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[–] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago (13 children)

I'll add mine to the pile. When I was a lad, probably 10 or so, my family's back porch would frequently get overrun by slugs. I eventually got sick of accidentally stepping on them, so I got the salt shaker and a bunch of paper towels. To my memory I poured salt on a good 30 of them, though it was probably only 10 or so. Salted them, put the paper over them, then the next day came out to collect the bodies and throw them away.

28 year old me would beat 10 year old me's ass for that. Gotta hand it to him, though—those slugs never did come back to the porch.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 8 months ago (12 children)

I get the poor animals part, but this just seems like avarage shit you have to do in the countryside. Any good country folk know that (some) animals are your enemy, if there are wasps near your house? You kill them, their nest, wait for the extended family to search for their homes and kill them too. Now it's a much safer enviroment. Same with all rodents, same with all insects, same with slugs.. I guess, I never heard of a slug problem.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

if there’s kittens in your barn and one gets in front of your tractor that’s just life

farmer relative

country folks can be just cold blooded

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Sounds like the opposite of "just life" to me 😂

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

you are either metaphorically cold blooded or literally cold blooded in the country. gotta do what you gotta do.

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