Quote: Aaron @ November 17 2008, 5:57 PM GMTI have never had man flu. Only ever the common cold.
You are a barrel of laughs.
However, my permanent health problems mean that the common cold really does knock me in the way that others claim it to.
It strikes me that to imply you have influenza when you're merely suffering from a cold is akin to declaring yourself to have a brain tumour when a migraine comes on.
Well, maybe not really 'akin', as such. Anyway, how do you know how my health problems are affected by a cold?
I have a chest and throat infection as well, which are unpleasant. And real