While the banner unfurled by student protestors at Q&A on Monday night wasn’t the greatest piece of protest paraphernalia created, the web is a treasure trove of funny, witty and poignant protest signs. We compiled a list of our favourites.

The Brits are very, well, British when they protest.

From mild mannered directness…

The barely contained outrage.
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…to the less polite, but by no means rude…


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…to just plain punny.

The classic pun.
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Some protestors just really need to get things off their chests

Like this poor bloke…

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…and this Mexican flatbread-deprived person…

Not a student related thing as such, but hot damn do we ever agree?
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…and these brave guys at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

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Sometimes, it’s hard to know what the heck people are even protesting about.

I mean, really: what DO you want?

Seen on someone's drive to work:
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But other times, they can tug at the heart strings

Like the signs by people hit by Hurricane Sandy in 2012

Long Beach, New York, after Hurricane Sandy:
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Tuckerton, New Jersey:
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