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[venta]

Today I popped into the toilets on the platform 2 side of the station in Oxford. On the cubicle door it said:

CHEMICALS DON'T EQUAL CLEAN
YOUR DETERGENTS ARE TOXIC AND MAKE ME WANT TO HEAVE
FAKE AROMAS ≠ BLOSSOM

Now, admittedly, the fake flowery smell is a bit overpowering, but it wouldn't have occurred to me to feel particuclarly strongly about it. I certainly wouldn't have thought to whip out a biro and scrawl my feelings across the door.

Does this strike anyone else as odd ?

Comments

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Bleach makes me sneeze, quite powerfully and really uncontrollably.

It's never occurred to me until now to write a complaint on the walls of places that use too much of the stuff... but it seems like a worthwhile practise now that someone's mentioned the idea to me  :)

Alternatively...

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

POO DON'T EQUAL CLEAN
YOUR EXCREMENT ARE TOXIC AND MAKE ME WANT TO HEAVE
POO ≠ BLOSSOM

Maybe they were allergic...

[ieyasu.livejournal.com]

...or maybe they were just party to the modern delusion that every bit of scrawl to hit the streets is a 'meme.'

Today is Buy Nothing Day, and London is going to be alive the stands where people encourage others to cut up credit cards in protest, act as fake dummies in shop windows (as opposed to real dummies cutting up credit cards), and otherwise display how 'anti-consumer' they are.

The tragedy of modern life seems to be that there are so many new ways for people to express themselves, but so few people with anything useful to express.

I think condign punishment for the person who scrawled that, if he ever gets before a magistrate, might be to make him clean the loos in Oxford Station for a week with nothing but water and ammonia. Sound about right?

Re: Maybe they were allergic...

[venta.livejournal.com]

I think condign punishment for the person who scrawled that, if he ever gets before a magistrate

He ?

ieyasu, what are you trying to suggest about which toilets I was in ?

Re: Maybe they were allergic...

[ieyasu.livejournal.com]

...as political correctness gets overcome by logic. Yeah, good point.

I thought to myself while writing, 'wait, she might be offended if I assume the prankster is female,' my urge towards politeness temporarily overcoming the fact that there was every reason to make that assumption.