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My theory is car brain. Take a level headed person and put them in a car and you get
but if you put the same person on a train you get 
but if you put them on an underground train you get 
My scientific observation is that cars and the London Underground are equally psychologically bad and the conclusion is to explode Britain from orbit. Thank you for listening to my study.
There have been studies showing that people are more prone to antisocial behavior in areas that are perceived as run-down and ugly, so since we're doing rigorous science I'm going to deduce, scientifically, that people would behave better if all subways were as nice as the ones in Moscow.
You see the people on the moscow subway are
Real talk though the London Underground and london in general makes people feral mostly because its congested as shit cos we decided everything must happen in one city and everyone must go to one city while the rest of the country falls apart. If it wasn’t so packed it would actually be quite pleasant since most of the lines are pretty well made if some are a tad older. When I’ve travelled through empty tube lines the worst feeling i get is extreme vertigo from the escalators