Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: john m on May 22, 2020, 08:00:20 am
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https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/350-a-week-covid-19-payment-stays-until-august-1001045.html (https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/350-a-week-covid-19-payment-stays-until-august-1001045.html)
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They say we'll know more today
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I was hoping to stay out till August so that's good news. I can also stick my avensis back on the road as they added another year to the life span of the cars so im just gonna chill over the summer doing bits and bobs at home.
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I was hoping to stay out till August so that's good news. I can also stick my avensis back on the road as they added another year to the life span of the cars so im just gonna chill over the summer doing bits and bobs at home.
yea I thinking of back Sept......ive always wanted to try teachers life style for a bit
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I can also stick my avensis back on the road as they added another year to the life span of the cars
The extra year - is that official?
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I can also stick my avensis back on the road as they added another year to the life span of the cars
The extra year - is that official?
Was gonna ask that also....if they do i'll be enquiring as to the legality of only a certain number of licence holders being afforded this while others who will need to change their vehicles from Jan 1st 2021 can go fuk themselves.....it's the NTA we're dealing with here.
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Yes it is. I got an email the other day. They gave 3 months extra on the date of my green stickers and one extra year from the day my car turned 10 years old. No prius for me yet.
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I can also stick my avensis back on the road as they added another year to the life span of the cars
The extra year - is that official?
Was gonna ask that also....if they do i'll be enquiring as to the legality of only a certain number of licence holders being afforded this while others who will need to change their vehicles from Jan 1st 2021 can go fuk themselves.....it's the NTA we're dealing with here.
I think its only if your car turns 10 years old while all yhis gick is going on. Im happy anyway, there's fcuk all wrong with my avensis.
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Yes it is. I got an email the other day. They gave 3 months extra on the date of my green stickers and one extra year from the day my car turned 10 years old. No prius for me yet.
So the public consultation then really is as RC says..... a predetermined outcome.
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Here is an extract from the email
To assist you at this very challenging time, NTA has extended the Final Operation Date of your SPSV by one year.
Having regard to the Covid-19 pandemic, this extension has been granted following the introduction of the temporary exceptional legal provision, the Small Public Service Vehicle (Emergency Measure COVID-19) Regulations 2020.
This extension allows your current vehicle, as above, to operate as an SPSV for one additional year. The Taxi Regulation Act 2013 and 2016, and all associated regulations, orders and codes remain unchanged.
Expired Vehicle Licences
A vehicle licence can be reactivated up to one year from its expiry date. There is no possibility to extend this date. Once a vehicle reaches its final operation date, the licence holder may not apply to NTA for the renewal of a vehicle licence on that vehicle.
Yours sincerely,
National Transport Authority
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So Ken's off the hook for buying me a prius if sb comes in on the price of diesel bet that kens trying to back out of. So good news for ken too.
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How old is your taxi Horse?.......Ah I see now you said ten years.
Also anyone on here that has a 15 year old taxi expiring soon should get until 16 birthday.
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Im more concerned about the mileage,on mine then the age 342 000
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Is that miles dm? Mine is 191,000 miles.
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Don't spend a cent unless you need to Daly.Had you bought a new car last year you'd be kicking yourself for having a really expensive garden ornament.
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My Nearly new 07 Avensis has 321,482 klms on it, needs a service and a clutch but apart from that its grand
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No thats kms horse.I actually gave back most of a very large loan to the eircom cu recently.I had borrowed for a new car,and a load of home improvements.the reason I gave it back was,as I said in another post ,I just cannot see myself surviving in this game,because I wont give control of my business to a dispatcher.I also realize there is going to be little or no street work,but Id rather preserve my principles then let these people get control.I believe already Ebbs,and F/N between then have lumbered you with MORE expense with these screens.while the NTA may not make them compulsory,the fact that customers are much more likely to chose a taxi with a screen rather then one without one is going to be a big stumbling block for those opposed to them going forward
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I understand that but the way I'm looking at it is you have to be adaptable now in this game. If that means sticking a plastic wall in me jammer so be it. Tbh I think I'd enjoy having one. No more listening to coke heads and pissed arseholes on a Saturday night. One thing I won't do though is be a poxbassador.
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I understand that but the way I'm looking at it is you have to be adaptable now in this game. If that means sticking a plastic wall in me jammer so be it. Tbh I think I'd enjoy having one. No more listening to coke heads and pissed arseholes on a Saturday night. One thing I won't do though is be a poxbassador.
+1 but it should be the correct one, no point in throwing good money away on an abortion of a screen
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I can also stick my avensis back on the road as they added another year to the life span of the cars
The extra year - is that official?
http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2020/si/175/made/en/pdf (http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2020/si/175/made/en/pdf)
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If you get a screen in to your car ( and good luck to you if that what you chose) it should be because you want it not because 2 dispatchers between them forced your hand,but look,as I said I cannot see myself surviving,but I wont starve .was talking to a few old former balladeers about getting something going.Ould Phil Mccafferty formally of the Dublin city ramblers lives on my road ,I might have a chat with him Patsy watchorn also formally of the Dublin city ramblers might be interested.patsy retired about 4 years agoi,and he lives in carlow now,so might not be interested anyway as I said I wont starve.funny enough auld Phils nickname is horse as well believe it or not
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If you get a screen in to your car ( and good luck to you if that what you chose) it should be because you want it not because 2 dispatchers between them forced your hand,but look,as I said I cannot see myself surviving,but I wont starve .was talking to a few old former balladeers about getting something going.Ould Phil Mccafferty formally of the Dublin city ramblers lives on my road ,I might have a chat with him Patsy watchorn also formally of the Dublin city ramblers might be interested.patsy retired about 4 years agoi,and he lives in carlow now,so might not be interested anyway as I said I wont starve.funny enough auld Phils nickname is horse as well believe it or not
Any relation to Ben Doon from Scotland?
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I can also stick my avensis back on the road as they added another year to the life span of the cars
The extra year - is that official?
Was gonna ask that also....if they do i'll be enquiring as to the legality of only a certain number of licence holders being afforded this while others who will need to change their vehicles from Jan 1st 2021 can go fuk themselves.....it's the NTA we're dealing with here.
Yep,you're (I'm) shafted http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2020/si/175/made/en/pdf (http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2020/si/175/made/en/pdf)
I miss the free 3 months by one day and the free year by about 2 weeks so I feel your pain Hal.
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Don't spend a cent unless you need to Daly.Had you bought a new car last year you'd be kicking yourself for having a really expensive garden ornament.
Depends why you buy the car, my wife is a health care worker and has never owned a car that somebody else has owned before her, and finds the idea repulsive, she drives about 5k a year and currently has a 201D reg Scala, My income doesn't extend to this level of expenditure but I buy the best I can afford, generally when my car is about 6 years old, I don't want to be dragging the last cent out of a clapped out banger, i'd hate this job if that is what it was reduced to, I think of the car as "my car" and regardless of what job I did I'd buy the best I could afford.
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My Nearly new 07 Avensis has 321,482 klms on it, needs a service and a clutch but apart from that its grand
Walkinstown gear and clutch behind the maxol in ballymount are cheap for clutch .
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Too many paragraphs..
For my situation I like to buy something a bit older and enjoy using it to it's final date as that seems to be the most economical way to be in business.
I could probably afford Lexus/BMW but I buy Toyota because the more expensive my business is to run the more work I have to do to earn a profit.
The driver in the new Lexus might not start making a profit unit late Tuesday or even Wednesday where the Toyota gyppo is in profit Monday afternoon.
Same debate we used to have about the Mercedes owners vs Prius owners.
Honestly when my car is clean you couldn't tell it was a 2006.I think it only has about 180000 miles.I cover about 15/16k a year.
My oul fella used to say you don't own your car until you make the final payment to the bank.By then it's not worth a whole lot.
When I clear the mortgage I might splash out but it still seems like a waste of money.Being cheap has paid off especially during the current mess.
I bought my 2006 in 2013 to get it on the road before the 15-year deal vanished.Cost me 6k so I don't need to be working as much as others.I've had 5 years of taking it easy with no payments.Well worth it IMO.
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Don't spend a cent unless you need to Daly.Had you bought a new car last year you'd be kicking yourself for having a really expensive garden ornament.
Depends why you buy the car, my wife is a health care worker and has never owned a car that somebody else has owned before her, and finds the idea repulsive, she drives about 5k a year and currently has a 201D reg Scala, My income doesn't extend to this level of expenditure but I buy the best I can afford, generally when my car is about 6 years old, I don't want to be dragging the last cent out of a clapped out banger, i'd hate this job if that is what it was reduced to, I think of the car as "my car" and regardless of what job I did I'd buy the best I could afford.
There's more to life than your jammer Roy,depends on priorities I suppose..
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My avensis is top of the range, full leather interior, cruise control, built in hard drive, D4D 2 litre, same clutch still in it. Im forever getting compliments on how clean and comfortable it is which made it a shame I had to change it. At least now I don't. It'll easy go for another year in the taxi game with hopefully minimal maintenance. Thank fook.
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My Nearly new 07 Avensis has 321,482 klms on it, needs a service and a clutch but apart from that its grand
Walkinstown gear and clutch behind the maxol in ballymount are cheap for clutch .
Thanks JM will check him out.
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Too many paragraphs..
For my situation I like to buy something a bit older and enjoy using it to it's final date as that seems to be the most economical way to be in business.
I could probably afford Lexus/BMW but I buy Toyota because the more expensive my business is to run the more work I have to do to earn a profit.
The driver in the new Lexus might not start making a profit unit late Tuesday or even Wednesday where the Toyota gyppo is in profit Monday afternoon.
Same debate we used to have about the Mercedes owners vs Prius owners.
Honestly when my car is clean you couldn't tell it was a 2006.I think it only has about 180000 miles.I cover about 15/16k a year.
My oul fella used to say you don't own your car until you make the final payment to the bank.By then it's not worth a whole lot.
When I clear the mortgage I might splash out but it still seems like a waste of money.Being cheap has paid off especially during the current mess.
I bought my 2006 in 2013 to get it on the road before the 15-year deal vanished.Cost me 6k so I don't need to be working as much as others.I've had 5 years of taking it easy with no payments.Well worth it IMO.
Do you spend large on anything, music equipment maybe? furniture? do you count the hours you work before you can enjoy sitting in or listening to it, would you get no pleasure from driving a decent vehicle?particularly given the amount of time we spend in them
There's more to life than your jammer Roy,depends on priorities I suppose..
The life of a Taxi driver is spent largely in your jammer, might as well have something decent
There's more to life than profit
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My Nearly new 07 Avensis has 321,482 klms on it, needs a service and a clutch but apart from that its grand
Walkinstown gear and clutch behind the maxol in ballymount are cheap for clutch .
Thanks JM will check him out.
I got a dual-mass flywheel for my old D4D T - Spirit, a fair swap I thought!
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^^^^Honestly there's no enjoyment to be had driving a car in Dublin.I just use it to get money to pay the bills.Navigate the traffic go home.They're all fairly mundane even the high end Skodas.I've drove a Skoda VRS recently and they're fast like a motorbike but not very different in regular driving to my humble Prius.
I was looking at the deregulation protests on Reeling in the years and the quality of the vehicles were still kinda shit back when the money was even better.My old Prius is still a better vehicle by miles compared to the smaller cars that taxi drivers had back then.
The biggest mistake this country made was putting the year on the registration plate.Lads trading in vehicles at massive cost to get the next model with different lights.Cars haven't really evolved a lot since the 70s.Put them up on a ramp and they all look the same underneath.
The more shit you buy the harder you have to work.
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^^^^Honestly there's no enjoyment to be had driving a car in Dublin.I just use it to get money to pay the bills.Navigate the traffic go home.They're all fairly mundane even the high end Skodas.I've drove a Skoda VRS recently and they're fast like a motorbike but not very different in regular driving to my humble Prius.
I was looking at the deregulation protests on Reeling in the years and the quality of the vehicles were still kinda shit back when the money was even better.My old Prius is still a better vehicle by miles compared to the smaller cars that taxi drivers had back then.
The biggest mistake this country made was putting the year on the registration plate.Lads trading in vehicles at massive cost to get the next model with different lights.Cars haven't really evolved a lot since the 70s.Put them up on a ramp and they all look the same underneath.
The more shit you buy the harder you have to work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac) 8)
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George makes a lot of sense.
A few years ago I moved from a bigger gaff to a smaller one in a more suitable location with less traffic and the amount of extra crap that you thought you needed but really don't.
Most of it is still in boxes in the shed heading for a skip someday..
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I can see the benefits of a nice car vs a shitbox having taxied both.
I went to Merlin auctions in the height of a recession and bought a €450 Corona (diesel auto) that was worked up to September 2013, bar two fan belts breaking it was a very reliable machine. There used to be a running joke if I was asked if I had a good week to which I’d reply “I got the price of my car”.
Had 3 sonatas, they were a nice motor. The 1st one was a 2006 2.4 petrol one, very comfy machine most pax thought it was a Lexus, it didn’t generate any more of less work because of it.
I think if your going after a target audience (hotel, vip, executive clients) it really doesn’t pay to have a top end motor when the starting fare on your meter is all the same as the wanked out shitboxes
There’s also a Irish way of thinking that a taxi should be a top end motor, I went to NYC last year and I couldn’t get over the quality of taxis over there, filthy dirt, lots of body damage, cracked windscreens.
I’m driving a wanked out French panel van now cost me €8319.79c that will be on the road now until December 2027, I’m getting 9.5 years service out of it at a yearly cost of a vehicle of €875 and some change.
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Govt approves €6.8bn extra funding for social protection as spending limit nears (https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2020/0522/1140073-public-finances/) (RTE)
The Government has signed off on €6.8 billion in extra funding for the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, as it is due to reach this year's spending limit early next month.
A spokesperson for the minister said the additional funding does not represent a policy change. The €350 weekly Pandemic Unemployment Payment is due to run for 12 weeks and will expire on 8 June. Both the Taoiseach and Mr Donohoe have indicated that it will be extended in some form, but no decision has yet been made. Opposition deputies have repeatedly called for the payment to be maintained at its current level.
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What was on her when you got her, DM?
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From the OP:
The Cork Examiner, however, has been informed that:
Part-time workers including students who are “better off” on the payment will see a reduction in their payments
It is planned that anyone receiving the pandemic payment who turns down an offer of a return to work will become ineligible for it
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I guess a lot of us are better off on PUP.
Refusing to work because we're scared could be construed as turning down an offer to return to work.
I hope Vinny will continue to argue our case.
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I cant actually remember rat ,I think it was 27 k
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How long have you got her, DM?
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Horse you said your still on the original clutch how many kms ? ,im also still on the original clutch,and I ha e 342000 kms amazingly.I hope im not tempting fatih
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191000 miles dm which equates to around 307000 km. I wouldn't mind i work in town mostly so stop go stop go all the time. Occasionally I bring me ma down to tipp to my grand parents grave, every 7 or 8 weeks, round 180 miles round trip but other than that its barely getting out of 2nd in town. Best car I ever had.
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Yeah thats good alright.I seem to be pretty similar to yourself I work this kip a lot,but I go to Carrixkfergus a good bit ,and waterford as well.I think it does the car good to have a decent run now and again.before the virus I discovered a certain rank where I was getting a fair few country runs with not many taxis on it .that done the car good to
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Im not very machinaclly minded,but my mechanic told me some time ago,there is no real life span on the clutch,its more to do with the way you drive
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I had an octavia before, the clutch went 3 times in the space of a year. Although I do believe its the way a car is driven depends on the life span but I also believe its the way a car is built too. Perhaps I just got a bogey octavia but that turned me off german cars for life. Gimme a jap car any day over that german shite.
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Ocky as I said ,I dont know veey much about cars,but I do know the skoda cars are notorious for clutch problems.I used to have a superb,and it went twice in the one year.
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yes skoda's clutch/master cylinder systems are dirt.
just shy of 300,000kms on my avensis.
on it's original clutch.
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Yeah im 342k on my avensis original still
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My granddad gave me sound advice when I bought my first car, "buy a good set of speakers"
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I see hertz cr rental in the USA have filed for bankruptcy,due to covid 19
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My granddad gave me sound advice when I bought my first car, "buy a good set of speakers"
I'd say you have them in your bus now!!
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I can see the benefits of a nice car vs a shitbox having taxied both.
I went to Merlin auctions in the height of a recession and bought a €450 Corona (diesel auto) that was worked up to September 2013, bar two fan belts breaking it was a very reliable machine. There used to be a running joke if I was asked if I had a good week to which I’d reply “I got the price of my car”.
Had 3 sonatas, they were a nice motor. The 1st one was a 2006 2.4 petrol one, very comfy machine most pax thought it was a Lexus, it didn’t generate any more of less work because of it.
I think if your going after a target audience (hotel, vip, executive clients) it really doesn’t pay to have a top end motor when the starting fare on your meter is all the same as the wanked out shitboxes
There’s also a Irish way of thinking that a taxi should be a top end motor, I went to NYC last year and I couldn’t get over the quality of taxis over there, filthy dirt, lots of body damage, cracked windscreens.
I’m driving a wanked out French panel van now cost me €8319.79c that will be on the road now until December 2027, I’m getting 9.5 years service out of it at a yearly cost of a vehicle of €875 and some change.
That's the right attitude.
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Slightly off topic, I haven't had a haircut now in 3 months, I'm wondering will I shave it off or style it long and just shave the neck hair.
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Slightly off topic, I haven't had a haircut now in 3 months, I'm wondering will I shave it off or style it long and just shave the neck hair.
Whatever matches your skirt and handbag .
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Slightly off topic, I haven't had a haircut now in 3 months, I'm wondering will I shave it off or style it long and just shave the neck hair.
Wear a baseball cap.
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Go for the oul mullet...80's style....that's if you hadn't got rid of it in the first place....ye little monkey ye!!
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Slightly off topic, I haven't had a haircut now in 3 months, I'm wondering will I shave it off or style it long and just shave the neck hair.
https://irishreviews.org/braun-all-in-one-trimmer-3-7-in-1-beard-hairstyling-clean-shave/
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Slightly off topic, I haven't had a haircut now in 3 months, I'm wondering will I shave it off or style it long and just shave the neck hair.
https://irishreviews.org/braun-all-in-one-trimmer-3-7-in-1-beard-hairstyling-clean-shave/
You done a good job, I have one of them but I wouldn't be brave enough to do it free hand only a buzz cut.
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Go for the oul mullet...80's style....that's if you hadn't got rid of it in the first place....ye little monkey ye!!
Yeah but I was one of the very few that could pull the look off !!
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Slightly off topic, I haven't had a haircut now in 3 months, I'm wondering will I shave it off or style it long and just shave the neck hair.
Wear a baseball cap.
I could never wear one, it's either a beanie or a flat cap.
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Go for the oul mullet...80's style....that's if you hadn't got rid of it in the first place....ye little monkey ye!!
Yeah but I was one of the very few that could pull the look off !!
Newsflash.......nobody could pull that look off!!
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@horse all cars are reliable nowadays, there's a niggle here or a niggle with all of them sure I drive Citroëns I've had 3 and have covered around or coming close to 1.6 million miles between the 3 of them and I still have 2 of them the last one has 642,000 miles and the present on has 250,000 miles, the first one had 700,000 miles a Citroen xantia, I've never had a breakdown, my wife drives a Citroën C4 grand Picasso with 310,000 kms no breakdowns, all just regular servicing and wear and tare items. The reason I drive them is because I know they are reliable nowadays and they are extremely comfortable. And the people who bash one car over the other is because they don't know what they are talking about. Skoda were the butt of jokes. If ya told those joke today you would be laughed at.
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@horse all cars are reliable nowadays, there's a niggle here or a niggle with all of them sure I drive Citroëns I've had 3 and have covered around or coming close to 1.6 million miles between the 3 of them and I still have 2 of them the last one has 642,000 miles and the present on has 250,000 miles, the first one had 700,000 miles a Citroen xantia, I've never had a breakdown, my wife drives a Citroën C4 grand Picasso with 310,000 kms no breakdowns, all just regular servicing and wear and tare items. The reason I drive them is because I know they are reliable nowadays and they are extremely comfortable. And the people who bash one car over the other is because they don't know what they are talking about. Skoda were the butt of jokes. If ya told those joke today you would be laughed at.
Are you working C5, if so is there any?
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90% of the cabs are off the road so there is abit but I can see a disaster on the horizon when the pup ends and the 90% return I think the age rule will change to save the government from bailing out the taxis because they forced the issue by shutting business and leaving the ports open.
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90% of the cabs are off the road so there is abit but I can see a disaster on the horizon when the pup ends and the 90% return I think the age rule will change to save the government from bailing out the taxis because they forced the issue by shutting business and leaving the ports open.
The Galway races are on but with no people allowed in, the town should be busy though.
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Not a chance, pubs and hotels will be shut based on today when the food market was shut down on its first day back because people didn't give a shit about social distancing and they were just buying breads and veg etc, imagine if they had the golden nectar or the black stuff onboard.
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Not a chance, pubs and hotels will be shut based on today when the food market was shut down on its first day back because people didn't give a shit about social distancing and they were just buying breads and veg etc, imagine if they had the golden nectar or the black stuff onboard.
Altogether mow...."hands..touching hands...reaching out....."
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@horse all cars are reliable nowadays, there's a niggle here or a niggle with all of them sure I drive Citroëns I've had 3 and have covered around or coming close to 1.6 million miles between the 3 of them and I still have 2 of them the last one has 642,000 miles and the present on has 250,000 miles, the first one had 700,000 miles a Citroen xantia, I've never had a breakdown, my wife drives a Citroën C4 grand Picasso with 310,000 kms no breakdowns, all just regular servicing and wear and tare items. The reason I drive them is because I know they are reliable nowadays and they are extremely comfortable. And the people who bash one car over the other is because they don't know what they are talking about. Skoda were the butt of jokes. If ya told those joke today you would be laughed at.
I'm not making any jokes about skoda mate, just my own personal experience. I wouldn't piss on a skoda if it was on fire in my garden and that ain't no joke.
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Would ye use your fire extinguisher?
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Not trained in the use of it