Tiny Little Things That Cause You Irrational Rage

[LadyNorwood]

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> Slugs, especially stepping on them, especially in

> the dark, especially in bare feet.

I'm with you on this one - my cat hides in the bushes at night, then jumps on the bed, I put out my hand to stroke her only to discover half a dozen little slimers stuck in her fur - bleurgh.....

[Robert Poste's Child]

Yuck! As if the general slimeyness wasn't bad enough, I've seen slugs eating fox poo in the garden. They're one of the few creatures I don't mind killing (usually in a bucket of boiling water).

[Robert Poste's Child]

Men who combine the lycra-shrinkwrapped cyclist look with the full Old Testament prophet beard. It's just wrong.

[Twirly]

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> Yuck! As if the general slimeyness wasn't bad

> enough, I've seen slugs eating fox poo in the

> garden. They're one of the few creatures I don't

> mind killing (usually in a bucket of boiling

> water).

I keep a salt bucket in the garden (under cover) to deposit the little (and sometimes large!) slimers in... and snails too if they're going to nibble on something I don't want them to (our garden would be a desert otherwise).

Not sure it's irrational rage, but today insurance renewals are doing my head in!

[ultraburner]

Agree about the slugs RPC. I just get brutal with them (trowel) and hope that they reincarnate as an eagle or something useful.

Not seen that particular lycra/fast bike/beard combo yet.

[Robert Poste's Child]

Intrigued by the trowel. Do you chop or just splat? Both seem quite blood(slime?)thirsty but may be nicer for the slug than dissolving.

[ultraburner]

I chop, Robert.

And not sure about bloodthirsty...? Ask the dead slug?

[Salsaboy]

Why be nice to slugs? A little sprinkle of salt does for me. I like them to suffer.

[Robert Poste's Child]

All over London there are outwardly respectable people tiptoeing around their gardens brutalising slugs in the dark so their neighbours don't see.

[Help-Ma-Boab]

I've had a horrible flashback of me, slugs and matches as a kid...that wee air hole was made to hold a match...

[ultraburner]

Right.

I'm calling the RSPCS. I've heard enough.

[ultraburner]

Being asked to pay 9 quid return for a 4 stop journey on the tube the other day(3-4 miles) caused me a bit of rage.

Got the bus.

[aquarius moon]

Cruelty to tiny little things.

[Help-Ma-Boab]

Betting on horses but concerned with slugs.

[ultraburner]

It depends how tiny you want to go, aquarius.

Every mouthful of salad.... many aphids and microscopic creatures die a horrible death.

Cheese is even worse; its carnage.

And in other news: man swats fly in Barnet.

[Robert Poste's Child]

Help-Ma-Boab Wrote:

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> I've had a horrible flashback of me, slugs and

> matches as a kid...that wee air hole was made to

> hold a match...

Dear God! That one's going to haunt me.

[civilservant]

actually, I've come to appreciate slugs and snails.

Because they eat the fox poo, I don't have to clear it out of the garden! They eat weeds and plant cuttings too, so I don't have to work hard to bag garden waste up and then hope that the council takes it away. I've found that if they've got a decent supply of decaying vegetation, they'll generally leave live plants alone.

[maxxi]

I've 'pelleted' slugs and snails before now and left them where they 'fell' - taking a look the next day there are bugs and beetles, flies and spiders and all sorts riddling the bloated corpses and carrying off morsels for their grubs. Like a downed elephant consumed by hyenas, vultures, crocs and cats - a miniature Serengeti.

[Salsaboy]

Got any photos? Sounds like fun.

Help-Ma-Boab Wrote:

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> I've had a horrible flashback of me, slugs and

> matches as a kid...that wee air hole was made to

> hold a match...

[LadyNorwood]

I found a pair of big fat orange slimers "in flagrente" very much delicto this morning, curled round each other in a yin and yang pose - not for long, out came the Saxo (but at least they died happy).....

[Robert Poste's Child]

Just about to do the same to the pair feasting on the one I trod on in the dark last night. They're everywhere.

[Robert Poste's Child]

Waited in for someone who didn't bother to show up or let me know they were cancelling. Entire fcuking day wasted. So rude.

[BrandNewGuy]

People using the ?things that have irked me today? thread when they should be using the ?Tiny Little Things That Cause You Irrational Rage? thread.

[Salsaboy]

People complaining about people using the ?things that have irked me today? thread when they should be using the ?Tiny Little Things That Cause You Irrational Rage? thread.

[the-e-dealer]

shoulnt you post that on the youve posted on the wrong thread thread?