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I was at a neighborhood bar last night, hold your applause, and in the bathroom of this particular neighborhood bar the walls are chalk board walls and someone had written “Remember, you ARE free” on one of them. This has actually been written in there every time I’ve been there, even though they regularly refresh the chalk board walls, which seems weird now that I think about it, and it’s maybe because a ghost keeps rewriting it, who knows, but every time I see this I think — “Uh, yeah, I remember that. I’m at a bar in Brooklyn.” And I imagine the person writing it thinking, “If this changes ONE persons life, it’ll be worth it.” And I get so annoyed with that totally imaginary person, thinking that they’re going to do anything by writing something in chalk on a bathroom wall, that I think about it EVEN into the next day, obviously. Ugh! That person is the worst! But now I’m watching this video of a guy going down the La Plagne Olympic bobsled run, and I have absolutely no idea why he is doing it, and he looks so terrified the whole time, and I have to imagine that it is all because at one point or another in his life he forgot that he WAS free, and I’m just thinking, GUY! YOU NEED TO VISIT THIS BATHROOM I KNOW ABOUT!
Remember, you ARE free!!! (Via TheAwesomer.)
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Are you really trying to tell me that women write on bathroom walls, too? I’m calling shenanigans.
The writing sounds a bit more insightful than the men’s…
I don’t know about more insightful, but it’s certainly more uplifting. Theirs provides positive reinforcement, whereas the best we get is emotional output from men who sit there broken-hearted.
So this guy probably pulled a Marie Osmond at some point in this video, am I right?
More likely it was a Gerard Departwo
The graffiti on the wall of the bathroom at the neighborhood bar I go to says “U look like a bitch, dawg” which also seems applicable to this video.
I like to write fax numbers on bathroom walls.
I just leave my business card. I’m the only combination analyst and therapist in North America.
Took me ten hours to make.
I’ve got to imagine there’s at least 1 Cat Power fan in Brooklyn.
That sounds like a really inspiring bathroom. I have “trying is the first step towards failure” written in mine.
There’s nothing written in my neighborhood bar bathroom, but there is a label on the toilet that says “TOILET.”
Full disclosure: I put it there.
I may or may not have once defaced a bathroom wall in a bar I frequented with the phrase “kneel before Zod.” This is quite possibly the best label to put above a glory hole.
neighborhood bar i was in last night’s bathroom wall:
“God is dead.”
“was he ever alive?”
“congratulations, you have read some introductory book on existentialism, and that is duly noted, please finish up, I really have to pee”
“han shot first”
I saw a shirt that said “Mercutio drew first”. Way to out-nerd the nerds, guys!
Greetings, sled god.
my roommate told me this story about how this kid he knew in college graffitied the words “WAKE UP SHEEPLE” on a wall of the school. he kept doing it, multiple times, even after some poor janitor had to turpentine that noise away.
i didn’t even watch this video, and im not sure if the slogan “WAKE UP SHEEPLE” applies, but fuck whoever wrote that fucking graffiti.
Kelly, you’ve got it all wrong. This is a French execution (coupled with a Japanese game show). Synergy!
Bathroom chalk = Hepatitis C chalk. I would not write on that board without a double dose of hand sanitizer.
Word. I also never wear sunscreen. Deal with it, Baz.
A friend of mine started a vicious rumor campaign in high school via bathroom graffiti about a computer named Accutron 2000 that included “Accutron 2000 likes robots” and “Accutron takes it in the video port.”
That is all.
It gets 100111010010010001110001010101001000100011100, Accutron 2000.
My favorite bathroom graffiti was a tattoo heart with a banner that said “Dang.” I also liked where someone had written “Remember we’re all going to die” and someone else wrote “But it’s not so terrible.” ALSO the one where someone wrote “Mariska Hargitay rocks!”
I’m breaking my epic multi-year Videogum lurker silence because I’m that passionate about my favorite bathroom graffiti ever, found in a hot Bonnaroo port-o-potty in 2008.*
http://www.divertedmotion.com/2012/03/true-love-spoon-poops-favorite-port-o.html
True Love Spoon Poops, yall!
*It’s amazing how much one simple sentence can convey about a person’s judgement, hah.
Now that’s the kind of bathroom graffiti that can change a life.
This video of the terrified man traveling out of control down a bobsled track in France reminded me of this one time in Maryland when I was born.
The ladies washroom may have had “Remember, you ARE free” written in it, but the mens had “Go on a boblsed run and shit your pants.”
things people write on bathroom walls really should be a website. I can only speak for men’s bathrooms, because I’m a GUY, LLAADDIIEESS (other than the one time I drunkenly stumbled into the women’s bathroom, LLAADDIIEESS), but what you find is either an attempt to be profound, as with “You ARE free” in Kelly’s example, or a polar opposite grasp for the extremely juvenile, as in “draw a penis”. Either way, I love you, people who go to the bathroom with permanent markers in their pockets.