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"Harland is a Tosser" - men's toilets , dunedin public library

― duanE, Thursday, 17 July 2003 03:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Best grafiti I ever saw on a warehouse wall as I was catching a train out of Melbourne:

"Why can't I be normal like you?"
If you think about that line too much it hurts the brainmeats.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 17 July 2003 05:50 (twenty-two years ago)

"women are angry" - leeds

and also this

http://www.norfolkwindmills.com/ilx/tonyblair.jpg

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 17 July 2003 07:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, scribblings on toilet wall are not what they call "graffiti".

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 17 July 2003 07:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Under a sign saying 'BILL POSTERS WILL BE PROSECUTED' was written 'BILL POSTERS IS INNOCENT'.And one I saw just a week ago at my local bus station,one of those annoying 'what the hell is it advertising' posters,it was just a red poster saying 'WATCH THIS SPACE',to which someone had added 'WHY,WHAT'S IT DOING?'

― Eugene Speed (Eugene Speed), Thursday, 17 July 2003 08:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, scribblings on toilet walls are the best type of what they call "graffiti"!

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 17 July 2003 08:18 (twenty-two years ago)

oh the side of pentonville prison in 4 foot high red letters:

"JAIL GUITAR DOORS"

i am worried that they are about to start their yearly "get the kids on community service to paint over all the graffitti" shortly so it may disappear without being explained...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 17 July 2003 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Also on Pentonville Prison:
Kill Old Bill - which just seems quaint.

Plus a tag from a kids whose sobriquet is Jon Mcvika. History repeating?

Yet again can I also report more sightings of "Angelica Huston Is A Nonce".

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 17 July 2003 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

aw, i'd forgotten about angelica, marvellous. really anyone in north london should go to archway station just to see this...

also top north london tagger rainman... seems to have slowed down a little recently, although the one in the toilets of the John Snow was a little surprising.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 17 July 2003 11:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Bill Stickers, on the other hand, is clearly guilty and should be prosecuted, obv.

― kate (kate), Thursday, 17 July 2003 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Public park across the street from my house. Rules are posted by the playground, with a special graffitoed addition.

1) no fighting
2) no something else
3) be careful not to blah blah I forgot
4) okay, this next one is the only really important one
5) have fun
6) OR DIE!!!!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 17 July 2003 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the ones on motorway bridges best. on the M1 near Luton there is the phrase "Liberty to Hunting!" which means exactly fuck-all and a bit further up we have "Lesus Saves" as obviously the person leaning over to write it just didn't know which way round to paint the J...

― j0e (j0e), Thursday, 17 July 2003 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

OPIUM FOR THE PEOPLE
(yoghurt for the kids)

― OleM (OleM), Thursday, 17 July 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Bordeaux is crawling with dangerous graffittists. I am particularly frightened of the taggers who left their mark in the alley behind Emma B's house:

"Saucisse Grille Crew"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 17 July 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

In Retro Bar in Manchester underneath some generic war is bad graffiti someone had sensibly written "you can't stop wars"

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 17 July 2003 23:46 (twenty-two years ago)

"i fucked your mum"

and under that

"stop bragging dad"

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 17 July 2003 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Billboard in the parking lot of that drugstore across from Amoeba records on Haight, SF:

SAID WAS NEW ARM

still trying to figure it out.

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 17 July 2003 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

On a newspaper box, right beneath the logo for USA TODAY: "TOMORROW THE WORLD"

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Thursday, 17 July 2003 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

(That is a Cala grocery store Mr. Millar)

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 17 July 2003 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

On a board near the local train station "Saddam Hussein Smelly Paki" offensive and breathtakingly ill-informed at the same time. Perfect.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 18 July 2003 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

in the country people slow down and read the graffiti on bridges, barns etc, and then say things like "ah, Bellsky did pull Jimbo's ex" Either this is true or I have been the victim of an elaborate hoax.

― isadora (isadora), Friday, 18 July 2003 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, not that elaborate even

― isadora (isadora), Friday, 18 July 2003 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

(note: spelling mistakes have been corrected in case anyone was impressed they'd got "Hussein" right. None of the words were spelled correctly)

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 18 July 2003 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Some hippie in Winnipeg wrote "CHOOSE A CAUSE" on a bridge support. Fucking hippies.

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 18 July 2003 01:16 (twenty-two years ago)

'that's ok, i'm sorry i broke your nose'

― minna (minna), Friday, 18 July 2003 03:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I still say bathroom writings are not, graffiti, but...

Written on a public bathroom ceiling: "The cleaner is short."

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 18 July 2003 06:21 (twenty-two years ago)

My favorite M1 bridge graffiti is "Lesus Saves"

― Ed (dali), Friday, 18 July 2003 07:06 (twenty-two years ago)

"beans friters Bin ladin"

some crazy south yorkshire piece.

― wil, Friday, 18 July 2003 07:15 (twenty-two years ago)

talking of graffiti, banksy is doing his first gallery show 'Turf War' this weekend. (until monday, 21st). web site gives an address in e8 and the guardian gives another in n1 so i'm not sure where it is.

andy

― koogs (koogs), Saturday, 19 July 2003 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)

The massed ranks of adolescent thugs in Dawlish have seen fit to scrawl on one of the strange bomb-shelter-cum-observation-hut thinks at the top of the cliff. Their chosen message?

Dawlish Buy's

Which could be a subtle comment on the nature of consumerism and the seaside town's out-of-season aridness, but I think is cos they have shite grammar and cannot spell 'boys'.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 19 July 2003 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)

odd graffiti on the toilets at work today:

"up the pope"
ya gimme Heeeeeeyyyyyyy!!!!

― Michael B, Saturday, 19 July 2003 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

nine months pass...

Some wag around Archway has made up a spray template of a speech bubble saying "I'm acrid". Such a great non-sequiteur.

An exceptionally notable instance of the use of this is on a bus-shelter ad for Trojan condoms (the one with the dead/orgasmic looking sepia lady).

Sadly, the famed 'Angelica Huston is a nonce' graffito has gone from Archway station.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Ive seen I'm Acrid too! Near Balls Pond Road. On the NO SMOKING sign in the loos at work someone has written 'YES', and someone else has written 'NO'. I added 'MAYBE', but I'm not proud of this.

― alix (alix), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 12:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Some examples within a pretty small area in Leeds:
"What's Wrong With Being Sexy ?" - in enormous letters.
"Zimbabweans Are Great!"
and "Islam Conqcuers" under which someone has added "..the English language."

― Adam Faithless (Adam Faithless), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Stencilled on a pavement in Southsea: a rectangular dotted line around the words "GET OUT OF PORTSMOUTH FREE CARD".

― robster (robster), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it's a shame that so many ppl have written on the "Why do I do this every day?" fence on the M40 that the original legend is no longer visible.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't read the graffiti, but I passed by a corrugated metal garage door that had something painted on it (gang symbols or tags - nothing interesting) and there was some indie-looking guy taking a picture of it. Is a photo of a garage door that depicts the unsterile conditions of the city still considered artistic? (Or what about a photo of peeling paint?)

.. He may not have been a photo-essayist - he may have just been taking a picture to prove the damage... but "Is a photo of a garage door that depicts the unsterile conditions of the city still considered a good way to claim insurance money" is not a question I care to hear opinions about.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

My fave right now is on a poster ad for Iceland Air on the tube (Leicester Square station, Northern line to be precise). The picture in the ad is a serene 1am dusk shot looking out to sea. There is a shadowed couple standing in the foreground, looking outwards at the magnificence of nature. Some sharp wit has written the following in conversation bubbles over the two figures:

"Where did all the whales go?"

"We had them killed."

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

spotted from the train, in queens: nikki + mari 4-ever! lesbian love in the '04, holla back!

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

"JFHB"
"S****y is crunk"
"Fuck the red, it's all about the blue."
and "Bitch" several times.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

"S****y is crunk"

... sodomy?

Is the red and the blue gang talk, or something else?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

S**** is our school.

Yeah, basically fuck the crips it's all about the bloods.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

or, er, vice versa actually. We're a Crips school.

JFHB is gang too "Junior Fucking HomeBoys"

I got rid of my free-read library this year cause I got tired of them writing that all over my books.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

"Robert Smith is Jesus" in the toilet of Ths Star (prolly the indiest pub in Oxford).

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 18 September 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"NIGGERS ARE BLACK" in Norwich.

― th, Sunday, 19 September 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

'3 Reg Kray' a few weeks back, i took a photo

― teh pow! (blueski), Monday, 20 September 2004 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

On a bin in Alton Towers' queue for The Oblivion there is a sign that used to say "Gum Only", but someone scratched off the little bit in the G and turned it into a bin that accepts "Cum Only"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 15 November 2004 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

That was about 2 years ago. This year, even better, on each of the Log Flumes at Blackpool Pleasure Beach there is a sign that said

PLEASE HOLD YOUR GRAB RAIL
WITH BOTH HANDS

and on one of them, a genius had taken out the word Rail, did a similar trick with the G and B and we have, ladies and gentlemen

PLEASE HOLD YOUR CRAP
WITH BOTH HANDS

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 15 November 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I think "graffianti"s like these impress me more than graffitis

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 15 November 2004 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

A recent favourite of mine (some kids who shared a cab with me last summer may remember why):
http://www3.mb.sympatico.ca/~bshurb/chicken.jpg

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 15 November 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

On the North London Line, leaving Hampstead Heath station, rendered in a bubblicious and rotund spraycan tag style:

BOB MUNKHOUSE RIP.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 15 November 2004 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)

If I had a digital camera I would take a picture of the graffiti on my house. There's a R3d Hand of Ulst3r motiff, with 16whateveryear, and some other cryptic letters. And the other side (narrow path between my house and the next, so you open the door and you're looking at another house) there is some c3ltic FC grafitti - I seem to be living on the sectarian divide of St. Andrews, which is nice.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 15 November 2004 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

In brighton of few years ago, stencilled

DEAD
MEN
DON'T
RAPE

dead
feminists
don't
stencil

― hmmm (hmmm), Monday, 15 November 2004 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

dead
hstencils
don't
.
.
.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 15 November 2004 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

C:\WINNT\Profiles\w404167\Desktop\photo of the wall.jpg

this was up on the wall next door 2 my mate's house.
probably still is. dead sweet.

― piscesboy, Monday, 15 November 2004 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

now clearly i've fcked that up.

― piscesboy, Monday, 15 November 2004 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.trigonalmayhem.com/liveit.jpg

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Monday, 15 November 2004 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

aw i just said "aw" out loud

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 15 November 2004 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

fuckin wormtown.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 15 November 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

yesterday
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v507/dave225/wtf.jpg

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 15 November 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I love this city sometimes.

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Monday, 15 November 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

there's also this, but I didn't like it as much:

http://users.wpi.edu/~wcoppock/worc4/progress.jpg

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Monday, 15 November 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

it has its moments.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I really don't mind graffiti as long as it has something to say, and I don't count sectarian slogans, football rivalry and the name of a make believe gang to be saying very much.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know if this counts as graffiti, but it's pasted on the wall of some building in an alley*

http://users.wpi.edu/~wcoppock/worc/23.jpg

*actually at this point it's been mostly torn off, but I thought it was a nice statement.

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

also, it might have done someone well to heed this advice:

http://users.wpi.edu/~wcoppock/worc/21.jpg

oops.

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/1213886_65d75157d3.jpg

I took this the other day (while I was driving, no less)

That's my kind of graffiti.

― king of the eyesores (papa november), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Do Make Say Think took the name for their album 'Goodbye Enemy Airship, The Landlord Is Dead' from this supposedly anonymous piece that appeared on a wall...

http://www.cstrecords.com/img/domake/cst010/cst010cov.jpg

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

My parents woke up one morning in 1974 to discover someone had written "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll" on the wall of their house. My father spent most of the day trying to scrub it off but only managed to remove "Rock 'n' Roll" when he gave up for the day. The next morning, someone had added to the remaining "It's Only" the words: "half finished".

Years later I discovered that when the Stones released the eponymous album, their management sent out dozens of urchins to graffitise London, and one of them picked my parents' wall.

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

http://myspace-431.vo.llnwd.net/01238/13/48/1238068431_l.jpg

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Saturday, 6 January 2007 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Under these directions to a hot-air hand-dryer in a ladies room:

1. Turn on Dryer
2. Rub hands together under dryer

someone added

3. Wipe Hands on Pants

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 6 January 2007 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

Not today but the finest graffiti I ever saw was on the wall of a community centre and read "GENE GOT NO PUBE TRUE"

― Munter S Thompson (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 3 May 2009 01:21 (seventeen years ago)

four months pass...

junglist platton

― do you want to be happier? (whatever), Saturday, 26 September 2009 08:02 (sixteen years ago)

In Darlington yesterday "Hayley is a Grass 06".

― Terminator Eggs (Billy Dods), Saturday, 26 September 2009 08:05 (sixteen years ago)

Yet again can I also report more sightings of "Angelica Huston Is A Nonce".

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 17 July 2003 11:12 (6 years ago)

This is among my favorite all-time graffiti. It was spraypainted on a huge piece of plywood that was then set upright in a stairwell.

― bamcquern, Saturday, 26 September 2009 16:00 (sixteen years ago)

Also somewhere, on 1p3, I think: "pubes."

― bamcquern, Saturday, 26 September 2009 16:00 (sixteen years ago)

'Impeach Obama' at the side of a local restaurant this morning. I suspect written by the same guy somewhere in my complex who was given to randomly yelling such things for a bit before enough people complained, I guess.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 26 September 2009 16:06 (sixteen years ago)

Did he say why?

― caek, Saturday, 26 September 2009 18:16 (sixteen years ago)

Given the other things he was wont to yell, I suspect none of us wanted to ask.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 26 September 2009 18:17 (sixteen years ago)

Another voice crying in the wilderness.

― Aimless, Saturday, 26 September 2009 18:23 (sixteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

http://i55.tinypic.com/110bxj5.jpg

― avinha, Sunday, 5 September 2010 06:21 (fifteen years ago)

http://i53.tinypic.com/348kf7o.jpg

― avinha, Sunday, 5 September 2010 06:21 (fifteen years ago)

Another voice crying in the wilderness.

― Aimless, Saturday, September 26, 2009

― avinha, Sunday, 5 September 2010 06:23 (fifteen years ago)

from a friend's fb

http://i53.tinypic.com/izvnna.jpg

― yuoowemeone, Sunday, 5 September 2010 06:56 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

self promo for my graffiti blog: http://dleone.tumblr.com

― Dominique, Monday, 22 October 2012 17:41 (thirteen years ago)

three years pass...

Saw this on the side door of an Office Depot near my workplace, I've been thinking about it all day: http://i.imgur.com/ToPxWvm.jpg

― JoeStork, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 03:31 (nine years ago)

five years pass...

on a sheet of plywood over the window of an empty storefront nearby...

PROMISCUITY AS A TRAUMA RESPONSE

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Saturday, 14 May 2022 21:46 (four years ago)

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