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Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news

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Tags: ask.discussion, recurring.weekly, offbeat fridays, offbeat

Tildes is a very serious site, where we discuss very serious matters like dolly parton, tim curry and algorithms. Tags culled from the highest voted topics from the last seven days, if anyone was topical.

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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    Japan enlists 1,800 people to drag a 360-tonne castle keep using ropes and rollers The Guardian – Gavin Blair – 25th August 2026

    Japan enlists 1,800 people to drag a 360-tonne castle keep using ropes and rollers

    To chants of “so-re, so-re”, about 1,800 people came together in northern Japan over the weekend to pull a 360-tonne castle keep a little more than two metres closer to its original resting place as part of ongoing renovations.

    Rotating teams of 80 people heaved on 30-metre ropes as the keep of Hirosaki Castle in Aomori prefecture edged closer to its destination. On Saturday participants towed the building – which has been set on rails – 1.13m, while on Sunday it was shifted another 1.09m.

    The Guardian – Gavin Blair – 25th August 2026

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