Man flu... yep I've got it bad I've been wallowing in my own self pity, counting the seconds till I can crawl back into bed all day.
I've got my Beechams at the ready and a bud of bog roll stuffed up one nostril, yep I'm a picture of perfection at the moment...

Do you come down with this or do you just fight through the sniffles? Ever just thought sod it and milk it as much as you can?
Any stories to share? Ever just had one of the busiest days and you feel like shite?

I remember one of my college exams in which I sniffed, coughed so much that I was taken out of the room and questioned about who I was trying to pass on information to

Ha! Best idea ever, I'll use that the next time any students cough too much during an exam. XD

I know I've felt this way before, but it always starts with a slight ache in the back of my nostrils - at which time I start taking medicine and it generally goes away before it fully develops into anything nasty. >:3

hmm, oddest story I have with man flu was when my brain pretty much gave up on me.
First one of those really awful lucid dreams, you know the kind, which causes you to wake up in a blind panic. Then I open my eyes, and guess what's about an inch from my face on the wall? Damn big spider.
Then for some reason my brain thinks, you don't need to move away, just stare right at the bastard.

...Then the spider slowly faded out of existence.
Two possibilities: I was hallucinating; I have magical powers.

...man flu? Is that like, the manliest form of the flu that's out right now? /slightlyofftopic
It's been a really really really long time since I've had the flu. I think it was when I was 6 or something.

man flu is a man's way of pretending to survive some deadly disease when it's really just the flu. It probably started over the water cooler at some office:
"Where's John?"
"Flu."
"It's been like four days! It's only flu."
"Oh no, this is man flu. You wouldn't understand."

Whether real or not, every time a man is on the brink of death it is referred to as 'man flu' and not 'flu'. Of course, men can get ordinary flues as well, it's only when they start murmuring their last will and testament that they have man flu.
and now you know.

That sounds pretty bad, Holder.
I had the flu a couple of years ago... It was lovely.

So horrible it's funny.

A swallow of NyQuil, Tylenol to help the headache, and I'm back in bed to get my zzzzz's. Four hours later, I feel much more refreshed, even if I still can't do a lot of aerobics.