If you've been around Bored Panda long enough, you know we have a soft spot for signs.
From Australian artist Michael Pederson to the legendary El Arroyo restaurant, we cover pretty much everyone who knows how to send a message. Or doesn't!
There's a Facebook group called 'The Absurd Sign Project' and, as the name implies, its members are sharing the funniest sign fails they can find.
We're talking brutal spelling mistakes, contradictory statements... you know, the good stuff. So join us and let's take a look at some of the most popular posts on the group.
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We contacted the group's administrators and moderators and one of them, Craig Hey, was kind enough to tell us more about this amusing corner of the internet.
"The community is fantastic," Craig told Bored Panda.
The gang is approaching 100,000 members but the predecessor of 'The Absurd Sign Project' had 166,000 before Facebook decided to ban it.
However, when it comes to content, numbers aren't the most important thing.
From time to time, bigger Facebook groups attract toxic users who want to litter all over them but Craig said they don't have this problem.
"Sometimes we have to take down a post we think Facebook won't like, but we don't get too many trolls. We have a dedicated admin and mod team who love seeing the group thrive and grow. Our most common issue is people not being happy over the posts we have to take down so we don't get shut down."
As you can see, the signs that get featured on the group come from a variety of places but there are a few leaders.
"The biggest provider of entertainment, I would say, are restaurants and supermarkets," Craig said.
The representative of 'The Absurd Sign Project' thinks the main reason why there are so many funny signs isn't incompetence. Rather, it's our desire to make each other laugh.
"We are the biggest absurd sign group I've found and we are the original group," Craig added.
"If anyone has any absurd signs of their own and wants to share, we would love to keep growing as a community and we want to see them!"
If you also have to make a sign, whether it's for your kid's lemonade stand or a business of your own, it might be worth remembering a chat in our earlier piece on funny and clever signs with Adrian Geach.
Geach, who has been a signwriter since 1980, told Bored Panda that "a good sign should be eye-catching, easy to understand and not too wordy with enough negative space around the text or logo, and have a good color scheme."
Stay in drugs, eat school, and don't do vegetables. Sounds reasonable to me....
And then the man went wee wee wee wee wee, all the way home 😉
Geach has been successfully involved in all areas of signage and graphics for decades but not that long ago, he went back to his roots and now concentrates on traditional signwriting.
With the current resurgence of interest in signwriting and hand-rendered work, he utilizes his skills to offer clients a more personal, unique, environmentally friendly, and organic signage solution using old-fashioned materials and techniques.
"A sign might only be looked at for a few seconds so it needs to leave an impression within this time frame, hence the less is more approach," he said.
Where else am I supposed to do my competitive dog grooming? In the elevator!?
"There are many factors to take into account when designing a sign, but the most important thing is to make sure it doesn't get lost in its surroundings," Geach revealed.
"A bad sign is too much lettering, not enough space around or in-between text and logos, and bad color choices."
But after seeing a few more posts on 'The Absurd Sign Project', we'll become experts on those by ourselves!
Watch someone take the table and leave all the rest of the stuff on the ground, untouched.
I love EVERYTHING about this. Especially the voodoo dolls being made while you wait 😂
Umm ya.. two police officers were fired from their jobs. The official reason … dispatch ordered them to assist a business that was currently being robbed. The officers ignored the order and decided to catch Pokémon instead. Don’t underestimate Pokémon go players.. Gotta catch them all!!!
Load More Replies...You'd think that, even websites say that. As someone who lived by a cemetery for 5 years, I guarantee that the answer is no. Even at night.
Load More Replies...What makes you think the dead are not bored, and would appreciate the break from non-stop sadness? They probably liked to have fun too!
I've never seen a ghost at a cemetery. I have seen them in my grandma's house (before it was turned into a parking lot) and at two nursing homes on night shift. (Assuming you mean real ghosts and not pokemon go?) Most of them seemed a bit lost and confused, but one seemed very calm and comforting. The gentleman who had the room she went into died before my next shift. They don't really seem to care what the living are doing. I don't even know if they can see us. Only two seemed to notice me. One stepped back and hid, the other i'm not even sure it wasn't a demon. It was whispy black and so angry my skin felt blistery.
Load More Replies...I did an awesome geocache at a cemetery once where the deceased person requested it be hidden at his headstone. Hardly the same thing, but a super neat idea on his part.
I took my son and niece geocaching yesterday & we located one at a cemetery, it was in a tree & we walked around & looked at the old headstones, we were respectful of course, nice peaceful little walk.
Load More Replies...My dad's grave is a Pokemon Go gym and you are officially all welcome to play there.
My local cemetery (major metro suburbs) welcomes everyone- it’s well used by locals walking dogs, kids riding bikes, people exercising and enjoying the gardens. At xmas they put on a lovely big Carols by Candlelight event. Also well used by pokemon players as it has a good lot of stops and gyms, there is no disrespect in this. If someone is visiting a grave and happens to be looking at their phone, or someone is standing near a grave a looking at their phone to catch a pokemon, how are you to know the difference? Why should you care? I have family in this cemetery and I play pokemon. Fight me.
I think they are just upset eeeveryone in the world isn't doing what they want. :(
Load More Replies...Not gonna lie, I hunted Pokemon at a nearby cemetery. But I did it when no one else was around, and stayed in my car.
You are never truly alone in a cemetery. There's always someone following you, watching you,
Load More Replies...I don't see a problem with it. People are just overly sensitive.
Your most precious loved one died and you go to their grave to cry and mourn them in peace. You really see no issues with some people tromping through to play a game?
Load More Replies...Well, teeeechnicaly they are, but it's rare that they are attached to their grave. The place of death is the usual location. There was this one unpleasant resident that i swear i could still hear bitching in the nursing home for weeks. >.< Her call light came on a couple times too. Such a pain.
Load More Replies...Right? Good clean fun vs a bunch of teens underage drinking as the pre-pokemon go tradition was?
Load More Replies...Same reason they need the sign at the Holocaust museum. Children/ people are disrespectful
Load More Replies...Seriously, they're dead. Any use they had for their bodies is long over. There's nobody living in them anymore. Their discarded bodies really don't care.
Pokemon Go got it's "spots" data from another game. That game chose safe places to have people visit, parks, cemeteries, museums, schools, landmarks, etc. It's only with the popularity of Pokemon Go that things have had to change. They took away schools spots, which makes sense, and you can request that certain spots be taken down (like they did for the holocaust museum).
That first game wasn't any where near as stampede inducing either. Lol (also didn't rile up all the curmudgeons with people obviously enjoying something either). I do agree places where genocide took place should be off limits, but cemeteries (as long as people aren't breaking things or interrupting funerals) need life and are a sad place if only death and grief are allowed there. (Also, they are usually pretty deserted. Seems like an awful waste of space when no one even comes to pay respects, but tells others they can't be there at all.)
Load More Replies...*groan* The plural of Pokémon is Pokémon. Literacy doesn't have to die because they did. The dead have no qualms about the ground they're in, because... SURPRISE, they're dead. I have been around cemetaries most of my life and have yet to hear even ONE dead person complain about leafblower noise, loud stompy walking, or pet feces.
It's more about how Karens hate happiness and think not being miserable is disrespectful. I don't exactly see anyone at the local cemeteries paying respects or cleaning or anything. Who is being disrupted? The curmudgeons that want everything their way. Probably think cellphones are from hhe devil. /rolls eyes
Load More Replies...In the early days, there was a (false) rumor that graveyards were the best place to catch ghost Pokemon. Apparently, the company had originally intended to do that, but changed their minds because they didn't want to encourage Pokemon Go players to swarm all the cemeteries.
Blame Ingress players for this, Pokemon Go got most or all of it's location data for gyms, etc. from Ingress, where people marked significant historical and public sites in the app.
Uh, where I live, there are no pokemon or gyms or anything at the cemeteries. At least not the one I went by wondering if they did lol.
there is a graveyard near where i live and there is legit a pokestop that is someone's grave! like maybe the person was a fan of pokemon but still. if i ever get the chance/courage to go to that pokestop, i'll be sure to leave flowers or something just to be respectful to the dead and maybe bring a smile to any family who still visits
This is not really an absurd sign, some people actually need to be reminded.
Nope I will not listen because there's probably ghost Pokemon
People today need to learn respect. I don't care what game you are playing, use your since of decency.
I have seen this several times. Very strange. When the game first came out, I recall there were even fire Pokemon found in Auschwitz.
Umm. If they don’t want you catching them… why are there so many stops!!!
Aww... I just wanted to search for my pokemons. I just lost my very hard to get dusknoir and it went in there... why must the world be so cruel?😭😭😭😭
I actually thought it was pretty cool to have our family plot as a stop. Everyone I met was super polite and respectful. Walking around, many of us had interesting conversations about the beautiful monuments/stones and historical events. I'm pretty sure my mother is the one who called to make them exempt the whole cemetery. Sad.
I don’t see it as disrespectful. I should put up my grace stone and have it turned into a pokestop before I die. This way people will visit my grave. Maybe a few will will pray for me. If I’m still there I’d like some happy company and if I’m not why would I care who is there. I don’t visit my relatives graves often enough maybe they would like someone to come visit their grave. I lived behind a graveyard for a few years, people ran, walked and walked their dogs there. How is that any different?
I'm pretty sure my mom is the one who got the Pokestops taken out of our family's cemetery. I thought it was awesome. I loved telling family stories to people at our family plot.
......um... Yes! You're absolutely right... Who'd do such things.... Oops.
I'm torn on this because one the one hand, it seems callous. But then, they are dead. We waste space on the storage of remains in the name of honoring the dead. Aren't leftover pics enough? Always seemed weird to me. Put me through the wood chipper and turn me to mulch for all I care.
I'd be thrilled if my grave were a source of good clean fun. Hell, make me a pokestop. Not a gym though. I don't want people fighting on my resting place. Good greif people have sticks up their asses! I can understand being upset if people were stumbling through active funerals, but how many times has that happened? How often do people visit graves and leave flowers? Do you find that offensive too? I hope my ghost can haunt the stingy karens of this world just to scream "P**S OFF" when that butt-stick riles them up over good clean fun!
A couple of years ago there were several groups hunting Pokemon in the cemetery I was at. I remember ready a piece where people were hunting -- and finding them, even in Auschwitz.
Oh. Is that why the cemetery suddenly lived near suddenly built gates one day. I'm not the one who made three landmarks in it as pokestops! It never had good spawns anyways.
Kids ran right through our property searching for pokemons, didn‘t even stop when they realized we were right there watching them…
That’s awful they would disrespect the dead like that
The fact that they probably had to write the sign based on some persons actions is unreal
For those of you not familiar, Rocky Mountain Oysters are bull testicles...
The missing closing quotation marks is what bugs me the most about this...
This is the weirdest thing I have ever seen/read in my whole life without a doubt
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Quite a few of these pictures would also qualify for "You only had one job" kind of list.
But it's so FUN to down vote them into oblivion!
Load More Replies...why is always the place to find job offers? and why are they always spam?
I once went to this great Amish restaurant called 'Old Buggy Buffet ' Imagine what I thought when I first saw that on their sign.
Nope, you just drew more attention to it. Downvote and move on, don't do this c**p
Load More Replies...Quite a few of these pictures would also qualify for "You only had one job" kind of list.
But it's so FUN to down vote them into oblivion!
Load More Replies...why is always the place to find job offers? and why are they always spam?
I once went to this great Amish restaurant called 'Old Buggy Buffet ' Imagine what I thought when I first saw that on their sign.
Nope, you just drew more attention to it. Downvote and move on, don't do this c**p
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