[#24|+33048|1110] TIL that in 1843, when Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. correctly concluded that "childbed fever" was transmitted between patients by germs on doctors' hands, he was ridiculed. Sir Frederick Treves compared a doctor washing his hand… [r/todayilearned] reddit.com/r/todayilearne…
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TIL that in 1843, when Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. correctly concluded that "childbed fever" was transmitted between patients by germs on doctors' hands, he was ridiculed. Sir Frederick Treves compared a doctor washing his hands to an executioner manicuring his nails before an execution. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pos…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/ivan420
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Fic idea: Cat dies in childbed, Ned weds Ashara Dayne, and their first child becomes heir to Starfall

EDIT: I’ve begun posting here

This plot bunny came to me this morning, and now I can’t stop thinking about it. I’ll have to fudge the dates a little regarding Robb’s birth, but eh, nbd:

Ned and Ashara meet at Harrenhal. Their brothers are talking of a marriage between the two, and they fall in love.

Of course, then Brandon had to get himself killed, and Ned puts personal feelings aside and marries Cat. I see this as basically canon tbh, so he wouldn’t be treating Catelyn any differently from what we see her remember in the books. Then he heads off to war.

Childbirth is dangerous. What if Catelyn died giving birth to Robb? Ned receives news on campaign, but while he is upset, I’m operating under the assumption that at this point he is still in love with Ashara from Harrenhal.

When the war ends a few months later and he’s headed to Dorne for Lyanna, he doesn’t intend to go to Starfall, but Arthur Dayne dies, and you know how it is.

Cue dramatics. So many conflicting feelings, not to mention Ned’s honor about his recently dead wife. But in the end, he needs a mother for Robb and Jon, and again, still in love with Ashara. They get married.

Of course there is political drama as well, what with the Martells trying to get the Lannister to give up Elia’s killers, not to mention Hoster Tully being PISSED that Ned is marrying again so soon after Cat died, as well as being concerned about his own grandson’s position as Ned’s heir.

I think I want a storyline in which Ashara contrives to use her marriage to Ned as a way to achieve peace between Dorne and the new Baratheon regime. So maybe they don’t marry in Dorne, but she persuades him to go to KL instead, and their they use their engagement as a bargaining tool.

Ashara’s remaining brother is going to be...some kind of anti-marriage, whether because of his sexual preferences or his philandering ways. He sees Ashara is going to get married, and decides, pfftt, her child can inherit Starfall. I don’t need an heir.

Then we flash forward to when AGOT starts. All I know is that her first child (who has Sansa’s personality?) is going to be lady of Starfall, while another child will eventually wield Dawn. Maybe they get sent to Dorne as Ned is going to KL to be Robert’s Hand.

I LOVE the idea that Sansa is the child whose personality and personal desires don’t match up with what will be expected of her.

I also think Ashara’s definitely goi

... keep reading on reddit ➑

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πŸ‘€︎ u/wyanmai
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TIL that a doctor introduced hand-washing at his clinic in 1846 because he noticed a connection between women dying of childbed fever and the autopsies doctors performed before delivering babies, and that most didn't believe him, and he lost his job, and later died of sepsis in an asylum. npr.org/sections/health-s…
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"Among Fatima's particularities is that she did not menstruate, and when she gave birth to a child, she would immediately become purified from childbed confinement so as not to miss her prayers."
  1. Tabari narrates in Dhakhaer al-Uqbi that Asma Bint Umais said:

"When Fatima gave birth to Al-Hasan (as), she did not bleed; she also does not bleed during periods of menstruation. (When I informed the Prophet of this) he said: `Do you not know that my daughter is pure, and chaste; she does not discharge blood as a result of childbirth, or, menstruation."'

https://www.al-islam.org/fatima-the-gracious-abu-muhammad-ordoni/chapter-17-al-batoul

Who would have thought.

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Tudors Update...Queen Jane went into labor. After more than a day of complications, she gave birth to a son, Edward. Henry's joy at finally having an heir to the throne was short-lived. Jane died of childbed fever less than two weeks later.
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AITA for removing childbed decorations from my house?

Our house is for sale with a big β€œfor sale” sign in the frontyard. A few days ago my wife and I got our second son. When we got home from the hospital early in the afternoon we saw that our house was decorated with blue balloons and ribbons and stuff like that. Turned out my mother in law and her sister decorated our whole house inside and out. It was a nice surprise and a nice homecoming and I thanked them for it. In the evening when it got dark i decided to take down the outside decorations because we had seen it, and also because I want my house to look β€œclean” from the outside because it’s for sale. I did not touch the inside decorations

The next day my mother in law came to see the baby and I already saw the way she looked at me. Then she left and I got a text. The conversation went as followed:

She: Too bad you took the decorations outside down.

Me: Why? We have been home for a while now.

She: It’s weird to take them down. Decorations should be kept up during the whole maternity period/childbed period.*

(* I don’t know the right word for this β€œperiod” right after you have a baby in english)

Me: So because other people do it like that, we have to do it like that aswel? Guess that makes me weird then. I thought you put up the decorations for me and Karen. We saw them and after a while I removed them so the house looks better to sell. I really appreciated it though! I’ll put them back up if you want

She: it’s a pity. You don’t have to put them back.

Me: I really liked it but I just want the house to look clean. I didn’t know it would cause such a problem for you.

She didn’t reply.

I have a really good connection with my mother in law. Maybe she just did not have her day or something. I honestly thought she was joking first but it seems she really makes an issue out of this. Now I’m wondering if I said something wrong. If I did I will apologize to her but to me it really seems she is making a big deal out of nothing. I really don’t like people who make such big issues for no reason and I also don’t like people who say that I β€œhave to do stuff” because β€œeverybody does it”. I’m not a sheep. I also told my wife that I got the message from her mother and she asked me why I had to take the decorations down. I told her that that is not the point, and that it is my (our) house and not her mothers. (In a nice way)

Ill talk to my MIL later because I see her daily but first I would like to know if I did something wrong.

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Scientists discovered a previously unknown trigger that turns run-of-the-mill strep infections into the flesh-eating disease childbed fever, which strikes postpartum moms and newborns, often leaving victims without limbs. sciencesources.eurekalert…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Wagamaga
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"Childbed" is the most interesting area in Westeros to me, it's so mysterious that young women keep dying there πŸ‘Ά

check this shit out. What could it mean? I think it's Gurm's nuanced way of subtly telling us that Jalabhar is the real author of La Lettre Rose (that's pink letter to you non French speaking shownlys)

Of course Dumbbell and Dimly didn't include it in the s(tupid)how, they instead made up some fanfic called "ASShai" {ooh, it's all dark and shadowy how spoopy LITERALLY FANFICTION}

Anyway let me know your opinions [as long as they're the same as me] thanks friendos

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πŸ‘€︎ u/pey17
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Childbed Fever: The Epidemic Victorians Ignored undefiningmotherhood.com/…
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TIL that the Black Death of Childbed ravaged Europe killing as high as 70% of delivering mothers. physicians studied the issue by conducting autopsies in the morning and then delivering babies in the afternoon. The issue was the physicians themselves not washing their hands. youtu.be/nJxQ2kUGJkA?t=7m…
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"Hey, what about we wash our hands before touching those women giving birth?" They did, childbed fever dropped to a level we know it today. Ignaz Semmelweis asked this question in 1847. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ign…
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SERIOUS: This subreddit needs to understand what a "dad joke" really means.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

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Just because it's a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

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πŸ‘€︎ u/CzarcasmRules
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Blind Girl Here. Give Me Your Best Blind Jokes!

Do your worst!

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πŸ‘€︎ u/Leckzsluthor
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Petition to ban rants from this sub

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

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I heard that by law you have to turn on your headlights when it’s raining in Sweden.

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

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πŸ‘€︎ u/justshtmypnts
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French fries weren’t cooked in France.

They were cooked in Greece.

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This subreddit is 10 years old now.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/frexyincdude
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You've been hit by
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πŸ‘€︎ u/mordrathe
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My 4 year oldest favourit joke, which he very proudly memorized and told all his teachers.

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

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πŸ‘€︎ u/smoffatt34920
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I'm sick of you guys posting dumb wordplay in here for awards and upvotes.

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

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πŸ‘€︎ u/diggitygiggitycee
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Dropped my best ever dad joke & no one was around to hear it

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies πŸ˜‚

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πŸ‘€︎ u/Vegetable-Acadia
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What starts with a W and ends with a T

It really does, I swear!

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My wife left me because I couldn’t stop doing impressions of pasta

And now I’m cannelloni

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πŸ‘€︎ u/bluestratmatt
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Why did Karen press Ctrl+Shift+Delete?

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

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Steve JOBS would have made a better President than Donald Trump

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

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I just flew in from Chernobyl

And boy are my arms legs.

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So 2 trees got arrested in the town I live...

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/K1ll47h3K1n9
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I was almost upset that my coffee tasted like dirt today

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

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πŸ‘€︎ u/scarf_spheal
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No gains
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How eggs-traordinary
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What is the scariest tree?

BamBOO!

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What is a a bisexual person doing when they’re not dating anybody?

They’re on standbi

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A queen size statement.
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My ten-year-old daughter came up with this at dinner tonight: What do you get if put a copy of Macbeth on top of a dictionary?

A play on words.

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