The Ryno Pen

We were half-watching this NZ police reality show, Motorway Patrol, while having a cuppa and waiting for a show Herself really wanted to see. It’s a fairly innocuous piece of fluff: the NZ cops are so polite, and the perpetrators are generally gormless, as well as mostly harmless.

A particularly unrepentant driver on this evening’s episode struck a resonant note with both of us. He had exactly the kind of “entitled to do anything and you’re so wrong to pull me up” air about him as one of our delightful neighbours.

Regular readers of the old LiveGerbil will possibly remember Little Shouty Man, aka The Angry Budgie. He’s the one who likes to kick his dog when he’s unhappy, and stupid enough to try and disguise his car by using expired plates from a junked car last registered to him. The guy who tried to terrorise us with joke-shop fart bombs under our closed window…

“That man,” I said to Herself, “is full of attiturd.”

So there we be.

Attiturd, n: Pride, insolence and fecal matter, admixed in equal parts.

Late Edit: Dorothy Gambrell’s marvellous Cat And Girl webcomic has a nice shiny new word too: here.