Awkward Graffiti

Aja, what were you doing in the men's room?

It was a unisex bathroom at a resturant.

They only had one bathroom. It was small and dirty...

Plus, I live in San Francisco....you never know....

What were you doing in a restaurant?

A graffiti conversation in the boys bathroom of a summer camp I attended (it stayed up for many years):

"What is love, DUDE?"
"to be the eyes and the ears and the conscience of the Creator of the Universe!!!"

The first vandal wrote in big, rounded letters, with cursive flourishes on each of the Ds in "DUDE". The second started in tiny, precise handwriting that grew increasingly larger and wilder so that each exclamation point was of greater size and slightly warped.

The second line was from Kurt Vonnegut (unattributed). I've wondered if the questioner felt it sufficed as an answer.

What were you doing in a restaurant?

-- Aimless, Thursday, May 31, 2007 2:04 AM (50 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

Eating....with my mom and step dad....

Were there little signs on the table urging you to order the beaujolais nouveau with your meal?

DO YOU HAS ANY PICTURES OF YOUR MOM BECAUSE SHE SEEM INTERESTIN?

Were there little signs on the table urging you to order the beaujolais nouveau with your meal?

-- Aimless, Thursday, May 31, 2007 2:09 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

No. No. *sighs*

DO YOU HAS ANY PICTURES OF YOUR MOM BECAUSE SHE SEEM INTERESTIN?

-- KANTLIPS, Thursday, May 31, 2007 2:10 AM (9 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

Who the fuck are you??

wait, how is lame communism graffiti 'awkward'?? i am intrigued by this. i was thinking more of like 'panda monster fucked yr mom' but even that isn't v awkward, just hilarious.

this is the closest i have to awkward graffiti. it's not really graffiti, it was a slogan written at a MINI GOLF COURSE.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/239/519205991_c179c5b75a.jpg

UH

It sounds to me like you may actually have been in Palo Alto, but I can't really be sure.

yeah, it's not awkward...I guess...I didn't know what to call it.

oh wait i have one, in the bathroom at the raven there is graffiti that says

ALABAMA IS LIKE A DICK. HARD TO BEAT!

what does that mean??

Ok. You win. That is awkward.

In a toilet that has some shit about recycling on the door:

(First writer): It's too late! Global warming has gone on for centuries! We are too late!

(Second writer): Sexy babe!

(Third writer): If it's been going on for centuries why is it still so fucking cold in Scotland, cunt?

Oh and on the same door the headline to the recycling thing is something like "How to save the world" and someone has wrote "Blow up the middle east and kill all muslim scum".

god i wish i could find the photo of the "ALEX IN NYC WAS HERE" graffiti i photographed at siberia.

TROUGH FAILURE.

what's crazy is that he was calling himself "Alex in NYC" even though it was like 10 years ago and he was in NYC in the first place.

lolcollege edition:

"Free love!" with a picture of a heart inside a cage.
"where?"

and

"I just found out I was pregnant. Right here. In this stall. What the fuck am I going to do?!"
"You found out you were pregnant and your first instinct is to write it on the toilet door in the uni library?"

they were sandblasting(?) the graffiti off the local skateboard halfpipe when i walked through the park this morning. REMOVING GRAFFITI FROM A SKATEBOARD RAMP. my council tax dollars at work...

Trough failure must be a worry for cattle

koogs, that is simply unbelievable. serisously, wtf

unless it was a particularly obscene graffiti scrawl

http://www.gothamist.com/2007/05/30/school_graffiti.php

our rehearsal space has the following grafitti on the bathroom door:

GETTIN WET WIT DEM DIPPIES

I have often wondered wtf this is supposed to mean

Well, I guess I find it funny because after learing about Communism in my history class and taking a silly quiz from my teacher about what kind of learder I would be I've started to identify as a Communist. My friends even call me Comrade.

AJA DON'T DO IT, I KNOW A GUY WHO DOES THIS AND HE IS AN ASSHOLE

I mostly just write GARU G quotes on bathroom walls

In the men's room of the local Borders:

Graf 1: "VOTE ANYONE BUT BUSH IN 2008!"

Graf 2: "EVER HEAR OF TERM LIMITS DICKWAD? BUSH CAN'T RUN IN '08"

Graf 3: "YA LOL"

First time I'd ever seen "LOL" in graffiti.

HIS BROTHER AND FATHER CAN.

QUIT DEFACING BORDERS BATHROOMS, KEVIN.

this was on mefi recently: http://passiveaggressivenotes.wordpress.com/

In the bathroom of Musee D'Orsay

http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/1524/dscn1174zy0.jpg

L'OMG!

Scrawled in 6 foot high lettering on a water tower:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/213/524029268_865c89a328.jpg

I went past this almost every day for nearly 20 years and always wondered who the hell was this Peter.

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/P1000306.jpg

I wonder if this was etched before the kid actually saw the movie in a fit of unguarded anticipation or after the movie in celebration of its questionable charms? What synaptic misfirings impelled them to write "Star Trek The Motion Picture" in wet cement?

Some of the less legible etchings include "Disco sucks," "Cheap Trick Sucks," "Pat Travers," and "Boz Scaggs."

There was some graffiti down by the river Severn near where I lived in Worcester when I was a kid that said stuff like "GLUE GANG OK", I always wondered who the Glue Gang were, and if they were in fact OK.

My favourite piece of Worcester graffiti was on the slide at our local park, it just said "SHIT COMES OUT YOUR BUM". Simple, yet informative.

In a really small town about sixty miles north of here, there's a yellow road sign alerting drivers that there's a fire station ahead. Underneath the fire engine logo, someone drew a little stick figure and the word "BILLY" above with an arrow pointing to the stick figure.

I'll confess to being disappointed that my university library painted over the graffiti in the toilets. A hotbed of wit and otherwise interesting scribbles. The most memorable, to my mind, was either the long diatribe about Glasgow Rangers (written by a Celtic fan) followed by the Rangers' fans responses... or this:

(in one hand) - Dave Moran is as hard as nails

(below it, in another) - yet curiously brittle.

Hurrah for smartass undergraduate humour!

love that star trek one

wonder if the same person who made that later made "star trek II: wrath of khan" graffiti somewhere else

I mostly just write GARU G quotes on bathroom walls

Haha now I want to write some TIM@KFC quotes on a random toilet wall somewhere.

I actually have never written on a bathroom wall/cubicle door. I dont think. Unless Ive done the drunken lipstick scrawl and forgotten.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/4/5530815_90287a3fd0.jpg?v=0

This came to mind. Not really sure if it's exactly an awkward graffito, but it is not exactly smooth either.

(From Filter's bathroom in Wicker Park)

I was on the bus the other day and a group of teenage girls got on and sat in the seats behind me.

Girl one: Hey look, according to this, Gary's got a huge cock!
Girl two: I'm happy for him. It must be nice.
Girl one: And he's drawn a picture of it, look.
Girl two: Huh, it's not that big.

gary has officially been taken down a notch.

xpost... what would have been worse is "It burns when I piss," then a phone number.

Today I saw GOTH'S RULE

in goth writing

what's that, blood and tears instead of ink?

yes, it does seem odd that people need to write their support for something, a football team typically, on toilet walls.

i have seen religious graffiti in the toilets at euston.

graffitist 1: Faggots are wierd!

graffitist 2: Bigots can't spell!

http://i18.tinypic.com/6hh7m08.jpg

I think you should all look at this:

http://thefilthypen.blogspot.com/

Did "GOTH'S RULE" seriously have the grocer's apostophe? Cuz thats so twee and awkward haha.

i think that's like a version of murphy's law.

Goth's Rule: anything that can go goth, wil go goth

Yeah srsly if that apostrophe was there it makes all the difference.

I still don't think any of this compares to "shit comes out your bum". A work of genius.

Hahah LB, now I want to make a tshirt with GOTH'S RULE on it.

The rule of course as any fule no, is "once a goth, always a goth".

lol someone i knew long ago spraypainted "huker du" on a prominent public wall.

i now write 'oh wrinklepaws' on the left below the sink in every bar i attend whilst in possession of sharpie.

uh, that's truly embarassing.

Someone is placing lyrics from the last yeah yeah yeah's record in this really creepy font all over town. I even saw that shit on a car. Just appeared out of nowhere. And there's a few graffiti penises around here. They don't blend in that well.

someone has been wrtting "i love you" and "dick wolf" all over toronto.
not the same prson, i'm sure.

also for a while there was val kilmer heads everywhere and now we have severed, photocopied heads of the bearded guy from the shield

i should prolly be ovr at I am drunk

Ok, on the front of the building that I live in has a lot of graffiti, and I don't understand most of it. I thought I could read one part that said, "Ya, oh", which makes no sense at all. My best friend and I got in a fight about it because she thinks it says "Ya Girl", which would make more sense, but it doesn't look like it says that at all!!!

Must repost this as it's awesome. Each colour represents a different graffiti 'artist':

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/144/320899780_b92aaf4adb.jpg

There's an excelsior wall?

For about 10 years, prominently outside the Boot's chemist in the centre of Ipswich was this little forumla:

LSD + XTC = NRG

I've no idea why Boots allowed it to stay for that long, but needless to say it was removed shortly after appearing in a national magazine.

Lucius
Cornelius
SULLA!

Strangest fan-graffiti I ever saw.

I just remembered an odd one I saw passing on a train once:

WHY CAN'T I BE NORMAL LIKE YOU.

Hmm.

"dick wolf"!

In the bathroom of one of my favorite bars, over the urinal is scrawled: "M1k3 Sull1v4n hides tampons in his sideburns".

FWIW I have confirmed with M1k3 that this is not true.

I saw something that said "AXCESS"

I dunno...it just confused me...

https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/t1/1922332_1421257424783279_1816389241_n.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh9p4t-4DMQ#t=352

uh, that's supposed to start at 5m 50s

Ah it's actually the wrong Mary Whitehouse Experience clip.

'M. KAHN IS BENT' was, until recently, painted in very large white letters on a railway bridge that crosses the North Circular road in London between Crouch End and East Finchley (Just by the gasworks).
It had been there for over ten years, unmissable by every single car travelling in a westward direction on the North Circular, which, bearing in mind that approximately 300,000 cars containing an average of 2.7 people pass under that bridge every day, would indicate that, over the course of time, the fact of M. Kahn's bent-ness may have been impressed on 2,956,500,000 people, or round about five times the population of Europe.
This kind of majority opinion must have made it very difficult for M. Kahn to dispute.
Many things, however, remain unexplained. Considering the scale of the insult, why did the man who painted it choose to use the polite form 'M. Kahn' - as if he was writing a letter to his bank manager? Perhaps he didn't know Mr Kahn's first name (Micheal? Monty?), in which case he can't have known him very well - in which case it seems a bit much to go and paint definitive statements about his sexual orientation ten feet high on the North Circular.
And perhaps even more intriguing, why was M.Kahn himself (Morris? Matt?), no doubt a resident of the Funchley area and well able to contact the local borough council, content to leave the message there for over a decade? Is it possible that he wrote it himself? Which would suggest that the graffiti was not in fact an insult, but the biggest sex-advert in the world. Perhaps we'll never know.
Whatever it was that persuaded the council finally to paint over 'M. KAHN IS BENT', The Mary Whitehouse Experience is prepared to offer a large sum of money to any person or persons prepared to go back to the bridge, under cover of darkness, and paint on it the words 'M. KAHN IS STILL BENT'.

I have a theory that Kahn is French, and the M. stands for Monsieur.