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[–] [email protected] 85 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (9 children)

Fun fact: the word "factoid" means a false bit of information that is being passed as fact. It doesn't mean "a small interesting tidbit of information".

Though I suppose the official definition will be changed since the proper one is seemingly dead

Quick edit: looks like it may have already been altered.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The inventor of this method: „he was dead before I hit him. I was totally just checking with my medical hammer, you guys. Believe me.“

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

It's giving Midsommar

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Now that's a reference

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Nono, I remember this from JPII's death. They yell his birth name 3 times into his room and then they use the hammer to smash his ring and seals. Dude was in a coma for a just long enough for us to hope for a Undead Pope -> Emperor on the Golden Throne situation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Except this time the pope asked them to do it while Vance was in the room.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 days ago (3 children)

So..

Like full swing or just a little tap tap?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Gotta be concave for the conclave!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If they were physicists they'd hold the tip of the handle with a pinching gesture, then pull the hammer back to horizontal and let it drop. Swinging with a perfect arc it would thud into the pope's head with just enough force to hurt anyone who was still alive, and get a response.

However seeing as they're still using a hammer to test for brain activity - we can assume the Catholic Church isn't that friendly to science or something.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 days ago (2 children)

He was wearing white, when he went into the room.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is like those warning labels. Someone had to really fuck up to get some of those warnings made. Makes me wonder about this hammer.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Oh, they did. Telling if someone was really dead was difficult until modern medicine figured it out in the last century or so. People got buried alive by unwitting village elders all the time.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago

it was common enough that the "Safety Coffin" was invented to help deal with it. If you heard a bell ringing in the graveyard, someone was alive down there.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

it's great work if you can get it.

[–] [email protected] 112 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

What happens if they hit the pope with the pope hammer and the pope sits up and screams "Ow!" ??? 🤔

Do they just keep hitting him with the hammer or do they need to use magic to destroy the undead abomination?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

Six more weeks of winter.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

[insert monty python "Bring out your dead" sketch here]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

"I feel happy! Happy! Hap-" thud

"Thanks for that."

[–] [email protected] 108 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The hammer deals holy damage, so it'll be very effective to keep hitting.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago

critical miss undead pope deals 15 crushing damage plus disease

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Does a squirrel listen and determine good pope, bad pope?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I want to believe this is real

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

iirc it was until the 19th or 20th century then....

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 days ago

It's unclear. The Vatican denies it, but apparently weirder methods have been used to certify the passing of a pope before, so who knows.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Same. I had to look it up. In doing my deep research, I learned that they used an EKG on Jonny P II to confirm his expiration. That shit's hilarious. It was someone's job to EKG that OBVIOUSLY dead corpse, lol.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Eh, a lot of the time EMS will do the same thing on a corpse call. It's one of those 'dot your is and cross your ts' things. I'll give the JPdub EKG a pass.

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