I was staying in Whitechapel, London recently. There are many religious folks there who are horrified by dogs, don't want dogs to touch them, and shun dogs and

I was staying in Whitechapel, London recently. There are many religious folks there who are horrified by dogs, don't want dogs to touch them, and shun dogs and make a huge berth for them on the street and inside, like in buses. I was on dog walk duty and always held the lead close, but I knew they were worried I wasn't so conscientious and would let my dog friend run amuk on their garments. So I was trying to imagine an example of a creature that would horrify me similarly. Like perhaps if people had giant BEETLES as pets, and thought it was all grand, and I was like "what the FUCK are you on, my friend?", and I was pretty happy with that. But I think a closer cut to how disconnected this is from what seems appropriate, and normal, and reassuring, would be these robots. Clearly, some people don't really understand how horrifying this is, particularly with elevator music as the background. And if you want to know how upsetting the elevator music is as a background to set tone, I strongly urge you NOT NOT NOT to google "crab club" on youtube.