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Aint no cure for Dah-bee-tus

If Brian Blessed had it, it would be perfectly pronounced in the style of a (very loud) Shakespearean thespian. Probably with added f words...
 
Mel dCP said:
If Brian Blessed had it, it would be perfectly pronounced in the style of a (very loud) Shakespearean thespian. Probably with added f words...
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Haha!

Funnily enough I heard Brian Blessed recently say something like "I burn 12,000 calories a day. The Blessed combustion engine needs carbohydrates!" so I'm not sure he's the man for the job, much as I'd love him to be!
 
AdamJames said:
Haha!

Funnily enough I heard Brian Blessed recently say something like "I burn 12,000 calories a day. The Blessed combustion engine needs carbohydrates!" so I'm not sure he's the man for the job, much as I'd love him to be!
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BB is an absolute legend. Did you see him on Russel Howard? Vid contains some swearing, so not for the easily offended.

 
Mel dCP said:
BB is an absolute legend. Did you see him on Russel Howard? Vid contains some swearing, so not for the easily offended.

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Yes I caught that one!

I saw him in the (very loud and shouty) flesh recently on his tour. Based on his general attitude towards life, I suspect that if he was ever told he had diabeetus, he would cure it instantly by refusing to acknowledge it. Either that or he'd shout it down.
 
I've enjoyed this thread on dahbeetus, so imagine my delighted surprise when watching the new season 10 (20 years later) of Roseanne on the tele, I heard, quite clearly 'diabeetus' come out of her wonderfully raucous and funny mouth.

As below:

Roseanne: I’m serious – you’ve got to make your kids pick up.
Darlene: She sells used clothes. Apparently it’s cool to look poor now.
Roseanne – Yeah, It’s all fun and games until you’re re-using your 'diahbeetes' needles!

And after a quick google-bio search discovered both Roseanne and Wilford are from Utah originally.

So there - you are - diah/dah-bee-tus is a Utah-rian pronunciation.

About diabetes being a poor person's disease - hmmmmm. The writers probably meant well? We hope? (Trying to say something about poor quality cheap food being sugar-high?) But meaning is always more pertinent than mere dialect pronunciation differences, isn't it? Like we should all eat carbs for breakfast, and type two is about poverty. Hmmmm.

John Goodman, playing Dan Conner, Roseanne's husband, btw, in his own words had "crossed over to the diabetic side" (https://www.menshealth.com/weight-loss/a19541158/john-goodman-weight-loss-0/)

I strongly doubt he is poor! But hey!

Just saying.

(And I want to say 'dahbeetus' now too!)




 
I think the reference to being poor was more about having to reuse the needles and lack of access to medical care then about having the disease because they are poor.
 
Well yes @Hotpepper20000, granted the joke about having to reuse the needles and costly medical care was the point, but I just assumed the choice of disease being dahbeetus for poor folks was intentional.
 
Mel dCP said:
BB is an absolute legend. Did you see him on Russel Howard? Vid contains some swearing, so not for the easily offended.

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Superb 7 minutes of crying! Thanks for the alert
 
Mel dCP said:
BB is an absolute legend. Did you see him on Russel Howard? Vid contains some swearing, so not for the easily offended.

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Hi, How did you manage to watch it? I live in Carmarthenshire and it says its blocked due to copyright in this country.
 
Ian_Laye said:
Hi, How did you manage to watch it? I live in Carmarthenshire and it says its blocked due to copyright in this country.
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I typed in Russell Howard Brian Blessed and like you found an Avalon copyright block. Managed to see the one on Daily Motion 7:22. Good luck! It's worth the effort.
 
"Aint no cure for Dah-bee-tus"

But I hope we're not going to let dat der dah bee tus beat us?

Robbity
 
Mel dCP said:
Oh! That’s new. It worked when I posted it. Sorry guys
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Don't worry!

Our forum rules on offensive language would mean that if there was a direct link to all that swearing, I would have had to take down the link.

On the other hand, if people want to hunt out the video under their own steam, then they can.
 
It's clearly pronounced diabettis.
 
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