14 votes

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 vehicles.autonomous, jb pritzker and hollow knight.silksong. 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!

11 comments

  1. [2]
    ZeroGee
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    https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/sep/04/calling-your-boss-a-dickhead-is-not-a-sackable-offence-tribunal-rules There is still justice in the world.

    https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/sep/04/calling-your-boss-a-dickhead-is-not-a-sackable-offence-tribunal-rules

    A woman was awarded ~£30,000 and legal costs after an employment tribunal found she had been unfairly dismissed for calling her boss a dick head.

    There is still justice in the world.

    5 votes
  3. [3]
    mycketforvirrad
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    CEO who snatched boy's hat at US Open says he made 'huge mistake' BBC News – Aoife Walsh – 2nd September 2025

    CEO who snatched boy's hat at US Open says he made 'huge mistake'

    The man who was caught on camera snatching a hat off a young boy at the US Open has said he made a "huge mistake" after footage of the incident went viral.

    Piotr Szczerek, a Polish chief executive of a paving firm, said he was "convinced" tennis star Kamil Majchrzak had been "passing his hat in my direction".

    BBC News – Aoife Walsh – 2nd September 2025

    3 votes
    1. EgoEimi
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      Similarly, there was news about a "Karen" stealing a baseball from a boy. When I saw clips and the headlines, I believed the story. But when I watched the full video, I actually realized that the...

      Similarly, there was news about a "Karen" stealing a baseball from a boy. When I saw clips and the headlines, I believed the story.

      But when I watched the full video, I actually realized that the baseball landed by her and she reached and grabbed it, but the boy's father had run over like 8 seats and forcibly grabbed it from her. Anyway, I think she's being unfairly lambasted. The boy's father is an asshole. God forbid women stand up for themselves.

      5 votes
    2. jredd23
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      His 'mistake' is being caught doing it, talk about showing the true colors of the person.

      His 'mistake' is being caught doing it, talk about showing the true colors of the person.

      4 votes
  4. jredd23
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    Joseph Bonaparte in NJ I was around this area on holiday and learned something new.

    Joseph Bonaparte in NJ
    I was around this area on holiday and learned something new.

    Joseph Bonaparte finally settled in New Jersey under the name of the Count de Survilliers (Americans tended to call him Mr. Bonaparte)--taken from his Mortefontaine estates—in early 1817.

    3 votes
  5. [2]
    asteroid
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    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/04/nhs-surgeon-legs-removed-jailed-fraud

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/04/nhs-surgeon-legs-removed-jailed-fraud

    3 votes
    1. CannibalisticApple
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      Heads up, this one's actually a bit disturbing. Mainly because this man is a surgeon. Him freezing his legs to require amputation is already bad enough and decent grounds for patients to be...

      Heads up, this one's actually a bit disturbing. Mainly because this man is a surgeon.

      Him freezing his legs to require amputation is already bad enough and decent grounds for patients to be concerned. But I recognized the "Eunuch Maker" from a video by Lazy Masquerade. That guy performed highly illegal procedures to basically make people "null" gender, and would record the procedures and sell the videos on his site. I also want to emphasize that the man behind it was NOT a medical professional. On that note, don't read the article about him linked in this one if you're squeamish. Even without going into graphic detail some mentions got me to wince.

      So this surgeon collecting videos from that site is a huge red flag. Mutilating yourself for sexual gratification is one thing (and absolutely calls for therapy), but that proves he explicitly got off on actual video of others being mutilated. Not even fictional depictions or porn, but actual videos of actual harm. I think his patients, especially the ones who got amputations, are absolutely right to be concerned about whether their treatment had their actual best interests in mind.

      6 votes