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10th Jul 2015

Video: The reason why buses have such awful patterns on their seats might surprise you

They'll need a good scrub

Paul Moore

They’ll need a good scrub

It doesn’t matter if you’re taking a bus in Malin Head, Mizen Head or anywhere else in between because the pattern on the seats usually looks like they were lifted from your granny’s living room.

To be honest, I couldn’t care what they look like but a video has gone viral which provides an interesting insight as to why bus seats seem like they’re draped in dodgy curtains from the ’50s.

They’re made this way in order to hide your eye from all the dust and dirt than can be accumulated in the fabric.

This video was published a few years ago but it has recently gone viral of what’s contained in the material. Take a look.

Don’t worry though because there’s no need to go all Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory just yet because they’re also regularly cleaned.

For all you hypochondriacs, here’s how the seats are cleaned. It’s oddly hypnotic.

Clips via – SemiServis and Kanał użytkownika KubulMKM

Main image via – City Swifty

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