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28 novembre 2025 à 12:32
A change of heart on the search for a GHS down by the Thames before discovering the growing trend for ‘posting zero’
The hunt is apparently on in London for the German hairy snail. OK. I have an idea. Why don’t we NOT search for anything called “the German hairy snail”? In fact, I have an even better idea – why don’t we not search for any kind of “hairy snail”. I would go even further and suggest not searching for anything “hairy” at all because that is second only to “mucus” in the list of world’s worst words. But I will settle for not searching for the thing that unassailably evokes the two in grotesque combination.
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© Photograph: Gino Brignoli/PA

© Photograph: Gino Brignoli/PA

© Photograph: Gino Brignoli/PA