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[miltiades]

Couldn't help noticing on my recent visit to Cyprus, just as on previous visits, the plethora of graffiti adorning walls, benches, road signs and generally everywhere accessible to the idiots who blemish Limassol, as I'm sure other towns too.

The number 3 appears mostly together with the word θήρα , followed by AEL.
On my way to Paphos airport last evening I counted more than 20 road signs covered in graffiti bearing these stupid words.

My brother explained that this is the Gate number of AEL supporters. These plonkers are free to deface road signs and a myriad of other areas with this grossly unsightly graffiti, I wondered if they have any brain and if they realize the stupidity surrounding this ugly practice. I have come to the conclusion that these morons are the same as those riding bikes and driving cars at irresponsible speeds making as much noise as possible.

Graffiti aside, my short visit was as always most pleasurable, made a new friend too, a jeweller by the name of Marinos in St Andrews street Limassol, where I took a ring to be made smaller, within minutes we became mates, and I only spent 10 euros !!!

All good things come to an end and this morning I'm ready to go to work, until the next time...

[Cap]

The curse of soccer.

[miltiades]

Time to ban soccer then !!
Once upon a time the English were Europe's number one hooligans, now replaced by young Cypriot thugs.

[Nikitas]

Been giving this one much thought. One way to deal with it is to exhaust the graffiti writers, by having round the clock teams armed with mobile soda blasting gear (it removes graffiti with no harm to the underlying surface) patrolling the streets deleting graffiti . If they see that their "art" does not last more than a day they will give up, we hope.

The other approach is the one I saw in Urbino in Italy. The council has dedicated some walls for graffit art. The artistic level is so high that it shames the average Joe armed with a spray can into "silence".

Graffiti is a world wide phenomenon, not just Cypriot. Italian trains are covered, some 100 per cent, with inane paint smudges.

[repulsewarrior]

Been giving this one much thought. One way to deal with it is to exhaust the graffiti writers, by having round the clock teams armed with mobile soda blasting gear (it removes graffiti with no harm to the underlying surface) patrolling the streets deleting graffiti . If they see that their "art" does not last more than a day they will give up, we hope.

The other approach is the one I saw in Urbino in Italy. The council has dedicated some walls for graffit art. The artistic level is so high that it shames the average Joe armed with a spray can into "silence".

Graffiti is a world wide phenomenon, not just Cypriot. Italian trains are covered, some 100 per cent, with inane paint smudges.

...both approaches, qualify, what is a nuisance, and what is an expression of thought.

[Nikitas]

Qualifying is simple enough, and topical now that we are repainting the house white. My right to expression says white walls, the neighborhood kids right of expression might say white wall with black, badly executed footbal slogans. Hmmmm see the problem? And I have not touched on the wall's ownership yet.

[repulsewarrior]

..exactly the point, with a positive reinforcement's existence, it is all the more effective when there are attempts to have offending graffiti removed.

...I am not sure, but if I remember, in Toronto, the pasting of billboards, and graffiti are policed by the activists themselves, there is coordination with the city, and it works. there are great murals in Montreal, some have remained to become icons, and others half-witted that get headlines, where great efforts are made to find the culprits, for most cases, the property occupant is responsible to have graffiti removed in the shortest possible delay, this too, beside the griping in regards to bearing a cost, has caused conflict with by-laws, (in Montreal) because some of it is looked at as art (although random, cultured), by the owners of the properties themselves.

...I was reminded once, that the marbles from Greece were painted, once. it would have been likely graffiti existed then, too. and for the same reason, I'm guessing, people like to add colour (whatever that may mean) to their lives.