writes ludovic from geneva: “i went to bil’in, a palestinian village cut through by the security fence, for the weekly friday demonstration. there’s a house there whose owner rents out the ground flat to activists to be used as a meeting place, sleeping hostel, that sort of thing. the day was obviously tense, but seeing the sign above the sink made us all smile.”
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November 25th, 2007 · 55 comments
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Tags: dishes · just to be clear · the middle east
55 responses so far ↓
#1 cheerio
blooming brilliant!
Nov 25, 2007 at 12:57 pm rating: +1
#2 Canthz_B
“Why yes, these are dishes! Thanks for the clarification!”
Nov 25, 2007 at 1:03 pm rating: +1
#3 Mishee
Does it really count as P/A if the person STATES it’s P/A? I mean, I find that saying “I was being sarcastic” seems to take the sting out of the original sarcasm. But, on another note, it would be nice if they specified just what they wanted to happen to the dishes. From the picture it looks like the dishes ARE clean, and stacked up nicely to dry. Perhaps note writer wants them put away, or they aren’t clean enough and they would like them rewashed? Or possibly this is just a sign to help some of the locals learn English? Do they have a P/A sign for the DOOR and BATHROOM also?
Nov 25, 2007 at 1:08 pm rating: +7
#4 Sharona
Ha, I love the format. Imagine if they all used it:
This is a passive aggressive sign: MICROWAVE!
This is a passive aggressive sign: OFFICE FRIDGE!
This is a passive aggressive sign: NOISY SEX!
This is a passive aggressive sign: PUBIC HAIR!
This is a passive aggressive sign: MY STUFF!
Nov 25, 2007 at 1:10 pm rating: +10
#5 Mishee
I am a little concerned with that open outlet right there, which presumably is near the sink - water and electricity DON’T mix… gives a whole new meaning to being shocked that the dishes are done
Nov 25, 2007 at 1:14 pm rating: +3
#6 Canthz_B
“This message has been brought to you by Dutch Boy paints…time to re-order!”
Nov 25, 2007 at 1:19 pm rating: 0
#7 Olrun
Maybe the sign is in referance to the garbage bag and open food bags around the clean dishes.
Maybe they don’t want to re-clean the clean dishes and it’s a way of telling everyone to “PUT YOURE CRAPP AWAY!!”
Nov 25, 2007 at 1:20 pm rating: 0
#8 Canthz_B
Why is there no flatware?
Nov 25, 2007 at 1:23 pm rating: 0
#9 GVI
Are they giving them away?
Nov 25, 2007 at 1:24 pm rating: 0
#10 Olrun
CB
They may have been used as weapons, you know, whats a demonstration without weapons in a Palestinian village on a tense day ?
Nov 25, 2007 at 1:28 pm rating: 0
#11 GVI
Do they have an outside dishwasher or something, where is that cord going to?
Nov 25, 2007 at 1:29 pm rating: +1
#12 Andy
Hmmm… do you think peace in the Middle East can be found through the judicious use of passive/aggression such as this?
Ah, no.
Nov 25, 2007 at 1:32 pm rating: +6
#13 Canthz_B
A place for everything,
Everything in it’s place,
Please put your dishes away,
Please don’t clutter my space.
We let you rent a flat,
When you come here to protest,
Your Mom does not work here,
Disorder we detest!
Nov 25, 2007 at 1:34 pm rating: +2
#14 Mishee
That bag of rice is about to tip over - what slobs! You know what a bitch it is to try and clean up SPILLED UNCOOKED RICE? And NEAR THE DISHES, TOO!????
Maybe the cord is going to one of those little dry vac things that cleans up linoleum better than sweeping… or it’s going to some Chinese Water Torture device used in the demonstration… I mean, that’s WHY they did the dishes in the first place… to clear the sink out for torture time!
Nov 25, 2007 at 1:35 pm rating: +2
#15 Canthz_B
#10…A drive-by spooning?
Nov 25, 2007 at 1:38 pm rating: +1
#16 Canthz_B
There is no such thing as torture Mishee…there are only “enhanced interrogation techniques”!
Nov 25, 2007 at 1:41 pm rating: +2
#17 mamason
Why are the dishes outside? Are these people renting the patio?
Nov 25, 2007 at 1:52 pm rating: +1
#18 Canthz_B
Why does this photo make me think of “Beauty and the Beast”?
Nov 25, 2007 at 2:10 pm rating: 0
#19 Olrun
I don’t know.
I wish I did but I’m wondering how it does.
I’m all out of answers there.
Nov 25, 2007 at 2:22 pm rating: --2
#20 kureshii
Wow, a titular PAN… a first for me.
However sweet “This is a passive aggressive sign” may be, it still doesn’t replace a carefully worded rant, preferably decorated with underline squiggles and lots of little extras.
Nov 25, 2007 at 2:24 pm rating: +1
#21 GVI
Hey, if you click on the picture it will take you to the original site and it says that the sink is outside. So I guess that DISHES is just to inform people to put the dishes there?
Nov 25, 2007 at 2:29 pm rating: +1
#22 Wade
So, this note is pacifist aggressive?
Nov 25, 2007 at 2:42 pm rating: +4
#23 Canthz_B
I just noticed the handy Intefada throwing stone next to the rice!
Is that an implied threat?
Nov 25, 2007 at 2:42 pm rating: 0
#24 Mishee
Well, I don’t know about you CB, but I try to keep a handy stone to throw in every room of the house… just in case I see an Infidel… they pop up in the strangest places!!
Nov 25, 2007 at 2:44 pm rating: +1
#25 Wade
And all this time they thought PA stood for Palestinian Authority.
Nov 25, 2007 at 3:05 pm rating: +2
#26 Wade
Looking at photo, I really don’t think they are keeping the kitchen kosher.
Nov 25, 2007 at 3:06 pm rating: --1
#27 Wade
After a hard day of fighting injustice, is it too much to ask to have a clean cup to drink your Nobleza Gaucha yerba mate?
Nov 25, 2007 at 4:10 pm rating: +3
#28 Juliet
Someone commented earlier that it isn’t truly P-A if the P-A is acknowledged up front. I agree with that, and think someone should draw a penis on that sign in pink pen.
Nov 25, 2007 at 5:24 pm rating: +2
#29 Juliet
There’s a nice open space between the I and the S in the word “dishes” for a little noodle-doodle, don’t you think?
Nov 25, 2007 at 5:25 pm rating: +1
#30 Writer, Rejected
Those dishes look pretty clean to me. They are sitting in a dish drainer. Maybe the sign means something else. Maybe it’s secret activist code for the neighbors across the way, or for the Palestinians. Interesting that it’s in English, no?
Nov 25, 2007 at 5:45 pm rating: 0
#31 Robin Claire
Pretty nice, for something that self-labels as passive aggressive!
Nov 25, 2007 at 6:03 pm rating: +1
#32 Canthz_B
I must admit, I’ve never seen a recipe represented graphically on a cup before today!
Nov 25, 2007 at 6:14 pm rating: +1
#33 niteraven
This is just ANOTHER example of what happens when you piss off hippies! Sure they’re all “flower power” and “love” until you step on their sandals..then its on.
Nov 25, 2007 at 6:30 pm rating: +2
#34 WanderingPenguin
#8 - CB: oh, there’s flatware all right. But since nobody made a sign saying “FLATWARE!”, it’s all still piled in the sink, dirty.
Nov 25, 2007 at 6:46 pm rating: 0
#35 mamason
I live in a glass house, so I throw no stones, infidels or not.
Nov 25, 2007 at 7:03 pm rating: --2
#36 Rupert
See the bowl on the right?. Can you spell FOOD POISONING ?
Nov 25, 2007 at 7:30 pm rating: --2
#37 ron
That rice looks fucking delicious.
Nov 25, 2007 at 9:34 pm rating: --7
#38 Canthz_B
I am here in Palestine,
To protest this borderline.
I needed a place to hang my hat,
Luckily, I have found this flat.
I’ve eaten rice and some knishes,
Bright sign directs where to leave my dishes.
Nov 25, 2007 at 10:51 pm rating: +2
#39 Simster
Perhaps the passive aggressive sign was also an effective sign and this is the ‘after’ shot.
Nov 25, 2007 at 10:58 pm rating: +2
#40 A.A guy
Wow electric dishes!
Nov 26, 2007 at 2:19 am rating: 0
#41 Ludovic
Ahem - it’s *not* outside, it is inside. And yes, the dishes are clean, which only prove that P/A does work sometimes
At any rate, Canthz_B’s poem cracks me up no end, should I ever get back there I’ll be sure to post it next to the sink!
Nov 26, 2007 at 12:13 pm rating: +5
#42 Brian R
Maybe the protestors will start using this tactic.
This is a passive agressive sign: STOLEN LAND
This is a passive agressive sign: ETHNIC CLEANSING
It’s got to be better than waiting around for someone to drive a bulldozer over you!
Nov 26, 2007 at 12:38 pm rating: +2
#43 alix
A sad first attempt at a poem:
Fellow peaceniks:
Let’s avoid frustration
and exemplify cooperation.
Clean up your own mess you should.
Wash your dishes- for the greater good!
(Wandering Penguin, I’m trying to get “for the greater good” going for you)
Nov 26, 2007 at 1:04 pm rating: +4
#44 Naomi
This is a passive aggressive sign: LOUD MUSIC!
Nov 26, 2007 at 3:07 pm rating: 0
#45 WanderingPenguin
Why on earth is Brian’s comment (#42) being rated into the negatives? I thought it was brilliant!
Alix - thanks! It’s coming along slowly but surely.
Nov 26, 2007 at 3:58 pm rating: +1
#46 park rose
I agree with you, WP. I gave it a plus, Brian. I don’t know who is marking it down, obviously.
Nov 26, 2007 at 6:13 pm rating: 0
#47 Zena
LOL! That gives me an idea. What if all of pissed peaceniks here in the U.S. all made up a sign that said, “I see dead people”, and marched on Washington, I wonder what they’d do?
Nov 26, 2007 at 9:03 pm rating: 0
#48 Troy McClure
Ignore them, & continue profiteering? That’s just a wild guess.
Nov 26, 2007 at 9:14 pm rating: +2
#49 Alix
Troy McClure, sadly you’re probably right, but first they would denounce them as terrorists and try to arrest them.
Nov 27, 2007 at 1:30 am rating: +3
#50 T-Bone
A movie still from “Midnight Express”.
Nov 27, 2007 at 11:31 am rating: 0
#51 turrboenvy
#4, almost.
This is a passive-agressive note: ROCKET PUBES
Nov 27, 2007 at 4:43 pm rating: +1
#52 Jodi Blaze
SILVERWARE
Nov 28, 2007 at 5:02 pm rating: 0
#53 Zena
Silverware? LOL! Do the darn dishes!
Nov 28, 2007 at 6:59 pm rating: 0
#54 BoggyWoggy
Think “redrum.” Yeah…the sign really says, “SEH SID!”
Nov 28, 2007 at 9:17 pm rating: 0
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