so less drivers worked .A lot of renters will drop out a few Double jobbers will drop out fewer new entrants .This business will recover when the Tourist business and Socialising recovers .I posted my best guess is trade will be Down 30% for the next few years .After costs you might just about make minimum wage .Watching the App a tenner an hour at best .
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Theoneandonly on June 07, 2020, 10:29:40 am
The disease is here to stay, hopefully we have learned how best to avoid catching it. For me, it's loved ones and friends that pose the biggest threat as it's more difficult to maintain social distancing with those you trust and assume to be OK.
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: john m on June 07, 2020, 10:45:10 am
If Leos big Bet comes off No big upswing in two weeks after Pennys opens I think he will then announce based on actual good science that the Social Distancing is reduced to 1 meter .I say good science as Betty and Breda from the Flats are not going to be observing any two meter distancing when her and the rest of the Huns get a chance to do a loop of pennies and get the 3 pairs of nickers for 4 euro and new pyjamas .Real reason for reducing the Social Distancing to hold another election so he can try hang on to the Big Front Office with the view of the Fountain and passing taxies .

 I recon by August anybody claiming Covid Coin will be advised to apply for unemployment Benifit or assistance .
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Shallowhal on June 07, 2020, 01:55:19 pm
I hope those who FN were offering 35% discount on behalf of weren't claiming the 350....i'd say when things calm down SW will have the sniffer dogs out.
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: silverbullet on June 07, 2020, 06:42:29 pm
I hope those who FN were offering 35% discount on behalf of weren't claiming the 350....i'd say when things calm down SW will have the sniffer dogs out.
39 drivers caught claiming and working in Finglas alone.
Although Rats should get them off with a warning!! 8)
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: dalymount on June 07, 2020, 08:11:34 pm
Id say if they went up that rank at northside shopping center,they'd nab a whole lot more
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Shallowhal on June 07, 2020, 08:13:56 pm
Be kinda ironic if indeed some of those drivers were in receipt of the PUP while FN were offering huge discounts on their behalf as they risked their own lives only to be found out because they used the app......gonna ring Alanis now!!
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Lizzzy on June 07, 2020, 09:03:37 pm
Id say if they went up that rank at northside shopping center,they'd nab a whole lot more

I hope they do.
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: dalymount on June 07, 2020, 09:10:17 pm
SB calls it the rehab rank
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Lizzzy on June 07, 2020, 09:17:34 pm
SB calls it the rehab rank

I was in Stillorgan shopping centre during the week and there were no Taxis around.
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Shallowhal on June 07, 2020, 09:49:08 pm
SB calls it the rehab rank

I was in Stillorgan shopping centre during the week and there were no Taxis around.

They're all cocooning.
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Cool Boola on June 07, 2020, 10:26:23 pm
SB calls it the rehab rank

I was in Stillorgan shopping centre during the week and there were no Taxis around.

They're all cocooning.

I used to see them @ 3.0AM when I was dropping off a fare...Everything closed but the zombies just hoping it was 10 years ago...Back a hour later...they were still sitting there....Town hopping but just effin rankers...ha ha
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Theoneandonly on June 07, 2020, 10:30:46 pm
SB calls it the rehab rank

I was in Stillorgan shopping centre during the week and there were no Taxis around.

They're all cocooning.

I used to see them @ 3.0AM when I was dropping off a fare...Everything closed but the zombies just hoping it was 10 years ago...Back a hour later...they were still sitting there....Town hopping but just effin rankers...ha ha

They're mostly with local/southside waiting for the early morning airport runs to start, the rank is somewhere to meet up and chat, different folks different strokes.
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: dalymount on June 07, 2020, 10:30:54 pm
Theres blokes in this game fukin donkeys years.but because they wouldnt have a clue where they are going,they never leave the rank they work off.usually shopping centres bringing auldones home with the messages
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Shallowhal on June 07, 2020, 10:34:23 pm
Laffin...i do remember the C2K boys back in the heady days...get a fare into town,drop off and blem it back to Swords.....be hoorin past street fares in Drumcondra anall.....the mind boggles!!
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: dalymount on June 07, 2020, 10:44:20 pm
Probably heading back to the hotels where bully boy illegally stands for hire along with the other mindless ass holes who work that area
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: john m on June 07, 2020, 11:06:46 pm
Probably heading back to the hotels where bully boy illegally stands for hire along with the other mindless ass holes who work that area
Natalee Mulligan from the flats was a Brazer worked Parkgate Street  .She would do a job then head back to her corner beside the Bark Kitchen we have a lot in common sell your service then return to your rank .
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: dalymount on June 08, 2020, 07:28:55 am
We have a lot in common,thats true.we are just like natlee loads of us have a pimp ,its called a dispatcher
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: stonethecrows on June 08, 2020, 10:29:06 am
Taxi's rank, Natlee Wnaks
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Shallowhal on June 08, 2020, 10:52:42 am
Can ye not type "wanks" in properly....or is that you and your catholic ways?
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Cool Boola on June 08, 2020, 10:59:47 am
[/color][/size]...WANKS A LOT
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Cool Boola on June 08, 2020, 11:04:04 am
Friggin fonts on here are scat
 
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: stonethecrows on June 08, 2020, 11:05:45 am
Can ye not type "wanks" in properly....or is that you and your catholic ways?

Didn't want to offend anyone with the Wnak word
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Shallowhal on June 08, 2020, 11:29:08 am
You couldn't offend these wankers......oh,well hold on......maybe Ken,Horse,Dalyer....eh Octy,Cool...jaysus,that's nearly everyone...Lip still in the bunker under hut 11.
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Lizzzy on June 08, 2020, 11:45:09 am
Taxi's rank, Natlee Wnaks, Frank shrank.
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: dalymount on June 08, 2020, 01:59:09 pm
Where the fukk is the lip,he alone used to give me a bit of support when I slag the fukin dispatchers
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Shallowhal on June 08, 2020, 02:48:38 pm
In the bunker...he'll emerge in 35 yrs time.

Blast from the Past movie comes to mind!!
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: john m on June 08, 2020, 08:03:07 pm
Where the fukk is the lip,he alone used to give me a bit of support when I slag the fukin dispatchers

Her job is closed so has no free Wifi .She will be back in work soon .
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: dalymount on June 08, 2020, 08:07:35 pm
Wish he'd hurry up,I feel isolated
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: john m on June 08, 2020, 08:31:21 pm
Wish he'd hurry up,I feel isolated

Fuck off I agreed with you even called you Dalymount .
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: dalymount on June 08, 2020, 08:35:52 pm
Now that in itself was a first.when ya called me by me proper name,I was overcome
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Shallowhal on June 08, 2020, 09:20:38 pm
Get a room lads....or move it to Boards,they're very accepting of trans neutral gender fluid shite talkin taxi drivers.
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: dalymount on June 08, 2020, 10:59:36 pm
This is a very special moment the erm agreed with me on something,and he actually called me dalymount instead of dollymount  oooooohhhhh
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Theoneandonly on June 09, 2020, 10:33:25 am
We'll be working through it, screens will be staying put long term

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/no-return-to-lockdown-even-if-ireland-is-hit-by-second-wave-of-virus-39271031.html (https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/no-return-to-lockdown-even-if-ireland-is-hit-by-second-wave-of-virus-39271031.html)
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: john m on June 09, 2020, 02:40:32 pm
Looking at numbers from the Disunited States and places and towns of America .It looks like the fever is spreading like a whore in a harbour full of sailors since they eased the lockdown .Think we will be on covid payments so long we will qualify for the Christmas bonus .
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: silverbullet on June 09, 2020, 02:53:42 pm
Id say if they went up that rank at northside shopping center,they'd nab a whole lot more
And the Omni shopping centre I hear.
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: silverbullet on June 09, 2020, 02:55:04 pm
SB calls it the rehab rank

I was in Stillorgan shopping centre during the week and there were no Taxis around.

They're all cocooning.
8)

p.s They can use the rank between 07.00 and 09.00. lol
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: silverbullet on June 09, 2020, 02:58:09 pm
In the bunker...he'll emerge in 35 yrs time.

Blast from the Past movie comes to mind!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UzVKW_Iqi0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UzVKW_Iqi0) 8)
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: john m on June 09, 2020, 03:00:14 pm
Look at the number of NEW cases in Doonny ts america since they lifted the lockdown https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/)  Leo better move fast and call the election before we close up shop again .Have a look at yesterdays new cases .
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: silverbullet on June 09, 2020, 03:03:20 pm
Look at the number of NEW cases in Doonny ts america since they lifted the lockdown https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/)  Leo better move fast and call the election before we close up shop again .Have a look at yesterdays new cases .
I wonder if the protesters are spreading the virus amongst their communities. Donny would like that.

Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: john m on June 09, 2020, 03:11:35 pm
Looking at the Kill rate in Texas its the safest place on earth unless your black and standing near a Garda .More likely to be killed by a cop or the Clan that the Covid
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Rat Catcher on June 09, 2020, 04:57:24 pm
Best guess - COVID '20 will hit in 2021 or 2022 and it'll make COVID '19 look like a stroll on the strand... oh wait, that's pretty much what it has been for many or most of us.
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Theoneandonly on June 09, 2020, 05:00:08 pm
Look at the number of NEW cases in Doonny ts america since they lifted the lockdown https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/)  Leo better move fast and call the election before we close up shop again .Have a look at yesterdays new cases .

No return to lockdown

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/no-return-to-lockdown-even-if-ireland-is-hit-by-second-wave-of-virus-39271031.html (https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/no-return-to-lockdown-even-if-ireland-is-hit-by-second-wave-of-virus-39271031.html)
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Rat Catcher on June 09, 2020, 05:03:25 pm
Makes sense, could we afford another lockdown? Realistically, cocooning those over 59 ought to suffice.
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: john m on June 09, 2020, 05:25:57 pm
If lockdown didnt work then it dosent work so why another lockdown .Do you think there will be a Christmas Bobo this year ?No yoy fool I mean from me dole not Me taxi .
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Rat Catcher on June 09, 2020, 05:31:13 pm
Do you reckon we'll still be idling come Christmas on €350/week? TBH, I was (pleasantly) surprised that they didn't reduce the rate from today.
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Shallowhal on June 09, 2020, 05:37:30 pm
I thought today or next week were the last days of the original PUP....how long can i realistically expect to be paid to decorate the rest of my gaff.
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Rat Catcher on June 09, 2020, 05:39:19 pm
Yesterday was the end date. From the end of this month those deemed to be part-time will be cut to €203.00/week.
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Shallowhal on June 09, 2020, 05:41:44 pm
Haven't had any correspondence from SW regarding continuence of the 350....i hope i'm good for it!!
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: john m on June 09, 2020, 05:43:29 pm
Do you reckon we'll still be idling come Christmas on €350/week? TBH, I was (pleasantly) surprised that they didn't reduce the rate from today.

I think we will be transported onto Unemployable assistance based on a maximum of 203 depending of your take home from years ago .The Wolftones or Gitzer Moore will write a Ballot about the Golden age of Dole and the 350 Gelt .I can see it now they will be on the Late Late clattering Badhrans and strumming Banjoes just before Leo is the Main Guest telling Tubbs he is off to the EU for a good job in an office in Belgium .I doubt I will return to the taxi full time .
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Shallowhal on June 09, 2020, 05:46:30 pm
You must have been good for €199.99 at least John.
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Rat Catcher on June 09, 2020, 05:49:19 pm
It was announced up above in Dail Eireann, Hal. I can't imagine why nobody saw fit to correspond with you personally.  The lower rate is scheduled for later this month, I think the end of the month was specified.  Other stuff you may have (well, obviously have) missed... wash your hands, listen to Dr. Tony, listen to Dr. Leo.
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Shallowhal on June 09, 2020, 05:53:34 pm
....and Dr Feelgood.
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: john m on June 09, 2020, 05:56:09 pm
It was announced up above in Dail Eireann, Hal. I can't imagine why nobody saw fit to correspond with you personally.  The lower rate is scheduled for later this month, I think the end of the month was specified.  Other stuff you may have (well, obviously have) missed... wash your hands, listen to Dr. Tony, listen to Dr. Leo.

SOCIAL DISTANCE RAT SOCIAL DISTANCE
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Theoneandonly on June 09, 2020, 06:37:35 pm
It was announced up above in Dail Eireann, Hal. I can't imagine why nobody saw fit to correspond with you personally.  The lower rate is scheduled for later this month, I think the end of the month was specified.  Other stuff you may have (well, obviously have) missed... wash your hands, listen to Dr. Tony, listen to Dr. Leo.

SOCIAL DISTANCE RAT SOCIAL DISTANCE

It'll be very interesting to see how adverse to working we all are if a second wave arrives with no lockdown and no payouts from government
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: silverbullet on June 09, 2020, 07:32:42 pm
I thought today or next week were the last days of the original PUP....how long can i realistically expect to be paid to decorate the rest of my gaff.
Regarding painting, you'll be worth a fortune when you're dead!! 8)
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: silverbullet on June 09, 2020, 07:35:04 pm
....and Dr Feelgood.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvjQpPEjP8E (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvjQpPEjP8E) 8)
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: john m on June 10, 2020, 12:23:09 am
Here Dalymount you were asking about Big Dommo and I told you I would drop down to see him when I got me Dole .Well I dropped over today got 6 of the big belly buster bottles of Cider from lidel I think its less than a tenner a gallon and a pack of 8 Penguin Bars and a few Wagon Wheels and some of the discounted Marietta biscuits .Anyway I walked down the flats I was afraid their might be road checks on the way home and after 20 pints of cider I might not pass the breathaliser .Dommo was in bits when I knocked at the Door Olivia Flinn and Karen answered and said he was in bed he wasent well I asked whats wrong with the bollox they said he keeps sneezing and has a horn on him like a Farmers Prize Bull .I was worried poor cunt sneezing Im thinking he has the China Cough and might be bolloxed and he still owes me 40 I loaned him last week for smokes and a curry .He is me mate so I have to go into the bedroom to see him i wrap some cling film around me head as Ken says its good stuff he isint dead yet so it must be .I open the door and Dommo is sitting up in the bed with a big tent in front of him .I say to him Jasus Dommo the Girls are worried they say your sneezing do you think you have the virus are you taking anything for it .Yes he says Snuff .Snuff I asked you ridicilous cunt that wont cure the Virus .Fuck the Virus he says the more I sneeze the bigger me horn gets Im going to tail that pair as soon as you fuck off.So Dollymount Big Dommo seems Ok but thanks for asking .
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Shallowhal on June 10, 2020, 12:32:45 am
That's disappointing John....you weren't invited to partake in a mixed doubles....yourself and Big Dommo could have high fived and shouted 40 love as ye barrelled the two huns doggy dog style.
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: john m on June 10, 2020, 12:46:29 am
Wrong Sport Cliche there Hal if its two boys playing the same holes its called a Four Ball Golf analogy not Tennis .Tennis only applies to the issue of Forehand or backhand and is usually decided on what side she is sitting to your left or your right .Anyway Im home now going to have a mug of tea and a Penguin or a Wagom wheel I left the Marietta with Dommo but took the good bickies home .
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Shallowhal on June 10, 2020, 10:25:16 am
A four ball is a threesome Johnny....i'll stick with the mixed doubles....which is what that scenario would have been if you had been invited to partake...but you weren't!!
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: john m on June 10, 2020, 10:40:52 am
A four ball is a threesome Johnny....i'll stick with the mixed doubles....which is what that scenario would have been if you had been invited to partake...but you weren't!!

You dont know them Girls Hal .The only time you would want to play with them is if you were playing rugby and you would hope to god they were on your team .I remember one of them breaking Don Mulligans jaw with what she called, only a slap for slagging her big arse in those Cheap Pennys Leggings ,she was furious she was wearing expensive leggings she bought on tic from a catalogue .Na Hal Dommo was doing me a favour there .
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Shallowhal on June 10, 2020, 10:53:23 am
You owe him so....forget about the 40 he owes ye!!
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: john m on June 10, 2020, 11:24:55 am
You owe him so....forget about the 40 he owes ye!!

I got that Back .Then he borrowed 3 scores Tommy Two Fingers youngfellas has a Christening on Sunday then its all back to Nugents Gaff on the Mainer  Christy Nugent is locked up so his youngfella has a free Gaff said they could have the party there .Dommo  needed a Score to put in a card for the Youngfella and the Price of a Curry and Smokes for the week .So I gave him 60 but it was really only a score extra .Ill get it back Dommo has a consignment of Bogey Rolexes from Hong Kong due next week .He recons he will get 200 each for them .Lads in the Trade will want to look flush with flashey watches that way the Wholesalers wont be looking to call in the credit .
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: john m on June 10, 2020, 11:28:40 am
Fuck Sake Anto I see you hovering why dont you say hello and give somebody a mouthfull of abuse its quiet without Ya .Lip is Missing as well somebody said she went to stay with her sister or something .
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: john m on June 10, 2020, 11:38:54 am
Back to the serious stuff .Every country that unlockdowned their lockdown have seen a surge in cases .In Ireland we are seeing pockets of dizzeeze most of them in families and as a result of gaff parties As I posted give it 3 weeks after Pennys opens to see what the real story is .Would you consider returning to work before the Middle of July ? I wouldnt .I think the Government are doing a big experiment dont think anybody really knows what is going to happen
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: taxi1990 on June 11, 2020, 06:28:41 pm
I was mad to go back to work a couple of weeks ago, at the moment I am happy enough sitting at home getting the 350, I would like to be working but the clever thing to do at the moment is to wait it out a while longer. I was going to go back mid to end of July, insurance is up end of July. I wonder should I wait until end of August now as the 350 will be paid until then. No point working in August if I would be better off sitting at home getting 350.

I have been busy the last 10 weeks, studying for a new area test and have started gathering info for another one as well. If it hadn't been for that keeping me busy, I would have been very bored.
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Rat Catcher on June 11, 2020, 06:31:27 pm
August is a tad optimistic, IMO. The recovery timetable has already been sped up once. I reckon we'll be at the "new normal" by mid July at the latest. The appetite for social distancing seems to be gone completely. Show me 100 men who didn't attend at least one social gathering last weekend and I'll show you 93 liars.
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: taxi1990 on June 11, 2020, 06:36:19 pm
you mean August is pessimistic?

until the pubs just serving alcohol open, it will be dead enough where I live. I doubt there will be many foreign tourists around either.
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Rat Catcher on June 11, 2020, 06:42:36 pm
Optimistic in terms of the €350 still being paid. I reckon the pubs will be officially open before August with the physical distancing aspect of social distancing reduced to 1 metre.
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: mercenary for hire on June 11, 2020, 06:46:51 pm
August 10 is the current end date.
https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/3baec-minister-doherty-announces-pandemic-unemployment-payment-to-continue/#:~:text=Payment%20extended%20to%2010th%20August,Payment%20until%2010th%20August%202020. (https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/3baec-minister-doherty-announces-pandemic-unemployment-payment-to-continue/#:~:text=Payment%20extended%20to%2010th%20August,Payment%20until%2010th%20August%202020.)
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Rat Catcher on June 11, 2020, 06:49:03 pm
Cool. Haven't read it, is there any nasty small print?
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: mercenary for hire on June 11, 2020, 06:52:31 pm
No I didn't really read it fully myself.It's been passed into legislation until August 10 so I won't be thinking of going back until then.

They just extended the original offering as far as I can see.


Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: watty on June 11, 2020, 06:52:46 pm
August 10 is the current end date.
https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/3baec-minister-doherty-announces-pandemic-unemployment-payment-to-continue/#:~:text=Payment%20extended%20to%2010th%20August,Payment%20until%2010th%20August%202020. (https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/3baec-minister-doherty-announces-pandemic-unemployment-payment-to-continue/#:~:text=Payment%20extended%20to%2010th%20August,Payment%20until%2010th%20August%202020.)
It's worser than that depending on what you declared in your income tax:

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The introduction, from Phase 3 of the Roadmap (29th June), of a two level payment structure to link the Pandemic Unemployment Payment level to prior earnings;

Prior earnings of €199.99/week is the cutoff (€350 v. €203).  No mention of self-employed but I presume it applies to us as well.
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: mercenary for hire on June 11, 2020, 06:58:19 pm
I think I netted more than 199 per week.But not in the previous months of 2020.I'll scrape by on the 203 if I have to.
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Rat Catcher on June 11, 2020, 06:59:32 pm
My income after tax (PRSI/USC) & pension contributions for 2018 was €10,510.04. Divided by 52 that gives me €202.12/week. Happy days!
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: watty on June 11, 2020, 07:04:11 pm
@RC: maybe you can answer this.  In theory, we're all supposed to submit 'real' unemployment applications forms at some stage.  Given a lot of taxi drivers are married with partners who work, is there not a good chance that a lot of men won't meet the criteria for the 'real' dole and be asked to pay back some/all of the €350.  That question has been in the back of my mind since the start.
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: taxi1990 on June 11, 2020, 07:12:38 pm
you mean August is pessimistic?

until the pubs just serving alcohol open, it will be dead enough where I live. I doubt there will be many foreign tourists around either.


Id say I will stick it out until 10 August so.
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Rat Catcher on June 11, 2020, 07:15:35 pm
Jobseekers Benefit isn't means tested so, regardless of your partner's income, you can get €203 if your 2018 income equates to €300+/week or a reduced rate if not. Jobseekers Allowance is means tested so you probably won't get a lot, if anything, if your partner or others in your household are earning.

But that's not what you're getting at. Your concern may (or may not) be overly prudent. They did say at the outset that if your regular dole works out higher than the €350 the balance would be paid and backdated. They gave the impression that there would/will be no balancing where your regular dole is less than PUP. However, at the outset PUP was backdated, that stopped quite sharpish once the bean counters weighed so... In short, your guess is as good as mine but I'd take a less prudent view and assume that if they do seek repayments they won't pursue them with sufficient tenacity to get anything unless you have a future claim from which they can apply the "usual" (up to 15%) deduction.
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: dalymount on June 11, 2020, 07:25:52 pm
The living alone allowence has ALSO changed for any of you pensioners on here.it was the case that you did not qualify for household benefits package,where you didnt get a % off your gas,or electricity ,your choice to nominate one or the other,plus free TV licence.this has now changed since January,you can now have others living with you,and qualify for these benefits once you get a state pension
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: watty on June 11, 2020, 07:27:53 pm
Thanks, RC.  The 2nd paragraph is what I was thinking of.  With the €350, I'm threading water, so to speak, & not earning any money/profit.  If they started looking for money back, that would put me back under water and that would be a kick in the nuts!  Esp 'cause I have to get a new (to me) taxi by mid-2022.
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Shallowhal on June 11, 2020, 07:30:34 pm
@RC: maybe you can answer this.  In theory, we're all supposed to submit 'real' unemployment applications forms at some stage.  Given a lot of taxi drivers are married with partners who work, is there not a good chance that a lot of men won't meet the criteria for the 'real' dole and be asked to pay back some/all of the €350.  That question has been in the back of my mind since the start.

I think a lot of taxi drivers...(except the FN drivers on over 100k per annum) would qualify for FIS.
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: watty on June 11, 2020, 07:50:53 pm
That's the thing.  Unless you know the lingo, you're screwed.  Most everything is done over the internet nowadays but I bet if you went into the SW offices, the SW officials wouldn't volunteer stuff like that?
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Octavia1 on June 11, 2020, 08:47:19 pm

(https://i.postimg.cc/hh58tbTw/20200611-204138.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/hh58tbTw)

Is this irony ?
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Shallowhal on June 11, 2020, 08:51:51 pm
I am!!
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Rat Catcher on June 11, 2020, 09:36:46 pm
RSA had the same instruction on one of the M1 notice boards on Sunday. How can one "stay" home when one is travelling on a motorway?
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: Octavia1 on June 12, 2020, 10:02:33 am
RSA had the same instruction on one of the M1 notice boards on Sunday. How can one "stay" home when one is travelling on a motorway?

Yea it's weird...
please stay at home an dont be usin buses  rofl
Title: Re: Whats your best Guess
Post by: silverbullet on June 12, 2020, 07:56:29 pm
RSA had the same instruction on one of the M1 notice boards on Sunday. How can one "stay" home when one is travelling on a motorway?
Travellers in caravans and camper vans are always home no matter where they are.