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What are the Most Funny/Deep/Droll lines (or exchanges) you've ever seen scrawled on the walls in a restroom?

― Joe, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'fucked up mental pot addicts are cool'

― rainy, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

signed duane

― mark s, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Nigel Rees has a tiny cock"

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

on a letter box on Ethel Benj place is written "I like big titties". why limit your self to the rest room

― Menelaus Darcy, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Someone told me they saw 'language is reality' and then underneath someone had written 'the sapir-whorf was refuted years ago.'

― maryann, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I wrote on my university bathroom wall last week: "how can anyone find genuine happiness in our hypersexualized, hypermediated world"? (©maura) (without the ©maura part)
I'll post the replies here.

The week before that, someone had an arrow pointing to some old graffiti on the wall, and had written this meta-graffiti(I'm paraphrasing): "Now that the politicized self is dead, tagging as a language has died with it. Graffiti today isn't telling us much besides "I am here, but I don't have anything of value to say". I wrote a small refutation, wondering if the search for identity, the "I am here" part wasn't the crucial element and if the need to validate identity (even in the universal, not really culturally specific language of tagging?) wasn't itself a form of politics? Then someone wrote something illegible about Ronald McDonald underneath that. Then I replied that I'm not sure Ronald McDonald really come into this. (oh but on reflection he does if I'm arguing that any form of self expression, even one that isn't overtly political *is* a political gesture in the age of globabblization)(cos Mcdonalds=shorthand for globalization) (things in parenthesis not written on wall) Then someone wrote underneath that "Don't you people have books you can write in and not damage this innocent wall?" Then I replied "The wall is not innocent! It is a cultural construction!"

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

then anna rose wrote "listen to prog"!! and she was RIGHT!!

― mark s, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(being pretentious while pissing is phab)

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

On one stall door: KING OF KINGNS

On another stall door: CASTLE GREYSKULL

I forget what the 3rd door said.

The KING OF KINGNS was designated as the non-poo stall.

― Daver, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

On the bus this morning:

"I woud like everyone to know, that Henry, who sometimes drives this bus, is an unfaithful bastard and shags around behind his girlfriends back."

All the poor innocent non-Henry bus drivers.

― Anna, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Back in my hometown somebody painted 'Joe Raposo is a Motorcycle Theif' in 10-ft high letters on a wall that could be seen by anybody entering the city centre. He was by far the biggest celebrity in town after that, even little kids made up chants about him. I don't think he was the same guy who wrote those Carpenters hits tho

― dave q, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Today I was in a uni loo and there was a sticker that said "Chester loves you" and it really freaked me out, which was rather unexpected.

The loos I usually use at uni have stuff in them like "Where are all the girls who want to know if it's all right to be attracted to other girls/still be a virgin/shag their boyfriends best mate/masturbate" and so on. Not a lot of imagination or political thought happening there.

― toraneko, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

On college radio room wall: "Don't sweat the sweat the small stuff - it's all small stuff". Which would be vaguely acceptable if it was a line from some dodgy record, but really it's the title of a self-help book. Huh?

― Graham, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The philosophy department here at UCI has loads of anti-Derrida graffiti in its restrooms. This comes not from the students, but the professors.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was fascinated to hear about non-poo stalls. Do these exist generally (men and womens toilets around the world)? How is a non-poo stall designated? What happens to hapless poo-ers who use the non-poo stall?

― Anthony, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I found the following to be rather inspiring:

"Dream it. Do it."

Additional style points awarded, as the writer was polite enough to scrawl this on a post-it and stick it on the door, rather than deface the door itself.

― Hunter, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In a bathroom in Arkansas on the way to Memphis there was a very poorly drawn woman with heaving breasts saying "I need fucked". go figure. In Arkansas?! -I immediately adopted the saying.

― H., Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

mark i am not a 'pot addict'!

― stoner witch, Thursday, 23 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Once saw some scrawl saying 'Derrida can suck my cock'. I think it was a retort to the difficulties someone was having with him, rather than a hope or offer.

― Nathan Barley, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was trying to be convoluted I drew a scroll, ribbony thing (classic tattoo stylings)_but I wrote in imperious latin "NEC PLURIBUS IMPAR", which is in the category of the 'i am here' bravado- it translates as "not unequal to most"' or "A match for anyone", but now it seems more like a question,like I was offering people a match to light after they had taken a poo, very sophisticated.

― jessicaca, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

not in a rest room tru, but in the goods lift at the Hotspur Press Building, Whitworth Stret West, Outer Mancunia... BREAD UND GAMES FOREVER! I don't know what or why or who but I know it disturbs me and I like it.

On the wall of a cell in Plymouth copshop - PRACTICE YOUR BIRD LOOKS THIS WAY, next to a doodle of a man archly avoiding the lazergaze of the 'MAN'. This had a profound affect on my development.

― misterjones, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The toilets at the University of Ulster were full of Rangers v Celtic crap, sectarian graffiti, or historical debates on the origins of the troubles.

― stevo, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

McDonalds on O'Connell Street had "Ireland Unfree Will Never Be At Peace" in marker and someone wrote "unless we try" under it. It got in the paper I think, eventually.

― Ronan, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Jesus Saves!

Then
He Shoots!! He Scores!!!

― Fake, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Then, under that

Jesus Saves

at Delchamps! 2 for 1 coupons everyday!

― Fake, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In MASSIVE blue letters on a wall at the end of my old street:
'IT'S ONLY ROCK AND ROLL'

All over Brighton currently:
'Sainsburys: Making Life Taste Bitter'

― Archel, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I notice the gents in the betsy has FUXOR written on the outside door of the cubicle.

― Steve.n., Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Any replies yet Mitch? And by the way, are you at Wits? That sounds unusually articulate for Wits.

― Sam, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I meant the graffiti, not you. Not that you're inarticulate...

Oh dear.

*Goes red*
*Shifts from foot to foot*
*Runs away*

― Sam, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In college I scrolled "I wanna be adored" on the stall door.

― Chris, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmmm thinking about it I have never done any graffiti in a toilet. Maybe I will tonight... What should I write? Or does that defeat the purpose?

― Steve.n., Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

haha Sam, yeah I'm at Wits. And that *is* some unusually articulate graffiti- and it's the Fine Arts area bathroom, at that. On that topic, today there was some big Wits promotional thing going on, with a sign in the parking lot that read "WITS By Appointment". Aside from a few bathroom-wall scribblings, I'm not much of a defacer, but I really really wanted to take a big black marker and change it to "WITS: DisAppointment"

And the first answer to "how can anyone find genuine happiness in our hypersexualized, hypermediated world"? = "hyperventelate" (sic)

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

They've freshly repainted the library toilets (Luckily I studied them yesterday "Fuck Finance and Business"). I have a pen with me todya and have memorised the maura meme. Shall I?

― Graham, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mitch, is it too late to add 'that shows every sign or worsening?'

― N., Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

or = of (not generally)

― N., Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll add it in, Nick.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Writing on wet paint is very difficult (ie It now says "How Can T"). I'll finish it tomorrow.

― Graham, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

most of the ones i see are about whether you should swallow yr boyfriends cum or not, and thats in the burns loos on campus. fuck some chicks have nothing better to talk about.

― di, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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