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Started by Zahlman Jan 12, 2005 at 9:32 PM 9 replies 1.9k views
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Zahlman
Zahlman
Anyone else seen any interesting graffiti recently? Today two pieces caught my eye. The first was a conversation, something like this: "JEWS R TERRORISTS" "That's anti-semitism and it's wrong man. The Jews are our brothas and sistas" "Your on some tips b" "I'm tha muthafucking dawg!" [sic; from memory] This pointed out two things to me: 1) There are good (and bad) people in this city. 2) I'm evidently not quite up on, nor 'down with', the local urban slang. The other bit was incomprehensible - literally Greek to me, as far as I could tell. The interesting thing is that it ended with a ':)'. Internet culture is so pervasive that people from all over the world are drawing happy faces tilted to the side, even when there is nothing preventing them from putting them in a normal orientation.
Drew_Benton
Drew_Benton
Yea! Last semseter on some desks I saw this (in sequential order):

"Hi!"
"Hey"
"Who are you?"
then
"God does not appreciate you writing on these desks"

Made me laugh.
Mercury
Mercury
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Original post by Drew_Benton
"Hi!"
"Hey"
"Who are you?"
then
"God does not appreciate you writing on these desks"


Hah. pwned.

There's writing all over the desks in my school, stupid shit like "wut u got 1st period". They just string on and on, it's pretty sad. I think I've even seen some internet acronyms on them too, which surprised me.
Programmer One
Programmer One
I saw some desk graffiti too...

It was like...

This class is so terribly boring.
Hey, mine too!
Wow, mine too!
Hey me too!
Stop writing on the desks.
Yeah, the NERVE of some people!
JexMX
JexMX
"I'm watching you"
flukus
flukus
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Original post by Zahlman
Internet culture is so pervasive that people from all over the world are drawing happy faces tilted to the side, even when there is nothing preventing them from putting them in a normal orientation.


What makes you think it's internet culture and not the mobile phone culture that spawned from it?
fractoid
fractoid
There was a little round button chipped out of one of the desks in a lecture theatre at uni, coloured in red, with an arrow pointing to it and some writing saying 'press for the end of the world'. During materials engineering lectures, we would take turns pushing it, in between trying to decipher english with a very strong cantonese accent (or it may have been cantonese with a fairly weak english accent, I'm not sure).
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Original post by flukus
What makes you think it's internet culture and not the mobile phone culture that spawned from it?
Quote:
Wiki: Emoticon:
The first known instance of using text characters to represent a sideways smiling (and frowning) face is in a newspaper advertisement in the New York Herald Tribune, March 10, 1953, on page 20, columns 4-6. [...] The creator of the original ASCII emoticons :-) and :-(, with a specific suggestion that they be used to express emotion, was Scott Fahlman; the original proposal made by Fahlman on CMU CS general board on September 19, 1982 (at 11:44) was retrieved from old backup tapes on September 10, 2002, by Jeff Baird.
Mobile phones were first available in the 1970s, but didn't become popular until 2G systems became available in the 1990s. Teh intarweb is oldest than mobular cellephones!
grekster
grekster
Quote:
Original post by flukus
Quote:
Original post by Zahlman
Internet culture is so pervasive that people from all over the world are drawing happy faces tilted to the side, even when there is nothing preventing them from putting them in a normal orientation.


What makes you think it's internet culture and not the mobile phone culture that spawned from it?


Because it was being used on the internet before you could txt people on phones?
Quote: Original post by BosskIn Soviet Russia, you STFU WITH THOSE LAME JOKES!
fractoid
fractoid
Quote:
Original post by grekster
Because it was being used on the internet before you could txt people on phones?
Indeed. That stupid 'verb' has only been around for a year or two anyway. Why on earth do we have to replace 'send you a message' with something that doesn't even have any vowels? /grumpyoldfart
flukus
flukus
Quote:
Original post by grekster
Because it was being used on the internet before you could txt people on phones?


I didn't disagree that it was started on the net. I disagreed with the part about the "internet culture is so pervasive" as the reason why the smiley appeared in graffiti.
capn_midnight
capn_midnight
"Real
truck drivers
boycott
foodlion
stores"

which became

"Real
truck drivers
rape boycotts
in the back of foodlion
stores"

which was then followed by

"fag"

and then

"truck driver"

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