https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/12/us/women-kiss-then-kicked-out-of-uber/index.html
#uberkiss
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Those are some hot lesbians (if theyâre real lesbians).
Itâs not an absolute rule. I would be happy to move this to one of the Uber threads.
(Edit: didnât notice itâs not Taiwan-related. Whatever, it still gives me Schadenfreude. )
Interesting, as most of my Uber experiences* have involved immigrant drivers from more, shall we say, backwoodsie conservative cultures and locales. I can see how overt sexual behavior would irk some of them.
So these tipsy chicks make a stink that âHabibâ doesnât dig a same sex couple toungue wrestling in his back seat where his kids are supposed to fight over their ipads, and the guy loses a source of income he probably really needed, and gets branded being a homophobeâŚall for 15 bucks. And Uber, whose roolz state :âyou shouldnât touch or flirt with other people in the car,â and that thereâs âno sexual conduct with drivers or fellow riders, no matter what,â promptly bends the driver over a sofa, bangs away and then throws him under a bus.
Welcome to America, the Tolerant, I mean, of US, not you.
- I have legit received the âAwesome Riderâ award coast to coast, yo.
âReach outâ drives me mad. Whatâs wrong with contact?
âThe middle seat was open. We were just having a conversation throughout the ride and, at one point, we leaned over into the middle and peck-kissed,â Iovine told CNN. âThatâs genuinely all it was.â
Yeah sure⌠I donât know them but I can imagine that they were one those couples who misinterpret everything and just hungry for some âdiscrimination fightsâ
âReached outâ is how Americans now say, âI asked for help or admitted wrong doing even though I really didnât want to.â I use it all the time when talking to my administrators.
You mean "lottery tickets. Lots of people try to cash them in all the time now. Easier than getting a free âreparations cup of coffeeâ at Starbucks.
Case in point:
Shim had spoken out publicly following the incident, claiming she and her son, Nace, were chased down Route 7 by a vehicle loaded with people and driven off the road. She claimed the people then leapt from the car and began slamming her vehicle with baseball bats and a frying pan screaming racist insults. The Shims are black.
âMs. Shim made a written statement to us that she signed, indicating that she was in the car with her son, and we determined that to not be true,â said Maj. Robert Patnaude, Troop G commander. âThis is not considered a hate crime. The statements that Ms. Shim made werenât true because she wasnât there.â
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsnhOP76pcw
They sound pretty sober to me. Not getting the feeling it was about any more than the kiss. If so tough cookies for him, different cultures different customs.
It also implies a degree of complicity on behalf of the person being reached out to (the reachee?). âI tried to reach out to you, but you didnât take my handâ kind of thing. Itâs sneaky language. Iâll remember that every time I read/hear it.
Indeed. Any normal bloke with a couple of carpet munchers in the back seat is going to be adjusting his rear-view mirror.
Oh yeah, Iâm almost always in the wrong or totally lost when I use it.
Also, itâs the preferred passive aggressive way of getting someone to do his or her damn job.
From an ELL position though (which he may or may not be), when he said kissing was"Illegal" he could have meant âHarumâ or less ridiculously, âin violation of Uber rules.â The women got all bent out of shape by that.
Use it while it lasts, because Iâm pretty sure that it will become corporate bullshit very soon. People will see through it.
Sure because correcting, not rewarding stupidity is what Americans do these days.
ELL? I guess he meant Uber rules. Not surprising theyâd get bent out of shape though, they were getting kicked out of their ride after all. If it was just for a single kiss, I think the guy needs some cultural adaptation training or something. From the womenâs demeanor in the video Iâm more inclined to believe them.
It could have been a case of âletâs wind-up the (possibly Islamic) looking guyâ, but I agree itâs unlikely. Itâs a case of intolerance hitting intolerance. Iâm backing the intolerant lesbians who refused to be tolerant of the intolerant taxi driver.
Intolerant how? By not meekly accepting being kicked out of a cab? Or in some other sense?