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I was thinking about vandalism and specifically, the stuff people write on bathroom stalls.

I have written on stalls before as a teenager but nowadays I wouldnt do it because I've grown... plus I had to scrub/paint stalls to clean these things up since then. :p

It's not like a heinous crime or anything but I don't thinks its right to do unless you are in like a really disgusting bathroom where it's already really tagged up and it really wont make a difference; perhaps it will even make the experience more pleasant.

I had an idea on how to curb it, If I had a place of business where there were public restrooms. Maybe have a post-it notepad, a pen and a sign tellign people to tag on the post-its instead, and perhaps that the post-its will be cleared once a month.

What do you think of the practice of writing on bathroom stall walls in public restrooms? Have you done it? Read anything funny? What would you like to write on a stall wall?

Perhaps if I had eaten some spicy food earlier I might write "And It Burns, Burns, Burns. The Ring Of Fire".

I looked up stall writings on the internets to find some other funny ones:

Some come here to sit and think,
some come here to shit and stink,
but I come here to itch my balls,
and read the writing on the walls.

On the ceiling above the toilet seat.

"Your shit must feel real good if your looking up here."

Dreamgirls Strip Club
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404
Women's restroom, 1st and only floor

Brenda fucked my man
She fucked mine too!
Who's your man?
Jayvon- I'll kick her ass
I'm gonna kick YOUR ass-Jayvon's my man's name!!!!!
This last has to be from Brenda herself:

Stop flattening my tires you stoopid hoes- u see hes not no good
And under THAT:

And now I'M fuckin him! Trish
And finally:

jokes on all of you- he gave my clamidia!!! Betsie
Betsie was the only female bouncer in the place, and everyone was scared of her — so they barred Jayvon (who really WAS sleeping with half of the dancers) and all stripped happily ever after!


Don't beam me up Scottie, I'm having a Sh

Nearly all toilet vandalism I've encountered has been by people either trying to be funny (and failing catastrophically) or people writing about who's shagging who. Needless to say I have a low opinion of such acts as a result.

iirc there was a professor who did serious research on this topic. it would be cool if someone found an article about it.

iirc there was a professor who did serious research on this topic. it would be cool if someone found an article about it.
There's a whole book about toilet graffiti. My housemate's got it. I'd tell you the title, but he's away and his room's locked. Some of it is actually quite funny, some is very obscure (mainly because the book was written in the 80s and some of it is about regional British politics), some is not funny at all.

Vandalous.

They tried that at the local bookstore, but with a dry-erase board. The amrker was stolen in a week. People will just take the sticky notes instead of writing on the walls.

the one I found... interesting was

"He who writes upon these walls
will Shit out little tiney balls.
he who reads these words of which
will eat those tiney balls of shit."

I haven't ever done it. I don't tend to like the people who do. My friend owns a resturaunt, he bought new stalls for his bathroom, the third day after they were installed there was already some graffiti on it

"Cherokee loves Jaden"

real smart, since she was a waitress......she got fired, and he is suing her to replace the panel.....

i feel sorry for those who find out some thing about some one they going out with on a stall

There's a whole book about toilet graffiti. My housemate's got it. I'd tell you the title, but he's away and his room's locked. Some of it is actually quite funny, some is very obscure (mainly because the book was written in the 80s and some of it is about regional British politics), some is not funny at all.

Sounds like a great coffee table book!

Vandalous.

party pooper!

They tried that at the local bookstore, but with a dry-erase board. The amrker was stolen in a week. People will just take the sticky notes instead of writing on the walls.

yeah thats what I thought but maybe it wills till be less expensive or cumbersome to deal with the few who still wrote on the walls and steal the pen and post-its

the one I found... interesting was

"He who writes upon these walls
will Shit out little tiney balls.
he who reads these words of which
will eat those tiney balls of shit."

lol - I've heard that one before.

here are a couple mroe I found online:


Outhouse - in a city park
Charlotte, Michigan USA 48823
Unisex restroom

"This is a tee pee
for a pee pee.
Not a wig wam
to beat your tom-tom."

I read this back in the 1950's when I was in grade school. It took a few years before I would grasp the meaning of it.


Polaris Mall
Port-a-john during construction
Columbus, Ohio USA 43023
Men's restroom

"OSHA regulation 42-2 : All turds over 6 inches must be hand lowered."

Safety is always an issue on large construction sites.

Vandalism maybe, but who cares? Public toilets do well enough at being unpleasant that a bit of writing makes no difference.

In one of the bathrooms in the chemical engineering lab, someone took the time to draw a full-size, anatomically correct elven woman using a pen.

Sounds like a great coffee table book!
We had it somewhere else in the house...

Yep. Next to the toilet!

Vandalism maybe, but who cares? Public toilets do well enough at being unpleasant that a bit of writing makes no difference.

not necessarily true.I've been to many public toilets that were clean and pleasant to use (comparatively). I wont go back to places with nasty restrooms. This kind of thing can hurt a business (even if only minimally). It's also a pain int eh ass for the person to clean it up.

In one of the bathrooms in the chemical engineering lab, someone took the time to draw a full-size, anatomically correct elven woman using a pen.

nice!

We had it somewhere else in the house...

Yep. Next to the toilet!


even better!

once i read on the wall " What Colour are Your Pants "

I haven't ever done it. I don't tend to like the people who do. My friend owns a resturaunt, he bought new stalls for his bathroom, the third day after they were installed there was already some graffiti on it

"Cherokee loves Jaden"

real smart, since she was a waitress......she got fired, and he is suing her to replace the panel.....

lol - stupid people are so awesome (sometimes - for the entertainment they bring me)

i feel sorry for those who find out some thing about some one they going out with on a stall

Yeah, that does seem to happen a lot lol.

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At a company I used to work at, near the end of my time there, there had been a lot of changes in management and noone was happy with their job, their pay, or management.


Someone wrote "This places sucks ass!"

a day later thee were about three tags that agreed with it. All different pens and writing styles.

It stayed up for a long time considering that it was a rich company that had a crew that kept the restroom quite clean. Plus, the management used the same toilets as the rest of us.

The best kinds of graffiti are the ancient Roman kinds. The following are actual Latin phrases found carved into ancient Roman settlement walls (info from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti#Ancient_graffiti)):

The Romans carved graffiti into their own walls and monuments, and examples of their work also exist in Egypt. The eruption of Vesuvius preserved graffiti carved on the walls of Pompeii, including everyday Latin insults, magic, love declarations, alphabets, political consigns, and quotations from famous literature, offering us a direct insight into ancient Roman street life.

In an ancient variant on the "for a good time..." theme, an inscription gives the address of one Novellia Primigenia of Nuceria, apparently a great beauty and subject of constant inquiry; an illustration of a phallus was accompanied by the text, mansueta tene: "Handle with care".

Ancient Roman graffiti also suggests that love was the object of scorn:

Quisquis amat. veniat. Veneri volo frangere costas
fustibus et lumbos debilitare deae.
Si potest illa mihi tenerum pertundere pectus
quit ego non possim caput illae frangere fuste?

Whoever loves, go to hell. I want to break Venus's ribs
with a club and deform her hips.
If she can break my tender heart
why can't I hit her over the head?
-CIL IV, 1284.

There are even ancient Roman political caricatures:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Graffiti_politique_de_Pompei.jpg

The best kinds of graffiti are the ancient Roman kinds. The following are actual Latin phrases found carved into ancient Roman settlement walls (info from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti#Ancient_graffiti)):



There are even ancient Roman political caricatures:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Graffiti_politique_de_Pompei.jpg

You just brought this conversation to a whole new level!
:D

very interesting indeed!

The best kinds of graffiti are the ancient Roman kinds. The following are actual Latin phrases found carved into ancient Roman settlement walls (info from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti#Ancient_graffiti)):



There are even ancient Roman political caricatures:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Graffiti_politique_de_Pompei.jpg

There was one at Pompeii that said something like, "Wall, how can you still be standing with the weight of all this scribbling on you?" Something like that.

There are even ancient Roman political caricatures:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Graffiti_politique_de_Pompei.jpg

Mr Magoo was a Roman politician?

Stall graffiti is one of my minor hobbies.

Polaris Mall
Port-a-john during construction
Columbus, Ohio USA 43023
Men's restroom

"OSHA regulation 42-2 : All turds over 6 inches must be hand lowered."

Safety is always an issue on large construction sites.

would be funnier if they had a ruler hanging next to that announcement. :p

MY friend in high school etched a very detailed woman with her legs spread open on a metal panel ajacent to one toilet. It was quite magnificent. From what I understand, the romans had pretty leud humor as well. Some of the first American archeologists to uncover Roman writtings, took chisels and destroyed them because they were 'obscene beyond belief'. Fallic symbols were apparently everywhere. Giant penis' stood as property markers in some homes.

Stall grafiti is fine, if all you're looking for is crude humor and partisan politics. It's kinda like a shittier NSG. :p

At places where people might be inclined to poetic impulses, there should be a whiteboard in stalls. Most people will then be naturally inclined to write on that rathe rthan the wall.
And the others will be shot and nailed to the bathroom door a deterrent.

I have wrote many things on many walls. haha.. the last one i did was on a hand dryer in a bathroom, the good ol' "push button recieve bacon" that makes me laugh :D


also, i do enjoy reading somoethings..well until i saw the one in our floor restroom, where some one drew up a swastika, and a hefty "FUCK JEWS, especially the one in 1311". well, i am room 1311, and i guess people don't like the prayers in hebrew on my door.. oh well.

i'm always dissapointed by stalls that don't have writing on the walls. they give me something to read while i'm in there, and once i've read everything i can think of something to add. usually i don't because most toilet greffiti seems to be about football or calling some random person gay, but sometimes there's something really witty that makes me laugh. i'm quite easily entertained though, so even the ubiquitous "toilet tennis" gets a smirk out of me.

written above a urinal at my college's library

"What are you looking at? The joke's in your hands"

Of course I read the washroom stalls. How else would I know that Lisa K. is a slut and Tommy is totally sexy? Duh!

written above a urinal at my college's library

"What are you looking at? The joke's in your hands"

I've seen this a few times.

Of course I read the washroom stalls. How else would I know that Lisa K. is a slut and Tommy is totally sexy? Duh!

I thought everybody knew that already.

I have wrote many things on many walls. haha.. the last one i did was on a hand dryer in a bathroom, the good ol' "push button recieve bacon" that makes me laugh :D


also, i do enjoy reading somoethings..well until i saw the one in our floor restroom, where some one drew up a swastika, and a hefty "FUCK JEWS, especially the one in 1311". well, i am room 1311, and i guess people don't like the prayers in hebrew on my door.. oh well.


:(

There is one cubicle of the toilets in my Student Union's bar which often has quite obscure things written in it. Chief of which was:

'Smash Chinese revisonists and their Albanian running dogs!'

Or:

'Don't eat McDonalds. Eat the Campbells instead'.

Of course I read the washroom stalls. How else would I know that Lisa K. is a slut and Tommy is totally sexy? Duh!

Well, I am quite sexy. :D

This was written on a stall in the staff toilet at the hospital where I work:

BRB
-Godot-

It always makes me smile.

The most interesting I've seen:

"Come on ladies, have some class, don't write his name where you wipe your @#$" --department store

"<insert name here> is a RAPIST!" --bathroom stall at school
"I can't believe high schooler's are insulting each other on the BR stall door! wow your all pathetic" (word for word) --different bathroom at school

A conversation on one stall:

"I'm amazing."
"Yeah you are."
"WTF?!"
"LOL"

Smash Chinese revisonists and their Albanian running dogs.

Wow, I haven't heard things like that since the 1960's. It's like a time capsule to the Khrushchev era.

I was a huge nerd in high school. I would write (scratch, actually, using the can opener on my jackknife) little sayings in bathroom stalls, but I'd write them using a phonetic alphabet I invented, so no one else could read them.

I was a huge nerd in high school. I would write (scratch, actually, using the can opener on my jackknife) little sayings in bathroom stalls, but I'd write them using a phonetic alphabet I invented, so no one else could read them.

You should have said that "<insert random guy's name here> is UBER SEXY!" and so that everyoen could read it. That could be fun. :p

I've only ever written in stalls when I've been in sour moods.

For example, if I'm feeling rotten and I see a gang tag in a bathroom, the sharpie comes out, and my writing challenges their masculinity.

Although, one of the classic classroom graffittis I've come across is in Hopkin's Hall on Campus. Someone wrote "End the War, Nixon is a fascist" onto the lower level of a table.

That was the day I realized that those tables had been in the room when my mom went to Ohio State.

Although, one of the classic classroom graffittis I've come across is in Hopkin's Hall on Campus. Someone wrote "End the War, Nixon is a fascist" onto the lower level of a table.

What room is it? I need to check that out some time if there isn't a class.

That was the day I realized that those tables had been in the room when my mom went to Ohio State.

Yeah, the oldest thing I've seen are those "Last out, lights out" and "Conserve our Resources" stickers on the light switches in MacQuigg and Fontana. Those are easily from 1973-1979.

What room is it? I need to check that out some time if there isn't a class.


Hopkins 162, perhaps the second row from the front, in the center, a bit to the left.

I was in the middle of class when I noticed, my jaw dropped.

Hopkins 162, perhaps the second row from the front, in the center, a bit to the left.

I was in the middle of class when I noticed, my jaw dropped.

I'll have to look at it some time.

I think its brilliant. Especially the stuff you find in University toilets. In one of the colleges in Lancaster University there is a huge spider-diagram argument above the urinals about the merits and demerits of Marxism, some serious arguments, some anarchic attempts at derailing the discussion, and some simple abuse... that patch of wall is a work of art.

Yeah, the oldest thing I've seen are those "Last out, lights out" and "Conserve our Resources" stickers on the light switches in MacQuigg and Fontana. Those are easily from 1973-1979.

My high school had loads of old graffiti underneath the stage in the assembly hall. The oldest one there was "Dawkins is a ponce, '58".

At school someone wrote "I'm a lesbian and no one knows" Of cpurse this got a "ewww teh Fags!" for a couple responses and then someone told them off an there was an arguement in the bathroomstall. Yeah, it was stupid and pointless but it was something to read.