Some think it is the disatarous look of the toilet bowl before flushing, after a night of beer, dancing and a Chicken Vindaloo.
It is actually the the outside masonary on a house which swept the interior fashion world in the 70's. These days it looks atrocious unless you paint over it but alot of houses still have it.
Absolutely stylish... for the smackhead yobs that allow their babies to walk on the fronts in nothing but a soiled nappy and with half their dinner across their faces while the parents slouch on the sofa watching daytime tv with a fag hanging out their gobs and a can of red stripe in their hand. Now THATS classy! Poor little buggers! (the babies that is)