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This term I've been slowly watching a sort of graffiti gang war develop over the urinals in one of the men's washrooms in the A building at Langara, as a faction that writes positive, life-affirming messages like "Life is great!" has started to horn in on the traditional territory of one that writes grumpy abuse like "U ALL SUCK". It really is that polarised -- there's no mistaking one for the other, and there doesn't really seem to be anything in between; there really is, by the handwriting, more than one person on each side; and they really are not just working in parallel at opposing agendas but actually getting into arguments with one another right there on the wall. Here are some of my favourite exchanges:

• "YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL!" "Hippie."
  
• "F--- THE ENTIRE SCHOOL" "Wow u r sure energetic!"
  
• "Jesus died for nothing." "NO."

Meanwhile, livejournal seems to have started Microsoft Word-style red underlining of words it finds dubious, but seems stuck on American spelling. Also, it doesn't recognise 'livejournal'; awesome.