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In Austria we have a whole metro line which smells like vomit in the hot summer months - it's also the metro line which connects the most important tourist site
by franze 8y ago
In Austria we have a whole metro line which smells like vomit in the hot summer months - it's also the metro line which connects the most important tourist sites. So tourist get a very special smell of Vienna.
The reason is organic glue used in the 70ies during construction to harden the ground. So the smell is "baked in" the structure of the whole metrotunnel.
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.prillinger/ubahn/deutsch/faq.html http://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.prillinger/ubahn/deutsch/... (German)
- hrktb 8y agoYour paragraph on this similar issue conveys almost the same level of info as the whole article and is equally interesting. I don't see myself as a TLDR extremist, but I feel there's a cultural shift that needs to happen, or I am just personally ruined and doomed to get irked at verbose articles the rest of my days.
- ams6110 8y agoI'm the same. I have noticed that more and more, if a web-posted article doesn't get to the point in a couple of sentences, I move on. I don't find this to be the case when I'm reading printed matter such as books or newspapers though.
- toadworrier 8y agoAnd yet it was print newspapers that had the rule that important stuff must come in he first column inch.
- solarkraft 8y agoYes, but I am also disappointed when the odd article I find interesting and want to read more of is only a few paragraphs long.
- rajacombinator 8y agoDidn’t read the article - lul - but sometimes you gotta just enjoy verbose articles for the verbosity