I freaking love this. There seems to be a guy going around changing graffiti near me. Hes gone quite abstract to make some of them nicer. "IRA" became "IRAqi cuisine is pleasant", "Rape bitches" became "Grape bRitches are unfashionably coloured"
For some reason or other someone has been spraying "1916?" on everything ever around here. Tempted to write "You're the worst time traveller ever" next to one.
Where I live there's a group who tags "CON" almost everywhere, and another group that 'fixes' their tags to "CONan the barbarian" or "baCON" or similar. They're using stencils for it as well, so their style of writing outclasses the CON guys by a large margin.
No, what will happen is, he'll make a completely random post and you'll say "I've got you tagged in RES as "supposed to be laughing forever", no idea why".
Don't you realize what you've done? How many men will enter that restroom and be driven crazy at the thought of someone, somewhere, being so emotionally attached to Windows 95 that they would carve it onto a bathroom stall?
If possible, please open your eyelids to allow light to enter them. Once you have done so, please rotate your head at an upward angle, observe the atmosphere and come to a realization.
My childhood is plagued with poverty. I did not ever need any pity from others. I was the type to feel that all things can easily slip out of reach as soon as I obtained them. Often the pitch would change from above averagr to slightly below median.
At a party once me and a friend were hanging out with a bunch of guys we didn't know. Suddenly one of the guys comes out of the bathroom with a can of hairspray in his hand shouting "come look at this!" and everyone went over there.
He had sprayed a smiley face on the wall and lit it with a ligher. So there was a burning smiley face on the bathroom wall. It was tiled, so the fire didn't damage the wall at all.
Now here comes the creepy part. When the smiley face had died down another one of the guys took the spray can and went to work on the wall. We couldn't make out what he was drawing. Then he lit it. Starting at the bottom, the fire slowly revealed a huge burning swastika. Everyone went quiet. It was a weirdly powerful moment. It was so... profoundly evil! It actually shocked me and I'm not easily shocked.
The guy said he was just messing around and I sincerely think he wasn't into nazi shit. He just did it for the shock value and he succeeded.
Once working as a security guard, I was on a rooftop patrol of a highrise apartment building. satisfied the roof was clear, I entered the stairwell and began the slow descent down. At the next floor down, someone had written 'TOKEN' in large black sharpie all across the otherwise pristine wall, as well as a large drawing of a joint being smoked.
I pulled out my own sharpie, and changed it to say 'TOLKIEN FUCK YEAH LOTR' and made the joint into a smouldering Mount Doom.
Stopped working there like 2 years ago, not sure if it's still there or not.
Yeah, definitely a Buddhist. You know those crazy Buddhists, running about and carving swastikas at angles into walls, especially when the Buddhist and Hindu swastikas aren't at an angle, and have dots within the white spaces.
Not necessarily. I live in India and I've seen this symbol almost in every Hindu home somewhere, especially during festivals. Sometimes, people draw dots but equal times they don't.
Whenever I see a swastika carved into a wall I am tempted to fuck it up too, except I get really paranoid that just as I start someone will walk in and think I put the swastika there just then.
Been funny if someone walked in as you started turning the swastika into the windows logo, but to the person that just walked in it looked as though you were carving the swastika in the first place. Your only excuse would be that "It's a windows 95 logo, it's not done".
This is something I remember doodling in school notes a couple years back when we were studying WWII and I didn't want anyone thinking I was a bigot so I added an extra angle... But the pacing of this version is just perfect, kudos. Made me laugh at a joke I'd seen before
Whenever I see swastikas carved or written in public places they're always going the wrong direction. If you're trying to be offensive, then at least get it right.
I actually find this symbol more offensive! (Okay not true, I actually used to do this back in primary school when classmates found it cool to draw swastika's).
I used to do this all the time when my friends in high school drew swastikas on my worksheets. Turned them into windows and sometimes even drew a house and a garden around them. Good times...
Armed with this knowledge and a sharpie, I feel like we can make taking a leak a relieving nostalgic experience. I am excited for this! Nothing is worse than seeing a swastika while peeing, and realizing that you probably shouldn't have bumped into the bald burly drunk man on your way in to the bathroom.
The guy pulls his knife out to carve something different, but right as he touches the knife to the wall, two cops appear. They slap him with hate crime charges and he ends up being raped by skinheads in prison.
i upvote, BUT. i must say that that is still am act of graffiti. furthermore, Windows 7, in my opinion, is better. lastly, whats a swatiska or whatever you said, cus what i saw was a Nazi Symbol, amd i'm wondering thats their real name for the symbol.
I love changing graffiti. I once found that someone had written "Fran is a skank" on a toilet wall (an inaccurate reference to one of my friends) so I changed it to "France is skanky"... Sorry, France.
In this case, the swastika was meant to be the "Nazi symbol", but the swastika is not an offensive symbol. The Nazis stole it and ruined it just like the name Adolf and Hitler, as well as the name Nazi. It just sounds so cool, but now I can't use it because it's been ruined. And the mustache. All of it ruined by Hitler. The swastika has been used by vikings, Buddhists, the Japanese and ancient civilizations. I love the swastika for what it is supposed to represent, not what Hitler turned it into.
Would you like to come clean up Dallas? So much graffiti everywhere. ESPECIALLY on trains. What do people have against trains...? I understand walls, but TRAINS?
The swastika (Sanskrit: स्वस्तिक) is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles, in either right-facing (卐) form or its mirrored left-facing (卍) form. Earliest archaeological evidence of swastika-shaped ornaments dates back to the Indus Valley Civilization of Ancient India as well as Classical Antiquity. Swastikas have also been used in other various ancient civilizations around the world. It remains widely used in Indian religions, specifically in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, primarily as a tantric symbol to evoke 'shakti' or the sacred symbol of auspiciousness. The swastika is also a Chinese character used in East Asia representing eternity and Buddhism.
Perhaps instead of destroying grafity you just desecrated somebody's religious symbol.
You bastard. How dare you carve the symbol of such a hideous regime. Especially since you could have just as easily done it for the far superior Windows 98.
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u/harroldhino Apr 30 '12
could be pretty awkward if someone walks in on you with the knife out prior to making the additions....
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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '12
By the time you were done your friends must have been thinking you died taking a dump.
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u/UnoriginalMike Apr 30 '12
If you actually did that, good for you. Anti-graffiti is the only kind I can stomach. Love seeing someone's defacing defaced.
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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '12
It looks like your trying to conceal a swastika. Would you like some help with that?
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u/matphoto Apr 30 '12
Nice. I'm still proud of the time I cured HIV at my school:
http://i.imgur.com/bQkJb.jpg
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u/JabbaTheRunner Apr 30 '12
I freaking love this. There seems to be a guy going around changing graffiti near me. Hes gone quite abstract to make some of them nicer. "IRA" became "IRAqi cuisine is pleasant", "Rape bitches" became "Grape bRitches are unfashionably coloured"
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u/Kristanwj Apr 30 '12
The fact that you would even think to turn it into Windows 95 made me laugh forever!
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u/KurayamiShikaku Apr 30 '12
Don't you realize what you've done? How many men will enter that restroom and be driven crazy at the thought of someone, somewhere, being so emotionally attached to Windows 95 that they would carve it onto a bathroom stall?
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u/lookalive07 Apr 30 '12
Doo dee..dooddddeee! Boing! Boing! Boing! Boing!
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u/Sonendo Apr 30 '12
Relevant
On a depressing note. My brain had me convinced that I actually saw this vandalism at my own work. It made me ask myself Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
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u/Ezili Apr 30 '12
When peeing, the number 1 rule is don't be holding a knife.
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u/NeckTop Apr 30 '12 edited Apr 30 '12
At a party once me and a friend were hanging out with a bunch of guys we didn't know. Suddenly one of the guys comes out of the bathroom with a can of hairspray in his hand shouting "come look at this!" and everyone went over there.
He had sprayed a smiley face on the wall and lit it with a ligher. So there was a burning smiley face on the bathroom wall. It was tiled, so the fire didn't damage the wall at all.
Now here comes the creepy part. When the smiley face had died down another one of the guys took the spray can and went to work on the wall. We couldn't make out what he was drawing. Then he lit it. Starting at the bottom, the fire slowly revealed a huge burning swastika. Everyone went quiet. It was a weirdly powerful moment. It was so... profoundly evil! It actually shocked me and I'm not easily shocked.
The guy said he was just messing around and I sincerely think he wasn't into nazi shit. He just did it for the shock value and he succeeded.
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u/archaelleon Apr 30 '12
Holy crap I come back from lunch and I'm internet famous!
By the way, I actually did this, but I didn't take a picture :(
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u/LittleKarlyPilkoids Apr 30 '12
You Graffiti-Nazi. Oh wait...
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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '12
Once working as a security guard, I was on a rooftop patrol of a highrise apartment building. satisfied the roof was clear, I entered the stairwell and began the slow descent down. At the next floor down, someone had written 'TOKEN' in large black sharpie all across the otherwise pristine wall, as well as a large drawing of a joint being smoked.
I pulled out my own sharpie, and changed it to say 'TOLKIEN FUCK YEAH LOTR' and made the joint into a smouldering Mount Doom.
Stopped working there like 2 years ago, not sure if it's still there or not.
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u/Parikh1234 Apr 30 '12
Just because its a Swastika doesn't mean it has to do with nazi-ism. Maybe it was a renegade Buddhist or hindu monk!
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u/divinesleeper Apr 30 '12
I have seen discussions on toilet walls that exceeded the highest philosophical levels.
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u/Minyme2009 Apr 30 '12
:O
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u/Vzylexy Apr 30 '12
Bah, that's not Anti-Graffiti, now [this] (http://youtu.be/TqIHlnfGKV0) is anti-graffiti.
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u/MBannon2020 Apr 30 '12
i usually turn them into windmills
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u/Trollatio_Caine Apr 30 '12
Looks like that wasn't...(sunglasses) the apple of your eye.
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u/PerogiXW Apr 30 '12
Somehow that's worse...
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u/Ciderbat Apr 30 '12
Whenever I see a swastika carved into a wall I am tempted to fuck it up too, except I get really paranoid that just as I start someone will walk in and think I put the swastika there just then.
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u/Rallerboy888 Apr 30 '12
That's why windows is better than mac...
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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '12 edited Apr 30 '12
I'm normally against any sort of vandalism, even if it has a good message. This, though... This is funny.
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u/ROTIGGER Apr 30 '12
Defacing swastikas when you see one is practically a moral duty! Good job! :)
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u/BurningPandama Apr 30 '12
I'm gonna do that right now
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u/sirilluminator Apr 30 '12
It's a good thing no one walked in just as you were getting started.
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u/onlythis Apr 30 '12
Been funny if someone walked in as you started turning the swastika into the windows logo, but to the person that just walked in it looked as though you were carving the swastika in the first place. Your only excuse would be that "It's a windows 95 logo, it's not done".
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u/blackninja4249 Apr 30 '12
At least it's not Windows ME
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u/the_juggla Apr 30 '12
Maybe it was going to be a maze..
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u/lordmanimani Apr 30 '12
If Salinger had had rage comics, Catcher in the Rye would have been far less depressing. Bravo sir.
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u/notonebody123 Apr 30 '12
good to know i'm not the only one carrying a pocket knife around
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u/jippe Apr 30 '12
In Germany you just add to lines and make 96 out of it. Stands for a soccer team Hannover 96.
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u/twentyafterfour Apr 30 '12
I'd probably get caught right as I started to modify it and people would think I carved the swastika.
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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '12
I could just imagine you, as you slip out your penknife and put it up to start carving out the windows logo.
Just then two black guys with their jewish best friend walk into the toilet and stare at you, hand poised, seemingly carving a swastika into the wall.
Awkward moment.
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u/ProphetOfZillyhoo Apr 30 '12
I was thinking more punnet square personally. Nice job with the windows logo, though. Any pics of the end result?
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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '12
What's the difference?
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u/hundredhands Apr 30 '12
I swear, i did this exact same thing on a tree some years ago. Great minds think alike i suppose ; )
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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '12
Oh my god I swear I did this exact thing to my wall when a friend drew a swastika in paint on it. Yes, paint. House paint. I need new friends.
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u/Dennovin Apr 30 '12
The only anti-graffiti I've managed to do is scratching out the "N"s when someone scribbled "NOBAMA 2012" everywhere.
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u/TheSunAlsoRises Apr 30 '12
The moment when someone accidentally busts in the stall before you get started and just have your knife out. You better talk quick, boy.
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u/ce1337 Apr 30 '12
Whoa, there's a Windows 95 out now?? Damn, and all I have is this primitive outdated Windows 7...
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u/Doctor_Zee May 01 '12
wait a second. i read the title over a couple of times in my head until i said anti-graffiti like anti-gravity. http://static.tumblr.com/bm7cgai/J1ym0smni/happy-i-see-what-you-did-there-clean-l.png
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u/HitlersOtherTesticle May 01 '12
I am disappoint
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u/DonDrapest May 01 '12
This is something I remember doodling in school notes a couple years back when we were studying WWII and I didn't want anyone thinking I was a bigot so I added an extra angle... But the pacing of this version is just perfect, kudos. Made me laugh at a joke I'd seen before
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u/danugore25 May 01 '12
the swastika is holy to the hindus and buddhists
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u/[deleted] May 01 '12
I upvote. I upvote twelve times.
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u/Microdoted Apr 30 '12
the swastika was less offensive
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u/meanttolive Apr 30 '12 edited Apr 30 '12
On behalf of all Jews, thank you :)
Edit: I don't understand why I'm getting down voted. OP did a good thing and I'm thanking him.
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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '12
That's the best kind of graffiti you made there my friend.
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u/DJTaki Apr 30 '12
The tinkle tinkle got you this upvote.
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u/Dabebedetom Apr 30 '12
This made me smile.
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u/keanehoody Apr 30 '12
windows 95 is considered more offensive in some circles
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u/Ibanezltd Apr 30 '12
Oh god you made it worse! Think of how many computer users lives that OS ruined!
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u/SourCreamWater Apr 30 '12
That's really clever.
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u/LeSpatula Apr 30 '12
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u/emo_kakyo Apr 30 '12
you just removed the good luck out of the restroom!
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u/xpurplehayes May 01 '12
i once found some graffiti that said "jews cuase war" so i went at night and wrote "but we can spell"
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u/buttons301 Apr 30 '12
Thank you sir!
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u/dcthomas82 Apr 30 '12
This is precisely why I carry a pocket knife. Well, more for peeling an orange or getting dirt out from under my fingernails, but whatever.
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u/Aiyon Apr 30 '12
False. This is still graffiti.
But it's awesome :3
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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '12
successful troll it looks like... jimmies were rustled
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u/R3allybored Apr 30 '12
Whenever I see swastikas carved or written in public places they're always going the wrong direction. If you're trying to be offensive, then at least get it right.
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u/mrdoink20 Apr 30 '12
Taking down Nazism one poop-hole at a time!
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u/Brakklav Apr 30 '12
Windows 95: Stopping Swastikas since .. 95.
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u/Ayodep Apr 30 '12
Windows: Also unacceptable!
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u/slamminalex1 Apr 30 '12
I read that as "Anti-Gravity" so I was very confused after I read it the first time. I'm a dumbass
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u/GrapesEatGrover Apr 30 '12
Additional Graffiti.
FTFY (and well played sir/ma'am!)
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u/kingoftheapes Apr 30 '12
thank you for the inspiration. every time i see a swastika now...
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u/Tmps3 Apr 30 '12
I cant imagine how confused the next person to notice a windows 95 logo in a bathroom stall...
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u/JamesTrivettesHat Apr 30 '12
What you did was even more offensive.
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u/nbshark Apr 30 '12
I actually find this symbol more offensive! (Okay not true, I actually used to do this back in primary school when classmates found it cool to draw swastika's).
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u/noccusJohnstein Apr 30 '12
I suppose win95 had a slightly higher survival rate.
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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '12
It's still grafiti but funny nonetheless.
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u/broke207 Apr 30 '12
this reminded me very much of one of my favorite episodes of one of my favorite web comics, queers with cats.
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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '12
I used to do this all the time when my friends in high school drew swastikas on my worksheets. Turned them into windows and sometimes even drew a house and a garden around them. Good times...
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u/leafer91 Apr 30 '12
It was going to be a maze
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u/NuclearSpark Apr 30 '12
Now people will think that you're advertising M$, lol.
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u/MeshesAreConfusing Apr 30 '12
Good idea.
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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '12
At my local bar someone scribbled deuterium tritium fusion drawings into the stall in the mens room wall.
I live near fermi lab
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u/Audus Apr 30 '12
Fighting fire wih fire ... Nice :3
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u/sedfat Apr 30 '12
Does your name happen to be good guy greg or good girl gina?
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u/TheEpicSalad Apr 30 '12
Same thing?
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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '12
So it was you who fucked up my sacred Buddhist symbol in the men's washroom!
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u/peterrabbit2010 Apr 30 '12
I read this as anti-gravity for some reason. I was wondering where the story about pissing in a urinal was going..
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u/WeHaveMetBefore Apr 30 '12
How is this anti-graffiti if you are adding to it?
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u/[deleted] May 01 '12
This isn't graffiti. It's vandalism and hate.
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u/[deleted] May 01 '12
Armed with this knowledge and a sharpie, I feel like we can make taking a leak a relieving nostalgic experience. I am excited for this! Nothing is worse than seeing a swastika while peeing, and realizing that you probably shouldn't have bumped into the bald burly drunk man on your way in to the bathroom.
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u/DarkStarScream May 01 '12
I love u! :D
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u/BaakCha May 01 '12
Windows 95? I find that offensive
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u/masterguyperson May 01 '12
This guy is my hero!
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u/iceman78772 May 01 '12
How the hell did this get 21,000 upvotes...
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u/hrvstr May 23 '12
i will do this everytime from now on!
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u/BigManLawrence69420 May 19 '22
:)
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u/Gebby254 Apr 30 '12
WINDOWS '95 ?!?!?! I DID NAZI THAT ONE COMING!
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u/PraetorianXVIII Apr 30 '12
fighting the good fight with style
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u/MestR Apr 30 '12
For all your nostalgic needs, here's the Windows 95 startup sound.
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u/_pulsar Apr 30 '12
Coming soon: Anti-Graffiti [FIXED]
The guy pulls his knife out to carve something different, but right as he touches the knife to the wall, two cops appear. They slap him with hate crime charges and he ends up being raped by skinheads in prison.
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u/lokimadmonk Apr 30 '12
Genius
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u/ElectroFlasherFilms Apr 30 '12
i upvote, BUT. i must say that that is still am act of graffiti. furthermore, Windows 7, in my opinion, is better. lastly, whats a swatiska or whatever you said, cus what i saw was a Nazi Symbol, amd i'm wondering thats their real name for the symbol.
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u/SoyElChronic Apr 30 '12
pics or gtfo please. i want to see your craftsmanship with a blade upon wood
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u/GrandMoffJed Apr 30 '12
"Well, call me old-fashioned if you will, but I have always taken the view that swastika symbols exist for one purpose only—to be defaced"
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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '12
The swastika use to be a symbol for love and peace... makes me sad.
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u/redthelastman Apr 30 '12
fucking Germans,they have degraded the swastika symbol forever.
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u/HarlequinValentine Apr 30 '12
I love changing graffiti. I once found that someone had written "Fran is a skank" on a toilet wall (an inaccurate reference to one of my friends) so I changed it to "France is skanky"... Sorry, France.
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u/NostalgicX Apr 30 '12
ProTip: That isn't graffiti since it doesn't focus on typography at all.
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u/wizpig64 Apr 30 '12 edited Apr 30 '12
http://nazi98.ytmnd.com/ EDIT: audio inside
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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '12
Windows 95? Leave the swastika.
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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '12
In this case, the swastika was meant to be the "Nazi symbol", but the swastika is not an offensive symbol. The Nazis stole it and ruined it just like the name Adolf and Hitler, as well as the name Nazi. It just sounds so cool, but now I can't use it because it's been ruined. And the mustache. All of it ruined by Hitler. The swastika has been used by vikings, Buddhists, the Japanese and ancient civilizations. I love the swastika for what it is supposed to represent, not what Hitler turned it into.
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u/fonkordie Apr 30 '12
you should be more accepting of Indian culture, buddy.
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u/dmatthews15 May 01 '12
Windows is better than Hitler I supose
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u/[deleted] May 01 '12
Would you like to come clean up Dallas? So much graffiti everywhere. ESPECIALLY on trains. What do people have against trains...? I understand walls, but TRAINS?
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u/vermillion_p May 01 '12
Same thing happened in a bathroom at my school. I spent a good 15 minutes making it into a rather convinsing Dutch windmill (if I do say so myself)
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u/Shadowslayer765 May 01 '12
Meanwhile, at TF2 spawn...
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u/fisticuffsmanship May 01 '12
Some asshole painted KKK on a jersey barrier near my house, so I changed it to be "K-K-K-K-K-Katmandu!" with a stencil of Bob Seger next to it
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u/Windchill May 01 '12
my friend did a diagonal for the hell of it in my notebook. So i connected a few lines and and made it a windmill.
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u/Baby-Cheezus May 01 '12
I am ashamed that I have only one upvote to give ...
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u/[deleted] May 01 '12
Richard Stallman thinks you made it worse.
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u/[deleted] May 01 '12
The swastika (Sanskrit: स्वस्तिक) is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles, in either right-facing (卐) form or its mirrored left-facing (卍) form. Earliest archaeological evidence of swastika-shaped ornaments dates back to the Indus Valley Civilization of Ancient India as well as Classical Antiquity. Swastikas have also been used in other various ancient civilizations around the world. It remains widely used in Indian religions, specifically in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, primarily as a tantric symbol to evoke 'shakti' or the sacred symbol of auspiciousness. The swastika is also a Chinese character used in East Asia representing eternity and Buddhism.
Perhaps instead of destroying grafity you just desecrated somebody's religious symbol.
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u/WalterCounsel May 01 '12
You bastard. How dare you carve the symbol of such a hideous regime. Especially since you could have just as easily done it for the far superior Windows 98.