On the BBC news channel earlier I saw an item about a rat in a New York subway carriage. There was some telephone footage of good quality.
The people in the carriage were screaming and lifting their feet off the floor as the quite small rat ran up and down in terror.
Many of the screams, and many of the feet jumping up on the seats, were male.
Hell's bells, what is the world coming to? I can see that doing the obvious thing and giving the rat a hefty kick, or stomping on it, might result in censure from animal lovers. But restraint is one thing, shrieking and pulling up your skirt is another. Will these people be able to defend us against the Russians, Islamists and so on? Me don't tink so.
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