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[–] [email protected] 55 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

This kind of thing is funniest when you imagine the guy driving home and being completely bewildered about why he's on a billboard.

I read a similar story recently about a guy targeting his roommate with highly specific Facebook ads, let me.see if I can find it.

Edit: Here it is, it's a fun read

[–] KillerTofu 15 points 9 months ago

It was a fun read! Thanks!

[–] Anticorp 7 points 9 months ago

Haha! That's hilarious. They sound like the type of people who make incredibly fun friends.

[–] wjrii 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I feel like digital billboards have made stuff like this less fun, if only slightly. The investment and energy required to pay for people to climb way the fuck up on a billboard and paint or glue or stretch, or whatever the fuck people actually do with "normal" billboards makes it all feel a little more delightfully unhinged.

Due to JPEGification, I'm only about 75% sure this is a digital billboard, now that I think about it.

[–] Anticorp 6 points 9 months ago

Plus you have to commit to a year long contract for a standard billboard.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's not cheap, but it's not absurd to rent a billboard in a more rural area. You could probably do this for less than $2000, maybe a lot less of you know someone at the company.

[–] wjrii 1 points 9 months ago

I am, however, deprived of the mental image of a crew shaking their heads in disgust that this is the dumb shit that have to put up, LOL.

[–] glimse 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If I won the lottery I'd book a dozen billboards that say "NOBODY LIKES ADS! Here's a picture of my dog, have a nice day!"

[–] thefrankring 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Or you could pay for these billboards to get destroyed/removed.

(Assuming no one is going to put a new one to replace it.)

[–] Crack0n7uesday 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They get built on property usually owned and leased by the city/state. The city/state usually owns a about a square mile around each highway mile so they own the land of the side of the highway and let companies build billboards and rent out the land space. That money is supposed to go to highway upkeep, but that's in a perfect world so who knows where it's going.

[–] dohpaz42 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] TexasDrunk 3 points 9 months ago

If I still lived in a small town this would absolutely be worth it.

[–] clearedtoland 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Who the hell has fuckaround money with this inflation? That said, this is friendship gold.

[–] glimse 5 points 9 months ago

Back before my friend's dad's business took off, he had an...interesting...tactic for billboards.

He'd book them under a different business name and then cancel at the very last minute. The billboard company had to sell that spot ASAP or it was "wasted" money so booking it came at a serious discount...for his actual company. The cancelation fee + discounted rate was way less than it would have cost if he just booked it normally.

Pretty shady but kinda funny.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The person with an 80k truck pulling a 30k boat with 10k of electronics and 5k of gear can afford a billboard for a month for a good joke.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Years ago when I was a kid, there was a billboard on the edge of the bigger city we'd do our shopping in some dude put up to find a girlfriend.

One day the billboard was gone. We assumed the dude got a girlfriend. But then 2 months later, there was a new girlfriend billboard lol

[–] robocall 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I don't know much about fishing. How does one suck at fishing? Since it's Minnesota, I'm guessing it's not physically demanding like marlin or tuna fishing, but I could be mistaken.

[–] Crashumbc 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Stream fishing >>> boat fishing

In terms of being physically demanding.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Because you have to stand?

[–] Crashumbc 3 points 9 months ago

Fishing a steam isn't just "standing", it usually involves a fair amount of hiking/walking and and wading. And if you've ever tried to walk in a moving stream it's a lot of work...