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Come to cheer on the runners, stay for the witty signage.

This week, I saw a tweet that perfectly encapsulates warning sign discourse. A millennial reposted a boomer meme that said the following: “If you think you are smarter than the previous generation…50 years ago the owners manual of a car showed you how to adjust the valves. Today it warns you not to drink the contents of the battery.” In response to this take, the millennia l captioned the meme with this. “Counter point: it only says that because the previous generation kept drinking the content…

Ever since I was in high school, I've been obsessed with weird signs. My school had countless weird posters on the wall that were intended to motivate us, but all we did was make fun of them. The most iconic of them read this: 30 years from now, it won’t matter what shoes you wore, how your hair looked, or the jeans you bought. What will matter is what you learned and how you used it.

Suggestive words and images are floating around us all the time, usually trying to sell us something or competing to capture our attention for one reason or another. Sometimes the intended message of a sign, advertisement, or slogan is totally eclipsed by an unintentional innuendo, like the time Jersey Mike's Subs tweeted, “how do you top your sub?” The dirty-minded immediately got the “accidental” subtext . Sometimes it's so obvious, it's hard to believe it was a mistake. Like, come on. Are yo…

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Ah, the woes of renting. Anyone who's experienced the daily little annoyances that come with living in an apartment building full of hundreds of other grumpy tenants likely understands that 'loving thy neighbor' is sometimes harder than it looks. Even the politest souls can resort to furiously scrawling passive aggressive notes for their inconsiderate neighbors if buttons are pushed hard enough. One can only take so many sleepless nights hearing apartment 5b blast Justin Bieber at ungodly hours…

Someone's boss is not very happy

Thanks to the impressive popularity of @whatisnewyork, hundreds of renters regularly send the account all the hilariously weird and passive aggressive notes they find in the apartment complex lobbies of New York City. Seeing these notes all in one place really paints a picture of the woes of renting in a tenement full of high-strung, stressed-out, irritable people. Though, to be fair, not all the notes are full of rage. Some bold neighbors use lobbies, laundry rooms, and elevators as their perso

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According to Wikipedia , ‘Rule 34’ is an ‘internet maxim which asserts that Internet pornography exists concerning every conceivable topic.' We think there should be a ‘Rule 35’ for Facebook groups. If you've ever thought about a thing, there's probably a Facebook group dedicated to it. Most of them have only one or two followers, created solely to serve as the punchline of a joke. But some of the most absurd groups inexplicably have hundreds of thousands of active members. One of these groups …

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