What is it about men with colds?
Like, why do we need to be given the fifteen-minute update?
And why can’t they seem to manage doing basic stuff that has little or nothing to do with how much they are sniffling or sneezing? Without having to announce these amazing feats of accomplishment to the world at large (ie. me).
Yeah, you guessed it. Nog has a cold. 
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They´re close to death… and develop a strong need of Being Taken Care Of…
My ex was a master in this behaviour, especially at occassions when he needed to do something substancial such as moving house or giving me some time to prepare for an exam at Uni.
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Leave the poor man alone! He’s not well.
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To cheer him up, he might be interested in listening to this…Lord Melvyn of Buttermere hosting a discussion of a philosopher who was once resident in Seville.
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Just IM:ed my youngest son – he is also dying of a cold :9 – and he commented that a woman giving birth is nothing compared to a man with a cold…
Doubt he would have dared to say that in person 😉
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I have heard of this phenomenon, but have not experienced the Man With A Cold in quite that way.
Get well soon, Nog- for both of your sakes!
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The best analogy I’ve heard for expaining to a man what childbirth feels like is:
“Imagine having a GI Joe removed from the hole in your penis.”
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To be fair, Nog isn’t complaining a lot (as such). It’s more the fifteen minute updates that I think are so funny. Also, insisting he isn’t hungry (or rather, saying he’s not ‘up to eating’ anything) until I make something really tasty and then he turns into hoover-with-a-cold. 🙂
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Or being constipated with a bowling ball? 😉
Cheers Nog! (You take care of your man, Az!) 😀
My two best remedies are:
1. Boil an entire orange, peel and all and eat it all then drink the hot water. (Honest! It works!)
2. Drink brandy and take Vitamin C until you pass out. Make sure you are heavily covered in bed so you can sweat it out.
Cheers!
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Or you could have the man who refuses to admit he is sick, and won’t let you fuss over him at all even if he does have a fever of 104 F. Which is just as annoying andworrying.
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I’d make a comment, but I just sneezed and I’d better go and lie down in case I’m coming down with plague or something..
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Nog was out teaching this evening while I had a class at home and I was telling my student Paco about MEN WITH COLDS and he totally agreed, especially about the 15-minute update thing.
Then Nog walked in right on cue and I asked how he was feeling and he was all …’oh, somewhat better than before I think, still a bit sniffly though, but on the whole not too bad’ and as he wandered off into the kitchen Paco and I nearly fell off our chairs laughing.
It’s actually kind of sweet because he isn’t actually complaining but simply seems to have this need to keep me updated on the state of his health every 15 minutes. 🙂
Anyhow, off to tuck the poor darling into bed now …
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He obviously believes that you care about him, which of course you do! Give him a nice hot toddy while you are tucking him in: 1T lemon juice, 1 T honey, 2 oz brandy or scotch, fill glass w/ hot water, stir and serve. This will help him sleep.
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Sniffle, wheeze, cough, splutter.
Back in fifteen minutes with an update 😉
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Honey. Lemon. Fresh ginger. Hot water.
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Eddie, as a man of science you must have heard of the recent research which shows that womwn get huge dumps of endorphins while giving birth?
They are just wimps really 🙂
Anyhoo how about Woman Martyr With A Cold huh? Not hearing much about her are we? How she shuffles about going on about how she is getting everything done as usual, DESPITE her terrible cold (or headache/period/clicky-hip etc., etc.).
Hope you get better soon Nog, if only to get that woman off your case 😆
Blessings,
Matholwch .
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Men with colds can be a pain, but so can over-fussy women. I’ve just started my PGCE (teacher training to non-Brits) and I’m in a shared house with 14 lovely ladies. On Tuesday, I had a really bad migraine as a result of tiredness and the stress of moving from one end of the country to the other, and I just wanted to sit quietly and sip my water until it went away. Didn’t complain to anyone, but the girls were all “Are you alright, you don’t look well”, “Are you any better now?”, “Do you want me to get you anything at all?” when all I want is to sit in my room until it goes away.
Dang women! Get well soon Nog
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Ha! When I get a cold (and I actually haven’t had one for a couple of years) I get up and go to work as usual, perhaps complain a bit if I have aches and pains, but hey, it’s just a cold, right?
Having flu is quite different. I’ve only had flu once and ended up turning into a man … 😉
Meanwhile, I always remember the wise words of our friend Ricardo (head of the nuclear medicine dept here at the general hospital). He says there are two ways of curing a cold…
1. Stay in bed, drink plenty of fluids, take aspirin, sleep a lot and in seven days you’ll be fine.
2. Don’t do anything special, just make sure you’ve got plenty of kleenex and in seven days you’ll be fine.
I always opt for number 2. 🙂
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Okay, you can stop the get wells, I’m fine again now.
Took seven days.
And despite rumours to the contrary I didn’t take to my sick bed for the duration or complain endlessly (just once every fifteen minutes)
But the chicken soup went down well and was much appreciated.
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Glad you’re feeling better.
Flu is a lot more uncomfortable overall, but I dislike colds more because, thanks to my stupid asthma, what should clear up in seven days can linger for weeks or even months.
If K were to complain every 15 minutes, he might not survive the seven days. 😉
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Thanks Noggin, I’ve got it now! Feel like crap, temperature in three figures, and whining like a whipped cur. No wonder you are feeling better, I’m your Dorian Gray picture.
Well I’m off for seven days in bed if I can get away with it.
Pah!
Matholwch .
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Must be one of these ‘ere computer viruses they be on about.
Hope you feel better soon, Math. Should az send you some chicken soup?
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Nog, Math is a veggie! It’ll have to be lentil soup.
Math hope you feel better soon!
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Noggin, so sorry to hear you were sick — and happy you’ll survive!! az wouldn’t like it if you didn’t, you know.
Math, now that you know what’s expected from A Man With A Cold, we’ll expect to have frequent updates! Do get better soon, please.
I’ve been a bit off this past week, but I’m a girl! 😉 And actually, it was just a massive anxiety attack, anyway.
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“And actually, it was just a massive anxiety attack, anyway.”
Oh, so nothing to worry about then. 😕 Will send email …
*wonders how to send lentil soup in the post*
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Well I’ve had seven days in bed and two recovering on the sofa. According to the Doc’ I really had Influenza this time despite my beloveds mutterings about Man-colds, ho hum.
I blame Noggin.
Blessings,
Matholwch .
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A pot of tea and a good book while curled up under a blanket in the sofa with a purring cat or two is always nice…
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Bush goes ballistic about other countries being evil and dangerous, because they have weapons of mass destruction. But, he insists on building up even a more deadly supply of nuclear arms right here in the US. What do you think? How does that work in a democracy again? How does being more threatening make us more likeable?Isn’t the country with
the most weapons the biggest threat to the rest of the world? When one country is the biggest threat to the rest of the world, isn’t that likely to be the most hated country?
Our country is in debt until forever, we don’t have jobs, and we live in fear. We have invaded a country and been responsible for thousands of deaths.
The more people that the government puts in jails, the safer we are told to think we are. The real terrorists are wherever they are, but they aren’t living in a country with bars on the windows. We are.
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