So, I was watching this video by a historian I like on YouTube, and the video was about how high the infant mortality rate was in Medieval times, and I commented that a lot of women died young in childbirth as well.
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So, I was watching this video by a historian I like on YouTube, and the video was about how high the infant mortality rate was in Medieval times, and I commented that a lot of women died young in childbirth as well. Seems pretty innocuous, and demonstrably true, right?
Apparently, I angered the men of the internet who raged that MEN ALSO DIED!
I had no idea so many men died in childbirth!
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So, I was watching this video by a historian I like on YouTube, and the video was about how high the infant mortality rate was in Medieval times, and I commented that a lot of women died young in childbirth as well. Seems pretty innocuous, and demonstrably true, right?
Apparently, I angered the men of the internet who raged that MEN ALSO DIED!
I had no idea so many men died in childbirth!
Oh you didn't.
It's a well-known historical fact that at least 10% of all men died during childbirth after having lectured their spouses about how the pain of labor was nothing compared to that time they hit their toe on that bar room stool.
Historical records show that coroners registered the deaths as either "natural causes" or "what the f... did they even expect would happen?"
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Oh you didn't.
It's a well-known historical fact that at least 10% of all men died during childbirth after having lectured their spouses about how the pain of labor was nothing compared to that time they hit their toe on that bar room stool.
Historical records show that coroners registered the deaths as either "natural causes" or "what the f... did they even expect would happen?"
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@Fragarach @RickiTarr Exactly!
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Oh you didn't.
It's a well-known historical fact that at least 10% of all men died during childbirth after having lectured their spouses about how the pain of labor was nothing compared to that time they hit their toe on that bar room stool.
Historical records show that coroners registered the deaths as either "natural causes" or "what the f... did they even expect would happen?"
@SuneAuken @RickiTarr or that they were supposed to suffer because of Eve... bible stuff... yada yada.
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@Fragarach @RickiTarr Exactly!
@SuneAuken @Fragarach @RickiTarr the push didn't kill him, it was the ground that didn't get out of the way!
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@SuneAuken @Fragarach @RickiTarr the push didn't kill him, it was the ground that didn't get out of the way!
@ketmorco @Fragarach @RickiTarr what a wonderfully Pratchett thing to say.
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@ketmorco @Fragarach @RickiTarr what a wonderfully Pratchett thing to say.
@SuneAuken @ketmorco @RickiTarr
Sounds also a bit Douglas Adams, the secret of flying is to throw yourself at the ground - and miss
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@SuneAuken @ketmorco @RickiTarr
Sounds also a bit Douglas Adams, the secret of flying is to throw yourself at the ground - and miss
@Fragarach @ketmorco @RickiTarr
Also true.
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@Fragarach @SuneAuken @RickiTarr i just realized that all the Russian oligarchs falling off windows had also died of natural causes
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@SuneAuken @RickiTarr or that they were supposed to suffer because of Eve... bible stuff... yada yada.
Yeah. My pastor wife would have SO killed me if I had said that during her labor.
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@Fragarach @SuneAuken @RickiTarr i just realized that all the Russian oligarchs falling off windows had also died of natural causes
.@funambolo @Fragarach @RickiTarr
I believe that for an oligarch this is indeed considered a natural way to go.
