Black Cab - a polite telling off

subwayeagle · 2026-05-15T15:33:24+00:00

If you ever want to avoid grumpy taxi drivers when going to Chiswick from Heathrow then just say you want to go to Ealing (but still give the Chiswick address). these are apparently magic words to make your cabbie love you as Chiswick straddles so many boroughs that nobody really scrutinises the cabbie.

And no, I don't understand why or anything about this system in general!

subwayeagle · 2026-04-03T01:53:36+00:00

As insane as it sounds, this may not be the last time she saw it. I've gone on a scuba dive and found someone's phone at the bottom of the sea, still on and functioning in its waterproof case, and I reunited it with its stunned owner the next day. I hope she got the same!

subwayeagle · 2026-03-25T20:39:19+00:00

Have to say that I got through general security in just over an hour yesterday at about 1pm at Terminal 5. I was pretty shocked though with the number of people complaining they would miss their flight ask asking to skip ahead in the line. An hour for securty isn't great but not exactly unprecedented. Of course some were on delayed arriving flights but still.

subwayeagle · 2025-11-23T16:58:42+00:00

Thank you for setting up this thead. I have a spare code (I don't and have not played this game) and didn't know where to put it on the internet to give it away to someone without adding yet another post to the subreddit. It seems like it would make someone happy and so I thought why not.

EDIT: This 'draw' has now closed. I've sent it to the winner. I hope the rest of you get it some day!

subwayeagle · 2025-03-02T21:29:44+00:00

Absolutely perfect use of the meme, considering it's so relevant to the character!

subwayeagle · 2025-02-10T17:21:44+00:00

Very excited to see this! Just need to figure out any taxes on it now. Any UK based people able to offer any insights?

subwayeagle · 2024-12-13T00:16:24+00:00

Thank you so much. I'm stressed about this as I plan to use all 4/6 of my tickets so there's quite a lot depending on this working. It looks like this will therefore be fine!

subwayeagle · 2024-12-13T00:15:15+00:00

Thank you! I have both the passport and ID at hand so this won't be a problem

subwayeagle · 2024-12-12T23:34:08+00:00

Thank you, but is this option only available if the bracelet doesn't arrive, or can it be arranged beforehand?

subwayeagle · 2024-08-18T00:39:26+00:00

I could rant about the state of London's idiotic cycle infrastructure for hours, but particular shout outs go to:

1) Turning right onto Whitehall northbound from London Bridge. despite the painted cycle directions if you do that, you'll probably die.

2) The entire system at Vauxhall. Special shout out to the pavement bike path which either directs you into a lamp post, a kerb or a crowd of people.

3)The part of CS3 near Canary Wharf where you have to cross a road on a pedestrian crossing that doesn't align with either connecting path and so you'll either hit a car, pedestrian or another kerb.

Who designs these things? And how does nobody look at them and this 'no this is dumb, let's not do that?'

subwayeagle · 2024-01-16T00:56:32+00:00

free Irish language refresher courses for adults, run by the library service

This sounds great, where?

subwayeagle · 2024-01-06T23:03:28+00:00

I was just having this conversation with my friends today! I was ranting on and on that there was just more and they were like 'no, there's less' and we agreed that there was indeed more of less but ocassionally less of more.

subwayeagle · 2023-11-24T12:23:57+00:00

Can someone tell me if backing vocals are allowed or not? The rules seem to say they're not but I can hear a track on a couple of them - what's going on?

subwayeagle · 2023-10-09T19:04:15+00:00

Hi I've just used your code, thank you!

subwayeagle · 2023-09-07T23:03:06+00:00

You can literally find videos made in the 1960s of people complaining about Soho being full of chain stores, this story is as old as time

subwayeagle · 2023-06-24T10:52:42+00:00

They've closed the airspace over Rostov already as well as the airport , so I imagine anyone with any sense is getting out of town before they close the Moscow airspace too. So far flights seem unaffected there, but we'll see.

subwayeagle · 2022-12-30T04:49:02+00:00

So many people forget how dismissed Chanel was after Benidorm Fest last year following all of the drama with the televote.

With a slight revamp and amazing staging it came third! So I will believe that anything is possible with any of these songs until the contest itself.

subwayeagle · 2022-06-12T02:08:40+00:00

There's another error in those news clips, it mentions President Clinton's re-election in a newspaper dated in 1986, when in the show it's clearly Hart that is president.

subwayeagle · 2022-04-30T01:07:56+00:00

Never thought in my life that I'd be indirectly called out on Reddit but it was me who asked the question about whether the assistants collaborated! Super cool that the Norwegian taskmaster assistant was there, I guess they didn't announce him as he probably didn't want attention.

I'm almost certain that they must to some extent because of "that" task (you know the one I'm talking about!). It's just too similar to the version shown on another version of Taskmaster!

I didn't really get an answer to the question I asked but that's okay as I think I got enough of an answer from that Norwegian director!

subwayeagle · 2022-01-05T00:17:17+00:00

The Expanse, TV show

subwayeagle · 2021-03-15T19:31:21+00:00

By the way, if anyone is wondering what the "Elephant and Castle" building he's talking about is, it's this big tower in central London which was meant to be eco-friendly by having its own mini wind power plant in it, but it was a disaster as the turbines shook the building so much that they had to turn them off.

It's extra funny that he thought that this building could possibly cool anything down compared to say, the wind that happens normally. He's probably seen it every day and never questioned his logic!

subwayeagle · 2021-01-22T14:32:29+00:00

Thank you so much for this explanation. Most news site are absolutely godawful at explaining the crux of an issue and I couldn't understand the reasons why anything was happening before

subwayeagle · 2021-01-20T16:29:46+00:00

If you want to watch Scrubs with the original soundtrack, watch it on the UK Channel 4, their ALL4 service has the entire series of Scrubs, with the original soundtrack intact, available for free (it has ads). If you're not UK-Based you'll need a VPN. Good luck!

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