This note was posted in the girls’ toilets at a college dorm in Canberra, Australia.
Later, this note was slipped under the doors of everyone on the floor.
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The hair-on-the-wall problem
May 2nd, 2008 · 75 comments
FILED UNDER: Australia · bathroom · Canberra · college life · hair · RA · shower · that's disgusting · Your mother doesn't...
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#1
gingerE
One toilet for 26 people? What happened to dressing room stalls?
May 2, 2008 at 8:08 pm rating: 5
#2
gingerE
When you use your roomie’s washcloth as toilet paper, it is rude to place it into the toilet. Next time return washcloth promptly.
May 2, 2008 at 8:12 pm rating: 6
#3
Resident Grammarian esq
Who the hell is Matt? Isn’t this a girls’ toilet? What’s creepy is this guy (probably middle aged with a hunchback) mooning around in a girls’ toilet. And I thought voyeurism was on a decline.
May 2, 2008 at 8:14 pm rating: 3
#4
Djinn
I can’t believe she actually added “Your Mom’s not here to clean for you.” Classic!
May 2, 2008 at 8:15 pm rating: 0
#5
Louisa
It’s embarrassing when foreigners have to come to our country to remind us to be clean (as indicated by the ‘mom’)…eeew.
I love the way that rather than comply with the request not to leave hairs (totally reasonable IMO) the grot-monger started to do stealth drops by camouflaging them on the black tiles. It’s like a compulsion, or a defiant child. Hilarious!
May 2, 2008 at 8:24 pm rating: 1
#6
secondsout
Black hair on the wall? Could it be? The long-awaited return of… ROCKET PUBES!!
May 2, 2008 at 8:27 pm rating: 3
#7
secondsout
Matt – 3rd cousin to Anytime Stan.
May 2, 2008 at 8:28 pm rating: 0
#8
secondsout
By hand towel, does Matt mean paper towels, or a small terrycloth towel?
May 2, 2008 at 8:29 pm rating: 1
#9
secondsout
Can you imagine calling your parents to explain why you have just been expelled from college. “Um, Mom, I got kicked out for flushing a towel down the toilet. Yeah, the Man’s out to get me.”
May 2, 2008 at 8:33 pm rating: 3
#10
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I would like to ask everyone not to use my drawings for their PANs….seriously…I had to come back to life for this.
May 2, 2008 at 8:34 pm rating: 6
#11
secondsout
I want to know what’s written in parentheses under the word “Attention.”
May 2, 2008 at 8:34 pm rating: 0
#12
Canthz_B
Wait! I was told that the blue bin is for pornography only!
Can I use hand towels in the urinal?
May 2, 2008 at 8:54 pm rating: 0
#13
secondsout
Dear South-4 Residents,
I’m not here to wipe your dirty butts.
Regards,
Matt
May 2, 2008 at 8:57 pm rating: 0
#14
Sofar
Don’t people do that to keep the hair from washing down the drain in which it will cause a nasty clog?
May 2, 2008 at 9:02 pm rating: 1
#15
summer
black hair hides on black tiles, blonde on the white, you reds and browns must wash it doooown. I fucking love the drawing of the nasty black hair on the wall, he is so angry!
May 2, 2008 at 9:15 pm rating: 0
#16
Sarah
At least it’s better than applying crap-on-the-wall hair.
May 2, 2008 at 9:37 pm rating: 1
#17
summer
what is the adhesive?
May 2, 2008 at 9:43 pm rating: 0
#18
Canthz_B
Make sure your crabs go down the drain sideways.
May 2, 2008 at 9:45 pm rating: 1
#19
Canthz_B
Come on. Everyone knows water runs up down under!
May 2, 2008 at 9:52 pm rating: 1
#20
RunBarbara
Here is what Ive taken away from this:
1. Flush your hairs down the toilet
2. Vomit in the blue bin (not the dressing room)
3. Use newspapers to wipe and then see Matt to do the flush
4. Pubes=spaghetti
5. You can add a “u” to almost any wourd to make it look impressive.
May 2, 2008 at 10:21 pm rating: 5
#21
Nina
Wow! That note makes me proud to be Australian!
May 2, 2008 at 10:35 pm rating: 1
#22
Canthz_B
I don’t think I’ll comment much on this one. I don’t want to inadvertently offend any Australians. I’m tired of being misunderstood.
May 2, 2008 at 11:04 pm rating: 0
#23
se
this is what happens when the TP buyer moves out.
May 2, 2008 at 11:04 pm rating: 4
#24
summer
the picture he drew of the hair looks more like a spider vein, actually. eew, no spider veins on the walls any more, NO MORE!
May 2, 2008 at 11:13 pm rating: 0
#25
se
maybe Matt is the guy who planted the hidden camera and someone keeps covering the lens with hair.
May 2, 2008 at 11:21 pm rating: 3
#26
Emily
ok. seeing as how this is a hall of 25+ people, this isn’t passive at all. And this sounds downright disgusting. where the fuck are these people? i’ve never known of anyone (fully physically and mentally functioning) to do anything remotely like this…fucking gross.
May 3, 2008 at 1:03 am rating: 0
#27
summer
I know people who put hair on the wall, if you have long hair it comes out in the shower and tangles in your fingers, if you wipe it on the wall it comes off. Black hair is nasty no matter where it is if you ask me, though I know you didn’t.
May 3, 2008 at 9:07 am rating: 1
#28
NoPunIntended
I’ve got some hair to spare…
I think I’m gonna hide it on the black square!
‘Cause I just don’t care.
May 3, 2008 at 9:38 am rating: 0
#29
Socratic Method
Is it passive-aggressive of you to put a up a tiny, unreadable image, with a “click to enlarge” link that enlarges NOTHING? Every single day? On Flickr’s javascript gulag that obsoletes tools like “save image as” and “zoom in”?
May 3, 2008 at 1:24 pm rating: 1
#30
Canthz_B
…And all this time I thought that when I left a mess in the toilet I was supposed to flush! Who knew I was supposed to manually clean the facilities?!
Then again, it is Canberra and politicians can put a lot of excrement into any system.
May 3, 2008 at 6:35 pm rating: 1
#31
Lorrie
A haiku:
Head, chest, knuckle hair
in the shower, in my food
Has become a pube.
May 3, 2008 at 9:15 pm rating: 1
#32
Canthz_B
Haiku smitten:
Gross hair on the walls.
How crude can you people be?
This I stand against.
May 4, 2008 at 12:57 am rating: 1
#33
Mishee
I have nothing to say, as I do the same exact thing.
“Wash it down”??
Apparently this person’s mother has always cleaned the hair out of their drain, because it doesn’t sound like this person has personal experience in the matter, otherwise they might understand why people put it on the wall.
May 4, 2008 at 3:34 pm rating: 1
#34
Canthz_B
Grow your hair, kill a barber!
Screw them and their hypno-poles!!
May 4, 2008 at 5:37 pm rating: 0
#35
NoAddedMSG
Hah, it’s my old college, I would recognise those tiles anywhere, plus the South 4 bit in the letter gives it away….. for those wondering, Matt would be the SR for the floor ie person everyone complains to, and who has the job of writing long letters about stuff to the ressies. The paper towels were always an issue there… they are these heavy duty things which are outside the toilets, for drying your hands with, then putting in the handily placed bin next to the sink. I could never fathom why people tried to flush them because they don’t disintegrate in water like toilet paper does. That, and there is a bin there to put them in. Half the college are international students, so the Mom thing is not really that surprising.
May 4, 2008 at 7:49 pm rating: 0
#36
marcopuffin
I’m thinking, hair removal cream in their shampoo? Oh no, then it’d all fall out, causing a deep carpet of black hair to spread throughout bathroom.
May 4, 2008 at 8:03 pm rating: 0
#37
TuesdayPillow
I admit to being a hair sculpture artist but it’s not too hard to take a bit of tp, gather the stuff off the wall while it’s still wet, and throw it in the toilet.
Maybe people were doing that with the HAND TOWELS?!?
May 4, 2008 at 11:23 pm rating: 0
#38
Katzndogz
It’s a good thing he referenced the “floor” nine times in that note, or I might be lead to think he’s talking about some other residence.
May 5, 2008 at 10:18 am rating: 0
#39
matt
I am the Matt that wrote that Letter, hilarious it has found its way to the Internet
May 7, 2008 at 7:34 am rating: 3
#40
Jo Mama
The second note is what clinches it for me. I love the sentence “Ok, don’t think you can fool anyone by putting your hair along the black tiles now.” I fell over laughing. That’s sheer brilliance.
May 18, 2008 at 12:50 pm rating: 0
#41
curious
Hello Matt! So did it ever stop? LOL
May 18, 2008 at 3:48 pm rating: 0
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