Showing posts with label Medical commercials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medical commercials. Show all posts

Thursday, February 8, 2018

Did You Just Sneeze?


Ask your doctor about our new medication, "Kill-a-Cold!"

(Side effects include:  projectile vomiting, dizziness so extreme you'll fall down and break all of your bones, bizarre sexual fantasies involving toasters, heart palpitations, possible strokes, violent urges to murder your entire family and possibly your neighbors, suicidal tendencies, horrible infections, constipation requiring feces to be extracted from your ass with dental picks, loss of bladder control, bloody urine, genital yeast infections, uncontrollable discharges of intestinal gas, loss of hair resulting in total baldness, skin rashes, boils and pus-filled oozing acne ...)”

Moral of the story:  there is a reason why we’re one of only 3 countries who allow medical commercials to air on TV – they’re NAUSEATINGLY DISGUSTING!  Yet another nightmare we could get rid of, if only we’d overthrow Citizens v. United:  No, pharmaceutical companies should never have “Freedom of Speech” to fill our eyes and ears with any disgusting image they want to.

So I decided to listen to a few hours of “Supernatural” re-runs on TNT instead.  An effort to spare myself the hellish barrage of MSNBC commercials.  No sooner had I walked away for a sec to make lunch, I hear the gawd-awful Wrigley’s Extra commercial before I could mute it and started screaming, “STFU, you evil bitch!!” from the kitchen  Then the evil “Save the Elephants” commercial, and switched to, “STFU, Sarandon, you decrepit hag!”  Then the hellish Uncle Ben’s commercial.  (More screaming).  Same crap that generated my rant earlier, different channel.  5 solid minutes of The Soundtrack From Hell before I could get back to the study to mute the horror.  Every single commercial break, the same horror.  It never - ever – ever - ends.  There has to be some level of Hell reserved especially for ad agencies and media buyers.  There just has to be.

Why I Stopped Posting in Liberal Facebook Groups

The main reason?  They are so disheartening and sad.  Whoever said people with lower IQ’s veered off in a deeply entrenched conservative mindset (which is probably true – they are pretty stupid) obviously never read the fools on the liberal side.

I have.

Listen, there are plenty of things to be pissed at Republicans for, right now – and if you can’t figure out what those are, you’ve been watching WAY too much Fox “Entertainment” for your own good.  No one’s asking you to deep dive into CNN or MSNBC or jack off watching the latest pathetic bleach-bottled two-bit brainless whore (they’re all interchangeable) spouting their fear of anyone but themselves or whatever your current gripe is, but hell, just watch global news, national news, local news, until it hits you that Fox is all by itself out in “Propaganda Right Field”.  (And then ask yourself why that might be).  Answer:  because 99.9% of their stories are blatant and laughable b.s. (which is why they can’t call themselves “News” – they’re not – they’re legally called “Entertainment”) and everyone but you seems to know it.

That’s not even the issue.  I even liked a few aspects of the old Republican party, platform before they lost their minds – fiscal conservatism, for example, and keeping the national debt under control.  They lost me the minute they hooked up with the religious right.  I mean, let’s face it, the behavior of evangelicals NOW is mind-boggling.  The issue, Conservatives, is that Liberals can be equally as stupid as you are, and for many of the same reasons.  Both sides seem spectacularly lacking in a simple skill that used to be known as “applying logic”.

Many liberals, for example, seem to think that if they take back control of Congress in 2018, they can just toss all the Republicans out on their ears.  Really?  And how do you propose to accomplish that?  A whole mess of libs crazily decided that Joe Kennedy III should be the next President even though (a) he isn’t running, (b) he has no platform BECAUSE he isn’t running, and (c) they’re waxing nostalgic over the Kennedy Family (JFK and RFK in particular) even though no one else is.  Hey, there’s a good reason for you.

These are the same libs who basically went gaga over Oprah, although if you replace “waxing nostalgic ...” with (c) gee, they really liked her on TV!, despite her having an utter lack of knowledge, experience and political know-how.  They still thought she should run for President.  I ended up clutching my head and screaming.  Same liberals who swooned over Michelle Obama’s non-candidacy – she definitely isn’t running, but they all wanted to vote for her anyway.  None of them stopped and gave it any thought – they were just willing to push levers over totally irresponsible choices.  How do these people have the intelligence to pick a legitimate president???  They don’t.  And neither do the Republican voters.  We are so doomed.

The final straw was a ridiculous video (unsourced and undated).  Basic premise:  some girl went around asking kids a few basic questions, among them:  who won the Civil War, who was the Vice President, and what show was Snookie on?  The only answer they all got right was the Snookie question – they had no clue about the other two. 

Well!  Liberals went on and on and on ad nauseum about the stupidity of the American people and how all of those kids had to be future Republicans!!!  Really? Not one of them asked, “Hey, how many people answered the questions correctly?”  For all we know, 500 people knew all the answers except the Snookie one, and only the five who showed up on the video were the idiots!  No date, no source – they all just bought into the entire premise, hook, line and sinker, and pontificated condescendingly for days without applying even a second of logic.

I told them that they were twice as stupid as the kids on the video and why, and naturally a gaggle of hysterical women got all offended at being insulted.  After telling them all to go to hell, I signed off.  So much for liberals – liberal women in particular - being intelligent.

Utterly sick of that, I ended up on something else:  listening to “Destination America”:  Season 1, Episode 5, “When Ghosts Attack:  “Ghost Stalker”, and I end up howling with laughter.  Premise:  Some idiot kid is speaking with a ghost (supposedly).  He tells his parents about the conversation, they immediately disbelieve him and then lecture him on their god’s opinion on lying.

He argues, “But God is a woman”.  They back up from their own child, horror on their faces.  GOD IS A WOMAN?  He must have been taken over by a demon!”.  I fall over laughing.  They HAVE to be Southern Baptists, because only a Southern Baptist would assume the male is so superior that only that gender could be godlike ... which is either pretty sad or pretty funny, and probably both.  (See previous comment on evangelicals).
Back to the same complaint.  Same commercials, same insanity, if you include me screaming, “I don’t give a fuck if you have Type 2 diabetes, you fat cow!” over and over again.

But back to the ghosts.  I don’t know how you feel, but my attitude is pretty straight-forward:  I’ve never encountered anything “supernatural” or “ghostly”.  Does that mean such things don’t exist, just because I’ve never witnessed it?  Of course not; I’m not that self-centered and arrogant – “ONLY MY PERCEPTION MATTERS!!!”.  It just means I’ve never encountered one ... period.  But I do put some credence in the basic (although disputed) scientific evidence (via quantum physics) that suggests matter follows the expectations of the viewer.

Most of the “Paranormal Investigation” shows make me laugh anyway.  For people who are in their third, fourth, fifth or sixth seasons of doing it, they sure are easily spooked by weird noises.  Hell, I have never done a paranormal investigation, and I’d be less spooked than they are.

But it does make you wonder why there are so many programs covering the concept of ghosts, demons and the like.  Because they’re actually out there?.  Or because Americans need to let go of their idiocy when it comes to ghosts, demons, and the like?

Another question”  how did I escape joining the Manson family?  Besides being on the wrong coast, I mean.  None of the sycophants joined “The Family” with the expectation of murdering people, did they?  They ended up that way, sure ... but did they start out that way?

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

The Cure for Our National Sickness is an Eclipse



I’ve been working on all sorts of things while I had MSNBC live-streaming in the background.  MSNBC’s news coverage is certainly repetitive – but I have more issues with their advertisers and advertising sales department – and some of their so-called on-air “experts” – than their content, at the moment.

Just out of curiosity, I recorded the number of commercials I had to sit through during a 90 minute period.  The program was Headlines at the Half, with anchor Alex Witt.  The program ran from 8:30-10:00 am on Saturday morning, 19 August 2017.  I recorded 27 minutes of commercials during a 90 minute program.  Almost one-third of the program was spent bombarding viewers with repetitive and annoying commercials.

I sat through more medical issues than I ever thought possible.  Sleep apnea – OTC pain meds – Alzheimer’s – women’s hair loss – colon cancer – plaque psoriasis – rheumatoid arthritis – asthma - metastatic breast cancer – chemotherapy medication – anti-smoking – ulcerative colitis – diabetes – irritable bowel syndrome – shingles vaccine – catheters - therapist-texting app – opioid-induced constipation – Crohn’s Disease - insulin alternatives – Medicare Supplement plans – Osteo Bi-Flex – low-dose aspirin regiment – brain health OTC meds – bleeding gums – gum disease – and that was just in a couple of hours.

Either we are the sickest country on the planet, or MSNBC viewers have singlehandedly uncovered the reason that drug prices are so high:  they batter you relentlessly with depressing and expensive medical TV advertisements. 

Worse:  all of the medications sounded like they had worse side effects than anything they were being used for ... “Use our product for excessive nose hair!  Oh yeah, call your doctor if your nose falls off your face into your soup ... it may cause suicidal thoughts, flatulence, weird rashes on your genitals and boils.”

Last bottom line:  I defy anyone out there to insist that the one thing they want to hear about in the middle of the morning news is:  men discussing catheters!  I was so grossed out I had to turn the sound off.  I’m sure men feel the same way about women’s personal hygiene products.

Note to the DNC:  neeed a great fundraising idea?  Start a new cable company:  HHP –  “Hypochondriac’s Happy Place”.  Change the laws so that all pharmaceutical and drug companies have only one place – the HHP of course - they can air their commercials.  Air non-stop disgusting commercials, aimed just at sick people, or people who think they are.  We have so many hypochondriacs you’ll make an instant fortune – trust me – and you’ll leave the RNC in the dust.  And for the act of sparing the rest of us from needing to watch hours of really disgusting commercials?  The entire country will love you.  Think about it.

Whiplash Comment:  did it strike anyone else that the fake married couple hawking Sunsetter Retractable Awning is, like, WAY too excited about awning?  I mean, to the point of emotional dysfunction, and to the point where you want to slap both of them back to common sense?

Lastly, advertisers have definitely been obsessed lately with hiring women to simper in whispery little voices that they must fantasize that Lolita used:  Leesa Mattress, G.E.’s “Millie Dresselhaus” ad; Birch Box, Talk Space (where the spokesgirl for texting your therapist sounded like she had been recently lobotomized), Alzheimer’s fund raisers (who may be the same “little girl” who hawks Panera salads), Olivia Nuzzi of New York Magazine who dresses like a submissive and obedient sex slave and murmurs through pursed lips.  Has anyone in the law enforcement vice squad thought of looking into advertising and media industry execs as the most likely to be involved in illegal sexual deviance?

More Hypocrisy:  Had to block another liberal thread on Facebook before I lost my marbles:  a bunch of them were squealing with girlish delight (and that included a bunch of guys, too, don’t ask me why) at a photo of Martha Stewart giving trump her middle finger.  Ooooh!  Ahhhh!  Now, personally, I have no issues with anyone flipping trump the bird, but by the time they were enthusing, “Martha for pres!”, I completely lost my temper at them.

Imagine, if you will, that in 2020, Republicans announced they were backing a convicted felon, four-counts worth!, for president.  These same lunatic liberals would have gone freaking insane.  And yet, these were liberals, enthusiastically doing that.  Suddenly convicted felons were the GOOD guys?  You wanted to slap every single one of them, too, upside their idiotic heads.  And that’s a perfect example of what I meant by hypocrisy.  The left will never get anywhere if this level of stupidity represents their base.

Overwhelmed with the aftermath of the violence in Charlottesville, including the speech in the trump tower lobby, Bannon’s departure, the issue of confederate statues, Barcelona, neo-Nazi’s, the KKK, the works.  Overshadowed with MSNBC’s insistence that we send billions of dollars to their greedy advertisers, while pretending none of this ever happened.  Welcome to the USA, where I seem to spend a lot of time wanting to slap people.

Although I did love watching the reactions to the Great American Eclipse, as it traveled across the country.  How wonderfully strange:  the moon completely covering the sun finally united the entire country!  The moon should do that more often.