Outrage!

[Bud 'n Lou]

I was watching TV last night, and saw two pretty offensive commercials. They were so ridiculous that I thought they were jokes at first, but....no.
They were both for "organic, all natural" pills that will "make you better people." I'm pretty sure they were made by the same people.
The first one had a woman saying something like, "Let's face it ladies, we ALL want a bigger bust." They went on to explain that their magic pills would increase your breast size by *TWO WHOLE CUPS* (Oh, my!) They basically claimed that you'll need to use their product if you want to feel more confident, and attract more men (which may be true, considering the pressures put on people for their looks, but still...outrage!) They basically went about saying all this in such a ridiculous, hilarious manner, that I was POSTIVE it was a joke when I saw it, because if it was serious, it would be unbelievably offensive....but it wasn't a joke.
The second one (get this...) was for a pill that will increase a man's (in the words of Roxy Rocket) "staying power". I was in stitches watching THIS one. At one point, the guy in the commercial says of his...prematurity, that "As a man, it really makes you wonder about yourself." Then his "girlfriend" pipes in with, "And as a woman, it just makes you wonder." At this point, there was no doubt this was a satire. But then I saw they were SERIOUS, and I was pretty annoyed. The message of THIS one was, if you suffer from this disfunction, you and the people around you should question your sexuality.
For some reason, the fact that these were REAL commericals and not fiction is offensive to me. At least if you saw this on SNL or something, you'd know they were making fun of mass conformity or tasteless marketing tactics, as demonstrated by such corporations as the GAP. Or if it wasn't for these reasons, it would just be a JOKE! But this was actually worse than the GAP commercials, cause they didn't just "suggest" these things, they pretty much outright STATED that you should be ashamed/embarrassed/socially outcast, etc if you don't buy these little pills.
I'm usually not so upset about these things, but I think if you saw these commercials yourselves, you probably would be too. My description of these commercials doesn't even do them justice. Believe me. I haven't got the writing talent to paint an accurate picture of just how offensive they were.

[Calhoun07]

The dumbest one I had seen lately is for some Hollywood drink that promises that you lose 10 pounds in one weekend if you just drink their drink. It looked like a joke for sure. There have been joke commercials for a terminator airing in my area that will start out like a legitimate commercial then have a bug crawl across the screen (It got me the first time I saw it! I started to get up to get that bug off my TV!!!!). But this wasn't a terminator joke or an Energizer commercial. It was real.


While not as offensive as those other two, it was still stupid and stupid enough to be funny.

[I.R Joey]

I once saw a commercial for something that was guranteed to cure stupidity j/k.

The thing about making your bust bigger was just sick.

They basically claimed that you'll need to use their product if you want to feel more confident, and attract more men.


Yet suprisingly true.

However, I wouldn't be suprised if this was satire, probably to make a statement about how low our culture has sunk (I took a humor writing class two years running, and this sounds like something that would go under satire.)

The worse offenders are the medical ads though.

Side affects may include mutation, reality warping and spontanious combustion, people who have skin, internal organs or require the use of the element O2 should not use our product. "Possible consequnces include mutation, rapid flesh detrioration, and spontanious combustion, you should not use this product if you have active internal organs, or require the use of food, water or the element O2 for survival."

:D :D :D

[Inque]

hey, what channel and at what time did these commercials air?

[Calhoun07]

Originally posted by Inque
hey, what channel and at what time did these commercials air?

My terminator commercials are usually on during early prime time. I think they are nation wide, as they don't seem to be for a local business.

The medical commercials referred to...I see those on constantly. How could you miss them?

I haven't seen the original two referred to so I don't know.

[redDragon]

Originally posted by Bud 'n Lou
I was watching TV last night, and saw two pretty offensive commercials. They were so ridiculous that I thought they were jokes at first, but....no.
They were both for "organic, all natural" pills that will "make you better people." I'm pretty sure they were made by the same people.
The first one had a woman saying something like, "Let's face it ladies, we ALL want a bigger bust." They went on to explain that their magic pills would increase your breast size by *TWO WHOLE CUPS* (Oh, my!)

I HATE THAT COMMERCIAL WITH A VENGENCE!! That commercial pisses me off whenever I hear it!! And I've only seen it on the International Channel and my mom watches that a lot....and it shows it basically EVERY single commercial time!! It should die!!! That is just wayyyyyyyyyyy too scary!!!!

[Inque]

Are these only on cable channels? I'm a internet and TV addict without cable, and I've never seen any of the commericals mentioned here.

[Bud 'n Lou]

They weren't satire. Believe me. They showed the address to their website and everything. I wish I remembered it, so I could give it to you.
And I saw them both on "E!". *Is ashamed to say he was watching E! ....nothing was on!* And they were on around 3:00am (now you know why nothing was on....I have trouble sleeping).
Since I haven't seen either commercial since, and I tried to find them, mind you, I assume that someone else saw them, were also outraged, and demanded they be removed (or, I can only hope so, anyway). It's been done.
The fact that it was on "E!" should prove to any skeptic out there that they WERE real commercials (and they weren't infomercials either). The channel is notorious for supporting the ideas expressed by the advertisements-- external beauty = happiness.

[Calhoun07]

Originally posted by Inque


Are these only on cable channels? I'm a internet and TV addict without cable, and I've never seen any of the commericals mentioned here.


Yeah, they have been on cable. Except the new drug commercials. Those permeate everything and I don't know how you miss them.

And I just realized something else....those are commercials for EXTERMINATORS...not terminators. MAN, how did I let that slip???

[Calhoun07]

...these commercials about these drugs to control genital herpies. I mean, come on, do I REALLY want to see the commercials??? Especially when I am trying to EAT? Like I want to see some loose girl talk about how free she feels now because she has these drugs and like I want to see guys talk about their genital herpies when I am trying to enjoy a TV program!

[I.R Joey]

Understand that I'm not sick or anything when I ask but...


How is that physically possible, to simply expand someones bust like that, by two whole cups? What goes into it?


*Runs away*

[Bud 'n Lou]

Cow hormones? I dunno.

[Psycho Fox]

Originally posted by I.R Joey
Understand that I'm not sick or anything when I ask but...


How is that physically possible, to simply expand someones bust like that, by two whole cups? What goes into it?


*Runs away*

Ok a CBC show did a story on these breast pills. Anyway they say it is suppose to triger hormones that makes the breast grow via natrual nurturances. Of course since drug that does any signigant altration of your bodies hormones is bad for you especially during puberty (which is the target market for such drugs) either they don't do any better then drinking lots of milk or they are hazardous to your heath so either way the pills are junk and the drug compaines that are making these are evil bastards tring to con teen age girls out of their money.

[The Flash]

Hey, bud.....that's nothing watch FX for about 5 mins.......those "Son of the Beach" ads are even worse.

[The Old Maid]

Depressing, but nothing new under the sun. The Dr. Feelgood drug-pushers used word-of-mouth in the 1970s. Nowadays they use TV, along with magazine inserts.

Unfortunately these ads encourage the patient to look for the Dr. Feelgood who will prescribe a drug for them. (And just because you don't need a prescription doesn't mean it's safe. All-natural ingredients, huh? Well, arsenic is all-natural too. Think, people, think!)

I'm sure a lot of people who pop these pills would never dream of doing something that actually works, namely diet and exercise. These predators make money off people's laziness. And when the patients DO have a legitimate need (say, for an allergy pill), they've often heard of it before their own doctor has. Doesn't mean it's safe for them personally. Like the man said, "I know just enough to be dangerous."

About the ladies' "enhancements" ... I may be old-fashioned, but why don't they just stuff?

[Calhoun07]

Originally posted by The Old Maid
Depressing, but nothing new under the sun. The Dr. Feelgood drug-pushers used word-of-mouth in the 1970s. Nowadays they use TV, along with magazine inserts.

Unfortunately these ads encourage the patient to look for the Dr. Feelgood who will prescribe a drug for them. (And just because you don't need a prescription doesn't mean it's safe. All-natural ingredients, huh? Well, arsenic is all-natural too. Think, people, think!)

I'm sure a lot of people who pop these pills would never dream of doing something that actually works, namely diet and exercise. These predators make money off people's laziness. And when the patients DO have a legitimate need (say, for an allergy pill), they've often heard of it before their own doctor has. Doesn't mean it's safe for them personally. Like the man said, "I know just enough to be dangerous."

About the ladies' "enhancements" ... I may be old-fashioned, but why don't they just stuff?

It is also like the medicine pushers in the 1800 and 1900's, selling "snake oil" to unsuspecting masses. People are easilly duped, and that's nothing that has changed since day one. Its always the same product, different package.

[joker]

ive known this for a while now, its evil companies selling their wonder drugs that cause part of it. poeple hate them selves for some reason, and these companies thrive off of it. ive learned just to not pay attention to the world any more.

[Calhoun07]

Originally posted by joker
ive known this for a while now, its evil companies selling their wonder drugs that cause part of it. poeple hate them selves for some reason, and these companies thrive off of it. ive learned just to not pay attention to the world any more.

I just have to add that sometimes I understand people who leave this country. I've wondered if I could pull it off myself more than once!

[DR. BELCH]

I.R. Joey:
Side affects may include mutation, reality warping and spontanious combustion, people who have skin, internal organs or require the use of the element O2 should not use our product. "Possible consequnces include mutation, rapid flesh detrioration, and spontanious combustion, you should not use this product if you have active internal organs, or require the use of food, water or the element O2 for survival.
"This drug may not do anything. It is not a cure or an excuse to get out of going to the doctor. It may also cause blindness, edema, impotence, schizophrenia, brain tumors, nervous tics, nerve deafness, vomiting, stomach cramps, hair and tooth loss, rashes, dry flaking skin, hardened or yellowed fingernails or toenails, and massive rectal bleeding. Do not take this before operating heavy machinery, before bedtime, with alcohol, on an empty stomach, on a full stomach, or at all if you can help it."

How is that physically possible, to simply expand someones bust like that, by two whole cups? What goes into it?
My theory? Water.

THE OLD MAID asks:
About the ladies' "enhancements" ... I may be old-fashioned, but why don't they just stuff?
Two old sayings come to mind: "What The Lord has forgotten, stuff it with cotton"...and "More than a mouthful's too much."

Unfortunately these ads encourage the patient to look for the Dr. Feelgood who will prescribe a drug for them... All-natural ingredients, huh? Well, arsenic is all-natural too....
There are those who drink their own urine for the health benefits, after all. Which reminds me--when I hear women talk about natural childbirth, I tell them to crawl under a house, squeeze out the baby, lick it off, and eat the afterbirth afterwards. That's about as natural as it gets, lady....

CALHOUN07:
The dumbest one I had seen lately is for some Hollywood drink that promises that you lose 10 pounds in one weekend if you just drink their drink.
I just saw that ad in my inbox the other day. I'm like [in Dice voice], "Drink their drink all day Saturday, sh** blood all day Sunday. And you lose the weight. You live 'till you're 32, but you look good."
I've got a Lewis Grizzard routine on tape from at least ten years ago where he discusses feminine hygiene product ads on TV...and I don't remember them being that ubiquitous then. They must be ten times worse now.

[Scythemantis]

This commercial with terminator and a bug on the screen...I have cable and have never seen anything like that...what exactly is the commercial FOR? It sounds bizarre,pointless and nonsensical.

[Calhoun07]

Originally posted by Sting chameleon
This commercial with terminator and a bug on the screen...I have cable and have never seen anything like that...what exactly is the commercial FOR? It sounds bizarre,pointless and nonsensical.

The commercial will start out with something that looks like it is for another commercial (my personal favorite is for a new action series starring Gary Coleman, and it has him doing these action kicks then falling over) then before you notice the commercial is fake, a bug crawls on the screen. Then the exterminator comes out to spray it and kill it and the voice over says something to the effect, "Got a problem with bugs? We can help you!" I can't remember if it is for Orkin or what. I have seen them on Bravo before, and other channels, but never paid attention to when or what channel they usually appear on. I will pay closer attention next time and let you know who the company is making the commercials.

The commercials DO make sense, but they are in the style of the Energizer bunny commercials where you think you are watching one commercial and it turns out to be a commercial for something else.

[optimal321]

I've heard some commercials on the radio kinda like the ones you've been talking about. It's something like "Did you know that women are attracted to you by your vibes? If you buy *fake aphrodesiac* then beautiful women will come up to you."

Aside from the commercial being really stupid, i noticed that ugly women will come up to you also. Didn't come w/ any guarantee that only beautiful women will have a thing for you.

[Scythemantis]

One thing I hate: pasta or soup commercials nearly always show someone with sauce on their face.Usually a kid.It`s so disgusting it makes me gag...WHY do they do that??? Do they seriously expect it to be appetizing?!

[The Old Maid]

Commercials that insult a man or woman's qualifications to belong to that gender are bad enough. What makes my blood boil is when innocents have to suffer for it. I wonder how many people who think the hormone drug Premarin is great know or care where it comes from. It comes from the urine of pregnant mares. Hence the name. Ah, but why are all these pregnant horses "donating" this product? They do it because their foals conveniently disappear soon after birth, thus encouraging the poor horse to become pregnant as many times as possible. Now there are plant-based synthetic drugs that do the same thing -- but it's cheaper to abuse the horses. That's sick.

A commercial very popular on local radio stations advertised an experimental antidepressant for children. I'm not saying children cannot have mental illnesses. But the ads recommend their new drug as the first option for addressing this problem. Subjecting children to experiments, what a concept.

I'm guessing none of these parents were DES victims. It was a morning-sickness pill ; decades later, it's still ruining the health of mothers and children who took it. Who knows what the new wonder drugs can do?

Even if the child has a legitimate mental problem, we have real doctors and proven drugs for it. Also, these problems don't always come out of the void. Maybe a child is depressed because he'd being beaten up at school, or being physically or sexually abused in the home. Doping the kid up so he can't run away is not going to solve his problem.

This country wants a pill for everything. Is there a pill for dumb?

[DR. BELCH]

The Old Maid:
I wonder how many people who think the hormone drug Premarin is great know or care where it comes from. It comes from the urine of pregnant mares. Hence the name.
Animal body parts and secretions have been used in medicine since the days of the ancient Chinese to cure everything from baldness to impotence to explosive diarrhea. So it's nothing new...but I have to agree that this tactic is questionable at best. There's a reference to drinking horse pee in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra...presumably Antony did it because he was near starvation, but I wonder if those hormones are what gave him an edge in battle?


A commercial very popular on local radio stations advertised an experimental antidepressant for children... [they]recommend their new drug as the first option for addressing this problem. I'm guessing none of these parents were DES victims. It was a morning-sickness pill ; decades later, it's still ruining the health of mothers and children who took it.
I've taken heat before for saying attention deficit disorder is a "fake disease"...but I am inclined to think nine out of ten cases are falsified or misdiagnosed. If not that high, I'm still probably pretty close. In the 1950's Thalidomide was perscribed for British mothers who didn't want to deal with the morning pukies--and it's most well-known for causing birth defects. This gets me into my rant against the Food and Drug Administration--since Thal was banned in the States, we avoided the epidemic of kids born with missing limbs, and the FDA got too big for its britches. They banned things left and right and thereby have kept a lot of medical advances hushed up. Ironically these government Stalinists have probably killed more people by withholding new treatments than any miracle drug gone wrong could. Europe is somersaulting over the U.S. in the medical field because they don't have their hands tied by red tape. Little wonder AIDS patients and others with incurable maladies head overseas for treatment.


This country wants a pill for everything. Is there a pill for dumb?
Yes. There is one that is supposed to speed up blood flow and respiration, thus increasing concentration and memory retention. Whether it increases intelligence, mind you, is debatable....

[Psycho Fox]

Originally posted by DR. BELCH
In the 1950's Thalidomide was perscribed for British mothers who didn't want to deal with the morning pukies--and it's most well-known for causing birth defects. This gets me into my rant against the Food and Drug Administration--since Thal was banned in the States, we avoided the epidemic of kids born with missing limbs, and the FDA got too big for its britches. They banned things left and right and thereby have kept a lot of medical advances hushed up. Ironically these government Stalinists have lprobably killed more people by withholding new treatments than any miracle drug gone wrong could. Europe is somersaulting over the U.S. in the medical field because they don't have their hands tied by red tape. Little wonder AIDS patients and others with incurable maladies head overseas for treatment.

I agree there was the movie Loreso's Oil or something or other about a farther that son was struck with a rare disease so he fought to get a cure. There was one scene where he found a cure by mixing common cooking oils but the FDA wouldn't allow its distrabution since even though in his child it worked it was untested. (plus ealier in the movie they said it was toxic even though as the mother said people on the other side of the world put this stuff on their food and their seem fine)

I'm also apposed to the stance that they don't take Marijuana for medical purposes seriously (It can be use in a range of rolls, such as anti-depressant, pain killer, trigger hunger and so on). They say it has side effects, and I say so what it's side effects are far less then the stuff the FDA allows. Marijuana does hurt you lungs (though not as much as cigretts) but it does not give you the risk of liver cancer which the FDA seems to find more acceptable. They still haven't conducted a serious study on the effects of all the types of Marijuana (there are over 20 diffent plants in the Marijuna family) I have a few freinds that are living proof that you can live a normal live on it.

[Inque]

check out www.adcritic.com they have lots of commericals you can download and watch.

[Calhoun07]

Originally posted by Inque
check out www.adcritic.com they have lots of commericals you can download and watch.

Now I don't have to turn on my TV for commercials! Thank GOD for the Internet! http://cwm.ragesofsanity.com/contrib/anym/infinity.gif

[Nightwing]

Originally posted by The Old Maid
Commercials that insult a man or woman's qualifications to belong to that gender are bad enough. What makes my blood boil is when innocents have to suffer for it. I wonder how many people who think the hormone drug Premarin is great know or care where it comes from.

Yes. Our country's, and world's, worst kind of evil. The people who push this stuff are bad enough, but what about the people who it hypnotizes into joining them. That's a hard evil to fight.

[Calhoun07]

Originally posted by DR. BELCH


I've taken heat before for saying attention deficit disorder is a "fake disease"...but I am inclined to think nine out of ten cases are falsified or misdiagnosed.

I've been wanting to get back to this thread for a while now and read in detail all the things you all have been typing, so here I am!

I want to take a moment to say I agree 100% with Dr Belch here (and if anybody would know, it would be a DOCTOR! http://cwm.ragesofsanity.com/otn/realhappy/mhihi.gif )

This goes to the fact that people don't want to take responsibility for their own actions. It is the same mindset that blames the media for their actions. There are four basic personality types, and I hope you're studied up on them cuz I ain't explaining them. I think that most of these kids with ADD are sanguine at heart, and perhaps just misunderstood. I think that A LOT of kids diagnosed with this fake disease are just that way because that is their personality type, and it is no more wrong or abnormal for them to be like that than it is for a quiet person to just sit there (but teachers don't complain about those kids so they don't get drugs).

I know there is quite a bit of controversy about this, but it is about time people stop trying to cure all these "mental problems" with medicines and just learn to deal with people. There are people out there geniunely crazy but for the most part I think people taking these brain pills don't need them at all.