Bathroom Graffiti

irishmick79 · Post by **irishmick79** » 2004-01-26 01:04pm

For some strange reason, I've always been morbidly facinated by the phenomenon of bathrrom graffiti. It comes in so many different forms, from the mildly amusing ("Let's play a game of tennis! Look left. Look right. Look left"), to the outright offensive ("All niggers must die....Join the KKK"). Seriously, what inspires these idiots to accept the men's room as an appropriate venue to discuss race relations? Who in their right mind would pour their hearts out on a wall in a bathroom stall? I never really understood why somebody would want to do it, but it's facinating just how widespread graffiti is. Your thoughts?

The Aliens · Post by **The Aliens** » 2004-01-26 01:08pm

If you have a message to get out, why not use a stall? Leaving your phone number is idiotic (it's illegal and they'll find you very quickly), but if you're going to use a venue that hundreds of people use everyday and are almost guaranteed to look at due to lack of other stimulation a bathroom stall is a good choice.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2004-01-26 01:08pm

Just idiocy i think like writting "For a blowjob call (Insert phone number here),i`d say total immaturity.

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2004-01-26 01:09pm

Interesting historical fact: Archeologists have found bathroom graffitti in Roman baths. This phenemenon has been with us for a long time.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2004-01-26 01:27pm

Stravo wrote:Interesting historical fact: Archeologists have found bathroom graffitti in Roman baths. This phenemenon has been with us for a long time.

Perhaps it's an extension of marking your territory when you piss?

Queeb Salaron · Post by **Queeb Salaron** » 2004-01-26 02:17pm

Rye wrote:Perhaps it's an extension of marking your territory when you piss?

Maybe. But that's more probably the motivation for the dickwads that smear the stalls in feces.

Ick.

On another note, this one's my favorite:

"Some guys come here to shit and think
And pick crabs off their balls.
I come here to shit and think
And write things on the walls."

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2004-01-26 02:21pm

A friend of mine who recently transfered out of my college left a haiku on the walls:
Crowbar to the face
You laughed at me in highschool
Is it funny now?

Iceberg · Post by **Iceberg** » 2004-01-26 02:24pm

The classic:

Here I sit,
So broken-hearted
Tried to shit
But alas, just farted.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2004-01-26 02:54pm

Heisenburg woz ere...

... or woz e?

Demiurge · Post by **Demiurge** » 2004-01-26 02:59pm

Swastikas and penises are quite popular bathroom imagery.

The Aliens · Post by **The Aliens** » 2004-01-26 03:01pm

I never see any witty graffitti, just people trying to get me to join organisations, things about sports teams, or racist slurs.

Sebastin · Post by **Sebastin** » 2004-01-26 03:20pm

One of my favorite bars has large chalkboards mounted in each bathroom stall as well as several pieces of chalk in different colors attached to cords.
Thats a kind of customer service I´d like to see more often.

Incidentialy there is almost no other graffity to be found in their bathroom.

Mayabird · Post by **Mayabird** » 2004-01-26 03:20pm

In my dorm the CA (the person in charge of making sure we don't destroy the dorm during our stay) puts newsletters in the stalls telling us what's going on, if we need to go to any mandatory floor meetings, if there's going to be a fire drill anytime soon, etc. It's not graffiti, but it's motto is witty enough (the first few times you read it): "Read our business while you do yours."

The CA does it because she assumes no one will read it if she emails us or gives us papers to read, but when we're on the porcelain throne there's nothing better to do so we'll read it. True, so true.

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2004-01-26 03:45pm

Writen on the toilet paper holder in the highschool I wen't to:

We had joy, we had fun,
we had a nigger on the run.
We had joy, we had fun,
but the fun did not last,
as the nigger ran too fast.

And:

Women are either prostitutes or stupid, you only need a million Markas to find out which. Offer the million to a women if she will sleep with you, if she does she has taken money for sex and is obviously a prostitute, if she doesn't she turned down a fortune for less then a half an hours "work" and is clearly stupid.

The first one was in English, the second one is my translation from Finnish.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-01-26 03:47pm

Biblical passages are also quite popular down South.

Falkenhorst · Post by **Falkenhorst** » 2004-01-26 04:00pm

Needless to say, I work in a grocery store, and there have been a few comedy gems written in our bathrooms.

There was one twisted fuck who called himself "Diapers I Wear" who would draw pictures of male abdomens wearing diapers with a permanent marker and write his slogan, "Diapers I Wear" underneath it. I saw those in the Wal-Mart bathroom across the street too.

then there was the usual stuff, "Freddy is gay" "Joe blows ducks" etc.

One time though somebody used a permanent marker and wrote on the toilet seat "I took a monster world record shit in this toilet" and left it unflushed.

I saw one like that in a stall back in H.S. too, except it said "I took a 26 inch long shit and ate it --(guy's name quoted here)"

pretty whacked out stuff, but I heard the Pick 'N Save across town has alot more loony shit written in their bathrooms.

One time I was in the local McDonalds, and somebody scratched on the wall behind the toilet "Hamburger Recycler" with an arrow pointin to the toilet, heheehheheehheheh.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2004-01-26 04:02pm

in a British university, above the bog roll dispenser:

BAs available here -->

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2004-01-26 04:05pm

I seem to recall someone starting a quadratic equation on one of the doors at work for some reason...

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2004-01-26 04:06pm

The_Lumberjack wrote:I seem to recall someone starting a quadratic equation on one of the doors at work for some reason...

Probably trying to get a cheat sheet together for exams.

Zoink · Post by **Zoink** » 2004-01-26 04:08pm

To get a reaction. In highschool my friends (ok, I wrote a few things too

)would write stuff they didn't believe, but just wanted to see if somebody would write a reply. The best way to do this is to make sweeping low-brow generalizations. Its basically the "trolling" that existed prior to the internet.

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2004-01-26 04:08pm

Wouldnt be too surprised, whilst I was a university student, most of them were still doing GCSE's, although the rest of the toilet walls were covered in statements regarding the power of someones enormous nose in oral sex, so it must have been one hell of an exam.

IndustrialNoise · Post by **IndustrialNoise** » 2004-01-26 04:44pm

Bathroom grafitti can be fun to read...but I don't think I've ever written anything, myself.

My friend has a habit of putting "The food here sucks!" on the stalls, though.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2004-01-26 05:34pm

ewww

So does this mean that SD.Net is basically where we put our own little constipated remarks?

Queeb Salaron · Post by **Queeb Salaron** » 2004-01-26 05:37pm

SyntaxVorlon wrote:So does this mean that SD.Net is basically where we put our own little constipated remarks?

::Applauds the play on words::

Yes. SDnet is nothing more than a big porcelain canvas on which we doodle.

<FrenchAccent> Eh, such eez life, no?

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-01-26 08:40pm

Around here it is mostly "<Insert name here> sucks."

Then again, I rarely use public toiletry.