Rogue slug (as found by broadgage in his lettuce starter) causes chaos in Japan

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Rogue slug (as found by broadgage in his lettuce starter) causes chaos in Japan

« on: June 22, 2019, 09:26:35 »

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-48729110

I thought the accompanying photograph was of the slug.......


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The wrong type of slug ??

« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2019, 12:09:49 »

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-48729110


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Re: The wrong type of slug ??

« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2019, 13:12:55 »

Already posted under the lighter side


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Re: Rogue slug (as found by broadgage in his lettuce starter) causes chaos in Japan

« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2019, 14:24:05 »

There is only one 'wrong type' of slug: I once had the misfortune of wasting many hours failing to learn about thermodynamics because my lecturer thought it much better to spend his and our time telling us about a system of units which in his opinion was far superior to SI, based on the 'slug'. I'm not making it up! Details are here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug_(unit)


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Re: Rogue slug (as found by broadgage in his lettuce starter) causes chaos in Japan

« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2019, 14:37:32 »

I thought such farces didn’t happen on foreign railway networks.


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Re: Rogue slug (as found by broadgage in his lettuce starter) causes chaos in Japan

« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2019, 22:00:27 »

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The name "slug" was coined before 1900 by British physicist Arthur Mason Worthington,

There's a slug in my Worthington! Do they really serve Worthington's on Japanese trains? Roll Eyes


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Re: Rogue slug (as found by broadgage in his lettuce starter) causes chaos in Japan

« Reply #6 on: June 23, 2019, 16:06:45 »

I don't know about Japan - but there has been at least one on the loose in my house over the last week or so - and so far I haven't found it!


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