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Post by spinno on May 17, 2024 11:14:46 GMT
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. You're over thinking this. It's at Euston Station and it's saying "HS2...it'll never happen"... |
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Post by Kath on May 17, 2024 11:16:06 GMT
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. You're over thinking this. It's at Euston Station and it's saying "HS2...it'll never happen"... I overthunk it so much I googled. The quote was the wrong way round anyway. |
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Post by spinno on May 17, 2024 11:16:32 GMT
Hear I sit brokenhearted, paid a penny and only farted...
Jesus saves...but Dalglish nets the rebound
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Post by zou on May 17, 2024 11:24:38 GMT
Hear I sit brokenhearted, paid a penny and only farted... Jesus saves...but Dalglish nets the rebound Jesus saves, but Shearer scores on the rebound was on the posters for Championship Manager. |
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Post by Kath on May 17, 2024 11:26:05 GMT
Not grafitti as such, but I used to work in a bar in Edinburgh and we had two blackboards, on each wall to the side of the doorway in. They were supposed to be used to advertise the specials menu or drinks offers or whatever. That summer we went a bit rogue and started an almost unspoken competition to be the first to write something funny on the boards. The most succint was an arrow pointing into the bar with the word Drink under it. An arrow on the opposing door pointed out and said Drunk. But the one that stuck with me most was from my mate NIgel (no relation to our DP) who seemed to have lost all the plots when he wrote 'Never eat anything bigger than your own head.' It's a manifesto of sorts I suppose.
As for actual graffiti, there's a somewhat infamous block of flats in Helensburgh, locally known as the Sheepsheid flats. (Something to do with them having been built on the site of an abbatoir and some joker putting a sheep's skull into the walls). You'll sometimes see a flat there for sale, but the truth is it's mostly temporary housing for homeless people, addicts, people with mental health issues and so on. One day graffiti appeared on the side of the wall. 'I've moved out so you can put your own f*****g c*****g bins out now ya f*****g c**t'. Someone was clearly offended by the language and so they painted white over the bits I've starred here, but not the first and last letters so the message was still clear as day!
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Post by stevewmh on May 17, 2024 11:59:05 GMT
Graffiti I spotted at the Royal Festival Hall was a Critique of the famous conductor Sir Geog Sholti aka the screaming skull
"Sholti doesn't know his brass from his oboe"
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Post by Chester PB on May 17, 2024 15:58:22 GMT
Hear I sit brokenhearted, paid a penny and only farted... Jesus saves...but Dalglish nets the rebound I recall this as 'Jesus saves, Moses invests'. A devoutly Jewish boy at my school told me he had been told it by a Rabbi. |
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Post by Chester PB on May 17, 2024 16:00:45 GMT
One of my favourite intellectual examples - 'Balls to Picasso', neatly written beside a drawing of a pair of dice.
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Post by spinno on May 17, 2024 16:26:17 GMT
Genghis Khan but Immanuel Kant
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Post by aitch on May 17, 2024 17:22:09 GMT
Hear I sit brokenhearted, paid a penny and only farted... Jesus saves...but Dalglish nets the rebound I recall this as 'Jesus saves, Moses invests'. A devoutly Jewish boy at my school told me he had been told it by a Rabbi. 'but only Buddah pays dividends' was the third part I heard. |
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Post by MJB on May 17, 2024 17:26:53 GMT
I have to say I never anticipated so many people here were in the habit of studying what has been written on the doors of public toilets.
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Post by collieslave on May 17, 2024 17:36:58 GMT
Seen in a gents' public loo. On the wall, a condom dispensing machine embellished with descriptions of the product therein. In bold letters it stated "Manufactured to British Standards". Underneath this statement had been added, in black felt tip pen, "So was the Titanic!" I rather liked that!
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Post by spinno on May 17, 2024 17:47:12 GMT
I have to say I never anticipated so many people here were in the habit of studying what has been written on the doors of public toilets. There are more places than toilets with educational messages |
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Post by zou on May 17, 2024 18:38:45 GMT
I have to say I never anticipated so many people here were in the habit of studying what has been written on the doors of public toilets. Were you not wondering how I got your number? |
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Post by willien on May 17, 2024 18:39:57 GMT
I have to say I never anticipated so many people here were in the habit of studying what has been written on the doors of public toilets. Were you not wondering how I got your number? Advantage. |
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