Gentlemen

[FishyFish]

Gentlemen by fishyfish_arcade, on Flickr

 

[Mr Badger]

I suspect the graffiti artist may be a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan - if you Google the words 'Buffy' and 'Hush' you should see what I mean.

 

[chris malcolm]

Gentlemen by fishyfish_arcade, on Flickr

I remember the days when there were working drinking water fountains in every public park, and here and there in the streets. That was before plastic bottles of water were invented. The water was free. And you were never more than a few hundred yards from a free public toilet. Now the drinking fountains have nearly all gone, but we're drinking even more water than ever before "thanks" to the ubiquity of plastic bottles of water. Plus there are probably now even more coffee houses than public houses, which will sell you your coffee in a plastic cup if you're in too much of a hurry to sit down and drink it. All of which means we need to wee more frequently. But the city authorities are also closing down the public toilets!

I like to think this is some kind of ghostly protest at this privatisation of urinals. But I can't quite work it out...