Memberships · Public notice
Join the official institution for identifying, classifying, and investigating life's most ridiculous moments. Your evidence deserves a ruling.
Applications reviewed with unnecessary rigor
Today's classification
“Let's schedule a quick meeting.”
Institute commitments
No fake acclaim
We are new, so we will not invent testimonials, awards, or suspiciously enthusiastic institutions.
Actual participation
Members submit cases, vote on verdicts, and help determine what the Institute investigates next.
Serious standards
Every finding is delivered with deadpan authority and exactly as much bureaucracy as the matter does not require.
The work of the Institute
A functioning bureaucracy for everything that makes smart people stop, stare, and ask why.
Document workplace jargon, domestic mysteries, technology failures, parenting incidents, and unnecessary forms. The Institute will consider the evidence.
Illustrative case file
One square of toilet paper remains on the roll.
0–7
The official Nonsense Scale
Earn a shareable credential, member number, and the authority to call an ION 6 when you see one.
Daily
findings and investigations
7 levels
from reasonable to unprecedented
1 public
responsible for supplying the evidence
Urgent institutional notice
The Institute needs observant, overextended people to document it. Join, submit your evidence, and help us issue findings nobody requested.