Collective nouns...

[HOBIE]

How about - A bunch of intelligent, positive , peeps who have a very hard condition to get there heads around (every day is not the same) 😉

 

[Jonsi]

A (sugar) Lump?

 

[Ljc]

Honey bunches

 

[KookyCat]

How about a "rage" of diabetics I quite like that too 🙂

 

[HOBIE]

How about a "rage" of diabetics I quite like that too 🙂

Some good ones!

 

[nomore_Col_Blimp]

I will enter into this with a slightly different tack - and this is possibly playing with word semantics, though have wondered this for sometime.

Why is that people who suffer with Arthritis are rarely referred to as 'Arthritics' and for many a year it had not been acceptable or indeed 'pc' to call those who suffer with epilepsy 'epileptics' .... yet we are more often than not referred to as 'diabetics'.

Maybe I am perhaps being a little over sensitive, and generally still hate the 'label' - but I do feel that being referred to as 'diabetic' defines me as a person, not that I am person who has a condition. I always avoid referring to myself as 'diabetic' - but accept and will discuss my 'diabetes' (where I have to!).

Like I say - maybe I'm just touchy (currently!)

 

[pottersusan]

I will enter into this with a slightly different tack - and this is possibly playing with word semantics, though have wondered this for sometime.

Why is that people who suffer with Arthritis are rarely referred to as 'Arthritics' and for many a year it had not been acceptable or indeed 'pc' to call those who suffer with epilepsy 'epileptics' .... yet we are more often than not referred to as 'diabetics'.

Maybe I am perhaps being a little over sensitive, and generally still hate the 'label' - but I do feel that being referred to as 'diabetic' defines me as a person, not that I am person who has a condition. I always avoid referring to myself as 'diabetic' - but accept and will discuss my 'diabetes' (where I have to!).

Like I say - maybe I'm just touchy (currently!)

I chose my words carefully when I started this thread

 

[Amigo]

I will enter into this with a slightly different tack - and this is possibly playing with word semantics, though have wondered this for sometime.

Why is that people who suffer with Arthritis are rarely referred to as 'Arthritics' and for many a year it had not been acceptable or indeed 'pc' to call those who suffer with epilepsy 'epileptics' .... yet we are more often than not referred to as 'diabetics'.

Maybe I am perhaps being a little over sensitive, and generally still hate the 'label' - but I do feel that being referred to as 'diabetic' defines me as a person, not that I am person who has a condition. I always avoid referring to myself as 'diabetic' - but accept and will discuss my 'diabetes' (where I have to!).

Like I say - maybe I'm just touchy (currently!)

I absolutely know and agree with what you mean Col Blimp and made the same point on another thread. I saw this really as a bit of levity or we could be called 'a political correctness of people with diabetes'

 

[Ljc]

I will enter into this with a slightly different tack - and this is possibly playing with word semantics, though have wondered this for sometime.

Why is that people who suffer with Arthritis are rarely referred to as 'Arthritics' and for many a year it had not been acceptable or indeed 'pc' to call those who suffer with epilepsy 'epileptics' .... yet we are more often than not referred to as 'diabetics'.

Maybe I am perhaps being a little over sensitive, and generally still hate the 'label' - but I do feel that being referred to as 'diabetic' defines me as a person, not that I am person who has a condition. I always avoid referring to myself as 'diabetic' - but accept and will discuss my 'diabetes' (where I have to!).

Like I say - maybe I'm just touchy (currently!)

Well if you're over sensitive then I am too

 

[mikeyB]

I agree with Amigo, this is a light hearted discussion, the other argument has been discussed elsewhere. Otherwise we might become an "Irritation" of people with diabetes, instead of a "Kinship".

 

[m1dnc]

How about:

A Banting,
An Islet, or
A Bolus.

 

[Marsbartoastie]

The way I'm feeling this morning I'd suggest "A frustration of diabetics". Tell me, if you can, how I can possibly weigh 6lb more than I did yesterday?!?!. Those bloody scales are going out the window (fume, rant etc). And breathe.

 

[Lilian]

Water retention Marsbartoastie. You might have had a few more carbs than usual the day before. Carbs act like a sponge. It will go again.

 

[Lilian]

One day (quite a few years ago) some friends and I decided we would go for a run to see what effect it would have on our weight. So we all weighed ourselves before, went for our run and weighed ourselves afterwards. Everyone was the same or lost a little. I was the only one who gained.

 

[Marsbartoastie]

Water retention Marsbartoastie. You might have had a few more carbs than usual the day before. Carbs act like a sponge. It will go again.

Thanks Lilian. You're spot on. I had an unusually high hit of carbs late on Saturday night and I'm paying the price..

 

[Northerner]

One day (quite a few years ago) some friends and I decided we would go for a run to see what effect it would have on our weight. So we all weighed ourselves before, went for our run and weighed ourselves afterwards. Everyone was the same or lost a little. I was the only one who gained.

I lost just over two pounds on my run yesterday - this morning it had all gone back on! 🙄

 

[Jonsi]

How about...

• a Granulation
• a Tatenlyle
• a Millimole
• a Fasting
• a prescription

😛

 

[Lilian]

For a group of young diabetics especially - superheros

 

[Marsbartoastie]

Love 'A Tatenlyle' 😛

 

[Northerner]

For a group of young diabetics especially - superheros

Or parents - they do an amazing job! 🙂 Or would they be a 'sleeplessness'? 😱 🙂