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it's pretty relative, isn't it? a heatwave in a northern country with insulated houses, no AC, and a woolen wardrobe is going to be pretty miserable.

uziq wrote:

punching down on immigrant taxi drivers and humbly bragging about your own status when you live with your parents. lol. so much to unpack here. hey meeeester nice retirement neighbourhood.

Here's how it was supposed to go down:

"Hi, can you take me to suburb X?"
"Sure, its after 9pm so I can ask for the esimated fare in advance, should be about $50"
"OK"
"We're here. The total according to the meter is $55"
"Here's $10, goodnight"

Here's how it actually went down:

"Hi, can you take me to suburb X?"
"Sure, its after 9pm so um, I can, um, how about I charge you, um, a flat $50 and I don't put my meter on?"
"OK"
"So you live in suburb X? I bet your house is worth a million dollars, how did you get so rich? You must be well qualified. Which company do you work for? Do you live by yourself? Are you renting or do you own the house? Where is the company you work for? Are you out all day?"
"We're here. Its, um, you can give me an extra $5"
"Here's $10, goodnight"

Here's how it should have gone down:

"Hi, can you take me to suburb X?"
"Sure, its after 9pm so um, I can, um, how about I charge you, um, a flat $50 and I don't put my meter on?"
"OK"
"So you live in suburb X? I bet your house is worth a million dollars, how did you get so rich? You must be well qualified. Which company do you work for? Do you live by yourself? Are you renting or do you own the house? Where is the company you work for? Are you out all day?"
"We're here. Its, um, you can give me an extra $5"
"Hang on, you said it was a flat fare. I don't care that you're defrauding the taxi company and the tax-man but a deal is a deal so you can get lost"
"Also why the fuck are you asking all this personal information?"
"Also break into my house, if you can work out which it is out of the twenty in the street, you'll be going out down the drain"
"Also get a haircut, something I can set my watch by, you look like a vagrant"
"Also how the fuck did you get into my nice country, you unctuous sepoy?"

Last edited by Dilbert_X (2020-08-27 21:26:14)

It was the largest taxi company in town. I don't like the business model of uber or that they've undercut taxi firms which pay taxes and have paid fortunes for licences.
In future I'll take a bus or a limo, they're barely more expensive.

Oh I did humour him, however I'm really really tired of people trying to get personal information out of me so I can be robbed, and its always Indians.

Indians running scams and hacking bank accounts are a big problem in Australia

uziq wrote:

you come across as literally autistic. uber drivers always try to start conversations. they do an extremely boring job, talking and meeting people is a small perk. do you also scowl at your hairdresser and mutter under your breath about them ruining ‘your’ country (lmao, australia est. 1985?)

why couldn’t you just humour the guy with polite badinage? instead you post a racist rant on a forum somewhere. VERY odd behaviour. normally if i’m in an uber hungover or without wanting to talk, i keep my head down and read something on my phone. i’ve had some great convos with drivers about their lives and views of the city on other occasions. christ none of this is very consequential stuff.

I think maybe a dentist or a dental hygienist not trying to have a conversation with you while there's stuff in your mouth would be nice, but I think it will always be an enduring meme.

"So, are you going back to work today?"
"Mmmf mmmf mmmf."

Dilbert_X wrote:

WFH Today, Apocalypse Miaow thinks its all-day playtime

I would cheerfully sacrifice every last one of you......

Dilbert_X wrote:

uziq wrote:

punching down on immigrant taxi drivers and humbly bragging about your own status when you live with your parents. lol. so much to unpack here. hey meeeester nice retirement neighbourhood.

Here's how it was supposed to go down:

"Hi, can you take me to suburb X?"
"Sure, its after 9pm so I can ask for the esimated fare in advance, should be about $50"
"OK"
"We're here. The total according to the meter is $55"
"Here's $10, goodnight"

Here's how it actually went down:

"Hi, can you take me to suburb X?"
"Sure, its after 9pm so um, I can, um, how about I charge you, um, a flat $50 and I don't put my meter on?"
"OK"
"So you live in suburb X? I bet your house is worth a million dollars, how did you get so rich? You must be well qualified. Which company do you work for? Do you live by yourself? Are you renting or do you own the house? Where is the company you work for? Are you out all day?"
"We're here. Its, um, you can give me an extra $5"
"Here's $10, goodnight"

Here's how it should have gone down:

"Hi, can you take me to suburb X?"
"Sure, its after 9pm so um, I can, um, how about I charge you, um, a flat $50 and I don't put my meter on?"
"OK"
"So you live in suburb X? I bet your house is worth a million dollars, how did you get so rich? You must be well qualified. Which company do you work for? Do you live by yourself? Are you renting or do you own the house? Where is the company you work for? Are you out all day?"
"We're here. Its, um, you can give me an extra $5"
"Hang on, you said it was a flat fare. I don't care that you're defrauding the taxi company and the tax-man but a deal is a deal so you can get lost"
"Also why the fuck are you asking all this personal information?"
"Also break into my house, if you can work out which it is out of the twenty in the street, you'll be going out down the drain"
"Also get a haircut, something I can set my watch by, you look like a vagrant"
"Also how the fuck did you get into my nice country, you unctuous sepoy?"

Old reply again, but (and speaking as someone who is usually silent on road trips unless a conversation is struck up) not everyone who is talkative and outgoing and not painfully reserved is trying to steal your identity or case you out for burglary, dilbert. It's good to be cautious, but at some point it seeps into paranoia. I imagine he thought he was being polite by giving you an opening to low-key boast about your achievements as a man.

Also, how petty are you over $5? You've got a cozy engineering job (I'd imagine Jay gets more site time in as a clipboard warrior), and this guy gets to shuttle pudgy bigots all day. You asked for estimated fare, right? You have to know what an estimate is.

Unless I'm mistaken, you did move there didn't you? How do you personally justify picking apart another immigrant. Between this and your strange ideas about black people, I dunno man.

get an uber if you don't want to deal with dodgy fare policies and ear-tugging. i can't speak for australia, but it's pretty common knowledge here that your smaller private taxi cab firms are going to be way more open to haggling or even openly ripping you off if you're a tourist/not from the area.

the last time i ever got a taxi rather than an uber was when i was absolutely hungover the morning-after-a-night-before, stuck in some godforsaken satellite town with an hour and a half to wait for my connecting train, so i opted to just go to the station taxi rank and get a driver home instead. the driver's face when he saw me (white, working-class british guy, not indian fyi) was a picture: beaming shit-faced grin, knowing i was going to be taken for a ride and pay just about any price in my sad sorry state. and the guy did absolutely rinse me. he was even chuckling about it with his taxi driver pal before we commenced our journey. i didn't mind because that's just what you deal with with piece of shit private taxi companies, and, after all, it was me who had gotten myself into that situation of desperately needing a ride home (like you, too, dilbert).

Last edited by uziq (2020-09-01 01:53:16)

i'm sorry but you can't simultaneously use 'supporting local business' rhetoric and berate the indian immigrant taxi driver, accuse him of having ties to organized crime, bank hackers, burglarizers, etc. that's just straight-up slippery fascist bullshit. 'supporting local' and hating the immigrant community that typically do these unglamorous and poorly paid jobs ... lol. you really are a piece of work, dilderp.

i mean, it is literally the definition of racism to think that, because you get scam calls from a certain destination, a country of 1.4 BILLION people must ALL somehow be involved in criminal activity, scams, organized crime, etc. the overwhelming likelihood is that your taxi driver was a decent, law-abiding australian trying to hold down a job and improve his life, but no, you think all indians are basically criminal or criminally adjacent.

would you accept such crass stereotyping about your englishness, a country of mere 65 million? lol.

ok. again, a taxi driver asking you questions is called smalltalk, not 'omg organized crime, a scout for the indian's bank hacking burglary mafia'.