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Pfft. Modern street art. Roman street art is where it's at.

Where are your spray cans now?

http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2011/01/the-advantages-of-knowing-latin.html

"So who was B Mure. Our guess is that it was Benoit Jules Mure (1809-1858) a "pioneer of homeopathy", who in the nineteenth century took homeopathy to Malta, Sicily and Brazil, before coming to Egypt and Sudan with his new medical science. If he went from Egypt to Sudan, then Philae would have been on his route."

Bite me hippy.

Phileros is a eunuch!

http://www.pompeiana.org/resources/ancient/graffiti%20from%20pompeii.htm

Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!

I screwed the barmaid

I made bread

Theophilus, don’t perform oral sex on girls against the city wall like a dog

I hope your hemorrhoids rub together so much that they hurt worse than when they every have before!

william1984 seems to have deleted his posts about Banksy, so I can't quote him directly.

I don't think that people's appreciation of his stuff was really very much about its actual content. That was always just slightly amusing, approximately on the level of most Private Eye cartoons, never particularly earth-shattering. (I liked some of them, such as the one of the smiley riot police line that was up on the bridge across Old Street.) I think the appeal lay more in the fact that it was figurative and not particularly abstract, as opposed to most graffiti.

I also think that Blairism provided the right background for it, or it provided the right foreground, as disillusionment and apathy were so great that people appreciated every little gesture like these borderline trivial cartoons more than they might otherwise have done.

this might interest you. ...

Very good link.

I was joking. Regardless of whether it's a stunt or not, there's guaranteed to be a plethora of dicks claiming to be the authority in the room.

I totally think your onto something though. It fits in with the things he has done before. The whole scenario of it being stolen mysteriously out of the wall, then it having a crazy high estimate at the Miami auction and then the local council being in uproar wanting it back... all of it. Its like a perfect "piece" of pop art.

The timing is right too, its been a while since he has done anything.

Fucking hell. Remind me never to choose fish when I go to the US.

"The worst species for mislabelling was in snapper, where 87 percent of samples were not the fish it claimed to be."

Butterfish aint toxic as in poisonous, loads of people eat it. It just gives you a greasy leaky bumhole.

That's covered by the "Yeah, legally you can do it" part of my post which you quoted.

Indeed.

Near me a respected street artist did a mural on the wall of a shop, people used to come on tours to look at it, was that well known.

New owners took over the shop and painted over it straight away, lol.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/21534742

Worrying stuff.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/21534742

Worrying stuff.

for you tarka, indeed

so pistorious was charged with murder
then the cop who is running the case is charged with murder
then pistorious's brother is charged with murder

is there anyone in south africa who isn't up in front of the beak for murder / attmepted murder or manslaughter

they're all at it

Nelson

may i draw your attentions to his activities in the 1960's with Umkhonto We Sizwe

but i don't think they'll be pressing charges !!

I wonder how many bodies Chainbreaker has in the vacants.

is that afrikaans for under the patio ^

Cardinal Cideagh Fidler has just resigned. Good time to be a priest, lots of positions opening up (no euph) - at this rate Father Dougal's would be shoo-in for Pope.

why are they so against homosexuality when they are all at it ?

It's not homosexuality if you're raping a child Dicki, that's a different kettle of fish.

They dedicate their lives to serving the invisible man in the sky and you're saying their position on sexuality doesn't make sense?!