#OddNews

Tats 🇬🇧🫖Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party
2025-04-28
Deborah MakariosDMakarios@theres.life
2025-02-25

Odd headlines (BBC):
Man Arrested Trying to Smuggle Drugs Under Toupee
and
Gold Toilet Worthï¿¡4.8m 'Stolen In Five Minutes'
#OddNews #GoldToilet #crime #toupee

Deborah MakariosDMakarios@theres.life
2025-02-10

Odd headline (Stuff):
Beavers Finish Seven-Year Dam Project In Two Days
Turns out if you get mired down in paperwork for long enough, the beavers will just move in and do it for you.
#OddNews #beavers #bureaucracy

2025-01-30

#Italy town clamps down after #TikTok star draws ‘unmanageable’ crowds to ski resort | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2025/jan #influencer #oddnews

Deborah MakariosDMakarios@theres.life
2024-11-01

Odd headline (BBC):
Monkeys Will Never Type Shakespeare, Study Finds.
(Australian mathematicians: 5% chance a chimp would type 'bananas' in its lifetime, but implausible that "monkey labour will ever be a viable tool for developing non-trivial written works" before the heat death of the universe.)
#OddNews #Shakespeare #monkeys #Australia #mathematics

Deborah MakariosDMakarios@theres.life
2024-10-26

Odd headline (Stuff):
Jamie Oliver Joins Hunt After 950 Wheels Of Cheese Stolen In UK Cheddar Scam
(£300,000. 22,000kg. One brazen con-artist.)
#OddNews #cheese #UK #JamieOliver #crime

Deborah MakariosDMakarios@theres.life
2024-10-08

Odd headline (Stuff):
UK Shopper Taken To Hospital After Cauliflower Fell On Her Head
(Shopper now suffering post-concussion syndrome. Cauliflower reportedly returned to shelf for sale. Vegetables: not always good for you.)
#OddNews #vegetable #health

Deborah MakariosDMakarios@theres.life
2024-09-27

Odd headline (BBC):
Activists Throw Soup On Van Gogh Painting Again.
(Seems to me these activists need a better scriptwriter. There is nothing about soup on a painting of flowers that will make people think "of course! We need to reduce our use of fossil fuels!" It lacks resonance.)
#OddNews #VanGogh #protest

Deborah MakariosDMakarios@theres.life
2024-08-22

Odd headline (BBC):
Fake Watermelons Full Of Drugs Fail To Fool US Agents
(Turns out fake meth-melons are unconvincing when among the real thing.)
#OddNews

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