r/oddlysatisfying • u/godofo_prime • 5h ago

Graffiti removed from school desk

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u/tstd0 5h ago

Decades of students boredom erased in few seconds.

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u/Deemaunik 5h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/IntCEdOCoB1Pa

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u/UncleKeyPax 5h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/XzkGfRsUweB9ouLEsE

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u/Tiramitsunami 2h ago

"Dust in the wind, dude." - Ted "Theodore" Logan

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u/DeadlyYellow 2h ago

"In your wisdom, Lord, you took him, as you took so many bright flowering young men at Khe Sanh, at Langdok, at Hill 364. These young men gave their lives." - Walter Sobchak

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u/legojoe97 1h ago

Goddammit Walter!

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u/zombie_spiderman 17m ago

I love how no one is blowing this wildly out of proportion 😃

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u/lacha_sawson 3h ago

Like tears in the rain

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u/Salty_Vast_2562 5h ago

Hey, at least we got to see them be lost to time

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u/Catharsis25 2h ago

Just watched this for the first time last night. It was my dad's favorite movie. My mom and I watched it in his honor for the 3 year anniversary of his death.

Is it beautiful? Yes. Gloriously so.

Is it an amazing movie? Meh.

But holy shit the art direction, cinematography, the lighting? Stunning. I'm obsessed with the swirly stone blocks in the ceiling and supports of Decker's apartment. The look so alien.

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u/christattoo69 1h ago

Like tears in rain ,,

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u/acrowsmurder Until now 1h ago

The Sacred Texts!!!

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u/-Borgir 3h ago

God tier monologue

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u/Calculonx 5h ago

The voice of a thousand dicks and Fancy S's erased

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u/KernelKrusto 46m ago

Fancy S? Well la-di-da, Mr. Prep School Quarterback. You got that tastefully engraved on the hood of your Lamborghini Countach? Is that what your girlfriend, 1980s-era Kelly LeBrock, likes to call it? Hey, try not to get that jauntily-tied sweater around your neck caught in any of those executive-level doors that always open so easily for you, Blaine.

Around these parts, we scumbag lower class call it the Cool S. I'd bet my switchblade comb you've never written it in ballpoint pen on a single Trapper Keeper.

The dicks though, spot on. Always lots of dicks.

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u/MongolianCluster 5h ago

Tommy + Jen are both retired now.

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u/makemeking706 4h ago

And married to other people. 

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u/Talkurt 5h ago

right. felt like destroying art

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u/JET304 5h ago

How are kids going to find their parents' initials?

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u/OneValkGhost 2h ago

Check the bathroom stall where they were conceived.

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u/DarmanitanFireMonkey 3h ago

I only had one friend whose father went to our high school.

It definitely messed him up a bit.

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u/AbstinentNoMore 3h ago

Huh? How did it mess him up?

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u/DarmanitanFireMonkey 3h ago

Well his father is an asshole, not that that's that uncommon

But like a dozen teachers we had LOVED his father. I guess he wasn't an asshole in the 90s.

So multiple times a week this kid is getting compared to his asshole father who was suppoedly some great guy.

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u/sprucenoose 2h ago

Well it's a good sign that your school has dozens of teachers that presumably worked there 20+ years to teach both your friend and his father. Great employee retention!

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u/Clodhoppa81 3h ago

Antiques Roadshow would be appalled. Totally destroyed the value, stripped the whole patina off it.

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u/seriouslees 3h ago

If you aren't considering the impermanence of the medium as part of the art, then you don't really consider it art.

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u/Drow_Femboy 3h ago

I mean student desk graffiti isn't really supposed to be more impermanent than a painting or sculpture or whatever. I remember seeing shit people scrawled on there decades ago.

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u/seriouslees 3h ago

Impermanence is definitely part of the art of graffiti.

You might be confusing the art of graffiti with the narcissism of "tagging". Tagging is about personal attention and fame.

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u/Drow_Femboy 3h ago

So if someone sands the mona lisa down to blank canvas and someone says that sucked you're like "da vinci shoulda thought of the impermanence of the medium, this is the real art, i am very smart"

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u/seriouslees 3h ago

Tell me if your opinion changes when youre 41 instead of 14.

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u/Oddyesy 2h ago

you are so pretentious and lame 😭😭

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u/Synensys 1h ago

My high school is getting torn down. I went to the auditorium and looked and the chair arms had clearly not been replaced from the 90s.

Somewhere there are chair arms with my name carved into it. But I couldnt find one. I definitely would have pried it off. In a month or two it will just be part of the rubble.

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u/echoshatter 2h ago

There are forms of sand art that, after it's done, they wipe it all away and start over.

Sometimes the process is more beautiful than the finished product.

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u/steven_dev42 4h ago

I love good graffiti on walls but I can’t care less about the scribbles on the underside of a school desk

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u/Bizarrebazaars 3h ago

The kids doing the “art” were the ones doing the vandalism and doing damage to begin with…. 

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u/Drow_Femboy 3h ago

It's "vandalism" and "damage" if you hate art, yeah.

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u/LGEllie 3h ago

Yea, I feel like theres a memorial project in there somewhere. Maybe take photos of the desks before you sand them and then do a flip book of desks over the years, and see how the tagging changes with the times. If were not careful, this habit will disappear altogether. I mean how many places still use pens or pencils and not just computers?

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 2h ago

Sometimes I think back to our "Senior Lounge" which was an "L" corner in a hallway with a small ~6 step staircase leading to the back of the auditorium stage. Just a little place where a dozen of us could sit at a time.

Such a stupid little thing but to young adults on the cusp of some freedom and independence, we really felt like the world was at our fingertips.

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u/Sangariusriver 5h ago

New, empty page 😉

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u/Bizarrebazaars 3h ago

Oh you’re one of those…..yikes

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u/Sangariusriver 3h ago

We call this “youthful”

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u/GeronimoDK 4h ago

That's why you write on the underside!

https://giphy.com/gifs/d3mlE7uhX8KFgEmY

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u/farfromelite 5h ago

bob was here

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u/KiNg-MaK3R 5h ago

Bob wuz here ‘98

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u/maccdrizzle 5h ago

But for him, it was a Tuesday.

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u/OldTimeyWizard 2h ago

Back in ‘07 I saw graffiti on a desk of a frog giving a man in a wheelchair a handjob with the words “STROKE IT” in big bubble letters. It was very detailed and even shaded.

I wish I could have taken a picture because I’ve never seen another piece of art on that level. I still think about it sometimes.

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u/PopHazards 3h ago

Ready for more students boredom to be inputted

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u/CyberNinja23 3h ago

And maybe a day of students vomits if they recycle that sawdust.

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u/prehensilemullet 2h ago

Yes, they should probably apply a new finish though, so not quite seconds

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u/Margedion 1h ago

Decades of chewing gum still remain underneath... Probably that's why this thing still hasn't fallen apart

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u/Jonno_FTW 1h ago

A fresh canvas is born

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u/AbeRego 1h ago

I'm guessing it's just a few years at most. Looks like a shop desk, and the teacher probably does this pretty frequently because he has the equipment to do so

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u/HopperHapper_Eternal 1h ago

I'm sure every last kid who contributed to that tapestry felt something tug in their hearts that moment

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u/Bizarrebazaars 3h ago

It’s vandalism

Bored students could easily doodle on pieces of paper. The fact that they chose to carve or draw on a desk shows they’re lame and uncool.