to hate grafitti?

[Mintyy]

Like, really hate it. Hate it in the same way I hate litter and dog poo on the pavements.

How can people defend it or feel neutral about it?

[skyflyer]

Depends if the graffiti is art or just those awful tags. I like the art type but hate tags.

[Mintyy]

Not a great fan of graffiti as art either, tbh.

But the tags make me truly deeply unhappy.

Think I am just old innit.

[doorbellringer]

I'm with you I absolutely loathe it. Who do they think they are spraying anything on anyone's property. "They are expressing themselves?" Fuck right of and buy a notebook and crayons you little cretin. It is not art and I'd make them scrub it back off with their own toothbrush and soapy water. Then shove the spray can up their arses just so they remember!
As you can tell it brings out the Chuck Norris rage in me!

[zatyaballerina]

yanbu, it's ugly and tacky.

[ginhag]

you obviously don't live in Brizzle

Seriously, Nelson Street was TRANSFORMED by that project. And there is a lot of amazing street art all over the city, it is a part of Bristol. Yes some graffiti is shite, but some isn't!

[McNewPants2013]

www.thedirtfloor.com/2010/10/13/downtown-los-angeles-graffiti-wall/

That is art.

I dislike Ben woz ere 2k13

[McNewPants2013]

www.thedirtfloor.com/2010/10/13/downtown-los-angeles-graffiti-wall/

[Mintyy]

I mean stuff like this

Just come back from Lisbon which is just the most beautiful city. Decaying in parts, scruffy sometimes, yes, but also utterly blighted by grafitti absolutely everywhere. It reminds me of New York pre-Giuliani.

[merrymonsters]

I hate it too. I've never been to Lisbon, but Naples is a once beautiful city covered in graffiti (except the huge cathedral strangely). Even the museums are covered in it. It makes everything look ugly.

[Sirzy]

Yanbu - I don't care who loves who, or who was in a subway in 2013.

Local schools a few years ago (with permission) painted a load of the subways to try to stop the graffiti. Doesn't seem to have made a difference now they graffiti over the fab pictures :(

[Mintyy]

Where do you live Sirzy?

My recent experience has made me realise that London is remarkably grafitti-free.

[MrsTerryPratchett]

I hate tagging. But there is a spectrum of urban art from tagging to this kind of thing that very good graffiti fits into. It can be beautiful, humourous and enlightening. Tagging is basically 'I woz 'ere'.

I honestly think this is genius.

[Lioninthesun]

I hated it until I went to Australia and saw what it can do to enhance fugly things like electrical boxes by the side of the road. In Brisbane they got together the real artists and asked them to make over all of the dull bits like the boxes. Apparently because they are respected on the street they don't get tags or defaced often. I also went to a street painting in Melbourne when my friend opened a board shop - it was really amazing watching them transform a whole wall along an alleyway as a constantly changing work of art. I have always thought if it is done right it can be appreciated, but art is never to everyone's taste.

[TabithaStephens]

I hate it. It looks scruffy and ugly. I don't think it is art at all.

[oohaveabanana]

My kids sat on the train yesterday discussing Good Grafitti (clever, beautiful or has A Meaning others can enjoy) and Bad Graffiti (scrawled words; anything written on tree). I have indoctrinated them well

[hamab]

I hate it. Maybe because someone once painted a giant penis outside our front door on the communal path and we were constantly scrubbing it off our garage door at one house.

It contributed to my depression at the time.

The thing is, unless their doing it on their own property, it causes someone a great deal of expense and time to remove it.

[quoteunquote]

this is funny

[PareyMortas]

Love that MrsTP.

Like most things in life there's shit graffiti, wonderful graffiti and fifty shades in between. YABU and blinkered to write off all of it.

[Saffyz]

YANBU. I don't like "good" graffiti either. The people who pretend to like so-called "street art" often aren't the ones who have to live next to it.

[MrsTerryPratchett]

Saffyz I'm originally from Croydon. I have lived beside a LOT of graffiti.

[Sparklymommy]

My 10 year old dd is appalled by graffiti and on a 1 girl crusade to sort it out! Her big idea to have a designated area (ie the skate park) for the vandals/artists to do their worst which is painted clean white once a week/month however often is necessary!

She was most disheartened when I pointed out that although this was a great idea it wouldn't work because the vandals would still tag just about anywhere. She thinks its the epitome of naughtiness.