Trigger warning: this is going to get ugly.
For the purposes of pre-weekend mirth, we present the efforts of Twitter user @omalison, who tweeted a photoshopped image of a BART train reimagined in the Tudor style of architecture. The is tweet blew up, as they say.
9-car Tudor BART as requested by @obtusatum because I‘m always down to birth a heinous affront to god, man, and architecture pic.twitter.com/uvsK8yb5Rg
— Magilla Godzilla (@omalison) September 25, 2019
A follow up tweet made the case that the idea isn't as far-fetched as it is ugly.
If you're here because you like getting upset about trains and misplaced Tudor architecture, let me recommend my hometown, Cleveland OH pic.twitter.com/0QONNFj3Oa
— Magilla Godzilla (@omalison) September 26, 2019
Happy Friday.
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