Breast Screening

[mikey4444]

I saw one of those trailers in the car park of ASDA today....you know the ones....breast screening. I popped my head around the door to see if they wanted a hand but no, they said that they could manage !

[Mamyalynne]

I wish they did use their hands rather than steel plates, should have asked for go Mikey.

[bookbinder]

So, they didn't need your support, then?

[mikey4444]

I even offered both hands, but the reply was just the same !

[Patsy33]

Even though they said they were managing, I bet they had their hands full

[Old_Geezer]

They were meant to be screening; not screaming !

[zebo]

Mamyalynne, I've always said that if men had to have it done it would be more comfortable. Are there no female engineers out
there? Although it didn't seem as bad last week compared to how it was many years ago.

[Togo]

You could have offered to weigh them Mikey. Weighey Hey.

[Tilly2]

Men do get breast cancer. Stop with the mocking!

[Tilly2]

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Cancer-of-the-breast-male/Pages/Introduction.aspx

[ducksie]

what an infantile thread, men Do get breast cancer and it is sickening when I have and most of us must know someone that lost someone to cancer or is recovering from it, its far from a joke, mikey I suggest you get a dictionary and head back behind the school shed where you obviously spent a lot of your academic years

[Togo]

//what an infantile thread, men Do get breast cancer//
Eerr we know.... some of us have wives, sisters, and daughters. Women however do not get prostate or testicular cancer, so why not just get over yourself. Or selves if it fits.

[ducksie]

yes ye do and you don't see anyone making a joke of it, when you don't have to watch a person slipping away from cancer, joke then, I've seen it in male and female and after a long hard battle I am still getting over it

[Mamyalynne]

I think the more general point is, that it would be highly unlikely for a woman to post a joke(?) about Cancer Screening tests of any kind.


They may chat amongst themselves and make light of the experience but not head to the joke topic.

[Togo]

Ducksy you are not the only one who has ever seen someone suffer or feel empathy for the condition. You may well of course be the last one on Earth to allow yourself to get over it. I am not Mikey's biggest "fan" but I know he posted to perhaps elicit a light hearted exchange. Perhaps his naivety left him unprepared for the readily offended and deliberately accusational.

[ducksie]

I have had it and it's no joke so if I'm maimed for life - I'll just look down and remember it is a joke to some, when you're torn asunder see how readily offended you will be, I'm reminded every day of what breast cancer is like

[Old_Geezer]

I don't know about infantile, I do know it's in 'jokes'

[237SJ]

Yeah, that's funny. I tried to get my Mum to go to one of those when it was in Tesco's car park and she wouldn't go. Turns out that she had undiagnosed breast cancer that killed her.

[Cloverjo]

I usually agree with lots of your posts, Mikey, but this is a bit... um... well ...not one of them.

It's not much fun having your breasts squeezed between metal plates.

[anneasquith]

In fairness to Mikey I don't think he intended to hurt anyone's feelings, we all know how much cancer affects all of us,

[Cloverjo]

Or any result that might come from it.