Nope. They talk tons. Even laugh.
Yeah — typical Londoner will be silent, earphones in, eyes on shoes. 
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Interesting!
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Typical Southern Britishness — everything is manifest as passive aggressive eye movements or similar.
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Took me a long time to get used to the culture.
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