Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: dalymount on September 07, 2018, 10:56:14 am
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I picked up a young lad about 3_30 am this morning.only place he wanted to go was the nearest train station.I explained to him that there would be no trains running at that time of the morning.it soon became apperant why he wanted to go there.he was totally distraught,and the tears were streaming down his face.he was in such a bad way,that he couldnt even say what was wrong.I dont have much experience in dealing with such situations,but bit by bit we broke down some barriers .he said he walked into coolock Garda station,and they were of no help to him whatsoever.I eventually talked him into letting me bring him to the matter hospital,but we eventually settled on Mounthoy Garda station during the course of our conversation,he asked me 3 times to ring his mother ,I think he wanted to say goodbye .the good thing about it is,before we went into the Garda station,he was smiling .I assured him everything would be alright.im afraid I have little or no experience in dealing with such situations,but was consoled by the fact that he was no reasonably happy going in to the cops.when we went a nice female cop took over and brought him into a room ,hopefully he will get the help he needs
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Fair play Dalyer. The stats for young men wanting out are terrifying.....every role in society is closed off to them now due to insidious factors.
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I Just hope the Guard got him the professional help he needed,I sure she would have,she seemed sympatecic to his plight
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Good man !
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Going to side with The Lip a lot of Men both young and old no longer know their role in society .Up until the 70s men had a stereo typical role fight ,drink ,work contribute to a family .It was up to them to fit in to that framework .But now we have blured lines women work on an equal right with men they run families on their own they drink in the bar not in the snug .Men need to realign their emotional compass to suit the new humanity they find themselves in .Their previous sense of self has been diluted .When I was a teenager all you wanted to do was get a job and a girlfriend .That was the starting point now young people have to define themselves on so many different levels ,will I go to college am I gay will I take drugs buy a car own a house have kids .My generation lived life and waited to see what would happen. Now kids seem to plan it and if it dosent work out they panic and feel they have failed in some way .I always told my kids .If you believe that Jesus is the Son of God and the best person ever to live on earth then remember when he was asked to carry two sticks up a Hill he fell 3 times .If Jesus can fail them why the fuck cant you.
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Well done dalymount,i think the female garda would defo be more sympathetic and probably more reassuring to the chap himself(unless he got someone resembling the matron from a Carry On film).
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Lucky for him he wasn't an immigrant....Daly he could have been a bender and he just broke up with his boyfriend and ya saved him..
For all ya know ya just got him another 6 months of depression and misery and he'll still off himself anyway when he gets under the weather.What the fuk are ya doing working at 3.30am anyway.No wonder yer miserable on here thinking the sky is falling down every few days.Nights aren't good for ya.Ya do work some shitty shifts.
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Well done dalymount,i think the female garda would defo be more sympathetic and probably more reassuring to the chap himself(unless he got someone resembling the matron from a Carry On film).
Could have been a Charles Hawtrey garda....if ya gets me?
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Yeah Fair Play to ya Dalymount. I'm not sure if I could have dealt with that as well as you did . and hopefully that lad's life turns a corner.
I agree with what John say's But I also think that culture today (and its getting worse) with all this equality nonsense, gives young men the subtle impression that just being male
somehow makes you bad or defective . and for most of us you have to live to be at least in your 40's before you stop taking crap like that on board :(
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Ooh Matron!!
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Not a day goes by without hearing the tragic news of young men and women falling into the depths,
Hard to comprehend,
Don't remember it so much years ago,
I may be it wasn't reported as much,
Is all this social media wrecking their head,
Back when we got up out of our beds and went to work, we're too busy to get depressed,
All the craic and the slagging at work hardened you up, doesn't happen anymore, ye can't say Boo to them nowadays or you'll end up in court,
We got battered in school by the teachers and the pupils you have to fight your corner,
Toughened ye up.
Not suggesting that happen today,
Reading the paper,
Young mother in England left her 3 year old down stairs while she went went upstairs and hung herself.
4 days later the police entered the house to find the child eating bits of bread,
What is happening to Society,
Tragic story's.
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I think its hard for a lot of young people today with the pressure on them.your quite right sclass,it was a different world then.I personally think a lot of John says is right,but even repeating what he said would leave you open to ridicule.I also believe movements like the me 2-movement in the states,were not set up for the purpose they were supposedly set up,I believe they serve no other porpuse but to drive a wedge between men,and women
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Going to side with The Lip a lot of Men both young and old no longer know their role in society .Up until the 70s men had a stereo typical role fight ,drink ,work contribute to a family .It was up to them to fit in to that framework .But now we have blured lines women work on an equal right with men they run families on their own they drink in the bar not in the snug .Men need to realign their emotional compass to suit the new humanity they find themselves in .Their previous sense of self has been diluted .When I was a teenager all you wanted to do was get a job and a girlfriend .That was the starting point now young people have to define themselves on so many different levels ,will I go to college am I gay will I take drugs buy a car own a house have kids .My generation lived life and waited to see what would happen. Now kids seem to plan it and if it dosent work out they panic and feel they have failed in some way .I always told my kids .If you believe that Jesus is the Son of God and the best person ever to live on earth then remember when he was asked to carry two sticks up a Hill he fell 3 times .If Jesus can fail them why the fuck cant you.
Thanks, John. Your first sentence always makes for good reading, but it rapidly declines after that, I'm afraid. You see, I think you suffer from what is called in common parlance, "The Mandela Effect", namely that you entertain false notions of what you regard as "ok back in the day". If you saw a man fighting etc than it...well old boy, it was not normal at all, as most men were jaded from physical work. What has happened is that you have placed some "Sweeney" scene from your dim and distant as your "metier". I grew up in the 70's in Dublin and can barely recall anyone fighting with anyone except in an organised event whether it was in a ring or on a mat later, c/o Brucie Baby. The streets were safe enough and I never heard "Jesus" entering the equation at all....probably because we all knew he was just as human as the rest of us...prior to the internet and the fucked-up distorted reality kids have applied to their parents past. In short, you are a Stepford husband....lost in your own transmogrification.
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you'd be amazed what a blowjob can cure.
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Yep..just take them teeth out next time.
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Yep..just take them teeth out next time.
That's another level altogether.
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Crowning glory?
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Coolock Gardai are less use than a chocolate fireguard... unless you need someone to eat a chocolate fireguard, assuming you are prepared to donate said chocolate fireguard FOC of course.
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I firmly believe social media has a lot to answer for when it comes to mental health issues amongst young people.
A lot of kids are bombarded with images of perfect lives on television, Facebook, perfect bodies on instacunt and what not. It leads them to thinking that it's a realistic and attainable goal in life when it simply doesn't exist in the real world. I've never met a perfect person nor would I like to.
Kids these days and some parents I suppose can't accept that they or their kids are just average and that it's ok to be just average. A lot of pressure placed on chiddlers these days really.
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Coolock Gardai are less use than a chocolate fireguard... unless you need someone to eat a chocolate fireguard, assuming you are prepared to donate said chocolate fireguard FOC of course.
+1
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I firmly believe social media has a lot to answer for when it comes to mental health issues amongst young people.
A lot of kids are bombarded with images of perfect lives on television, Facebook, perfect bodies on instacunt and what not. It leads them to thinking that it's a realistic and attainable goal in life when it simply doesn't exist in the real world. I've never met a perfect person nor would I like to.
Kids these days and some parents I suppose can't accept that they or their kids are just average and that it's ok to be just average. A lot of pressure placed on chiddlers these days really.
100 percent correct. However, who told them it would be easy? In fairness, Wankovitch, I went to a kip of a secondary school, and had to sit through teachers switching off, tuning out and more often than not, watch them riding the religion teacher in the car at lunch......and the kids today have everything on their exam paper...poems, prose and maths equations. Yrs ago...you either had them learned off or you were fucked...Not saying I ever amounted to anything, aside from being a qualified Chef, but my perception of the world was real....they expect it all to be handed to them...not fucking real at all. No....you have to stop excusing their collective idiocy...I'm voting FG next time.
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you'd be amazed what a blowjob can cure.
Remember to brush your teeth afterwards.
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Fair play DM.
Today’s world is chang8ng and folk cannot change quick enough to keep up.
As The Erm said, men’s role has changed, women’s roles have changed. Families aren’t what they used to be. Folk don’t stay together if things arent working out.
It’s fucking tough and I’m probably 2 generations behind a lot of you folk. I fear everyday for my children growing up in this fucked up world. What with social media, online bullying etc etc etc.
My missus is the bread winner and I have no problem with that but I think she actually does, although if I worked harder and longer I probably could earn just as much as her but I don’t need to or have a want to either, which in turn leads to a shortage of taxis in the city but I don’t give a damn,
Anyways back to the topic on hand, well done(again) DM, but you certainly do get some amount of weirdos in your taxi don’t ya
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Well done Daly, you may have saved his life.
I fully agree with Wankovich and Lippy on the role of social media and internet. In my time you get bullied in the school yard,
but now you can be bullied in your own bedroom. I mean, you can gamble from your own bedroom, what madness. Kids as
young as 6 are glued to their tablets all day long. Families no longer spend quality time together as everyone is on social media.
In my time if i had an issue, i would talk to an elder for advice, these days you just google it.
Unless ME (mental health education) is introduced in schools from senior infants onwards, a calamity will face the young of the
future. It is terrifying what i read these days. A 12 year old girl killed herself recently because she did not like how she looked.
It is a fucked up world.
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Fair play DM.
Today’s world is chang8ng and folk cannot change quick enough to keep up.
As The Erm said, men’s role has changed, women’s roles have changed. Families aren’t what they used to be. Folk don’t stay together if things arent working out.
It’s fucking tough and I’m probably 2 generations behind a lot of you folk. I fear everyday for my children growing up in this fucked up world. What with social media, online bullying etc etc etc.
My missus is the bread winner and I have no problem with that but I think she actually does, although if I worked harder and longer I probably could earn just as much as her but I don’t need to or have a want to either, which in turn leads to a shortage of taxis in the city but I don’t give a damn,
Anyways back to the topic on hand, well done(again) DM, but you certainly do get some amount of weirdos in your taxi don’t ya
2 generations? When are you due? Most here are under 50, I'd say or slightly over it.
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Well done Daly, you may have saved his life.
I fully agree with Wankovich and Lippy on the role of social media and internet. In my time you get bullied in the school yard,
but now you can be bullied in your own bedroom. I mean, you can gamble from your own bedroom, what madness. Kids as
young as 6 are glued to their tablets all day long. Families no longer spend quality time together as everyone is on social media.
In my time if i had an issue, i would talk to an elder for advice, these days you just google it.
Unless ME (mental health education) is introduced in schools from senior infants onwards, a calamity will face the young of the
future. It is terrifying what i read these days. A 12 year old girl killed herself recently because she did not like how she looked.
It is a fucked up world.
Part of it has to be that no-one is allowed express themselves anymore. Open your mouth and the swarm lands slowly stinging you to death for having an opinion....technology is responsible for closing people's minds down. Critical thinking is not as alive and well as they'd let us believe.
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2 generations? When are you due? Most here are under 50, I'd say or slightly over it.
Some of yiz are old enough to be me Da and some of ye are old enough to be grand dad ffs. I’m still under 40
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;)
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2 generations? When are you due? Most here are under 50, I'd say or slightly over it.
Some of yiz are old enough to be me Da and some of ye are old enough to be grand dad ffs. I’m still under 40
Just bubba and sclass could be yer oul fella...don't think there's anyone old enough to be your granda.....just be thankful Weird Al isn't yer twin brother!!
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You rang.. :D
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Sclass could be all of our granddads rofl
There was young ones having kids when I was born, ya know the single parent type, getting a house off the social and all that goes with it. And that was in the 80s.
One of yiz coulda been having the Childers early and then your Childers had their Childers early. I knows a few people that were grand parents before they were 40
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2 generations? When are you due? Most here are under 50, I'd say or slightly over it.
Some of yiz are old enough to be me Da and some of ye are old enough to be grand dad ffs. I’m still under 40
My oldest daughter is 41, my oldest grandchild is 20.
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Fuck sakes Bob.. Old enough to be me da!
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Fuck sakes Bob.. Old enough to be me da!
A frightening thought
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Fuck sakes Bob.. Old enough to be me da!
And Weird Al is older than me lol yay
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Well done DM. Great respect fer that story.
It actually gaulled me a few weeks ago when the Daily Mirror reported and highlighted all the taxi complaints,
I'm sure your tale won't ever appear in any newspaper and neither will any of mine.
We all as night time taxi drivers also offer a duty of service to the public and the vast majority of us do it on a
nightly basis watching drunk single females to make sure they open their front door before leaving, or anything
and everything else under the sun to accomodate our drunk passengers as best we can, with little or no thanks.
And to see the Daily Mirror trying to slate us was a Slap in de Puss to me !
Over the years as a night time driver I have assisted many in need, much too many too mention,
I ask fer no thanks, I ask fer no payment, but I don't want to be slagged off by the press fer doing it.
To mention just a few;
Assisted in dragging a suicidal young man out of the river Lee one morning.
Assisted in dragging a suicidal man back over the railing of the river Lee another morning.
Flagged down a Tractor one night and requested he take my drunk young female passenger
through the floodwaters to her home.
Kinda refused to let a mature drunk man knock on his ex-wifes home at 4am so as to see
his Seven year old daughter.
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Well done DM. Great respect fer that story.
It actually gaulled me a few weeks ago when the Daily Mirror reported and highlighted all the taxi complaints,
I'm sure your tale won't ever appear in any newspaper and neither will any of mine.
We all as night time taxi drivers also offer a duty of service to the public and the vast majority of us do it on a
nightly basis watching drunk single females to make sure they open their front door before leaving, or anything
and everything else under the sun to accomodate our drunk passengers as best we can, with little or no thanks.
And to see the Daily Mirror trying to slate us was a Slap in de Puss to me !
Over the years as a night time driver I have assisted many in need, much too many too mention,
I ask fer no thanks, I ask fer no payment, but I don't want to be slagged off by the press fer doing it.
To mention just a few;
Assisted in dragging a suicidal young man out of the river Lee one morning.
Assisted in dragging a suicidal man back over the railing of the river Lee another morning.
Flagged down a Tractor one night and requested he take my drunk young female passenger
through the floodwaters to her home.
Kinda refused to let a mature drunk man knock on his ex-wifes home at 4am so as to see
his Seven year old daughter.
Ken sometimes just listening while somebody Ventalates is enough .Dont know how much hot air I listened to and when the passenger gets out they feel better just because we listened .
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As father Ted said once while hitting Dougal on the head with a pen,we're thought how to listen.we dont have listening classes or anything but...
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Ken sometimes just listening while somebody Ventalates is enough .Dont know how much hot air I listened to and when the passenger gets out they feel better just because we listened .
And when they get out you say to yourself..."christ on a bike,thank fuk they're gone!"......and their friend is still in the back of your jammer!!
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Ken sometimes just listening while somebody Ventalates is enough .Dont know how much hot air I listened to and when the passenger gets out they feel better just because we listened .
And when they get out you say to yourself..."christ on a bike,thank fuk they're gone!"......and their friend is still in the back of your jammer!!
Nice one.
An old neighbour of mine in Chapelgate was resident Clinical Psychologist in Mountjoy.
When I told him what we listen to on a daily basis - usually for a €7.60 fare - he said " I charge €150 per hour or part thereof for the same".
No wonder he could afford to be an Alcoholic!! 8)