guiltypleasures";p="19351 wrote: 

...What's really getting me mad is all the commercials on tv about pills, almost every commercial these days...
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...The really "great" one is the "boner pill" commercials that they show at all times of the day and evening.

I ment to reply to this sooner, but somehow I didn't.  Better late than never?

I agree with you about this one-hundred percent!  It is not just on television, it is also on the radio and even on shopping bags.  A couple of weeks ago, while shopping, I noticed that the bags had advertising slogans and images on them promoting various medications.  Including one with a rather lewd outline image for an "enhancement" medication.

On the radio, they have two particular commercials that really irritate me.

One is for a phycotropic drug, it is being advertised to parent for use on their childern.  The stated purpose is to deal with their behavioral problems and help them learn better in schools.  What happened to teaching childern dicipline, honor, and respect?  That would take care of the greater majority of such siutations.  AS for learning better, get the child excited about learning and hire better teachers and retrain or fire the bad teachers.

The other is for, here we go again, male enhancement.  There are several of them playing on the radio for several different products; however, the one the irritates me the most is a new commercial that makes a patently false statement as though it is a known fact.  There are two versions of the commerical the original one had a longer statement and the newer shorter commerical has a shorter version of the statement. I will quote the original longer statement with boldface to show which parts are empahised by the tone of voice in the commerical.  The statement is, "Sex is important in every relationship.  None can survive without it.  When I hear that, I think "Oh yea?  What about the relationship between a parent and a child?  What about a student and teacher? What about a doctor and patient.  What about men of the cloth and their flocks? ..."

What view of the world would childern get by hearing those commercials?  I think that would have a bigger effect on the childern than view well done tasteful art, reguardles of the level of dress of the subject of the art.  Isolate childern from art but don't isolate them from those advertisement, there is somthing wrong with this picture.

Pangor

Oceania signing in  

Interesting discussion. Here, down unda', we have a very mixed bag of opinions, just like all you it seems. I believe homosexuality is still illegal in at least one state, maybe more, but we have one of the largest Gay & Lesbian mardi gras in the world every year in Sydney.

News readers trying to be my friend... huh! just read the news in clear and concise terms. I don't need the social comment and emotionalising of the facts. Have you also noticed it's almost always a mature, serious (but still handsome) male reader and a pretty young female news reader.  

As for Poser and porn, that only came up after I purchased it. The store I got it fom was well versed in all types of obscure softwear and so had a clue. But later, everyone who sees the program start up raises an eyebrow and looks at me like a pervert. Until I show them some finished work. Usually that shuts them up... but not always. Then they want to go out and buy it   until they hear the price!

Well, that's the view from this part of the world  

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Computer Lie #1: You'll never use all that disk space.

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound as they fly by." - Douglas Adams

I agree, for news presentations, I prefer (like Joe Friday in "Dragnet" used to say) The facts mame just the facts.

Pangor

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Well, that's the view from this part of the world

     

Now, Brett is upside-down, so, in which way we've to consider his opinions on this topic ?      

(Zen mode on)

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Or...I he up-side-up and the rest of us are up-side-down?

As in relativity, it all depends on your frame of reference and there are no special frames of reference.

Pangor

I don't think so! Lol! there are people who tried to demonstrate that the moon is not a cheese       !!!

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What?  Not cheese!  The next thing you know that will try to prove that the man in the moon is not carrying a pack firewood!

Pangor

Men on moon   ? Yuhm !

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When I grow up I'll take over the moon... :    It's a good place to live in aka there are no politicians there

My opinions may be upside down, but at least they're not sdrawkcab...  

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Computer Lie #1: You'll never use all that disk space.

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound as they fly by." - Douglas Adams

Well up until I bought Poser 6, all I did with Poser 4 was make Superhero's. NOW that I have Jessi and James I can make Porn!    

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You have the American dream! The American dream is to be born in the gutter and have nothing. Then to raise up and have all the money in the world, and stick it in your ears and go PLBTLBTLBLTLBTLBLT!! That's a pretty good dream. - Eddie Izzard

    

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Mizrael";p="20176 wrote: 

NOW that I have Jessi and James I can make Porn!    

Welcome To Posetteforever!         

What! Don't think you guys didn't think of it either. We all know Jessi James was an outlaw.       

     It got quiet around here for some reason.   

Mizrael!  What?  Was it you that started people thinking that way and caused the problems that resulted this discussion?

Pangor