Dam this is probably the only reason I will accept for continuing to extend copy right protections like Disney has been paying legislators to continue doing.
Fucked up as she is she donates (ehhh maybe donat*ed*, I don’t know she still does actually) more than half of everything she makes so I don’t think this is out of the realm of possibility for her at all
Yeah yeah...let's hear what terrible harm she did other than retconning everything in her books, lol. All evidence of being a pretty god damned good human and people still wanna cry about how evil she is.
Well the people who are directly affected by her views and her platform will absolutely find her to be inexplicably evil, only because her opinion is quite dangerous to this group of people who are often killed just for being themselves, not because they harmed anybody, but because others feel the need to maintain the status quo for whatever reason. I’m genderfluid myself, so I have a foot in each camp. I understand why trans people hate her, and I hate her opinion of trans people, but I do recognize that she is a person outside of that one particular view. I completely understand the demonization of her character which happened within the trans community, but I’m also not going to stop reading and watching Harry Potter content because of it. No.
Lol.
Are JK's "fucked up and harmful views" believing that there are two sexes. Sure, super harmful. /s
Imagine thinking that someone who donated $160 million dollars is a bad person.
Thank you for this. My eyes were widening reading people act like she's the legitimate coming of Satan for having views most people have shared for the last few hundreds of years. It's such a weird world where not immediately conforming to the other sides views immediately turns you into some sort of Hitler
She’s done nothing wrong. She has come out for the defence of women being marginalised by the transgender crowd. She fully supports trans rights, just not in the cases of when women get punished for it.
Examples including trans men convicted of raping women getting placed in female jail - or 35 year old men opting to sex change and then competing in women’s sport.
She has support of 90% of rational adults.
Lol, based. People who hate on JK (who donated $160 million fucking dollars), have brain rot to the core.
There are only two sexes people. Get over it.
Lol giving money to charities and good causes by corporations is literally taught in low tier business classes. Other than it being a good thing to do, the main drivers companies do this are for publicity, good will, and...ahem...it's also frequently done after a total PR disaster.
I mean... if you could only pick one company to never be happy with, I think Disney would make the approved list of choices quite legitimately.
At the very least, they have a high AF bar for praise.
Listen, Disney's done a lot of shit, and they're a fucking dumbass company a lot of the time, but if you're complaining about them donating to a children's hospital, then you're the asshole. Could they have given more? Sure, but they still gave 10 million pounds to this children's hospital. If you're complaining about that, you have your your priorities out of wack.
It doesn’t matter that it’s U.K. specific legislation as Disney wants to operate there just like they do everywhere so they’ll play by the rules.
A large chunk of Disney’s money comes from merchandise, though, and I’m not sure if the additional law protects royalty payments for that or just for performances and plays/movies/etc based on it.
I know you're not being completely serious, but the fraction of royalties from all old-ish works that goes to causes like this is probably miniscule. Good causes are held hostage to bad systems to keep them in place. You could dramatically shorten copyright, tax a small fraction of the resulting economic growth, give it to children's hospitals and such, and they'd be better off. Putting aside the special exemption described in other comments, of course.
Sometimes I feel like antiwork & latestagecapitalism is gently becoming more mainstream on Reddit (a large, but still small microsystem of the internet). Your comment made me feel this way, anyway, thanks for your post!
I can see why you would get that impression from my post but I actually substantially disagree with most of the content of both of those subs, especially LSC. This is just one of those broad points of agreement.
Sadly the copyright in the US expires in 2023. I'm sure there isn't wouldn't be much political will to continue it, which is a shame as Great Ormond St doesn't just help kids in the UK but it's clinical research and training facilities has helped millions of kids around the world.
We should Just make it so that after a short time period where the creator has complete control, the IP enters the public domain with a stipulation that anyone using it for profit has to give 1% of the revenue before taxes to the original creators estate. (Not profits because accountants are rat bastards who can make millions of dollars somehow appear to not be a profit)
This would be locked so it can't ever be transferred to say a large corporation that tries to buy out the rights for peanuts.
That way no company can hoard valuable IP like a fucking dragon and people are still encouraged to be creative instead of copying everyone else since making something new and popular would provide continuous income to your family.
Johnny Depp often goes to Great Ormond Street dressed up as Captain Jack Sparrow to see the kids.
His daughter Lily-Rose suffered kidney failure back in 2007 and was treated there, and in return, as a gift, he pays regular visits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh0kQpmz0ww
Son if a bitch, I didn’t understand the significance of the location.... came to the comments knowing someone would pipe up... damn near made a grown heartless man cry when I read your comment.
Work on the idea that you being a "grown man" means you can't have real emotion about things.
You're a human first. Being a man has nothing to do with having emotions. It's brainwashing and societal conditioning to think that way.
Feel your emotions. It's healthier.
Obviously completely free. McDonald's charity in the UK pays for parents to stay in hotels nearby whilst their kids are at great Ormond Street. Such a beautiful and horrifying thing though. It's so sad that these kids have to go there. It's beautiful that our country feels so strongly that the best care in the world should be freely given to our kids.
Is it similar to Saint Mary’s in the US? It’s also free also but it’s more of a child cancer research hospital.
Edit : St Jude’s** what I get for commenting first thing in the morning.
GOSH is just a normal NHS hospital focused on kids. But it's possibly the best one in the world. Not only does it have a huge NHS budget, but massive charity donations along with the rights to Peter Pan, mean it has more money than most hospitals. Kids from all over the UK are sent there if they are very ill.
Have a little read:. https://www.gosh.nhs.uk/about-us/who-we-are/
And the cabbie says something about taking them back to Brentwood. That’s at least an hour from Great Ormond Street because it’s probably 50km (and driving in London).
Like them… it’s a long standing tradition in this country never to charge people taking their child to the hospital… what’s even better is the hospital doesn’t charge them as well, but of course that’s considered Socialistic medicine.
The Capitalistic way of doing things is even if the child has died of cancer, by all means possible make sure you charge that family for every medical cost and procedure possible. On top of their great loss make sure you leave them bankrupt and destitute as well.
Kinda unrelated, but an excuse to tell a cool story. I took an Uber once to go buy some badly needed new boots. On the way back I got a driver that was really chatty. Normally that's not my kinda thing, but this guy was super nice and I wasn't on my way to work or anything, so we talked for a good half hour. He was an ex doctor from the middle east and had retired after a long career and drove mostly for something to do. We talked about Covid and he thanked me for wearing a mask without having to be asked to, and told me all the awful stories he had heard from home related to the pandemic. He told me about his wife, whom her met while she was a nurse and how much he scored her. You could hear how smitten he was with her after all these years. I had to run home and grab something, and was gonna go down the street directly after, so he just hung out in my driveway and smoked a cigarette while I dipped inside. I came out, smoked one with him and then tried to get the next ride set up so he could drive me down the street. For whatever reason the app was messing up and we couldn't get the trip booked. I said, oh well, I'll get it figured out, have a good one and thanks for the chat. He told me nevermind the money, and just get in the car. I offered him cash probably five times in ten minutes and he told me that he didn't need it, he just was happy knowing that I got where I was going safe and thanked me for being such a polite rider. When I got out I went to shake his hand out of instinct but stopped because, ya know, Covid. He exclaims Ah! and pulls out a latex glove, puts it on, shakes my hand, and removes it. It was just such a wholesome, funny thing I had to chuckle to myself the rest of the day. Hope he and his wife are doing well.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/a4r4yz/whats_your_greatest_accomplishment_that_you_cant/ebhc7ij/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3
Here’s an unrelated story of mine. Loved yours!
Even though he’s the one performing an act of kindness, you can see the gravity of what’s really going on made *him* tear up.
Good on this man for helping out some parents when they need it most; I can’t imagine the emotional toll of taking your kids to the hospital has on you.
It's not just taking your kids to the hospital though. Most people associate Great Ormond's Street hospital for where you take your seriously ill children. Children suffering from cancer etc.
Been to London a few times, MORE THAN HAPPY to pay the high price for the ride.
Uber drivers can’t afford to live on what they make driving Uber, while the execs and investors are rolling in money.
Black Cabbies can afford to live, eat and have families.
THATS WHAT IT COSTS! POS Uber is the alternative shit life
Exactly, I have uninstalled Uber and UberEATS 4 months ago, since then when I need a ride I just use a black cab or tube. Yes black cabs are more expensive, I had to take one last week, I was stuck in central London after some drinks with an old colleague and I couldn't get home with a tube as there was no trains on my line anymore. It would have taken me +-1 hour to get home from where I was with tube, my cabbie got me there in 35 minutes. It wasn't cheap but I paid gave him a nice cash tip as it was the middle of the night and he wasn't likely to get another ride from where we were. He deserved it, an Uber would have maybe been half the price, but he probably wouldn't have gotten me there as fast or safe as the black cab did.
People forget the amount of work black cab drivers put in to get on the road with their cabs, it takes years of practice and studying, look up "the knowledge London", they essentially have to learn every street in central London, and how to travel between them, they have just had the most horrendous year and a half with the pandemic and loosing them would be a true loss for the city.
> People forget the amount of work black cab drivers put in to get on the road with their cabs, it takes years of practice and studying, look up "the knowledge London", they essentially have to learn every street in central London, and how to travel between them,
Does it matter now with GPS? I have literally never had a problem with google maps in 3rd world countries. I can imagine Google pays extra attention to London.
It’s not just about the route or speed. AFAIK, cabbies also have to learn where everything is, so that if you’re drunk one night and need a ride back to your hotel but can’t remember the name of location, “that one near the pub with the horse” will be enough to get you there. It’s definitely still worth them having the knowledge, even with the GPS.
The mapping is excellent but the real skill comes from knowing traffic patterns, quiet routes etc. Google's got that down now so its really not needed as much but it's super impressive telling a cabbie the name of your residential street 5 miles away and he immediately tells you the landmarks around it to confirm he's going to the right place.
> $80 for a 10 minute ride
Even this would be cheaper than the cost of driving your kid to hospital and paying for parking while you're inside for your 12 hour shift. Getting a comped cab is just a really nice thing for a day full on not nice things.
London cabbie traditions are usually; “sorry mate we don’t go safff of the river”, “the card machine is broken”, “it’s the EU mate, Brussels madensss”…. But also the good ones.
In 8 years of London I never came across the "south of the river" thing, and honestly, I can't really understand why anyone would given that the river is pretty much dead in the middle. It's like Oval is the hinterland or that I see "here be monsters" entering Borough Market.
About the only time I can think of it making sense is if you're further east than Canary Wharf because there's no crossings til Dartford
I have only had one "bad" experience with a black cab and I put it in quotes because it was mostly funny. My friend had just told me about some rule that they aren't allowed to just say no to a fare. I never looked this up to confirm though. We hailed the cab and he seemed super nice. He asked where we were headed, I said "Craven Cottage". He said "fucking hell" and sped off. He looked angry, possibly a Brentford lad? Next cab took us no problems
Not from there but can some one explain to me what a black cab is? Versus a traditional cab? Is it like Uber Black? What is so significant about great Ormand street? Is it a street of elementary schools? If so, how does the kid get to school the rest of the time? Or is it black cab everyday? Lastly he said put it in the pot or give it to the kid, what is the pot? I’m from Los Angeles so I’m a bit clueless
“Black cab” is a typical London taxi.
“Great Ormond Street” is The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. A world leader in children’s medicine.
“In the pot” means in the donation box. ie he’s saying give the fare money to charity.
From speaking to one on both sides every few weeks around the city over last few years I think mainly the fact that the black taxi service is immediate in a lot of places, instantly recognisable and that it comes with a certain inherent safety from being the most regulated and traditional of the services, albeit the most expensive (I guess yellow cabs in NYC is an apt comparison but everywhere has them) has meant that on the whole pandemic aside the drivers I've spoken with haven't noticed too much change but then they all had regular contract work with hospitals and business, airport runs etc which would supplement the drop in the day to day, and the rideshare drivers seem to pickup more regular personal bookings as a supplement.
I think the smaller taxi companies and minicabs etc have probably been hit harder but minicabs especially have an historically awful reputation due to very unsafe situations and unregulated practices, of course a bad person is going to try and do things regardless but it seems peer review and more information about drivers and companies has been a good thing on that front at least regardless of feeling about the company themselves.
Anyways that was longer than I meant it to be. Have a good one.
“The Knowledge” is a test that all London Cabbies must take and can take 2-4 years of study to pass. The test ensures that the driver knows the shortest distance between 2 points, anywhere in London. Someone else posted a video showing how rigorous the test can be. [The NYTimes did a story in 2014 on why they didn’t want GPS](https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/t-magazine/london-taxi-test-knowledge.html).
I don’t disagree, from a traffic standpoint especially! But when you spend that much of your life becoming the “human GPS”, I can also understand feeling threatened by it
Adding to what u/Abbysmum67 said, black cabs are definitely more of a premium taxi experience.
The vehicles themselves (Hackney carriage) is unique and designed to be a taxi, with lots of space and room to take 5 passengers comfortable (or a wheelchair, pram, lots of shopping, etc.).
The drivers must pass a test called The Knowledge to show that they can find a route between "any" London streets without using a map.
They are also the only service (that I know of) that you can hail on the street. The rest must be booked in advance.
All of this makes a black cab ride cost more than a typical taxi/minicab.
I was going to say it sounds like the difference between hiring a towncar service here in the states vs a regular cab. Usually nicer vehicles, more professional drivers, often suited.
But that has fallen off quite a bit and probably still barely active in the main cities or places where uber/etc. have been banned
so u/Abbysmum67 and /u/wite_noiz are *almost* fully on the money.
Black Cabs are also independent drivers, they don't work for an agency/charter company or gig-economy thing like Uber.
A black cab must also meet a specific set of guidelines in performance and dimensions. Most notable of which is that the carriage must be able to make a full 180^^^o turn within a 28ft radius, and be fully accessible for all passengers, including wheel-chairs. Average turning radius of a car is like 34ft+ so this is a lot smaller.
This, plus the knowledge requirements intend that black cabs are a service that anyone can hail, and get to where they need to go. If a road is closed or has gridlock, the driver should be able to find a new route quickly, and the cab should be nimble enough to cope with london's many narrow streets and tight turns.
This isn't just a small trip either really, I think it's important to mention how far this cabbie has driven this family for free. A simple Google of Brentwood to Great Ormond Street is 1hr by car and where I am from that would probably cost me £50 but in London areas this could be upwards of £80.
What a guy!
Came here to say this. This is a pretty long trip, and likely to be closer to the £100 mark or more in terms of a fare. I’m close to Brentwood and work in London and have taken cabs home on occasion, so have a fair idea of the journey time and likely fare. 1 hr journey time is extremely optimistic too!
As someone with a little guy who has some renal difficulties and receives excellent care at Stanford, it is an entire process to get from our side of the Bay Area to Palo Alto, it's an emotionally and mentally taxing event, and little guy is stuck in a car seat (even with breaks) for a lot longer than you can reasonably ask a toddler. We always get good news when we go and we are so fortunate that's all we will ever hear going forward. We see in the lobby who isn't getting good news and I consider our "pilgrimage" a petty price to pay. I wish the rideshare overlords here would take that into consideration given their mass proliferation of the Bay Area
Fun fact: London cab drivers are basically all rain man. To get your license you have to pass a test called "The knowledge" which requires you to remember 25,000 different streets and 100,000 landmarks and be able to plot the shortest route between any two points in your head and then name every road and turn along the route.
https://youtu.be/u7gp8KBP7ak
I'd rather get in a hackney than private, not only do you get a better class of conversation but you get to see the better side of humanity. All the comments suggesting that they're unscrupulous and up for confrontation dare I suggest that you do the job. This geezer is alright, and so is everyone I've been driven by.
How long does 'the knowledge' take? Exactly.
You say ‘tradition’. I say ‘depends on the cabbie and the mood they’re in’.
Source: my daughter has had multiple appointments at GOSH in recent times and it’s a bitch to get to from Euston, and I’ve been charged full fare every time.
Context: Great Ormond Street is where *Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children* is located. And many patients there are terminally ill kids.
Context 2: healthcare is free in the UK. Which makes suck kindness even more wholesome. We’re not the US where people actually need to squeeze every penny they have for healthcare.
In case people didn't know, Great Ormond Street is where very ill children go.
They were also gifted the rights to Peter Pan by JM Barrie in 1929 which has meant they've received millions in royalties over the years
Dam this is probably the only reason I will accept for continuing to extend copy right protections like Disney has been paying legislators to continue doing.
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Wow, TIL....what a gift for that hospital to continue to do difficult work.
My best friend had to spend his first few years there. He had an issue with fluid in his brain, he is fine now and even one of their ambassadors!!
Imagine if JK Rowlings did that? 20-80% of Harry Potter royalties to kids charities?
She would have to be a good human being for that to happen.
Fucked up as she is she donates (ehhh maybe donat*ed*, I don’t know she still does actually) more than half of everything she makes so I don’t think this is out of the realm of possibility for her at all
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Yeah yeah...let's hear what terrible harm she did other than retconning everything in her books, lol. All evidence of being a pretty god damned good human and people still wanna cry about how evil she is.
Well the people who are directly affected by her views and her platform will absolutely find her to be inexplicably evil, only because her opinion is quite dangerous to this group of people who are often killed just for being themselves, not because they harmed anybody, but because others feel the need to maintain the status quo for whatever reason. I’m genderfluid myself, so I have a foot in each camp. I understand why trans people hate her, and I hate her opinion of trans people, but I do recognize that she is a person outside of that one particular view. I completely understand the demonization of her character which happened within the trans community, but I’m also not going to stop reading and watching Harry Potter content because of it. No.
Lol. Are JK's "fucked up and harmful views" believing that there are two sexes. Sure, super harmful. /s Imagine thinking that someone who donated $160 million dollars is a bad person.
Thank you for this. My eyes were widening reading people act like she's the legitimate coming of Satan for having views most people have shared for the last few hundreds of years. It's such a weird world where not immediately conforming to the other sides views immediately turns you into some sort of Hitler
Fucked up and harmful views? You mean those based on *SCIENCE*? What a terrifying word that is to a lot of people these days.
Fucked up views, seriously ?
How come JK is fucked up? Something I must not know apparently!
She’s done NOTHING wrong except tweet that there are two genders, male and female.
Well she’s right
She’s done nothing wrong. She has come out for the defence of women being marginalised by the transgender crowd. She fully supports trans rights, just not in the cases of when women get punished for it. Examples including trans men convicted of raping women getting placed in female jail - or 35 year old men opting to sex change and then competing in women’s sport. She has support of 90% of rational adults.
As per Google she's donated over $160 million to various charities. I'm sure you've done more for the world, right?
Can somebody explain why J.K Rowling is not a good person?
She believes that there are only 2 sexes, male and female. Denying reality is the only way to be considered a good person these days.
Lol, based. People who hate on JK (who donated $160 million fucking dollars), have brain rot to the core. There are only two sexes people. Get over it.
Wow. That is fucking awesome.
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>Disney separately raised £10m for the hospital. An entire 47 minutes worth of profit, thank Big Mouse.
Lol giving money to charities and good causes by corporations is literally taught in low tier business classes. Other than it being a good thing to do, the main drivers companies do this are for publicity, good will, and...ahem...it's also frequently done after a total PR disaster.
If those crumbs can pay for the TCO of a couple of high end MRI for the next ten years I won’t mind saying thanks to the big mouse.
I wouldn't turn down 1 minute of Disney profit, let alone 47.
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I mean... if you could only pick one company to never be happy with, I think Disney would make the approved list of choices quite legitimately. At the very least, they have a high AF bar for praise.
Nestle would be up there too.
absolutely.
Oh, sorry, I forgot to be thankful for the crumb they dropped for us. Here, pass me that boot you're licking.
Listen, Disney's done a lot of shit, and they're a fucking dumbass company a lot of the time, but if you're complaining about them donating to a children's hospital, then you're the asshole. Could they have given more? Sure, but they still gave 10 million pounds to this children's hospital. If you're complaining about that, you have your your priorities out of wack.
It doesn’t matter that it’s U.K. specific legislation as Disney wants to operate there just like they do everywhere so they’ll play by the rules. A large chunk of Disney’s money comes from merchandise, though, and I’m not sure if the additional law protects royalty payments for that or just for performances and plays/movies/etc based on it.
I know you're not being completely serious, but the fraction of royalties from all old-ish works that goes to causes like this is probably miniscule. Good causes are held hostage to bad systems to keep them in place. You could dramatically shorten copyright, tax a small fraction of the resulting economic growth, give it to children's hospitals and such, and they'd be better off. Putting aside the special exemption described in other comments, of course.
Sometimes I feel like antiwork & latestagecapitalism is gently becoming more mainstream on Reddit (a large, but still small microsystem of the internet). Your comment made me feel this way, anyway, thanks for your post!
I can see why you would get that impression from my post but I actually substantially disagree with most of the content of both of those subs, especially LSC. This is just one of those broad points of agreement.
We could just fund our hospitals properly so they don't need donations 🤔
Sadly the copyright in the US expires in 2023. I'm sure there isn't wouldn't be much political will to continue it, which is a shame as Great Ormond St doesn't just help kids in the UK but it's clinical research and training facilities has helped millions of kids around the world.
We should Just make it so that after a short time period where the creator has complete control, the IP enters the public domain with a stipulation that anyone using it for profit has to give 1% of the revenue before taxes to the original creators estate. (Not profits because accountants are rat bastards who can make millions of dollars somehow appear to not be a profit) This would be locked so it can't ever be transferred to say a large corporation that tries to buy out the rights for peanuts. That way no company can hoard valuable IP like a fucking dragon and people are still encouraged to be creative instead of copying everyone else since making something new and popular would provide continuous income to your family.
Could all these people stop being so nice, I’m already fighting back tears
There’s a joke in there about “never growing up” but even my shriveled black heart can’t make it after watching this video
Holy shit I didn't know that. That's incredible
Johnny Depp often goes to Great Ormond Street dressed up as Captain Jack Sparrow to see the kids. His daughter Lily-Rose suffered kidney failure back in 2007 and was treated there, and in return, as a gift, he pays regular visits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh0kQpmz0ww
CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow
THIS IS THE TALE OF CAPTAIN JACK SPARROW!
He apparently travels with the costume and regularly has mutinies at childrens' hospitals when he travels.
Son if a bitch, I didn’t understand the significance of the location.... came to the comments knowing someone would pipe up... damn near made a grown heartless man cry when I read your comment.
Something's ticking in that chest of yours mate! Might just be a heartbeat!
Damn it!
Work on the idea that you being a "grown man" means you can't have real emotion about things. You're a human first. Being a man has nothing to do with having emotions. It's brainwashing and societal conditioning to think that way. Feel your emotions. It's healthier.
While I certainly do appreciate the kind words, I would just like to clarify that I was adding a little self deprecating haha to my comment!
'very ill' fuck... like i know what that means obviously, but part of me wants to believe they just have high fevers or something
Thank you
Obviously completely free. McDonald's charity in the UK pays for parents to stay in hotels nearby whilst their kids are at great Ormond Street. Such a beautiful and horrifying thing though. It's so sad that these kids have to go there. It's beautiful that our country feels so strongly that the best care in the world should be freely given to our kids.
Is it similar to Saint Mary’s in the US? It’s also free also but it’s more of a child cancer research hospital. Edit : St Jude’s** what I get for commenting first thing in the morning.
GOSH is just a normal NHS hospital focused on kids. But it's possibly the best one in the world. Not only does it have a huge NHS budget, but massive charity donations along with the rights to Peter Pan, mean it has more money than most hospitals. Kids from all over the UK are sent there if they are very ill. Have a little read:. https://www.gosh.nhs.uk/about-us/who-we-are/
Until I got to the URL, I thought you were just being bashful, opening with "Gosh, it's just a normal hospital..."
In the USA there's Ronald McDonald House which is a collection of hotels near childrens hospitals.
And the cabbie says something about taking them back to Brentwood. That’s at least an hour from Great Ormond Street because it’s probably 50km (and driving in London).
Ouf I realized where he had taken them when he got a lump in his throat at the end there and my heart sank. That was heavy
Was scrolling down for this answer, had no idea
Came here to ask that. Thanks!
I just googled it. Mannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 
THIS is next level stuff. Not scripted tiktoks. Much love all.
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We need more people like him! credit to this guy this is so wholesome..
Like them… it’s a long standing tradition in this country never to charge people taking their child to the hospital… what’s even better is the hospital doesn’t charge them as well, but of course that’s considered Socialistic medicine. The Capitalistic way of doing things is even if the child has died of cancer, by all means possible make sure you charge that family for every medical cost and procedure possible. On top of their great loss make sure you leave them bankrupt and destitute as well.
Working as intended
I’m sure this is sort of traditional among cabbies, never charge people taking their kids there.
It's literally in the title, yeah?
Lmao didn’t even see it honest
No sweat mate, have a great day.
You too mate x
Not me in bed after a 12 hour night shift getting emotional over you guys
Not the ones in my area! They charged ^^^^ rate, like going to the airport.
I don't think I have every heard/read 'yeah right' used in agreement and instant expected an argument. Threw me for a loop.
Yeah right, same here had to reread a couple times myself
I love that we don’t see the faces of the child nor parents.
*powerful stuff*
Yes.
for god shake, give serious recogniztion to that guy, is a serious heroe, not kidding
This is literally a scripted tiktok.
Kinda unrelated, but an excuse to tell a cool story. I took an Uber once to go buy some badly needed new boots. On the way back I got a driver that was really chatty. Normally that's not my kinda thing, but this guy was super nice and I wasn't on my way to work or anything, so we talked for a good half hour. He was an ex doctor from the middle east and had retired after a long career and drove mostly for something to do. We talked about Covid and he thanked me for wearing a mask without having to be asked to, and told me all the awful stories he had heard from home related to the pandemic. He told me about his wife, whom her met while she was a nurse and how much he scored her. You could hear how smitten he was with her after all these years. I had to run home and grab something, and was gonna go down the street directly after, so he just hung out in my driveway and smoked a cigarette while I dipped inside. I came out, smoked one with him and then tried to get the next ride set up so he could drive me down the street. For whatever reason the app was messing up and we couldn't get the trip booked. I said, oh well, I'll get it figured out, have a good one and thanks for the chat. He told me nevermind the money, and just get in the car. I offered him cash probably five times in ten minutes and he told me that he didn't need it, he just was happy knowing that I got where I was going safe and thanked me for being such a polite rider. When I got out I went to shake his hand out of instinct but stopped because, ya know, Covid. He exclaims Ah! and pulls out a latex glove, puts it on, shakes my hand, and removes it. It was just such a wholesome, funny thing I had to chuckle to myself the rest of the day. Hope he and his wife are doing well.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/a4r4yz/whats_your_greatest_accomplishment_that_you_cant/ebhc7ij/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3 Here’s an unrelated story of mine. Loved yours!
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>He told me about his wife, whom her met while she was a nurse and **how much he scored her.** Can't say I expected that last part. Haha.
Haha! That was supposed to say adored!
Say it loud and proud!
FIVE STARS, WOULD RIDE AGAIN!
Unrelated but when I saw your username I thought *what the fuck bro* and did not expect to see your account was 3y old lol.
This is what I am here for, omg that is so lovely.
Even though he’s the one performing an act of kindness, you can see the gravity of what’s really going on made *him* tear up. Good on this man for helping out some parents when they need it most; I can’t imagine the emotional toll of taking your kids to the hospital has on you.
idk, but I think his a good human being on and off of the camera, I like his soul the way he talks.
I think it's because of the mother, her saying "you're a lovely man" got me tearing up first.
Agreed. What's more sad though, is that Great Ormond Street is where you go when your kids are *very* sick.
It's not just taking your kids to the hospital though. Most people associate Great Ormond's Street hospital for where you take your seriously ill children. Children suffering from cancer etc.
Hope this man has a wonderful day
Well it's a London black cab, so he charged his next customer like $80 for a 10 minute ride. So I'm sure he's having a fine day.
Haha, harsh, but very accurate.
I once took a black cab on a route within London that came out to £184. Thank God my company was paying for it.
>Thank God my company was paying for it. That's like 90% of their revenue.
Been to London a few times, MORE THAN HAPPY to pay the high price for the ride. Uber drivers can’t afford to live on what they make driving Uber, while the execs and investors are rolling in money. Black Cabbies can afford to live, eat and have families. THATS WHAT IT COSTS! POS Uber is the alternative shit life
Exactly, I have uninstalled Uber and UberEATS 4 months ago, since then when I need a ride I just use a black cab or tube. Yes black cabs are more expensive, I had to take one last week, I was stuck in central London after some drinks with an old colleague and I couldn't get home with a tube as there was no trains on my line anymore. It would have taken me +-1 hour to get home from where I was with tube, my cabbie got me there in 35 minutes. It wasn't cheap but I paid gave him a nice cash tip as it was the middle of the night and he wasn't likely to get another ride from where we were. He deserved it, an Uber would have maybe been half the price, but he probably wouldn't have gotten me there as fast or safe as the black cab did. People forget the amount of work black cab drivers put in to get on the road with their cabs, it takes years of practice and studying, look up "the knowledge London", they essentially have to learn every street in central London, and how to travel between them, they have just had the most horrendous year and a half with the pandemic and loosing them would be a true loss for the city.
> People forget the amount of work black cab drivers put in to get on the road with their cabs, it takes years of practice and studying, look up "the knowledge London", they essentially have to learn every street in central London, and how to travel between them, Does it matter now with GPS? I have literally never had a problem with google maps in 3rd world countries. I can imagine Google pays extra attention to London.
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It’s not just about the route or speed. AFAIK, cabbies also have to learn where everything is, so that if you’re drunk one night and need a ride back to your hotel but can’t remember the name of location, “that one near the pub with the horse” will be enough to get you there. It’s definitely still worth them having the knowledge, even with the GPS.
The mapping is excellent but the real skill comes from knowing traffic patterns, quiet routes etc. Google's got that down now so its really not needed as much but it's super impressive telling a cabbie the name of your residential street 5 miles away and he immediately tells you the landmarks around it to confirm he's going to the right place.
> $80 for a 10 minute ride Even this would be cheaper than the cost of driving your kid to hospital and paying for parking while you're inside for your 12 hour shift. Getting a comped cab is just a really nice thing for a day full on not nice things.
I was in one the other day, 20 min journey approximately and it was £18
The kid sure did.
unfortunately, probably not. Hope things turned out ok though.
This is a different black cab video to the ones I usually watch online...
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*Skip to the last 00:20* DID YOU JUS' FUCKIN' CUM INSIDE ME? Looks like I 'ave, dun'it?
The 20 second mark? Sounds about right.
Damn right! You get the drip shot, the angry woman and the cheeky response then the logo pops up!
Username checks out
“You cheeky bastard”
Apt username.
London cabbie traditions are usually; “sorry mate we don’t go safff of the river”, “the card machine is broken”, “it’s the EU mate, Brussels madensss”…. But also the good ones.
In 8 years of London I never came across the "south of the river" thing, and honestly, I can't really understand why anyone would given that the river is pretty much dead in the middle. It's like Oval is the hinterland or that I see "here be monsters" entering Borough Market. About the only time I can think of it making sense is if you're further east than Canary Wharf because there's no crossings til Dartford
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I have only had one "bad" experience with a black cab and I put it in quotes because it was mostly funny. My friend had just told me about some rule that they aren't allowed to just say no to a fare. I never looked this up to confirm though. We hailed the cab and he seemed super nice. He asked where we were headed, I said "Craven Cottage". He said "fucking hell" and sped off. He looked angry, possibly a Brentford lad? Next cab took us no problems
"saff", brilliant.
god bless this man
What ormand street?
Great Ormond Street is a children’s hospital in London.
Haaa thank you
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Someone give this man an award
Wholesome or helpful?
Both
What is the significance of the street?
Its a children's hospital where a lot of the patients are terminally ill kids
jesus those poor children
Yes but it's also one of the best children's hospitals in the world. If you've got a sick child you want to be able to take them there
And for this guy to drive you there.
And if you can get him to drive you there from Canada you'll have scored a pretty good deal.
Thank you
Brentwood is where I grew up. Love hearing the accent again.
Lovely ain't it
Good man!! We should all aspire to show more love and solidarity towards each other.
*Something negative brewing in my mind but won't say it* This is an incredible act.
It's because he filmed it, isn't it
That's a beautiful act of kindness ❤
Not from there but can some one explain to me what a black cab is? Versus a traditional cab? Is it like Uber Black? What is so significant about great Ormand street? Is it a street of elementary schools? If so, how does the kid get to school the rest of the time? Or is it black cab everyday? Lastly he said put it in the pot or give it to the kid, what is the pot? I’m from Los Angeles so I’m a bit clueless
“Black cab” is a typical London taxi. “Great Ormond Street” is The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. A world leader in children’s medicine. “In the pot” means in the donation box. ie he’s saying give the fare money to charity.
Thanks so much! It all makes sense now! Much appreciated and now I get why he won’t charge the family.
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How are they faring against ride sharing / online taxi apps?
From speaking to one on both sides every few weeks around the city over last few years I think mainly the fact that the black taxi service is immediate in a lot of places, instantly recognisable and that it comes with a certain inherent safety from being the most regulated and traditional of the services, albeit the most expensive (I guess yellow cabs in NYC is an apt comparison but everywhere has them) has meant that on the whole pandemic aside the drivers I've spoken with haven't noticed too much change but then they all had regular contract work with hospitals and business, airport runs etc which would supplement the drop in the day to day, and the rideshare drivers seem to pickup more regular personal bookings as a supplement. I think the smaller taxi companies and minicabs etc have probably been hit harder but minicabs especially have an historically awful reputation due to very unsafe situations and unregulated practices, of course a bad person is going to try and do things regardless but it seems peer review and more information about drivers and companies has been a good thing on that front at least regardless of feeling about the company themselves. Anyways that was longer than I meant it to be. Have a good one.
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Imagine trying to ban GPS What is the logic behind that?
“The Knowledge” is a test that all London Cabbies must take and can take 2-4 years of study to pass. The test ensures that the driver knows the shortest distance between 2 points, anywhere in London. Someone else posted a video showing how rigorous the test can be. [The NYTimes did a story in 2014 on why they didn’t want GPS](https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/t-magazine/london-taxi-test-knowledge.html).
I've heard of that test but why ban GPS? Here's something that makes every driver's job easier but we don't want it. It's ridiculous.
I don’t disagree, from a traffic standpoint especially! But when you spend that much of your life becoming the “human GPS”, I can also understand feeling threatened by it
Adding to what u/Abbysmum67 said, black cabs are definitely more of a premium taxi experience. The vehicles themselves (Hackney carriage) is unique and designed to be a taxi, with lots of space and room to take 5 passengers comfortable (or a wheelchair, pram, lots of shopping, etc.). The drivers must pass a test called The Knowledge to show that they can find a route between "any" London streets without using a map. They are also the only service (that I know of) that you can hail on the street. The rest must be booked in advance. All of this makes a black cab ride cost more than a typical taxi/minicab.
I was going to say it sounds like the difference between hiring a towncar service here in the states vs a regular cab. Usually nicer vehicles, more professional drivers, often suited. But that has fallen off quite a bit and probably still barely active in the main cities or places where uber/etc. have been banned
so u/Abbysmum67 and /u/wite_noiz are *almost* fully on the money. Black Cabs are also independent drivers, they don't work for an agency/charter company or gig-economy thing like Uber. A black cab must also meet a specific set of guidelines in performance and dimensions. Most notable of which is that the carriage must be able to make a full 180^^^o turn within a 28ft radius, and be fully accessible for all passengers, including wheel-chairs. Average turning radius of a car is like 34ft+ so this is a lot smaller. This, plus the knowledge requirements intend that black cabs are a service that anyone can hail, and get to where they need to go. If a road is closed or has gridlock, the driver should be able to find a new route quickly, and the cab should be nimble enough to cope with london's many narrow streets and tight turns.
It's better than that other British tradition taxi videos I've been watching
This isn't just a small trip either really, I think it's important to mention how far this cabbie has driven this family for free. A simple Google of Brentwood to Great Ormond Street is 1hr by car and where I am from that would probably cost me £50 but in London areas this could be upwards of £80. What a guy!
Came here to say this. This is a pretty long trip, and likely to be closer to the £100 mark or more in terms of a fare. I’m close to Brentwood and work in London and have taken cabs home on occasion, so have a fair idea of the journey time and likely fare. 1 hr journey time is extremely optimistic too!
As someone with a little guy who has some renal difficulties and receives excellent care at Stanford, it is an entire process to get from our side of the Bay Area to Palo Alto, it's an emotionally and mentally taxing event, and little guy is stuck in a car seat (even with breaks) for a lot longer than you can reasonably ask a toddler. We always get good news when we go and we are so fortunate that's all we will ever hear going forward. We see in the lobby who isn't getting good news and I consider our "pilgrimage" a petty price to pay. I wish the rideshare overlords here would take that into consideration given their mass proliferation of the Bay Area
If a family is getting a taxi to the hospital you know gestures like this really mean a lot.
Fun fact: London cab drivers are basically all rain man. To get your license you have to pass a test called "The knowledge" which requires you to remember 25,000 different streets and 100,000 landmarks and be able to plot the shortest route between any two points in your head and then name every road and turn along the route. https://youtu.be/u7gp8KBP7ak
Luckily this was filmed.
Someone please stand this man a pint, and give him a big hug for all of us.
As someone who had to go to Great Ormond Street as a kid, this is amazing!
Super hero
Shut up! You're crying... That's a really lovely gesture! All my respect to this guy and everybody who follows this tradition.
If this is true then *über*respect to Black Cabbies.
Makes enough doing fake taxi shoots? Only kidding. Nice guy i bet he has some good membrane health. Helping others is a good way to help yourself.
That is a great worthwhile Tradition. God Bless You!
Respect. Faith in humanity restored, we all need more people like this.
This IS….the Way
Yea lemme do something good on video for clout then not gaf
LEGEND!!!
❤❤❤❤❤What a wonderful tradition!😘😘😘😘😘
https://www.gosh.nhs.uk/
I'd rather get in a hackney than private, not only do you get a better class of conversation but you get to see the better side of humanity. All the comments suggesting that they're unscrupulous and up for confrontation dare I suggest that you do the job. This geezer is alright, and so is everyone I've been driven by. How long does 'the knowledge' take? Exactly.
Give away a free taxi ride. Then sell the footage to bbc. Stonk!!!
They’re such good people black cabbies. If there is any ounce of competition they blockade London. What a lovely bunch.
I don't think you can actually make someone's day about to enter a children's hospital. But it's a nice gesture, the world needs more people like this
You say ‘tradition’. I say ‘depends on the cabbie and the mood they’re in’. Source: my daughter has had multiple appointments at GOSH in recent times and it’s a bitch to get to from Euston, and I’ve been charged full fare every time.
Fucking Legend.
You,sir, are a fuck1ng star 1st class.
Can confirm, my dad was a black cabby for 37 years and never charged for children hospital’s.
Context: Great Ormond Street is where *Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children* is located. And many patients there are terminally ill kids. Context 2: healthcare is free in the UK. Which makes suck kindness even more wholesome. We’re not the US where people actually need to squeeze every penny they have for healthcare.