This week David takes on the sticky subject of ‘man flu’.
Is it really the lethal destroyer of immune systems it’s cracked up to be? Or is it, in fact, a terrible myth perpetrated by women? We’ll let you decide, but you can rest assured that David has got his mind made up on the subject.
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OMG i couldn`t stop laughing this was brilliant. They say men are the stronger sex but i`m not sure about this going by most of the men i know they only have to sneeze and they think their nose is going to fall off…lol. (I know this is not every man) Thanks David for making me laugh i missed this last week xxxx.
I’m increasingly of the opinion that there should be a David Mitchell TV channel available 24 hours a day. In a civilised society it should be possible simply to switch on the box at any time, kick back, and hear an expert ranting intelligently about the things that have been pissing you off for years but about which you are too knackered or inarticulate to rant for yourself.
Well I thoroughly enjoyed that, especially as I woke up today with the flu?! I intend to keep my germs, and my misery, to myself by staying at home and drinking copious amounts of hot soup.
Nice to have you back Mr. Mitchell. 
BTW- Neil… hear, hear!!!
Neil definatly agree lets demand it!! x
I think I might be a sexless robot too…
If I never got sick, I also would believe I was a sexless robot.
Actually, man-flu is what my lazy brothers use as an excuse to avoid household chores. Man-flu never stops them going out with their friends. I, on the other hand, still have to prepare their dinner, even when I have diarrhoea, which surely isn’t right. But they never catch my disease anyway, which probably shows that I truly am the only one up to the job in the first place.
Thought those chest pains stung a bit, but another day in the office beckoned , and I was so excited at the prospect… and I’m never ill… (Person of the non-fussy Type B then…)
What do you mean “heart attack”..??
Oh arse…
Tory, “let there be light, commands Nixon.” 
Anyway, thanks for another entertaining Episode Glad the people like it despite its potentially boring - because of realistic and true - relativity, which I totally prefer over stereotypes.
Great stuff again, David 
You are not a sexless robot! Mind you, I don’t care for shoes or Top Gear but I love my cars and football. God knows what that would make me.
I think the idea that all men who get the flu just have “man flu” is ridiculous. But I think some do play it up. But women probably do too at times.
I am one of those annoying people who never gets ill. For some reason I am very proud of my strong immune system. I always wonder if what each person considers to be ill is different to the next. One of my friends (woman), starts whining at the slightest sniffle and makes out she is dying. I don’t really consider myself ill unless I am unable to do what I usually do and am stuck in bed.
Maybe somebody should write up a definition of ill and then we can all stop faffing around.
Thing is, David, in MY experience, it’s the men who mention it first, and seem keen to keep up the joke. I don’t know ANYONE who thinks its real, but it’s a sexist myth people don’t want to give up. They look at you funny (the MEN as well as the women) if you speak up against it. Don’t blame women for this. I can only take your word for it about what men do or don’t bring up amongst themselves, but it’s not women keeping this myth going all by themselves - more often than not (whatever patronising glances you may exchange) men are even more keen than women to keep this one going. And no, no woman regards this as an exceptable target in exchange for real harms done.
This was fantastic. Especially the “glance conversation” bit.
Everything said about us women being willing to take the more unsavory facets of men as a gender “as read” was just … oddly, strikingly poignant (not in the Hallmarky way) as well as funny. But that’s what makes the best comedy, I guess — if it weren’t true, it wouldn’t be funny. Hence the idiocy of this ‘man flu’ business in the first place.
Would love to see David’s take on women along the lines of these Soapboxes. Fantastic stuff.
(Unrelated: my captcha is ‘commands Nixon.’ The descriptor of a line of dialogue, perhaps? Who does command Nixon? Now I am curious.)