Billboards stating "It's illegal to use a legal name".

[DaveCinzano]

It is definitely special that the posters don't even link to their website or anything, seems the posters themselves are believed to have magical powers.

Spoken like a true sceptic who hasn't even touched one of the posters

 

[mauvais]

It is definitely special that the posters don't even link to their website or anything, seems the posters themselves are believed to have magical powers.

These people never have good websites. Even if they managed to outmanoeuvre The Fall Of Geocities, their copy of Microsoft FrontPage '97 will have finally turned to dust.

 

[8den]

I just noticed one in Belfast the other week.

 

[DotCommunist]

hopefully theres enough money for a tv ad campaign cos 2016 hasn't been fucked up enough yet

 

[Pickman's model]

hopefully theres enough money for a tv ad campaign cos 2016 hasn't been fucked up enough yet

wait till the end of the week and by then i think you'll agree it's all fucked up and there's no way back

 

[FridgeMagnet]

There's one by Camden Road station now.

 

[bimble]

At this rate the poster-spell will soon have been cast across the land, and all the babies shall be born nameless and FREE.

 

[Pickman's model]

There's one by Camden Road station now.

you know what they're like, you leave them alone and then they multiply like rabbits

 

[8den]

There's one by Camden Road station now.

Does anyone know who's funding them, they've clearly incredibly stupid and have some degree of liquid assets, and I feel I the former trait might make separating them from their money quite easy.

 

[bimble]

This is what came of someone's best attempt to find out who bought all the ad space:

'..An email address is also provided by Whois.net, but when I sent it a message I received a reply from a "D-ohm T-Wat" consisting of nothing more than Kate of Gaia's email address.
None of this means that Kate of Gaia paid for the billboards - which potentially cost hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's also not clear why they appear across the UK when she appears to be based in Canada.."

The mystery of the 'legal name fraud' billboards - BBC News

 

[DotCommunist]

thats dumb twat isn't it? someones on a windup

 

[8ball]

So the owner has quite deliberately used the way they mangle words on their website to name himself "Dumb Twat".

 

[bimble]

Yes - Dumb Twat - i didn't even see that. Curiouser & curiouser. very very expensive wind-up.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Anyone would think it was a bad idea to let anyone with enough cash use public space to assault the public consciousness with whatever shit they like.

 

[DotCommunist]

thats communism frank

I'm thinking the website and the whois registration might be the piss take whereas the boards are by a genuine madman, the one we discussed earlier in the thread

 

[kabbes]

Still up round the corner of my work. Prime space in the square mile does not come cheap.

It's been annotated with extra info too. Not sure you can see that or not in my photo

 

[bimble]

what does the extra bit say?

 

[Pickman's model]

View attachment 91386 Still up round the corner of my work. Prime space in the square mile does not come cheap.

It's been annotated with extra info too. Not sure you can see that or not in my photo

you should use a spray paint in future rather than writing in marker

 

[8ball]

Anyone would think it was a bad idea to let anyone with enough cash use public space to assault the public consciousness with whatever shit they like.

I think the stuff on all the other billboards is more pervasive and sinister. No one seems to pipe up about those.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I think the stuff on all the other billboards is more pervasive and sinister. No one seems to pipe up about those.

I agree, but these billboards with their meaningless and context-free slogan are a good ilustration of the general point that billboards can fuck off.

 

[8ball]

I agree, but these billboards with their meaningless and context-free slogan are a good ilustration of the general point that billboards can fuck off.

They give people something to ponder.

 

[kabbes]

what does the extra bit say?

It's like sub-DaVinci Code meanderings. I'll see if I can get a close up without looking like (more of) a weirdo

 

[DaveCinzano]

They give people something to ponder.

fnord

Exactly, nothing even slightly nefarious about them

 

[8ball]

It's like sub-DaVinci Code meanderings. I'll see if I can get a close up without looking like (more of) a weirdo

Let us know when you find the messages in really small print.

 

[8ball]

Exactly, nothing even slightly nefarious about them

Well, when I was a kid I used to ponder over the big, sweeping desert vistas that turned out to be cigarette adverts.
They were a little nefarious too.

Maybe these should have a health warning to make everyone happy.

"May make you think you know magic spells that can help you evade parking tickets" or some such...

 

[kabbes]

Drive-by photos.

The second one exhorts us to find the truth by visiting "YOURTUBE"

 

[DotCommunist]

no mention of rosicrucians. You promised Dan Brown type conspiracies. Theres not even a mention of the Templars

 

[brogdale]

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Drive-by photos.

The second one exhorts us to find the truth by visiting "YOURTUBE"

Shouldn't that be yourtube?

 

[8ball]

Shouldn't that be yourtube?

You're tube.

It is advising topological self-reflection.

 

[kabbes]

no mention of rosicrucians. You promised Dan Brown type conspiracies. Theres not even a mention of the Templars

Sub-Dan Brown, I said. I think it qualifies