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AIBU?

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Original poster

To think 'housework cutsthe risk of breast cancer' is a pathetic headline

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Kayano · 04/09/2012 07:41

Esp as the article says the study showed that active women who take part in regular exercise are 13% less likely to get breast cancer and those who do moderate exercise 8% less likely to develop it?

Although I'm sure looking at lists about what gives you cancer can give you cancer.

My DH has already made a joke about how I should do all the housework from now on (Hmm it was oh so funny honestly how I laughed])

Why did housework have to come into it though? Because its deemed a woman's exercise?

Seriously fuck that hands DH his pinny

AIBU?

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ripsishere · 04/09/2012 07:42

Not in the slightest.

Dawndonna · 04/09/2012 07:45

It's another way of blaming women. We bring it on ourselves you know.

Twats.
Of course YANBU.

hazchem · 04/09/2012 07:45

yanbu. That sounds like a dreadful news paper! Which one is it ?

Grumpla · 04/09/2012 07:46

YABU for reading the Daily Fail ( I guess!)

StrawberrytallCAKE · 04/09/2012 07:46

Yanbu

Original poster
Kayano · 04/09/2012 07:46

It's just an article
On the sky news app

I'm actually on my holidays and still finding time to be outraged in the mornings lol Blush

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Original poster
Kayano · 04/09/2012 07:47

NOOO I don't read the daily fail!

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SillySollySandy · 04/09/2012 07:50

Does your DH not realise that men get cancer too? Throw that pinny right back at him. Grin

JeezyOrangePips · 04/09/2012 07:51

Men can get breast cancer.

Original poster
Kayano · 04/09/2012 07:55

He wants to be careful like, he has bigger titties than me! Hmm the fucker

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flyoverthegoldenhill · 04/09/2012 07:55

I think this study was done by a man who lives in an untidy house, and he
thinks this will make his DP clean up well FUCK OFF it won't !

SirBoobAlot · 04/09/2012 07:56

Sky News not that far behind Daily Fail on the stupid scale...

McHappyPants2012 · 04/09/2012 07:56

men can get breast cancer, so OP yabu

JeezyOrangePips · 04/09/2012 07:57

Breast cancer doesn't discriminate on size :/

And 'titties'? Really?

McHappyPants2012 · 04/09/2012 07:57

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6214655.stm

Original poster
Kayano · 04/09/2012 08:00

Jeezy it was a joke. I mean who honestly says titties apart from me to take the piss

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JeezyOrangePips · 04/09/2012 08:00

Ah, but is it the housework that cuts the risk - or having a clean house...

NameChangeGalore · 04/09/2012 08:01

YANBU...What about the women who are genetically perceptible to breast cancer?

JeezyOrangePips · 04/09/2012 08:01

Ah, fair enough.

Umm.

Lol.

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Kayano · 04/09/2012 08:02

Mchappy that article is sooooo much better than the sky news app one it's unreal.

Even all the % differ.

(although quite how your body knows you are hoovering over swinging a kettle bell I don't understand)

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Original poster
Kayano · 04/09/2012 08:04

Trills that list will give me cancer Sad

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Grumpla · 04/09/2012 08:05

Ah Sky is also the work of the devil.

Strange how so many of these "studies" are about terrifying women into being good little housewives innit? Bet the next one was "children of working mothers have vastly increased risk of being abducted by aliens" or a similar gem...

SDeuchars · 04/09/2012 08:07

NameChangeGalore - don't want to be a pedant but I think you meant susceptible. At least perceptible gave me a laugh - breast cancer peering round the corner to look out for men.

Trills · 04/09/2012 08:07

No, that list will make you realise that news organisations will always report things in the most sensational way ever because their job is to sell newspapers (or to get eyes on the adverts on their web pages).