SAMXXV,
2 hours to get to where? Have you heard of Hillingdon? It's about 45 mins to Westminster. You'd have to spend your entire time rattling a few times round the Circle Line to spend 2 hrs on the tube, the entire Central Line doesn't take as long!
I also challenge your assertions about MB. I was only there briefly, and holding, but it always seemed a quite dynamic place to me with some folk putting in really long hours. Now I was on the way out via a contentious resignation when I was there so was not exactly in the mood to view ANY of it in a positive light, but I don't recognise the place you describe, nor your London travel experience. Are you sure it wasn't just YOU that mucked about on a PC for 8hrs, as you readily admit you did? If you were ever there that is...