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Login/Join to ParticipateHoP's Barman. Trapped aged 6 months
4,437 posts
Location: Staines, United Kingdom
This is quite posibly the worst thing I can do, I hate it when i do it by accident, having just done ti coming in from work i feel like crying.
Whats he worst thing is they neevr seem to grow a new shell or anythin, they jsut sit there n die which makes me feel worse cos you knwo the moment u step on them thats it,
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Location: Hampshire College, MA, USA
You're just driving natural selection; getting rid of the snails without titanium shells. Be proud that you're helping the driving force of evolution!
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15,417 posts
Location: South Wales
or maybe they will evolve into superspeedy snails that can see you about to step on them and slime off out of danger?
newbie
10 posts
Location: Brighton, United Kingdom
Damn it he's got a point and were a million years away from stoppin the buggers comin back!
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Carpal \'Tunnel
5,814 posts
Location: Perth, Australia
Its a horrid feeling stepping on them. Worse than dog poo but less stcky
Or when kids hold them and play with them and they start bubbling.
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veteran
1,228 posts
Location: on the wrong planet, United Kingdom
Either they were somone in a past life who deserved to be trod on, or they deserve to be reincarnated as something else.
I recon slugs and snails can move at lightspeed in the right conditions, so long as no-one is looking at them. They move huge distances when I turn my back on them, if they're on a nice wet lawn.
Why has no-one made a horror movie about carnivorous snails?
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HoP's Barman. Trapped aged 6 months
4,437 posts
Location: Staines, United Kingdom
hmmmm what a good idea *ponders*
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind
Give a man a fish and he'll eat 4 a day hit a man with a brick and you can have all his fish and his wife
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mischeivious pixie
291 posts
Location: Sydney, Australia
its just that horrible crunching noise they make you step on them.....yuk...its making me feel funny just thinking about it lol
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1,359 posts
Location: London/ Surrey
Oh good it's not just me. Stepping on a snail is genuinely upsetting.. that pathetic little crunch that can't be fixed and sorry won't help! So much guilt
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Macaque of all trades
8,738 posts
Location: wombling free..., United Kingdom
i got snails in my fish tank and one was floating around.
I watched as the little bugger climbed out of his shell to release an air bubble, he sank like a stone and ran off. they is crafty
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1,530 posts
Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
i too hate that crunch...............;who doesnt
ive recently moved to a rather iut of the way part of my city and when it rains about a million of them are on the paths roads....everywhere and its not a terribly well lit area so its almost unavoidable
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Location: London/ Surrey
I move them, when it's been raining and they're all on the pavement... even if it means stopping every 15 metres
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Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
aww you are a credit to the snails
thank you for making the world a better place lol
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Location: Guelph, ON, Canada
I haven't seen a snail for a long time... hmm...
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1,228 posts
Location: on the wrong planet, United Kingdom
Has anyone else eaten snails?
You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.
Green peppers, lime pickle and whole-grain mustard = best sandwich filling.
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326 posts
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
one of the kids stepped on a snail by accident and bless him he spent the next about five minutes sat there trying to figure out how to put the shell back on before giving it to an adult to do.
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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
That's so cute!!
I hate stepping on them as well...however I do like throwing them. Especially in Romania where my students are scared of them and are distracted from their work because they are staring at one (yes, i used to let my students work outside)...so i picked it up and threw it away. only to be told by one of my students that God would smite me. I told him God would smite him for ignoring authorty...on second thoughts, that was probably a mean thing to say to an 11 year old!
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
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Location: on the wrong planet, United Kingdom
Snails in fishtanks are a bit like cockroaches, but slower. You turn on the lights and they start dropping off the glass.
Garden snails make pretty patterns on my tent, and like to congregate under the flysheet when it's 3 in the morning and all misty.
I'm always throwing snails into a tasty looking patch of plants if they're caught out on the pavement
You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.
Green peppers, lime pickle and whole-grain mustard = best sandwich filling.
Mistress of Pink...Multicoloured
6,140 posts
Location: Over There, United Kingdom
I too hate stepping on snails, I used to do it a lot by accident, but i, luckily, haven't stepped on one for ages
Although i often find quite a few dead ones near my front door thanks to my cat.. he seems to like bringing back dead snails
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Location: on the wrong planet, United Kingdom
My cat prefers frogs
You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.
Green peppers, lime pickle and whole-grain mustard = best sandwich filling.
mischeivious pixie
291 posts
Location: Sydney, Australia
my cat leaves mouse heads on our door step...nice!?
"I dont want no fatty bumbum, i want a lean mean shagging machine" anon
"I'm sweet and wholesome with a little bit of filth thrown in"
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Golf buggie driving instructor
156 posts
Location: Brisvegas, Australia
Written by: spacey
my cat leaves mouse heads on our door step...nice!?
..so thats where hes putting the heads. well i have quite a few bodies and... well... im gonna have to go and ask for those heads back. UPS works best for me.
I always get that snail thing and its so hopeless. as soon as you hear the start of the crunch you know its all over and it rains here hard alot so their always out. i hate it.
i have eaten them tho and quite like the taste.
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,099 posts
Location: Bideford and Bath, United Kingdom
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That's so cute!!
I i picked it up and threw it away. only to be told by one of my students that God would smite me. I told him God would smite him for ignoring authorty...on second thoughts, that was probably a mean thing to say to an 11 year old!
your sooooo mean
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Carpal \'Tunnel
3,533 posts
Location: Hampshire College, MA, USA
But, it's true! God smote me once when I ignored authouthority.
Or, mabey those kids weren't acting through His ineffable will when they beat me up, the world will never know.
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*slou?
6,554 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia
it is a strange thing. stepping on snails. i usually hop around to avoid them, making sure they don't get squished. otherwise i feel very mean. they are very interesting creatures, you know. they appear simple.. but you know, they are interesting, like most creatures infact. they are hermaphrodites, meaning they have both male and female reproductive organs, some have been known to live up to 15 years, and also cannot hear.
anyway.
Carpal \'Tunnel
6,942 posts
Location: London, UK
cool
dont they sence vibratiosn with their entire foot? so they're whole body act a lil like an 'ear' (but they process it more to get better idea of whats around?) anyway i ahte stepping on them but wouldnt mind trying em
i hate it when you find worms on the pavement and they look all dried up and lonsome
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Carpal \'Tunnel
3,136 posts
Location: Warwickshire, United Kingdom
whats the difference (other than you paid someone else did the dirty dead for you), and why is it more distressing, to stand on a snail or eat meat? They both involve unnessecary death.
Carpal \'Tunnel
6,942 posts
Location: London, UK
i wouldnt say i find it distressing when i stand on a snail jst a lil sad - its one of those sounds
and its a waste of good food
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Location: London/ Surrey
The difference is I don't eat a snail after I tread on it, but I eat a fish if I catch it. Both can be deemed unnecessary, but (don't know if you agree with me or not) a death for no purpose whatsoever, where the body is wasted, is worse to me than one where it is not.
The optimist claims that we are living in the best of all possible worlds.
The pessimist fears this is true.
Always make time to play in the snow.
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