Slugs

Chris Gilbert bashed at the keyboard and said:

Big Issue !! ?
Big Issue !

This is not a authorised Big issue pitch. Go Away.
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Mike Thompson said:

Is it only me, or does everyone else find slugs repulsive horrible
creatures? I recently had to bivvy in a forrest, and woke to slugs every
where and anywhere. They were all over my pack, bivvy and I am still
finding them in corners of my kit now.

No, I'm afraid: I find them very beautiful! See
http://www.peewiglet.com/firstaid/ (second piccy) for beautiful slug.

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Any one know what the best way to avoid slugs is? Open field?? I had no
choice put to sleep under the trees that night before anyone says my fault!

Avoid slugs? Stay inside...

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Mike Thompson said:

Is it only me, or does everyone else find slugs repulsive horrible
creatures? I recently had to bivvy in a forrest, and woke to slugs every
where and anywhere. They were all over my pack, bivvy and I am still
finding them in corners of my kit now.

No, I'm afraid: I find them very beautiful! See
http://www.peewiglet.com/firstaid/ (second piccy) for beautiful slug.

Quoted message said:

Any one know what the best way to avoid slugs is? Open field?? I had no
choice put to sleep under the trees that night before anyone says my fault!

Avoid slugs? Stay inside...

Best wishes,
--
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On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:33:52 +0100
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Peewiglet <[email hidden]> wrote :

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Avoid slugs? Stay inside...

Nematodes!
Nematodes!
NEMATODES!

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But, in practice, there is.

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:33:52 +0100
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Peewiglet <[email hidden]> wrote :

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Avoid slugs? Stay inside...

Nematodes!
Nematodes!
NEMATODES!

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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
But, in practice, there is.

Peewiglet bashed at the keyboard and said:

No, I'm afraid: I find them very beautiful!

I am interested in the biology of slugs, but not face to face, wiping their
slime off everything and waking to that horrible cold slimy feeling when
you put your hand out in the dark to get something from your pack!

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See
http://www.peewiglet.com/firstaid/ (second piccy) for beautiful slug.

I found your site a few months ago, very good site, it is what pointed me
here in the first place!

The response to this is adequately put in the next post, in the form of
Nematodes! (And which are also the stuff of slug nightmares!) 🙂
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GSV Three Minds in a Can bashed at the keyboard and said:

Good eating too, apparently

I can think of better things!
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"GSV Three Minds in a Can" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Good eating too, apparently, although maybe not for breakfast. Or maybe
you have to be French.

Or a gameshow contestant.

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Outwith their role as pests in the artificial environments of gardens
and crop fields, slugs surely deserve our respect as fellow creatures.
Like any other organism, they are superbly designed, and have a
fascinating biology.

"__!!__"

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Russ Clare bashed at the keyboard and came up with:

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Agreed also. I was reacting to Michael's relish in unnecessary killing.

The "other" one....... 🙂

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On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:33:52 +0100, Peewiglet <[email hidden]>

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Quoted message said:

Is it only me, or does everyone else find slugs repulsive horrible
creatures? I recently had to bivvy in a forrest, and woke to slugs every
where and anywhere. They were all over my pack, bivvy and I am still
finding them in corners of my kit now.

No, I'm afraid: I find them very beautiful! See
http://www.peewiglet.com/firstaid/ (second piccy) for beautiful slug.

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PW - It's still a slug. A *pretty* slug, but still a slug. Yuk.

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Any one know what the best way to avoid slugs is? Open field?? I had no
choice put to sleep under the trees that night before anyone says my fault!

Avoid slugs? Stay inside...

But they climb up the inside of the flysheet and wait, at eye-level,
for me to unzip the inner and stare them in the eye (or the
deely-bopper)

I hate them. Bring on the nematodes!

Judith

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deely-bopper

?

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Mike Thompson said:

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deely-bopper

?

Erm, did I make that up?

They were head-bands with springs on. The springs had things on the
end. We wore them in the early 80's .... or was it the late 70's?

Someone must remember!

Judith

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Mike Thompson said:

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deely-bopper

?

Erm, did I make that up?

They were head-bands with springs on. The springs had things on the
end. We wore them in the early 80's .... or was it the late 70's?

Someone must remember!

Judith

Those alien type springy things? Only ever see them on Henpartys these days!

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On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:46:44 +0100, Bootlaces <[email hidden]>

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On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:33:52 +0100
in <news:[email hidden]>
Peewiglet <[email hidden]> wrote :

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Avoid slugs? Stay inside...

Nematodes!
Nematodes!
NEMATODES!

EEK!

<runs away screaming!>

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"__!!__"

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Russ Clare

Russ Clare said:

<FX ... A large, supposedly superior organism> "I can't tolerate these
disgusting little humans. Look at that one with a knackered knee - I'll
just put it out of its misery by tripping it up and placing my full
weight on its head."

Lol! I'd better hide fast, then! :-)

(I entirely agree, though. No squishing.)

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Mike Thompson said:

Peewiglet bashed at the keyboard and said:

No, I'm afraid: I find them very beautiful!

I am interested in the biology of slugs, but not face to face,

Face to face with a little distance in between is ok. Face *on* face
would be an entirely different sort of experience ;-)

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wiping their
slime off everything

Not easy, either!

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and waking to that horrible cold slimy feeling when
you put your hand out in the dark to get something from your pack!

Banana?

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Quoted message said:

See
http://www.peewiglet.com/firstaid/ (second piccy) for beautiful slug.

I found your site a few months ago, very good site, it is what pointed me
here in the first place!

Thank you! I'm very glad you liked it :-)

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The response to this is adequately put in the next post, in the form of
Nematodes! (And which are also the stuff of slug nightmares!) 🙂

Eek..... but slugs aren't nematodes, are they? Slugs are big enough
not to be scary, somehow...

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On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:19:42 +0100, Judith
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Quoted message said:

No, I'm afraid: I find them very beautiful! See
http://www.peewiglet.com/firstaid/ (second piccy) for beautiful slug.

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PW - It's still a slug. A *pretty* slug, but still a slug. Yuk.

Tut, tut... such prejudice! 🙂

[...]

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But they climb up the inside of the flysheet and wait, at eye-level,
for me to unzip the inner and stare them in the eye (or the
deely-bopper)

You've seen slugs wearing deely-boppers??!

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Judith said:

Quoted message said:

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deely-bopper

?

Erm, did I make that up?

They were head-bands with springs on. The springs had things on the
end. We wore them in the early 80's .... or was it the late 70's?

I think you must have fantasized them in some sort of psychadelic
moment!

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Someone must remember!

Um....

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