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I'm affable enough just don't rub me the wrong way. I'm a Taxi driver working nights in Dublin,Ireland. email; roy@irishtaxi.net

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Lights, Camera, Action!

The Taxi regulator has an advert running at the moment, it tries to promote the use of Taxis and campaign against drink driving, although very well produced it fails on both counts, therefore it's crap.
See for yourself, if you're in Ireland you've probably seen it and forgotten it already;


Why is the regulator doing an anti drink driving campaign anyway? Isn't that the RSA's job?
The regulagtors remit is to promote the use of Taxis/Hacks /limos.

As they don't have a clue I've written a storyboard for them, it took me five minutes and they can have it free of charge;

Beginning with a girl dressed for an interview the screen then splits in two with the top half of the screen showing the girl using a bus for her journey ........the bottom using a Taxi.

In the bus half she is shown walking to the bus stop, squeezed into a chair alongside an overweight woman, laden down with bags, getting stuck in a traffic jam, getting of the bus into the rain and eventually arriving late for the interview.

In the Taxi half, the doorbell rings. the door to her cab is held open for her, she reads the companies profile relaxed on the rear seat, skips the traffic jam using a detour, and gets the job!

Then a big splash across the screen

USE A TAXI - WE GET YOU THERE FIRST!

That........... you'd remember!

Saturday, July 5, 2008

10.000 Willies

Primetime, Ireland's leading investigative TV show, did an article about the demise of the construction industry here.
They said that next Friday, 12th July, traditionally the start of the builders holiday, will see 10.000 of them laid off and have dubbed it "Black Friday"
I've added a 44 second clip from the show, featuring Willy, a plasterer who first tells us why he can't compete any longer, then explains why he won't go on the Dole, then tells us what he intends to do....................ONE GUESS!

Willy The Plasterer


Maybe Willy will be the straw that breaks the camels back?
Certainly one of the 10,000 will, there is a lot of tension out there and unless something is done soon, the government and the regulator may have one hell of a storm on their hands.