it’s fun, but alas, false.
Put him on the cart.
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juliebean@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Kommeavsted@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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 2 months ago
Yes, that is the definition of a factoid
juliebean@lemm.ee 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
A really fun factoid is that factoids being false information is not actually true!
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Which means that OP used factoid correctly.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Factlet?
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So…
Like full swing or just a little tap tap?
danekrae@lemmy.world 2 months ago
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Firoaren@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Szeth Son Son Vallano wore white on the day he was to kill a pope
marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Gotta be concave for the conclave!
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
reasonable precaution, if you also believe in spirits impregnating a woman who then birthed the son of god, everthings possible.
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
You’d think it were unwitting village elders getting buried alive.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I bet that thing has incredible scaling in a FTH/STR build.
Rhoeri@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This guy Souls.
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
!soulslike@lemmy.zip :)
otacon239@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I want to believe this is real
deus@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
iirc it was until the 19th or 20th century then…
Draegur@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It’s to make sure they STAY dead.
Unsanctioned resurrections are strictly forbidden.
nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Or next thing you get two pope lines and one of them messes around with your vampire boyfriend
trolololol@lemmy.world 2 months ago
But if it’s during Easter, is it really forbidden?
Or is this Jesus being a jealous prick?
SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 2 months ago
They like to keep the bodies/relics so maybe there is a wack’a’pope machine in the vatican
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Dunno about you, but I’m bopping the bishop right now bb.
D_C@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Pics or it didn’t happen!!
lemmylommy@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Everyone who wants a promotion, raise your hand! Keep them up if you believe my story!
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I FEEL POPE-Y! I FEEL POPE-Y!
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Just askin’ questions
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You cannot prove a negative, so he did it.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 months ago
gibmiser@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Now that’s a reference
someguy3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Should hit him with a Klingon pain stick.
trolololol@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Glory to the Vatican house! Yesterday was a good day (for the Pope) to die!
ArtificialHoldings@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s giving Midsommar
fargeol@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A made-up factoid would have said seven hits with the hammer, so I guess this one is true.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Except this time the pope asked them to do it while Vance was in the room.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“Popehammer” sounds like the name of a Catholic Power Metal band…
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
bdot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
not sure which definition of “factoid” i should be using here…
hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Needs more JPEG.
LumpyPancakes@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Does a squirrel listen and determine good pope, bad pope?
Nomad@infosec.pub 2 months 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 2 months ago
How about a holy tazer? You know, a little twitching goes a long way.
frezik@midwest.social 2 months ago
New DnD artifact dropped.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
What happens if they hit the pope with the pipe hammer and he sits up and screams “Ow!” ??? 🤔
jellyfishhunter@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The hammer deals holy damage, so it’ll be very effective to keep hitting.
YoiksAndAway@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
critical miss undead pope deals 15 crushing damage plus disease
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Shouldn’t the pope be strong against holy damage? Unless…Holy shit someone call Dan Brown!
Donkter@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Six more weeks of winter.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
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trolololol@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Rossi pra Papa! Você leu aqui primeiro, comigo.
A eleição vai ser decidida na cage.
markovs_gun@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The hammer does +1d8 radiant damage against undead
Bahnd@lemmy.world 2 months ago
[insert monty python “Bring out your dead” sketch here]
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
“I feel happy! Happy! Hap-” thud
“Thanks for that.”
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I’m guessing the college of cardinals makes that decision on a case by case basis.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Shell cases, if that hammer is any indicator.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If the pope can’t cast Abjure Hammer he doesn’t deserve to be pope