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"Minging Underground"

For all you commuters -



London Travel News
>
> If you are a regular traveller on the London
> Underground, here are some facts which you are going
> to wish you hadn't read.
> During Autumn of 2000, a team of scientists at the
> Department of Forensics at University College London
> removed a row of passenger seats from a Central Line
> tube carriage for analysis into cleanliness. Despite
> London Underground's claim that the interior of their
> trains are cleaned on a regular basis, the scientists
>
> made some alarming discoveries.
>
> The analysis was broken down. This is what was found
> on the surface of the seats:
>
> . 4 types of hair sample (human, mouse, rat, dog)
>
> . 7 types of insect (mostly fleas, mostly alive)
>
> . vomit originating from at least 9 separate people
>
> . human urine originating from at least 4 separate people
>
> . human excrement
>
> . rodent excrement
>
> . human semen
>
> When the seats were taken apart, they found:
> the remains of 6 mice
> . the remains of 2 large rats
> . 1 previously unheard of fungus
>
> It is estimated that by holding one of the armrests,
> you are transferring, to your body, the natural oils
>
> and sweat from as many as 400 different people.
>
> It is estimated that it is generally healthier to
> smoke five cigarettes a day than to travel for one
>
> hour a day on the London Underground.
>
> It is far more hygienic to wipe your hand on the
> inside of a recently flushed toilet bowl before
> eating, than to wipe your hand on a London Underground
> seat before eating.
>
> It is estimated that, within London, more work
> sick-days are taken because of bugs picked up whilst
>
> travelling on the London Underground than for any
> other reason (including alcohol).
>
>

Mmm... Mouse Crap... :-P

I use the trains everyday, I'm just glad it's not the Underground...

Eurgh...not sure if my Dad uses these 'trains', I'll have to ask him.

Then again, maybe I shouldn't...

slaveunit wrote:
> I rode my motorbike into london not so long ago. I parked it up, and on my
> return this Jeremy Spake character approached me and he was all like "ooh,
> you do look lovely in your leathers" and I was like
> "riiiight....", leaving as soon as I could!



Yeah but I bet it was still a huge ego boost to you, thinking to yourself 'Hehe, life in the old dog yet - I've still got the knack'.


lol.

I rode my motorbike into london not so long ago. I parked it up, and on my return this Jeremy Spake character approached me and he was all like "ooh, you do look lovely in your leathers" and I was like "riiiight....", leaving as soon as I could!

Tallulah wrote:

> Considering some of the 'colourful' inhabitants of the Big Smoke, I'd say this was highly likely.

Colourful is one word.....

slaveunit wrote:
> That depends...

if you wash your hands really well, and then stuff your hands
> in a load of cake mix, and then bite your nails....

For all we know, those
> tests were done on a bunch of mingers!


Considering some of the 'colourful' inhabitants of the Big Smoke, I'd say this was highly likely.

That depends...

if you wash your hands really well, and then stuff your hands in a load of cake mix, and then bite your nails....

For all we know, those tests were done on a bunch of mingers!

$lik wrote:
> Thank you talluah for brightening up all of our lives.
slik ~_~


Ah, you know me, always one for brightening up the day.

That is really quite disgusting, although they also say its more hygenic to lick a recently flushed toiletbowl than to bite your fingernails, thats a warning to all you fingernail biters out there.

Thanks for that. I would have been better off not knowing, but cheers anyway.

Ignorance is bliss.