This Hurt

[outrun]

@BJL try calling Phil Harmer at Stormcatcher Law for an opinion. He’s a motor law expert and may have come across this before. Tell him Athol said hi ! PM me for his number if you like.

 

[alfatwo]

Back the 70's someone would have pulled a 9mm and that would of been the end of it!

Dave

 

[lifes2short]

Back the 70's someone would have pulled a 9mm and that would of been the end of it!

Dave

a 44 magnum would of done a better job

 

[midlifecrisis]

Hi Barrie, glad you're ok and have replaced the car. What a terrible situation to be in.
As complis mentis persons we'll never know what goes through the mind of the insane.
That's why I could never be in insurance.

 

[BJL]

@BJL try calling Phil Harmer at Stormcatcher Law for an opinion. He’s a motor law expert and may have come across this before. Tell him Athol said hi ! PM me for his number if you like.

Thanks for the tip but Zurich are all over it and their legal team are currently active so better not rock their boat. Zurich have offered to pay me the value of the car and we are in negotiation. May take a while but these things do.

Thanks Martin and yes it is a difficult one not being a spanner short of a tool set myself although I have been called a spanner.
What concerns me about todays society is that the genuine cases of mental illness are being missed because it seems mental illness or as it is now referred to as having 'Mental Issues' appears to cover all the below and are clogging up the system for the desperate which is really sad.

Not getting enough likes
Not been congratulated on anything and everything you do
Being dissed by a so called friend
Not being able to accept failure
Not being able to handle disappointment
Concerns of body appearance (lips , eyebrows, fillers, bottoms)
Work pressure
Weight problems
Impotence (this one just needs a stiff talking to)

All of which can pi55 you off but none should be categorized as a mental issue. In my opinion anyway and sorry if i have offended anyone. I blame Ginge and Winge

 

[philw696]

Well one thing everybody should try at least once is being self employed.
You would soon learn to deal with many issues in life that's for sure on top of being educated in the UK during the 60's and 70's.
You soon toughened up buttercup.

 

[MarkMas]

..... What concerns me about todays society is that the genuine cases of mental illness are being missed because it seems mental illness or as it is now referred to as having 'Mental Issues' appears to cover all the below and are clogging up the system for the desperate which is really sad.

Not getting enough likes
Not been congratulated on anything and everything you do
.....
Weight problems
Impotence (this one just needs a stiff talking to)

All of which can pi55 you off but none should be categorized as a mental issue. In my opinion anyway and sorry if i have offended anyone. I blame Ginge and Winge

Well one thing everybody should try at least once is being self employed.
You would soon learn to deal with many issues in life that's for sure on top of being educated in the UK during the 60's and 70's.
You soon toughened up buttercup.

While I think it is common for some people, and the Daily Mail, to imagine that 'buttercups' who are sad they haven't been congratulated enough are somehow 'clogging up the system', I don't think actual mental health professionals are at all confused or distracted by this sort of issue compared with real mental illness. While I'm as much of a fan as anyone for giving whingers a stiff talking to, to toughen them up, I think that people do have genuine minor problems with stress, weight etc, which can and should be addressed with some practical support, and not just dismissed by the people who are lucky enough not to have had these problems, or who have 'fixed themselves'.

But I'm pretty sure that the general moaning that the Press likes to highlight to enrage people is both nothing new, and nothing at all to do with the capacity or willingness to engage with actual mental illness.