Election Poster graffiti

red_ice · 24-05-2007 10:19AM #1

The lads in the office were talkin about the elections and so on today in the office and the conversation moved on to the election posters and how they get vandilised (which is amusing).

Has anyone seen any good poster art for the elections? There was a great play on the slogan for Mary Harney's one..

"Dont throw it all away.... Ill eat it"

Rb · 24-05-2007 10:24AM

Haven't seen anything particularly amusing, there was a semi-decent one at the LUAS stop in Ranelagh of McDowell with a Hitler moustache and a swastica. Most of the defacing I've seen though has been of McDowell or Enda Kenny with hitler moustaches...or the odd one with a spliff drawn in a candidates mouth. Obviously defaced by highly intelligent, hilarious people.

keltoms · 24-05-2007 10:27AM

yeah seen the one on the panel for dick roche, someone replaced 'dick' with 'cock'. another person rubbed out 'roc' and added ad after he:D

Zebra3 · 24-05-2007 01:11PM

Vandalising election posters is a waste of time.

The best thing to do is to take them down and put them up again about 28 days from now.

Rb · 24-05-2007 01:20PM

Zebra3 wrote:

Vandalising election posters is a waste of time.

The best thing to do is to take them down and put them up again about 28 days from now.

Why?

John Mason · 24-05-2007 01:22PM

rb_ie wrote:

Why?

cos they get fined if they are down within 28 days. which is a bit strange it only took them two hours to cover the country in the first place, they must be harder to get down

BattlingCheese · 24-05-2007 01:23PM

Party would be charged with littering. There are strict rules on taking down all posters after a certain date after polling.

Rb · 24-05-2007 01:39PM

I realise that, but I hardly see why its the "best thing to do".

"Har har we cost someone money". Would you feel the same if someone through a brick through your window or scratched up your car?Hilarious pranks altogether.

nesf · 24-05-2007 01:42PM

BattlingCheese wrote:

Party would be charged with littering. There are strict rules on taking down all posters after a certain date after polling.

Yup, someone put up a poster for the '97 election for some candidate who no longer exists in Cork South Central. No one noticed it for ages.

J.S. Pill · 24-05-2007 01:53PM

While walking the mean streets of Cork on saturday night we noticed this bloke who was walking up the south link road with his dog systematically tearing down all the PD posters. We were stood on the overpass and had a great vantage point while this guy went about his activities. This guy had come prepared as he took to decorating a huge john minnihan (PD) poster on the central reservation with a big black marker. We couldn't quite make out what he wrote on the poster but when he was done he stood back to look at his work. He clearly wasn't pleased with his efforts though, he just knocked over the poster and started stamping on it madly.

I don't know if he knew he was being watched by us but I don't think he particularly cared as there were a lot of cars going by.

I think I can safely say that that was one saturday night where he didn't get laid

ClarenceOveur · 24-05-2007 01:58PM

One somewhat amusing one at the lights just after Baggot St bridge. Tis of Ruairi Quinn except R and ai are crossed out and a Y put in front along with various hammers and sickles. Made me chuckle.

Binomate · 24-05-2007 02:41PM

Anyone want to buy my vote?

The Queen · 24-05-2007 02:42PM

Someone gave Bertie a hitler tash, and drew on the Hitler hairstyle. Very funny... Apart from that, nothing great. People drawing a moustache on a female candidate is the height of it really!

admiralofthefleet · 24-05-2007 02:47PM

a bertie poster outside mount temple school in dublin has 'coming soon to a tribunal near you' on it

lost_soul · 24-05-2007 02:47PM

My favorite

Mellor · 24-05-2007 02:50PM

this was posted in the art forum

http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/5026/dublinmay23rd07connollysy9.th.jpg

cormie · 24-05-2007 02:56PM

Mellor wrote:

this was posted in the art forum

Removed the ".th" at the end for ya so it's the full size link in the link quoted above;)

Kolodny · 24-05-2007 02:56PM

Haven't seen too many defaced ones around where I live but a few years ago, some of my housemates decided it would be a good idea on their drunken journey back from the local, to cut down some election posters, bring them home and cut the eyes out, replacing them with bits of screwed up toilet paper. Bloody scary looking. I had nightmares about Eamon Gilmore for weeks after that!

Hypnotoad · 24-05-2007 02:57PM

I've seen a few fake election posters up around Tallaght lately.Havne't got any pictures though.

Crumble Froo · 24-05-2007 03:07PM

i read a reference to one in a paper a couple of weeks ago, of a conservative, very serious looking candidate with the words 'i am erotic' on it. i dont know hwy, but i laughed mo thóin off at that!

nikolaitr · 24-05-2007 03:19PM

Anyone seen those clown nose stickers that read "don't vote this clown in, we want a real alternative"

They are stuck on a load of election posters...they sound like they were done by some Leftist party, surely they can be traced and fined no?

watna · 24-05-2007 03:37PM

I saw a poster where someone had drawn a very realistic and detailed willy on Bertie Ahern's face. I'm not sure why exactly... but I found it highly amusing. I think it was the work that had gone in to it....

Degsy · 24-05-2007 03:40PM

A simple "GAY" written on Bertie's forhead cracked me up.Simplicity is key!

Slow Motion · 25-05-2007 10:16AM

A bit OT but ....

Many years ago on the northside there was some graffiti on a bridge saying "Free Nikki Kelly !" an IRA / Shinner prisoner, to whit some wag came along and under the above slogan wrote "With every box of cornflakes !"

Still brings a smile to my face

Borzoi · 25-05-2007 10:28AM

Degsy wrote:

A simple "GAY" written on Bertie's forhead cracked me up.Simplicity is key!

Saw 'Bribery Bertie' scrawled across our glorious leaders mug, on the way to the polling station.

testicle · 25-05-2007 11:52AM

Slow Motion wrote:

A bit OT but ....

Many years ago on the northside there was some graffiti on a bridge saying "Free Nikki Kelly !" an IRA / Shinner prisoner, to whit some wag came along and under the above slogan wrote "With every box of cornflakes !"

Still brings a smile to my face

Nicky Kelly, now a Labour Party candidate for Wicklow.

He was an IRSP prisioner, convicted of the Sallins train robbery, conviction quashed, and given a Presidential Pardon.

Dun laoire · 25-05-2007 12:04PM

http://i2.bebo.com/034b/8/large/2007/05/08/19/397045938a4321670323b185752943l.jpg

Maccattack · 25-05-2007 12:15PM

Dun laoire wrote:

http://i2.bebo.com/034b/8/large/2007/05/08/19/397045938a4321670323b185752943l.jpg

NOW THATS WHAT IM TALKIN ABOUT. YEEEAHH!

John Mason · 25-05-2007 12:19PM

Dun laoire wrote:

http://i2.bebo.com/034b/8/large/2007/05/08/19/397045938a4321670323b185752943l.jpg

brilliant, way to go wicklow people but i have seen from the last results he seems to be in :mad:

R0ot · 25-05-2007 01:32PM

Cecilia Keaveney

- Sticker under here chin said "Blow Jobs €5" i lol'd

red_ice · 25-05-2007 01:55PM

Dun laoire wrote:

http://i2.bebo.com/034b/8/large/2007/05/08/19/397045938a4321670323b185752943l.jpg

I cant see it!! Imageshack pls!

Speaking of blowjobs, did anyone hear of that danish politician offering out 10,000 blowjobs in place for votes? No word of a lie! It was in the metro early this week or late last week, cant remember!

She was kinda hot too from what i remember

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