Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for December 04, 2023

Your username and password are no longer valid…..

OUCH!

I hate to tell you all the female names I call my computer when it bellies up.

A computer virus takes a byte out of your computer a bit at a time.

I know how you feel Cosmo, I’ve been through the same thing with my phone and laptop too

I read a recent study that men are, in fact, hit harder by virus effects because they lack the attenuating effects of estrogen. Something like estrogen attenuates and testosterone amplifies those effects. Can’t cite the study as I don’t remember it bit it was recent.

I’ve seen several articles saying studies indicate that men actually do become sicker from viral infections than women. On the flip side, the same research indicates that females are more likely to develop autoimmune diseases than men.

Here’s one:www(dot)sciencenorway(dot)no/covid19-diseases-gender-differences/why-do-men-get-sicker-from-viruses-than-women-new-study-could-help-explain-man-flu/2191511

Well, with laptops, conking could just be the battery. In that case, his laptop could be a female.

Where……do I get the notion that Roz has had BAD experiences with the male members of society ???

Not all computer viruses (well malware as viruses tend to be harder to replicate form machine to machine now) render the computer unusable – some want to lie low so they can make the computer part of a bot-net to participate in various attempts to extort etc.

My immune system is a well regulated militia and vaccines are wargames for it. My wife says hers is like the Keystone cops.

The woman says “I’m so glad I got to experience childbirth so that I could possibly have some idea of the amount of pain that my husband experiences when he has a cold.”

Guess it’s time for this old, circulating joke:

Pencil is masculine “le crayon”. A student asked, "What gender is computer?

Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two groups- male and female- and asked them to decide for themselves whether computer should be a masculine or a feminine noun. Each group was asked to give four reasons for their recommendation.

The men’s group decided that computer should definitely be the feminine gender (la computer) because:1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic.2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for possible later review; and4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.

The women’s group, however, concluded that computers should definitely be masculine (le computer) because:1. In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on.2. They have a lot of data but still can’t think for themselves.3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem; and4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a little longer, you could have gotten a better model.

I would rather take a beating than catch a cold. 2 years ago, I got cut with a circular saw in my stomach. Blade got bound in my shirt (thankfully) and stopped the saw. I had to yank it out, then after the EMTs said it was cauterized and it didn’t look like it went through to the stomach lining, I wanted to finish the job before going to the ER. Wife threw a fit. However, I caught a cold last week and ABSOLUTELY miserable. My wife left for a business trip this week. I think in order to get away from me.

Yes, and the kitchen islands are all female.

Because, No Man is an Island.

I don’t know how this became a thing. Guys in my family are ready for the emergency room before they will admit that they are sick.

Make that ‘even more helpless’. If that’s possible.

But they all have motherboards!

Hey! I resemble that remark!!

you just have to know the right button to push to turn it on…

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And they have useless dongles.

talk about sexist

Women are expected to work through the pain. And that assumes anyone thinks they are really sick and not just hysterical.

Sometimes I wonder why I read comics like this and Pickles and others when the majority is stereotypical barbs toward the opposite sex in both directions. The best Shoe comic I ever saw was the cafe owner (Roz?) saying to a female customer that she hates it when old people poke her at weddings and say “You’re next!” Customer says, "Oh? …what do you do? Roz says “I come up to them at funerals and say the same thing.”

Yeh. That’s why they are temperamental depending on the phase of the moon.

Hey, just because women are used to walking around all the time with the pain of incipient Endometriosis …

“The smallest virus….”

Aren’t they all pretty much the same size?