I have been watching the ME channel on TV lately. I think it stands for the ‘memorable entertainment’ channel. They play all the old classic TV shows. Mary Tylor Moore and Bob Newhart and a bunch of other, older shows. I think they figure that most of their viewers are over 40, with fond memories of the good old days of TV.
They seem to formulate their commercials for the demographic that tends to go to see the doctor more often. There are a lot of ads for various types of medicine. The disturbing part of it is the side effects… or is it side affects? I always get those two mixed up. Many of the pills list possible death as a remote possibility. I don’t care how bad your migraine headaches are, dying is going to be worse. I will leave it up to you to decide if anal leakage is a fair tradeoff.
There is one other thing I have noticed about the commercials. They show a lot of ads for pills that will let you lose weight without dieting or exercise. They show about the same number of ads done by lawyers who have started class-action lawsuits for all the people who are now having health problems stemming from the last miracle diet drug that was being sold. Often these two types of ads will be shown back-to-back.
It may surprise you to know that the pharmaceutical companies are selling these drugs to you without doing adequate long-term testing. They grind the pills up, add some water, and inject a bunch of it into some lab rats. If the rats don’t explode after a day or two, they sell the pills to the public. I just thought you should know that.
I also think you should know one other thing. There is no magic pill that will let you get thin without any work on your part at all… other than the kinds that might kill you. You want to know the magic secret to getting a little thinner? Here it is;
Eat a little less… move a little more.
Pouring My Art Out 
When I had a migraine for 6 months straight & the doctors had tried every medication known, the doctor stated he would put me on a combo drug not usually used anymore due to side effects. He said if it didn’t work, I would just have to suffer. I asked him to just shoot me! Lucky for me the combo worked & the headaches went away (after I gained about 50 lbs.)
ouch and ouch… sorry to hear that.
After what that chicken did it deserved it’s grisly demise
Or gristley, at least.
mmmm ;-p
I like the chewey parts.
Your brief hiatus has had an effect on your posts. I won’t go so far to call your thoughts now as rational but they seem different. My other half is always borrowing pills of American colleagues, I only take Ibuprofen with a hangover, but ours aren’t that strong a dosage, 200mg. It’s either that or a bloody mary, and I try to lay off those on work days til about 11am or at least until I’ve finished reconciling the accounts.
Pills are especially useless on me when I’m ill, I swear by the Jewish remedy of chicken soup so always have homemade stock in the freezer for any such occurrence. Works every time
I would be remiss if I failed to point out it didn’t seem to do much for the health of of the chicken.
Not after you choked it… babam!~
It died a happy death though.
wow
We colonials tend to over mecdicate.
We like you that way
HA. I spelled medicated wrong.
Unless I cannot walk, or my face is swollen, like a blowfish with Mick Jagger lips, I do not ingest medication. Practically everyone I know is on something. When we must go to the doctor the nurse is always astonished to know that we don’t take any medications. If you’ve had surgery, you’ve likely had to sign a disclosure that states “medicine is not an exact science”… .
Good for you.
and dance…i’m movin i’m movin
don’t hurt yourself.
lol it’s possible
no… it’s probable… ha
that it is but don’t say it out loud, when i get hurt it’s usually bad and lasts forever.
Are you sure… because forever hasn’t happened yet.
well close then..lol
twice in the not too distant past i ended up on crutches for months
I want to say I told you so, but I just did… so it doesn’t count.
pft
You always say that when you have nothing else to say. Speaking of saying things, say hey to your husband for me.
okay he says hey
I just realized how much we talk every day, and it suddenly seemed like some people might think that was weird in a way.
us weird?
I just mean that we do sort of spend a lot of time communicating… if that is what we are doing.
am i supposed to agree or disagree?
uh… yes…?
yes?
yes%
eh?
context… it works in context
what does?
Everything.
oh frig i’m so lost..lol
Too hard to explain.
lol
waaa waaaaaa. I live close to a pharmacy called Newhard… so I will lick my intellect wounds by calling it a Freudian slip, since the topic was pharmaceuticals.
I will not hold it against you because it was too funny. But watch those jittery fingers on the keyboard in the future. HA!
Damn I wish I got that channel. I LOVE Bob Newhard.
The same goes for depression medication. Yeah depression is a real thing that is out of some people’s control, but seriously the pharm companies have gone nuts with it. Ever hear all the warnings on those Abilify commercials? You might be sad but at least you’re not dead.
We are on the same page… and if I wasn’t such a mature individual, I would point out that you typed Bob Newhard… hee hee… you said Newhard…
Horse pills.
Did you say whore spills? Because this is a family show, Ed.
Hoof hearted.
The hoof-hearted people, living in the world agree… there will be an answer… let me be.
If only people would see that. It would be a much healthier world
Americans in particular are rather lazy. We invented the drive in fast food window. So we wouldn’t have to walk thirty feet to eat crap.
Now we have the phone so we don’t even have to go out
Have you seen the movie Wall-E or whatever… about the little robot? We are gonna end up like the huge people on the spaceship.
I thought that when I watched it. Everything is too easy to do now. I’m disabled, but I go out so take photos. I don’t like it, but I get out
Nobody really likes going out. Well… a few crazy people I guess. But it has to be done!
Haha. Yeah there is the odd one or two.
It’s gone 11 here, so I’m off to bed.
Thank you
Later.