What the Hell is with all of these new drug commercials and why don't they just tell it like it is? Here's my ad: "If you take this shit it will probably kill you or make you so miserable you'd wish you were dead, your peter sure as hell will be".

And what about all of these "If you took this or have this symptom call our lawyers @ 1-800-goodbye-to-your-cash."

And lastly J G Wentworth money now for your structured settlements or annuity's. Ya, you bet. You get 10% right now and they keep the rest!

This may fit into the other thread about suckers born every minute!


Vent Complete

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OH Yah, almost forgot:

"Send away for your free gold kit and send in your old gold for cash"! Or gold you can steal to pay for your drugs, we don't care, gold is gold!

As Bill Maher once observed, if a commercial tells you "ask your doctor about (drug)", instead of advising you to tell your doctor about your symptoms, at that point isn't your doctor just your dealer? And the new commercials now tell you to "ask you prescriber about...". Prescriber? Who in the hell is writing prescriptions other than doctors?! Am I missing something here? I mean Tony who hangs out in the alley by my house can get me a lot of drugs. Does that make him my "prescriber"?

Viagra or Cialis: "May cause headache, nausea, vomiting..."

Yeah, that gets ME in the mood.

Ask your doctor if Gulliblex is right for you.

Rather than "What The Hell", 99.9999% of commercials make me say "Where the hell is the remote and the mute button!"

Edit add: If it says "As Seen On TV" on it, it stays at the store. It won't be coming into my house!

Hey, check this guy out. He had a play with the Gold Kit.

http://www.cockeyed.com/citizen/goldkit/gold_kit.shtml

The rest of his site is pure gold. National treasure as far as I am concerned.

(don't kill too much time there --you have been warned)

You know pharmaceutical advertising has gone too far, when you have a pill for "Restless Leg Syndrome", and one of the side effects is "excessive gambling".

Amus, I actually have a friend who had that happen to him, taking medication for Parkinsons. He went kind of nuts and did start gambling like crazy, when he never gambled before. Weird.

Warner,

How is your friend with Parkinsons?

I'm curious because that's what took my Dad.
Nasty nasty disease!

How much has treatment advanced in the last 15 years?

That's what took my Dad as well. It was a really slow and dibilitating process. By the end he basically couldn't talk or walk. At that time (about 14 years ago) all they really had was one medication. Then the radical brain operation but he was too old for that.

Now there are many different treatments. My friend, who is about "our" age, got off the one med that was causing the bizzare behavior, and got much better. But there really isn't a cure, so he's just trying to maintain.

I so hope, like you I'm sure, that it's not hereditary...

Im still shocked that according to the Valtrex commercial, 1 in 5 adults are walking around with Genital Herpes, (and probably spreading it to their partners, since they don't know they have it!)

"Herpes, Its NOT on the dinner menu."
Before having sex, you should take your new date out to a nice dinner and than for dessert you can go have a cookie at The STD clinic, while you're getting tested!

Monogamy or faithfullness...waiting to have sex until marriage and only there...less drama and std's...Hey...thats in the Bible and one of the 10 commandments...around before all of us were! Oh my goodness, such profound truth around for a long time!

With a 50 percent divorce rate in America and then many of those getting re-married, there are no guarantees the person you're shacking up with isn't bringing something into the marriage.

Thats why testing is so important. In this day and age, you wanna have sex, you go get tested! Its that simple! OR take the risk of getting herpies and remember these things are PERMINENT!
You will have them for the rest of your life.

I personally think saving sex for marraige is Ridiculous. Have all the sex you want outside of Marraige, but make sure you are 100% sure you know you're partner is negative. I had a room-mate who lost his virginity in College and is now a lifetime user of Valtrex!
If you and your partner are too stupid to go get tested than you deserve to get genital warts!

>>Have all the sex you want outside of Marraige,

Good grief...that's the cause of all this...a very unwise statement/life philosophy. Having sex DEMANDS responsibility...most want the temporary pleasure and most always later get the drama, std's, pregnancies, abortions, etc of life as the result of their actions.

Hey kids...remain virgins til marriage and faithful in your marriage and life will be a lot smoother! Too Victorian, too pie in the sky, too "goody two-shoes"...some how I would'nt trade it all for a lot of rashes.

There is No guarantee that waiting for Marriage will ged rid of the chance of getting herpies. Preaching abstience in schools is stupid and not realistic because kids are going to have sex, IT is that simple! Protection should be taught in school along with contraceptive methods.
Remember Broadway not everyone shares the same beliefs as You do, and not everyone believes in god or is religious.
With the divorce rate at OVER 50% I think getting married, just to have sex is stupid, and I know A LOT of people that have done that and a few years later, THEY ARE DIVORCED! You can have sex outside of marriage, but be responsible about it. Sheesh, no wonder we have so many divorces in this country! Couples think they have to wait and get married to have sex because THATS WHAT THE BIBLE TELLS THEM! I for one think that is CRAP!

I think that remaining a virgin until marriage is a huge mistake. My wife agrees as well. Sex is important to a relationship and something that should be experienced before you make a life commitment to someone.

Exactly Vitalogy, thats what I was trying to say.

Yes Broadway, I read the passage in the Bible: "no sex before marriage means no STD's, unless you marry a hooker". That's right after "divorce means a ticket straight to hell, no questions asked" and “gays always throw the best parties”.

" Tastes just like chicken."

Herpies?

Oh yes I forgot...marriage means commitment along with being faithful...to sexually "test drive" a relationship does it no good plus theres all kinds of emotional baggage that happens especially with women. Our promiscuous/playboy/hollywood society has gotton all out of control so much so that it has bred this behavior as the norm...not good for strong families/children/marriages/society. Promiscuous=having sexual relations with a number of partners on a casual basis. What happened to shame?

Sex is pretty low on the biblical totem poll when it comes to being a really bad thing. Though adultery is another issue. Jesus says nothing directly about sex to be quite honest and many biblical scholars and theologians agree. The reality is people have sex all the time whether married or not.

I agree that responsibility is the key issue if you choose to become sexually active. Once you become an adult you need to make adult decisions.

FYI-Having genital herpes or herpes of any kind is not the end of the world. They’re treatments available. Herpes lives in your nervous system and can remain dormant for many who carry the virus.

However stress can trigger an outbreak. You just have to make sure you tell your partner, husband or wife that you are currently having a herpes outbreak. At least that's what responsible adults do.

I have a close friend who has herpes but got it from her husband who fooled around. So even marriage is not always a safe place. Needless to say that marriage didn't last.

But there are exceptions. We have some good friends whose oldest daughter had a list of rules for dating her. Which I think is great. If the person she was dating broke any of the rules the relationship was over. Period. No discussion.

She finally met a guy who loved her so much he was able to abide by all her rules. The day they got married at the point of the ceremony where the bride and groom kiss, it was their first kiss ever. Which was one of her rules for dating.

When I talked her after the ceremony and I asked if what I had witnessed was true about the kiss being their first. She said it was. For me that moment is sacred.

For sure that is not for everyone and is probably the exception more than the rule. But it was a choice they made and I felt deeply honored to have been a witness to it.

The pastor who married my wife and I had been divorced and had re-married. In our first conversation he mentioned that about 50 percent of those he did marriage counseling were living together. That included Christians.

Every marriage has baggage.

I like the list of rules bit!

There is no shame in having more than one sexual partner in a lifetime. To hold people to such a standard is ridiculous. It simply requires discretion and playing safely. People have sex, it’s a primal urge. Yes, in an ideal world, we’d all have one spouse for a lifetime, 2.8 children; live in a nicely manicured home with two cars, a dog and a cat. But for most of us, it doesn’t happen that way. So to label those who don't meet that standard as “shameful” misses the mark completely. We can strive for perfection, but life is not perfect, nor are any of us.

Missing. She's an incredible human being. We first met her when she was 10 yrs old and she was always a bit different in a good way.

Her entire family is a little bit odd but that's what we love about them. They are so themselves. It's refreshing.

Broadway, as usual, you're wrong. All you need to do is check out the divorce rate of those that claim to be christian virgins. They lead the pack because they get married too young, have kids too young, and have no experience to judge their sexual happiness and compatibility.

I've often wondered about that Chris. Some people have real texture, kind of bumpy, not of the standard mold. Is it experience, genetics, or what?

Always good to know those people when you find them. Never dull, and I personally learn something every time.

Who would have thunk it? A dating manual. So she says, "yes", and hands over the study guide so it can happen as it should. I know it's not like that, but that's the first thing a list of rules triggered in my mind!

>>check out the divorce rate of those that claim to be christian virgins. They lead the pack because they get married too young, have kids too young, and have no experience to judge their sexual happiness.

Mostly bogus data but even if it is true....I'll say it again...Christians are not perfect...I AM NOT PERFECT...but forgiven by a loving God. There is a "benchmark" here that I kinda sense most of us agree with...just a messenger here that this is what we all should strive for.

Chris...love your most recent post...