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Post by mick on May 17, 2024 7:51:32 GMT
Any memorable graffiti?
Here's a famous one that was painted on a wall (a long wall) on the rail entrance to Euston station. It was about 50 years ago and I saw it most days.
"Near at hand is far away in images of elsewhere".
I still don't really understand it.
Anyone else?
Mick
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Post by John Farrell on May 17, 2024 7:55:32 GMT
There was one on the toilet wall, when I was at school - "If a man's brain was as big as his balls, he wouldn't be writing on toilet walls".
In one when my son was a student at Auckland University, a note above the paper dispenser in one of the toilets said "Sociology degrees, please take one".
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Post by MJB on May 17, 2024 8:01:48 GMT
My hometown of Whitchurch, Hampshire had "Paul M hits women they say" daubed on the wall of the bridge under the bypass. No one seems to know who the Paul M was, but it was suspected to be Paul McCartney who was reported to have abused Linda in the 1970s. The graffiti was there for the best part of 40 years until some do-gooder painted over it.
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Post by dreampolice on May 17, 2024 8:26:50 GMT
I immediately pictured this in my mind. Ian Brown, the singer from The Stone Roses got himself arrested in 90's. He had a song called Longsight M13. I used to work in Longsight, M13 postcode and used to pass this everyday.  |
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Graffiti
May 17, 2024 8:38:45 GMT
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Post by zou on May 17, 2024 8:38:45 GMT
Any memorable graffiti?
Here's a famous one that was painted on a wall (a long wall) on the rail entrance to Euston station. It was about 50 years ago and I saw it most days.
"Near at hand is far away in images of elsewhere".
I still don't really understand it.
Anyone else?
Mick
It's rather simple. Things that are close to you (geographically) are far away to people geographically far away. A message about wanderlust and being grateful for what you have. |
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May 17, 2024 8:40:13 GMT
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Post by zou on May 17, 2024 8:40:13 GMT
One of my favourites was a set of 3 stencils depicting rock scissor paper. Rock was MLK's fist, scissor was Churchill's fingers, paper was Hitler's salute.
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May 17, 2024 9:06:10 GMT
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Post by daves on May 17, 2024 9:06:10 GMT
Long ago seen in a loo at Birkbeck
Dada wouldn't buy me a Bauhaus.
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Post by mick on May 17, 2024 9:45:22 GMT
Any memorable graffiti?
Here's a famous one that was painted on a wall (a long wall) on the rail entrance to Euston station. It was about 50 years ago and I saw it most days.
"Near at hand is far away in images of elsewhere".
I still don't really understand it.
Anyone else?
Mick
It's rather simple. Things that are close to you (geographically) are far away to people geographically far away. A message about wanderlust and being grateful for what you have. Strewth! now I know why I stuck to the sciences.  Mick
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Post by John Farrell on May 17, 2024 9:47:01 GMT
I was a student at Otago University in the early 1970s. There was a house next to the University Union building which was used as offices. On one of the walls was the slogan "Free Latvia", which was painted in 1940.
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Post by spinno on May 17, 2024 9:47:27 GMT
Tolkien is Hobbit forming...
My mummy made me a homosexual- if I got her the wool could she make me one?
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Post by willien on May 17, 2024 9:50:15 GMT
Tolkien is Hobbit forming... My mummy made me a homosexual- if I got her the wool could she make me one? The second one was on the gent's walls in the Elph. in Biggar 50 years ago just next the extremely bad taste "Why do Japanese have slant eyes? Have you ever seen a nuclear explosion?". Lanarkshire was not PC. |
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Post by spinno on May 17, 2024 9:51:13 GMT
Tolkien is Hobbit forming... My mummy made me a homosexual- if I got her the wool could she make me one? The second one was on the gent's walls in the Elph. in Biggar 50 years ago just next the extremely bad taste "Why do Japanese have slant eyes? Have you ever seen a nuclear explosion?". Lanarkshire was not PC. 50 years ago not many places were PC |
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Post by Kath on May 17, 2024 11:12:53 GMT
Any memorable graffiti?
Here's a famous one that was painted on a wall (a long wall) on the rail entrance to Euston station. It was about 50 years ago and I saw it most days.
"Near at hand is far away in images of elsewhere".
I still don't really understand it.
Anyone else?
Mick
It's rather simple. Things that are close to you (geographically) are far away to people geographically far away. A message about wanderlust and being grateful for what you have. Or, it could also mean that if you have an image of somewhere far away in your hand, it's still far away because all you have is the image. |
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Post by Kath on May 17, 2024 11:14:30 GMT
Also a quick google reveals that this was not the quote. It actually said 'Far away is close at hand in images of elsewhere' So photographs of other places brings them closer to you.
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Post by dorsetmike on May 17, 2024 11:14:44 GMT
"It's no use standing on the seat, the crabs in here can jump 6 feet"
followed by
"It's no use trying in next door, the crabs in there jump 6 feet 4"
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