According to Urban Dictionary.com:
Man Flu:
The condition shared by all males wherein a common illness (usually a mild cold) is presented by the patient as life-threatening.
This is also known as 'Fishing for Sympathy' or 'Chronic Exaggeration'.
When the patient is your boyfriend, he will exhibit the standard symptoms (such as an overwhelming desire for compassion) while simultaneously rejecting any and all efforts you make to placate him.
You: Awww, you poor fella.
Him: I'm DYING!
You: (Soothingly) Oh, you're not dying Cy.
Him: (Indignant) I AM! I have Man Flu!
You: Do you need some sympathy?
Him: Yes! But no one understands my pain…
You: I understa-
Him: NO YOU DO NOT!!!
I would just like to add that when us girls get the flu we will get none of this. Possibly we'll be begging for a piece of toast.
:eyes:
Ok, off back up the hill now.
Have a great day everybody.
Capers
Thats okI have two and only really use one :whistle::devil:
:down:off with his head!:p
Capers, I resemble those remarks :whistle::devil:
Man Flu is also known as ‘Fishing for Sympathy’ or ‘Chronic Exaggeration’?Ya know what? One of my ex-girlfriends used to get Man Flu all the time.
Come on? You know the only reason women use the term is because they have had the disease since the existance of time :whistle::devil:
That’s NASTY :)Man Flu is a terrible, life-threatening viral infection!:lol:Thanks for your message, CapeGirl! I apologise for my absence. Will be going on vacation soon to New Zealand – so will update when I get back.Hope you are doing well and all the best for the New Year. It always drizzles on New Year’s Eve in Cape Town. Let me know if this year is any different :wink:Love, JCL.
all i wanted to say was…when us girls are sick, we don’t get the love…the love..”where is the love?” :lol:LC…off with ALL your heads. to the lion pit! bring in the WOLVES!James that’s not MAN FLU but the female version PMS! :DJCL! :heart: have a wonderful vakansie in NZ-lucky you! so pretty. it hasn’t stopped drizzling here. well it has for a few seconds. stay safe, talk when you get back, sweetie! good to hear from you.
Always the abuse towards me :doh: and you are asking “where is the love?”:devil:
*down simba, arthos. sit. stay*come and have a cuddle then.
sure cuddle with the lions and wolves after they try to eat me :rolleyes::devil:
I thought it was a scientific fact that when men are sick, it’s more intense. The pain is worst… But yeah, how could you know?
LC, i call off the lion, the wolf and offer you love and still you turn away…one cuddle going, going….poor me..all this love. :lol:martin> i bet you’re the biggest baby of them all when you’re sick! all outdoors people are.. ha ha. THAT’S a little known scientific fact. you don’t fool me.
Il se peut, Martin, que tu comprennes mieux si on l’explique en francais (je ne parle pas quebecor).Les hommes ne se plaignent pas jusqu’a ce qu’ils ne peuvent plus l’endurer. En ce moment, il faut qu’on exige de l’attention. Les femmes n’attendent pas de nous dire qu’elles sont malades.Mais ici il est plus important de nous souvenir des differences entre nous et elles: les femmes sont plus importantes que nous autres hommes.N’oublions pas jamais, d’accord?Et pour toutes les femmes qui ne comprennent pas ca, je m’excuse.(Vraiment? Bien sur que non!)
*sacre bleu!!!*
Qu’est-ce que j’ecrivis? J’suis pas sur, cherie.
unlisted: Chu Québécois sti, j’comprend pas un sacrament de mot de kécé que t’as dit!Mich: *sacre bleu!!!* LOL! I wish to hear that in real. 😛
aww capey how sweet, I thought you were trying to cuddle with the lions and wolves, I get confused easily after being abused so many times :whistle::devil:
Al-hamdu-lillah I haven’t been sick since I got divorced. … Come to think of it, … I hardly ever got sick before I got married! :confused:Maybe it’s not a flu at all, maybe it’s an allergy?:angel:
LC… you see i get confused too..but here is a ((((BEEG HUG!)))Martin> ok, i’ll say it..did you hear anything?? :p i said it really loud! damn…internet…stoopid….friggin….qlue> salaams. you might have something there…in the worst cases i think it can cause anaphylaxis and sudden death!
I feel so warm and fuzzy, wait, that is nausea :whistle::devil:
:awww:
:awww::devil:
I would gladly take good care of you, if you were ever sick, Michelle! 😀
You’re most welcome, sweetie! 😉 Where’s that cad at? :ninja: I’ll protect ya, Michelle! :knight:
thank you honey! hope you’ll also protect me from that meanie LC-he’s going to poke me with STICKS! 😮
Sticks is plural, I was only thinking about one stick :whistle::devil:That is only because you told a bunch of lions and wolves to attack me!!!:devil:
It’s still a stick, LC! :sst: You deserved it too! :p:lol:
Sweet, thanks FX, I will use my stick on her in a firm manner and make sure that she is taken care of :whistle::devil:
marcus, you look well weaponed for this task! :DLc..not so much:devil:
🙁
LC, you are about to get :ninja: :p:o Thanks, Michelle! LC is about to find out! 😀
I will pull a :psmurf: and smack someone around if they pull a :ninja: with me :whistle::devil:
:norris: anyone looking for a lawman?
😆 :rolleyes: @ LC :p
if chuck norris gets involved i’m calling in arnie!!!!!:D
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Arnie’s a politician now. :lol:The worst he’ll do is talk you to death!
:psmurf: will kick chuck and arnies ass :whistle::devil:
send in…”THE ONE”:cool:
You have to be kidding, The one is weaker then the care bears. :devil:
Do you know who “THE ONE” is, LC?
i’m thinking Jedi Mind Trick…for this LC character, marcus. whatdyathink?
ME? :whistle::devil:Jedi mind trick doesnt work on cartoon characters!!!:devil:
I thought I recognised you LC, you’re Wile E Coyote! :devil: Call early bird cape girl, Give him the beep (:lol:@ South African joke!)
ha ha lol@ qlue! beep..beep..how long do you think it’ll take..is it on durban time? :p
Ja nee ou swaar! Let’s see them put that thru a babel fish 😆
babel fish makes anybody sound like an idiot though!:yikes:glad nie lekker!
Ya they should have called it ‘tower of babel’ rather! But that’s the whole point. Nobody can write a computer app that can translate afrikaans correctly. Its bad enough if they just translate each word but when they start rearranging words they screw up the whole syntax of the sentence. :lol:That’s why Kerstin Was so confused the other day!
“tower of babel* not half! lol!ya, it’s difficult because everybody has little idiosyncracies when they write and on blogs people write casually, use slang and then there is dialect, local color etc…especially with Afrikaans..hoe lyk’it daar in die Durbs in? 😛
I still think we can make a better babel fish though. I mean c’mon, how hard can it be to keep nouns and adjectives together? Sure there is the odd turn of phrase that can’t be handled but there online translators can’t keep even a simple sentence straight. :irked: