it’s fun, but alas, false.
Put him on the cart.
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juliebean@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Kommeavsted@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
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.
lazyViking@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yes, that is the definition of a factoid
juliebean@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
i had never heard that definition of factoid before this thread, personally, so i figured folks might appreciate a source. *shrugs*
papalonian@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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
Fetus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
A really fun factoid is that factoids being false information is not actually true!
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
lenuup@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Which means that OP used factoid correctly.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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”
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Factlet?
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So…
Like full swing or just a little tap tap?
danekrae@lemmy.world 1 month ago
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Firoaren@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Szeth Son Son Vallano wore white on the day he was to kill a pope
marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Gotta be concave for the conclave!
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
reasonable precaution, if you also believe in spirits impregnating a woman who then birthed the son of god, everthings possible.
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
frezik@midwest.social 1 month ago
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.
Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month 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.
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You’d think it were unwitting village elders getting buried alive.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I bet that thing has incredible scaling in a FTH/STR build.
Rhoeri@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This guy Souls.
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
!soulslike@lemmy.zip :)
otacon239@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I want to believe this is real
deus@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
Ferrous@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
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.
GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 1 month 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.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
iirc it was until the 19th or 20th century then…
Draegur@lemm.ee 1 month ago
It’s to make sure they STAY dead.
Unsanctioned resurrections are strictly forbidden.
nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Or next thing you get two pope lines and one of them messes around with your vampire boyfriend
trolololol@lemmy.world 1 month ago
But if it’s during Easter, is it really forbidden?
Or is this Jesus being a jealous prick?
SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 1 month ago
They like to keep the bodies/relics so maybe there is a wack’a’pope machine in the vatican
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Dunno about you, but I’m bopping the bishop right now bb.
D_C@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Pics or it didn’t happen!!
lemmylommy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.“
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Everyone who wants a promotion, raise your hand! Keep them up if you believe my story!
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 1 month ago
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I FEEL POPE-Y! I FEEL POPE-Y!
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Can anyone proof he did not Kill the proof?
Were you there? Talked to someone in person who was there?
If not, all the information you/i/we have got most likely delivered as a bunch of hackable pixels.
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Just askin’ questions
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You cannot prove a negative, so he did it.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 month ago
gibmiser@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Now that’s a reference
someguy3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Should hit him with a Klingon pain stick.
trolololol@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Glory to the Vatican house! Yesterday was a good day (for the Pope) to die!
ArtificialHoldings@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s giving Midsommar
fargeol@lemmy.world 1 month ago
A made-up factoid would have said seven hits with the hammer, so I guess this one is true.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Except this time the pope asked them to do it while Vance was in the room.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“Popehammer” sounds like the name of a Catholic Power Metal band…
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
bdot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
not sure which definition of “factoid” i should be using here…
hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Needs more JPEG.
LumpyPancakes@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Does a squirrel listen and determine good pope, bad pope?
Nomad@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Reminds me of the dead sailors that would be sewn into their hammock and thrown overboard. And just to make sure they were really dead, they would sew one stitch through the nose.
altphoto@lemmy.today 1 month ago
How about a holy tazer? You know, a little twitching goes a long way.
frezik@midwest.social 1 month ago
New DnD artifact dropped.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
What happens if they hit the pope with the pipe hammer and he sits up and screams “Ow!” ??? 🤔
jellyfishhunter@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The hammer deals holy damage, so it’ll be very effective to keep hitting.
YoiksAndAway@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
critical miss undead pope deals 15 crushing damage plus disease
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Shouldn’t the pope be strong against holy damage? Unless…Holy shit someone call Dan Brown!
Donkter@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Six more weeks of winter.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
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trolololol@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Rossi pra Papa! Você leu aqui primeiro, comigo.
A eleição vai ser decidida na cage.
markovs_gun@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The hammer does +1d8 radiant damage against undead
Bahnd@lemmy.world 1 month ago
[insert monty python “Bring out your dead” sketch here]
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
“I feel happy! Happy! Hap-” thud
“Thanks for that.”
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I’m guessing the college of cardinals makes that decision on a case by case basis.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Shell cases, if that hammer is any indicator.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If the pope can’t cast Abjure Hammer he doesn’t deserve to be pope