At this point, signs are universal, ubiquitous, and just plain utterly everywhere. You could joke that they are so everywhere that you can’t even run away from it here. But that’s not a bad thing as everyone likes a good laugh.
Fortunately, there’s another page out there that deals in signs and this time it’s Funny Signs™ on X. No introduction or direction (ba-dum-ts) necessary at this point, scroll on, dear Pandas!
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"Call it fate. Call it luck. Call it karma. I believe everything happens for a reason." - Peter Venkman
So, there’s an X page called Funny Signs™ that deals in exactly what you would expect at this point—funny signs. It is said to be the original funny sign account on the platform, having been created in May of 2013, back when the internet was just beginning to house what we take for granted sometimes these days, and that’s meme pages.
Across the myriad of sign posts that we’re covered so far, we’ve already discussed the ins and outs (and overs and unders and any other physical positions described with prepositions) of signs. But you’ll probably be surprised to learn that the concept of a sign is so big, Wikipedia prompts for a list of redirections rather elaborating on it in a single article.
Welcome to L. Notice there's no poo in it? Let's keep it that way.
Without going overboard, there’s astrological signs, sign language, gang signs, tracking signs (as in footprints and just general indicators of something), signboards, religious signs, mathematical signs, medical signs (i.e. symptoms), signs as meaning as per semiotics, as well as traffic signs, commercial signage and information signs that you know all too well from these lists and real life.
You’d think sign as a word would have the most meanings, but, alas, no. That title belongs to the word set. But I digress.
Anywho, the most meta thing about signs is probably it being described as a unit of meaning in semiotics, which is all about studying signs, their processes and what they communicate.
Without getting super nerdy, key concepts in semiotics are the signifier and the signified. The first one is the physical form or the sound a sign makes that we interpret using our senses. The second is the concept or idea of what this physical form is trying to convey. This is very useful in things like marketing and business analysis.
As an example, we can consider one of the signs found on the X page: Subway had one of those text billboards saying that its subs don’t implode. On the surface, as the signifier, it’s just just a jumble of meaningful characters used by a language. But the signified is what it spells out, the words and their literal meanings, but also the actual bit of context it pertains to, i.e. the catastrophic Titan implosion—context that is a must to understand what the restaurant was getting at.
How many genitalia touched the buttons before they put up the sign? On second thought, I don’t want to know.
My question also but how many more have touched them just because of the sign ?
Load More Replies..."University of Alabama..." I like it when the bizarre signs explain themselves...
As an alumnus, I can see this happening/being necessary
Load More Replies...As a woman, this would be challenging, and yet I'm now oddly tempted to try yet another thing that would never even have occurred to me otherwise.
BP is here to expand our horizons. Mission accomplished
Load More Replies...I don’t know what’s more disgusting. The fact that this happens, or the fact that it happens so often that somebody felt the need to put a sign up. I’m never touching another elevator button. Ever.
Forget the cameras, aren't these morons afraid of open sores down there???
So this is a university and people have to be told this? Are they learning anything? What kind of classes are they offering?
Those buttons are too high up for me, not that I've tried.
Idk.. could’ve been an accidental press from some unfortunate dude who just so happened to discover that he had a very adverse side effect to viagra .. or maybe he gets way too excited on an elevator? Either way, I don’t want to know. It’s probably some stupid frat boy c**p and again, don’t wanna know.. also, I’ll never be the same after knowing this is even a thing anyone would do on an elevator. People are just nasty
Load More Replies...Everyone needs a door opener and a toilet flusher in their life. I don't have one yet but I'm thinking about it, especially after seeing these kinds of signs. No-Touch-D...92ba4d.jpg
Source Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/elevator-buttons-keychain-Silicone-Protective/dp/B08GJS6B27/ref=sr_1_6?crid=272ENN4IMIFYJ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.HMYCeJa0OvxMp3flxxW-DWffsm8B7qufx0_3o73CH14EKtBP0UA3t-JEpi3v_zaweIQe7RdZc2DA4G_HqjQpqwA_XSS0eLKB0tdQwo0STDP9GSXjVZn6ObwcGLy_AcrfV6SkNvz5UDVzs16-R0P6NvJ2qxBOdsaastt9boV6Cg2ZWbGhalL7pIrSyA-c4pgzOzVD_vP4y0PWMxKnhqYoHp8L8ajyTwGwKqR23L1jvO7hgbOpbs-YPBF-9Ft9GmdP7sVI0v56Jw-8JRZE4eizU_tCM8Sd9c9XIXjF8aEYqIQ.eemFvDkfdpMwEs1LxoKGF9WwoNmzyxtSp4-1MZt21ac&dib_tag=se&keywords=elevator%2Bbutton%2Bpusher&qid=1712011798&sprefix=elevator%2Bbutton%2Bpushe%2Caps%2C130&sr=8-6&th=1
Load More Replies...This begs the question…why did this sign need to be posted in the first place?
It's a presumably male college dorm. College boys are generally disgusting. Enough said.
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Well ... they are in Alabama... wouldn't you have to be tall to get close to the height of those buttons?
What does being from Alabama have to do with it? Yeah obviously some idiot who attends that school actually did such a thing , but why insult a state over one morons actions ? I just don’t get that … so you’re essentially saying oh, anyone or everyone who resides in the state of Alabama must be deserving of some type of derogatory trait ? Come on now , no place is above any other .. there are people in any place who either have good character, intelligence , morality, standards etc. or those who don’t .. but insulting a geographical area based off one individual’s actions is just foolish.
Load More Replies...Understanding signs comes naturally to us without the need for formal education on semiotics. But it helps to understand how such information has to be interpreted.
As mentioned previously, semiotics is a big deal with commerce, especially in things like collecting big data on how, why, when and where consumers consume and what it actually means.
And while everyone can follow simple directions—actually, something traffic signs aim to do with how simple they are—not all signs are easily understood.
The fact that there might be a no bicycle parking sign in a place where people don’t want bicycles to be parked doesn’t mean people will stop parking there. In that case, semiotics dive deeper into understanding why it happens at all, despite the prohibition.
And reading these sort of hidden, subtle signs inside of signs is what semiotics is all about. Thus, we circle back to the signs in this listicle: each can’t be taken at face value, but rather with the surroundings it’s in, the contexts it touches upon and what it means beyond the words. And it’s this kind of subtle signage that keeps us laughing and often coming back to sign pages.
So, what are your thoughts on any of this? Found any funny signs in your area lately? Share them in the comment section below!
And if sharing isn’t your thing, then maybe scrolling similar funny sign topics is?
I really hope he took her, she even put beautiful flowers in her mane 🥰
I love that Bolton Wanderers Football club got a new sponsor last year. Their home ground is now called “Tough Sheet Community Stadium”.
Good! I can already feel the love from the ones I’ve sent this morning at 5:30 AM
Good! I can already feel the love from the ones I’ve sent this morning at 5:30 AM