Comments on: Classic British graffiti

Classic British graffiti

iffley — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 15:03:01 -0800

Classic British graffiti. None of yer spraycans and colours, mate - a black biro's all you need. And if the pen is truly mightier than the sword, then the British obviously wield their weapons best when they're sitting comfortably. (From b3ta, which also hosts the classic "Argentine football team with handbags" picture)

By: wsg

wsg — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 15:50:59 -0800

My favorite graffiti was found in a bar bathroom. (Where else?)

Profanity is the literary crutch of the inarticulate motherfucker.

By: wsg

wsg — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 15:52:21 -0800

Strike "literary" and insert "verbal" above. oops...

By: Katemonkey

Katemonkey — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 16:02:44 -0800

Around Netherfield and Colwick in Nottingham, someone keeps on writing "Mrs. Peel we're needed" all over the place. Which, to me, although not very witty and not as crude as graffiti should be, is still the most fabulous thing to see written on broken walls, bus shelters, and plywood.

By: WolfDaddy

WolfDaddy — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 16:09:24 -0800

I love graffiti. Favorite: "My mom made me a homosexual" and underneath: "Can she make me one too?"

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 17:24:13 -0800

"here I sit on the pooper giving birth to a MA state trooper" stall of a bathroom at WPI

By: notsnot

notsnot — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 17:27:54 -0800

In the stall of the basement bathroom of a venerable St. Louis pizza institution (the old Talanya's by Wash U.), there was written, down by the door, in very small print (so you had to twist your neck to read it), "You are now shitting at a 45 degree angle."

By: dejah420

dejah420 — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 19:38:21 -0800

Bathroom in the philosophy building where I went to school: "Eschew obfuscation".

By: sp dinsmoor

sp dinsmoor — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 20:16:23 -0800

"Eschew obfuscation" is all over the bathroom walls in the bars of Lawrence, KS.

By: rusty

rusty — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 20:37:06 -0800

On the Beltway around Washington DC there's a particular curve that you round where the spires of the Mormon Temple in Kensington MD just come into view beyond the trees. There happens to be a railroad bridge right at that spot, and for a long time it has read "SURRENDER DOROTHY". I just did some net research and apparently it's been there, off and on, since the early 70's. I've also heard a (probably apocryphal) tale that it was first painted there by Situationist author Len Bracken.

By: dg

dg — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 20:48:16 -0800

Those who write on toilet walls should roll their shit in little balls those who read these words of wit should eat those little balls of shit. Can't remember where.

By: i_am_joe's_spleen

i_am_joe's_spleen — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 21:36:15 -0800

Vonnegut's "God Bless You, Mr Rosewater", dg.

By: dg

dg — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 21:39:31 -0800

*light bulb goes on over head* Thanks i_am_joe's_spleen. I have also seen it written in various places, but knew it came from somewhere else first.

By: plep

plep — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 00:15:52 -0800

[this is good] Seen in a public toilet at Birmingham New Street station some years back :- 'Some come here to sit and think, Some come here to shit and stink, But I come here to scratch my balls, And read the writing on the walls.'

By: i_am_joe's_spleen

i_am_joe's_spleen — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 01:00:25 -0800

Wellington has a high class of graffiti. Right now Cuba St bears the memorable slogan "Mindless opposition is as bad as unthinking conformity". Here (self-link) I captured an assault on a billboard belonging to one of our nastier politicians. Stencil graffitti is on the rise here too, pioneered by some loon who likes winged chimpanzee images. My favourite turned up during a winter power crisis this year: a stylised spiral electric stove element with two table knives on it and the legend "Save power this winter, turn knives off after spotting". (Every student flat worthy of the name here has a pair of blackened spotting knives, which are heated red hot on a stove, so that small lumps of marijuana or hash can then be placed on them and the smoke inhaled through an improvised funnel, such as a cut-open softdrink bottle. Explaining them away to your Mum is one of those rites of passage...)

By: Pericles

Pericles — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 02:02:05 -0800

At Hull university, UK: "Socialist Worker Student Society: Thirteen Years, Still Here!" Underneath someone else added "Hope you graduate soon!"

By: dash_slot-

dash_slot- — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 02:29:38 -0800

Wolfdaddy: would you believe that I once wrote that at the top of a blackboard in my English class when i was 17. I think it was a spectacularly unsuccessful attempt to come out (and maybe get some action...) I don't even remember any comments, they just assumed I was being my usual provocative self, I guess. [Steed] "Mrs. Peel we're needed" [Emma Peel] "I'll get me leathers... [/Avengers]

By: quonsar

quonsar — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 04:08:42 -0800

a pair of blackened spotting knives, which are heated red hot on a stove, so that small lumps of marijuana or hash can then be placed on them and the smoke inhaled through an improvised funnel how very...quaint. in the civilised nations, one would use a pipe.

By: nthdegx

nthdegx — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 04:49:50 -0800

Graffiti everything.

By: ciderwoman

ciderwoman — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 04:54:29 -0800

On the toilet walls of Bar Tactical, an ultra hip soho hangout (now sadly no more), some irate customer had written Fuck off you trendy evisu jean wearing hoxton square pseudo intellectual ironic haircut cunts Underneath which someone else had added No Always used to make me smile. And any old Oxford MeFis remember the bridge on the A40 that read Plank is God?

By: bendybendy

bendybendy — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 05:06:09 -0800

In the library toilets at Goldsmiths college I once saw 'Sociology degrees. Please take one' written on the lav roll dispenser. (Robertvaliant, Wed 5 Nov 2003, 5:06, archived) ...This is amazing. I did a year at Goldsmith's, all the way back in 1989, and I actually remember this graffito. Small 'effin world. Or maybe there's just very little memorable graffiti out there.

By: kev23f

kev23f — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 05:08:41 -0800

a mans ambition must indeed be small to write his name upon a shithouse wall but before i die i'll add my regal scrawl just to show the world i left with sweet fuck all. The words of that good looking lout shane mcgowan, whose concert i will be happily attending in two weeks. With a bit of luck he'll be sick on stage again, what a performer...

By: asok

asok — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 05:14:24 -0800

That b3ta thread is a time consuming read. Turd type 37, The Lumberjack: About the size of a small rabbit, floats on the surface. Refuses to flush, must be broken up first with some stout implement (e.g. coat hanger). I have never encountered any of the other 36 turd definitions on toilet walls, despite going to the toilet almost every day!

By: smcniven

smcniven — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 05:52:27 -0800

(Every student flat worthy of the name here has a pair of blackened spotting knives, which are heated red hot on a stove, so that small lumps of marijuana or hash can then be placed on them and the smoke inhaled through an improvised funnel, such as a cut-open softdrink bottle. Explaining them away to your Mum is one of those rites of passage...) Damn that just brought back a memory of my parents dropping me off a Uni one year. I think half the knives in our cutlery tray where scorched one year.

By: Jeffy

Jeffy — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 06:36:57 -0800

Best I've ever seen was in a rock club in Des Moines, IA... "I Fucked your mom!" Followed by, in another hand: "Go home Dad! You're Drunk!"

By: Pressed Rat

Pressed Rat — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 07:22:27 -0800

Bathroom stall, Univ. of Tennessee Math Dept., circa 1971: B4I4QRU _______ 18QTp

By: Pressed Rat

Pressed Rat — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 07:23:55 -0800

friggin ascii html - p should be the symbol for "pi"

By: Orange Goblin

Orange Goblin — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 10:04:20 -0800

Pressed Rat - thats brilliant.

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 11:04:22 -0800

Almost every city bus in Mexico City has part of the R in Ruta (route) scratched out to say Puta (whore).