"Daily Web Site helps you select an appropriate response to bullying
on the playground, in the workplace, or in school."

 
 
         
         
 
 
         
   

"How to Disarm Mean People."

   
         
   
 

.com

 

"Serving up to 4,470 Web Pages
each day."

 
   
         
         
   

taxi1010.com

   
         
         
   

Publicity

 

More plugs here

 
   
         
 
 
         
         
 
 
         
   

18 October 2005

listenandlearn.org

   
         
   
 
   
   

 
   
   
 
   
         
   

Language School. Practice Languages — English, spanish, french, italian, german

   
         
   

Recommendations:

   
         
   

Learn French
http://www.listenandlearn.org
"You will not only improve your confidence and fluency in speaking, listening and understanding, but also extend your knowledge of grammar and vocabulary."

   
         
   

Learn English
http://www.taxi1010.com
Cultivating English as a Second Language on the Planet Soon -- Essential two-word phrases for dealing with the public, especially helpful for immigrants, who often get a job right away on "the front lines."

   
         
 
 
         
   

27 September 2005

Paul Burgess Blog

   
         
   

Paul Burgess

 

Pastor of Mt. Hope Presbyterian Church and St. John's United Church of Christ

 

"In mountainous northeasternmost Iowa."

 

let the finder beware

 

   
         
   

Not a Cough in a Carload!

   
         
   

Your first reaction may be, "What's this site up to, anyway?!"

I mean, divide all obnoxious pushy remarks into 88 categories or "stargates," in order to generate some zenlike rejoinder? Then you'll see it's humble deep wisdom for "non-escalating verbal self-defense — how to change the mood when people are mean":

"You should comb your hair, Peter."
— "Anything else?
— Either way you win."

"I don't know if I can trust you"
— "Just don't!"
(Backup: "Life is a two-way street,
as they say in Chicago.")

That's taxi1010.com. Check it out.

posted by paul @ 7:41 AM 0 comments Trackback (0)

   
         
 
 
         
   

6 August 2005

orangemagazine.com

   
         
         
   

   
         
         
   

Orange Magazine covers San Francisco style and culture

   
   

with an emphasis on local designers, artists, and businesses.

   
         
   

Browse This

   
         
   

Verbal Tools

www.verbaltools.com

 

This site was suggested to me by my cabbie one morning, who created and runs this site. It is quite possibly one of the oddest non-pornographic sites I have ever seen. Though the site bills itself as "preparation for hostile encounters with robotic people" for "executives, freshmen [and] jedi knights," it is better to behold than to describe. Take a look; it's just that strange.

   
         
   

posted by John Stafford, February 9, 2005

   
         
 
 
         
   

26 July 2005

Classical Tai Chi of Buffalo

   
         
   

Overcoming Without Fighting

   
         
   

"An ulterior motivation for this website is to investigate a long-standing hypothesis of mine that Tai Chi or 'self defense of the self' as a mind / body / spiritual discipline needs a verbal construct to make it complete ... For better or worse, verbal aggression at its prickly core is a form of communication ... My 'intuition' (which is highly prized as a methodology of 'learning spiritually' in Chinese Philosophy) tells me as well that there is a connection that needs to be bridged between the martial philosophy that is intertwined with Tai Chi and verbal self defense ... The method of Classical Tai Chi to 'keenly slice using the blade by finding the thinness and space between the joints' combined with Non Escalating Verbal Self Defense can not only cut clean but heal the wound as well."

   
         
   

–Jim Roach

   
         
 
 
         
   

26 July 2005

metafilter.com

   
         
   

   
         
   

Metafilter | Community Weblog

   
         
   

March 23, 2005

   
         
   

Can you never think of the right thing to say? Trouble relating in social circumstances? Maybe Taxi1010 can help ... Examine one of the many, many stargates (use this handy map, organized by stage of psychological development) ... read one of the many, many essays ... wherever you go it is an explosion of advice, comebacks, hypothetical situations, and who knows how many MSPaint masterpieces. Spend a minute, spend a day, spend your life trying to figure this site out.

   
         
   

posted by BlackLeotardFront at 4:40 PM PST (31 comments total)

   
         
   

http://metatalk.metafilter.com/mefi/9304 <== flaming

   
   

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/40798 <== mentalist

   
   

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/25559 <== kick bully

   
   

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/40672 <== taxi1010.com

   
         
 
 
         
   

24 July 2005

truthbomb.com

   
         
   

TruthBomb

   
         
   
     
 

Truthbomb.com – A Degree of Reality();

 
     
 

"We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges." --- Sir Winston Churchill

 
     
 

Some Interesting Web Sites();

 
     
 

Taxi1010 - beyond description

 
     
   
         
 
 
         
   

24 July 2005

psychotherapy.net

   
         
   

   
         
   

Psychotherapy.net provides a fresh fare of interviews with leading therapists of our time, high quality therapy videos, book reviews, humor, resources for therapists, and other ideas we have not yet dreamed. We hope this information will be a resource to which you, the therapist, will return time and again for inspiration and renewal.

   
         
   

Self Help and Client Resources

   
         
   

Non-Escalating Verbal Self Defense

   
   

Fascinatingly creative site.

   
         
 
 
         
   

14 April 2005

Die Republikein

   
         
   

   
         
   

A Daily Newspaper based in Windhoek, Namibia.

   
         
   

As daardie gevatte terugkap net nie ontbreek het

   
         
   

• Estelle de Bruyn

   
         
   

Op die webwerf www.taxi1010.com word ’n spesiale afdeling aan esprit d’escalier gewy. Een van die wonderlike hulpmiddels wat aanbeveel word om ’n mens uit so ’n onbenydenswaardige situasie te red, is om in enige gegewe ongemaklike situasie bloot te reageer met: “Net so.” As iemand na jou wys en smalend sê: “Daar het jy dit nou,” kap net terug met: “Net so.”

Wat sê ’n mens tog as iemand opmerk: “Mmmm, mooi baadjie. Ek sien almal dra dit deesdae,” of na jy jou voor die stoof afgesloof het en (na jou mening) ’n heerlike ete voorberei het en jou gas sê: “Wat het jy vandag met die vleis aangevang!” of “Jou hare lyk vandag soos ’n ontploffing in ‘n klapperhaarma-trasfabriek!”

   
         
   

[Complete article, in Afrikaans, here]

   
         
 
 
         
   

7 April 2005

favours2u.com

   
         
   

Scottie MacInally's 'FAVOURS'

   
         
   

Scunnered by the dearth of content-rich websites in cyber-space, Scottie MacInally, in Scotland, set out on a quest from which there will be no return . . . "What you'll find here will be links to websites I like because I find their content is of value for any number of reasons – although I've noticed that I'm increasingly drawn to the more unusual/quirky/obscure, as opposed to the mainstream."

   
         
   

WEIRD AND WONDERFUL

   
         
   

What's this all about then? According to its own description Taxi1010 is about Non-escalating Self-defense or 'How to Change the Mood If Someone is Mean'. Personally, I can't make out what the whole thing is really about and I suspect the authors have made the site intentionally confusing. Visit Taxi1010 to have a look and if you are none the wiser see Katherine Mieszkowski's article on one of the site's founders, Richard Hart.

   
         
 
 
         
   

4 September 2004

www.englishclub.com

   
         
         
   

   
         
   

English for ESL learners & teachers

   
         
   

Vocabulary > English Vocabulary Links

   
         
   

VerbalTools.com

   
         
   

Essential two-word phrases for dealing with the public.

   
         
 
 
         
   

25 May 2004

thegatesofparadise.com

   
         
   
 

HUMANS

 

Shape Poems by

 

DAVID DANIELS

 

==> Richard Ames Hart <==

 
   
         
 
 
         
   

14 March 2004

www.habermas.org

   
         
   

Dear Habermas

   
         
   

A Journal of Postmodern and Critical Thought Devoted to Academic Discourse on Peace and Justice

   
         
   

Volume 19, No. 8, Week of March 14, 2004

   
         
   

Professor Jeanne Curran, Department of Sociology, California State University

   
         
   

I'm taking my college kids on a flight to our Naked Space where we dream together and hear each other and paint and sculpt and trust each other. I sent them to your site. We could use your help.

Curious? You'll find the link under Play, near the end of the file, on

http://www.csudh.edu/dearhabermas/jcls1908.htm

Come fly with us. It's fun. jeanne

   
         
 
 
         
   

22 February 2004

sensibleerection.com

   
         
   

   
         
   

taxi1010.com - Non-escalating Verbal Self-Defense

   
   
 

quote [When someone attacks you with words, most people fight back, saying way too much, or they stifle themselves, saying nothing. However, when you respond in these ways, you can get into sort of a kicked-dog syndrome, barking helplessly, sulking around corners, or snapping at strangers. The way out is to say very little until you can contact the deepest parts of yourself and feel whole again.]

 

Don't bite, don't bark.

 

Click here to read the rest of this entry
[by k0k0peli@5:19amGMT]
[+7 Interesting] [12 comments]

   
         
 
 
         
   

16 December 2003

www.crank.net

   
         
   

   
         
   

Crank Dot Net is devoted to presenting Web sites by and about cranks, crankism, crankishness, and crankosity. All cranks, all the time.

   
         
   

Non-escalating Verbal Self-Defense

... sociology . psychology ...

 

"How can you defend yourself without getting into a fight? First of all, you don't want it to be perfect; you want it to be a little strange. Strange like Harry Potter, or the X-Men, or Bruce Lee. Maybe enigmatic. Maybe not! ... People are afraid they'll say the wrong thing, or they won't say enough. The way out is to say the 'wrong thing!' - that is, to practice little scripts. After a while, you'll loosen up. In all the attacks below, remember the underlying question being asked by the other person is, 'Do you like me?' [Thousands of one-line comebacks follow.]"

   
         
 
 
         
   

13 November 2003

FASCINOMAmusic.com

   
         
   

F A S C I N O M A

   
         
   

LINISTER: "Our music is lyrically-minded folk punk. We are sisters. Our hometown is Cleveland, OH. We currently live and sweat in LA."

 

   
         
   

FASCINOMA LINKS

   
         
   

Taxi1010 - San Francisco taxi driver/ex-IBM/Atari programmer Richard Ames Hart teaches you the art of non-escalating verbal self-defense and throws in illuminating (and often hilarious) commentary, essays, and other goodies on the way. Ignore the initial urge to flee and you'll be justly rewarded.

   
         
 
 
         
   

10 August 2003

www.jayde.com

   
         
   

   
         
   

Jayde.com Business Directory.

   
         
   

Taxi1010 Company Profile

   
         
   

About Taxi1010 ... How to handle verbal abuse, includes information about non-escalating verbal self-defense ....

   
         
   

Category ... Health > Mental Health > Psychological Abuse

   
         
   

ADVERTISING, CONTACT, OTHER (Annotated Internal Links), Quick Info, ....

   
         
 
 
         
   

15 June 2003

www.suite101.com

   
         
   
   
         
   

Home > Social sciences > Social problems and social services > Social welfare problems and services (People) > Verbal/Emotional Abuse >

   
         
   

DEWEY DECIMAL NUMBER: 362.8292

   
         
   

Resources (Resources and information regarding verbal and emotional abuse in different settings)

   
         
   

A Real Old-fashioned Art

How to handle verbal abuse, includes information about non-escalating verbal self-defense.

   
         
 
 
         
   

15 June 2003

science-and-research.com

   
         
   

   
         
   

/ Science / Social_Sciences / Communication / Interpersonal

   
         
   

Category Description: Interpersonal communication focuses on the study and practice of how individuals interact one-on-one. Although interpersonal communication draws on many concepts from psychology, it is usually taught in Communication departments.

   
         
   

 Taxi1010.com
Ideas vocabulary and daily comeback for defending against verbal violence. Also connects verbal attacks with underlying fallacies.
URL: http://www.taxi1010.com/

   
         
 
 
         
   

3 August 2002

http://bestpractice.net

   
         
   
 

 

"To improve teaching and learning in higher education through the dissemination of practical information about successful classroom strategies."

CAL POLY

POMONA

 

Resources and Links

 

taxi1010 - A Real Old-fashioned Art

 
Subject/Discipline:
Faculty Development
URL:
http://www.taxi1010.com/resource/forkids.htm
Submitter:
Richard Ames Hart
Submitter Email:
Richard@taxi1010.com
Submitter Organization:
taxi1010.com
Description:
Protect your inner child: Daily Web Site helps you select an appropriate response to bullying on the playground, in the workplace, or in school.
Text Body:
 
   
         
 
 
         
   

2 August 2002

muse-apprentice-guild

   
         
   
 

the muse apprentice guild

vol 01 :: no 001

 

PEOPLE GET IDEAS
by RICHARD AMES HART

Richard was born in Dodge City, Kansas in October of 1946.
He and his sister Amoret make web sites for the future of humanity.

 

Non-escalating Verbal Self-Defense

 
   
         
 
 
         
   

14 July 2002

recent e-mail

   
         
   

My Thoughts - Hello Richard, I have been exploring your site and getting acquainted with your thoughts. I have found them very enlightening, and have told all of my friends about it. Both of them! OK, so I'm not Mr. Popularity right now. But we are all real important. Anyway, I actually think you are really on to something here, and my thoughts are that it has applications in situations other than, or in addition to, verbal self-defense. General life skills, and that is a deep subject. I think your work is very, very important, and is the most unique, innovative contribution I have run into in a long time. I get around, too, watch TV, and everything. Talk to people now and then. Going through a particularly rough time in my life, I have needed the skills, and have noticed you hit the nail right on the head in several ways, about several things, several times. Way more therapeutic than most stuff I have run into, although the art therapy class was neat and got me into watercolors. I was in the hospital over the weekend, and I am OK now. "I am myself again." (The Madness of King George) The therapeutic nature of it has helped me to understand some things, and that was the most important aspect to me. But the main reason I think it has more general applications is the nature of your approach, using "It's closer to your libido, and to the part of you that dreams at night, which contains all the magic." That is what makes it so powerful and pertinent, I believe. This is some strong magic/medicine stuff, and a very interesting and innovative way to approach the problem and the need. I am still in a state of "wow"! It has been a while, and I am still wowing. I am amazed. Beyond genius. I am lucky I found it. Now I am on the site most days roaming about. I announced it as "a whole new level of human evolution and thought development." Thanks, John the Baptist

   
         
 
 
         
   

16 May 2002

www.hkleo.com

   
         
   

   
         
   

Learning Exchange Organisation Hong Kong Limited

   
         
   

"Facilitating the transfer of knowledge to individuals, business and government."™

   
         
   
LEO : Distance Learning : Student Resources : Learning Tools : How To Read a Difficult Book
   
         
   

The following short articles and Internet sites are intended to enhance your reading skills.

   
         
   

Non-escalating Verbal Self-Defense

   
         
 
 
         
   

4 May 2002

anonymous site