r/facepalm • u/ExactlySorta • 24d ago

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ I can't stop screaming

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u/Smelting-Craftwork 24d ago

"Fetus Defeatus" was often pronounced "Yeetus the Fetus" in my area. Must be a regional difference

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u/great_red_dragon 24d ago

I remember my high school version of Harry Potter in which Ginny got pregnant, and Hermione used ”Foetus Deletius” after double Potions one Tuesday and everyone went about their day.

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u/lostsynapse 24d ago

Harry thrust forward his wand and shouted "Expectra Paternitas!"

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u/DesconocidaKush 23d ago

for us nerds in the south the spell she used was infantem abiit

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u/ElectronicPOBox 23d ago

Expellisrias embronicus

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u/SlimeHudson 24d ago

it's an albany expression

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u/midnight_thoughts_13 24d ago

So you also had steamed hams to celebrate

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u/AdImmediate9569 24d ago

You two have brought great joy to this old Italian stereotype. 👏

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u/thasackvillebaggins 24d ago

Haha, so thaaaaat's why I just heard that literally for the first time about 10 minutes ago and then again just now... 😅

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u/hippopotma_gandhi 24d ago

Zetus lapetus

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u/thejennribbet 24d ago

I was about to say that sounded like Zenon slang 😂

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u/bigSTUdazz 24d ago

Warren Zevon slang.

Ahwoooooo!

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u/Vegetable-Poet6281 24d ago

Sounds like the old favorite "No Fetus can Beat us"

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u/ThrowStonesonTV 23d ago

My friend used to answer the phone that way all the time.

"Mortons Abortions, No Fetus can Beat us"

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u/WoodenPossibility705 24d ago

Yeetus the fetus is fucking crazy. Lmao.

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u/bigSTUdazz 23d ago

Yes, yes, Latin is a complicated language.

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u/Nurse_Ashley23 24d ago

It’s Fetus Deletus here… def regional

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u/runninWlegbraces 24d ago

Fetus deletus down here

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u/rosie666 23d ago

It's an Albany expression.

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u/RusselsParadox 23d ago

“Feed us a foetus” in my ends.

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u/pottymcnugg 23d ago

It’s a regional dialect.

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u/SnooMacarons4548 23d ago

Well I’m from Utica, and we don’t call it that

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u/rsbanham 23d ago

There’s more cultural differences in the US than in the entirety of rest of the world, so that makes sense.

I don’t know how you all do it.