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.
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 googled buckets of golf balls, and apparently they come in sizes between 30 and 50 balls, so let's meet in the middle and say it's 40 balls. A golf ball weighs no more than 45,9g so let's round down to 45g to keep things simple. A bucket of golf balls therefore weighs 1800g, which is ~15.84 bananas
Load More Replies...If you need to flush a bunch of golf balls, the plumbing in your home is not your most urgent problem.
The standard British test of a flush is half a rolled edition of the Daily Telegraph.
Used or unused? I suppose with the amount of sheet they right it could be hard to tell the difference.
Load More Replies...This toilet’s flushing capability would have been useful when I passed those kidney stones.
You had kidney stones as big as a golf ball? I'm so sorry to hear that.
Load More Replies...Is there an actual demand for this? Perhaps they should see a doctor instead of toilet shopping . . .
Needed for when I inconveniently c**p out another bucket of golf balls...
We have one of those for my son. He plugged up a pipe to the septic system.
The plumber who installed our two new toilets told me they had so many problems with this ad. People literally try to flush down a bucket of golf balls. The thing is that the toilet is strong enough to do it but our plumbing cannot take those pieces, just like tissues, paper towels, and the likes.
Finally! I've been wondering what to do with this bucket of golf balls.
I've said this before, how did those balls get in the toilet in the first place?
Haha! I am the first to say it.... "Americans will use anything but metric"... /jk
Nice system. Now reduce the water every time I need to flush and I might consider buying this thing.
Actually, I have one that's advertised like this, and it does use less water than what I had before. A lot less.
Load More Replies...Is there a techy panda who could design an app to translate any measurement to the standard banana? 🤔🤭
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