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I didn't mean to. I was carefully stepping over one which had taken residence on my doorstep, but as I but my foot down, Crunch. I killed my pet snails friend.

I feel a bit bad now.

Hell for you lad.  :nono:

  I did two coming in from the pub on Friday...don't know what they were up to.   PS this should be in the Boardroom section.

If I can go to hell for killing a snail then I'm already fucked.

I ran over one when I was pulling up my drive, so I don't reckon it felt much pain. It looked like his/her insides had squirted across the drive, about 6 centimetres I reckon.

I felt even worse when I saw its Mum and Dad waiting for him to return near my front door.

You seem to have given up coming to the vic after I finish work Reg. It's been a bit sparse of people I know of late. I didn't even bother last night.

  No still go ...its just I don't know what you look like any more :?

I don't look that different. Well I do a bit. But not loads.

I kicked a slug this morning.... :o

 TBF, Friday was the first time for a while I gave it a miss, due to being severely hammered and having a lot of shit to do on Saturday.

  I thought you'd probably given up going out drinking,  now your work was up to 30 odd hours a week....which is why I hadn't seen you.

What purpose do snails have? They used to leave interesting silver markings on my skateboard. That's about it.

  I like snails....think its something to do with Brian the Snail from the Magic Roundabout.....over in the Cotswolds, you can find quite large Roman snails, which were introduced by the Eyetie conquistadors, for eating.

   Unlike the French we've never really taken to this delicacy on our doorstep.

   http://notes.natbat.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/snailsmall.jpg

   Roman  snail

are you sure that wasn't a child?

anyway, no snails have been killed in my household but being the sole resident for the past three days i've been on spider and other bug killing duties. i estimate i've killed three spiders, dozens of midge/mosquito/fly hybrids and a couple of weird looking insects, one of which was nearly invincible.

hopefully the rain will get rid of some of the little blighters

I might have to do some tasty snail hunting one day. Don't you just soak them for a bit to wash away the grit and then cook them in lot's of garlic? Sounds easy. I might add some thyme. That sounds nice.

add some rhyme. serious hip-hop riddimz

I've had snails once, in garlic they were. They tasted of garlic and nothing else.

Anybody else suffering from I know I've got work tomorrow and should go to bed within about an hour or so but don't want to and would rather stay up drinking wine, smoking fags, watching crap and playing pokemonitus?

I've got that minus the pokemonitus. Half watching Match of The Day, bit shit today.

me too.

except i don't have to work tomorrow. \ :D /

Its impossible to avoid all the snails that are on my doorstep at the moment, must be the wet weather

yes :(

i ended up going to bed about midnight, couldn;t sleep til about 1, got woken up by my cat about 3 then woke up naturally at half 5, so gave up and got ready for work. i've been here since half 7 :?

nightmare scenario. I've still got to level up Vulpix loads before I let him evolve into ninetails. I should have played more pokemon and drank less.

Off to work hi ho or something.

Don't feel bad. It can't have been it's mum and dad, Snails are hermaphrodites.

There speaks the words of a genius

So any snail can give birth to another snail? Cool.

i suppose so, never really thought about it...

they still mate and lay eggs, so is more like any 2 snails can give birth to a load of littl'uns

 Now you're one step away from Masterchef,  I suggest  a foray into the Cotswolds to hunt down the tasty Roman snail...I know some good places up above Leckhampton...we could pick up Toni on the way....well maybe not the last bit, though she might like to be guinea pig for the Los Gatos snail fest.

 Apparently the Catalans are quite keen on a plateful.