“Comrades! The way across the bridge is closed. There IS no bridge.”
Imaginative Store Signs
Intense… almost like poetry:
How would you justify this name for a restaurant? -
(seen in Kyoto, but there is also a hotel/resort by the same name in Thailand)
(image credit: Chris Gladis)
Sometimes it’s a sheer coincidence, sometimes a malicious intent.
(image credit: Chuck Walker)
Something clearly went wrong here:
(image credit: idioteka)
Washroom signs that aren’t very helpful
This sinister “glaring entity from above” haunts the men’s room in Japan:
(image credit: Chris Gladis)
Only sitting allowed, please. No other unnecessary acrobatics:
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Wondering which door to choose? This page collects all kinds of “men/women” sign variations, not all of them obvious:
(image credit: Dave Linabury)
Probably the best one:
Here is a really exasperating situation. Imagine opening the door to the last available cabin, hoping to… and seeing this:
(image credit: idioteka)
Spontaneous Graffiti
Some of it is funny, some appeared there for no sensible reason. The following sign was spotted outside a cafe (somebody spent too much time on the internet?) -
(image credit: Willy de Bok)
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Could be the famous Banksy’s work:
So true:
Gamers will know what’s this about -
And this sign speaks for all the squashed pop cans everywhere:
“STOP STEPPING ON US!”
This is not broken English… just imaginative.
This “vending machine poetry” was spotted, where else – in Japan. Wonderfully convincing piece:
(image credit: Chris Gladis)
And then, the broken English rears its ugly (entertaining) head:
(images credit: asylum.com)
(image credit: Engrish)
“Be careful to Tsunamis”. I doubt they’ll return the favour, though -
(image credit: Michael I. Colwill)
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