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    Man Flu.

    For those of you not familiar with the term - OMG, where have you been, everyone is!

    Right, now that we are all familiar with the term, this is my point.

    I have it at the moment, and the jist of the term is that a ladywoman who had exactly the same level of cold would continue to function normally as a ladywoman. Buying shoes, thinking about shoes, thinking about buying shoes, etc.

    A man, however, with the exact same symptoms dies for a week or so. We groan, we sweat, we ask for cups of tea and soup to be bought to us in a pathetic, whispy voice.

    Soooooooooo... is it a mental thing or a physical thing?

    Does a woman feel as bad as we do, and just gets on with it, because those shoes wont buy themselves, and the pain of child birth is worse, etc, or do women have a higher pain threshold, or their immune systems deal with it slightly differently, or even the feelings of dull pain and horribleness are manifested slightly differently, and thus easier to deal with?

    What do we reckon?

    Obviously all the women will say its the same for them and they just get on with it. What about us men?

    Drama queens or different genes?


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    Re: Man Flu.

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    stupid betond belief.
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    Re: Man Flu.



    Mock him and it just makes him stronger!

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    Re: Man Flu.

    I think we men just like having women fuss over us...
    Quote Originally Posted by Fortune117
    Kids are getting smarter, eventually no amount of parental controls will be able to stop them
    I guess we're expected to do quite well

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    Re: Man Flu.

    I think I made this point before, in a previous thread about manflu. Theory states that women have to generally endure long lasting periods of discomfort and pain, whether on a monthly basis, during pregnancy, or just because women are ALWAYS complaining about something or other - from headaches to abdomonal pain.

    Guys on the other hand tend to run at around 100% optimal condition most of the time, and therefore have no tolerance to the fairly low level discomfort that most of us go through with the onset of manflu. Anything less than 100% is such a shock to the system that we just collapse and are incapable to doing anything other than groaning softly and feeling sorry for ourselves.
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    Re: Man Flu.

    It's because we're the upgraded version...

    Everyone starts off as female, but males get upgrades.
    Quote Originally Posted by Fortune117
    Kids are getting smarter, eventually no amount of parental controls will be able to stop them
    I guess we're expected to do quite well

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    Re: Man Flu.

    Quote Originally Posted by mediaboy View Post
    It's because we're the upgraded version...

    Everyone starts off as female, but males get upgrades.
    riiiight... but they depreciate faster then?

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    Re: Man Flu.

    Yep.. the newer models always have problems. I mean.. we're only like... 20,000 years old as a species. That's practically nothing.

    Besides, all new parts suddenly go into shock when they hit something not encountered before. Ask my computer. It struggles with the new RAM I put in the other day.
    Quote Originally Posted by Fortune117
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    Re: Man Flu.

    Men and women handle different types of pain better - this has been proven, I believe by various tests - in the same tests they also found different types of painkillers were not as effective on one sex as they were the other.

    So, generalising apart, I say it depends on the individual. I know some right malingerers both male and female, I also know some pretty tough men and women who'll keep going regardless.

    I'm not particularly tough but I have to say I've never suffered from manflu and I really don't like being fussed over by anyone when I don't feel well.

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