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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 dick cheney, zohran mamdani and cellebrite. Tags culled from the highest voted topics from the last seven days, if anyone was perplexed.

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!

8 comments

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    mycketforvirrad
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    Swiss government put forward yodeling as candidate for UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage Euronews – David Mouriquand – 5th November 2025

    Swiss government put forward yodeling as candidate for UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage

    Whether heard echoing through the Alps as a mountain cry made by herders in suspenders, featured in Scandinavian folk music or morphed by Tarzan in his yodel-like call, chances are you’ve encountered the distinctive Swiss tradition of yodeling in one of its many iterations.

    The classification aims to raise public awareness of arts, craftsmanship, rituals, knowledge and traditions that are passed down over generations.

    Euronews – David Mouriquand – 5th November 2025

    7 votes
    1. jredd23
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      I can imagine small little kids running wild in the hills of the Alps. Better yet, I'll take my dog with me and he will just start just howling, w/o any prompting. Some call it art, others call it...

      I can imagine small little kids running wild in the hills of the Alps. Better yet, I'll take my dog with me and he will just start just howling, w/o any prompting. Some call it art, others call it noise. It is what it is.

      3 votes
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    ZeroGee
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    Woman caught vandalising iconic sculpture worth £68,000 with googly eyes. https://metro.co.uk/2025/11/07/woman-caught-vandalising-iconic-sculpture-worth-68-000-googly-eyes-24641957

    Woman caught vandalising iconic sculpture worth £68,000 with googly eyes.

    A woman was accused of ‘reckless indifference’ after defacing an iconic Australian piece of art with googly looking eyes.
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    The 19-year-old was caught on CCTV defacing the artwork, which the city now faces an estimated A$2,500 to repair, after removing the eyes caused damage to the paintwork.

    https://metro.co.uk/2025/11/07/woman-caught-vandalising-iconic-sculpture-worth-68-000-googly-eyes-24641957

    4 votes
    1. snohomishmom
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      I like the eyes. And it seems silly to have an outdoor sculpture with such fragile paint.

      I like the eyes. And it seems silly to have an outdoor sculpture with such fragile paint.

      5 votes
    2. jredd23
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      Art is in the eye of the beholder, same as beauty. I never understood what people (no matter what part of the world you are on) take pleasure on of vandalizing or ripping into what is clearly...

      Art is in the eye of the beholder, same as beauty. I never understood what people (no matter what part of the world you are on) take pleasure on of vandalizing or ripping into what is clearly public works. Some people are really just walking around with a smile and a knife in their back. Incredibly frustrating!

      1 vote
  3. jredd23
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    I don't know what's stranger, a pig or people who are surprise that they are pigs! Buffalo NY - where nothing happens except in the mornings when a pig adopt a real pig! Just kidding. 'Breakfast'...

    I don't know what's stranger, a pig or people who are surprise that they are pigs! Buffalo NY - where nothing happens except in the mornings when a pig adopt a real pig! Just kidding.
    'Breakfast' the pig runs loose through Buffalo neighborhood

    Police officer claims runaway pig as his own after woman says it attacked her

    2 votes
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    JCPhoenix
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    Canada Culls Hundreds of Ostriches as a Court and a Kennedy Fail to Save Them And yes, it's that Kennedy.

    Canada Culls Hundreds of Ostriches as a Court and a Kennedy Fail to Save Them

    And yes, it's that Kennedy.

    The birds, exposed to the avian flu, were killed after Canada’s Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal and a rescue effort by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fell short.

    2 votes
    1. DefinitelyNotAFae
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      Exposed to the flu, not reported to the government as required and a reservoir species IIRC. Like, I don't like killing animals either. But I also don't think there was anything special about this...

      Exposed to the flu, not reported to the government as required and a reservoir species IIRC.

      Like, I don't like killing animals either. But I also don't think there was anything special about this farm other than they didn't want to follow the law. And that puts many many more birds at risk.

      Like they weren't inside and kept away from wild fowl.

      I just think this was, at best, misguided due to love of their animals but still a failure on their part and at worst a willingness to kill any number of other birds and potentially other species to protect their financial and emotional investments.

      2 votes