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The universe is full of signs and synchronicities. If you’re looking for a sign to stop working and scroll social media instead, you’ve come to the right place. Signs serve several purposes. They're meant to communicate or convey information, and guide us to make decisions. But sometimes they surprise us. And all we can do is stop. Stare. And scratch our heads.
Bored Panda recently came across a very funny Facebook group called Strange, Stupid, Or Silly Signs. You guessed it. They share the best of the worst signs spotted around the world. With over 900,000 members, there’s no shortage of signs to leave you shook. Or make you smile. Keep scrolling for our top picks and don't forget to upvote your favorites.
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Deson 1 year ago
I work for the Federal Government and it's illegal (hatch act) for me to talk politics while I'm on duty.
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tee-lena 1 year ago
That'd be me. Hi! 😁 at least I can claim hearing loss
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Myoviridae 1 year ago
I totally have the ability to remain silent and not interject my thoughts into everything. (DARN IT!) :-)
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
One of my favorite lines of TV dialogue, probably from Law & Order: "You have the right to remain silent. Please use it."
Nadira Abdulla 1 year ago
Because in the USA the ones who are not silent are usually the ones doing the silencing
Cynthia Chaney 1 year ago
Not true Nadir's. A lot of us who are appalled by atrocities speak loudly.
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martin734 1 year ago
"You HAVE the right to remain silent, what you lack is the capacity!"
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Morona Madsen 1 year ago
If you don't talk, you are stuck up and stand offish, If you do talk you are a blabber mouth.. So what does it take to be just ok?
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Angelshark 1 year ago
I think I saw an article saying they did this for Ryan Reynolds and he responded, saying he's going to take them up on the offer.
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
Yes it was an animal rescue clinic in Vancouver (forget the exact name) and Ryan posted a picture of their sign and his response on Twitter. Pretty sure these guys are just copying that post.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
I'm in camp "not coffee" as well. Especially if it's a nice Masala Chai.
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Jenna Kay 1 year ago
This is a great explanation for those of us who don't drink coffee! ... yes, we exist, shocking, I know. Coke-a-Cola is my vice.
Shark Lady 1 year ago
Me too! Only hot drink I have is the occasional hot chocolate in the winter.
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EmAdoresHerKats🇮🇪🇩🇿🇵🇸 1 year ago
I'm saving this because i get confused the way coffee is described now.
Mrs.C 1 year ago
I drink decaf and get asked 'What's the point?' all of the time. My answer: I drink and eat what I like the taste of. Why don't you?
Mary Peace 1 year ago
Haha, I like that. I drink cappuccino but usually one shot, but the bit I love is the foam. "I'd like a cup of foam with a dash of coffee flavoring, please."
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Maartje 1 year ago
I understand that especially in Asian countries drinks are concocted that involve both tea and coffee. That would be Halfass coffee perhaps? Or Identity crisis coffee? What do you think, pandas?
Not all signs are straightforward. Some can lead us down a path of side-splitting laughter. Others can create chaos and confusion. Sometimes signs are meant to be funny. Sometimes their strangeness takes us by surprise. There are times we might have to read twice, or thrice to understand what’s being (attempted to be) said. Have you seen one that you just had to take a snap of? I know I have. Wait. Let me check my Instagram…
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Boredest Panda 1 year ago
WARNING: IT WILL DRAW YOU IN WITH ITS CUTENESS AND THEN ATTACK YOU WITH KISSES
Janissary35680 1 year ago
We had a situation very much like that once: a tail-wagging cocker spaniel that raced to the outer gate anytime anyone even looked at it and his best buddy, a huge Anatolian shepherd that lurked in the shadows inside the gate nearby.
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Austin Sauce 1 year ago
It’d make for a great obituary. “He was a loving father and gave a lion the bubbleguts.”
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
If this in the USA it will absolutely make them sick. We're laced with tons of chemicals.
If you’ve been to Thailand, you might have seen what the locals refer to as “songthaews”. They’re basically pick-up trucks that have been adapted into passenger transport. Once, while traveling the islands, I got into the back of one. After carefully placing my suitcase at my feet, I looked up to the window separating the driver from us passengers. Right there in big, bright orange letters were the words, “Please luggage before smoothing out of the car.” Say what? I still haven’t figured that one out.
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Tom Brincefield 1 year ago
They'll start secreting digestive juices, but there won't be a fly to absorb them, so it will eat their inner wall.
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Ali H M Salehuddin 1 year ago
Some people uses statistics like drunkards use lightpoles; not to light his way but to support his instability.
I’d like to believe the Thailand songthaew sign was a case of lost in translation. And it probably was. But sometimes signs are deliberately designed to take you on a detour to ‘death by laughter’. There’s a bumper sticker, sold internationally, that reads “Honk if you love Jesus. Text if you want to meet him.” It’s a clever campaign to highlight the dangers of texting while driving.
In America, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) says driving at 55 mph while sending or reading a text for five seconds is the same as driving an entire length of a football field with your eyes shut. And that 410 people died in accidents in 2021, because of texting and driving. That's more than one death a day.
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Auntriarch 1 year ago
I've still got the t shirt if your name is Jeff and you were in Abu Dhabi in 1981
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Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
Been there, done that and it worked surprisingly well. Over 25 years well <3 so far
Lavern Defazio 1 year ago (edited)
The next morning is when you really get to see what you brought home.
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
Like the Kenny Chesney song: "Last night I came in at two with a ten / But at ten I woke up with a two."
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Cat Chat 1 year ago
Both are correct according to my Google search. It depends on where you live.
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Susan Teter 1 year ago
Trespassers will prosecuted and violated...just not necessarily in that order. We mean STAY OUT!
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Pitbull Dad 1 year ago
Ever thought that a garage sale is only one letter away from being a garbage sale?
Der Kommissar 1 year ago
If its yours, its stuff. If its someone else's its shitt. - George Carlin
MalibuClassicMan 1 year ago
Buy our c**p till 4 Oclock; after that it's free to take so I don't have to put whats left back in my garage; please!!
And did you see the “Do your duty. Buckle that booty” sign while scrolling through this list? It was part of another witty road safety campaign that had some drivers in stitches. CBS reported the brains behind the highway billboard was someone called Sam Cole, who got clever and creative while working with the Colorado Department of Transportation. Cole designed several similar signs to help the department raise road safety awareness in a time of need.
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Daniel Atkins 1 year ago
He was survived by his fatter and modder one cistern and two bothers.
Andrew Read 1 year ago
My best autocrustacean so far is ovulating sheep instead of Ovaltine Sleep.
#14
Hiram's Friend 1 year ago
https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-indian-hills-community-center-signs/
Load More Replies... Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Barely gettin' by, it's all takin' and no givin'
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Lotekguy 1 year ago
How do you know it didn't come from a small dad? When it comes to puns, size REALLY doesn't matter.
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Ironically, some of the funny road safety signs are a danger themselves. If you like having a good chuckle while reading signs and driving in America, enjoy it while it lasts. As the LA Times reported, “Buckle up, windshields hurt” or “We’ll be blunt, don’t drive high” could soon be a thing of the past.
The Federal Highway Administration (FHA) announced earlier this year that it would be banning all humorous highway signs by 2026. The agency released this new rule book for signs and other traffic control device regulations. It is getting rid of overhead signs with “obscure meaning, references to popular culture, that are intended to be humorous”. The FHA says funny signs could be misinterpreted and are a dangerous distraction to drivers. It noted that road signs should communicate “simple, direct, brief, legible, and clear” messages.
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Vivian McBride 1 year ago
Looks like the Stratosphere tower behind the store. If it's a tacky Vegas souvenir, they have it
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Paulo Antonio Moreira 1 year ago
It seems to be Bonanza gift shop. I've been there twice and I live out of US.
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BrunoVI 1 year ago
Paper end in the front is the official way to do it, according to the patent, as it makes the paper easier to grab. Paper end in the back is a perfectly fine alternative stemming from the need to make unrolling toilet paper slightly more difficult so cats don't do it purely for entertainment. Quit fighting.
Sharkbait1313 1 year ago
It refers to the stereotype that men never put the roll on facing the right way. Most people prefer load it with the tissue dispensing from over the top as to make it easier to tear off.
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Nina Soltwedel 1 year ago
Look at the doors...one opens inward and the other outward. Hmmm....
The debate over side-splitting road signs got heated in 2022, after the New Jersey Department of Transportation rolled out a campaign featuring funny messaging for motorists. Some were so hilarious that the Federal Highway Administration tweeted a warning not to take pictures of them while driving. Soon after, the FHA told New Jersey to 'cease and desist'. But the state’s senator wrote to the agency, saying other states were doing the same. And so began a blanket nationwide ban, begging drivers to keep their eyes on the road.
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jon gilbertson 1 year ago
Everybody is beautiful in some way. Well, ok, maybe not Trump, but everybody else.
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tee-lena 1 year ago
The barbershop by my house had this sign. It hurt my mom's feelings everytime she passed it. She had glorious curly hair. Before the cancer. She lived thank Creator but is mostly bald now and the curls are gone. Maybe being mean isn't a great business model cuz they had to close shop. Shucks darn
Auntriarch 1 year ago
My best friend from forever is starting chemo next week, we're going together to choose her wig. So glad your mum survived
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Mike F 1 year ago
Hey, hey, you ugly! Y-L-G-U, you even ugly backwards, too!
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Gayle Shull Brown 1 year ago
Neither! She’s just tired of the same routine day in and day out! Not gonna stand for it anymore!
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B Hobbs 1 year ago
One will probably find ten bosses milling about and the one worker out programming the signs.
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MalibuClassicMan 1 year ago
Well someone gotta help hold those shovels to keep them from falling over!!
A lot more goes into signage than meets the eye. Or so it should be. The International Sign Association (ISA) has members around the world. They’re experts in the signage, graphics and visual communications industry. According to their website, “Successful signage involves more than just creating an attractive arrangement of logos and slogans.” Some of the important things to take into consideration are the materials used, lighting available, placement, typography and size of the sign elements.
#22
BrunoVI 1 year ago
There was a billboard ad campaign for homes telling commuters "if you bought ...., you'd be home by now." So there was a water tower over a prison which ran a sign, "if you drink and drive, you'd be home by now." In the retelling, it seems like a questionable idea, but EVERYONE understood it the way it was meant.
#23
tee-lena 1 year ago
I might be tempted to pay money to see that flash down at the on ramp
Load More Replies... Miracle Max 1 year ago
The Federal Highway Administration "strongly recommends against overhead electronic signs with obscure meanings, references to pop culture or those intended to be funny" Buncha killjoys!
Alan Jay Weiner 1 year ago
Maine once considered "belt your kids" as a seat belt campaign
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MalibuClassicMan 1 year ago
Or , ever wonder what a bug feels like hitting a windshield at 60 mph?? don't buckle up and find out!!
#24
Insomniac 1 year ago
Wow, your high school experience was different than mine.
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Quinn 1 year ago (edited)
I grew up in Louisiana. Back then, the legal drinking age was 18. On hot, summer nights, we in our late teens would pile into a car and go to the drive-through daquiri stands. Daquiris, margaritas, pina coladas – all were legal to have in a car while driving, as long as they were in "sealed" containers. That seal was formed by tape around the plastic lid on the styrofoam cup. The loophole, so to speak, was a straw through the lid.
Wes Ouzts 1 year ago
Worked in Louisiana in the 80,s.. The icee/slushee machines retired there and became Daiquiri Huts drive thru. Pull up to window order flavor, usually a dozen + choices. Full strength (alcohol) or regular, options included extra shots. In a nice Styrofoam cup "sealed" with a piece of tape over straw hole so it was a "Sealed Container" for the Feds.
The ISA advises "How well a sign works for your business depends in large part on how easy it is for people driving or walking by to see and read it. For maximum readability a sign must be detectable, conspicuous, legible and comprehensible.” And we really wish the designers of some of these signs had referred to the ISA site before blindly going about their business.
Have you spotted any strange, silly or downright stupid signs in your 'hood? We’d love to hear about them and maybe even have a laugh. Let us know in the comments. And if you enjoyed these pics, see here, and here, and here, for more strange, silly, stupid and funny signs.
#25
Lavern Defazio 1 year ago
Places like these usually have good burgers. Small joint off the highway. Way deep in the South somewhere. Greasy fries and a cold pop.
Nina Soltwedel 1 year ago
...and we had to weigh it down to prevent that other burger place from stealing our sign!
#26
Duncan McCann 1 year ago
Maybe - aren't they kinda the same as aubergines?
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Pedantic Panda 1 year ago
Plants have ovaries that produce ovules (eggs). Once fertilised by pollen they produce seeds.
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Bettye McKee 1 year ago
If you don't want to buy any flowers, produce, or eggs, just drive on by.
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The ISA advised "How well a sign works for your business depends in large part on how easy it is for people driving or walking by to see and read it. For maximum readability a sign must be detectable, conspicuous, legible and comprehensible.” And we really wish the designers of some of these signs had referred to the ISA site before blindly going about their business.
Have you spotted any strange, silly or downright stupid signs in your hood? We’d love to hear about them and maybe even have a laugh. Let us know in the comments.
#28
Kyllein MacKellerann 1 year ago
And have your permits handy! (Note: No skinning or quartering at site)
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squid Luau 1 year ago (edited)
those walk trail-using pedestrians can get real wily when cornered
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Christina B 1 year ago
Every Tuesday....also every Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday :)
#32
Terry Tobias 1 year ago
Now I'm craving chocolate frozen custard (soft serve ice cream) from the place I grew up with! It looks so good! 🍦(pretend this is chocolate)
KittyGaming 1 year ago
Custard is not ice cream, soft serve is a way to serve ice cream, custard: 🍮 ice cream: 🍨 soft serve: 🍦
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Austin Sauce 1 year ago
Don’t put it your mouth because chances are it’s already been in someone’s r****m
I'm.Just.A.Girl 1 year ago
Since rules are generally created as a response to some sort of act, I wonder what the story is behind this. What exactly motivated them to make this disclosure?
Virgil Blue 1 year ago
Judging by what a friend working in ER told me this sticker is absolutely necessary.
Carl Roberts 1 year ago (edited)
This is a well know prank. The sticker, I'm talking about the sticker.
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#35
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
Is this a side business to that couple in Colorado that had "natural burials" but were just dumping bodies into a pile in a building? I can see them having a dig your own grave business. 🤔
Liz Siemens 1 year ago
Woah, I just learned about that after reading your comment. That was crazy.
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Kyllein MacKellerann 1 year ago
Save even more with our genuine cardboard casket! Just as degradable as your dearly departed!
Retep Elpmet 1 year ago
I'm okay just being tossed into a dumpster. Cemeterys are way too fancy for me.
#37
Austin Sauce 1 year ago
Yeah the first time I heard it I laughed so hard I fell off my dinosaur
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Koala ala ala 1 year ago (edited)
Hell to the yea I'm ALWAYS the problem. May not be the flex I think it is.....
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#40
BrownEyedGrrl 1 year ago
You beat me to it. I lived there years ago. There was a place called Shinbone. Everyone was related to each other. I worked with a girl who was pregnant by her uncle. She was thrilled.
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Adam Benson 1 year ago
The trick is getting the beagle to stay still. Frisky little buggers at times!
Rose the Cook 1 year ago
How long would it stay on the beagle before he/she managed to knock it off and eat it?
Eric Williams 1 year ago (edited)
do you have one with an e-agle or a c-eagle? (geez I hope people get it.)
#42
Major Harris 1 year ago
"sweet dreams are made of cheese, who am i to dis a brie, i've traveled the world for a cheddar cheese, every body's looking for muenster...."
#43
Tabitha 1 year ago (edited)
Ow! Ow! Ow! Shut up and stay still!! (Ah yes, I remember it well!)
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Luz Noceda 1 year ago
Or wash your hair. Or exist around them. ( Yelling and hitting included for free !!!)
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Susan Teter 1 year ago
Battery operated boyfriend? Funny they put the disclaimer right on the wood!
#45
Lotekguy 1 year ago
His sermons were becoming too tedious, so we found a better way to serve him... uh, we mean for him to be of service to his flock.
#46
Mike Rodrick 1 year ago
Some people have no comprehension so this is necessary. Likely in a MAGA town.
Load More Replies... ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago
It’s almost like there isn’t any other way of describing the holiday. No official name or anything that alludes to what it’s about.
Lavern Defazio 1 year ago (edited)
And there will still be some people knocking on or trying to open the door.
kelsischloe1986 1 year ago
I understand it and nothing is misspelled or wrong. I see no problem here but that's just me.
FieryHotPotato 1 year ago
"Closed" is capitalized and they have a comma at the end of the sentence.
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S. E. in Indiana 1 year ago
South Bend Indiana, home of Notre Dame University. Quite apparent Burkhart sign company doesn't employ graduates from there.
Squirrel Chaser 1 year ago
https://www.foxnews.com/us/dropped-letter-in-school-message-leads-to-embarrassing-billboard
Robert Cornish 1 year ago
As a current resident of South Bend Indiana, this misspelled billboard is ridiculous. Please Burkhart Sign Company make sure to check for errors before putting signs up.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
One of the ones I saw was on the busiest thoroughfare in South Bend.
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Kyllein MacKellerann 1 year ago
Poor Melissa, she can get lost in a tunnel.
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Auntriarch 1 year ago
You can turn right if you want but you'll end up bumping into Melissa
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Melissa is probably a lefty, I'm a lefty and I confuse right/left turns a lot, not dyslexic, just way beyond being left handedness. Sometimes I wish I had signs like that!
#49
Boredest Panda 1 year ago
Dogs pee to claim territory. No doubt the dog put that up to send a clear message to the hoomans
Austin Sauce 1 year ago
I never realized I had something in common with Barbara Streisand’s dog!
The Phantom Stranger 1 year ago
Barbra tried to deny it, which is how it became an international news story (if you count BP as international news).
#50
char 1 year ago
mm... *chomp* ahh... *chomp* the cucumber... *swallow* it's so... *chomp* juicy... *chomp* nnnh...
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TheBoredestPanda 1 year ago
This is AI. Look at the board brand. How do you people fall for this?
#51
Passerby 1 year ago
I both hate and love you at the same time. Have an upvote here.
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Maartje 1 year ago
Perhaps they walked in there with muddy shoes, or made messes in the restrooms cleaning up and getting dressed? Of course, they also coulda p*ssed off the owner something fierce for some other reason but no doubt. There is a P-ed off tone here. There is history.
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Shelli Aderman 1 year ago
That’s just mean. I mean why not encourage the runners to come in an use the loo, because then they’d say that your place is friendly… 🤷🏼♀️
WindySwede 1 year ago
Then the influezers would come after that, "free dinner for exposure?"
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Marlena Jones 1 year ago
Their food gives people the runs, they should leave actual runners alone. And if you buy a drink you Are a customer. WOW.
Maisey Myles 1 year ago
Chipolte needs to keep the bathrooms open for the customers that eat there - for good reason
Karen Mercury 1 year ago
Yeah, right? Like if they order a drink and pay for it, why can't they use the bathroom?
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 1 year ago
They're not a bit sorry for the inconvenience, are they? Oh, maybe a "litte".
Robert Skinner 1 year ago
We don't get paid enough to do the movies the cookie store or the ice cream stores trash when they're thousand employees dump their trash into my six bins
#54
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
That's exactly what a shopping bag would say... [suspicious]
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Beak Hookage 1 year ago
If you leave your sandwich unattended, rats will be all too eager to add themselves to the equation.
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Alan Jay Weiner 1 year ago
wish I could post pictures - we had a hawk on our back porch lying in the sun with its wings spread - never saw that before; very cool!
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WindySwede 1 year ago (edited)
They censor p**n (p a w n) but [not] that word? 😅 edited: [ ] wrong word.
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Nylah 1 year ago
Asha; "tom,why is there a hole in the floor" Tom; "idk i just woke up and it was there" A"ok well cover it with a rug!" T"i did. it fell in the hole" the hole:*hole staticky noises* A"ok well then call a builder to fix t" T"i did." A"where are they then" T "they fell in the hole" the hole; *staticky hole noises* T "so im just ignoring it." A;"fine.WAIT-WHERE IS YOUR BOYFRIEND--- T; at work" A;"oh ok" A; "wait your bf is a builder--- T; "in.the.hole." the hole*staticky hole noises*
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Koala ala ala 1 year ago
Can't believe their garage cheated, at least they still like the wife
#59
Cat Chat 1 year ago
It's the real reason the aliens haven't invaded Earth
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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago (edited)
Heard of current the bunny was declared not guilty because of insanity. Apparently he is bipolar, but was since then been grounded. Doctors are checking if he blows a fuse.
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Tabitha 1 year ago
Hence the warnings, like the one in this article about not putting the gas pump nozzle in your mouth or r****m.
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Boudewijn van der Mik 1 year ago
Ah! Ensure that the brain is engaged before putting mouth into gear!
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Miracle Max 1 year ago
Is your muffin buttered? Would you like us to assign someone to butter your muffin?
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Pill Nathan Whitely 1 year ago
Seems to me someone is trying to make the best of a critical error.
Austin Sauce 1 year ago
They were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should
Mike F 1 year ago
The scary part is that the tub isn't full, that means someone has eaten that vile concoction.
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Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
I hate myself for wanting to put this between two butter wafers and seeing if we have a new take on the lobster roll.
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Philly Bob Squires 1 year ago
Yeah, you can find them in the US Congress.
Load More Replies... Verena 1 year ago
Yes, think so. And some machines maybe need them inside out.
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highwaycrossingfrog 1 year ago
I ran it through a Cajun translator, and it came up with "Since summer is still here, we mess around with the frogs' pampers."
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karen snyder 1 year ago
THIS IS NOT Artificial Intelligence. It's Cajun!! Stop down voting everything just because you don't understand it.
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I_need_a_nap. 1 year ago
It’s kinda disappointing that the editor couldn’t spot that the sign on the thumbnail for the article couldn’t spot it was ai generated. There’s been a rise in ai generated content on boredpanda, and it kind of kills the humor.
I_need_a_nap. 1 year ago
It’s kinda disappointing that the editor couldn’t spot that the sign on the thumbnail for the article couldn’t spot it was ai generated. There’s been a rise in ai generated content on boredpanda, and it kind of kills the humor.
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