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What if the screaming hasn't stopped after the third hit?
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The assumption is that it's a small one-handed affair. It's probably more in line with those oversized USAF anime swords.
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Jan 2, 2023 23:40
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Flipperwaldt posted:What if the screaming hasn't stopped after the third hit? That’s just because of the adrenaline rush. Keep screaming and swinging until it’s out of your system.
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Jan 2, 2023 23:42
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Not to beat a dead pope but
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Jan 2, 2023 23:47
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:That’s just because of the adrenaline rush. Keep screaming and swinging until it’s out of your system.
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Jan 2, 2023 23:48
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Bang, bang, Ratzi's golden hammer Came down upon his head Bang, bang, Ratzi's golden hammer Made sure that he was dead
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Jan 2, 2023 23:49
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Non Compos Mentis posted:That has to be a prop from warhammer Popehammer 2k
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Jan 2, 2023 23:49
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Flipperwaldt posted:Hahaha pope... more like pulp, amirite boys Papal smear
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Jan 2, 2023 23:51
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You just know that this kind of quaint, unusual and slightly disturbing custom must have started with an extremely embarrassing incident sometime in the Middle Ages, and now I really want to know what that was.
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Jan 2, 2023 23:54
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Flipperwaldt posted:Hahaha pope... more like pulp, amirite boys What do you do with a dead pope? Pulpit!
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Jan 2, 2023 23:55
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Apparently, they tap them on the forehead 3 times while calling out their baptismal name in the ex-pope's native tongue. If there's no response, the pope is decalred dead, the ceremonial ring he wears is removed, and smashed with the hammer. Also, it hasn't been done since the death of Pope St. John XXIII, who died in 1963.
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Jan 3, 2023 00:22
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Kheldarn posted:Also, it hasn't been done since the death of Pope St. John XXIII, who died in 1963.
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Jan 3, 2023 00:23
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You need those ceremonies to prevent the lifeless pope corpse from animating and seeking warm flesh. Deals with the devil have consequences
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Jan 3, 2023 00:24
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DACK FAYDEN posted:do you want more Cadaver Synods? because that's how you get more Cadaver Synods I am sad that no-one got the reference I made earlier
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Jan 3, 2023 02:33
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bunnyofdoom posted:I am sad that no-one got the reference I made earlier FWIW, I got it. 
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Jan 3, 2023 03:35
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Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:Isn't there at least one pope who died by sudden nail to the dome? I can see why. nail to the dome of the rock, more like it
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Jan 3, 2023 04:05
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Dewgy posted:I just chuck mine in water and see if they float. You’re thinking of witches.
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Jan 3, 2023 04:45
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Jan 3, 2023 05:42
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evobatman posted:Were they using the hammer to check if the pope was dead, or to make sure that the pope was dead? There was a time when "make sure" could mean "be sure" too. Fun for those of us who read modernish books littered with archaic turns of phrase. 
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Jan 3, 2023 08:34
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Killer robot posted:There was a time when "make sure" could mean "be sure" too. Fun for those of us who read modernish books littered with archaic turns of phrase. I remember reading this as a teenager and assumed Gimli had, like, shook him a little, but Pippin was so messed up he didn't move.
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Jan 3, 2023 11:03
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IIRC a standardised medical procedure for establishing death is a relatively recent thing, throughout most of history it's been a kind of fuzzy area with a few unpleasantnesses sneaking through the gaps Tapping someone lightly with a designated Deado Whacker and going "hey mate you still there?" seems about par for the course of human medical care, broadly speaking
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Jan 3, 2023 11:53
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Seems tough to hit par with just the one putter but ok
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Jan 3, 2023 12:09
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I remember reading about a 19th century/early 20th writer whose will included a clause about them being stabbed in the heart with a dagger upon death to make sure as they were terrified of being buried alive. Can't for the life of me remember who it was. Possibly one of the Bensons.
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Jan 3, 2023 12:16
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FreudianSlippers posted:I remember reading about a 19th century/early 20th writer whose will included a clause about them being stabbed in the heart with a dagger upon death to make sure as they were terrified of being buried alive. Whoever they were, they wrote the book on how to get stabbed by their significant other.
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Jan 3, 2023 15:57
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being buried alive was a big worry for people back in the 18th and 19th centuries i guess https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_coffin quote:A safety coffin or security coffin is a coffin fitted with a mechanism to prevent premature burial or allow the occupant to signal that they have been buried alive. A large number of designs for safety coffins were patented during the 18th and 19th centuries and variations on the idea are still available today.
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Jan 3, 2023 16:41
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Picturing a coffin with one of these in it
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Jan 3, 2023 16:43
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Data Graham posted:Picturing a coffin with one of these in it That’s where the term dead ringer comes from iirc
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Jan 3, 2023 16:55
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Data Graham posted:Picturing a coffin with one of these in it 
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Jan 3, 2023 17:03
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When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a pope.
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Jan 3, 2023 17:04
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`Nemesis posted:being buried alive was a big worry for people back in the 18th and 19th centuries i guess Looking out the window to see if the little flag has been raised on your mailbox except it's the undertaker looking out over the cemetery.
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Jan 3, 2023 17:06
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BOOBA
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Jan 3, 2023 17:16
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She's not Mesopotamian though, she's Austrian. 
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Jan 3, 2023 17:24
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drat, your mother's so old they put her in a museum.
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Jan 3, 2023 18:09
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About the whole "whoops you're not dead" thing, in one of the Aubrey/Maturin books, and in the Master and Commander movie as well, the grizzled bosun is speaking with the 13 year old midshipman, telling him of the horrors of shipboard life. When bodies are consigned to the deep, they're wrapped in burlap, and the last stitch goes through the septum of the nose to make sure the person's really dead.
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Jan 3, 2023 18:19
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I feel like you’d want to start with that stitch to save you some time.
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Jan 3, 2023 18:56
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Your mom so fat she was immortalized as a masterpiece of paleolithic art
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Jan 3, 2023 20:18
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Well, fuckin Zalgo is on the way or some poo poo Look what is happening at Disneyland
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Jan 3, 2023 20:20
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Mesopotamian woman? Why? What'd she ever do to me?
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freeedr posted:Well, fuckin Zalgo is on the way or some poo poo Holy motherfuck
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