Actually, rats started fucking our shit up, but when the first few people died, we (French dude here) thought this was beecause of cats (they're malevolent creatures from Hell, everyone knows that), so we killed pretty much every cat we could find, and the rats did not have predators anymore and their populations grew A LOT and they gave us The Black Plague. My point here is: give the Europeans screens, and they'll throw them away thinking they cause malaria.
Not to mention that at the time open sewers were literally open sewers. And people used these underground sewers to covertly travel from point A to point B.
And I agree about the screens. I spent three years on secondment in the UK and France. They have no clue about screens. They would rather sit with a fly swatter and watch Eurovision or find out who got kicked out of some "Reality" House show.
this in incorrect. rats were exonerated as the culprit of the black plague not extremely too long ago. The current information about hte black plague is that it was spread person to person with no rodent middleman via humanborn parasites rather than ratborn parasites.
The popular theory is that the bubonic plague may have been an air born illness because it spread to fast to have been bites. We still dont really know because the 1st hand history is clouded with religious and other BS. Point was that the fleas on the rats bite the sailors on that one ship to Constantinople and then Sicily. We humans did the rest. Spreading it further by our atempts to flee the disease.
We dont need screens ! We only get small flies and only for short periods of muggy hot weather. When it rains they dont fly in. Sometimes you might get a wasp but they soon fly out. Also we have much less sunshine and lots and lots of rain- screens would have to be cleaned or repainted regularly even if left pulled back and would rarely be used as when we do get hot weather we are so happy to see it that everyone has their curtains open and windows open. God you lot are like a bunch of sorority girls
OK. First of all we are discussing screens, not shutters. You are describing shutters. You don't paint screens. The only cleaning is once per year you take them down and hose them off. And since a screen is wire mesh you can in fact see open windows and open curtains.If you are a peeping Tom pervert and want to look inside other people's homes.
And I agree about the screens. I spent three years on secondment in the UK and France. They have no clue about screens. They would rather sit with a fly swatter and watch Eurovision or find out who got kicked out of some "Reality" House show.
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