Category: Home & Design
40 Times People Found Hidden Treasures Left By Previous Owners Inside Their Homes
September 7, 2023
Many old houses have their charm. It’s truly amazing to start a new chapter of your life in a place that was constructed long ago and carries a rich history. Just imagine, countless people might have lived there, rising each morning, preparing meals, fostering bonds with their loved ones, and having numerous conversations.
When you move into a home with such a storied past, it becomes intriguing to immerse yourself in the house’s atmosphere, honor its history, and perhaps even stumble upon hidden clues left behind by previous owners.
We’ve assembled a collection of pics with moments when people experienced exactly that. From discovering coins hidden in a wall to uncovering a hidden jacuzzi beneath the ground, these homeowners came across some truly cool surprises upon moving into their new homes.
#1 My Grandparents Have A Glassed-Over Well In Their Kitchen
They bought the house 10 years ago, they stripped it down and they found it then. They thought it was quite unique and wanted it as a feature, it’s about 25 foot deep and connects to a small old river that ran under a long time ago. Fortunately I have yet to see anything down there!
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There are many things that we can find in the walls of old houses, like a scorched red corset, a 9th-century clay pipe or a mastodon. When you start digging, whether it’s for a construction project in a long-inhabited area or renovating a house, surprises await. You might find something like a ritual object meant to ward off spirits, whether it’s from 300 years ago or just a few decades back. It could have been placed there intentionally or left by accident. Unless it’s a time capsule with a note, its true purpose may remain unknown.
#2 I Was Helping My Dad Move Into His New Office, When We Found A Trapdoor
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#3 Finally, A Good, Safe, Story
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Every building holds its own history within its walls, ceilings, floors, and foundations. The very materials, like wood, plaster, and stone, can hide secrets or even special items left for future generations to uncover—a connection between the past and the future.
#4 Found A Paw Print On A Brick Wall
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#5 This Vintage Space Themed Wallpaper Found Under 3 Layers Of Other Wallpaper In An Old Farm House
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#6 They Found The Old Bath Under Their Living Room
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American houses dating back to the Revolutionary War era had secret rooms designed for hiding food, contraband, and militia members from the redcoats. These rooms could have served as safe havens for women and children.
#7 My Apartment Is An Old Police Station And Still Has The Original Cell Doors But Painted
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#8 Found A Message While Removing Our Cork Floor Tiles
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#9 Pulled Up The Carpet At The House, And Guess What I Found!
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Here are some reasons why old houses have secret rooms:
⦁In the early 1800s, many houses were equipped with secret rooms used to shelter runaway slaves.
⦁During the Prohibition era, secret rooms were essential for concealing and producing illicit alcohol.
⦁Reflecting on Anne Frank’s experience, it’s likely that secret rooms were used in Europe during World War II to shelter fugitive Jews.
#10 The Table At This Pub Has A Well In The Middle Of It (England)
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#11 Friend Was Redecorating His New House And Found This Under A Layer Of Wallpaper
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#12 Our New Apartment Has A Little Milk Door Under The Cabinets
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The magic of secret rooms lies in their mystique and intrigue, captivating people’s imaginations. In today’s world, concerns about societal breakdown and a general distrust of the government could drive someone to desire such hidden spaces.
#13 Untouched 1800’s Cemetery Preserved In The Basement Of A Tall Building Built Over It
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#14 Treasure In My Bathroom
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#15 Lost Hippie Mural Found Under My Flooded House
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While it’s easy to see some great things about old houses, like their timeless character, there are plenty of additional reasons why old houses are better than new ones.
Old houses have a welcoming charm and unique architectural features like crown moldings, stained-glass windows, arched doorways, and antique chandeliers that you rarely find in new builds. In contrast, newer neighborhoods often have houses that look very similar, creating a “cookie-cutter” look without the individuality and character of older homes.
#16 Found Some Friends In A Mile-Long Tunnel That Travels Beneath My Apartment Building
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#17 100-Year-Old Elevator Handle I Saved
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#18 These “Tom And Jerry” Type Mouse Holes Gnawed In A House Built In 1741
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The saying “they don’t make them like they used to” is popular because it’s true. Why? Let us give you a few examples.
Older homes were built with strong materials like stone, brick, and solid wood. For instance, the wood in old houses was from high-quality trees that are more durable and rot-resistant than today’s wood.
#19 My Friend Decided To Replace Her Old Carpet And She Found A Cellar Door And A Cool Surprise
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#20 This Building Has The Original 1909 Electrical Switches
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#21 Found Some Nice Drawings Under The Wallpaper I’m Removing
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Another example is the use of plaster in old homes for walls, which is better than today’s drywall in terms of insulation, soundproofing, fire resistance, and mold resistance.
Today, the common practice is to use cheaper manufactured materials like particle board and drywall to save money.
#22 Uncovered At A Times Square Construction Site
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#23 This Wall Broke Exposing Years Of Layers Of Paint
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#24 My House Used To Be A Bank, So We Use The Old Safe/Vault As A Basement
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Additionally, old houses were constructed with a different mindset. They were meant to be repaired, not torn down and replaced. New homes often don’t prioritize the durability of materials. For example, most replacement windows today are made from vinyl, which typically lasts only 20-25 years. On the other hand, well-maintained wood windows in old houses can last over 100 years.
#25 I’ve Been Living In My House And I Just Noticed My Back Door Handle Is A Spoon
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#26 My House Still Has Old-Fashioned Light Switches From Its Original Construction
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#27 This Headstone Found Under My Garage
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#28 Friend Tore Down His Wall For Renovations And Found This Mural On Another Wall Behind It
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#29 My Living Room Was Built Around A Huge Sandstone Rock
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#30 The House I’m Staying In Has Kept Its Original Well As A Feature
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#31 Bad**s Old Oscilloscope I Found In My Grandparents Garage
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#32 While Renovating My Basement We Found This Painting On The Cement Behind The Wall
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#33 So I Just Moved Into A New Apartment, And Made A Big Discovery
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#34 There’s A Random Chain Embedded In The Wall Of My 1930s-Era Home
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#35 My Grandmother Found “Rouge” From The 1950s
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#36 Tore Down The Floor In Our 50-Year-Old House, Found This. I’d Love To Know Who She Was And If She’s Still Alive
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#37 Apparently, Disposing Of Old Razor Blades Inside Your Wall Was Acceptable In The 1950’s
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#38 Found This 20-Year-Old Promise Hidden Under The Wallpaper In Our New House
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#39 I Recently Moved Into A 70s Dream Home. This Is My Bathtub
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#40 My House Still Has The Original Light Switches
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141 Designs That Are So Bad, They Deserve To Be Shamed On The Internet (New Pics)
April 24, 2023
Most of us can intuitively tell whether something is designed well or if the end result falls way short of what it should be like. The more we’re exposed to ads and products—both great and god-awful—the more our sense of taste develops.
Ever since 2011, this popular subreddit has been sharing examples of epic design fails that are beyond hilarious. In fact, they’re so bad, it’s mind-boggling that the people behind them green-lit them! We’ve collected some of the worst offenders to share with you, Pandas, so scroll down and upvote the designs you love to hate the most.
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#1 Being Gay Was A Sin They Said
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#2 This Amazing Pregnancy Test
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#3 So, It’s Fine Then?
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The subreddit has been poking fun at horrible and hilarious designs all the way since 2011. Over the past 12+ years, the community has grown absolutely massive. At the time of writing, the group had 3.4 million members.
Years pass, seasons change. But what stays constant is people’s appetite for shaming truly awful product and ad designs. (What changes, however, is how the internet reacts to names like the subreddit’s that use gentle curse words. These days, you can’t even mention them in full without some social media megacorps frowning in your general direction!)
#4 Seems A Bit Counterintuitive
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#5 A Solar Powered Parking Meter In An Underground Garage
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#6 Surely There Is No Better Way To Write Your Phone Number
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The subreddit’s moderators have created a fantastically detailed wiki that explains what does and doesn’t count as a bad design. For instance, amateur artwork or signs don’t belong in the online group because they were made by, well, amateurs. Similarly, broken things also don’t count.
#7 My Arms Are About 7 Feet Long, So This Wasn’t An Issue For Me
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#8 Love Handles
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#9 I Cancelled My Transaction Twice In A Row By Accident. I Finally Found Out Why
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And don’t even think of posting the Roman numeral for 4, IIII, as an example of awful design because it’s a fairly common alternative way to write IV. Meanwhile, unintentional errors like manufacturing defects also don’t count as examples of bad design. Neither do novelty items or obvious satire.
#10 What About When You Cross Your Legs?
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#11 Our Wedding Is Going To Have Three Delicious Meal Choices
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#12 Thanks For Reminding Me
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The mod team encourages its members to be original. So you shouldn’t be sharing any pictures that fall into the list of the top 150 most popular reposts. Software designs, hate symbols, and memes also don’t have any place on the sub. Meanwhile, all members ought to be as civil as possible, avoid sharing any personal information, and ensure that they write awesome descriptive titles for their posts.
#13 How Much Do You Trust Your “Multilingual” Ad Designer?
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#14 “How Do We Make It Clear That It’s A Male Hand Without Seeing The Nails?”
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#15 This Bus
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A while ago, interior design expert and then-editor at These Three Rooms, Ariane Sherine, had shared her thoughts on taste and aesthetics with Bored Panda.
“When it comes to aesthetics, ‘bad design’ is a very individual thing that comes down to personal taste,” she said that our personal tastes and (dis)likes affect our judgment of products and interiors.
#16 This Music Poster Looks Like A Guy And Girl Being Hanged
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#17 This Unfortunately Designed Kid’s Balloon
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#18 If Only There Was An Easier Way To See Who Was Outside Your Front Door..
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“It’s perhaps more helpful to talk about ‘bad design’ as design that doesn’t function as it should—for instance, a kitchen that doesn’t have what’s called ‘good flow’, where you have to walk impractical distances between complementary appliances and where the dimensions of the ‘kitchen work triangle’ (the distance between fridge, sink, and hob) aren’t practical,” the design expert said.
#19 Another Example Of Unrealistic Body Expectations For Men
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#20 Le Tits Now
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#21 I Needed Red. Guess Which One I Grabbed At First
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“A kitchen where there isn’t enough storage, where potentially dangerous appliances aren’t located safely, and where cornflakes and milk are placed at opposite ends of the room is what I’d call ‘bad design,’” she shared that a poorly-crafted space can be a huge headache for someone in their day-to-day lives.
“‘Good design’ is where a lot of thought and effort has been put into structuring and renovating a house so it’s perfect for the people living in it. It takes account of their aesthetic preferences but also focuses on the concepts I mentioned before, paying close attention to detail,” she told Bored Panda.
#22 No Thank You, I Think I’ll Pass
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#23 Artistic Kid Dies
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#24 Okay. I Know This Cake Is A Number 1 And It Says “emma,” But It Looks Like A Dick With Balls That Says “weed”
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“The only true way to ascertain whether a design is going to be a commercial success is to make it available for sale, market it widely, and see how many people buy it. But success is different to taste. Personally, I think taste is all about understatement, minimalism, and neutral decor. But again, that’s only my personal opinion!” the design expert told us during another interview, earlier.
“This will differ for each person, but for many people, loud and garish colors used liberally in the home would signify a lack of taste. Then again, I can think of designers who have based their entire career around the use of color and loud prints,” she said that there aren’t any hard and fast rules.
#25 If Only I Had Some Scissors…
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#26 This Maze Game
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#27 Meme Says It All…
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When it comes to furniture, you have to consider functionality, not just aesthetics. “Does the furniture function as it should? Is it likely to collapse or break easily? If seating, is it comfortable? I mean, my idea of aesthetic hell would be a bright purple inflatable sofa with lime green spots, but your mileage may vary! The question of comfort and function is a less subjective one,” the design expert shared a few of the considerations you should keep in mind when thinking about interiors.
#28 If You’ve Got It, Flaunt It
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#29 What’s My Age Again?
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#30 When Your Dental Banner Features An Execution
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Tell us all about which of these pics and fails made you cringe the hardest, Pandas. Meanwhile, for some more amazingly awful designs, check out Bored Panda’s previous features right here, here, as well as here.
#31 F**king Hurry!!
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#32 This Could Have Been Avoided With 1 Focus Group (of Women)
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#33 This Jfk Memorial
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#34 No Way Anyones Getting Past That
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#35 Attention
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#36 Two Flamingos, One Vagina
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#37 Good Luck Wheelchairees
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#38 I Was Looking For Those…
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#39 Sometimes It’s Okay To Judge A Book By Its Cover
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#40 Love, Morriage, Boby?
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#41 Never Split Your Legs When You Slide Down!
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#42 This Flower Print Dress
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#43 If You Were In A Car, Would You Know What Accident To Do?
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#44 Toilets And Mirror Ceiling
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#45 This Warning Sign
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#46 All Ye Shall Come To Me For The Healing Of Burgers
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#47 This Awful Slide Placement
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#48 Which Is It?!
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#49 I Have No Idea What I’m Doing
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#50 Ass To Ass
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#51 In Japan, You Have To Follow These Signs While Driving At 70 Mph
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#52 This University Isn’t Very Good With Fractions
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#53 What A Great Packaging Choice
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#54 50 Lanes? Lets Merge Those Into 4
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#55 The Grill Being Sold On Amazon Is Only Supposed To Be A Foot Tall, But Can We Talk About The Gondola Silhouette?
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#56 Baby Jesus/severed Thumb Christmas Ornament
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#57 Correct Punctuation Is A Must!
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#58 Why Not Use The Selfie?
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#59 This Handicap Parking Spot…
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#60 Sparkling Red “slippers”
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#61 Cool… What?!
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#62 Teaching Kids The Harsh Reality Of Life
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#63 The Printing On This Ball
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#64 The Tans Will Fade…
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#65 Do You Squirt?
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#66 Toss Me A Cold One, Will Ya?
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#67 I’m Pretty Sure The Odds Are In My Favor To Win The Fight
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#68 The Vent In My Hotel Shower Doesn’t Seem To Work
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#69 Are The All The Translations Really Necessary Heinz?
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#70 Measurement Lines On An Opaque Bottle
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#71 Why The Hell Do The Weights Make Up The First H But Not The Last One?
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#72 Why Is It Not The A ??
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#73 Kitten Socks
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#74 Giant Is Seconds From Being Paralyzed
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#75 F**k Or Treat
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#76 But They Are Both Right Hands
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#77 “12 Wa S Y U Can Tell You Ha E Th Right”
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#78 We’re Sorry…
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#79 Not A Car, Not The Police…
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#80 This Monstrosity Will Surely Make Someone Want To Date These Handsome Men
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#81 Poor Url Choice By A Fagas Strap Company
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#82 How Big Is That Watch?!
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#83 I Want To To Open A Shop In Goa That Slightly Copies A Popular Chain, What Should I Call It?
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#84 We’re Not Happy ’til You’re Not Happy
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#85 Proof Your Layouts, People
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#86 Hot Dog Anyone?
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#87 No Use! Only Charge!
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#88 The Scaling Is So Bad…
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#89 Fake Zipper On Levi’s Boots Makes Holes In Your Boot When You Walk
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#90 Seriously?
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#91 Better Than Cream Cheese? No!
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#92 …the “O” Has Already Been Guessed
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#93 Doesn’t Sound Very Exciting
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#94 From Afar, This Sign Has A Completely Different Meaning
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#95 Happy 20170!
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#96 This Fucking Outlet At My University
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#97 One Of The Worst Flow Charts I’ve Seen In A While
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#98 Suicidal Holiday Introvert, Look No Further
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#99 The Three Multiple Choice Options My Physics Teacher Gave For This Example Problem
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#100 Printing Shop In My Home Town
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#101 The Official Emma Watson ‘beauty And The Beast’ Doll
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#102 Ho Ho Ho, Shit Down My Throat
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#103 Ndeeisgihgbnocrehnotoedr
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#104 Texcock Mextails
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#105 Beautiful Driveway. Sucks You Can’t Use It
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#106 This Slide With No Side Rails…
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#107 Let’s Come Up With An Easy Acronym To Let People Know We Support The Military
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#108 Literally Can’t Fall For This Scam
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#109 Stressed Backwards Spells…
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#110 Marketing Skills At Its Finest
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#111 While We’re On The Topic Of Awful Pool Design…
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#112 Heart Shape Headphone Splitter Looks Like A Nut Sack
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#113 Friend Posted This From A Lift In Vietnam
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#114 The Rails Should Prevent People From Hitting Their Head, But Instead They Trip Over Them. So Now, Traffic Cones
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#115 The Eight In This Clock
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#116 I Just Want To Heat My Hot Pocket
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#117 Ate At A Local Restaurant
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#118 These Hotel Room Directions
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#119 Do Love What You Do What You Love
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#120 When Does The O’s Play?
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#121 This Woman Looking Out The Plane Is Very Calm Considering She’s About To Crash Into The Hudson
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#122 The Awful Name Of This File
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#123 The Stairs Leading To This Bedroom
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#124 What
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#125 There’s A Line Forming Behind Me. I Have No Idea
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#126 This Watch Is Not Ez Read
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#127 The Worst Thing About Lenovo Laptops. A “Close Current Page Without Warning Button” Right Next To The “Volume Up” Button
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#128 That’s Like Asking To Get Your Speaker Kicked In
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#129 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Pgup 9
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#130 We Need A Poster That Says “Wine”
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#131 In The Shadow Of Every Yes Is A… Different Shadow?
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#132 My Gf Is A Teacher. This Sits On Her Desk And The Lack Of Punctuation Disturbs Me
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#133 This Door At My Dentist’s Office
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#134 Beer Coaster
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#135 I Made An Account Just To Post This Unforgivable De$ign Choice
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#136 This Sign
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#137 Lots Of Hope For Sure
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#138 The Design School I Graduated From Sent This Postcard Out
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#139 Give Up On Your Dreams
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#140 This Coat Rack
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#141 This Carpeted Bathroom
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