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men are sooks!

According to this report, men mistake the common cold for the flu and take more time to 'recover' than women. But then us ladies have known that for eons haven't we, and now we have some statistical backup. Who needs stats and online surveys to tell us that men are just big sooky lala babies when it comes to being sick.

First there is 'having a man's look' - when you can't see something right in front of you, or take a casual glance into a room and claim to have searched high and low for it, now there is 'man flu' where you get to take twice as much time off work, feel sorry for yourself and claim to be the sickest person there ever was, has been, or will be all because their nose is a little runny and they occasionally cough!

That right there is why men don't give birth ladies and gentlemen. They'd have one stab at it, never go back or tell their mates how bloody terrible pregnancy and childbirth is, and this race would die out due to lack of reproduction :)

I'm updating this post to add a very appropriate line from an email sent to me today -by anonoypop- entitled "Rules of Man"

Because I'm a man, when I catch a cold, I need someone to bring me soup and take care of me while I lie in bed and moan. You're a woman. You never get as sick as I do, so for you, this is no problem.