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Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news

Posted by mycketforvirrad
Tags: ask.discussion, recurring.weekly, offbeat fridays, offbeat

Tildes is a very serious site, where we discuss very serious matters like gpt.4o, surcharges and judaism.orthodox. Tags culled from the highest voted topics from the last seven days, if anyone was fussed.

But one of my favourite tags happens to be offbeat! Taking its original inspiration from Sir Nils Olav III, this thread is looking for any far-fetched offbeat stories lurking in the newspapers. It may not deserve its own post, but it deserves a wider audience!

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    mycketforvirrad
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    Free wine hidden in small print claimed after three months BBC News – Cat McGowan – 10th May 2024

    Free wine hidden in small print claimed after three months

    A free bottle of wine has finally been claimed after being hidden in the privacy policy of a tax-focused think tank's website for three months.

    Tax Policy Associates added the clause in February as an experiment, to see if anyone would actually read the full terms.

    BBC News – Cat McGowan – 10th May 2024

    9 votes
    1. Thrabalen
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      This is actually brilliant. Assuming it's relatively inexpensive wine, they now have low-cost analysis of how many people pay attention to fine print and clauses. The kind of thing a tax-focused...

      This is actually brilliant. Assuming it's relatively inexpensive wine, they now have low-cost analysis of how many people pay attention to fine print and clauses. The kind of thing a tax-focused think tank should be keeping abreast of.

      5 votes