It would be hard to go even a day without seeing a sign. Whether we're driving to work, going to a restaurant, or just taking a hike in the forest, there's probably some information put up about a closed street, staff vacancies, or animals we might encounter.
However, not all signs are created equal. While many are simple and to the point, others end up being funny, strange, or downright confusing, and the appropriately titled Facebook group 'Signs' has them all!
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You'd be amazed. There's a court case going on in England at the moment, trying to get a pig farm closed down because it's smelly and noisy. (The farm was already there when the complainant bought the house)
In the case of a pig farm, the horrible odor travels for many miles in the wind. You need to be sure you buy a house that is well over 20 miles from the pig farm, probably even farther.
Load More Replies...In France there was the court case of Maurice the rooster, whom the new neighbours wanted to silence.There's now a court ruling named "Maurice law", saying in short that people who decide to settle in the country must make do with the noises, smells and other nuisances caused by agricultural.activities.
I believe that's why some towns allow residents to keep hens, but not roosters.
Load More Replies...In my town somebody bought a house next to the municipal dog shelter and then sued the because the dogs were barking all the time... and he won! The shelter had to move! What an a*****e!
Just like moving next to an airport. You didn't see those things taking off and landing across the way?
In my city, there are two paper mills, both over 100 years old. Someone recently bought a house FACING those paper mills, literally on the other side of the street. The mills were there when he visited the house. The noise, the odor HAD to be there. Once the house was bought, he complained to the city and the paper plants that they were too noisy and smelly. Fortunately, he couldn't sue anyone over it (Canada) and it went nowhere (or we never heard about it anymore). I mean... come on!
Grew up on a dairy farm. Not possible to keep a working dairy farm to be odor-free!
Didn't we learn in kindergarten not to call people names? Every one of us is a moron or an idiot at some point.
Signs are so different in part because each of them has a little bit of the person who made it. They're like artworks displayed in a gallery. Only instead of the Met, this exhibition sprawls across our neighborhoods.
Signwriters' work is "often ephemeral and sometimes beautiful, their subjects the stuff of daily life: cars and bikes, beer and bread, groceries, sport, religion, clubs," writer Nick Gadd said.
"The urban and suburban visual landscapes were created by signwriters working quietly under the radar, coming and going with their ladders, hardly ever known to the general public."
I'd be happy to talk to Cathy about her ferrets! I love ferrets!
Load More Replies...Maybe she hasn't been approved for cats.
Load More Replies...Since theres only nine, I'm guessing Professor McGonagall was there
Load More Replies...Oh Kool, my kids used to put my two in my briefcase when I went on business trips! Ferrets are fun!
I stood there for 30 minutes - NOTHING
The cheeses were waiting for YOU to entertain THEM. A Swiss Miss-understanding.
Oh hey, a Woolworths. Can testify that the cheese there tells really bad jokes. Seriously, they're mostly just puns.
Ok but.. heh... were the puns.. cheesy?
Load More Replies...I don't think I would ever be bored in an aisle full of cheese. Cheese. I just love cheese...realleh I do.
Do you ever stand there singing "what a friend we have in Cheeses "?
Load More Replies...At a grocery store near me, there was a sign for "entertaining crackers," so I moved it to the M&M stand. (Eminem?)
This makes no sense. Woolworths Australia. But these products are marked as low prices. Nothing woolworths sell is low priced anymore
The original always makes me tear up :x This one made me chuckle.
Load More Replies...Signwriters work on all surfaces: bricks, glass, plastic, wood, banners, fiberglass—the list goes on. The ones we see on windows are done in reverse, by painting on the inside, and taking into account the distortion caused by refraction.
However, their pieces can quickly disappear. "You can’t get too attached to ’em, they might not be there next week!" Australian signwriter Terry 'Moose' McGowan told Gadd.
Finally someone who got it right! Btw the discussion on this was closed long time ago when someone dug up the original design patented in 1891. toiletpape...fb-png.jpg
And to that I say, original designs are meant to be improved upon.
Load More Replies...No, I truly don't care either. To the point that I can never remember which way is correct and my husband used to get frustrated with me putting it on the wrong way all the time. I had a 50/50 shot at getting it right. Now we just put it on the counter, LOL. Until the cats knock it off to the floor.........
Load More Replies...I joke about this from time to time as someone with the “wrong” preference, but I really don’t get how incensed people who like it rolled over get about it. It’s a toilet paper roll for Christ’s sake.
But there are no carbs in these croutons, so you're not cheating on your diet with them.
Load More Replies...To Soon! Please notice minimum two years in advance, or I will get startled!
Load More Replies...A lot of people walk on the bike trail, which is fine, but sometimes they wander from the safety of the shoulder and need to be reminded that THIS IS OUR TRAIL SO MOVE YOUR BUTTS!
Thats why its called a sidewalk and not a bike lane, there is already a lane for bikes, thats why they teach you how to use the road and give hand signals. Search for bike rules in your local area.
What I want to know is who else sang it in their heads.
In that regard, Moose and other signwriters whose works we see on this list are like Tibetan Buddhists working on sand mandalas.
Despite their meticulous efforts, both forms of expression are temporary, serving as reminders of the fleeting nature of things.
Great! Now I've got to swim all the way out there to see what the warnings for. Damn city workers.
A "Warning, Alligator infestation" sign for scuba divers. The water is a bit low today.
i was just gonna say it looks weirdly like a sock puppet
Load More Replies...I thought the name of the coffee shop was "meh" at first haha
Americans use both and sometimes it gets so confusing that they crash a spacecraft into Mars.
Load More Replies...Just imagine sharing it with roughly 430 chihuahuas... I guess even i would walk the stairs
That's why there is a fence, everyone is dying to get in. And do you know how many dead people are buried there? Hopefully all of them.
LoL My mom's nursing facility was across the street from a funeral home...and next door to a cemetery. She was so far gone I don't think she ever noticed.
Cemeteries are actually really popular places. People are always dying to get in.
Adrian Geach, who has been a signwriter since 1980, told Bored Panda for our earlier exclusive list of clever and funny signs that "a good sign should be eye-catching, easy to understand and not too wordy with enough negative space around the text or logo, and have a good color scheme."
Adrian has been successfully involved in all areas of signage and graphics for decades, but not that long ago, he went back to his roots and now concentrates on traditional signwriting.
With the current resurgence of interest in signwriting and hand-rendered work, he utilizes his skills to offer clients a more personal, unique, environmentally friendly, and organic signage solution using old-fashioned materials and techniques.
"A sign might only be looked at for a few seconds, so it needs to leave an impression within this time frame, hence the 'less is more' approach," he said.
Like my science teacher once said: many stupid rules are painted with blood.
Load More Replies...that's only about 20.9 million years. Dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago
See, that is what they want you to think....
Load More Replies...Just when I'd spent the last piastre I could borrow
Load More Replies...365 days per year x 70,000,000 years ago when velociraptors went extinct = 25,550,000,000 days. Right?
It should say, 'Don't tap the glass!! (it scares the flies and bee's)'.
"There are many factors to take into account when designing a sign, but the most important thing is to make sure it doesn't get lost in its surroundings," Geach added.
A bad sign, according to him, has too much lettering, not enough space around or in between text and logos, and bad color choices. Can you spot any in the pictures?
I am the same with my crafts, I have so many U.F.O's (un-finished objects)
They're all native to Sandwich, Kent, UK. The sandwich farms are impressive, and not as inhumane as the haggis ranch
Haggis are actually free range. In the very beginning they largely inhabited Arthurs Seat in Edinburgh but started migrating to Glasgow and then spread further out across Scotland, a few managed to establish colonies down in England but because of the slightly milder climate in England? They evolved into sheep, which, never forgetting where their genes came from, migrated back up to Scotland but also into Wales and Ireland... These days it's very rare to spot a wild Haggis. They're mostly shy creatures but you can still very occasionally tempt them out with a wee dram of Whisky.
Load More Replies...I always find it inconsiderate when a business has a double entrance door and only one side opens.
Why? There's no need to have both open, and one might be blocked
Load More Replies...If you have double doors, one should be for ingress and the other for egress.
They should move the open sign to the door that actually opens. And why in Sam Hill do you have two doors if you only use one.
Worked at a place that had 2 stores sharing one stoop. A lady came in, looked around in surprise and asked how do I get in the other store. Trying to keep a straight face, I said well, you go out this door and go in the other door.
As I understand it, apparently the flesh hose sometimes aims funny even if you're pointing it in the right direction. I honestly don't remember if that's the case or not, but it wouldn't surprise me.
Load More Replies...My toilet says: If you sprinkle, while you tinkle, be a sweetie & wipe the seatie.
Well, if nobody else is going to step up-----occasionaly, if things are sitting a certain way in the undergarment, the hole gets temporarily deformed. So sometimes when you let go, it might end up taking a hard right or left. We of course immediatley take corrective action, but damage done.
Were the points up top originally bent in a curve, or.... 🤔
MY FRIEND LOOKED OVER MY SHOULDER AND SHE’S DIRY MINDED OH NOO PRAY FOR ME GUYS!
I lived on ranches for thirty years. Gates are serious business. No this is not an exaggeration. There have been folk shot over leaving a gate open. It's no different than trusting your friend to lock your store up and they don't and a lot of your store items, your "Stock" go missing. Same thing.
Be your a man, be you a woman, be you going, be you coming, be you early, be you late, don't forget to shut the gate
"Sir, why did you shave a tiktok logo into my head? I look horrible." "YOU'RE UGLY!"
"Sir, why did you shave off all my hair? I look terrible." "YOU'RE ALSO UGLY!"
Load More Replies...There is a hair dresser shop by my house called " Better Late Than Ugly "
dont worry, sandy areas like that tend to completely dry during the dry season, so there is probably still a stream there in the rainy season
Load More Replies...And if you don't pay no tolls, then we don't eat no rolls!
Load More Replies...Nah man... That's just what they want you to believe
Load More Replies...You can put up a million signs, a lot of people just seem to ignore them, thinking it's for others and not them.
Hey, that’s my town! And we have several dogs who have learned to that!🙃
I was just wondering, "Does anyone else always instinctively see if the highlighted letters say anything?"
Load More Replies...Satan loves fat children because he can stuff more demons in them. The More You Know 🌈
Maybe the kidnappers could just put a sign up advertising 'free cake' and you'll walk right into their hands
Did you notice how the notice made you notice the notice without you needing to notice the notice
im a bit on the plump side like the rotisserie chicken shown in the sign.. so i am not welcome i guess.
I'm plump, juicy, loads and loads of extra fat, which could count as crackling, does that count...??
The right curb always thinks it's right. The left curb always gets left out.
The problem with that sign is that anyone using the drive-up ATM won't see it until it's too late.
No no no. As Graystillplays says it is called "Human strawberry jam" or "Person juice"
Load More Replies...As the old adage says, "If at first you don't succeed, stay away from sky diving."
" You can't make mistakes at this level " ( credit: Hugh Dennis - " Mock The Week.... " )
Any store that did this in Phoenix would have more business than they could handle, the line would be out the door and I'd be in it :-)
I live in Phoenix. In summer I’ve gone into the beer cooler at a convenience store to cool off. I think it was a 7-11. I don’t even like beer.
Load More Replies...Lookup "Italian man goes to Malta" on Youtube for a funny short on how to distinguish between s**t and sheet :)
I TELL HIM I WANNA SHEET HE SAY GO TO THE TOILET I SAY I WANNA SHEET ON THE BED AND HE SAY DONT YOU FOCKING SHEET ON DE BED
Load More Replies...I, without thinking, mentally added an extra 'I' , lol
For our British readers, aluminum is created by removing unneeded letters from "aluminium."
If you haven’t read this before, it might blow your mind: if you look at the beak of a duck, it kinda looks like a dog’s head! Once you’ve seen it, it’s hard to unsee..
OMG I'm an idiot! I read that as the back of the duck. So what do I do?? Google back of a duck and tried to figure out what in the world everyone was smoking because that does not look like a dog. Ugh
Load More Replies...Who is trying to buy more than two accordions at a time and why am I not friends with them?
If you try hard enough you can squeeze one out.
Load More Replies...I'm a bit scared to go to the minister, might have to do with the entrance in the back...
there was a "gentlemen's review" club in a strip mall near us when we moved. an evangelical church moved into the space next to it and constantly had signage asking the club patrons to repent or come to them instead. then the recession happened. the church closed down. the club expanded into their space...
One stop shopping for guilty pleasures, punishment, and forgiveness.
This is like that place where an adult video store and a church advertised next to each other. After the XXX sign comes another one, saying: Jesus is watching. 😝
For the unfrozen type bring own bucket
Also known as hard water. Or, in the case of Thumper (from Bambi) the water's stiff.
Hey, if I want to park on top of somebody's else's car that's my business. Now let me just set up the ramp.
What about top secret national defense classified documents? No? Only, in Florida, gotcha.
The fact that Rump flushed papers down the toilet in a house full of fireplaces in itself proves he’s a moron.. 😆
Load More Replies...A surprising high number of cellphones are flushed in my hometown. It even made the news. I know at least one reason for it, she works with home care and she admitted to have accidentally flushed 3 phones. All of them work phones. I still don't understand how she manages to do it.
Sooo glad we don't have fire ants. I've heard scary things about them ...
I bet that people would swim in that if they didn’t put up that sign. There’s probably still idiots who try to swim in it even with the sign
That’s why there’s a sign, some idiot, tried it!, lol probably just being funny
Load More Replies...Oops! I started to fill the tub and then walked away and forgot about it.
The fact that they needed to put up this sign makes me sigh with disdain.
Don't be too sad. It's probably 20 times normal flow, and yet even at a much tamer flow rate, it's probably still surprisingly dangerous.
Load More Replies...think it is twined with Bland in New South Wales, Australia too
I was gonna post a comment, but figured it wouldn't matter, so why bother?
I was gonna post a reply to a comment, but figured it wouldn't matter, so why bother?
Load More Replies...They glass is neither half full or half empty. It's just the wrong sized receptacle for the liquid.
not to spoil the fun, but it could be an electric wire fence, where it is just difficult to spot the wires as they are so thin and the image is slightly blurred.
It is, but the electrical wires are renewed (so at that momebt, they are indeed omitting)
Load More Replies...It seems silly, but if the gate is open a strong wind might ruin it.
invisible barbed wire for those of u who dont has spd
Hey, no one wants to cook after a day of moving in. So this is good!
What?? Why didn't I get a pizza? My realtor has some explaining to do. I demand reparations with interest. 5 pizzas should cover it!
Cue a very long line of British and Canadian people just stuck in an endless line of confusion, unable to take a step
I have seen signs exactly like this on some Government buildings near san Antonio, Texas!!
Hafan in czech means big dog, so it would be a "playtime with your big dog hour" :) Quite understandably, this is important, so it is only natural to colose to office :)
Load More Replies...Those boozy, nudest penguins! They come in, chain-smoking, and cuss out everyone in sight.
Load More Replies...It sounds like feet aren’t the only happy parts of these penguins.. 😜
A drunk penguin with no feathers walked into a bar while smoking and cussing up a storm!
Well if they are going to discriminate against penguins that's not a business I want to support anyway.
My life of crime continues unabated. It began when I found a sign that said DO NOT TOUCH and touched it anyway. WOO ANARCHY YEAH!!
Such a rebel, must've been a handful for ur parents lol
Load More Replies...I guess such pets are pretty hard to smoke anyway.
Load More Replies...If we put shoes on the pets and promised not to smoke them, could we please be allowed in? (Unless the pet is a fish, of course. But we won't smoke them either.)
Why do ducks have webbed feet? To stamp out forest fires. Why do elephants have big feet? To stamp out flaming ducks.
It's OK for shod pets to smoke because they won't burn their paws, feet or hooves stomping on the cigarette butts when they're done.
We're not animals! We'll use an ash tray like civilized folk!
Load More Replies...You're fine then. Only patient people aren't allowed.
Load More Replies...that is really a bad impatient, to be able to be that patiens for 10h is really impressive!?
This is really serious, do NOT ANGER THE AUSSIE MAGPIES. They're like small guided missile Canada Geese. This warning also applies to Collingwood fans
Don't worry, I've watched the public information broadcast by Bluey.
Load More Replies...One notorious Spring, the family of magpies over the road from my home decided they hated me, and only me. I couldn't leave home or come back to it without being attacked and ended up with a big gash on my scalp. I still don't know what the hell I did. Unless I have a doppelganger somewhere who earned their sudden thirst for revenge.
I remember, when I lived in Brisbane, that people often wore masks of faces on the tops or backs of their heads, especially in wooded areas. I found out that this was to deter the magpie dive-bombers. This was in 1977. I had forgotten all about it. It's kinda funny that it has not changed, I mean, that magpies are not endangered.
I'm not going to tell them that they can't.
Load More Replies...Technically, 39.0207...... (Sorry, I am 'that person')
Load More Replies...That sign would be dangerous. Drivers would probably get into an accident trying to solve the formula instead of focusing on the road.
I think it's probably a joke on the door of a math class.
Load More Replies...Not difficult for you, maybe! My brain quit when I got to algebra.
Load More Replies...Comparing a vagina to a tool that literally shaves layers off whatever is put in it seems a little unreasonable.
How does a sign break the fourth wall? Thought that was an actor acknowledging the audience??? I've a thumping headache which I hope is the reason why I'm not getting it!! Explanations welcome...
Where's the "signs that are unintentionally dirty" option on the poll?
How does a sign break the fourth wall? Thought that was an actor acknowledging the audience??? I've a thumping headache which I hope is the reason why I'm not getting it!! Explanations welcome...
Where's the "signs that are unintentionally dirty" option on the poll?
