“Give peas a chance”
I had that on a T-shirt, think it was the Plain Lazy brand.
It was cheering to see that cryptic OAP reference. Chapeau!
Never knew what this was about but it's a landmark.
There was an old people’s home in my home town with a massive sign outside stating ‘Care Old People’ my friend changed it to ‘Scary Old People’ still makes me chuckle now.
Give peas a chance”
Some will recognise this important quote
Had to think hard… but then realised it was just the previous page.
"FANNY LICKING BELT WHIPPERS"
Nuthurst Road, Moston, Manchester.
"DOCS RED ARMY"
Collyhurst railway sidings, still visible 20 years after he'd shagged the physio's wife and pissed off to Derby. 😀
"Fitness and Rehab Centre" changed to "Fatness and Kebab Centre", near the big Tesco in Handforth.
"Twigs!" over the M1
"**** off Debbie McGee" on a wall in Bologna
"Zircon rhino heavy metal band" on a wall on the way into Stockport - sadly memorable as it was across the road from where the headtube parted company with the downtube on my old cindercone
There’s an HMHB lyric for that:
“Gouranga Gouranga
Yes I’ll be happy
When you’ve been arrested for defacing the bridge”
There’s an HMHB lyric for everything!
There was a piece of graffiti I remember seeing a few time some years back, but for the life of me I can’t remember where. It said something like ‘Pixie Loves ….’ or ‘…. Loves Pixie’.
There was also ‘Boris Is Helch’ on a railway bridge, over the M4 near Bristol, IIRC.
Well, if we’re going for road signs…..
I drive past Shilbottle fairly regularly. For such a small village there are a gratuitously large number of roadsigns on the northbound A1 pointing to the place. One could be forgiven for thinking they want the local scallywags to 'modify' them...
I think you probably need to be a certain age now to appreciate
"M. Khan is bent".
South London 70s reference: "George Davis is innocent". He was an armed robber who was fitted up for a robbery he didn't do. When he was released he was convicted for a couple that he did do. Sham 69 made a record of the same name.
@Kayak23 - I think that PIES reference is to a local liverpool band
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/the-pies-m57-motorway-bridge-11638810
On the road signs theme, I used to commute down the A31 through the village of Four Marks and there's the usual name sign as you enter. One morning someone had added another sign underneath it saying 'out of ten'. It stayed there for at least a week.
“M. Khan is bent”.
Mary Whitehouse Experience?
https://www.angelfire.com/ok/marywhitehouse/mkahn.html
"While studying criminal law, I think I found the answer to M khan being bent:-
DPP v Camplin [1978] A.C. 705 (House of Lords)
Lord Diplock:
"Camplin, who was 15 years of age, killed a middle-aged ****stani, Mohammed Lal Khan, by splitting his skull with a chapati pan...At the time the two of them were alone together in Khan's flat...According to the story that he had told...Khan had buggered him in spite of his resistance and had then laughed at him. Whereupon Camplin had lost his self-control and attacked Khan fatally with the chapati pan..."
Not so much M Khan is still bent, as M Khan is dead, methinks."
I saw a George Davis one where 'innocent' was crossed out and replaced with 'naughty'.
"Never kissed a Tory but totally f****d By them."
In Henley on Thames there is a posh private club called Phyllis Court. Someone climbed the stome gateway above the entrance and changed it to Syphylis Court which was there for a few weeks
My favourite was where someone had written "Jesus, no name is higher" and someone had just sprayed "dave" above it...
There are a couple of bits of loo graffiti that I like:
"Are you shitting comfortably?"
And, in the school that I went too:
"Flush twice, it's a long way to the kitchens"
Not one mention of 'our friend' Viraj Mendis?
I miss the old Hulme......
In a not so brilliant area of Britol I saw many year ago (wish I had a camera). All on teh same day.
"COPS IS ****ERS" (as written)
In a rather nice area of Bristol near the "The Downs"
"ITS A FAIR COP BUT SOCIETY IS TO BLAME"
But they both sprayed on the wall.
The toilets of my local were a monument to northern wit in marker pen. Mostly in-jokes and funny exchanges. Sadly gone since they refurbished during lockdown.
My favourite from what I can remember is:
TORIES: PUTTING THE 'N' IN 'CUTS'
So much so that I bought the shameless cash-in t-shirt with it on the back.
Boris is helch/Boris is a coked up pervert
Once a fixture on the m32 m4 junction
An artist I knew a number of years back (Frank Carty) he ran a graffiti class for the disaffected youth.
This is some of his work, and he's on FB etc. Very talented chap.
Distance marker sign on the M4, someone sprayed "thing" after "London". Back when this was a garage anthem.
