grafitti...

[gingerjuju]

www.picturesofwalls.com

Does anyone notice the lack of random graffiti in St Andrews? Maybe it has to do with the lack of neds, but I really think there should be more, particularly revolving around the pro - Ginger people struggle. Gingers are people too!!

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"Goodness gracious Flopson - everybody's tumbling!!"

[Rufus]

I doubt graffiti would further the ginger cause.

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'Love much. Earth has enough bitter in it'
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

[DeepBlue]

I grew up in a not so nice area of Belfast where graffitti is a way of life of marking your territory. All of a sudden a new group sprang up, marking everywhere with PFJ. What is this new paramilitary force people wondered...

The Peoples Front of Judea it was later revealed.

[Malcolm]

Quoting gingerjuju from 22:03, 31st Jan 2006
Maybe it has to do with the lack of neds,

I wonder if the St Andrews ned is bright enough for such things :-/

[angel_kohaku]

Up behind the Spar there is "Leprechauns give good head" [s]well it's spelt "lepprohconns" or something[/s]

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I wanna be an anarchist, get pissed, destroy

[Ethan With]

A couple of years back, there were a couple of incidences of "The Penny Reds" being scrawled on walls in St Andrews.
Literally a couple though - on Bell Street and North Castle Street.
There was an outcry.

More recently we've had a few cases of a random symbol appearing on traffic beacons, and on the roof above an estate agent on Bell Street but that's about it really.

Probably a good thing that there's so little graffitti in my opion - unless it's done well, which it rarely is, it's just messy.

Didn't the union have a few graffitti artists at an event last year? And what's going on with the random wall of graffiti by the bar in Venue1?

[exnihilo]

First floor gents' toilets, Union Building, written above the urinal: "you're the only person in the union who knows what he's doing".

[munchingfoo]

The chemistry building below the right hand stairs is a common target.

DRA was tagged in its first year.

The difference is is that graffitti is never left for more than a few days before being cleaned up

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I'd like to change the world but they won't give me the source code.

[richey]

The difference is is that graffitti is never left for more than a few days before being cleaned up


Its really nice to know that they do that, though. Many places don't.

[trouble]

Fine examples of literacy from the girls toilets in the cellar:

"I need more lesbian sex in my life"
"Guys suck"
"I'm a little grasshopper"
"Wana swatch at ma boaby?"
"Yer maw"
"Here I sat broken hearted, tried to cry but only farted."
"What do you do when you just want to have sex with a guy who's not a stranger? -Guys just cant handle it! " (found that quite funny the first time I read it but can't remember why.)

There are some beautiful pieces of work around town, you just have to look for them :p



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"Just stay with me, safe and ignorant,
Safe from pain and truth and choice and other poison devils,
See, they don't give a fuck about you, like I do." (APC- pet)

[Iain]

I remember my old music teacher up in Dingwall telling me of a visit to a St. Andrews coffee shop (well that's not narrowed it down) and described how on entering the toilets he was met by a wall covered entirely in an anti-monarchy essay citing the Germans and also a certain young member of the Royal family with whom we are all familiar. And it was in very small writing.

Does this old teacher tell the truth? Anyone remember, it might have been a few years ago?

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[Fawksie]

On the back of a door in the men's toilets opposite the office in Regs:

Have you ever thought,
When you're on the pot,
About the shape of biffle,
Or the colour of trickle?

Yellow, clear, beige or red,
The smell is sure to knock you dead,
So cover your nose and take a look,
At all the stuff that you have pooped

Take a photo, if you wish,
So everyone can share the dish,
After all, it's a communal game,
To strive for ultimate toilet fame

Good old splashback is such a treat,
A dark brown skidmark's hard to beat,
You know all this shit is true,
So go ahead and RATE MY POO!

[Al]

Quoting ethan with from 12:51, 1st Feb 2006
A couple of years back, there were a couple of incidences of "The Penny Reds" being scrawled on walls in St Andrews.
Literally a couple though - on Bell Street and North Castle Street.
There was an outcry.

That was more than a couple of years ago. Unless there has been more than one mysterious outbreak of people scrawling "The Penny Reds" around town...

[flarewearer]

Kinnesburn park used to sport "eat the rich" on many signs.

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[flarewearer]

Quoting Al from 17:47, 1st Feb 2006

That was more than a couple of years ago. Unless there has been more than one mysterious outbreak of people scrawling "The Penny Reds" around town...

Last time I passed that way "the penny reds" was still being displayed on the alleyway through tthe block of flats on Pipeland Road

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[Cain]

there's an Anarchy sign sprayed onto a roadsign just past the bute, going towards the byre.

and that sign in the toilets at the union is just genius.

even better than "if you can read this you are pissing on your shoes"

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I hold an element of surprise

[Manic23]

The cellar has some great ones in the Mens as well, the only one I can remember at the minute being

"Did you hear about the magic tractor?
It turned into a field"

[angel_kohaku]

Toilets by Venue 2 are entertaining. Over the poster telling you about the dangers of needles and to use condoms people write things. the poster says "Getting drunk will lead to a loss of inhibitions and you may have sexual intercourse with someone you don't know"... Someone's written "Isn't that the point?"

And before they got all refurbished, in one of the Quad lecture theatres there was always some Greek graffitti from some pretentious tosser.

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[jennyo]

Quoting flarewearer from 19:50, 1st Feb 2006

Quoting Al from 17:47, 1st Feb 2006

That was more than a couple of years ago. Unless there has been more than one mysterious outbreak of people scrawling "The Penny Reds" around town...

Last time I passed that way "the penny reds" was still being displayed on the alleyway through tthe block of flats on Pipeland Road

I remember there being an outcry about it (by which I mean a whiny article in the St Andrews whatsit newspaper about how uni students are ruining the town) in my second or third year (i.e. before 2003), I'm sure that's after your time Al ;p

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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -Friedrich Nietzsche

[flarewearer]

Im pretty sure the penny reds is the name for some local scumbag gang

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