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05-05-2016, 05:39 PM
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... I also dearly love the long lists of side effects, like fixing your neighbor's car while sleepwalking, or oily anal discharge.
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My favorite is the sly and subtle way they say: "and this shit may kill you."
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05-05-2016, 05:49 PM
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I find it a bit unfair that they let these pharma companies advertise all this crap, complete with warnings that they "may cause severe complications, up to and including death", but tobacco companies can't advertise on television at all, even if they include the health warnings.
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Thank Reagan.
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05-05-2016, 06:30 PM
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I got me one of them fancy DVR thingies and fast forward through all the shows, just watch the commercials.
I especially love the prescription drug commercials, which have pretty much taken the place of the old boring beer commercials with girls in bikinis.
Nozulla, Lyrica, Lunesta, Chant, Prilosec, Concerta, Lipitor, Enbrel, "SeeAlice", Abilify, Nasonex, Vioxx, Pristiq, Humira, Zoloft, Lipitor, Wellbutrin, Stelara, Prevacid are a few of my favorites.
I especially like the ones with animated people and animals, or butterflies floating around.
Many are fun just trying to guess what it cures, while the actors play softball or load an LP onto the old turntable they found in the garage.
I also dearly love the long lists of side effects, like fixing your neighbor's car while sleepwalking, or oily anal discharge.
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Thanks for the laugh.
What I also find fascinating is the disclaimer they read on radio after at the end of a commercial. Guess this is required legalese but the rapid pace at which it is said, no one could understand a word. I find this actually mocking the regulatory requirements.
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05-06-2016, 05:52 AM
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I got me one of them fancy DVR thingies and fast forward through all the shows, just watch the commercials....
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You had me right then! Great post.
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05-06-2016, 06:05 AM
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I prefer the round ones.
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is it trying to make a point or trying to add levity....
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05-06-2016, 06:26 AM
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I enjoyed Eugene Levity on Second City TV.
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05-06-2016, 09:13 AM
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I usually watch about an hour a day with the wife right before bed. Usually NCIS, Chicago Fire, The Voice, Big Bang Theory, and Once Upon a Time, with a sprinkling of spinoffs and Law and Order. I get news from the radio and the web.
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05-06-2016, 10:00 AM
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is it trying to make a point or trying to add levity....
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Regardless, laughter is the best of medicine. I resisted posting a doughnut reply.
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05-06-2016, 10:52 AM
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I watch little TV, but it's always on PBS during the day for the toddlers and baby. Though they hardly watch it either... twin girls are two years old today and into anything & everything they can get into. I'm on my toes all day with them and a 7 month baby boy and just have no time to keep up with news and internet anymore. I'm mom, dad, grandpa, and grandma until grandma gets home. And even then one of the twins will only go to sleep for me, grandma and especially their momma can't put her to sleep. My daughter can't put either girl asleep because her and the childrens daddy took an almost two year vacation when they were born. Their daddy is still on his vacation since my daughter FINALLY dumped him and came home here to her kids about two months ago... but like I said, the girls are two today so it's a little late as the bonding has already been done. It's been a sad couple years at my house, but I've made sure my grandbabies were, are, and always will be loved and taken care of. My tools stay in the toolbox these days but oh well... children can't help what their parents do.
That being said, I'm very happy. I love these three babies with all my heart and at this point would be lost without them. They become your kids after raising them from the get-go, even if it's not on paper, they are in your heart.
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05-06-2016, 10:56 AM
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Originally Posted by hillbilly
I watch little TV, but it's always on PBS during the day for the toddlers and baby. Though they hardly watch it either... twin girls are two years old today and into anything & everything they can get into. I'm on my toes all day with them and a 7 month baby boy and just have no time to keep up with news and internet anymore. I'm mom, dad, grandpa, and grandma until grandma gets home. And even then one of the twins will only go to sleep for me, grandma and especially their momma can't put her to sleep. My daughter can't put either girl asleep because her and the childrens daddy took an almost two year vacation when they were born. Their daddy is still on his vacation since my daughter FINALLY dumped him and came home here to her kids about two months ago... but like I said, the girls are two today so it's a little late as the bonding has already been done. It's been a sad couple years at my house, but I've made sure my grandbabies were, are, and always will be loved and taken care of. My tools stay in the toolbox these days but oh well... children can't help what their parents do.
That being said, I'm very happy. I love these three babies with all my heart and at this point would be lost without them. They become your kids after raising them from the get-go, even if it's not on paper, they are in your heart.
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They got good grandparents as their real parents. May they know how fortunate they are.
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