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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 fourth of july, mark zuckerberg and viewership. Tags culled from the highest voted topics from the last seven days, if anyone was nosey.

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. patience_limited
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    Teens Arrested for Breaking Into High School With a Homemade Plasma Cannon Yes, it's vandalism, breaking and entering, and ridiculously dangerous. But the extravagant, enthusiastic stupidity...

    Teens Arrested for Breaking Into High School With a Homemade Plasma Cannon

    Yes, it's vandalism, breaking and entering, and ridiculously dangerous. But the extravagant, enthusiastic stupidity wrapped in weaponized cleverness appeals to my inner juvenile delinquent. All I played with in my day was non-removable tractor enamel paint and Styrofoam-based napalm.

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  2. mycketforvirrad
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    ‘If we pray like a gringo, then we play like a gringo’ The Times – Stephen Gibbs – 8th July 2026

    ‘If we pray like a gringo, then we play like a gringo’

    Disappointed Brazilians see the hand of God in their World Cup exit, blaming Protestant players and the import of born-again Christianity from the US

    Some Egyptians blamed their exit from the World Cup on a conspiracy, Americans on President Trump’s intervention over a suspended player. Now Brazilians have come up with a theory as to why they were knocked out — the growth of evangelicalism over Catholicism.

    This unusual debate has inflamed social media since the five-time champions crashed out of the tournament on Sunday, after a 2-1 defeat to Norway.

    “Brazil was better when their players were womanisers, drunkards and slightly out of shape. In other words, when they were behaving like Catholics,” argued one account on X, describing itself as the “Institute for Hispano Studies” a “think tank”. It claimed that “evangelical Protestant sterilisation has flattened their ball, ruined their samba and obliterated their swag.”

    The Times – Stephen Gibbs – 8th July 2026

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