Amorous toads

[oursin]

This was in one of my inboxes this am (ironically, Mme C-C-'s):

Nice to connect beyond work
Hi,
We’ve crossed paths around the office a few times, and I’ve been meaning to say hello. I recently joined a dating site and thought it might be easier to connect there outside of work.
If you’re open to it, here’s my profile: [redacted link]
You’ll need to sign up to view it.
No pressure at all—just an invitation to chat in a space that isn’t tied to corporate email.
Either way, wishing you a great week.
Best,
A colleague

How creepy is that? (sending it in to phishing reporting).

(Or maybe run it past Ask A Manager???)

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Actually, it is a bit of an insult to bufo bufo to characterise anyone doing this sort of thing as a toad, no? Especially when the poor things are currently suffering a good deal in their quest for LUHRRVVV: can Britain’s toads be saved from traffic and terrible decline?

(No, they are not zipping around doing dangerous driving in fast cars, parp-parp, like Mr Toad.)

They are trying to get to suitable mating areas:

toads like large ponds. Their ability to stay out of water for longer than frogs, means they can travel further to reach them – sometimes hundreds of metres, Petrovan says. They tend to stick to their ancestral migration routes – it’s common for adult toads to return to their birth pond to mate.

This is why the toad crossed the road.

I think I have heretofore mentioned the people who help toads to do this thing: in fact it's a bit of a recurrent theme.... (going way back).

Comments

[antisoppist]

I have had baby toads in my hall twice recently and an offspring was delayed getting home yesterday because she had seen two in the weeds outside the front door. I'm not sure the weeds outside the door are the best place for toadlets to be living but at least they haven't been run over and perhaps they are on their way somewhere.

[davidgillon]

Actually, it is a bit of an insult to bufo bufo to characterise anyone doing this sort of thing as a toad, no?

It would be a bit of an insult to slime-moulds, never mind toads!

[silveradept]

My, what a forward bit of spam. I daresay that Madame C- C- would not be disposed favorably toward someone who did not go through proper introductions and also meant to draw her toward some competitor's house to pursue them.