40 Times “Dude With Sign” Did Everyone A Public Service And Protested Everyday Annoying Things (New Pics)
Every now and then we all run out of words. After all, the level of annoyance in little daily mishaps, like lost airpods, cardboard toilet paper and passwords that sound something like “Fjx5*7kndjw-iy3o0-b#” is hard to describe.
But one internet icon is doing everyone a public service and speaking up against the first world kind of injustice. You guessed it, it’s the one and only Dude With Sign, who never ceases to amaze us with his little bold protests that speak for thousands of others. Below we selected some of his most recent endeavors that perfectly fit the motto “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.”
Scroll down, upvote your favorite posts and after you’re done, make sure to check out Bored Panda’s previous entries with more Dude and more signs here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5.
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This annoys me so much and I don't know why! (The onion thing not the post)
Previously, Bored Panda spoke with Vilnius-based journalist Dovydas Skarolskis, who shared his views on freedom of opinion and what role it has in the Dude With Sign project. According to him, Dude With Sign captures the essence of freedom of speech, which is a fundamentally essential part of liberal democracy. Commonly, it seems like a given to citizens of the free world, Skarolskis argues.“However, there has been a variety of political regimes that restricted both individuals’ personal opinions, and one’s ability to form one. The dystopian shadows depicted by George Orwell and Aldous Huxley still haunt us in the 21st century,” he told us.
On the other hand, being a part of society places an unquestionable restriction on every member of it. Dovydas explained: “I can’t just arrive naked at the shopping mall just because I want to. There are many public norms, cultural traditions, laws, and many other social institutions that repress our behavior.”
Meanwhile, the internet gives us the opposite experience where a sense of freedom can be achieved unlike in the real world. "The internet is a liberating tool, and millions of anonymous comments allow authors to express their views that otherwise remain silent in the daylight,” Skarolskis said.
Skarolskis argued that politics are everywhere, and it starts as soon as you leave your apartment. “It comes down to the questions like who has to clean it, and whether it needs a repair,” he said, referring to the apartment complex you live in.
In this sense, Dude With Sign's protests showcase our very own micro politics in action. Skarolskis commented: “Dude With Sign highlights our online habits that we don’t really think of that much because we go with the flow. Dude With Sign not only talks about the freedom of opinion and speech, but he also encourages people to take a step back and look at themselves from the outside. Only when you start using your own head do you stand apart from the blunt mass and become an independent thinker.”
Let's be honest, in most cases, that several minute video could've been a couple of paragraphs at most. But reading is hard, so people apparently prefer to watch all their news articles on YouTube now. What drives me crazy is the unrelated interstitial videos that autoplay *on every news website* now.
I taught it to myself during quarantine and it has since replaced my regular handwriting, I get loads of compliments for it though, totally recommend learning
It?was a requirement for me in grade school. My kids love how it looks so i bought them books to learn.
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I learnt it as a kid in school and my motivation was to be able to write autographs for my fans once I got discovered as the star I am. Still waiting here. Maybe because my only talent is to write my own autograph 😅
Why? It's completely obsolete and pointless now. It would be like teaching someone to use a rotary phone.
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Sorry, dont want to offend anyone, serously! Just wondering, where or when was learning cursive an option?
This is the one that ruins it for me. Cursive was created for speed, the narrow-mindedness of the guy in this case surprises me beyond words.
I have a question for people who didn't learn cursive in school. What does your signature look like? Do you just write out your name? What if a form says signature and print name? Do you just write out your name twice? It's not a condemnation I'm just really curious lol I write almost everything in cursive, I have for my whole life unless told to do otherwise. Block letters are just so slow to write. I write so much faster in cursive and in a much smaller space. There is a practical reason to be using cursive. At least from my perspective.
So, when I was in third grade, there was a blizzard, and then more snow, and more snow, so we ended up missing most of the month of February. When we finally went back to class, the teachers decided we were way behind, and we stopped our multiplication table's, and started learning cursive. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why I never learned my multiplication tables past the fives.
It may look pretty and make writing faster, but let's be honest, teaching it in schools is kinda obsolete at this point. Cursive takes a lot of time to teach and a lot of time an effort to learn. And honestly, it isn't used at all anymore except for signatures. So i don't think taking all that time to teach our children something they will not be using instead of skills and subjects that pertain to their lives in this day and age is not very responsible or beneficial.
Still taught in UK. It doesn't take much longer to teach than printing. Considering how young it is taught, I wonder which skills you think they need to be learning instead. Personally I found it hard, but you can write without looking which comes in handy
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I always thought it was dumb that we had to learn cursive. That and math. Man invented calculators so we wouldn't have to.
Remember when our math teachers would say "you are not going to carry a calculator around with you every where you go". Well, that didn't age well.
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I disagree, I find cursive super useful! It is much faster than printing and there are times typing/texting isn't possible. Plus it looks classy lol.
I'm left-handed. My cursive was doomed to look like garbage - and it absolutely does. It's super embarrassing, honestly. No amount of practice made it better - that semipermanent layer of ink/graphite on my hand from dragging it through my writing just rubbed salt in that wound.
I've heard alot of schools have stopped cursive now but my kids still have to do it lol might be pointless but my daughter likes art and calligraphy is just fancy cursive so shes interested {Edit idk if calligraphy is fancy cursive that's just what I called it before I learned the real name}
I learned cursive in the third grade like most people around my generation. I taught my daughters cursive since it wasn't taught in school, it makes writing long paragraphs easier for some people and my kids like it so much that they show their friends!
Being left-handed, I learned cursive in school, and then went right back to printing. It's illegible otherwise.
So your written signature looks like it was written by a first grader? Cursive does have its place. It’s also faster than printing, especially of you’re not in a place where you can use a laptop to type, like a lecture by a very old school scholar who happens to be something of a Luddite.
The only reason I perfected my cursive was because my 4th grade teacher made us write our planners in cursive. I've never used cursive once, except for signing the occasional form
Fine motor skill development, faster flow as you write, reflects your personality or style
No one seems to use paper checks anymore. As for contracts, the ones that I have seen the last few years are signed on a laptop screen or other kind of screen.
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Cursive needs to be taught in schools! You'll probably use it in real life more than you use algebra.
I'm from a tropical island and currently in Virginia, in 50 degree weather, for work training. Socks would be great gifts right about now
It's simple a setting button in your cell that stops it from doing so
Come to Saipan! We get 6:30pm sunsets! So beautiful how the sky turns orange and descends to a light then dark purple
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Stop using the word "literally" because you're totally using it wrong.
bro literally im literally the literal best user of the word literally like literally cool your literal beans /s
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Seth Phillips was invited to the White House by Joe Biden, he held up a sign encouraging people to get vaccinated, Joe held up a sign saying 'This dude gets it folks'
Oh, so it's literally this one dude posing for photos taken by some accomplice...
FFS stop with this dude. Was mildly amusing the first time. Now is an attention w——— DB. PLEASE. MAKE HIM STOP!
come on, just let him live his best life
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Stop using the word "literally" because you're totally using it wrong.
bro literally im literally the literal best user of the word literally like literally cool your literal beans /s
Load More Replies... Seth Phillips was invited to the White House by Joe Biden, he held up a sign encouraging people to get vaccinated, Joe held up a sign saying 'This dude gets it folks'
Oh, so it's literally this one dude posing for photos taken by some accomplice...
FFS stop with this dude. Was mildly amusing the first time. Now is an attention w——— DB. PLEASE. MAKE HIM STOP!
come on, just let him live his best life
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