h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

slugs are still ick. And gungy. And eurghh.

And the deliberately hide behind things I want to pick up so the first I know is when I get that slimey squidgy feeling as I grasp a plank of wood.

You like em so much, you can come take mine!

Speaking of noisy slugs/snails......


...I once (accidently i hasten to add) trod on a slug. Well, t'was in my mates living room, i wasnt expecting it to be watching E-Enders with us
The noise of the skin splitting is just sooooo revolting, i'm terrified of them now...

When it rains i'll walk in the road at night to make sure i dont accidently tread on any!

Slugs actually *like* slithering around on roads when it rains. At least, they seem to make a sport of it up my way.

Maybe they're playing Chicken.

Nah, they seem to stick to the pavements round here, and like i say, the sound of them cracking goes right through me, i stay well away from them.... Slimey beasties!!

you have to admit, when it comes to survival of the fittest and evolution, you'd have thought by now that slugs and snails would have evolved to not go slithering around on roads and pavements at night.
My parents front door path/step used to be a favourite gathering ground for them and when I used to turn up a little merry at midnight the crunch crunch crunch underfoot was most disquieting (OK, I *did* try to avoid them but they seemed to be having a party or something and there was barely a patch of ground where a size 9 could go without hitting something!).

Traveller in Time on his head
"< A2952533 >
'Bungee Jump' or 'Snails Love Tree' ?"

My moms drive was the same, infact, her whole streets a gathering area for the local slugs/snails. Can remember many a night coming back from the local a little merry Ended up a right game trying to get up the whole of the street without stepping on one!
I remeber when i was really little tho, a certain street i used to live on had a similar problem, only there it was worms, thousands of worms!!

No wonder i have a terrible in-built fear of all things wriggly

Shells are useful in the winter, for gritting the paths, but so is the ash of any animal thats been cremated Snail still vibrating?

Ewwwwwwww!!!

Thats evil!

Broken up egg shells are good for stopping the slimy little fellas from chomping ya plants too Apparently they don't like anything sharp Never tried it myself but am told it works!

Salt works well enough fr me
They really dont like that do they! Discovered that when i was a kid!

The things that amuse us when we're kids eh! Think its mingin now

ooooooooooooh thats cruel

Least my way they just get cut to ribbons, not slowly dehydrated to a horrible death!

Think I'll be cremated when I die and have my ashs scattered over the driveway when its snowy on the ground eggs had an omlette yesterday for lunch Can't decide what take away to get tonight though, which is awkward as I'm quite peckish and there arn't any vibrating snails or slugs about

Yeah your way they just get to bleed (do snails/slugs "bleed") to death painfully! Thats crueller than mine!!

Can't think of a nicer way for the little blighters to go The longer and more painful the better

I'm at work so the choice of take-away isn't an option I'd go for chinese tho

Yummmmmm!!

I got chips n curry sauce if that takes yer fancy 2legs

but you had Chinese last night Tsarina
be more adventurous

shhhhhhhhhhhhhh BC - stop sneaking up on me will ya You'll give me a heart attack

I got a chicken caesar wrap for tonite

eaten I'm not very advernturous anymore... I should have had chinese or curry/Indian or something, went for kebab instead

Mmmmmmmm like kebabs

My daughter works in the local pizza/kebab house and they do a mean mixed grill kebab in there 1/2 chicken kebab and 1/2 doner with buckets of salad and garlic and chilli sauce............just as well I sleep alone