The General Chat Thread (2026)

Getting rear-ended by a distracted driver while stopped for traffic was not how I planned to start my morning. His car was totaled and had to be towed. I drove mine home with the rear window blown out, hopped into another vehicle, and resumed my drive in to work. I'm just glad the crock pot full of chili I made for the office "pot luck" didn't spill too badly or I would have been pissed. 😜
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karadekoolaid said:
Probably checking his tik tok messages... :hyper: :laugh:
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He claimed that he had his head down while trying to retrieve an energy drink that he'd dropped on the floor, so he never saw that traffic was stopped. Not a bright thing to do while rolling through town at 25-35 mph. 🧐 He was apologetic, at least.
Barriehie said:
Yep, ramming is best done with the other end of the vehicle...

(I've got a piece of train track on my truck... 👍)
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The good news is that my bike rack probably absorbed some of the impact and helped to minimize damage to my car. I figured as much, and then the body guy confirmed it when I dropped my car off at the collision center this afternoon. 👍
 
Whn you drive you have two responsibilities - to be aware of everything around you, even when stopped, and to drive in manner that is 100% safe to you, your passengers and, heaven forbid, other road users. Driving, and riding, in that manner has resulted in my only being in one serious accident after driving for 51 years when an irresponsible, immature 17 yo female on a cell phone slamming into me at an estimated 45 MPH while I stopped in a construction zone with no where to go and never had an accident (or even a close encounter) despite riding for 35 years.

People here call it defensive riding/driving ... I call it common sense and being responsible.
 
I think people fail to realise that they put their lives in the hands of the driver each and every time they get into a vehicle. IF that was made much clearer to people, passengers might just start paying more attention to what the driver is NOT doing (attention on the road for instance) and opt out of being the passenger. I know that there are plenty of people I will not get in a vehicle with as a passenger (most of them are my family!)
 
I think i might have to buy a new electric toothbrush. My old one is starting to play up. It have be no notice it needed charging and went straight to too flat to brush my teeth mode. It's been charging for over 48hrs note and is still not fully recharged.

I bought it back in
June 2014 in Waitrose in Northwich, Cheshire
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SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
I think i might have to buy a new electric toothbrush. My old one is starting to play up. It have be no notice it needed charging and went straight to too flat to brush my teeth mode. It's been charging for over 48hrs note and is still not fully recharged.

I bought it back in
June 2014 in Waitrose in Northwich, Cheshire
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You could try to open it up at the back and place a new rechargable battery, if you can find the right size
 
Morning Glory said:
Why do you hate it?
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A few reasons:

1. The hyper-vibration is very unsettling, especially if the back of the head of the toothbrush touches my teeth - it makes my whole head vibrate, and it’s a very uncomfortable sensation.

2. It stimulates my saliva response, and in short order, my entire mouth is filled with foamy toothpaste spit, which collects in that little pocket between my bottom front teeth and the inside of my bottom lip, and one very slight wrong move sends it all down the front of my shirt.

3. That same goopy goop makes the whole toothbrush assembly gunky. It gets coated in minty slobber after each use. Every time I use it, I have to clean it top to bottom, taking the head off and all that.

The hygienist who told me to get it insisted that I had to have it and that I was endangering my teeth otherwise and it was imperative to start using one immediately. I used it for about three months and stopped, it was so aggravating. The next time I went in, I had a different hygienist, and she said my teeth were fine and if I didn’t like the sonic torture device to stop using it, because it was all mostly hype anyway, and if a person brushed properly, a standard toothbrush was fine.
 
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