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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 rights.legal, landlords and cards against humanity. Tags culled from the highest voted topics from the last seven days, if anyone was jotting these down.

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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  1. mycketforvirrad
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    A misspelled memorial to the Brontë sisters gets its dots back at last Associated Press – 27th September 2024

    A misspelled memorial to the Brontë sisters gets its dots back at last

    More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two dots over the e in their surname.

    They were restored after Brontë historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Brontë Society Gazette, raised the issue with Dean of Westminster David Hoyle. The abbey asked its stonemason to tap in the dots and its conservator to paint them.

    Associated Press – 27th September 2024

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  2. jredd23
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    Having beers with a German friend (I only got one!) and we got into this conversation of real estate taxes etc., We somehow got into this whole thing of how back in the good ol' days of East/West...

    Having beers with a German friend (I only got one!) and we got into this conversation of real estate taxes etc., We somehow got into this whole thing of how back in the good ol' days of East/West Germany they had a guy who built his house in the no man's area of the Wall and was able to live for years without having to pay taxes. The backstory is also very interesting not sure if it's true but interesting none the less. Next time I find myself in Berlin I'll probably stop by and take a selfie...
    The treehouse that defied the Berlin Wall

    7 votes
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    JCPhoenix
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    I might be a little late to the party but I think it's worth sharing. "Man amputates penis with an axe after consuming psilocybin mushrooms" -- PsyPost, 2024-09-29 Though not all was lost!

    I might be a little late to the party but I think it's worth sharing.

    "Man amputates penis with an axe after consuming psilocybin mushrooms" -- PsyPost, 2024-09-29

    In an unprecedented case report, doctors in Austria have documented the first known instance of psilocybin-induced penile amputation. After consuming a large quantity of magic mushrooms, a 37-year-old man suffering from depression and alcohol abuse severed his penis with an axe. Fortunately, doctors were able to reattach part of the amputated organ. The unique case is detailed in the Mega Journal of Surgery.

    Though not all was lost!

    In the weeks following the surgery, the patient experienced some complications. Superficial necrosis (death of skin tissue) developed on the glans of his penis, likely due to the loss of blood flow during the period of ischemia, but this healed over time. Remarkably, the patient was able to regain some erectile function within three months of the surgery, though the overall length of his penis was significantly reduced due to the damage. At his last follow-up visit, he was able to urinate normally while seated, though a minor complication called hypospadias developed, where the urethral opening is located further down the shaft than normal.

    2 votes