Submitted by morerubberstamps t3_126p83d in todayilearned
It goes without saying that these repeated brain injuries caused long-term effects…
It's probably not ideal.
I've had 27 concussions (various reasons), and my short-term memory is shit, but other than that, no lasting issues (so far).
Do you ever think maybe you're not making the best life choices?
I did a lot of drugs and extreme sports in my teenage years, plus several freak accidents. My life is awesome now, and I'm extremely happy with how everything turned out, so I wouldn't take any of it back.
I just heard about this today too listening to an older episode of No Such Thing as a Fish.
How about Snowy/Milou! Not many fox terriers live 50+ years through multiple attacks, capture, and a serious alcohol and bone habit.
Maybe Tintin just kept buying new identical-looking fox terriers and naming them Snowy/Milou, just like the Simpson family's Snowball cats numbers I to V.
That would explain his move from dark cynic to happy go lucky over the years.
But I prefer to think of him as eternal.
I'd want to know how many times Penny from Inspector Gadget got chloroform'd. Can't be good for the health.
First hit put him in a vegetative state where he dreamed the rest of the adventures.
Worse than a professional football player
Still better than boxers or MMA fighters.
O yeah loads of cte there
Tintin has CTE lmao
The Adventures of TBI-TBI.
We must have different definitions of "countless." If he was knocked unconscious 43 times, it can't be more than 43. With the other examples listed, we are down to 35 punches at most. That sounds pretty countable to me.
Nope, countless. Just unending punches. Just when you think Tintin is done getting punched - Bam! another punch.
And don't get me started on the clubs.
does he need a psychologist or a sychologist?
A knockout post, i see.
A giant apple really is the best weapon lol
Almost as much as Lana Lang in the first two seasons of Smallville
I was going to say Giles on Buffy.
His wasn’t as frequent lol
still today great books, there are even a few inofficial.
Ahh so it’s brain damage. I always assumed he was just speaking French.
Man that TBI must be rough
Blistering barnacles!!
This trope is so bad that I just can't read books regardless of genre if anyone is kidnapped. It's so tired and trite. Also who the hell gets kidnapped more than once.
I am amazed the Hardy Boys can tye their own shoes let alone solve mysterys with all the head trauma they have endured
I’m getting a major clue right now.
Tintin got the cte
The Hardy Boys would top that, being knocked out every book and there were LOTS of books. "With a cry, Joe sank to the ground...unconscious!"
lol i remember reading it as a kid thinking “it can’t be that easy to knock someone out now can it”
I never figured out how Captain Haddock didn't suffer from thiamine deficiency, cirrhosis, ascites, portal hypertension or seizures while also suffering from his regular bouts of delirium tremens.
Does this include the chloroform knockouts he got once or twice?
Or that time he passed out by massive g forces from being launched to the moon?
Yes for the former. >Tintin was choked, thrown down stairs, tossed from a train, poisoned with chloroform, mauled by a lion, shot and hurled a great distance by an explosion, events that may have also caused neurological damage.
Tintin is build differently.
Definitely something I've thought about while watching more tin tin with my little boy over the past few months.
Given how often he is knocked out...he is the absolute champion of recovery from being concussed.
The tv series was definitely on my regular rotation of Saturday afternoon watching.
Countless??? I bet you could really count them all if you tried hard enough.
But he's not real ? It's a book ?
morerubberstamps OP t1_jea2nd1 wrote
This led researchers to publish a tongue-in-cheek study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, which concluded that these repeated blows to the head contributed to his short stature:
>It appears that his perennially prepubescent look is due to a growth-hormone deficiency and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, conditions likely brought on by repeated blows to the head.
>"We believe that the multiple traumas Tintin sustained could be the first case of traumatic pituitary injury described in the literature," said Claude Cyr, an associate professor of medicine at the Université de Sherbrooke in Sherbrooke, Que."