LGBT-flu (a humour and illness thread)

Aurongroove

Do gay people get man-flu?

I present to the forum, Le grand cliche of how men and women complain, deal with, and recover from colds and flu:

Ladies tend to blend their illness into every day life. They'll complain, seek medical advice and take it easy on themselves all on a sliding scale of 'none to substantial' severity of illness.

Gentlemen on the other hand will say nothing, do nothing and not go any easier on themselves up to a threshold: the threshold of Man-flu. Then they will become little teddies convinced they're at deaths door and require 24 hour care and love in order not to die.

Aurongroove

I'm normally immune to Man-flu, but I feel I'm circling the drain this week.

Barna77

My man-flu is serious business. It's the closest I get to the end of the world once or twice a year.

brokenice

i never had the flu in my life...no antibiotics for me when i was a little boy...thank you mammy! it's stood to me all these years! as for gay flu...wtf!...what do you think i am, some f**kin' puff!

Tyteaz

I known a few gays to have gotten it *rolls eyes. I don't think I've ever gotten the flu never mind manflu.

Aurongroove

lol

Rick_

I get the cold probably 3/4 times a year. Had one bout of man-flu though a few years ago. It doesn't stop me, whatever form it's in. I haven't had a day off work for 6 years. How dedicated a worker I am, working when I'm not feeling well! I should get some sort of an award!

It does annoy me when people have a cough or a sniffle and they act like they are literally dying and can't lift their own arm by themselves ("'cos it's so sore!") and expect to be waited on hand and foot. Those sorts boil my piss.

deirdre_dub

I used to get man flu, but I've since been immunised from ever getting it again.

Nyan Cat

I've noticed an alarming increase of (female!) teenagers and teeny boppers on Facebook displaying manflu symptoms!
Got a cold? 'omg my head. My nose. Im dying. I wanna be anyone but me' etc. manflu seems to contagious these days!

Dunno about LGBT manflu. Maybe it's a new strain! Hehe

Barna77

Well, a few years ago, got to work all fine, five minutes later I began to feel so sick I was literally shaking. Couldn't even hold a pen. I was so bad they had to drive me home. No mammy to take care of me

Nyan Cat

Barna77 wrote: »

Well, a few years ago, got to work all fine, five minutes later I began to feel so sick I was literally shaking. Couldn't even hold a pen. I was so bad they had to drive me home. No mammy to take care of me

But but that's actually flu or some other illness, virus maybe. Manflu is just a cold or mild virus that seems to cripple! Ive heard of the theory that men's immune systems are weaker but I dunno if that holds any water.

Maybe it should really be called the Irish manflu as sure complaining is a national sport and passtime

Barna77

Nyan Cat wrote: »

Ive heard of the theory that men's immune systems are weaker but I dunno if that holds any water.

Actually mine is. Just don't cough or sneeze near me

Aurongroove

As far as I know Men and women's immune systems are roughly the same. once you hit about adulthood, and stays that way for along time, until eventually men start losing out again to the ladies, and usually die younger.

What you may have heard is baby boys immune systems and health in general can be far weaker then baby girls who are usually quite tough. So much so that baby girls have a slightly higher change of being born first in a family or if your expecting a baby in late autumn or mid winter as girls have a higher survival rate for babies born in those months. Boys then tend to have slightly higher birth ratios in months after or leading up to winter, to give them a chance to toughen up a bit.


funnily enough, in keeping with the statistics, my oldest two siblings are girls, what's more I was born in November and almost died several time as a child. where as all of my other siblings who were born in winter were girls (and they did fine).

Slang_Tang

Aurongroove wrote: »

Gentlemen on the other hand will say nothing, do nothing and not go any easier on themselves up to a threshold: the threshold of Man-flu. Then they will become little teddies convinced they're at deaths door and require 24 hour care and love in order not to die.

If only that first part were true. I think men are the worst complainers when it comes to illness, right from when we feel that tickle in the back of our throats.

This has been my experience with the guys I've dated. I don't mind taking care of someone when they're sick, but to be honest it's a real turn-off if someone is whining about being sick every month.