it’s fun, but alas, false.
The snopes article doesn’t say it’s outright false, just that it’s not based on available evidence. So stating it as fact rather than rumor is misinformation.
The Vatican has failed to deny it for over 20 years of inquiry. The impact of this claim is benign compared to pretty much anything else the church has factually done.
it’s funny and harmless, meme on.
Yes, that is the definition of a factoid
i had never heard that definition of factoid before this thread, personally, so i figured folks might appreciate a source. *shrugs*
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.
A really fun factoid is that factoids being false information is not actually true!
Ow, my brains.
You know, it should be obvious, but until you brought it up here, I was guilty of thinking of it as just some colloquialism (which it very well may be). But if you think of the suffix -oid, taking “humanoid” for example, you get something that isn’t presenting itself as a human. But I didn’t come to that conclusion, I just was like, wow, they bop the Pope with a hammer.
So thanks.
Factlet?
Yeah, most lexicons being descriptive rather prescriptive makes etymology one hell of a twisted labyrinth. I agree it’s important for a lot of reasons. The last thing we need right now is a State enforcing some kind of “Newspeak”
reasonable precaution, if you also believe in spirits impregnating a woman who then birthed the son of god, everthings possible.
So…
Like full swing or just a little tap tap?
He was wearing white, when he went into the room.
Szeth Son Son Vallano wore white on the day he was to kill a pope
Gotta be concave for the conclave!
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.
I shit you not, it took the Catholic Church until the 1800’s to finally accept that the Earth revolves around the fucking Sun. Maybe the 1750’s if someone’s feeling generous, but they were still censoring Galileo’s and Copernicus’s books at that time.
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.
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.
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.
You’d think it were unwitting village elders getting buried alive.
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.“
Everyone who wants a promotion, raise your hand! Keep them up if you believe my story!
I want to believe this is real
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.
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.
iirc it was until the 19th or 20th century then…
It’s to make sure they STAY dead.
Unsanctioned resurrections are strictly forbidden.
Or next thing you get two pope lines and one of them messes around with your vampire boyfriend
But if it’s during Easter, is it really forbidden?
Or is this Jesus being a jealous prick?
I FEEL POPE-Y! I FEEL POPE-Y!
Isn’t that what JD Vance did when he visited the pope, killing him?
Since the Trump administration thrives on falsifying news, can’t we go in the counter offensive by mass spreading JD Vance killed the pope? I think this would be so funny and his dumb fanbase might actually believe it and start to hate him for it.
“Popehammer” sounds like the name of a Catholic Power Metal band…
I can’t offer you that, but that pope hammer does look awfully square.
That would be Wytch Hazel
Now that’s a reference
It’s giving Midsommar
Should hit him with a Klingon pain stick.
Glory to the Vatican house! Yesterday was a good day (for the Pope) to die!
