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Title: Rogue slug (as found by broadgage in his lettuce starter) causes chaos in Japan Post by: chuffed 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....... Title: The wrong type of slug ?? Post by: Clan Line on June 22, 2019, 12:09:49 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-48729110
Title: Re: The wrong type of slug ?? Post by: chuffed on June 22, 2019, 13:12:55 Already posted under the lighter side
Title: Re: Rogue slug (as found by broadgage in his lettuce starter) causes chaos in Japan Post by: Red Squirrel 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)
Title: Re: Rogue slug (as found by broadgage in his lettuce starter) causes chaos in Japan Post by: IndustryInsider on June 22, 2019, 14:37:32 I thought such farces didn’t happen on foreign railway networks.
Title: Re: Rogue slug (as found by broadgage in his lettuce starter) causes chaos in Japan Post by: Bmblbzzz on June 22, 2019, 22:00:27 Quote 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? ::)Title: Re: Rogue slug (as found by broadgage in his lettuce starter) causes chaos in Japan Post by: bobm 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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