Ok, so this isn’t strictly a grammar issue… but it is do with companies sending out errors. How does a shaped jar fit through whatever conveyor belt system they’ve got in their factory - and come out with a label stuck on perfectly well, but upside down?!

Oh my goodness! How can no one who works in this pub have noticed the lack of an apostrophe here?! Shocking! Not to mention the tagged-on, lower case ‘-up’…

I don’t mean to pick on Tesco, but they’ve got to be more careful with their typography! Although, I guess this price reduction blunder didn’t do anyone any harm. But just imagine if they left a digit off of a new price, rather than adding one to the old price! (That’s assuming they didn’t really knock £82 per kg off of this meat!)

This shop in Bristol has unfortunately had a few of these signs made. They’ve got them on the shop, on the pavement… far too many places!
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Whatever you do - don’t let your post take flight around Bristol!

Thanks again to Thom who found this interesting little ’statement’ in Northern Virginia.

Anyone else wondering what’s so special about the place?! Guess if you need a shop… you’d better get in there quick!

The sign on this small shop says:
“There is no place
like this place
anywhere near this place
so this must be
THE PLACE”

As found in the men’s toilet of a Turkish Restaurant… plus a nice little typo there too.

Thanks to Thom for this photo - classic waste of tax payers money no doubt.

“What purpose does this really serve? Do we need a sign to notify me the sidewalk has ended?

Why not signs at the top of every staircase indicating, “Stairs begin”? Or “Approaching Door”, near the entrance to every public building?

I have a concern for the time, money and energy that was expended to devise, construct, erect this sign!!”

Anyway, it says:
“Do I look like a hemorrhoid? Then get off my ass!”

Now surely, this should be more along the lines of:
“Are you a hemorrhoid? Then get off my ass!”

Thanks to Thom for sending this one over - “Th[is] photo may not quite fit into one of your normal submission genres. However, I laugh out loud every time I pass this small motel in New Jersey. What is an “Air Conditioned TV”? Why do you need one?”

It made us laugh too - keep ‘em coming!

And thanks to Thom for his comments about the site:
“I love your site. It is a delight to visit and discover a new (laughable) error. Our langauge is being degraded each day and your valiant effort to point out the inconsistencies has not gone unnoticed.” We of course share this praise with Miles - if not pass all of the credit on to him.