Daft signs.

[Admin]

Here are some very useful signs :

http://www.ukskeptics.com/graphics/sign1.jpg


http://www.ukskeptics.com/graphics/sign2.jpg


http://www.ukskeptics.com/graphics/sign3.jpg


::) ;D ;D

[bindeweede]

I wish I could find it, but I once saw a sign (from a website) that simply said..."Please do not deface this sign"???

Also this one
http://www2.strangesigns.org:81/gallery/RoadStreetSigns/NoTraffic

[fruitfly]

http://funnysigns.atspace.com/s0001.html

[bindeweede]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/39/83732757_866609a35c.jpg?v=0

[bindeweede]

http://members.aol.com/coinside/cautio.jpeg

[bindeweede]

More daft ones....

http://www.innocentenglish.com/

And more....

http://www.innocentenglish.com/funny-english-mistakes-bloopers/other-funny-signs.html

[tkingdoll]

More daft ones....

http://www.innocentenglish.com/

And more....

http://www.innocentenglish.com/funny-english-mistakes-bloopers/other-funny-signs.html

In your first link there's an advert for a used tombstone.

I actually have one! When I bought my current place the garage was empty except for a nice marble headstone, engraved.

I keep meaning to dig it out and play a joke on someone.

[bindeweede]

In your first link there's an advert for a used tombstone.

I actually have one! When I bought my current place the garage was empty except for a nice marble headstone, engraved.

I keep meaning to dig it out and play a joke on someone.

I keep meaning to dig it out

Good one!!;D

[dee]

In your first link there's an advert for a used tombstone.

I actually have one! When I bought my current place the garage was empty except for a nice marble headstone, engraved.

I keep meaning to dig it out and play a joke on someone.

Do you think that someone's noticed that it's missing yet? :smiley:

[MRT]

This is a photo (http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee297/mphotos23/Deepwater.jpg) I took, inspired by this very thread! :smiley:

[bindeweede]

Even more......

http://eightsolid.com/24-very-strange-funny-signs/

[mesaysi]

http://irregulartimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/busbench2.jpg

[tkingdoll]

I keep meaning to dig it out

Good one!!;D

Ha ha! Accidental pun on my part 8)

[bindeweede]

http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/6499/signs12cc6.jpg

[Julia]

I don't know if it's still there, but Northampton General Hospital used to have a sign reading "Family Planning Information - use rear entrance".

[seren]

If someone can read Nepali numbers, please give these guys a call and find out what it is they do! ???

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v718/karuna1978/lovely.jpg

On a calendar in a cafe, Bhaktapur, Nepal.

[dalriada]

Some useful instruction from Northampton Family Planning...

http://www.glittyknittykitty.co.uk/archive/family_planning.jpg

[farmersboy]

Here's the start of a great selection....

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2006/10/attack-of-wacky-signs-part-1.html

[skbuncks]

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r231/SKBUNCKS/Funny%20Pics/signs/3ebf781c.jpg
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r231/SKBUNCKS/Funny%20Pics/signs/1b0f0355.jpg
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r231/SKBUNCKS/Funny%20Pics/signs/8753ee9f.jpg
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r231/SKBUNCKS/Funny%20Pics/signs/5df419a1.jpg
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r231/SKBUNCKS/Funny%20Pics/signs/pic22501.jpg
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r231/SKBUNCKS/Funny%20Pics/signs/JapaneseRestaurant.jpg

O0

[chaggle]

http://www.b3tards.com/u/5e6715a0f5b5e95e690d/kettle_main_copy.jpg

Sorry if this one's been posted already. I bought a kettle like this. It didn't work but I've kept it anyway.

[chaggle]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/pictures-of-the-year/3708854/Pictures-of-the-year-weird-news.html?image=6 (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/pictures-of-the-year/3708854/Pictures-of-the-year-weird-news.html?image=6)


OGC unveils new logo to red faces
Stories about Government bungling were ten-a-penny in 2008, but the tale of the £14,000 new logo commissioned for the Office of Government Commerce (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1901656/OGC-unveils-new-logo-to-red-faces.html) was the pick of the bunch...

Pictures of the year: weird news


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01204/ogc-2_1204122i.jpg

...The design, based on the agency's initials, looked ever so slightly rude when turned on its side, causing much merriment among staff. A spokesman for the OGC joked that the logo was "not inappropriate to an organisation that’s looking to have a firm grip on Government spend”

[Imox]

OQC ?

nice thread. I thought sceptics don't know fun.

[SorryImPsychic]

Sites like this featuring the Absurdities of ENGRISH (http://www.oddee.com/item_89219.aspx) are very funny too.

[Imox]

Wrong translations? Don't ask no further! Whenever I buy any gadget, there are nearly always wrong translations. Sometimes it's impossible to understand what they meant. Especially if it is any products from China. I'm afraid they translate the instructions by/at/with Google.

Or my mp3-player. Instead of a German leaflet they gave me 1 in French and 2 in English. Maybe they knew, that my English is much better than my French.

[Imox]

http://www.bilder-space.de/upload/21.04Dqd4FpZZ9TjzFIe.jpg
a little stupid somehow.

[Trinoc]

a little stupid somehow.
A rather odd translation, particularly as "Rucksack" is a perfectly good English word. At least someone didn't go to a German-English dictionary and translate it as "Jerkbag"!

There are lots of problems with foreign words which can translate to multiple English ones. In another thread you referred to a "lucky" marriage rather than a "happy" one ... I assume you translated "Gluck" as "luck" instead of "happiness". That's the problem with English being a hybrid of words stolen from everyone else - we have different words for shades of meaning that other languages don't have.

[Imox]

yes, these different shades of meaning are the problem. When to pick which word? But each language has different words of nearly the same meaning. The Eskimos have 20 or 30 words for "snow".
For instance "big, tall, high, great, huge, large, vast....... ".
In German I could say "gross, hoch, riesig, weit, lang,......"


That "lucky" was meant to express that someone had the good luck to find the right person for a marriage. But, doesn't matter. You did understand.

[Matt]

Made me think of those Jane Austen type books where the young socialites are seeking a "foturnate match"

[Trinoc]

That "lucky" was meant to express that someone had the good luck to find the right person for a marriage. But, doesn't matter. You did understand.
Ah, I see. I agree that a happy marriage requires a hell of a lot of luck, but that's just my cynicism ...

[Trinoc]

Made me think of those Jane Austen type books where the young socialites are seeking a "foturnate match"
But I assume Jane Austen could spell properly ... :smiley:

[Matt]

But I assume Jane Austen could spell properly ... :smiley:

Nah she just had better proof readers than me 8)

[hughcumber]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/40/112133209_232361e5e5.jpg

If only god was so direct.

[Imox]

that's great.

[farmersboy]

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[Imox]

for each thesis exists an antithesis. :smiley: