Inanimate objects can't move by themselves. Someone or something has to move them. That's how they can end up in places they don't belong. Sometimes randomly, sometimes with intent, but the result can be both funny and unsettling. Like a tambourine next to the shower gel in the bathroom. Or cutting a pizza with a CD. Some can unsettle us, others elicit quite a chuckle out of us.
The Facebook page Things In Places It Shouldn’t Be dedicates its content exactly to that. Their follower count has doubled since the last time we covered it – they now have over 43k. So check out the newest selection of random things in weird places we've picked out for you, dear pandas!
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"There's always something happening, And it's usually quite loud"
Load More Replies...Detached itself from a semi-tractor going the opposite direction. Look at the marks in the center divider grass.
Load More Replies...This is the very image that always popped into my head when I heard that song.
"Stress Free Zone" (FOR THE SNIPER)!! Waiting for visitors apparently STRESSED THE SNIPER OUT.
That somehow reminds me of another sign saying "any person committing suicide will be liable to a fine of $500"
A town can’t have unhappy people if there are no unhappy people left to report as such.
Too bad they're not Rabbits. Still, better than a Cobra, or Viper.
That's my type of bed bugs...better hide my hotwheel collection of bugs the family might get ideas
Honestly, I'm sure people would rather they were like this. Easier to get rid of
So why do we find random things that are out of place so funny? Well, according to one of the theories of humor, it's because we see amusement in the incongruous. That's a big word, but the simplest alternative would be things that are "unexpected" or "out of place".
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy names the incongruity theory as the dominant one today. Three of the biggest names in philosophy are behind it: Kant, Schopenhauer, and Kierkegaard. The main idea behind it is that the cause of laughter is something unpredictable. "Something that violates our mental patterns and expectations," according to the encyclopedia.
A "collection" of bricks that all look the same. I have a collection of bricks for real. Nope not weird
I know a guy that have a collection of vintage ceramic tiles
Load More Replies...its not being taken away... the tow truck is just giving him a little piggyback ride since he's so young :DDD
They keep making those. This was my first car... ilove1980s...c4b9d.jpeg
An aluminum pan could be a similar enough weight to a reasonably sturdy tenis racket to not be that noticable a difference.
Load More Replies...Your bfriend desperately needs attention, but you should go dead-pan.
That is -so- the sort of thing I would do. And I'd have hidden the racket somewhere in the car so it would still be available. It's only a prank if it's funny. Otherwise it's just nasty bullying. I hope they were able to borrow a racket for the day.
Load More Replies...depends what the pan is made of and who loaded the bag into the car.
Load More Replies...To give an easy example of the theory, let's look at stand-up comedy. A joke can work when the punchline is such that an audience doesn't expect it. A set-up creates a certain expectation, but the ending to a joke can be incongruous – it violates that expectation.
We can apply the same logic to humor on the internet – memes, videos, and all kinds of pictures in general. In each photo in this list, we find an item that doesn't exactly fit into the casual context of the picture. Who would expect to find a sofa hanging from a tree branch? It thus violates what we expect to see and makes us bust out a laugh or two. As Alex Borgella puts it, “we find humor in the incongruity between our expectations and reality.”
It’s fair hunting ground if it’s displayed!
Load More Replies...At one point in 2020 the curtains were cheaper and easier to get!
Can't believe there's not a lock on the glass sliders...
Load More Replies...Just starting out on their own. Took me a while to get a Chinet set
Nobody drives there anyway because there's too much traffic.
Load More Replies...When I said I wanted concrete, I meant the frozen custard type of concrete!
The Stanford Encyclopedia names Scottish poet James Beattie as the first to tackle incongruity in humor. There were some mentions of the idea in Aristotle's and Cicero's works. But today, scholars consider Beattie to be the first. In his theory, there have to be two or more inconsistent, unsuitable parts united in one object. Our mind finds humor in the "peculiar manner" of their "mutual relation," Beattie wrote.
Come on, let me see ya just slide with me. Just slide with me (slide, slide)
"Come slide with me, let's slide, let's slide away -- If you can use some exotic booze -- There's a bar in far Bombay -- Come on, slide with me, we'll slip down in the blue!"
Load More Replies...Would you buy a product if the firm producing it doesn't use it themselves?
thats how it improves the look!
Load More Replies...It ain’t stupid if it works… and also if you get a free mouse
Brilliant prank from a neighbor I guess. Hahahhaha made me smile
Haven't seen that mouse in Decades. Glad you caught it for us buddy. Really glad. Guess its rolling wheel was too slow to escape the trap.
Then comes Kant. He didn’t write about the theory of incongruity per se but used “the unexpected” to explain why we laugh at jokes. To him, laughter is a reaction to an unexpected, absurd, illogical, or inappropriate situation. It's when a “strained expectation” transforms into nothing.
Ugh I know! smh those stupid batteries
Load More Replies...When you're almost finished painting the bricks but you run out of clear coat...
Right?! Even if that brick wall is actually made of cardboard or styrofoam, it would be tough to get the ladder to stay in place. I'm seriously impressed. [Edit: I see it now. Everything under that square patch of grass must be counterweight. Metal stand probably. Still impressed.]
Load More Replies...I would think it's more like a glitch in a Sims game.
Load More Replies...This is doable. I have a ladder I don't need and a window that was replaced. I'll just have to get some 2x3 studs and paint them brick color.
Well they do need to bring back the N64 kiosks, so this is a message and it's fine.
Yes! That kid is a proper carnivore...and sneaky too. I hope they go into politics 😆
Load More Replies...It can be unclear what "transforming into nothing" means. Professor of Philosophy John Lippitt takes a scene from the TV show Cheers as an example to explain it.
"The bar slob Norm, after yet another evening's sitting around drinking, announces that he is leaving, since he has promised his much neglected wife that he will pick up some Chinese food. 'That's nice of you', someone comments, surprised. 'Yeah, well', says Norm, 'I spilled it on the carpet this morning'.”
A cop seeing this would be like "whhhhy??? We are understaffed as it is! Why do I have to waste time talking to this fool??"
It's only idiocy if you don't pull it off. If it works it's a masterpiece of ad hoc problem solving.
Load More Replies...The trampoline always keeps its balance by staying on top of the situation.
respect to the seam Oo i would have expected that the couch falls down and the pillow remains in the tree.. but nope :D
If potential customers ask those makers why they should hire them and not their competitor, they only have to show this picture and they're immediately hired :D
Load More Replies...Wish I could upvote your comment more than once! 😃
Load More Replies...You're not the only one!! Seriously, how in the hell?!
Load More Replies...It got blown out of the back of a pick up truck and then hit a trampoline on the car behind the truck.
Load More Replies...That's some impressive side-eye. The owner had best sleep with one eye open.
If we look at the previous scene from Kant's perspective, "we have followed the wrong path," Lippit writes. We assume a different meaning for the phrase "pick up", thinking the character will stop by a Chinese restaurant to buy food. Instead, he means he will literally have to scoop it up from the floor. The punchline is different from what we expected, therefore our expectation is "reduced to nothing."
This actually makes sense, not a mistake. Food uneaten by ducks sometimes ends up feeding the rats. I've seen it twice in real life.
Load More Replies...If you must feed the ducks, feed them lettuce or veggies. Bread is junk food to them.
So that's what deep water ducks look like, I've been wondering...
Don't feed them rats or is it that rats that aren't allowed to feed them?
I see your comment and I raise you because I don't want to think how it would work in terms of sizing 😐
Load More Replies...exactly my thought. it was kind of tight on my 8 year old finger. I remember getting in Chinatown in san francisco many years ago. Pretty sure my current fingers would not even fit in them. Or any other part of me.
Load More Replies...Yeah, this is a joke about putting d**k in the finger trap, isn't it...
I remember being very young and my mom bought me one... she laughed when I got my fingers stuck in it, but stopped two seconds later when I figured out how to get out. I felt bad for ruining the prank.
Load More Replies...me too! until i got my finger stuck in it for an hour straight :P
Load More Replies...If this is suggesting what I don't want to think it is...then you all deserve what you get!😂
Schopenhauer somewhat improves Kant's take. While Kant wrote about our expectations vs. our experience, Schopenhauer includes our perceptions. We find humor in the incongruity "between a concept and the real objects which have been thought through it in some relation," according to him.
If this was a private property, this would make for perfect sex, wouldn't it? Nice pretty view around you, sound of birds, nice soft breeze and maybe some sunshine. Perfect atmosphere for romantic sex.
A new way to get your pole ready. Just have to use the right bait.
Day 13: hooman has still not noticed I am here. I am in waiting for hooman to leaves so I can unravel ALL THE TOILET PAPER AT ONCE!!!!
,😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I laughed Soo hard on this one!
Load More Replies...Can't remember what year it was, but there was a joke on one of the Academy Awards shows about the movie ratings, that went something like this: "If it's rated "G", a couple go out to the country with a blanket and a basket, and have a picnic. If it's rated "PG", a couple go out to the country and get under the blanket. If it's rated "R", a couple go out to the country with no basket and no blanket and have a picnic anyway."
I know this version (german rating system): For 12 years: "The good guy gets the girl" For 16: "The bad guy gets the girl", for 18: "Everyone gets the girl..."
Load More Replies...Love the Excedrin at the end...for when your spouse has a headache.
I gotta take a picture, at my job in the books section the sign says baby books.but has political debate books
Lippitt takes Schopenhauer's joke as the best example of his ideas. "[A] king who comes across a peasant dressed in light summer clothing in the depth of winter, which greatly amuses the king. The peasant says: 'If your majesty had put on what I have, you would find it very warm'. The king asks what he has put on, and receives the reply: 'My whole wardrobe!'"
In the joke above, "whole wardrobe" refers to the king's vast selection of clothes and the peasant's one summer coat. "The humor arises, Schopenhauer claims, from the incongruity of the latter with the concept," Lippit writes.
I had a tambourine in my car. You could get away with that kind of stuff in the 60s
Oh it really is dollar tree too lol 😂 you can tell by the aisle number decoration
Load More Replies...Other than the car, this is what my Dollar Tree always looks like.
More like a drive through or an impatient drive by
Load More Replies...When you're a cashier at Walmart you fantasize this will happen..so you can go home
Right? Like it looks like they tried to do a 3 point and leave afterwards?
Load More Replies...*thinking* *thinking harder* *thinking so hard i pay my bills in thinks*
Kierkegaard locates the essence of humor when contrasting what we expect and what we experience. He puts comedy and tragedy side by side. "The tragic and the comic are the same, in so far as both are based on contradiction." But the tragic, according to him, is a suffering contradiction. The comic – a painless one.
I mean, I can see how that could be confusing...
Load More Replies...I mean technically this would work fine it has the same texture and consistency of high school bathroom tp lmao
I mean, if you really want to be cheap, a s**t rag works. Reusable if brave enough to wash it out by hand. Don't wash s**t rag in washing machine.
This is normally the time I try to either sneak a roll from work into my bag or just keep yanking on the roll in a public washroom.
Even dollar store tp? Cuz this is how we get burst sewage pipes. We've had tons of it in the past 3 months in our city. All dumped into our river.
This person is simply pouring cold Alfredo sauce onto pasta with shredded cheese
*breeeaaathes* you crossed a line not even tigerstar could bring himself to cross
Even if their ideas are today considered foundational, Kant, Schopenhauer, and Kierkegaard weren't scholars of comedy. There are other, more recent academics who have written extensively on humor and comedy. Henri Bergson's essay Laughter is now considered the most influential work on comedy. John Morreall and Marie Collins Swabey are among other modern scholars that our deep thinker pandas might want to check out!
My mom is English and when she came here after marrying my dad she was really homesick. My grandma felt bad for her and said she’d make her whatever she wanted to eat. My mom said “Egg and chips please.” So my grandma made her scrambled eggs with a handful of potato chips. Mom burst into tears.
Oh, ouch. That must have felt more like a "your doom is sealed".
Load More Replies...I miss the Aussie version of fish and chips flake (aka shark). I also miss being able to just go down the nearest chippie when I have a craving and have to go hunt up a Long John Silver or something instead. The US doesn't seem to think fish is a fast food at all.
It needs binding material, otherwise things will just end up in the ditch..
A few times driving over that should crush those up nicely. Just add water.
Dental impressions? Jack Nickleson: "You can't handle the tooth!"
It's so beautifully done. Someone went to a lot of trouble. Respect.
Yep that works but you might wanna park on sharp rocks people have been punching holes in gas tanks
I am laughing because I literally said that out loud and then saw your comment.
Load More Replies...Oh I know! This is how you resolve this, this happened to me (and yes, the wife is me). What you do is : 1) put it in a bucket immediately in front of the front door. 2) wait for your wife (who will be wearing a suit and is dressed to the teeth because she is going to a job interview) comes out asking "How do I look?" after which she steps in the bucket, knocks it over and ends up covered with oil- 3) calmly look her over and tell her "you look like s**t".
🤣🤣🤣🤣 I saw it like when I reading a book and they are describing a scene.
Load More Replies...actually most autoparts stores in the US will allow you to dump old oil. good luck getting there without it spilling though
Looks like Czech metal festival Brutal Assault held in old military fortress. And the band would be grind core Glutalax (also name of laxative) who's uses similar decorations on stage, among the vast amount of toilet paper. Btw, those porta potties are empty and clean.
There's an episode of Jackass that did that with one person inside. Obviously puked .
If you see a warning label or a sign telling you not to do some mind-bendingly stupid thing, it's because somebody already did that thing.
My watermelon shampoo has a sticker that says "do not ingest", and it was not there for first 4 bottles that I bought 👀
Load More Replies...Can't quite make out the name of that gas station but it looks like it says Kum & Go?
The patch of grass in the background would only require a scissors - still compliant
I have two battery powered chainsaws. They're awesome. Best thing since Betty White.
Load More Replies...Works for me. Direct repurposing is the least wasteful alternative for discarded items.
Also called upcycling. My middle name.
Load More Replies...Me: bends over to see what's down there, phone drops out of bra, never to be seen again
My brain read it is cookie dough even though it's not what it says. Took a second look and went disgusting.
Thank you for not ruining it for everyone else... that really grinds my gears.
Load More Replies...Why is cough pronounced one way but when you take out the C and put in a D it's pronounced differently. The English language really makes no sense....and I'm American....lol
I ought to plough through this rough cough and i thoroughly thought i had enough cookie dough
Load More Replies...Imagine calling in sick to work with a bad case of dookie cough shakes.
Is that a disease you get from the Dookie bird, or is it an illness the dookie bird gets.( Bonus points to whomever can guess which Sunday comic the Dookie bird comes from). (Hint it looked a little like a flying dodo bird and was Pals with a turtle)
the thug life logged onto my minecraft server
Load More Replies...Of course I would be livid if someone fished my private property, whether it was one of my books or a tool
This is a skit by Daniel LaBelle on YouTube. I recommend you check it out! He's really funny :)
Until it started cracking on another support beam a couple weeks later. Lol
I honestly don't know if somebody is actually that good at Photoshop or if somebody actually manged to wrap it with cling wrap for the photo op.
And the grease soaks through so you can't read anything more!
Load More Replies...Ok, I've used various items of food as bookmarks, but a rotisserie chicken is a little extreme. Although come to think of it...
What is it? I have to admit that was my primary curiosity when squinting at this picture…
Load More Replies...I have that book!! I don't know why this brings me so much joy!
If it's stupid but it works... No, never mind. This is just stupid. Delicious. But stupid.
Please don’t stick cotton swabs in your ears. I’ve seen far too many perforated ear drums.
My doctor said never put anything other than your elbow inside your ear!
It's meant to be 'never put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear' meaning don't put things in your ears!
Load More Replies...What? No complaints about American cheese? The BP Eurosnobs let me down....
Oh Entschuldigung. I bet it tasts better than American cheese.
Load More Replies...As a Wisconsinite I WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS! There’s ALWAYS room for cheese in your budget! /s
Reminds me of when I was kid (back in the days of Yore) and they used to stick the bologna label actually on the first slice of bologna in the package, under the wrapper. My mom would make our lunches in the early morning, half asleep, and sometimes forget to remove that label and we'd end up biting into that stupid label along with the bread, mustard, and lunchmeat. YUCK! What an appetite spoiler when the paper & foil label hit your fillings.
Seriously- why aren’t any existing placemats actually comfortable to walk barefoot on?
Especially if the cord gets stuck behind something without you noticing...
Load More Replies...Relax guys it's either photoshopped or fake earrings. If you pay close attention you'll see only one earring goes into a hole in the ear, all the others do not
don't wanna be a party p*oper, but people with dementia tend to put odd things into the fridge and other weird places
Considering that there is only one thing in this picture that actually belongs in the fridge (soda), I would guess it's staged.
Load More Replies...Just a broken fridge used as a cabinet is my guess. My husband had a few in his workshop, got them for free from people who were going to dump them. Very sturdy and useful. If you want you can still plug them in and also have a light inside
I agree, mostly because there seems to be nothing there that actually needs to be refrigerated
Load More Replies...The first thing I saw was the shampoo. I didn't even notice the knives for a while lol
Cause subconsciously you know your hair is gettin stanky
Load More Replies...meanwhile the cheese is in the soap dish, milk is in the shower, etc.
When my daughter was 2 we couldn't find the remote for the TV. A little while later while we were getting ready to go somewhere I opened the dishwasher which had just completed a cycle to get a sippy cup for her. Freshly cleaned was the remote. Amazingly it still worked.
I put my keys in the fridge once. Discovered that mustard won't start my car. Or open my front door. Boss was too busy laughing at me to be mad at how late I was coming back from lunch.
I'm fairly positive that this has nothing to do with dementia. It's a fridge full of random items very few if any should be put in a refrigerator. It was done for the effect.
Thank goodness it's not real. Had to google it so I can sleep tonight.
Load More Replies...Please tell me that's some kind of April's fools prank or joke product.
"Contains no artificial preservatives or flavors except those naturally occurring in Mountain Dew"
Hahahaha, good eye! Your reply is the only thing that made me laugh out loud on this page so far!
Load More Replies...Florida girl?......shut seems too wet to be Florida......(all my respects to normal Florida people)
in french, we say "pisser dans un violon" (pissing in a violin, an expression meaning it's useless), it's the english way ? :D
Thanks for that! I have never heard that before and the pic didn't make much sense. I was going with like singing in the shower but playing an instrument while peeing? Dunno all the guys' quirks lol. Or maybe they are "tootn their horn"?
Load More Replies...I totally went to p**s the saxophone......if you dare me........wait for consequences...
Me? The 13 Duke of Wybourne in a sixth form girl's dormitory? At three o'clock in the morning......I have to admit, I was very, very drunk.
Well that was an unexpected, and slightly unrelated, Fast Show reference.
Load More Replies...I'm gagging just looking at it! I thought juice first, maybe not sooooo bad, but BEER? Hell to the NO!
Load More Replies...sorry some dumb a******s downvoted you.. I did what i could
Load More Replies...I hope it's food color. If not, we'll see a lot of stamped doodoos floating around soon.
"I'm sending my professor an a*s-ay." "Mitch, for the fifth time, get out."
No! don't make this and get a different hair cut...
Load More Replies...Was gonna ask how you getting the power to them axels. Now I know.
Load More Replies...Needs a 10 ton safe dropped onto it from 10,000 feet.
Load More Replies...Due to global warming, standard Floridian lift kits have been upgraded.
If that pan wasn't so gross this is actually kinda cool, I play guitar and love blues and roots music, I bet this thing sounds pretty cool poor people used to make didley bo's and rudimentary string instruments out of whatever they could find
Yes it does and I would say yes it is. Did you specifically ask for a belly button piercing or did you say just come close ?
I'd buy that. It's sweet and salty at the same time. A bit dry though. Menthol smell.
D@mn and to think I've just been throwing mine away for so long...
As someone who was raised in Hispanic culture, that was my first thought XD
Load More Replies...Now I have to get my mind out of the gutter too. Thanks a lot!
Load More Replies...They have many flavors like pickles, sewer rats, asphalt, hotdogs, rubber, and many others. If they aren't photoshopped
Small print: Your pee will be green and you'll fart rainbow bubbles!
Well some ancient communities paid with (coca) leaves, so it may work...
No. Soylent Green is people. And the taste varies from person to person.
Load More Replies...Isn't the top part a vape or what is this thingamajig supposed to be?
Yeah that’s a car that was fleeing law enforcement and crashed into a pursuing police suv
Thanks for the hint. Being as musically talented as a cinder block, I was wondering what those things are.
Load More Replies...Most likely reason for this is someone replaced the card (which is obviously NOT a sympathy card) in the wrong place.
I get the reference, but I dont get what the loss of is. Can someone help me?
They're sympathy cards for people who have family members or children who died. It's a particularly vicious and unfunny "joke". Joking about death is one thing. Shoving those jokes into the faces of grieving people is something else entirely.
Load More Replies...Sorry - nothing fun about that... ( I get that you would see it and giggle about it. Yet, posting it in public - without knowing who it may hurt - not such a good idea).
It's dark humour and it's ironic. The point of the internet is for everyone to have a say/opinion. If you don't like it, then don't look at it.
Load More Replies...Or dried onions. Or maybe bunyons? Certainly not Funyums.
Load More Replies...This belongs in the baking section, in case you need some for your cake !
Growing up with chain-smoking parents, cereal tasted like this anyway.
Cycling generates power and activates the game, is what I'm thinking. Ingenious actually, if that's the case. Make you work out for gaming. OR it's a peloton parody.
Load More Replies...For when your kid has a dirty mouth, but it's also movie night.
Their UK head quarters are a short walk away from my house. I don’t think they do any actual amp building there though.
Load More Replies...It's annoying because this didn't use to happen before. Where should we report these issues?
Load More Replies...Just wondering. Are there any intelligent people living in America. Just asking. Oh and they never spell check or are they not literate either. 😂😂😂😂
It's annoying because this didn't use to happen before. Where should we report these issues?
Load More Replies...Just wondering. Are there any intelligent people living in America. Just asking. Oh and they never spell check or are they not literate either. 😂😂😂😂
