assume the Vikings

Commerce "They've identified a syndrome called 'shopper's rush', which is that thing that makes you run around stores buying hideous sparkly clutch purses you'll never use. Men get 'shopper's rush', too, but by and large women get it worse. Right now, a man could walk into any chaotic 'end of sales' store and assume the Vikings have dropped by for a spot of rape and pillaging. A woman could walk in and recognise the scene for what it is - a giant replica of her psyche. Not all of her psyche, of course, just the secret part that is always hungry, tired, unloved, hurting." -- Barbara Ellen.