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undergroundpanther Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-17-10 09:50 PM
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Plavix commercial
Ever notice during plavix commercials there is a deep intermittent hum?

first time I heard it I thought it was someones cell vibrating,we all checked our phones none were vibrating.

The second time I thought it was my computer.

nope..

After being told by law to stop CRANKING THE VOLUME of tv ads,these attention seeking greedy hogs skirt around it with the hum shit..
After narrowing down we realized it was the damn commercial.

I thought to myself,I'd rather have a fucking heart attack than take that stupid drug.Pringle's pissed me off before,because they tried to put a positive spin on being addicted. I don't eat pringles.

So for ANNOYING me, advertizers marketers,FUCK YOU.And FUCK plavix and every other corporate attention pig that makes really asshole attempts to get my attention or who glorifies self destructive psychopath behavior .

Like this ad did.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ftGUG7GRLE&feature=related

Oh and notice this
Vault is a citrus flavored beverage that contains many of the same ingredients as the Coca-Cola beverage Surge, which was discontinued in 2002.

Test-marketing occurred in a limited area from June 2005 through Labor Day 2005. During this time, the drink was only available in certain markets in ***Alabama, Georgia, Kansas,** Michigan, ***North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.*** Vault was released nationally in February 2006 following commercials that were shown during the pregame show for Super Bowl XL.

Notice all the SOUTHERN red states....

In 2006 Vault Zero was reformulated in response to a lawsuit over allegations that ingredients in Fanta Pineapple and Vault Zero had the potential in certain circumstances to combine to form benzene, a carcinogenic compound.<4>


Benzene..as if the chemists making that shit didn't know..Wonder if coke has any stock in pesticide companies that sell cancer drugs?
Maybe plavix will go the way of bextra...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_%28soft_drink%29
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-17-10 09:52 PM
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1. A lot of sleazy advertisers would fit right in with Fox News.
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-17-10 09:54 PM
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2. Mom and Dad, you better buy this pharmaceutical or you'll die and I'll be all alone.
Edited on Fri Dec-17-10 09:55 PM by tridim
Watch the kid's eyes, so sad, so concerned.

I fucking hate them.

Door bells and cell phone rings in ads bother me too.
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CoffeeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-17-10 09:58 PM
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3. Don't get me started!!
OMG...CNN used to have a cell-phone ring in one of their splash lead-in graphics.

The music was loud, the graphics were going and a cell phone goes off. So many
times they got me, and I looked toward the television to see if there was a phone
ringing in that vacinity.

They're such sneaky bastards!

I don't even own a cell phone and I looked every time.
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immoderate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-17-10 10:27 PM
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7. Horns and sirens in radio commercials, now that you mention it.
You're driving along and "Honk!" so you swerve. It's a reflex.

--imm
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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-17-10 10:18 PM
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4. I think they are using all that free benzene that BP so generously left in our Gulf.
Gotta give 'em credit for re-cycling.
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riverwalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-17-10 10:24 PM
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5. I HATE Big Pharma
I also hate commercials, so I channel surf when they come on. Discovered ALL the advertisers on all 4 local news were drug companies pushing poison. Feeling sad? Take this pill. Limp dick? Take this pill. Worry about a heart attack? Take this pill. Do you have the normal aches and pains that normally come from living to a normal middle age? Well by golly, take this pill. When I check in my patients and they all have a bag of 20 pill bottles of poisonous crap, and can't even tell me why they take them, I want to scream. When patients with minor discomforts have a bag of 5 different powerful narcotics that USED to be reserved for people with intractable, unbearable pain, I want to scream.
Sickness is NOT automatically a drug-deficiency. Most of the time in hospitals is spent pushing pills for big pharma. They get rich, patients get sicker, and we wonder why health care is such a mess. As for Plavix, it is required and useful after a stent for 6 months to keep it from plugging up again, but now they are pushing it for all kinds of uses. The most effective drug to protect your heart is Aspirin. Which has NO PATENT, the native americans introduced it to us, and comes from tree bark. If Aspirin DID HAVE a patent, it would probably cost $100.00 a pill.
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undergroundpanther Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-10 04:00 AM
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9. I take a few meds
and I know EXACTLY what they're for.I take the lowest doses I can .I don't take any new drugs(made before 1989). The newest drug are my T patches,for transition..

I have painkillers on hand ,my spine is a mess..I have taken maybe 5 of 'em in the past 9 months..,but only take them when the pain is so bad it has me writhing and crying.Because I HATE the way they affect my head.I always hope they'll put me to sleep so when I get up the pain is less awful and the side effects are mostly gone.
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EC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-17-10 10:26 PM
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6. I've noticed a hum or ringing in many commercials
at first I thought it was something outside or downstairs...then I muted and the hum or ring was gone...so now in many ads so is the sound - because I will mute all ads now...
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-17-10 11:13 PM
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8. Plavix is horrible...
I was on it for two prescriptions and I had bruises all over me and I bit my tongue once and I bled for more than an hour...
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undergroundpanther Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-10 04:03 AM
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10. That must have been
a nightmare. I had a nosebleed one time that seemed to go on forever, but in reality it was going for like ten minutes. I can't imagine my tongue bleeding for an hour it would begin to freak me out.
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-10 04:03 AM
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11. saw a commercial for an asthma drug that (in the section where they have to tell you the side
effects) said:

"whateveritwas may increase the risk of death from asthma"

& then the bright cheery voice goes on:

"whateveritwas is the *right* choice for my asthma"

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