The current Colace TV ads with their "cutesy" descriptions of difficult bowel movements are

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10. Vulgar is a good choice of adjective. So is crude. So is unnecessary.

I despise commercials like this, and there are many products I won't buy because of the crassness of their advertising.

I don't want to see overly descriptive ads about pads/tampons, or toilet paper, or anything to do with the function (or lack thereof) of the large intestine. Or men's underpants with the comfortable pouch for the testicles.

Kinda makes you long for "the good old days" when Laura and Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke show) slept in twin beds and they couldn't even say pregnant on I Love Lucy.

I just retired from 45 years as a pediatric nurse practitioner. I had to talk about poop at work - it's a very popular pediatric topic. Now that I am retired, I'd really rather not hear about it at all, and I promised myself I would not talk about it unless I had one of our cats at the vet's office.