To think this is pathetic behaviour from a professional broadcaster?

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Sheila Fogarty freaking out because there is a mouse in the studio.

www.youtube.com/watch?&v=uAcniOCKtug

Pathetic IMO, and makes women look bad. In WW2 the news presenter continued reading the news while Broadcasting House took a direct hit from a bomb. How far we have fallen since then!

My ankles go funny and twitchy when I see the word mice. Ugh.

Is that an option for a BBC presenter who has not previously encountered rodents at work?

I just think the BBC needs to hire presenters with a bit of backbone. I don't listen to Sheila Fogarty so I don't know what she's like normally. I don't like Victoria Derbyshire who they have on in the morning, she's just tedious and smug.

Why should she do something to get over her fear? If it doesn't effect her on a daily basis and its only once every few years she sees one its not worth the hassle really.

Are you going to do something about your fear of crocodiles?

Mice are commonplace in buildings, even if you don't see them they are there.

Crocodiles are not commonplace in this country, unless you work in a zoo or nature reserve.

Harriet
Can you not find an ounce of empathy for someone who has a phobia - one that probably doesn't bother her often in her day to day life, so she has no reason to have to 'sort it out'.

You do know the difference between being not very keen on mice, and having an actual phobia?

Oh don't be so silly Harriet. It is not about employing presenters with a bit of backbone, as you know perfectly well.

Sheila is FAB!

But i don't like belly buttons.

Put your finger in my belly button and i might kill you.

Now i know the mouse isn't going to go into my belly button but.....

I would die a thousand deaeths if amouse went near my belly button.

I CaN understand the craziness of hating something.

You seem to be arguing that professional broadcasters (whoever they are, the slightly better qualified cousins of the unprofessional broadcasters perhaps?) should be vetted for ANY sort of phobia before getting their job. Is that right?

If she rarely sees a mouse and you rarely see a crocodile then why should she sort it out anymore than you should?

She got a fright, she still continued to broadcast, she remained a hell of a lot calmer than I would if it had been a spider running over the desk.

Would you think that a broadcaster was unprofessional if someone popped a balloon behind them and they jumped and yelled?

God I was expecting to see an hysterical woman but she just sort of said 'oh!'

That's nothing compared to what my mother does when the dog is sick, she sees a spider or she sees something revolting on the telly.

Mice have those sphincter things were they pee all the time don't they?

I will batter your mice tsc then bury them.

You will be safe.

Then i will hairspray the spiders and hoover them up.

I am sure she is pleased to know that how women are viewed rests squarely on her shoulders . Because that isn't unreasonable at all. Funny how individual women always seem to let womankind down. You don't seem to find that as often with men. They can pretty much do what they want as individuals and it isn't detrimental to mankind.

Good point, Abigail.

I am sick and tired of being responsible for all womankind. If I fuck up, then the only person I have let down is myself.

"I haven't and can't click on the link in case I see it."

You can't see the mouse on the clip. It's under the table I think.

Here's an audio clip of it, that goes on a bit more than the video.

audioboo.fm/boos/1181617-5live-mouse

When a man does something, does that represent all men?

No. Of course not. That would be silly.

Here's a weather man letting down the male gender.