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(' ’) Commercials
Got to love all the new commercials that promote all the new and now available medications. How commercials have changed. Once long ago you would see cigarette commercials which were ultimately removed because of the effects of tobacco on your health. Packs of cigarettes then had warnings printed on their packs to warn us of the prevailing information regarding the use of their product. “Cigarette Smoking may cause Lung Cancer” was the top of the phrase along with a short itinerary of other health risks and then some years ago the added, “May cause birth defects in pregnant women” appeared furthering our fear of the demon tobacco weed!
In the meantime the number of alcohol commercials began to prevail in the public’s mind stream and on the tube. Beer, beaches and barely dressed mid-life crisis partners dotted the screens landscape. How drinking their specific brand brought dreams of alcohol infested fuck-fests replete with all the benefits and no shocking after taste. Words were used, “Our beer gives you the best head.” “Our head lasts longer.” and in the bars where drafts prevail, “Put a head on that for me Joe!”
“Ewww . . . He said Head!”
And society, television and commercials evolve. We have infomercials touting everything from the latest in blueberries to the last word in weed whackers, from home repair products to “As Seen on TV” products using that exact same brand. We have half-hour spots on juicers, vegetable mashers, dicers and slicer’s and the perfect “indoor” grill. We have lawyers and attorneys, eyewear companies and physicians, we have attorneys that sue the eyewear companies and physicians when you feel like you had a boo-boo with one of them. We have the ultimate in Christian commercials carrying the message that in order to live in abundance I have to follow the word of yet one more God in a world full of such beings.
Yet like anything else you save the best for last. The commercials on medications, skin and body products. We have products that will remove wrinkles, hair both wanted and unwanted. We have applications that will restore hair that we no longer have. We have many processes for reducing, removing, sucking and stretching ourselves into a preconceived notion of how we should appear or even worse how we believe we did appear. We have commercials for condoms and vaginal douches.
“Hee . . . hee, he said vaginal”
We have them for lubes and sprays, for lesbians, straights and gays. We have our products to make our sex life shine and products to clean up the mess afterward. Literally volumes of health and beauty products are flouted before us in a never ending flow of commercials.
Many of our wonderful additions to our media made for we consumers in order to prevail us into a purchase come with health warnings. Some of these warnings are to the advantage of a minority of the population like me who will buy a bottle of cough syrup and drink the whole thing! I call it defensive cough posturing. Others call it addictions. Words are weird!
I like the warning that follows a certain sleeping medication. It say’s, “Cousult your physican if you sleep walk and death may occur?” Consult my physican if I sleep-walk? How the fuck do I consult him if I’m sleepwalking?
“Doc, you got to help me! I’m sleepwalking on the lower-east side and some wino just made off with my slippers! I tell you Doc I’m out here in my Power Ranger pajamas and if I’m not picked up soon I may have to morph into a vindictive mind-fuck of a patient. Okay Doc, got to run.”
And death? Death? How do I notify you about a change in my medication if I’m fucking dead? It seems to me these are warnings that the families should read. Like you get to a certain section in the instructions,
Directions:
“Okay two tablets a day twice daily after meals.”
THE FOLLOWING SECTION IS FOR EMERGENCY CONTACTS ONLY
“Hmmm, okay. Hey Lucy, this parts for you, Ma and the kids.”
IF FAMILY MEMBER SUFFERS DEATH OR SLEEPWALKING CONSULT YOUR PHYSICAN AND WE’LL CHANGE THE DOSAGE.
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For too long I've messed with the wiring in my head. Now it shorts out more oft than not. But at my age I just sit and enjoy the sparks. RJM '07
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