Learn Something New, Etc. Etc.

Did you know that the word "slug" is classed by the Worcestershire library's computer system as a "key word that can lead to websites of a pornographic nature"?

No, nor did we. 

But thanks to clicking on a link labelled "slug"* on the RSPB website during our quest to find out about woodland creatures for a science lesson mother was planning, we do now. 

...Yeah.

     The librarian we talked to - upon being confronted with a white screen containing a big red circle with a cross in it rather than the page of pertinent facts complete with helpful picture that we had been presented with when we had clicked on all the other links (fox, wasp, robin, beetle etc.) - couldn't explain the reason the safety filter that Worcester County Council had set up to protect innocent library computer users from "inappropriate content" had decided that, either. 

...and no. 

     We don't want to know what slugs can possibly have to do with pornography, either.

Learn something new, eh?

Alice xxx

* in case anybody is interested, this is what the link we clicked on should have led us to: 

http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/wildlifegarden/atoz/s/slug.aspx 

As pornography goes, I'm sure you'll agree, it's pretty disappointing.

     Ah well. 

     =shrugs=