16
votes
Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news
Tildes is a very serious site, where we discuss very serious matters like asthma, tildes community fork and rant. Tags culled from the highest voted topics from the last seven days, if anyone was out of the loop.
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!
Doctor faces inquiry after giving his cat a Cat scan at Italian hospital
The Guardian – Angela Giuffrida – 5th February 2025
Duh, they should have used the PET scan 🙄
Her owner must not have been in network.
This week in the Netherlands, a seal takes a nap in a hotel room in Vlissingen. (Video)
Very cute!!
ABC with different photos
https://abcnews.go.com/International/hotel-guest-returns-room-finds-seal-taking-nap/story?id=118518940
Edit - seal bites however are very serious business, due to their super weird jagged teeth and the mouth bacteria
Belgian parliament approves coalition agreement after 40-hour marathon debate. Quick google translate:
A debate about a debate, sounds productive.
Well, he had 40 hours. I'm sure he wondered a lot of things.
Yeah it doesn't sound quite filibuster level but you do have to wander away from some main points to keep going that long
Off-topic, this is the clearest way I've seen to ensure the reader knows which day 2:30 am refers to. It's always tricky with the early morning hours right after midnight, since it's technically the next day but it also still feels like part of the previous night.
It's a pretty common way it's phrased here in the Netherlands, but now that you mention it I realize it's not common elsewhere.
Boy, 13, arrested at hospital for 'impersonating a doctor' after turning up wearing scrubs and fake ID
Thank god my habits are of the liquid variety, otherwise I would be in trouble. Can't imagine what I would be thinking if I rolled up to a big pink human looking thing in a tree!
Downtown Boston’s Outdoor Winter Art Exhibition
Nature's Glow is cute, and I wouldn't mind a giant one of those. But the pink squishy thing is just weird :| not totally creepy but "doesn't spark joy" , shall we say.
I wonder if it would be less weird if it was a different color from pink, since pink feels so... fleshy. So it makes Monsieur Rose feel less cute, more like a giant naked cartoon man. Especially with the scar on his chest, which a quick search tells me is a reference to the artist's heart surgery when he was seven, but just kinda emphasizes to me this is a giant cartoon man with no clothes on.
Toronto Chipotle Strava challenge ends in spicy controversy
Is it cheating to post stuff about the US government?
Task forces monitoring foreign influence and Russian sanctions disbanded
As Mr. Twain said, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." Obviously he never imagined American justice system combating counter intelligence Ops and the American men who empower them.