Non-motoring > The Slug and Toilet... Miscellaneous
Thread Author: Ambo Replies: 18
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 Tue 5 Jun 18 14:29 
 The Slug and Toilet... - Ambo
... may sound like the name of a trendy pub but refers in fact to a nasty shock I have just had. In the rather too may decades of my life, I had never before found a slug in a toilet bowl. It was just under the rim, which it evidently could not navigate. It was thinner than the garden variety and less dark. What a menace! Anyone less observant than me could have sat down and formed an unwelcome attachment. How could it have got there, other than via the sewer - but can slugs swim? It certainly had a chance to find out a few seconds later, when I returned it whence it must have come. Luckily, I kept a cool head; people have dialled 999 for less.
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 Tue 5 Jun 18 17:05 
 The Slug and Toilet... - Robin O'Reliant
Perhaps you'd passed it on your previous visit. You're not itching down there, are you?
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 Tue 5 Jun 18 17:55 
 The Slug and Toilet... - Pat
Well, they can't swim because gardeners drown them in little trays of beer.

So it didn't come round the U-bend.

Pat
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 Tue 5 Jun 18 18:10 
 The Slug and Toilet... - Manatee
Hate to be pedantic, but they can't swim in beer.

Occam's razor and all that, I think it came from round the bend.

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 Tue 5 Jun 18 18:20 
 The Slug and Toilet... - Pat
Well, I hate to be pedantic but they can't swim in milk either!

Pat
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 Tue 5 Jun 18 19:33 
 The Slug and Toilet... - John Boy
Medicinal leeches can swim AND travel over land. :-))
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 Tue 5 Jun 18 22:09 
 The Slug and Toilet... - Duncan
>> Hate to be pedantic, but they can't swim in beer.
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>> Occam's razor and all that, I think it came from round the bend.

Nah. William of Ockham was almost a neighbour of mine.

Mr Sluggy came over the rim.
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 Tue 5 Jun 18 19:42 
 The Slug and Toilet... - Haywain
As a famous group once sang, 'It came in through the bathroom window'.

We frequently find them in the conservatory, though not at this time of year.
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 Tue 5 Jun 18 21:01 
 The Slug and Toilet... - Bromptonaut
Place we lived in Watford had loo/bathroom downstairs behind kitchen.

Now and then a slug would wander under the back door and onto the kitchen floor only to be trodden on while on night time leak trip.
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 Tue 5 Jun 18 21:17 
 The Slug and Toilet... - Fullchat
Count your blessings!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkGYGToUsNA
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 Tue 5 Jun 18 21:25 
 The Slug and Toilet... - Manatee
They do leave a helpful trail don't they? If you can't see one, then it came round the bend!

Maybe it's a water snail?
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 Tue 5 Jun 18 21:42 
 The Slug and Toilet... - Cliff Pope
They like damp places, and have an amazing ability to make themselves very thin to get through cracks under doors and round windows.
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 Tue 5 Jun 18 23:07 
 The Slug and Toilet... - bathtub tom
On a holiday in Spain, I looked into the bowl (don't we all?) to inspect the deposit and was alarmed to see a load of maggots!!!!
Never did find the source, although I suspected a salad the previous day, but had no more evidence or any other symptoms.
Could maggots have come through me?
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 Tue 5 Jun 18 23:21 
 The Slug and Toilet... - Zero
I once poo'd on a Frog in the toilet on the island of Rawa. (rawa was a little more basic then). There was no light, it made a right ole noise, made me jump up, and then in the confusion I stepped on the poo covered amphibian after it leapt out the bowl.
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 Wed 6 Jun 18 07:11 
 The Slug and Toilet... - R.P.
We had a teacher nicknamed "Harpic" - mainly because he was clean round the bend..
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 Wed 6 Jun 18 13:14 
 The Slug and Toilet... - Rudedog
Seen them on fur of my pets after they've been out in the garden.
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 Fri 8 Jun 18 08:23 
 The Slug and Toilet... - Harleyman
>> I once poo'd on a Frog in the toilet on the island of Rawa.


Reminds me of the old gag about the drunk who threw up all over a dog and said "Can't remember eating that......"
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 Fri 8 Jun 18 10:21 
 The Slug and Toilet... - bathtub tom
Max Boyce has a long rambling tale about crapping on a tortoise. Final line was it 'looking like a Viking helmet'.
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 Thu 7 Jun 18 20:38 
 The Slug and Toilet... - Kevin
A friend in Namibia was born in Northern Rhodesia before his family were kicked out when it became Zambia. His parents had bought a farm and the loo was an outside corrugated iron affair with a water tank on top to hold water for the cistern.
He'd gone out to the loo one evening with a torch and opened the door to see two cobras, one each side of the toilet bowl. He jumped out backwards screaming and his father came running out of the house with a pump action thinking that they had intruders. When they opened the door again the snakes had gone. Presuming that they had climbed the pipework up to the roof his father emptied the pump action into the top of the loo destroying the cistern and tank. They never found the snakes but regretted the busted toilet for days.
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