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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).
>
>

Thank you talluah for brightening up all of our lives.
slik ~_~

So it's bad to lick the seats and smear yourself along the floor like a worm?

Damn.

Yuk.

That's all I can say.

Yuk.

Glad I don't live in London.

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).
>
>