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Someone put up mistletoe in a London Tube car and no one was having it

Prepare to see some seriously uncomfortable people.

THERE ARE SOME places that are just impervious to Christmas cheer. The Tube in London is one of them.

But someone did try, hanging mistletoe from the handles of one Tube car. Here’s their explanation:

We wanted to bring some Christmas cheer to one of the most miserable places in the capital. So we put love on the line and created the #Mistletube. Merry Christmas, London!

Except not. Because no one, and we mean absolutely no one, wanted to even so much as look at the mistletoe. Or each other, for that matter.

CW2Kyx3WcAIzXLo Twitter / @MistleTube Twitter / @MistleTube / @MistleTube

Tweet by @Alex Dousie Alex Dousie / Twitter Alex Dousie / Twitter / Twitter

Pour some out for this guy.

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CW1q8i-WcAAQXm9 Twitter / @baconchin Twitter / @baconchin / @baconchin

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Ad agency Droga5 revealed that the prank was for their annual holiday card. Putting poor, innocent Londoners through through social torture, just for a Christmas card? For shame.

Written by Valerie Loftus and posted on DailyEdge.ie

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    Mute Liam Byrne
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    Dec 24th 2015, 11:18 AM

    If you’ve ever been on the tube, you’d feel the same way too.

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    Mute Brendan
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    Dec 24th 2015, 1:12 PM

    Full of comunting zombies all afraid to make eye contact with each other incase you say hello and freak them out

    God forbid if your even having a conversation with a mate in one the rest of them glance at you as if your going to blow up the train

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    Mute Mairead Ni Chleirigh
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    Dec 24th 2015, 11:11 AM

    I’d have taken it home with me. #freebie

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    Mute Ryan Hardy
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    Dec 24th 2015, 11:21 AM

    Are ya that desperate Mairead?

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    Mute Mairead Ni Chleirigh
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    Dec 24th 2015, 2:00 PM

    Very Ryan

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    Mute Hugh G. Johnson
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    Dec 24th 2015, 2:21 PM

    Awww Ryan likes you Mairead.

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    Mute Mairead Ni Chleirigh
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    Dec 24th 2015, 3:36 PM

    Think he does now where’s that mistletoe??

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    Mute Grigori Rasputin
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    Dec 24th 2015, 12:28 PM

    So people didn’t fall for some marketing agency’s crap exploitive stunt. My faith in humanity is actually slightly swelled by this.

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    Mute Kieran OKeeffe
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    Dec 24th 2015, 11:17 AM

    Ha ..yer man in pic 3 looks seriously freaked out…kinda like when the priest invites you to shake hands..and you’re in the middle of an empty pew..

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    Dec 24th 2015, 11:22 AM

    People probably thought there were on candid camera

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    Mute Santa Claus
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    Dec 24th 2015, 1:29 PM

    …or you tube.

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    Mute Rowe
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    Dec 24th 2015, 12:38 PM

    Why does everyone on the tube look so miserable.

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    Mute Grigori Rasputin
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    Dec 24th 2015, 1:36 PM

    Because they’re on the tube.

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    Dec 24th 2015, 12:20 PM

    Poor fella in the last pic there looks awful lonely…

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    Mute Paul Fanshawe
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    Dec 24th 2015, 1:44 PM

    Ridiculous article. What is a “holiday card anyway”? Is it like a Christmas card; just asking.

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    Dec 24th 2015, 6:10 PM

    Yes it is.

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    Mute M
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    Dec 24th 2015, 11:47 AM

    Throw the head in!

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    Dec 24th 2015, 4:01 PM

    Modern society has gone to the dogs , even up to the 80′s people spoke to each other strangers or not, nowadays you could be lying dead on the street and people would walk by as if your invisible sad reflection on society

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    Dec 24th 2015, 11:57 AM

    Parasite

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    Dec 24th 2015, 11:01 PM

    *Londonite

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    Dec 24th 2015, 9:22 PM

    London’s a fantastic place. Honestly.

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    Dec 24th 2015, 7:49 PM

    Still wouldn’t say no to an underground in Dublin, might get home a bit quicker.

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