40 Of The Best Pics From This Instagram Account That Is Dedicated To The Most Random, Absurd Or Ridiculous Signs
If there's an Instagram account the legendary Dude With Sign is following, it's this one.
Fueled by pretty much the same vibes and a self-explanatory name, Absurd Signs shares pictures of people trying to send everyone the funniest and most ridiculous messages.
There's a bar owner who likes to think of whiskey as soup. A guy at a basketball game trying to distract his team's opponents from the game. It's a pretty colorful gang! I guess they're the real-life chaotic neutral fraction.
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2 dads and 1 mom, to be precise. Let's not discredit women's work, ahemmm....
Naw i think that theyre saying that gay couples are not destined to go to hell or whatever
Load More Replies...I'm more surprised that he had 12 close friends in his thirties. Well, 11 close friends.
Oh no it was really 12 friends, the other ones weren't probably much different. Maybe 1 actual friend and the rest just tagging along because of his bio dad.
Load More Replies...Apart from wandering off from his parents just after his Bar Mitzvah and a wee riot in the temple.
Awww.... we all go through phases ♡ He was a punk, obviously ♡
Load More Replies...His mom did most of the work. For all intends and purposes she was a single mom, because skydad and earthdad were mysteriously missing most of the time. Skydad was only mentioned in passing, never visited, but of course, that might be because skydad was also Jesus - he was his own dad. Josef was the stepdad - it would be very weird listening in on the conversations Jesus and Josef had, when talking about realdad, which was Jesus himself! Oh well! Who said religion make sense?
The poor guy behind him is probably furious that he can't see any of the shots when this guy holds up his sign.
Load More Replies...I bet the people attempting to watch behind him, also love his shenanigans.
I was wondering why the guy face was so big and then realized its a cardboard cutout of his face.
Nathan A Heflick, Ph.D., is currently a senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Lincoln in the United Kingdom. To understand absurdity, he says, we must first know what's a schema.
"A schema refers to people's expectations," he wrote in Psychology Today. "So for instance, one's schema for a card deck is that hearts are red, and spades are black. If you were to play with a deck with the colors reversed, this would disrupt your schemas."
Cognitively, schemas are important because they enable us to process and use a ton of information in the world very quickly with minimal effort and fuss. "To put this in perspective, imagine going some place entirely new where you have no idea what to expect. The sheer effort exerted in trying to function without your usual schemas would be exhausting."
No. You're only supposed to put condoms over a bell-end.
Load More Replies...Should have tried the sizes in comparison to the presenters. James May, curly haired alpaca. Richard Hammond, an ant. Jeremy Clackson, elephant dung.
Gonna tell the cafeteria at my office building to look into this recipe
Rum: in sufficient quantities, what it doesn't cure, you don't care about.
Science shows that we are motivated to maintain our existing schemas. For example, the meaning maintenance model by Steven Heine, Travis Proulx, and Kathleen Vohs, says that people's need for things to make sense (to be meaningful, and consistent with their schemas and expectations) is so strong that when it is disrupted, people act with increased efforts to restore their "meaning frameworks."
In one study Proulx and Heine exposed participants to a story written by Franz Kafka. The story starts out with a clear storyline (a doctor heading out to help with a child's tooth ache) and ends with a series of meaningless statements.
As Heflick pointed out, from the perspective of the meaning maintenance model, this should elicit an increased need to affirm and validate one's sources of meaning (one's schemas and expectations).
How the hell did I read "You'd right be" wrong too??😭
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Surprised no one's complaining that this is ethnically offensive. I'm Mexican and laughed.
because it's not offensive? Maybe to dudes named Juan who now get a lot of phone calls, but aside from that...
Load More Replies...How have two people missed the 9 before the Juan Juan (so, like 9-1-1, is this complicated??)
I told Joe Latimer, no it's not complicated at all that was literally the joke
Load More Replies...THIS MEME I CAN’T. THIS WAS LITERALLY 7TH GRADE FOR ME SUMMED UP IN A NUTSHELL
Load More Replies...DER JERBZ! DEY TURK THERM! GERV ‘ERM BERK! GERV MER MY JERB BERK! EEEEERRRRGHHH
Load More Replies...I've stared at this for so long and I still don't get it. Could someone explain?
People use “Jesus Christ!” as a frustrated exclamation sometimes (such as, “Jesus Christ, work was hard today!”) So it sounds like this sign is someone replying grumpily, “Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever! 😠” hope that helps!
Load More Replies...And in the study, this occurred through an increased ability to learn a new language. Specifically, participants were exposed to a list of digits and then were more likely to detect patterns in a made-up grammar system when they had just read the absurd, meaninglessness story by Kafka.
"Put differently, when people had their schema threatened by reading something that did not make sense, they responded with an increased capacity to learn," Heflick explained.
I don't know about that, just the thought of it brings a smile to my face.
Load More Replies...This is the bison paddock in Golden Gate Park, which is in San Francisco, which is in California.
Don't give Florida Man any ideas, you fools!
Load More Replies...If there's one animal besides the sloth that naturally looks 100% stoned, it's the bison.
We're still combing through their droppings for the last guy that ate shrooms with them.
Yeah good idea not to let 2500 pounds of anger start to smell the color nine!
Proves a point about stupid signs at events though
Load More Replies...And the guy behind him who doesn't look happy does look like Sheldon.
Speaking as a short person for whom being unable to see at a lot of different events, movies, theater etc. , not for long!
*crunch* Guard: this is nacho day...either get out or taco long walk off a short pier
probally casue they remind them of Bruno..and we don't talk about him
Until recently, UC Santa Barbara students had a tradition of throwing tortillas onto the field during soccer games. It's been banned due to the mess, the massive wastefulness of food, and the racist undertones. Glad it's over...
Load More Replies...Guards after finding a person , takes their tortilla and secretly eat it . 🍴
I hope those kids are getting the help and attention they need. It must be hard being a disabled, elderly and pregnant child.
Well that's a heck of a combination!!!! How are you an elderly child???🤔🤔🤔
when you are the kind of person that uses "adulting" as an activity descriptor.
Load More Replies...Someone drew a picture of what said "disabled elderly pregnant children" would look like: b90-621d44...9a73b4.jpg
The disabled elderly pregnant children population have been underserved for so long.
Ummmmm. Yep, that's all I'm going to say-
Load More Replies...The psychologist said this research has several interesting implications. "For starters, schemas serve many useful functions. But, when schemas are broken, they increase learning. So, presumably, people need to overcome their natural tendency to protect their schemas to maximize their ability to learn."
In practical terms, this could suggest that when people isolate themselves from outside information to protect their schemas (such as only watching or reading things that verify their views), they hinder not only their ability to learn about other perspectives (through a lack of information) but also their ability to learn anything novel or different.
So when you think about it, the folks behind these signs are actually doing a public service. They're increasing everyone's desire and ability to learn. I know, it sounds like a stretch, but science says so!
Well, BoredPanda "writers" gotta fill up the pages, right?
Load More Replies...You'd think that if someone did this wrong once, they'd figure it out.
No worries...natural selection will take care of this....But wait, they have already procreated? Damn, another missed opportunity.
My childbirth class teacher called the method shown on the right "the dipstick method."
Cellmate that are frisky may be a little risky.
Load More Replies...only 3? takes me 6, but then I am basically an alcoholic, so there's that.
Load More Replies...Get rid of all other "don't drink and drive" signs immediately and put this one up everywhere! It's awesome!
Really? Did he? I refuse to believe a Grammy- nominated rapper/musician such as micklemore would do such a thign. Are u lying to me Lauren?? 😡😡🤬
Load More Replies...why buy from here when you can get clothes for free? no for real, ask your grandpa, can I have his hand-me-downs?
It's a place for at risk youth, these thrift stores fund it.
Load More Replies...Interestingly, Rebecca Schwarzlose, a cognitive neuroscientist researching brain and cognitive development at Washington University in Saint Louis, says missing the point is part of human nature.
"You perceive only a small fraction of the energy and information buzzing all around you," Schwarzlose wrote. "Much of that ... information goes unseen and unfelt because your body lacks the capacity to detect it. Whereas birds can see ultraviolet light, snakes can see infrared light, insects can see the polarization of light, mice can hear ultrasonic frequencies, and electric fishes can detect faint electric signals with their skin, you can do none of these things because your eyes, skin, and ears lack the cellular machinery that would allow you to detect them."
Don't feel bad there's nothing else worth reading on the others either!
Load More Replies...further to the right, two signs are positioned unfortunately and it looks like a dong
What's wrong? Its more realistic than the chair going up the stairs, if that's what you're thinking.
Load More Replies...The wheelchair going down the stairs be Like ' you don't know how dangerous life is ...
Appearently they r both going up the stairs backward.
I was at the store ordering a new bathroom and kitchen for my mum. The salesrep told me that it happens a lot, kids calling "mummy, I'm done". HAHAHA
I am sad to say that even adults use it if you don't pour concrete into it (at IKEA Amsterdam).
Load More Replies...3D brings a whole new dimension to those advertences... MrPeanutbu...d442f9.jpg
The IKEA near me has these signs on their display toilets, although they're on the inside in a thick sheet of clear plastic. I really don't want to know what made them have to put up a sign.
Schwarzlose said territory in our brain is much like Manhattan real estate. It's both finite and expensive.
"Brains evolve and develop to make the most of that modest terrain. Your brain maps are distorted to save energy and space. And these distortions, in turn, distort how you perceive your world," she said.
Consider your sense of sight for a second. You can see far more detail at your center of gaze, or where you are looking at any given moment, than out of the corner of your eye.
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Thanks for the giggle this morning, Eva the Egg. Cute!☺
Load More Replies..."Ideally, you would be able to see things equally well out of the corner of your eye as you do at your center of gaze. But you need more neurons, and more connections between those neurons, to represent fine details," Schwarzlose said.
"In order to see equally well in your visual periphery as you do at your center of gaze, the visual maps in your brain would have to be thirteen times larger. If this change sounds innocuous, think again. It would make your visual brain maps alone too large to fit inside your skull. And that would leave no room for the brain maps you rely upon to hear, feel, and move."
What the sign is really saying is "Somebody Please buy this Dump!"
Load More Replies...Yeah, but what if the financing of the pizza falls through? Or the pizza fails inspection.
Is it a pizza thrown up on the roof like in Breaking Bad and I just get to deal with it? So it's free for me?
Maccas have ruined the signs by adding a "McCafe" circle between the M and YASS in the signs down there (buggaaah!)
It's a joke around hockey that when you don't make the playoffs you get to go play golf
The player in the middle looks like he wishes he was doing that instead of being there .
Pizza Hut confused me as heck when I was a child. I prefer to eat my Pizza, thanks!
Load More Replies...To avoid such outcomes, brain maps devote most of their estates to representing detailed information from "sweet spots" for perception, at the expense of basically everything else.
"Oddly enough, your ability to perceive crucially depends on all that you don't perceive. Thanks to our limited senses and distorted brain maps, you can experience and interact with your world... and do it all with a brain that's smaller than a breadbox."
No wonder sometimes we don't get it.
Well now I gotta see the rest of the scene to see if he's telling the truth
You don't, just look at the expression on the face of the girl behind him...
Load More Replies...It's pick your own pumpkins (possibly here in the UK) for Stupid people who don't know better
Load More Replies...Climbing on one of those damn thigs is worse than Everest - just leave the bodies for fertilizer!
I knew I'd see you here Caro Caro! I love cheese too! 😋
Load More Replies...I hafta stick a bottle up my butt?!😬
Load More Replies...Until you need to pee, then apparently you're on your own.
Load More Replies...Hope they have some good burn cream for that one.
Load More Replies...Never a truer sign was printed - you are extremely High from last night!
He's a Lehigh alum, so it's a great opportunity to make a pun with "extremely high"
Load More Replies...This is in Pennsylvania. It’s not too far away from Intercourse, PA but right before Blue Ball, PA. None of these names are a joke. Look it on Wikipedia.
And your post is returned to sender ... unopened as it were ;)
Load More Replies...Sex-repulsed asexuals (such as myself) are packing our bags right now
Asexual people have found their home (yes ik sime asexual aren't virgins)
What happens in Virginville, stays in Virginville. At least for nine months..
Not sure if you're joking...are you saying Australians don't understand the humor in a place that's called "VIRGIN-ville"?
Load More Replies...This is what happens when people say things like "dad bods are sexy", people run with it...
Yeah, now we have to agree or be called a sh!t. THAT sucks.
Load More Replies...Nah. He can only get off if he's making someone watch who doesn't want to.
Load More Replies...Darkness: I just see you as an acquaintance
Load More Replies...So we're not gonna talk about his hat or that his restaurant is named MAC Doland's?
He doesn't know why you are taking the photo, but he knows you are taking the piss.
Confession: Coincidentally, I just learned what the phrase "taking the piss" means. I had to ask my British colleague about it. Not something we say in the US :-P
Load More Replies...This looks like India, and as far as I know, cow slaughter is illegal in most of the states. But the spelling of "chicken" is much more ignorant/s
I have no idea where the COW came from but yes this is India and MOM btw is supposed to be momos, it is a go-to/street food popular in the North adapted to Indian Recipes from Nepal Tibet etc.
Load More Replies...They didnt even have microchips back then, or metal! Our cars were all wood and stone
Pretty sure 1998 was last week, how young are you?!
Load More Replies...If someone drives through at 13 mph, do they ticket him for exceeding the speed limit?
This 12.5 mph speed limit is brought to you by Karen of the HOA.
Meant to get your attention. We have a road near us that has 18 MPH and 22 MPH signs. 2 lanes and very winding with the option of a drop off to a creek on one side and a carved out hillside on the other. Lots of trees that completely cover the road in places. And more traffic than there should be since Waze. Got to respect that road.
This post have originally 41 images but was shorted to 40 according to votes ?!?!? 😳🤣😳🤣
Gee, thanks BP for shortening the list to 40 so I have to click to see just one additional picture
Again BP, pick a theme and stick with it. These are repeats and there is no coherent idea running the thread. It's stupid signs, fake signs, funny signs, crazy signs.
Yep, this was a mixed bag. Not sure what kind of emotions were targeted here
Load More Replies...This post have originally 41 images but was shorted to 40 according to votes ?!?!? 😳🤣😳🤣
Gee, thanks BP for shortening the list to 40 so I have to click to see just one additional picture
Again BP, pick a theme and stick with it. These are repeats and there is no coherent idea running the thread. It's stupid signs, fake signs, funny signs, crazy signs.
Yep, this was a mixed bag. Not sure what kind of emotions were targeted here
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