Why are Braxton Hicks contractions named after some old dude

In 1872.

Billions of women giving birth for hundreds of thousands of years, but this guy "discovered" them in 1872.

And we have to include his middle name for some reason.

Its an outrage I tell you, an outrage!!!

John Braxton Hicks ( old fart)

 

No Offence VG......But You Research Some Very Strange Material......Very Strange Indeed....



Cheers Glen.

 

Never heard of her.

 

I predict epic thread derailment.

 

Chuggachuggachugga there it is.

 

Your bunions are on that research list

 

Columbus broke the mold, dude. You "discover" something that already exists, you go down in history.

 

I discovered Hip Forums

 

don't you mean beachbum forums?

 

How could you discover something that doesn't exist?

 

Well, science seems to do it, all the time. Lol.

 

you getting confused between discovery and invention mate ? (and irmi !)

 

I can't make the calculations work for fluctuating variances in space.

There must be some kind of dark energy

Can you prove it?

No.

Must be there then.

 

Exactly, there are hundreds of similar examples of old white guys who take credit for discovering things that have been around for hundreds if not thousands of years,
like Hiram Bingham who supposedly discovered the 'lost' city of the Incas Machu Picchu in 1911 – yet the locals knew of its existence for the previous 500 years,


Dutch Navigator Jacob Roggenveen supposedly discover Easter Island on Easter morning 1722 yet the island was inhabited for over 1,500 years by people of Polynesian descent.


There are other examples I could mention but they are too numerous in number............

 

If they want it then they shoulda put a call on it
Woh uh oh, Woh uh oh.

Once you call something that's it, it's yours. Nobody can take that from you. You called it. Similar to "shotgun" I mean once you say shotgun it's yours, only calling "double barrel" gains ownership of the /next/ trip. Unless the squad forgets and shotgun is called.

 

I discovered your stereo.

 

I don't think they're called like that in dutch.

But yeah, some people think they're making a very clever point by taking the word 'discovery' too literally. If a group of people never knew of something and one of them finds out about it and shares it with the group that can righteously be called a discovery. Also, some people act like nothing can be discovered multiple times. Well, that is depending on how well the first time something is discovered gets shared and/or documented.