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To flush slugs

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Romeoalpha · 05/10/2022 20:48

Inspired by the spider in the bin thread. Conscience pricking me a bit.

I have (had) a problem with slugs in the kitchen at night. They get in somewhere behind the fitted units but I’m not sure exactly where / how.
I dropped them outside for a while but they eventually came back.

So I started to flush any I found down the toilet. The slug problem is now very much reduced. I know that to flush the slugs was not kind. But was I unreasonable?

OP posts:
ErrolTheDragon · 06/10/2022 19:24

I wouldn't have thought they'd block the pipes, they're too slimy

HeckyPeck · 06/10/2022 20:41

PortiasBiscuit · 06/10/2022 18:25

Sometimes I really, really hope that there is reincarnation with some level of Karma!

I would jump in the toilet myself if I was reincarnated as a slug 🤢

user1487194234 · 06/10/2022 20:42

Any I find are flushed

BeserkGiraffe · 06/10/2022 21:44

Greenhillsfaraway · 06/10/2022 00:58

@BeserkGiraffe reread my previous post it applies to you !

Right. So you're calling me stupid. Care to explain why?

BeserkGiraffe · 06/10/2022 21:46

alwayscheery · 06/10/2022 15:18

I put them in the green garden refuse bin.

Oh dear. That's what I said I do, too. Apparently we are both stupid.

Greenhillsfaraway · 06/10/2022 21:48

@BeserkGiraffe it’s almost definitely now applies to you 😂 you can’t even understand why I directed you to my post to begin !

BeserkGiraffe · 06/10/2022 21:49

BeserkGiraffe
Eating a slig can paralyse or kill you, that's really scary.

Eeeek! I didn't know that🤢. He was given stuff to make him sick, salt water I think.

@CherryRipe1 so glad he was ok!! It's so dangerous, like in this tragic case.

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/australian-man-sam-ballard-who-was-left-paralysed-after-eating-a-slug-dies-aged-28-11545373

BeserkGiraffe · 06/10/2022 21:49

HeckyPeck · 06/10/2022 15:10

Or did a slug crawl onto your phone?

🐌 we've been busted 🐛

🤣🤮🧨

BeserkGiraffe · 06/10/2022 21:51

PortiasBiscuit · 06/10/2022 18:25

Sometimes I really, really hope that there is reincarnation with some level of Karma!

If I was a slug I'd want to die asap and move on to the next - I hope - less depressing and slimy life.

Suzi888 · 06/10/2022 21:54

Ive never had a slug in my house! Wtf! But it’s grim flushing them. Get a dehumidifier fgs. 🤮

Greenhillsfaraway · 06/10/2022 21:54

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BeserkGiraffe · 06/10/2022 21:55

Greenhillsfaraway · 06/10/2022 21:48

@BeserkGiraffe it’s almost definitely now applies to you 😂 you can’t even understand why I directed you to my post to begin !

No, I can't. Because you're being rude for no reason and not being able to read the thoughts - if we are to be generous about it - in your clearly irrational mind, is not a demonstration of stupidity. Would you care to explain why you are insulting me? Is it because I've said something horribly offensive that apparently nobody else who has read the thread has spotted, or is it just because you have no sense of humour?

BeserkGiraffe · 06/10/2022 21:56

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Ok....

I think you may need some medication.

Greenhillsfaraway · 06/10/2022 21:58

@BeserkGiraffe and you may need some compassion for nature and our world ! What gives you the right to kill things just because you don’t like the look of them ? There nothing more damaging than humans ! Put the slugs outside. Don’t bother to answer as I rather speak to the slug 😂

soundsystem · 06/10/2022 21:58

MakkaPakkas · 05/10/2022 21:01

My only reservation would be that they might climb back out of the toilet in the night and try to get me.

This would be my fear!

BeserkGiraffe · 06/10/2022 22:00

Greenhillsfaraway · 06/10/2022 21:58

@BeserkGiraffe and you may need some compassion for nature and our world ! What gives you the right to kill things just because you don’t like the look of them ? There nothing more damaging than humans ! Put the slugs outside. Don’t bother to answer as I rather speak to the slug 😂

Your reading comprehension needs some improvement.

At no point have I said I kill slugs. I said I put them into my green bin.

Are you feeling ok??

BeserkGiraffe · 06/10/2022 22:01

Don’t bother to answer as I rather speak to the slug 😂

It appears you may have spent rather too much time doing this already, given the level of intelligent engagement with the conversation.

Greenhillsfaraway · 06/10/2022 22:41

@BeserkGiraffe fess up you don’t like sharing your home with the sligs !! You need to brush up on your conversation !! The fact you are laughing about slugs being stood on etc. tells me everything I need to know about what sort of person you are !! Go on answer me back if it’s makes you feel like you have the upper hand !! Your garden what a joke lol

BeserkGiraffe · 06/10/2022 23:10

Ok. So, I laugh at some funny comments on the thread about "slugmaggedon" etc.

Some people have said they kill slugs on purpose. I said that I don't do that, I put them in the green bin with lots of stuff for them to eat inside.

And you for some incomprehensible reason choose me out of all of the posters on the thread to call "stupid" and have a go at. Repeatedly. Again, please can you explain why?

Why is me putting slugs in my green bin with plants worse than the various other things posters - who you haven't attacked personally , repeatedly, as you have me - have said that they do including:
*Drowning them
*Flushing them down the toilet
*Dehydrating them to death with bran/ salt

Etc.

Awaiting your rational response, probably forever.

BeserkGiraffe · 06/10/2022 23:13

And no, I have no slugs in my home. But I feel very sorry for the posters who do. If you love them so much perhaps you should provide your address, then the poor posters who do have slugs invading their houses will know where the slug sanctuary is and can send them all to you. Problem solved.

BeserkGiraffe · 06/10/2022 23:24

Hell, since you love them so much I'll even make the effort to post you any I find outside in future instead of putting them in the green bin.

You will be the saviour of slimy things, the great god of gastropods. You may have found your meaning in life.

What's your address?

AutumnScream · 07/10/2022 05:27

@BeserkGiraffe and you may need some compassion for nature and our world ! What gives you the right to kill things just because you don’t like the look of them ? There nothing more damaging than humans ! Put the slugs outside. Don’t bother to answer as I rather speak to the slug.

A man has the right to defend his castle. What right do the disgusting parasites have to break into my home? 😂

EveryFlightBeginsWithAFall · 07/10/2022 06:04

I get them in the livingroom . I used to put them outside but it didn't seem to help the problem. I now put them in the bin

speakout · 07/10/2022 06:06

Stay out od the garden if you don't like wildlife.

EveryFlightBeginsWithAFall · 07/10/2022 07:10

Yeah, not wanting dlugs in the house means I have a real hate of wildlife!

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