On: Why has Victoria tube station started to smell like roast meat?

[franze]

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/... (German)

[hrktb → franze]

Your 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 → hrktb]

I'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 → ams6110]

And yet it was print newspapers that had the rule that important stuff must come in he first column inch.

[solarkraft → ams6110]

Yes, 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 → hrktb]

Didn’t read the article - lul - but sometimes you gotta just enjoy verbose articles for the verbosity