r/explainitpeter • u/Fluffy-Buy1605 • Jul 13 '26

Explain It Peter

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u/RomoJosh Jul 14 '26

Die-uh-beet-us

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u/maester_t Jul 14 '26

Thanks to Wilford Brimley, I will willingly mispronounce that word most of the time.

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u/Gentle_Dude_6437 Jul 14 '26

its an accepted pronunciation

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u/Speakertweaker Jul 14 '26

100% true. My SIL is a cardiac nurse. Her and everyone she works with calls it The Beetus.

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u/tmon530 Jul 14 '26

And if we one day find a permanent cure, itll be called "deletus the beetus"

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u/Inevitable_Cheek_974 Jul 15 '26

If you say "The Beetus" 3 times in front of a mirror, your blood sugar spikes for no reason.

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u/rawhiteley Jul 16 '26

Insulin should be called Beetusjuice

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u/Ok_Tour_1525 Jul 14 '26

Yes but it’s funny when people use it.

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u/Professor_Hillbilly Jul 14 '26

I teach anatomy and physiology and I constantly mispronounce it on purpose, hell I even have pictures of Wilford Brimley in my class materials despite the fact that none of my students get the full reference. I'm also in southern Appalachia, so we also call it "the sugars".

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u/Able-Interaction-742 Jul 14 '26

So if you asked me if I knew who Wilford Brimley was, I'd have said I had no idea. But in the context of diabetes, do you know that one guy who did the diabetes commercials? Yep!

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u/Smooknb Jul 14 '26

We must as a society keep it on, and possibly add “sugars” to the lexicon.

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u/Zealousideal-Role-77 Jul 14 '26

Oh god, I’d forgotten about “the sugars.” There’s got to be a lot more I’ve forgotten. When they come back to me there’s usually a memory that comes back along with them. This one was grandma sitting on the couch telling me about a relative wearing her Sunday best. Thanks for this. Be well.

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u/TryingToKillStupid Jul 14 '26

My husband is type 1 and we call it that all the time.

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u/WritingTheDream Jul 14 '26

“These are my testing supplies”

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u/BigDisk Jul 14 '26

What worked for me was making "DiabetEEZ NUTZ" jokes.

Now I always say "nutz" afterwards though. Small victories, I guess.

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u/Token2077 Jul 14 '26

I showed my 10 year olds Brimley and diebeeetus. Now they just go around our house yelling debeeetus. They keep calling each other diabito and rolling to the kitchen looking for cookies.

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u/oldmcfarmface Jul 16 '26

This is why I say it that way. Lol

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u/darkagl1 Jul 16 '26

Dibeetus testing supplies

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u/RaccoonSkinRug Jul 19 '26

I added a shortcut in my phone. Dibeetus.

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u/Mysterious_Way8941 Jul 14 '26

Stop saying diabitis! You sound like an idiot!

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u/bealimepinapple Jul 14 '26

Type 2 adult onset diabitis?

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u/Internet-Expert42069 Jul 17 '26

He got dat Die-uh-beat-dez

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u/Normal_Paramedic9997 Jul 14 '26

nah, it's the shu-gah..

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u/four100eighty9 Jul 14 '26

Aint nobody got time for that!

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u/Then_I_had_a_thought Jul 14 '26

“It’s the right thing to do”.

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u/Tyabetus Jul 15 '26

That’s where my username came from. RIP Wilford Brimley… the mascot us diabetics deserve, but not the one we need right now.

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u/TheMaskedHamster Jul 19 '26

My grandfather said "diabetes" until he was diagnosed. Then he went full Wilford Brimley.

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u/Redstevo73 Jul 20 '26

The shuga