Category Archives: Pubs

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Patrick

Oh No, Shepherds Bush

You didn’t want to have to use the cubicle but you had no choice. You sit down and then you see this. Oh great. Is this person telling the truth or are they just playing mind games with you? Maybe they did actually wank on the lock. People do stranger things. I once saw a documentary where a man proudly boasted of having opportunistic sex with a helicopter….and not just any helicopter either. He had sex with Airwolf, the eponymous star of the 80′s TV show about a super, crime fighting helicopter. So it’s entirely possible there’s someone with a lock fetish out there.

Spotted by Sandip Mahal

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Posted on April 17, 2012 by Patrick

Toilet Debate, Brixton

I like the idea of “getting used to” life as if there were some other perspective that we viewed existence through before life happened. I wonder who wrote this. Perhaps this is the work of some multi-dimensional being with a predilection for late 80′s early 90′s skateboarding slang.

Spotted by Kate Bestic

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Posted on April 2, 2012 by Patrick

Spelling, Crouch End

Tim Phillipson sent in this photo saying “Don’t you just love a good spelling mistake, especially when so much effort has gone into the piece!? This is outside The Maynard Pub, Crouch End”

I have to be honest and admit that I quickly did an image search for “Avery” ( just to check you understand…I’ve been burnt before ) and one of the first images that popped up was of the actor James Avery who played Uncle Phil in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, not a bird house in sight.


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Posted on March 22, 2012 by Patrick

Condom Machine, Bermondsey

This might hold the dubious honour of being the most well known piece of toilet graffiti in London…to me at least. So many people have sent me this picture from a variety of different angles over the past year that now it feels like an old familiar friend. It features in the Shit London book but up until now I’ve haven’t posted it on the blog assuming that it would be old hat. Then I forget that not everyone has my unhealthy fascination with this universe of shit that I curate. Some people actually have grown-up, well rounded lives that contribute meaningful something to society.

Spotted by Chris Stay

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Posted on January 14, 2012 by Patrick

Pool Table, West Ealing

I feel a little sorry for this pool table. Yes it may be not be performing to the best of it’s abilities but give it a break ( ahem ) , it’s a table, a table covered in felt, that can make the distinction between a coloured ball and a white ball, that accepts change and makes cool clunking noises. As far as tables go it’s a goddamned genius.

Spotted by Chris Gilson

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Posted on January 5, 2012 by Patrick

Toilet, London Bridge

Shit Londoner Dave King sent me this missive accompanied by the above picture…

“I found the sight of this mobile phone protruding from a mass of
sodden bumwad in a backed up chodbin reminiscent of the Empire State
building in the poignant final sequence of Planet of the Apes.

A powerful metaphor for the passing of time and impending economic
breakdown in 2012 which left me pounding my fists on the cold cubicle
floor in impotent rage that life would never be the same again.

Happy new year everybody.

Spotted by Dave King in the All bar one at London bridge at 19.15
hours on New years day.”

 

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