Around Belfast
not the normal sectarian muck they usually plaster about the walls.

MUGGINS WILL BE DEALED WITH SEVERLY
(bl33dingsaint how's your father?, Fri 4 May 2007, 14:01, Reply)

random
on the side of my local church.

not MY local church.

meh.

JAH RULE!!

below it.

ITS JA RULE.PRICK


been there MONTHS it has!
(UnstableDan Bah, Humbug! ooooh, humbugs, nyom!, Fri 4 May 2007, 14:01, Reply)

Aston, Birmingham
There's a small basketball court on Witton Lane opposite Villa Park and beneath one of the baskets is a small wall upon which is sprayed:

SHADY NAD WAQ

Is that when you sneakily kick someone in the nuts?
( abefroman skating on the thin life of modern life on, Fri 4 May 2007, 13:59, Reply)

In a pub toilets in Islington
Someone had written the classic

IRELAND FOR THE IRISH

To which, in a different hand, some wag had written beneath:

PECKHAM FOR THE PECKISH
(qwghlm, Fri 4 May 2007, 13:58, Reply)

toilet humour!
some grungy pub, in Wolverhampton, I was a bit messed up through lager, and entering a cubicle I was greeted by the scariest loo ever.

lid up, with massive googly eyes markered onto it with 'evil' pointy eyebrows, and all around the rim were triangle 'teeth', and over the front edge, a big red tongue reaching the floor!

fucked me right up.
shud of took a photo!!

SOMEONE must have come across this as well.
I hope it wasnt just me :-(
(UnstableDan Bah, Humbug! ooooh, humbugs, nyom!, Fri 4 May 2007, 13:56, Reply)

The 'Gay Village' in Manchester
The Gay Village is just off Deansgate on a road unfortunately called "Canal Street".

Every time they clean the road sign it is only a matter of days before some Scally or Townie with a bottle of Tipp-Ex removes the first letter of each word ... Not exactly original, but funny.

Probably bindun.
(Dionysian Aut viam inveniam aut faciam, Fri 4 May 2007, 13:52, Reply)

Well, its not quite graffiti...
..but its still pretty fucking hilarious.

Somewhere in Reading/Didcot around there, backing onto the railway is a large warehouse, with a very large, distinctive sign.

It reads, in eight foot letters:

SCATS COUNTRY SUPPLIES

(Think about it phonetically....)
(castaboras the time at the beep will be, Fri 4 May 2007, 13:51, Reply)

Somewhere between Leeds and Hebden Bridge, there is some disused land where there was once a petrol station.
Someone has obviously got pissed, forgotten that the 24 hour mini mart is no longer there, walked down there, and got annoyed to discover it gone.
So, in 4 foot high letters, they've written:
"BUILD ME A SHOP!"
( Malchick, Fri 4 May 2007, 13:49, Reply)

Albert Bridge
Albert Bridge, between Battersea and Chelsea, is not particularly well constructed. There is a weight restriction, and soldiers are instructed not to walk in their normal fashion. On the upstream south side, there is a sign that reads:

Soldiers
must
break wind
dance
step
when
crossing
this
bridge.
(Rastus P Watermelon, Fri 4 May 2007, 13:47, Reply)

Research...
I also love this one...

wheel.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/redfern20graffiti1_2.jpg

for those of you that are going blind from self love, it says "If you voted Liberal I will hunt you down and kill you. I don't know where you live, but I'm very good at research"
(lessmiserable, Fri 4 May 2007, 13:47, Reply)

Not me but a mate ...
... was in the toilet at his college

Some (presumably Asian) student had tagged his name on the bog door: RAJU

Underneath someone else had written: BRINGS THE ITALIAN OUT IN YOU
( Droog is too orangey for crows, Fri 4 May 2007, 13:44, Reply)

Another from Dundee
daddy was a donkey's post below reminded me of one I saw 10 years or so back painted in large white letters over a 20m stretch of wall next to the A90 leading north out of a rough part of Dundee:

"Fuck yous I am innocent"

Perhaps commenting on a miscarriage of justice?
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 4 May 2007, 13:44, Reply)

Roosters
Back in my golden (parched, dried, dying) motherland of Australia there is a take away chicken chain called "red rooster". www.redrooster.com.au/

It always amazed me how accurate the bogans (chavs)were with their projectiles, as pretty much every outlet ended up being hailed as "red rooter"

Do I need to explain what rooting is?*

*'Merkins and Canadians take note, it's not digging around for things... well... maybe it is.
(lessmiserable, Fri 4 May 2007, 13:43, Reply)

Anarchy?
Youngs pub outside covent garden (marquis of somewere) Middle of punk and usual slogan was anarchy in the UK. In the loo was a well rendered British isles map with an arrow in it labelled "archery in the UK"
(tootired Is searching for a funny sig, nothing good so far, Fri 4 May 2007, 13:43, Reply)

Cornwall
I live in deepest darkest Cornwall and graffiti isn't that widespread, but when it turns up, it generally amuses me...memorable ones...

A sign in Pool reads "Pool Is The Future" (a bare faced lie if ever I saw one)...this is regularly defaced to "Poo Is The Future" which is more appropriate to the area...

The "Welcome to Redruth" sign had "You're" added to it leaving it to read "You're Welcome To Redruth" (which is fair enough, but why anyone would accept that offer is beyond me)

During the whole Bosnia conflict thingy the St Day signs had "Twinned with Bosnia" added to them (almost believe-able)

We also have a sort of retard IRA here fighting for Cornish independence called An Gof (Cornish for "I Am Backward" probably)...they'd spray painted a bridge near Truro with "FREE KERNOW", unfortunately to paint it on the bridge the "artist" had to hang over the side to write it resulting in it being written in 2 foot high upsidedown letters...

and my favourite (only because I'd had some problems with this guy in the past) was "BIG JIM SHAGS SHEEP" written in 2 foot high letters across the side of Redruth Cinema...
(littleben hasn't anything funny to put here, Fri 4 May 2007, 13:43, Reply)

It's the attention to detail futher down that gets me.

(Cuthbert Annihilator, Fri 4 May 2007, 13:39, Reply)

Hamilton Ontario Canada
Hamilton. Steeltown. A fair-sized city, a bit on the blue-collar end of the spectrum. (Nice art gallery, though. But I digress.)

I was walking past a construction site, and all along the wooden fence were scattered angry graffiti about some guy named Levak. I don't remember any verbatim, but clearly some guy was seriously pissed off at Levak. I walked along, pondering about what Levak had done, the nature of the conflict. Perhaps some cultural clash, given the immigrant mix in that working-class area. Graffiti not terribly specific, though. Made it all a bit of a mystery.

About 15 minutes later (or more), the penny drops. Like a lot of working-class blue-collars, this guy was angry at Quebec separatist politican Rene Levesque.

How can you care enough to hate that much, and not care enough to learn the correct spelling?


EDIT: Not a defense of the late Levesque, whose PQ is dangerously divisive, hypocritical in their treatment of Quebec anglophones, and borderline racist. But I can at least describe the issues, and spell the fucker's name.

Length? A few city blocks, as I recall.
(MrCanoehead Marzipaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!, Fri 4 May 2007, 13:35, Reply)

another another white van
"THIS WAY UP"

written upside down
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 4 May 2007, 13:35, Reply)

Old but gold
Can`t find the photo damn, but remember the first bilboard ads for "Stars Wars the movie (or was it motion picture?)

In Whitechapel, near London Hospital one on the main road had sprayed underneath "Ars Warts- the anagram"
(tootired Is searching for a funny sig, nothing good so far, Fri 4 May 2007, 13:34, Reply)

Mile End Park

"G.Fawkes is innocent"

Painted with white emulsion in 2 foot high letters on a railway bridge by Mile End Park in East London.
(Go on , touch it, Fri 4 May 2007, 13:34, Reply)

Written in small writing
towards the bottom of a toilet cubical wall:

"You are now shitting at a 35.6 degree angle"

Thought that was good
( @stephenshortt Jaysus it's been a while!, Fri 4 May 2007, 13:32, Reply)

Wolves Little Civic.
The walls of the Little Civic in Wolverhampton are covered in posters from various bands and singers. Some have played there and you get the feeling that some are an ironic piss take.

A moment of graffiti that made me laugh was on a Darren Hayes (former high pitched crooner with Savage Garden) poster. He was either peering out of, or peering in to, a tv screen. And someone had written 'twat' in pencil across his chest.

Made me and the missus laugh for ages.
( Evil Bastardo, Fri 4 May 2007, 13:32, Reply)

Liverpool
On the side of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts - 'Schubert is great' and someone underneath tagged '...and dead.'

I also like 'Goff are gay'. A perfect piece of scally-literature.

The school I was at was often abbrivated to SFX, of course everyone added a line to create the obvious. My favourite? 'Play cricket for SEX'.

I liked on in the toilets of the University of Leeds. Written on the bog-roll dispenser: 'Leeds Met degrees, please take one.'
( rjmrjm, Fri 4 May 2007, 13:32, Reply)

pub in manchester
I saw on a toilet wall the other week

"10/03/07 - Chris Akabusa patted me on the fanny and whispered "Awooga" in my ear"

no further explanation to be given, you either get it or you don't
(mercemployee, Fri 4 May 2007, 13:29, Reply)

My First Graffiti
I live in a nice area - Nothing posh, but certainly not the sort of gang-ravaged crack-crater that the Daily Mail would have you believe every town is becoming these days. Because of this, it seems that the 'youth' are new to the whole idea of anti-social behaviour.

My favourite piece of graffiti is on a fence just round the corner from my house. It has no wild colour scheme, no tag, no obscenities. In perfectly-formed upper- and lower-case letters, someone has simply sprayed

"I am the best"

The missus and I spotted this while we were house-hunting, and both immediately said "Awwww!". It was actually one of the deciding factors that made us want to live there...
(costas, Fri 4 May 2007, 13:27, Reply)

liverpool
written on the side of a church on Park Road for much of the 80s was the single word: "Aids"

about a decade later the same church featured "god is a cunt" though oddly enough they cleared that one up a bit quicker.
(eightAce, Fri 4 May 2007, 13:25, Reply)

Four letter word
On the way to Brighton from Tunbridge Wells, you pass by a town called Uckfield, and over the river Uck. The sign for the river used to be square, but now they've chopped it down so that there's no room for any extra letters.

Always used to make me chuckle.
(acute_angina, Fri 4 May 2007, 13:24, Reply)

By the bus station in Stourbridge
Someone has wrote 'Tesconspiracy' on a wall in massive letters.
(Grim Jimm makes loud noises at myspace.com/corpsewalking, Fri 4 May 2007, 13:24, Reply)

Wall!
A huge white wall on Portobello Promenade in Edinburgh once had the following proudly sprayed in three-foot high blue paint:

"Wall! Huh! What is it good for?"

That made my day every time I walked past but the swine from the council painted over it. Philistines.

Another one is more vandalism than graffiti but still seems to fit here. There was a pub in Portobello High Street called The Glassblower which has recently changed its name (to The Central Bar if I remember right). Why the change? Pesky locals kept nicking the G and l from the sign :-)

Ooh, almost forgot - the first time me and the missus went to Prague we saw the word "BAWBAG" scrawled along the side of a lovely ancient building. Hooray for my fellow Scots and their vandalicious ways. Still got a photo of it somewhere, will have to dig it out...
(pumpkinbug, Fri 4 May 2007, 13:18, Reply)

KING FARTS
In the bogs of a pub in Oxford, someone had carved into the wall, in 2 inch high letters:

KING FARTS

How enigmatic.

Dr S

Length - short but whiffy
(Dr Skagra glorious glargzhem, Fri 4 May 2007, 13:14, Reply)