drug larking, its like mud larking but with drugs

Brighton's Graffiti

Love it or loath it, Brighton's plastered in it. If it stands still long enough it will get covered. I think its fair to say the standard varies greatly.

Of course its art!

Nothing lasts for ever though and the very next day........

But then..

I guess that I just don't know.

Talk about flogging a dead horse

But it aint over till its over

I actually really like this little part of the overall mess. Art from chaos or a random art generator? I might go chisel it off the wall and ask a trillion pounds for it from some arty mug punter.

This one is similar in that in detail it has something but looked at as a whole.. meh.

And its still not over..

Not from Brighton, a contribution from a good friend of druglarking.com

Not everyone's a fan of Brighton's graffiti.

I wouldn't pause after telling someone to fuck off, even if they were a girl, but thats just me. Hows a girl going to see this when its in the gents bogs anyway?

Robyn? That's not my name! A month or so later and it looks like someone else, picked up on the spelling. Couldn't be the real Robin could it?

Curiously coy.. No sexual swearwords. I mean fuck the system lets have a revolution but there are kids about so you know mind your language.

I'd be surprised if Queer Antifa do run this town given they probably only have two members but I'll get in touch with them about the bin collections anyway as they are shocking. Good reflection of the local curry house in the window.

Diagon Alley it ain't, yes that's blood.

Months after the pictures above were taken, early 2020 some poor guy lost his life here, or more accurately, he had it taken from him.

What is it with you lot and doors?

I love you and I think you're great.

Minty, well known in Brighton.

I keep knocking but I can't get in. A determined effort to break in. You're always welcome at our house of course. Not really its just an excuse to cue up a song. Don't come round.

A few doors getting knocked on. Not really a LOL situation.

Sorry, drifting. Back to graffiti and stuff.

Emergency toothbrushes, take one if you need it. Be sure to return it. Brilliant old timer font, sorry type face, joke as well.

Second name must be Mark, surely?

I'm a dog man myself but thats a nice kitty. Raised fist? Possibly communist. Chairman Miaow.

161=AFA

1312=ACAB

AFA=Anti Facist Action

ACAB=All Coppers Are Bastards, old school, possibly 1920s but still a thing.

He's at it again mr 1312

It's many things.

Clearly a reference to the actor Donald Walter Guadagno who died in 2017. Not an attempt at Jamaican slang, I'm sure about that. Sorry, Mi sure bout dat. I went to an official Cockney Translator website, so not racist.

But where them spend it? In thee bookie

Lose it all on the dogs or on the gee gees

Or paying off them bribes to the Sweeney

Fantastic.

RIP. Much missed. So many unanswered questions.

Cheeky! If only the police could get a police officer to investigate it.

Don't get me wrong sometimes the police are world class, like when they are claiming compensation from us the taxpayer for something that happened to them at work but over the last few years they have increasingly failed to police us in the way we want to be policed and have failed to argue for the resources they need to do their job properly.

I guess they thought their reward for beating all those miners back into work in the 80s was to be left out of any tory cuts. How wrong they were, both in acting as a political party's private army and in trusting politicians.

"And as me drive nearer could see clearer it was a Black Maria

With six or seven plain clothes police officers

Them didn't look the type of police me could give a fiver"

It is plain clothes isn't it? Plain clothed is more a sartorial critique than a modus operandi.

Still I'm running when I see the police because Drug larking and the police are a bit like cats and dogs, we can be friends but.... I'm old enough to remember the West Midlands Serious Crime Squad and the Special Patrol Group.

I first met the SPG at a legalise cannabis rally in Hyde Park in the 80s, naturally their response was measured and in line with the threat a load of stoners listening to Inner City Unit presented to them. They drove their vans right into the crowd and jumped out with truncheons drawn hitting anyone they could get hold of. I remember one officer getting hit in the face with a grapefruit of all things. Blood, nah mate, claret all over the place.

Roo's crew is watching you. Not sure if theres' a mi'splaced apostrophe there. There's more than one Roo so the plural is being used? Or is it the crew belonging to Roo? In which case carry on.

Two seconds away from this sign in New Street but a while back, they weren't in plain clothed as they took away a very large fella whilst a very skinny lady with a fresh cut and bruise to her cheek looked on berating them. To give credit, the cops do sometimes have a crappy job to do which they can do well when they want to. The big man was wearing a very goldie looking chain which made me think of these great Welshmen. I've said it once before but it bears repeating, he was a large fella. I don't think they could have taken him if he didn't let them.

ET sends his love. His? Hers? Its?

Cave art, some things just don't change. See cave, paint it.

Red pill or blue pill? Or is the artist just a pill?

Angel wings? Batman head wings?

Lamposts! Oh me oh my! Echoes of ACAB.

NSK = North Stand Kollective. Welcome back BOB, used to be all over the place a few years ago seems to be making a come back. Also skulls! Everyone likes skulls and these are really good. Well done that man, err well done that non gender specific individual or group of non gender specific individuals.

Tories out Corbyn in? That didn't happen. You can see where they have cleaned the graffiti off a couple of phone boxes and the back of a notice board on the Level. Doesn't hardly look any better than when they were covered in graff. For the kiddies, people used to keep phones in boxes instead of their pockets. I kno rite! Madness, sharing a phone with other people and their germs! Barbaric and surely that means other people could see your text messages? Didn't take two seconds for someone to spray them again. Crystal Palace in the bin!

Hey Boss, I can't put the safety barriers up someones parked their bike there.

Just get on with it.

OK, what evs. I get paid just the same.