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Man flu actually exists!!

  • 25-03-2010 5:23pm
    #1
    ancapailldorcha
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    It is news to make women sick. Man-flu, the uniquely male condition that sees the sufferer bedridden by the most innocuous of illnesses, really does exist.

    Scientists from Cambridge University in Britain have established that men have evolved a weaker immune system than women because of their predilection to "live fast, die young".


    Well, sort of....

    http://www.independent.ie/health/latest-news/sorry-girls-man-flus-no-myth-2108862.html

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



Comments

  • #2
    Kasabian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    I told ye , I was sick


  • #3
    Fizman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭Fizman


    I'm telling ye lads, Echinacea is the way forward! Take a few a day and you'll never have a sniffle again!


  • #4
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,491 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    The weakened immune system would explain why we get fewer autoimmune diseases.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #5
    [Deleted User]
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    Fizman wrote: »
    I'm telling ye lads, Echinacea is the way forward! Take a few a day and you'll never have a sniffle again!

    So Tom Cruise says anyway


  • #6
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,491 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    It might appear that Tom Cruise is fallable!! :eek::eek:

    http://www2.cochrane.org/reviews/en/ab000530.html

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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  • #7
    Pace2008
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Pace2008


    Wow, scientists from Cambridge came up with this and they even have a mathematical model to back it up. I'm sure this is 100% accurate and not some hack journalist's misrepresentation of a study to create a filler story.


  • #8
    banquo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,487 ✭✭✭banquo


    Being on my first day of manflu today, this news gladdens me.


  • #9
    Mister men
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,487 ✭✭✭Mister men


    I've been telling my wife this is a serious illness for years now.


  • #10
    Kormeera X
    Closed Accounts Posts: 158 ✭✭Kormeera X


    Oh come on! Most fella's milk it when they are sick,:rolleyes: even just over a slight or not so slight cold. They are bedridden or 2 to 3 days!

    But then again...the flu is the flu...men just moan and complain about it because they think they are dying when they may just have a slight cold, they automaticaly assume that its the 'man flu'.

    but is it really??????

    :eek: :confused: :eek: :confused: :eek:


  • #11
    TheZohanS
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    Kormeera X wrote: »
    Oh come on! Most fella's milk it when they are sick,:rolleyes: even just over a slight or not so slight cold. They are bedridden or 2 to 3 days!

    But then again...the flu is the flu...men just moan and complain about it because they think they are dying when they may just have a slight cold, they automaticaly assume that its the 'man flu'.

    but is it really??????

    :eek: :confused: :eek: :confused: :eek:

    Quit trolling.

    Manflu is not something we should joke about.


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