re: man-flu

I have been struck down with flu. Well actually it is more likely to be just a common cold. But I have been telling everyone else it is flu so I dont see why the mango should be any different.

And therein lies a common thread. Most men will take serious injuries on the chin. Though not exclusively there - unless you're Jimmy Hill. If you break your leg, you dont complain about it on twitter or facebook. Instead you suck it up and start on your crutches.

Yet the common cold can have even the best of men simpering like Zed in Pulp Fiction post-groinal shooting. I am wrapped up in a blanket with the heating on full blast complaining that it is too damn cold and sniffling and sneezing the afternoon away.

So to all those men suffering from 'flu' - I feel your pain and salute you.