Category: Funny Signs
The grammar police (me) visit an abortion rally
Like 61% of Americans, I was appalled at the massive curtailment of abortion rights that the Supreme Court recently handed down with the reversal on Roe vs. Wade and went to the capitol to protest. The turnout was impressive and the passion was palpable. However, the rhetorical fire was counterbalanced with some just god-awful grammar. The speeches were bad, but the signs were worse. They were all grammatically deficient – confusing at best, almost always had multiple contradictory meanings and at worst, made no sense at all. A sampling of the biggest offenders follows…
Keep your rosaries off my ovaries
The grammatically correct way to say this is “Keep your rosaries off of my ovaries.”
Hot people are pro choice
Looking at that crowd, this one was an obvious lie as there wasn’t a single good looking person around. Unless they were being literal, in which case it was 100% accurate as it was pushing 100 degrees in the shade.
Fuck the patriarchy
Is this a command to have sex with the patriarchy or a request for the patriarchy to fuck off?
Repo rights are human rights
While I do believe that both the repossession of products where payments are not being made and the sale and repurchase of assets are both important functions in society, I am not sure that they rise to the level of human rights.
stop fucking republicans
My favorite sign of all… a complete lack of capitalization and punctuation combined with the power of the English language and the amazing flexibility of the word “fuck” leads to the most incomprehensible sign there. There are 4 separate (very different) ways to interpret this…
- Fuck as a verb, a command for everyone to stop having sex with republicans (you can fuck anyone else tho)
- Fuck as an adjective, a command to stop just the republicans who fuck (but the republicans who don’t fuck are ok)
- Fucking republicans as a noun phrase, a command to stop just the republicans who fuck other republicans (but the republicans who fuck others are ok)
- Or if you just don’t like republicans, it’s a general statement to stop them all (tho “stop the fucking republicans” would have been clearer, IMHO)
The addition of a comma is another way to change the meaning entirely…
stop fucking, republicans
- This is a nicer request to the republicans to stop fornicating (but everyone else is still free to fuck)
The addition of a period, completely changes this again…
stop. fucking republicans
becomes…
- a request to stop followed by an observation of more than one copulating republican
- a request to stop followed by an observation of disgust regarding of a group of republicans
Look, all I’m saying is that if you can’t trust 60’s era Batman, who can you trust… good grammar is essential!
Things that sound vaguely racist
Ok, been cleaning out my hard drive desperately trying to stay distracted until tomorrow’s ultimate presidential smack down of death, came across a slew of pics from various and sundry travels that I have been meaning to post.
While I am sure in their native language or culture they are entirely innocuous, the following four are all definitely borderline racist or at least just make me slightly uncomfortable.
Saw this one in Turkey – cookies for the black man called Negro
Saw this one in Sweden – I am 100% certain you are not supposed to say Jap (or even Japp):
On that note, how are Nips still allowed to be sold as well?
These last 2 are in San Antonio TX.
How do you ding? Ding how?
Any finally, Porky’s?? Really? Do fat people really not get offended by this?
Cocktails for Candidates
From some random guy on Facebook:
This made me smile, unlike most of the real news from this campaign.
And while I am quoting random people off the internet, I am reminded of a post from some random guy on Twitter that went something to the effect of: “Illegal immigration will actually increase under a Trump presidency, but then Canada would send all the Americans back.”
Seen on the train from Madrid to Cordoba
This bathroom sign cracks me up. Look I get that we’re on an internal journey in Spain and that signs in English shouldn’t be required – but to have every language *except* English just seems odd. Especially since every other sign in the country, if it’s not in Spanish only – it’s in Spanish and English… including another sigh in this same bathroom which explains the flush.
More train signs
There’s something very disconcerting about this image. I just don’t trust this guy’s intentions and I sure as hell don’t want him anywhere near my child!
It actually strikes me as kind of like what a changing table for vampires would look like…
Fun at PRG
Retarded Czech guy drinking from the wrong side of the fountain.
Pro-littering rules???
I am sure I must be misunderstanding this but it looks like this sign says it is ok to throw bottles out the window:
I wouldn’t have even commented except I saw this sign:
on the way back from Berlin to Prague, which seems so say to not throw trash in the trash cans!
Berlin train station
Sweet, the worse sushi ever!
Located just outside Washington D.C. we have…
The George Bush center for *intelligence*? What can I say about such a place…??
And now presenting, the most unused building in Washington D.C…
…or should I say…
We have a big highway sign… *trust* us!
…or should I say…
The biggest failed government project ever.
…or should I say…
Where the sign on the front door says "why don’t you make like a tree and get out of here!"
…or should I say……
Back from the Olympics!
Hey all, well Olympic mania has hit Salim’s World! I just got back from a week in the Salt Lake City where I saw a bunch of events and got some skiing in. This trip made me think about my previous trip to the Atlanta games, here are some thoughts and comparisons between the two…
Here are some of the more humorous and bizarre images from Salt Lake…
The great thing is, you can’t fake stuff this strange…
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