50 Signs So Ridiculous They’re Actually Brilliant, As Spotted By People Online (New Pics)
Interview With AuthorThe purpose of a sign is simple: to inform, promote, or spread awareness. Ideally, it should be clear and easy to understand. But as we all know, humans aren’t exactly the most logical creatures, so their attempts at creating a good message can sometimes go hilariously wrong.
To show you exactly what we mean, we’ve rounded up some of the funniest examples from the Facebook groups Really Bad Signs and Stupid and Weird Signs. Check them out below, upvote your favorites, and don’t forget to tell us which ones made you laugh the hardest!
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Fascinated by the hilarious appeal of these photos, Bored Panda reached out to Michael Jenkin, one of the admins of Stupid and Weird Signs, to learn more about the group.
Michael shared that he originally joined the page as a regular member. “There were already 100,000 members, but the admin was reluctant to add moderators,” he explained. “It was like the Wild West with bad and inappropriate posts. Eventually, Facebook shut it down after several warnings. I liked the concept and the friends I’d made in the group, so I decided to start it back up.”
At first, some members mistakenly assumed Michael was the original admin and sent him angry messages, asking why they had been removed. “Of course, the group itself was deactivated,” he clarified. “Feeling that the original group was taken down due to a lack of supervision, I immediately looked for people from the old group to help as admins.”
“On day one, people volunteered, and I added admins without knowing them,” Michael said. “By day two, members were messaging me and quitting because one of the admins went on a ridiculous power trip. By day three, I was already banning and blocking that admin. I don’t understand why some people think being a Facebook admin is a position of power. Anyone can create a group—admins are not special.”
Learning from that experience, Michael reached out to friends and family to help manage the group. “I also use a lot of Facebook tools to keep the group within Facebook’s guidelines,” he shared. “There has to be a balance between letting people have fun and not going overboard or offending others. Unfortunately, admins have to rely on their personal sensitivities and judgment to maintain that balance.”
“We’re not always right, and we do make mistakes,” Michael admitted.
I don't know about the rest of you who have had children but that's definitely how I carried my son to the bathroom when he had launched chemical weapons...
Ingredients: protons, neutrons and electrons. Photons not included. May be present: gravitons
My Dad was rather paranoid on my first visit after I'd had to switch to a gluten-free diet. He went around his local supermarket and seemed to have bought every single item that said 'gluten-free'. I did ask if he'd managed to get gluten-free water, and gluten-free apples. He was ready to run back to the shops to get them. :oD
Do I have to bring them by during certain hours or can I drop them off anytime?
This is not true. It was a marketing campaign of Austrian airports
The sign has been amended. The door is actually on the ground floor and round the corner, the sign now reflects that. Kent-Medwa...c5-png.jpg
Poll Question
Do you believe signs should always be serious and informative?
Yes, they should serve their purpose
No, humor can be effective
Depends on the context
I don't have a strong opinion
Boy, #50 is absolutely dead perfect for an Absurd Hilarious Signs post! BP's greed pretty much killed my interest in visiting months ago, but this is probably going to be the last straw. die-bp-die...d3d66c.jpg
100% this. Who wants to bet they're gonna limit how many times we can comment, unless we pay up. "We're sorry, you've posted 5 comments today, please subscribe to premium to unlock more".
Exactly, first they stop dark mode which is stupid, and now they are limiting how much we can actually see? Bored panda is my place to go when I want to scroll through my phone but now they are just pushing us all away
How they think they can bait me with the worst of the list as opposed to the best is pretty hilarious though
I was at the airport in Denver and the bathrooms had a sign that had a man,woman,child and alien and said Whatever lOL
They had that at a local gas station it ended with just keep it clean
They're doing their level best to be inclusive, although I'd rather there was no green 3-eyed alien in the cubicle next to me!
These are all clever and fun ...and much more memorable than the usual!
I used to love BP, but Premium has killed it, and no new posts for days, weeks on end....bye bye.
Sorry to hear that, JohninND. People near me are poking fun because I go to Church and believe in the Gospel story. I must be disturbing their 'Christmas' festivities, but I can't work out what they're celebrating!
Nihilism is the new religion - it'd almost be funny if it weren't so sadly ironic. Pity people's (presumably) Christian parents/grandparents/ancestry failed to teach them that hating on other people isn't nice.
In my experience the people who call themselves "Christians" are the ones hating on other people.
In my personal experience, while Christians may post an annoying scrap of scripture here and there, I can't recall encountering an openly hateful or judgmental Christian other than references to the Westboro Baptist Church or characters in Stephen King novels. I've blocked a handful of anti-Christian people on FB just because I got tired of their noise, most recently a fellow I've known for years and had a good opinion of, when he responded to someone's annoying scriptural post with "f*ck you and f*ck your god."
Boy, #50 is absolutely dead perfect for an Absurd Hilarious Signs post! BP's greed pretty much killed my interest in visiting months ago, but this is probably going to be the last straw. die-bp-die...d3d66c.jpg
100% this. Who wants to bet they're gonna limit how many times we can comment, unless we pay up. "We're sorry, you've posted 5 comments today, please subscribe to premium to unlock more".
Exactly, first they stop dark mode which is stupid, and now they are limiting how much we can actually see? Bored panda is my place to go when I want to scroll through my phone but now they are just pushing us all away
How they think they can bait me with the worst of the list as opposed to the best is pretty hilarious though
I was at the airport in Denver and the bathrooms had a sign that had a man,woman,child and alien and said Whatever lOL
They had that at a local gas station it ended with just keep it clean
They're doing their level best to be inclusive, although I'd rather there was no green 3-eyed alien in the cubicle next to me!
These are all clever and fun ...and much more memorable than the usual!
I used to love BP, but Premium has killed it, and no new posts for days, weeks on end....bye bye.
Sorry to hear that, JohninND. People near me are poking fun because I go to Church and believe in the Gospel story. I must be disturbing their 'Christmas' festivities, but I can't work out what they're celebrating!
Nihilism is the new religion - it'd almost be funny if it weren't so sadly ironic. Pity people's (presumably) Christian parents/grandparents/ancestry failed to teach them that hating on other people isn't nice.
In my experience the people who call themselves "Christians" are the ones hating on other people.
In my personal experience, while Christians may post an annoying scrap of scripture here and there, I can't recall encountering an openly hateful or judgmental Christian other than references to the Westboro Baptist Church or characters in Stephen King novels. I've blocked a handful of anti-Christian people on FB just because I got tired of their noise, most recently a fellow I've known for years and had a good opinion of, when he responded to someone's annoying scriptural post with "f*ck you and f*ck your god."