emotional / motivational guff signs

That would work so much better if it were embroidered on a cushion

reminds me a little of my friend who remakes tapestries

before

after

Drac

Your post on the first page should, of course, have been in crayon on a dog-eared piece of paper.

Not to mention those free-standing letters that spell out “L O V E” (or V O L E, if you’re witty).

I can’t help but think it’s people trying to over-compensate for something that’s otherwise missing.

As a wedding photographer, I’m subjected to this trite toss at almost every job I do. In fact, it’s worse than ever before now, as it seems no wedding is complete without four foot high, lit up letters spelling out, “LOVE” or “MR & MRS”.

I do believe it’s just the try-hards that like this sort of nonsense around their house. The aspiring middle class if you will, people that have reasonable jobs but no education beyond GCSEs or vocational btecs or have a single book in the house. (not including anything ‘written’ by Katie Price)

User-removed – does your heart sink to an all time low when you’re asked to do those ‘fun’ family photos where everyone is having fun in a fun photo studio having fun – In a featureless white box. Not wearing shoes

LOVE is surely better rearranged to VELO.

tech – no-one would dare ask 👿
Seriously though, I did do some white backdrop / shoes off / lying in a pile sort of stuff when I first started about 12 years ago. I thought it was brilliant…

everyone is having fun in a fun photo studio having fun – In a featureless white box. Not wearing shoes

It’s almost like a perfect microcosm of what STWers lives would look like in their heads if they actually put any thought into it every time they say

the try-hards that like this sort of nonsense around their house. The aspiring middle class if you will, people have reasonable jobs but no education beyond GCSEs or vocational btecs or have a single book in the house. (not including anything ‘written’ by Katie Price)

Because none of us actually owns or aspires to own anything do we, that would be capitalism. We should all be content in out white box without shoes.

My cousin genuinely has proper motivational slogans like the original post (he wouldn’t know what irony was) as big stencils on his actual (magnolia) walls.

He works in IT sales, lives in a great big house on a soulless new estate, drives a company BMW 5 series with a private plate, and is the most terminally unimaginative person you could ever meet

I do believe it’s just the try-hards that like this sort of nonsense around their house. The aspiring middle class if you will, people that have reasonable jobs but no education beyond GCSEs or vocational btecs or have a single book in the house. (not including anything ‘written’ by Katie Price)

Harsh but fair

Really?

I thought it was mostly a smug middle class **** thing?

Hebden Bridge is full of this type of shit.

I rather like the ones Rebel Circus post up on Fb:

Not that I’m a misanthropic git or anything

@Countzero

Real teary eyed lollage 🙂

Some great laughs ^ thank you

One reminded me of a surreal night watching Bobby Davro at a local British Legion (don’t ask). Davro gets a girl on stage and says

“I wold like to **** you senseless” ……girl looks chuffed, then….. ” but I see that someone beat me to it.”

First time I saw ‘motivational posters’ was in office emails, I genuinely thought it applied to nearly pornographic pictures, mostly of cleavage, with back borders and barely funny (and mostly redundant) ‘jokes’ underneath.

Eventually they became actually funny pictures (probably after the boss accidentally got copied into one of the emails) with actually funny captions underneath, same format though, picture with a big black border.

Then I learned the terrible truth after I looked at one of the awful trite ones and realised there was no joke 😯

You can get some brilliant stuff to make your house a home from Amazon

I think you’d smile every single bloody time you saw these.
http://amzn.eu/hLdUnI2
http://amzn.eu/91RsxWa

They are just RIP threads in poster form, same meaningless sentimental clichés.

Also from Despair.com

You can get some brilliant stuff to make your house a home from Amazon

I recall the sadly defunct Regretsy finding a wonderful wall stencil from China(?) which, due to a spectacular mistranslation, read:

“Even if love stop, loved horse cannot stop“.

It also had a picture of some birds in case the point wasn’t clear. 🙂

I could eat a can of alphabet soup & shit a better argument than yours.

I tried this earlier, but the can only had O’s in it, so I was ****.

Oh yeah, that reminds me, we do own one. We even bought it on our honeymoon.

I have no **** idea either.

Dez do vinyl Space Invaders count?

Almost ironic that the advert bisecting this discussion has the catchline “passion drives us”.

These emotional snippets of weakness are the reason I don’t have my family on my Facebook account, I got fed up of the constant little life benefitting piles of crap

I’m puzzled by the depression-related ones. They don’t resonate with me at all which makes me suspicious that the people making them up don’t know a **** what they’re talking about. Like that one about depression being “because you’ve been strong for too long”
???

it’s definitely a trend I have seen it in all kinds of interior magazines and such. If i ever put one in my home it would be something sarcastic like ‘Guests are nice because they leave’

Modern life has made people soft and unable to handle some of the basics

https://www.buzzfeed.com/elliewoodward/katie-price-quotes-as-motivational-posters?utm_term=.areDbzYKy#.agGAoJKRM

My friends Mum had one of these in her kitchen I remember.

The thought did occur to me to batter her to death with her own arms I must admit.

brian1001 – Member
it’s definitely a trend I have seen it in all kinds of interior magazines and such. If i ever put one in my home it would be something sarcastic like ‘Guests are nice because they leave’

My folks have a mug that reads “All visitors bring joy to this house. Some do it when they arrive, some when they leave”. It gets given to one of my sisters as a slightly pointed hint every now and again…

Dez do vinyl Space Invaders count?

Every single bloody time?

For some ungodly reason someone who produces this emotionally incontinent gibberish has just started following me on Twatter. I’ve just had a look at their guff and the first quote that popped up was from Nelson Mandela…

“It always seems it’s impossible, until it’s done”

Yes… having to nip to Waitrose because you’ve run out of porcini mushrooms is just like trying to overthrow apartheid

I’ve just had a look at their guff and the first quote that popped up was from Nelson Mandela…

“Porridge? ….Again?”

My ex had the life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass etc quote above her bed.
When I suggested it could apply to our relationship she wasn’t best pleased…

My favourite:

“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger . . . except for bears. Bears will kill you.”