30 First-World Anarchists That Don’t Believe Rules Apply To Them (New Pics)
Interview With ExpertIf we completely rejected government authority and social structures, our world would probably go up in flames. However, rebelling against the rules once in a while doesn’t hurt anyone, as long as the consequences are minimal. In fact, dabbling in some light anarchy can feel empowering and boost self-confidence.
The subreddit ‘First World Anarchists’ is full of examples of people who live for a bit of trollish rule-breaking. From doing the opposite of what signs are telling them to eating pizza on pineapple (not the other way around), scroll down to find some inspiration to keep your rebellious fire burning.
While you're at it, don't forget to check out a conversation with Nick Chater, professor of behavioral science at Warwick Business School and author of The Mind is Flat, who kindly agreed to tell us more about our nature and rules.
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A Black Man Drinking From A White Only Fountain In 1956
Don't know why you got downvoted for that, because it CLEARLY has been altered. I've balanced you out with an upvote, because I respect people not just taking things a face value, But, I thought I'd tell you a bit about this photo. The man pictured is Cecil Williams, a civil rights activist, photographer, artist, amongst other things. Due to time elapsed since his original work was done, during the digitisation of his work carried out at [some university or other], it was believed that due to light saturation, some "touch-ups" were needed. If you search his work, you'll find a lot of similar 'that looks fake' moments. The original scan can still be sourced if you dig hard enough.
Load More Replies...This was a very brave action considering what the consequences could have been.
Good for him! It's a shame that we still have so much racism in the world today.
Doing It Right
Oddly specific signs. My question is in regards to the cat. Definitely looks like a sign a cat would post, so they could get snuggles...
Print sign on paper, do the opposite of the sign you just stick on the wall. Get famous on this staged picture. Ok, not interesting.
Cats Never Follow The Rules. That Sign Is Pointless
We all know cats will do the opposite of what they are told to do. This sign must be a cunning ploy to lure cats there.
that sign is clearly photoshopped. BP needs to be better about posting fake images.
Our neighbours cats come over & poo in our garden. I sprinkled some cat repellent stuff around a few days ago. Today there was 3 cats in our yard when I got home 🤣
Citronella pellets around you boundary should stop them, but they are cats.
Load More Replies...Perfectly OK - the cat is laying on the grass, not sitting, and maybe the sign only pertains to black cats.
“We all feel the oppressive presence of rules, both written and unwritten – it’s practically a rule of life. Public spaces, organisations, dinner parties, even relationships and casual conversations are rife with regulations and red tape that seemingly are there to dictate our every move,” writes professor of behavioral science Nick Chater.
“We rail against rules being an affront to our freedom, and argue that they’re “there to be broken.”
This Cat Rebels Against The Airport System
Yay, Loophole!
No, Unicycles are never allowed in polite company. That one's universal.
Load More Replies...Coyote In San Francisco
However, as a behavioral scientist, he believes that it’s not really the concept of rules and our restriction of freedom that makes us want to break them. It’s rather that people feel that some rules can’t be explained in a reasonable way.
"We object when we feel obliged to follow rules that we wouldn't have agreed to—e.g., that we think are unjust or simply pointless. And breaking those rules can feel like an expression of individuality," he tells Bored Panda.
Anti Doggo
guys I did it Screenshot...0be4c7.jpg
The just forgot the punctuation. Was supposed to read "No. Dogs please"
Anarchist Tricycle
R/Norway's Got The Spirit
This is for building cairns (rocky piled on top of one another) which are commonly used when hiking more difficult terrain to show people where to go. However, some hiking trails have clearly marked paths (marks painted on trees or stones) to follow, and building cairns can lead people astray.
Load More Replies...For those not understanding the sign; In Norway we build cairns. That is piled stones that has several meanings. The most common is to mark a path in the mountains. So when people build them for fun, it can lead people astray.
We have these in Scotland as well, and I also saw the signs in Iceland. Some hikers were following older cairns and not the newer trail markers and therefore getting lost.
Load More Replies...Moving rocks from their places, distrubs the environment of the creatures that use them for homes, protection etc,...
This can be beneficial, especially when "the rules are excessively rigid, unjust or bureaucratic—and perhaps imposed by one group (perhaps the majority) on another," says Chater.
Too Late
That's A Lot Of Anarchists
That's because it's a sewage pipe, pumping effluentout into the sea/lake (yes, United Utilities, I'm looking at you)
You jumped to a not unnatural conclusion but it's not a sewage outfall. You can see it's not connected at the shore side plus it's a flexible pipe. A sewage outfall would be ridged and be anchored down to the sea bed. This appears to float on the surface. so could possibly be a boom meant to stop oil/pollution from washing up on the shore.
Load More Replies...I Did Not Find Out
We don't know what happened right after the photo was taken.
Load More Replies...On the other hand, we tend to abide by the rules, which we find logical. Just like the rules of English or language as a whole. We might think of liberating ourselves from it, but this new-found freedom would not make us ‘unchained.’ Conversely, it would turn us into incoherent creatures who would be hard to understand. Then we wouldn’t be able to communicate with others, and that’s not something a person commonly desires.
Give No Fox
It's most likely a pet. It's legal to own one where I live as long as you have a license for it.
Load More Replies...Suck It!!
You Don't Tell Me Where To Walk!
Negotiate that hill in a wheelchair first, then discuss design.
Load More Replies...One summer at college, the main quadrangle was torn up when they knocked down 2 buildings and built 3 new ones for a new total of 5 around the space. . Come start of school, they re-sodded the lawn but did not replace destroyed sidewalks. Day after Thanksgiving, they started laying down new sidewalks between the five buildings based on the actual pedestrian traffic paths. End of Christmas break the project was done. They then built whole new benches and flowerbeds based on the new pattern.
I've seen the actual story of this with the before and after pictures. Should be done this way all the time.
Load More Replies...When the Shorncliffe army barracks were being constructed in the early 1800s at Dover in England the commanding officer, General Sir John Moore (later hero of the Peninsula War) was asked how he wanted the footpaths laid out: "Leave it a few months and we'll see where people WANT to walk." Architects take note!
Someone designed and laid the path like that fully expecting people to walk like a drunken Irishman while taking twice as long to get to where they are going and not across the grass?
Does anyone remember the university that built those paved paths after students "made" them themselves?
Even though we might feel tempted to protest some rules, they’re hard-wired into our DNA. We simply absorb complex language systems and social norms without really asking too many questions, saying, “It’s the way we do things around here.”
Found This Blanket At My Friend's House
Yeah they’re pretty germy and disgusting, it’s like taking hospital bedding home 🤢
Load More Replies...You can buy these brand new from airline supply companies. When British Airways changed their interior design a few years ago a lot of equipment became obsolete so we bought some flight quilts intended for First Class passengers at £10/$13 each - make nice travel rugs in a car.
... the nicest pieces of cutlery I have have belonged to firms long gone. I inherited them from the original thief, and constantly extend the collection. I've even tried to find out who had made two specific forks, as they're my favourite, ... but didn't succeed, nobody knows where they got stolen, and with the sheer number of family events, company events, ... of which they all could come from, it's kinda useless.
American Airlines prices are the true theft here, I’m ok with humans taking tiny unimportant things from mega billionaire corporations. I’m not going to get all high and mighty about stealing things that cost pennies from corporations who screw us all over and milk us for every penny as much as they can and bend rules to screw us all over so they can get rich on our hard-earned dollars ☺️ You’re super ok and very comfortable and happy with them doing that to us but not ok with the moral panic that comes with doing it back to them? Because someone taught you that was A Bad Thing to do? How convenient for the corporations, they’re probably very grateful you’re ok with shoveling your money into their mouths without asking anything in return because they taught you it was Wrong to ask for anything in return. And you listened intently. Hahaha I ain’t no corporation simp lol and VERY PROUD of that fact - I know exactly how this world works - y’all, steal the airplane blanket, it’s fine, no one is going to suffer or die 😂 it’s not a moral crisis hahahaha it’s a corporation screwing you as hard as they can and taking as much money as possible from you and doing everything they can to get every dollar from you - and this is you taking back one shred of dignity and autonomy. Listen to “Steal things from work” on Spotify lol
Load More Replies...Where's Your God Now
well no. "there's some cheese and pepperoni on my pineapple", logically speaking.
Load More Replies...Mmm that would be so tasty! With a little hot sauce and onion
Load More Replies...i could not decide whether to upvote or downvote this bc I both love and hate it so incredibly
Mmm it would be so good, I love sweet and savoury flavours together. The sweet acidic ness of the fruit with the cheese and pepperoni would be divine! I’m thoroughly convinced people who don’t like pineapple on pizza are the same people who order chicken fingers and ranch at a steakhouse because all the other flavours are “too complex and adult” for them 😂💅
Load More Replies...I've filed a complaint with the carabinieri https://www.carabinieri.it/in-vostro-aiuto/informazioni/u-r-p-?fbclid=IwY2xjawFDex1leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHYPxUj69imys7o9LCoOU6Qtgc8rQ-Jla7aXMKlt33jlcnrd-yVcSpOe53Q_aem_HHhhGuGY95waQ8uBHnNbhw
Not Pictured: A Lot Of Husks Behind The Sign
Its been Olathe sweet corn season for the last month and every place that sells it from the roadside stand to the mega grocery marts has trashcans for the husks. You have to pull down the husk to see if the kernels were fertilized or you're buying a useless cob.
Doesn't happen in Australia, we can choose corn without taking the husks off just fine. I can tell just by feel and how the fluffy bits sticking out the top look. I've never seen husks discarded around the corn in our local supermarkets.
Load More Replies...I see this in grocery stores all the time, why not just put a barrel out for husks? I love corn season, it's very popular here in Michigan. Lots of roadside stands and during the season it's cheap as hell even in the grocery stores it's usually 5 for a dollar.
Some shops here have bins to put outer lettuce leaves in, they need one in this pic
This summer in Italy and Spain, I've been paying more than €2 for only 2 units.
That's why Chater believes that it's not really possible for rules to cease to exist. "Humans spontaneously invent rules all the time, both to get along (rules for sharing, helping, telling the truth) and making life fun (rules for games)."
@ My Local Walgreens 💀
Even in the "golden 50s", cherished by so many, no customer said "hey, these are good, honest prices".
Load More Replies...I once entered a store that had 5 picture frames with the letters for DREAM on them. I rearranged them to MERDA and laughed and laughed and laughed...
You'll have to come up with the money to purchase these yourself because crime never pays.
At first I thought they were candles, but it seems far more likely that they’re water bottles!
Load More Replies...Ha Ha! No One Will Stop Us From Stickering Whatever We Please!
Plot twist: this sign was put up by someone who wanted to collect furry stickers
They were asking for trouble with a sign like that. Temptation at its finest.
Furries confuse me simply because - I wonder if they think there are animals out there that identify as humans? Is there a reason only children seem to be into this, and a very small percentage of adults? Maybe because it’s make-believe fantasy games that they’re pretending are real, like when I used to play horsies with my friends as a kid? To each their own I guess, but that would always be in the back of my mind and I’d feel embarrassed. I have a “friend” who insists she’s half wolf and it’s just way too immature and silly for me. She even tries to howl when she hears other dogs barking or awkwardly scratch her head with her foot and it’s soo goofy looking that I can barely keep a straight face. She’s 100% serious and I just can’t, grow up girl we’re in our 30s and this is embarrassing.
No, furries don't think they're animals. Most furries you see are adults, since fursuits are super expensive (5k+), plus there are so many adults that most conventions have an 18+ section. Your friend isn't a furry, or probably wouldn't be classed as one, furries don't act like animals typically unless their fursona is more "feral", and ferals are frowned upon in the community. Cool that you'd feel embrassed, this is just people enjoying a hobby and you sound super judgemental. Also leave your friend alone, cringe is a social construct and dead.
Load More Replies...Do Not Touch
That's not rebellious, that's just f*cking stupid and arrogant. Makes my blood boil.
Like trump taking the glasses off and looking at the eclipse
Load More Replies...But I'm special, so I am allowed to touch it. That sign doesn't apply to me.
Spoken like someone who’s never tried to put a tempered glass protector on a phone screen without gloves. ;p
Load More Replies...I'm sorry but that user name is cracking me up for whatever reason
Rules allow us to live (for the most part) in harmony with each other without going into chaos and disorder. “Without some rules – and some tendency for us to stick to them – society would slide rapidly into pandemonium. In fact, our species’ ability to latch onto, and enforce, arbitrary rules is crucial to our success as a species,” concludes Chater.
First Thing I Did
No Bicycle Parking On This Street
This is why every city in the Netherlands has nice huge trucks equipped with bolt cutters, for cleaning out the streets on regular basis. If not claimed, they are auctioned off 4 times a year, this is why every Dutch person can afford two or more bicycles. Usually you have three: One rickety one in case somebody visits, one barely functional for going shopping/visiting friends/going to the beach/enjoying nightlife/leaving at the train station and a nice one, for sports or weekend trips. 99% there is a (free) bike parking round the corner.
And junks have stolen so many bicycles that they'll sell you one really cheap.
Load More Replies...Many bicycles are also thrown into the canals and have to be removed on a regular basis
I love that Amsterdam has a multistorey cycled parking area outside the station. Only in Netherlands!
This Camera Man Will Not Be Stopped
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Eeeey kpop at bored Panda!!! 🤌🏻🔥 This is the girl group Twice consisting of nine members. From left to right: Nayeon (I think, barely visible), Jihyo (short hair), Sana, Dahyun and Momo!
My Grocery Store Gets It
Where Is Your God Now
Don’t Tell Me How To Live My Life
Finally Get To Join Your Outlaw Gang!
On The Wall Is Written "Do Not Park Backwards"
So getaway drivers can’t evade the police quite so easily.
Load More Replies...Not all places require a front plate on cars. When parking enforcement wanders the garage, a car nosed in is 100% change you can read the plate. And 80% of drivers suck at parking and will straight up hit the wall, a post, or another car attempting to back into a spot.
I think they advise against parking in reverse because enough people have done it badly and caused problems (e.g. hitting other cars, hitting the back wall, parking over the line, or holding up traffic as they reattempt). Just my guess
The exhaust leaves marks on the wall. Especially if you idle for a long time.
Drinking German "Breakfast Juice" At 19:35 In The Evening
That Hole Wasn't Made For Me
Whoever Gave The Name To This Pink Peony
No Chairs, Who Cares?
Reminds me of all of the red curb by my daughter's school after they removed the bus's. Like where are we supposed to go to pick our kids up....
Nobody Tells This Bird Where It Can Be
Connecticut License Plate
TIL Connecticut is a state, I thought it was a city and didn’t understand at first 😅
Load More Replies...You can say Michigan and McChicken the same way if you try hard enough
No idea why people are downvoting you, you’re right and hilarious 😂 with the right accent Michigan can totally be McChicken
Load More Replies...No Boats Or Trailers
I Drop Bossy Signs Like Sucker MCs
Rebel Dog Gets It
Anarchist Pumpkin
I’ve recently started buying pumpkins for food - for my entire childhood, they were just Halloween decorations or pie, so it’s kind of fun to learn how to cook them different ways. So I grabbed some pumpkin in late July and made some delicious curry 😊 highly recommend! Pumpkin soup is surprisingly hearty and delicious too!
The Way I Cut My Birthday Cake
If it's your own cake, then sure, but don't do that s**t to other people's cake.
No Subir = "Don't Climb"
I can imagine 50 meters of reasons for not climbing there.
and a venerable ancient wall that should be treated with respect
Load More Replies...It's one thing to be an adult acting stupid, but don't drag your kid into your dumbass idea.
Not A Door Stop
I Did It
My first card laminated, because my mom's had been and she never read the back of the new cards. I did sign it before laminating though.
My work gives us these special permission cards once a year, printed on basic computer paper. We’re expected to have them in our wallets all year long. They all say “no laminate.” I’m the only employee who has a laminator, so once a year I have a lineup of coworkers in my office laminating their cards lol
Load More Replies...My Coworkers Get It
these type of palettes were the bane of my existence when I worked in a warehouse.
Try And Stop Me!
And yet you played it safe by keeping the spoons in their natural habitat
Spoons are dangerous. Have you ever tried to wash one before?
Load More Replies...The forks are the only ones in the right place! Knives go on the left, spoons on the right.
No Picnic Table
Found In Japan
If you park your bike there, they will happily sell it and keep the money. The logic here is to avoid these misunderstandings, which are more severe in Japan than elsewhere.
Load More Replies...Become Ungovernable
I Don't Have To Listen To You, You're Not My Real Dad
This Sign Couldn't Stop Me
Wendy’s Joining The Anarchists
I Just Put A Sign That Says "No Exit" On The Only Door Of My Toilet, So Now Everyone Leaving The Room May Feel A Little Anarchy
And There’s Nothing You Can Do About It
Someone Flat Out Daring Them To Check The Cameras
“Strawless,” You Say? 😈
I Stood Here To Take This Photo
This Is How This Works Right?
Don’t Tell Me What To Eat
Ain't Nobody Got Time For That!
The Signs Say: "Please No Bikes Here"
Small letters explain: "Due to construction works temporarily out of function" = the racks are not at their correct location, because some construction work going on there. They were placed at this temporary storage location nearby, and are not even fixed to the pavement. These are two racks, which originally are placed in line, not next to each other.
Load More Replies...Samsung AirPods
Unhinged
Definitely Not The Right Color
Good Boy!
Someone Clearly Ate Subway At This Hungry Jack's
Put Out The Watermelon Display Boss!
They Start 'Em Young Nowadays
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Yes, I know I don't. Many people have already told me that - most of them dummies, too.
S***ty Beer Inside An Even S***tier Glass
As a Dane I would like to inform the world that Tuborg and Carlsberg are probably the worst beers in Denmark. We have so many fantastic breweries here and I hope that all beer-drinking people in the world will discover at least some of them. Tuborg and Carlsberg are sh1t beers!
I understand. Corona is one of the more popular beers imported into the US from Mexico. It's quite possibly the nastiest tasting beer I've ever tried, and I've tried a lot of them.
Load More Replies...Yeah, I Did It!
No Locks
There is a perfectly valid reasons for this. Bridges are load-bearing structures designed to bear a maximum weight. Adding extra permanent weight to a bridge not only decreases the weight of traffic that can safely use it, it also adds stress to the structure that wasn't accounted for in its design and construction. In 2015, 45 tonnes (99,200 pounds) of padlocks were removed from the Pont des Arts, in Paris after a section of railing collapsed.
I Did It
How Else Am I Supposed To Open It, Though? Brute Strength? They Made Me Do This
It only says no box knives, but that doesn't say anything about using scissors.
Its Called The Future
My Favorite Tea To Drink In The Afternoon
I drink English breakfast at all times of the day except breakfast. It just makes me warm and fuzzy inside to know I’m píssing off at least one Brit, somewhere out there.
It's a 'type' of tea, rather than a 'time' of tea. No Bris pi$$ed off.
Load More Replies...No Drinks
Where's Your God Now?
These Oranges Know What’s Up
That'll Show 'Em!
People who leave shopping carts in the parking lot instead of returning them are a different breed.
Okay, now this is one that gets me pissed off. You can take one minute to put up your f*****g cart, so it's not blocking extra spaces or hitting someone's car. Plus it adds extra work for the cart pushers, because they have to walk the whole damn parking lot (which is really big) to gather carts so they won't get in trouble, that includes when it's100+ degrees outside or 0- temps. If they miss one and someone's car gets damaged, or a customer complains Mgmt will give them absolute hell and they can be fired "for NOT doing their job." I worked under that company for 14 YEARS, so I know store policy. People can b***h all they want about how it's unfair, but that doesn't change, that for right now that is how things are. So don't make other people's jobs more difficult, because you disagree with their policies or you're trying to protest or make a point.
Drinking Coke While Wearing A Dr. Pepper Shirt
Makes me wonder what the taste would be like if the true powers of cola combined Pepsi, Coke, and Dr. Pepper would be??
That's nothing. I once rode with my friend, in her dad's Pepsi Van, he was a rep, with a Coke bottle in my hand.
Help Me Touch
Saw A Guy Plating His Food On A Buffet Tray
Filmed for the oh so clever and intelligent inster and Tick tocks 🙄🤢
Went In Anyway
Pouring Starry Into A Coke Glass
I Put A Quartz Dial On A Mechanical Movement Because Why Not
On An Airplane And They Just Announced, "Laptops Should Not Be In Seat Back Pockets For Your Safety."
It's for safety dumbass, not because they want to inconvenience someone. Let them hit turbulence or they recline the seat in front of them and then complain when something bad happens to you or your precious laptop....people are stupid.
Not sure what the intention of this list was, but it was neither funny nor clever.
every time I see a list like this I wonder why this one isn't on it D-_QgEvWwA...564e79.jpg
I was surprised not to see the one with the full sized Chevy truck parked in front of a sign that said "Green vehicles only." The truck was painted green.
Load More Replies...Usually those signs are there for a reason, either to prevent or someone did something stupid to warrant the sign in the first place. It's like when you buy a product and the warning label or tag has something weird. That's normally because some idiot did something stupid and either complained or tried to sue the company, since it wasn't on the warning label.
Not sure what the intention of this list was, but it was neither funny nor clever.
every time I see a list like this I wonder why this one isn't on it D-_QgEvWwA...564e79.jpg
I was surprised not to see the one with the full sized Chevy truck parked in front of a sign that said "Green vehicles only." The truck was painted green.
Load More Replies...Usually those signs are there for a reason, either to prevent or someone did something stupid to warrant the sign in the first place. It's like when you buy a product and the warning label or tag has something weird. That's normally because some idiot did something stupid and either complained or tried to sue the company, since it wasn't on the warning label.
