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So, trying to book an airport taxi, enquiring about a car seat for our lad etc etc.
Taxi firm state that "it's a different law for Taxis, and children don't need child seats.."
I can't find anything about this online...PLUS...regardless of law, I'd like my son in a proper fitting seat thank you very much...
Anyone heard of this before?
Busses and coaches - Fine, but a Taxi...?!!
DrP
Taxis don't need child seats.
[i]I can't find anything about this online...PLUS...regardless of law, I'd like my son in a proper fitting seat thank you very much...[/i]
You expect taxis to carry kids seats to suit parents like you?
http://www.childcarseats.org.uk/law/
Take your own child seat and let the taxi driver keep it for your return
Women.
Edit... Sorry only read the title... didnt realise we were being specific
You expect taxis to carry kids seats to suit parents like you?
I expect taxi companies to have some available, yes - like they do for big taxis or disabled people.
And what do you mean 'people like him'? It's not unreasonable is it?
To the OP - train? Or shop around for decent airport parking?
[i]I expect taxi companies to have some available, yes[/i]
Are you the OP?
Went to a café the other day, just fancied some chips. Despite having loads of '(something) and chips' items on the menu, I got told they don't sell them on their own.
Depending on the distance to th'airport I normally put junior in the boot (trunk)
sit him on your lap, cross your arms over him, brace your legs against the seats in front, close your eyes, hum to yourself, . . . . you'll be there safely in no time...IMHO.
I absolutely hate taxis.
Why does the world not revolve around me and my needs 😈
The type of pedals that you clip into being referred to as "clipless"
Never understood that.
Because they lack old style clips and straps.
[i]The type of pedals that you clip into being referred to as "clipless"[/i]
Because before look designed the clipless pedal people used toe clips and straps.
I click into mine 🙂
..pro-team kit. I mean, seriously?
we need
for cyclists.
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Why people go to clairvoyants..........
Should've seen that coming.
Taxis don't need child seats.
This.
DrP - is it a simple booster seat you're after or a full on seat with harness?
Because they lack old style clips and straps.
Because before look designed the clipless pedal people used toe clips and straps.
Yeah... I was sort of being rhetorical. Anyway, I reckon if you take some people, under the age of 60, and show them the two types of pedal that people actually use this century (the ones that eat flesh out of your shins and some SPDs), demonstrated how they worked, then asked them which were "clipless", you'd get a very high proportion of wrong answers.
You expect taxis to carry kids seats to suit parents like you?
Why does the world not revolve around me and my needs
Whoa whoa whoa, easy there fellas..
Not at one point did I say "I'd like the taxi to buy/carry a seat for me" did I??
I was asking about taking our own seat, and the lady seemed to suggest we didn't need to.
Any other assumptions or personal attacks you'd like to make, before I log off for the evening to kick puppies...?
DrP
(You can apologise here, or forward it to my secretary....)
[i]I was asking about taking our own seat, and the lady seemed to suggest we didn't need to.[/i]
Why the need for the 'thank you very much' style rantette then?
How would that work in an airport run then?
Seen just about every day on the commute.
People who decide to go by bike, and then do EVERYTHING wrong.
Cheap 40lb "suspension" (ie: springs at both ends) bike.
Fat, cheap knobbly tires, on the road.
Overdressed to the point of wearing a 3/4 length coat over everything because it's raining a bit.
Sweating, puffing and looking miserable.
Walking uphill.
Top marks for being on/with a bike, but... sheeeesh. 🙄
Why do phone and calculators have their number pads laid out completely differently
Just don't get it
We're you asking the taxi company if it was OK to use your own child seat then ?
It didn't sound like that, mainly because they would need to keep it for you while you were away on holiday and arrange to have it ready for you when you return, which I don't think is a normal service for most Taxi companies.
Or you would need to take the car seat on Holiday with you obviously.
Why the need for the 'thank you very much' style rantette then?
Sigh..
With a degree of conjecture, the conversation went a little like:
"I'd like 4 adults and a child seat please"
"We don't have child seats."
"OK, the last firm did, but whatev's - can we bring our own?"
"You don't need a child seat. Taxi's are invincible to crashes or something, so you kid'll be fine. If he's small, he can fit in the glove box"
"I think I'd rather the heir to the "DrP empire of steel and majik (TM)" travel in safety, [b]thank you very much[/b]....."
They charge a fiver to hold onto your seat, or drop it back, or something...
My initial surprise was the idea you don't need a child seat in a taxi.
Not that some lowly serf has failed to entertain the idea of providing the fruit of my loin with some jewel encrusted size appropriate bucket seat...
DrP
[i]So, trying to book an airport taxi, enquiring about a car seat for our lad etc etc.
Taxi firm state that "it's a different law for Taxis, and children don't need child seats.."
[b]OP - 'Can I use my own then?'
Taxi firm - 'Yes'[/b][/i]
Doesn't have the same sensationalist slant 😉
nealglover - MemberOr you would need to take the car seat on Holiday with you obviously
Did this, that way we could use it the cars of the people we were going to see and also in compatible Euro taxis.
Hardly a lunatic thing to do, although the price Ryanair charged to ship the thing I should get tested.
Matt
Hardly a lunatic thing to do...
I didn't suggest that it was. If you are going to need a child seat while you are away on Holiday, it's a perfectly sensible thing to do to take one with you.
Just the same as Skis/Bikes/Para Gliders etc. all very useful to take if you need them while you are away.
But they are all a royal pain in the arse to take with you if you don't need them.
(which is why I left my Skis and Snowboard at home when I went to Egypt last year 😉 )
Why do phone and calculators have their number pads laid out completely differently
I never noticed this before. wonder why.
Cougar - ModeratorWent to a café the other day, just fancied some chips. Despite having loads of '(something) and chips' items on the menu, I got told they don't sell them on their own.
Friend was @ Llandegla not long after they opened from the snow chaos on a Wednesday evening he had much the same response?
You would think they would welcome every penny after loosing so much due to closure!
Why people press two butons to type "@"
When the same number of key hits will give you "at".
😉
Why is there a picture of a stickman in mid run on every fire exit sign when all the literature tells you to walk?
The ironing of it all is that that this thread makes about as much sense as a sledge in the dessert.
Dune sledging?
A sledge could be pretty useful in the desert. You could fill it with supplies and pull it behind you. Now a bag of sand, from elsewhere, that would make no sense at all!
What's wrong with the tandem and trailor you lazy git?
richmtb - MemberWhy do phone and calculators have their number pads laid out completely differently
Just don't get it
Calculators are numeric, 'phones are alpha-numeric.
Flushing toilets with scarce drinking water...madness.
Drinking water isn't that scarce in the uk, is it?
Monarch don't charge for taking car seats, they also give you an extra 10 kilos if you have a baby on your lap 🙂
Surely if you have scarce drinking water you should save it for doing the dishes or something? Chucking it in the cistern in order to flush the crapper seems a bit blase.
Drinking water isn't that scarce in the uk, is it?
No
Drinking water isn't that scarce in the uk, is it?
Yes, often it is, why do you think we have hosepipe bans...just for fun? 🙄
We need a grey water setup like what them Frenchies gone done got. The incompetence of the water authorities in the UK is staggering.
Why people press two butons to type "@"
When the same number of key hits will give you "at"
Similarly - why do we have to say "doubleyoo doubleyoo doubleyoo" and use 9 syllables as an abbreviation for "world wide web" which uses three?
Ooh yeh hosepipe bans, must be what...4 or EVEN 5 in the last decade....
Kevlar thread, Stans No Tubes.
Yes, often it is
no it isn't..
When was the last time you (or anyone in the UK) had a problem getting drinking water due to it being scarce ?
why do you think we have hosepipe bans
So drinking water isn't scarce.
Looking down at my bottle on Monday it looked awfully scarce to me!
Ordered a taxi from the airport, can I have 2 child seats? no problem.
It was just the tailgating and speeding to worry about then
patriotpro/nealglover - I suspect you are the same person.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12088075
This sort of incident (which occur for a variety of reasons but usually related to lack of investment and maintenance) is narrowly avoided a lot more often than you might imagine. Because it's avoided by desperate last minute scrambling you just don't get to hear about it.
patriotpro/nealglover - I suspect you are the same person
🙄
This sort of incident......etc
Does nothing to show that "drinking water is scarce"
It just means that the delivery method fails occasionally. The product is still available.
Single people* having dogs or cats, just get some human friends or a hobby.
* under the age of 60.
Why do phone and calculators have their number pads laid out completely differently
Calculator keypads came from mechanical adding machines which usually, because of how the carry function works, have the 9 at the top. Phone keypads came from rotary dial phones which sort-of have 123 at the top and 789 at the bottom.
How do hip-hop mixtape artists afford the samples they use?
How do supermarkets time the logistics of fruit buying so it's fresh when on shelf, and has committed suicide 2 days after you've got it home?
[i]We need a grey water setup like what them Frenchies gone done got. The incompetence of the water authorities in the UK is staggering.[i]
Aren't most of the UK water companies owned by the frenchies now?
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As SST said most of our water companies owned by the French!
That's because we don't have water [b]authorities[/b] any more. Their job was to make sure we had a good water supply. Now we have water companies - their job is to make money for their shareholders.The incompetence of the water authorities in the UK is staggering.
Ditto electricity, ditto railways. Roads will be next.
sledge in the dessert
Not to be trifled with IMHO.
Nobody is saying you need to flush your loo with drinking water. Sort yourself a tank and stop doing it if it bothers you that much. My house came with a collection system built in from new.
Oh and for the OP, try [url= http://www.bubblebum.co/ ]http://www.bubblebum.co/[/url] inflatable car seat if your kid is big enough.
Why people type(sp)after a misspelt word instead of relying on autocorrect, or right clicking and "Search Google for ..." to check the spelling.
Ironically, autocorrect tries to autocorrect both "autocorrect" and "misspelt"
cfinnimore - Member
Kevlar thread, Stans No Tubes.
What doesn't make sense about these? Kevlar thread? How do you think you stitch Kevlar cloth?
Stan's No Tubes? It's a tubeless system, simples.
Why,when 17 mtb'rs walk into the pub which is packed does the gaffer sit on his ar8e and watch the barman struggle to cope.
Same pub most weeks,same thing happens ..baffled!
[i]This sort of incident (which occur for a variety of reasons but usually related to lack of investment and maintenance) is narrowly avoided a lot more often than you might imagine. Because it's avoided by desperate last minute scrambling you just don't get to hear about it. [/i]
That's not fair. NI Water have had to deal a terribly under-invested infrastructure compared to the rest of the UK and that was a result of pipe bursts. Nothing to do with availability of drinking water.
You want they should send two pipes to your house?
Anyone who doesn't like using drinking water to flush the bog should capture their own grey water and send it to the toilet. It's not the water companies fault, it's yours.
But if I stop using drinking water to flush the bog, I won't be able to drink out of the toilet any more.
When I posted last night I had had a few beers and broke my own rule about not getting into arguments on the internet as experience has shown it's a complete waste of time.
Greybeard - error on my part to refer to them as water authorities and 100% agreement about water companies being shareholder driven. IMO all utility firms should be operated for the benefit of the citizens, privatisation was a huge mistake.
Some people seem to be confused about potable water and raw water. The availability of raw water may be sufficient but the infrastructure to treat it (and store it) and provide potable water is not exactly robust in many areas. Statements about providing your own grey water tank won't change the fact that without financial incentive the vast majority won't bother. A few conscientious bearded STW types doing so is pretty much irrelevant in the big scheme of things. Inclusion in new builds is a good idea but new builds to this standard still make up a very small percentage of UK housing stock (this is a guess, CBA to search for a link to support)
Anyway, I work in the water treatment and supply industry so I'm not going to jeopardise my job by posting any first hand experiences on here. And I can't be bothered anyway, I've surprised myself by typing this much. Night!
One s in desert - you pudding.
Why people without kids are uppity and intolerant of those who do have kids. No-one could argue that stopping having kids isn't a threat to human existence. Having kids is piggin hard work and will keep the world going for your retirement.
Why do phone and calculators have their number pads laid out completely differentlyJust don't get it
This bugs me too.
But the 4, 5 and 6 are in the same places.
Grown men wearing croc shoes. I just don't get it, it makes no sense to me.
I mean you think their partner would say 'Really? You're going out with those on?'
Crocs are ideal warm wet casual footwear. Ideal camp site shoes.
If you do a poo in the cistern then the water's no longer drinkable.
Problem solved.
Grown men wearing croc shoes. I just don't get it, it makes no sense to me.I mean you think their partner would say 'Really? You're going out with those on?'
Hey, my wife actually bought me a pair of crocs the other day for my birthday. They did come with a warning that I could only wear them when swimming (to and from the sea) and general mincing around faffery and the there were no circumstances where wearing them in public proper would be acceptable. I plan on breaking the rule - dead comfy for slobbing. Like slippers for outdoors. I also got my first ever pair of actual slippers for the same birthday (41) - clearly on the downward slope!
Things that don't make sense - fruit in food. They put grapes and apricots in the salad at work mixed in with the cucumber, green leaves and grated carrot. Can't get my head around it.
convert - cucumber is a fruit, so is a tomato.
having said that, a wise man knows not to put them in a fruit salad 🙂
Digital vernier calipers.
If it's digital, there's no vernier scale.
cfinnimore - Member
How do hip-hop mixtape artists afford the samples they use?
POSTED 1 WEEK AGO # REPORT-POST
As long as they aren't making any money (I think they are mostly given away for free) the record cos turn a blind eye
At some point they will probably decide they care enough to take someone to court and people will stop making them
That riding a fatbike is so much fun! 😀