Even Burly Mountain Men Get SickPhoto: www.zavkaski.com
It happens to all of us. Being out there every day in the mountain environment, shredding pow, bagging peaks, first descents, growing our beards… But even the invincible mountain man sometimes gets a cold. And when we get sick, ladies, we get MAN SICK. Which is kinda like end-of-the-world sick.
So for all of you supportive, loving girlfriends and wives of burly mountain men, here are some tips in how to deal with us when we can’t get off the couch:
- Be present. Don’t leave the house and by god don’t judge us. We’re in dire straits here
- Have some homemade soup, baked goods and hot tea ready to go. Maybe even have an emergency cupboard with said items in stock ahead of time.
- Sometimes, if we can’t sleep, sex can help us relax and boost our immune system
- Remember what we’re dealing with: being MANSICK is hard, and while you can’t understand, you can sympathize with our suffering.
- Drinking beer and watching the playoffs only makes things better
- A real Hot Toddy has THREE shots of single malt scotch in it
- If it’s a pow day, stay home with us. Suffering with us is supporting us
- You have a cold too? Best to hide that. Guilt has a way of bringing on sinus congestion
- Smoking pot can cure the Man Cold, ok?
- Having your girlfriends over for a hot tub/massage party is perfect for relaxing those achy muscles of ours
- Wear a nurse’s uniform. It will help us visualize getting better
- When we’re sick, not even famine in Africa compares to what we’re going through so please don’t tell us we’re being ungrateful
Be a nurse to your man!Photo: www.dogital-women.blogspot.com
So with those top tips in mind, when your mountain man goes down for the count, remember that he’s dealing with a potentially life threatening illness. Do not under-estimate the MAN COLD. Be kind, offer foot rubs and massages and never forget that being a hardcore, burly mountain man is a tough gig, and your man needs a supportive, calm woman to help him get through this difficult time.
For more information check out this informative video on being mansick
We feel your pain, brother http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbmbMSrsZVQ
Are you from GNarnia? You would want your chick to stay home with you on a powder day? I bet your chick can’t even ride powder. If she can, pop some advil, down some OJ, and chase her through knee deep powder even though you are faster than her with mansickness or not. This simple act may reciprocate into an immune booster on the gondy causing you to forget your sick for 10 minutes. Faceshots are a mansickness cure-all, just be cognizant of her new Noronna shell.
This season, I could be on my deathbed and get up for a pow day !
Another junk post from Joe Skiduche. You my man sick friend must be a gaper. To even think staying home on a pow day is ok is a sure sign of bay area gaper. Stop writing Joe Skier. Your posts are a blight on this page.
agreed u r making this shit lame. stick to shredding beater
Why are you still posting this garbage? Why haven’t unofficial sent you packing yet?
This is painfully crap journalism. Maybe go start a facebook blog or something, just leave this (once) respected website before you drag it into the depths.
Oh my god, this cr@p drives me insane! I am so tired of Unofficial posting this sexist cr@p. You prob can’t get a cool girlfriend because you are such a douchey gaper! Who in their right mind would sleep with you? I only would date a man who would not only expect me to ski on a powder day, but would be out there too sick or not. Man up and wake up that it is 2012 and cool chicks can prob ski better than you.
This stuff is funny…IDK what you are talking about
Just a thought, but…
Chill the fuck out people – it’s a site on the internet. Are your feelings really hurt?
So….I smoke a lot of weed, work enough and shread every day I can. It has been limited this year due to snow conditions and my lack of drive to want to ride the 400 acres we have open. That being said I would like to call out Unoffical and Joe Skier for the absolute crap they have been publishing this winter. I am well aware of the fact that nothing is going on out on the slopes. I know this weather has every one in the Tahoe area down. I just don’t understand how a website that has such a good premis and following could go so far south. I mean, did KSL take over Unoffical too?
To all the people who contribute to this web site I say pull your heads out of your asses. Pleas stop putting togeather these pointless lists that divide a ski/ board community that should be a tight knit group of fun/ adrenalin loveing people. There are plenty of great, upbeat topics, activities, people, groups, events that fall under this Unoffical community’s intrest. And if you can’t think of a good story just make it rain hot chicks like the ONE in this post. I would open a post with ski babes, dirty nerse whatever and think to my self “that’s nice”. At least it would be a high point over this artical or the view of brown out my window. And don’t forget about the girls out there, I imagin they want to see good looking men. Not just an artical about a jack ass “mountian man” that should trap his girl in the house because he is man sick. Any real mountian man will grab a flask of Jack and hope it made his clear enough to shred with his hot mountian girl.
I mean, did KSL take over Unoffical too?
FUNNY STUFF
…pretty sure none of that post was meant to be taken so seriously, it was all written pretty ironically in typical gnar fashion, to be offended by it would be to miss the point…
We’re not offended by the contents of this particular article, we’re fed up with the offensively crap journalism spewing out of ‘Joe Skier’
This site is called unofficial….
If you want journalism go somewhere else.
Weak – really, really weak
This is a ski blog not the Wall Street Journal. Get over it. If you don’t like it don’t read it.
UN is funny as hell and you all read it daily so pipe down.