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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    07/27/09

    In reply to Please God End Those TV Drug Ads
    Amen. The worst of the worst, in terms of outright predation, are the Alzheimer's ones, where the broken voiced person says, OMG, we realized she/he was losing it but if we give her this med (and argue against all the docs and other family members who are IN DENIAL AND DON'T REALLY LOVE MOM/DAD) then every split second where Mom/Dad is maybe with us--it's totally worth the HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of dollars we'd spend. In spite of the side effects. And the questionable efficacy.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    07/27/09

    In reply to Please God End Those TV Drug Ads
    Really? Even the Meth Song?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxAYHOWxGi8

    eh I can't figure out how to embed things. Blech.
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    Image of BullfightsOnAcid BullfightsOnAcid
    07/27/09

    In reply to Please God End Those TV Drug Ads
    "Do you ever wake up in the morning feeling tired and groggy?"

    "Oh My God! That's me! I have to buy this whatever it is!"
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    07/27/09

    In reply to Please God End Those TV Drug Ads
    Sorry, I cannot relate. Perhaps it is because my usual 4+ hour Sunday afternoon boners block the view of my 60 inch plasma, which prevents me from viewing these drug ads.

    (Weird... my computer screen is a weird shade of blue?)
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    07/27/09

    In reply to Please God End Those TV Drug Ads
    As a ridiculous owner of a Snuggie and a Sham-Wow, I'd have to say there's another marketing game in town that could use a little overhauling.

    There really just could be a swivel sweeper and a mini-cheeseburger maker in my very near future. Is there a drug for that, huh?!
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    07/27/09

    @Spirit Fingers: Brave Ulysses poured melted wax into his ears to avoid the sirens' song. Also, tie yourself to the mast. That should help.
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    Image of kjack kjack
    07/27/09

    In reply to Please God End Those TV Drug Ads
    It is in the public's best interest to be aware that there exists an FDA approved prescription drug that's sole purpose is to help you grow fuller, thicker, darker eyelashes...and that said drug may also leave you with permanently discolored eyeballs.
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    Image of aLostLady aLostLady
    07/27/09

    @kjack: Doesn't Brooke Shields awkwardly shill for that? And given the choice between "inadequate" eyelashes and yellowed eyeballs, well. The risk seems to outweigh the benefit, similar to ridding yourself of allergies, only to encounter possible blood clots, stroke or death.
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    Image of kjack kjack
    07/27/09

    @aLostLady: Perhaps Ms. Shields feels it's her civic duty to promote lash growing/thickening drugs - since, until now, there have been no over-the-counter remedies for light, sparse or short eyelashes.
    I just love that drug companies spend millions of dollars developing this crap.
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    07/27/09

    @aLostLady: I love the choice these ads have to face: once they tell you what the drug is supposed to do, they have to include all the horrific side effects. If they want to avoid that, they really can't say anything more than the name of the drug and "talk to your doctor." I've seen several without having any idea what the drug was for, but being reasonably certain the side effects must be so awful the advertisers chose the "better not say" strategy.
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    07/27/09

    @mossdale: It is ironic that the strategy for the ads raise the same conundrum as the decision to take the drug: "Does the risk (of scaring consumers away with side effects) outweigh the benefit (consumers paying attention and seeking to buy the product)."

    The "just ask your doctor" ads are annoyingly vague, while the ads espousing the full list of benefits, followed immediately by a much longer list of side effects, are terrifyingly specific.

    I think the only solution is in HamNo's title.
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    Image of jenalicious jenalicious
    07/27/09

    @kjack: im so glad to have yet another part of my body to feel self-conscious about! now every time i look in the mirror, i'll wonder if my lashes are "inadequate". jeez.
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    Image of bytememehard bytememehard
    07/27/09

    In reply to Please God End Those TV Drug Ads
    Enzyte -- Bob is living large! http://www.enzyte.com/
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    Image of Awesome X Awesome X
    07/27/09

    In reply to Please God End Those TV Drug Ads
    But those apologetic Yaz commercials are the nicest a pretty girl has ever been to me.
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    Image of jenalicious jenalicious
    07/27/09

    @Awesome X: i can't even count the number of times my lady friends and i have sat around at a cocktail party discussing our birth control needs.
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    Image of onebadclam onebadclam
    07/27/09

    In reply to Please God End Those TV Drug Ads
    I often sing the praises of my boner.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    07/27/09

    @onebadclam: With a bit more bass in the mix, I hope. Jesus Christ, I hope George E. Stoll's family got a nice chunka change out of that, 'cause that commercial almost made me cry.
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    Image of first2letters first2letters
    07/27/09

    @BookishLookish: You should hear the Dead Kennedys version.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    07/27/09

    @first2letters: You're new here, aren't you?
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    Image of Deric Deric
    07/27/09

    In reply to Please God End Those TV Drug Ads
    Throw us this bone, Congress.

    Well played, Mr. Nolan; well played.
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    07/27/09

    In reply to Please God End Those TV Drug Ads
    As an outsider can I just say that it seem absolutely-fucking-insane that the advertising of any prescription drugs is allowed at all.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    07/27/09

    @Bruck: What do they advertise where you are from instead?
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    Image of kneetoe kneetoe
    07/27/09

    In reply to Please God End Those TV Drug Ads
    I've been to the genital ward and it's really not that bad a place.
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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    07/27/09

    In reply to Please God End Those TV Drug Ads
    It's like a water balloon - squeeze out one thing and it will bulge somewhere else. If you take pharma ads (about $2 billion/year) off, you can bet there'll be product placement, with Jack Bauer taking Cymbalta when Renee gets offed, and Dennis Leary taking Viagra in a "very special episode".
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    07/27/09

    @FormerEnglishMajor: Rescue Me did two seasons of that. I was amazed they weren't actually sponsored by Pfizer (but they were getting money from Vitamin Water!).
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    Image of Nice Beaver Nice Beaver
    07/27/09

    In reply to Please God End Those TV Drug Ads
    Do what you must to the Viagra ads, but you'll have to pull my ExtenZe-enhanced giant penis from my sweaty, dead hands!!!
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    Image of Deric Deric
    07/27/09

    @Nice Beaver:+ dutch rudder
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    07/27/09

    In reply to Please God End Those TV Drug Ads
    If your fully engorged congressional penises last longer than four years, see a psychiatrist.
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