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Or do pharmacutical commercials really confound the intellect? I'm sitting here, minding my own buisness watching Oprah, when like a bolt from on high, this strange 45 second montage of a woman wearing some kind of dermal patch while swimming in pools, taking showers, running after taxis, eating salads and talking on the phone comes on.
I didn't have it turned up, so I have no clue what this travesty was about. I'm guessing birth control, but really, that's only because the patch was placed on her abdomen, near her vagina. It could be appetite suppressants, for all I know.
I've seen others where people are dancing in fields of flowers, while a calm and soothing voice enunciates how "Side effects may include watery bowels and dementia"...
This makes no sense to me.
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This happened to me as well.. my brother and I used to constantly see Claritin commercials, showing people running and playing in a field, flying kites with pills and stuff floating in the background
ABSOLUTELY no reference to why they needed Claritin, except that it helped them 'enjoy life again.'
We went for about two years of saying 'try some Claritin' to each other as a catchall reference to some novelty cure-all drug.
The kicker is that the commercials alway end with 'ask your doctor if this is right for you'.. one day i finally asked a doctor if it was right for me, and he said 'do you have allergies' and i was all like 'no' then he said 'no, its not right for you'
what a letdown.
pharmaceutical companies are retarded. its a fact of life that America wants a drug to solve every problem in their lives, and thats kinda retarded too.
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Erm... It's nothing to do w/ the companies. It's the law. As I understand it, they're only allowed to advertise prescription drugs if they either
1. don't say what the drug is for, or 2. list every single side effect that was catalogued during tests.
This is why we get commercials like the old Claritin commericals, where you have no idea what's going on. However, it seems that, recently, the companies have been taking the second option. So we get to hear about nausea, rashes, diarrhea, sudden death, and so on.
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Yes, the red pill can cause sudden death....
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Hmm, has anyone seen the latest Viagra commercial? Now that is funny... using racing as a way to sell a sex drug.
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I suppose you guys could go all Canadian on the pharmaceutical companies and ban the annoying fuckers. How 'bout our repressive communism, eh?
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Wait, they can't even say what the drug is for? No "helps relieve the symptoms of hay-fever", or "helps lower congestion", or "stops piles, dead!"?
Crazy.
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Well, they can, but only if they report all of the side-effects. If they don't do that, then, no, they can't say what it's for.
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My uncle bought a hat for the Viagra/Mark Martin car, wears it a lot. He claims it's for "Team Woody"...
I pointed at him and laughed at his stupidity
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How about the Vagisil commercials??? Those tell me to much about the woman, especially when the same woman is on the douche commercial before hand...
This leads me to believe that that woman smells bad and itches....
Or the herpes drug commercials....
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