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A made-up factoid would have said seven hits with the hammer, so I guess this one is true.
it’s great work if you can get it.
I FEEL POPE-Y! I FEEL POPE-Y!
I want to believe this is real
iirc it was until the 19th or 20th century then…
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.
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.
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.
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!
Should hit him with a Klingon pain stick.
Glory to the Vatican house! Yesterday was a good day (for the Pope) to die!
It’s giving Midsommar
not sure which definition of “factoid” i should be using here…
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
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.
Gotta be concave for the conclave!
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.
You’d think it were unwitting village elders getting buried alive.
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.
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.
Can anyone proof he did not Kill the pope?
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.
You cannot prove a negative, so he did it.
Just askin’ questions
Now that’s a reference
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*
