threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
Why Men get Man Flu
- Thread starter Speicher
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amnesia
Free-wheeling into oblivion...
- Location
- Bournemouth, Dorset
Surely if you catch it off any hairy mammal then it's transfurred.
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
D'oh! I missed that...
OP
OP
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
Catch it off a nuclear scientist, it will be transfusion.
Catch it from your sister, and its transistor.
Or you could catch it from sitting next to a Conservative MP on a train - transitory.
Catch it from your sister, and its transistor.
Or you could catch it from sitting next to a Conservative MP on a train - transitory.
Night Train
Maker of Things
- Location
- Greater Manchester
Catching it with delayed effects, - translator.
beanzontoast
Guru
- Location
- South of The Peaks
[QUOTE 1263624"]
Actually, the reason that men are more harshly affected is that men have thinner chest mucosal membranes than women, who need a deeper layer of adipostic tissue. The flu virus can therefore penetrate deeper and more rapidly into a mans chest cavity, thereby leaving them more open to the more severe flu symptoms. Also a mans B-cell response is often less forthright than womens because of the over-production of lymph adrenalin that men produce, which was needed for the fight reaction, where women often have more of a freeze reaction and produce more circulating AGT which is a better WBC mediator in operant virus conditions. So man flu is actually a fact FACT.*
*Some, or indeed all, of the terms and medical sounding facts used in this post may be bollocks.
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Nevertheless, I'll be learning this off-by-heart ready to use the next time I get a bad cold!
Actually, the reason that men are more harshly affected is that men have thinner chest mucosal membranes than women, who need a deeper layer of adipostic tissue. The flu virus can therefore penetrate deeper and more rapidly into a mans chest cavity, thereby leaving them more open to the more severe flu symptoms. Also a mans B-cell response is often less forthright than womens because of the over-production of lymph adrenalin that men produce, which was needed for the fight reaction, where women often have more of a freeze reaction and produce more circulating AGT which is a better WBC mediator in operant virus conditions. So man flu is actually a fact FACT.*
*Some, or indeed all, of the terms and medical sounding facts used in this post may be bollocks.
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Nevertheless, I'll be learning this off-by-heart ready to use the next time I get a bad cold!
potsy
Rambler
- Location
- My Armchair
[QUOTE 1263624"]
Actually, the reason that men are more harshly affected is that men have thinner chest mucosal membranes than women, who need a deeper layer of adipostic tissue. The flu virus can therefore penetrate deeper and more rapidly into a mans chest cavity, thereby leaving them more open to the more severe flu symptoms. Also a mans B-cell response is often less forthright than womens because of the over-production of lymph adrenalin that men produce, which was needed for the fight reaction, where women often have more of a freeze reaction and produce more circulating AGT which is a better WBC mediator in operant virus conditions. So man flu is actually a fact FACT.*
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Sounds purr-fectly reasonable to me. Might print this out next time I'm off work
Actually, the reason that men are more harshly affected is that men have thinner chest mucosal membranes than women, who need a deeper layer of adipostic tissue. The flu virus can therefore penetrate deeper and more rapidly into a mans chest cavity, thereby leaving them more open to the more severe flu symptoms. Also a mans B-cell response is often less forthright than womens because of the over-production of lymph adrenalin that men produce, which was needed for the fight reaction, where women often have more of a freeze reaction and produce more circulating AGT which is a better WBC mediator in operant virus conditions. So man flu is actually a fact FACT.*
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Sounds purr-fectly reasonable to me. Might print this out next time I'm off work
No that's if you catch it of someone you'd given it to earlier.
OP
OP
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
Catching it from a Christmas tree would be a transplant.
OP
OP
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
Sounds purr-fectly reasonable to me. Might print this out next time I'm off work
I hear that you managed to doggedly carry on at work. I hope you are feline better now.
cisamcgu
Legendary Member
- Location
- Merseyside-ish
If you catch it from a very big, talking tree in Middle earth, then it is OK, since it will only be transient
OP
OP
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
I think I caught my cold from someone who had recently travelled from the Urals to Vladivostock by train.
Who knows what that would be?
Who knows what that would be?
OP
OP
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
