The Toilet Wall Scrawl
November 14th 2006 14:14
The temptation, the anonymity, the breaking of the rules or is it just sheer boredom? What do you think it is that drives the toilet wall scrawl?
One does get a little bit of insight when on the loo, looking at the world around you. It is more generated from people that respond to statements, but really what is the point? They are right in what their search for the common good is, but really have succumbed to trap of the toilet wall scrawl.
I remember as a kid, fascinated by the graffiti artists in the storm water drains thinking how ‘bad’ they were. But, really they are just expressing themselves. Not so different to us here on Orble.
One of my closest friends (the one afraid of Birds), has a poster of all the Australian Prime Ministers and a synopsis on each one. So really you are forced to walk down elementary lane on that loo.
My favourite graffiti though in Sydney would have to be in Glebe, just up from Broadway shopping centre along that walkway. It is truly magnificent. Even closer towards the fish markets there are some great murals.
Taken from Wikipedia, the one below is not too disimilar from the one's in Glebe...
The good thing about the toilet wall scrawl is you get an idea of the pain that hoards beneath the surface, the attitude that people hold or their endearing hatred with life and the people in it.
You also get love affirmations from teenage girls, sharing with the world how much they love ‘Rob’. Or phallic references, which we are all too familiar with.
I cannot say I have ventured into a male lavatory to research this topic further. However, my mystic ball tells me numbers “for a good time’’ would feature on the toilet wall scrawl. I am happy to be wrong, please enlighten me though. It would be nice to know the wavering differences between the genders or similarities?
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Comment by Kristen
Silly American
Comment by Whatever
WHATEVER
At my Uni, some girl made a petition of how there aren't any attractive guys there and only three girls wrote their names. I only didn't because I think the guys there are good looking!
Comment by Rami
Arab Emigrant
keeping this in mind would help resolve the mystery. People who carry a pen into a public bathroom cannot be geniuses...
anyway, i've never scrawled in a bathroom, but if i ever did, mine would say: "I had time to write this"
i hope you can see the cynicism in that. Without so much free time, such acts of vandalism would be impossible.
give me something to do...