Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Jason Hedges on June 03, 2006, 01:14:30 am
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After hearing on the radio taxi drivers in certain parts of the country aren't allowed to show the England flag on their vehicle because of prevoking trouble; should we as cleaners be subject to the same treatment?
When should we show our following of the national team on our vehicles?
Can of worms now open!!!
Come on England!!!!!!!!!!!
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How can displaying your countries flag in your own country be seen as provoking trouble?
Another one for the merry band of mental do gooders that try to dictate what we do in our great little nanny state me thinks, Andy
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Nice one Andy,
My thoughts exactly, complete madness!
If anyone tries to to take the flag off my van they'll do it over my dead body!!
Come on the England!!!
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I think it would be nice if Irish, Welsh and Scottish cleaners followed in the spirit of the game and our Great British country and displayed the St. Georges cross on their vehicles as well.
Just a thought..............
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The world has gone mad.
I'm proudly flying my St George Cross from my van.
I do have to keep stopping each time I go under a bridge though as I think my pole is a bit to high.
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If they really wanted taxi drivers to stop offending people they could get them to slow their meters down and show them how to use their indicators and mirrors for a start.
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I don't see why carpet cleaners shouldn't be allowed to have the St George flying, no one is saying anything about all the plumbers and building trades vans flying the Poland flag.
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I don't see why carpet cleaners shouldn't be allowed to have the St George flying, no one is saying anything about all the plumbers and building trades vans flying the Poland flag.
Never stand accused of beating about the bush ;D ;D , Andy
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Perhaps they're just cracking down on taxi drivers! I for one think they're the worst drivers on the road, good on them for cracking down but it should be for bad driving not showing your countries flag before the worlds biggest tournament!
Jason.
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They should give red flags to bad and/or foreign drivers to display on their cars/cabs!
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LOL, see we've all voted now then.
I'm going to keep my flagpole up on my van after the tournament to show my nationality as I drive around town, on the odd occasion when I see another Brit we'll be able to identify ourselves and flash our lights and wave as we pass.
I see some brainy academic type has worked out how much extra fuel taxi drivers will use by flying a flag. That's nothing, they could save a fortune in fuel by going the quickest route instead of always taking you 3 miles out of your way. Most of them could also save fuel if they lost weight, they spend to long sat in taxi ranks all day reading the Sport and eating doughnuts, if they lost the extra lard i wouldn't have to recycled carbon to save the planet.
I blame the extra emissions from taxi drivers on the extinction of the dinoseurs.
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just to clarify is that emissions from taxi drivers or taxis? Andy
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They should give red flags to bad and/or foreign drivers to display on their cars/cabs!
They are already identifiable, the DVLC has made them put a little 'PL' on the side of their registration plates.
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There is a good side to showing a 'PL' on your car though. If you display these letters you can be sure the Algerians won't crash into you as they can't claim against the insurance companies because cars that have these letters are generally not insured.
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Perhaps the government could solve the flag problem by putting the st georges cross on the tax discs, that way they know they are being displayed by the minority.
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Great idea Andy, perhaps it could be funded by the National Lottery Commision.
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Why don't they just ban the st georges cross, problem solved ;D ;D
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Why don't they just ban the st georges cross, problem solved ;D ;D
They have :'( :'( Its something to do with the nationality of our politicians, they are all a bunch of midge dodgers. I went to Scroteland once, Fort William, there was so many midges I thought it was an eclipse.
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Where's Ross when you need him :'( :'(
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I've voted now ;D
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Know it’s a wind up, but is it (big brother watching)
Not voted but one look at my number plate will show white back ground with a red cross (believe it’s legal) was think about putting the Manx sign on it (The population currently stands at 78,000 giving the Island one of the lowest population densities in Europe and with about 40% of the Island being uninhabited there is always plenty of room to move around) the other was an Asian sign but that also smack more of Lebensraum ('living space')
Sadly the so called do-gooders are brain dead, peace in our time! I do hope so!
This is a good site http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/flags.html
Len
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Sorry guys and gals but I just couldn't resist this.......
THIS DEPT OF TRANSPORT INITIATIVE HAS BEEN RE-LAUNCHED, MAY 2006.
Information Release.
Due to the nature of the quality of driving in England the Department of Transport has now devised a new scheme in order to identify poor drivers and give good drivers the opportunity to recognise them whilst driving.
For this reason as from the middle of May 2006 those drivers who are found to be driving badly which includes:-overtaking in dangerous places; hovering within one inch of the car in front; stopping sharply; speeding in residential areas; pulling out without indication; performing U turns inappropriately in busy high streets; under taking on motorways and taking up more than one lane in multi lane roads.
These drivers will be issued with flags, white with a red cross, signifying their inability to drive properly. These flags must be clipped to a door of the car and be visible to all other drivers and pedestrians.
Those drivers who have shown particularly poor driving skills
will have to display a flag on each side of the car to indicate their greater
lack of skill and general lower intelligence mindset to the general public.
Please circulate this to as many other motorists as you can so that drivers and pedestrians will be aware of the meaning of these flags.
For the really poor drivers will be mandatory for them to wear IQ Dufusers (Baseball caps) as an indicator of their shocking ability
Department of Transport.
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Hi
Although not a football fan i cannot stand being told we should not fly our flag Union Jack or Other.
What's wrong with being proud to be British?
Or any country you come from?
Regards
Martin 8)
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Hi Guys,
Not wshing to be a killjoy, but all that time those clever engineers spent making your vehichle aerodynamic, is ruined by those flags meaning an increase in fuel consumption and at nearly a pound a litre ::)
cheers
Doug
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Hi all,
Great repies!
Sod the flags, did my own paintwork modifications when I got home from the pub last night!!!!!!
(http://www.dirt-busters.co.uk/van.jpg)
Hope we don't go out in the first round ;D
Could be worse I suppose, I could have had a blue van and sprayed diagonal white lines across it!
Kind regards,
Jason.
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Sounds like another instance of brainwashing. It seems that, if you're British and you have a traceable history through centuries of living, working and contributing to our societyand have, as is likely, an affiliation to Cristianity, you are being FORCED to change.
What's going on. Some one is driving this forward, along with acceptance of completely unnatural behaviour.
Thought this was a cleaning forum !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But,you are all right to rant. I'm sick of the stories coming back from school where our kids are not being taught to be proud of their history, heritage, religion.
My God, I only came on, for a look
Incidentally, I'm a Scot with no hang ups about flags or displays of Nationalism.
angie