I always thought the generic nature of many of these ads are slightly strange. They’d show some smiling woman walking down a beach, hair blowing in a breeze. Then they start talking about a medicine for COPD, bipolar disorder, acid reflux or whatever. I guess the viewer is supposed to assume that the woman is afflicted with one of these maladies and now is relieved from it? To me it looks like stock footage of some random lady walking down a beach who had no clue she’d be in a ad for Prozac.
The unfortunate reality is most people would rather choose “Joy” pills rather than face the realities that are required to be faced if we want to fix everything.
Yes. I was dealing with some pretty rough depression a while back. I raw dogged that shit for months before I finally just fixed the bullshit I had subjected myself to.
Be careful what you wish for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gMjJNGg9Z8&t=0
I just always imagine that those ads are the vivid hallucinations of a patient in a mental hospital.
I don’t know if I’d want to live in a world where people spontaneously break out into songs about their type 2 diabetes.
Side effects may include:
spoiler
3 inches of blood
Anorexia Nervosa
Cephalic Carnage
Fleshgod Apocalypse
Gorod
Ion Dissonance
Katatonia
Malevolent Creation
Malignancy
Mayhem
Mütiilation
Neurosis
Nocturnal Rites
Odious Mortem
Phobia
Severe Torture
Sickening Horror
Spawn of Possession
Vampire Moose
Vehemence
Viraemia
Visceral Bleeding
Vital Remains
Ask your doctor if Abilify is right for you. (Side note, fuck Abilify. It’s the worst med I’ve ever taken by a huge margin)
are those all band names?
They are! Some of them even have good music (ouch, self jab). A lot of them fall squarely in the realm of non metalheads saying “this isn’t music/this is just noise”, a few of them are small scale bands, and a few of them are really iconic bands.
3 inches of Blood is very much the outlier genre-wise, it’s power metal about DnD stuff.
Surprised to see you threw Anorexia Nervosa in there, I’ve never met anybody else who had listened to them, or even heard of em for that matter.
Hell yeah, Anorexia Nervosa was one of my favorite bands for a long time. Good tunes. I grew up in a town with a comparatively big metal scene, so I was pretty blessed with a lot of metal that I would have otherwise never heard. Honestly I wasn’t too sure that anyone would recognize anything from that list outside of Neurosis or a few others. Hell, I wouldn’t recognize some of them if I didn’t write the list, and it’s all from my own music library.
Fleshgod, Gorod, Katatonia, and Spawn of Possession immediately stood out to me, among the others, but I was legit just surprised to have seen an Anorexia Nervosa mention up there.
Lol I feel the same about people mentioning Fleshgod. I know got pretty big fast, but the first time I heard of them was when they performed at the summer slaughter tour in 2011. I was there to see Black Dahlia Murder, but Fleshgod was very much the highlight of it for me.
“Tell your doctor that you want your insurance company to give us piles of money to fuck you up.”
I swear, drug companies’ modus operandi solely revolves around coming up with side effects so awful that the original problem just doesn’t seem as bad by comparison, despite the meds not actually helping it in any way.
Abilify made me unable to even consider anything beyond sleeping and eating.
What is it supposed to cure?
Typically depression and other mood stuff associated with bipolar.
between the sounds of laughter of adults catching butterflies
This pill might fucking kill you
teeheeheee
It also might cause your eyes to explode
What if ads had to show side affects by law.
So like theres a guy with gut wrenching abdominal cramps audibly blowing liquid ass mulch into the toilet bowel while moaning painfully.
Scene cuts to he’s smiling and cutting the grass in the front yard.
“sometimes, you have to smell the atrocious to really understand the positive”
shitting in agony, crying, the bowl soaked in sweat and tears, their hand and legs quivering
“that’s why FuckYourself Maximum Dosage really starts your day off by ruining it in some of the worst suffering we have seen in clinical trials. it’s not a side effect, it’s a main one!”
‘oh fuck make it STOP AAAAGGGHHHHHHH’
“after pinpointing the issue, we then turned the concoction up to 11! now when you are finally able to pick yourself up off the floor and wash yourself of feces, you can enjoy the rest of your day knowing that it can only get better from here”
smelling a lush garden full of flowers baking in sun rays, eyes closed and smiling, as a burning 747 goes down in the distance, and the scene fades with a nuclear bomb exploding
“FuckYourself Maximum Dosage; ask your doctor if it’s right for you. Or an ex. Or a bastard boss. Don’t be shy, we will prescribe it to anyone!”
fade to black
I’d rather they just ban the drug commercials. Talk to a doctor about medicine, and if you are unsure about what is determined, get a second opinion. Companies trying to sell their product directly to end users and ignoring the repercussions to the middlemen just causes more problems than the 9000 issues we already have in healthcare.
Absolutely this. Drug ads are a plague and need to stop.
Side effects may include death.
I always say this: ads exist in a parallel dimensions where problems are nonexistent. What minor problems there are can be solved trivially in less than 30 seconds.
Strange joint pain, anal leakage, hair loss, anal leakage, minor headaches, anal leakage, throbbing veins, anal leakage, sore throat, anal leakage, eye twitching, anal leakage, shrink dink, anal leakage, tender nipples, anal leakage.
• Bone Sporking • Late Onset Albinism • Facial Corkboarding • Restless Torso Syndrome • REO Speedlung • Permanent Blindness • Nostril Inversion • Dissolving Intestine Syndrome • Spontaneous and Uncontrollable Gum Growth • X-Ray Hearing • Ankle Bearding • Brainwhistle • Arby’s Mouth • Steven Tyler Lip • Hairy Uvula • Jimmy Cracked Corns • Scrotal Bassoon • Massive Weight Gains • Scrappy Dooism • Honus Wagner Disease • Hungry, Hungry Hipbones • Capillary Yogurt • Hair Swelling • Minor Heart Explosions • Skeletal Xylophoning
You forgot Brain Constipation
Fun fact… anal leakage’s first big hit was not even pharma related. It was potato chips.
Fucking Olestra
I think you forgot the anal leakage.
It’s difficult to forget, I hear. Except my drugs cause hearing loss.
I recently overheard one that was “fatal infection of the skin of the perineum.” I thought might be one of the worst ways to go out.
God I hate the Jardiance commercials. I wish the writers a very die in a hole.
Thanks, I thought I’d gotten rid of that shitty ear worm but just a mention is all it took to bring it roaring back to life
Those always make me assume that somebody had that issue while in the trial, and it was easier to throw it on the list than figure out if it actually had any connection to the drug. Let the primary care docs read the literature if they want to make an educated guess. The patients will just joke about it but probably still ask for it.
WTF? That’s worse than whatever it’s claiming to cure.
Farxiga
Not just your normal fun kind of fatal infection, but the necrotizing fasciitis kind of fun
Is this something American I’m too British to have experienced? Also, I use adblock so I probability wouldn’t see it anyway.
The have to include any and all side effects that testing showed.
In other news, it’s straight retarded to allow pharmaceutical advertising. But here we are.
Actually this is not entirely true. It’s anything that happened to any patient during any phase of testing. This is why so many “side effects” include death, because if you’re doing an n=1000 study or whatever, SOMEONE is going to die, statistically, and you can’t provably show that the drug you’re testing didn’t lead, at least in part, to that death. Good intentions with the reporting regulation, but not a good execution.
Yes, and me too. It’s horrible stuff https://youtu.be/EQkAX_Gi-tM https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCVkLEuVBQd8LfJGeNOd4RqARRykgrhfA
Polish TV has similarish adverts for medical products.
Unedited footage of a Bear
I tried showing this to people at work. They didn’t get it.
You can certainly aspire to those things, some of them are rather easy to accomplish.
You try and then realize its all the other people who mess it up, so you either remove yourself from society or try to destroy it to star anew. You know… the Thoreau vs Hitler dichotomy.
I’ll say this. If any of those people represented in the ad exist, they can afford the medication that’s being sold by the ad.
Those are the people who buy the things that people say “if you have to ask, you can’t afford it” about.
You all forget, there’s legions of people who are wealthy, but not the ultra rich. They bring in millions of dollars a year. Far more than you or I possibly could, but they’re not notable because they’re part of the 1% and the 0.1% are much much worse.
What they don’t get, is that their wealth is closer to the bottom 99% than the top 0.1%. they should be on our side, but they won’t get involved because they’re a bunch of fence sitting assholes that just do enough to keep up their lifestyle, but not so much that anyone notices.
That’s why I take Claridryl!
Beat me to it.
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=2gMjJNGg9Z8
Thanks for the thought, but Piped isn’t working all that great for many folks. I’ve had a lot better luck using regular YouTube links with the Grayjay app…
Holy shit, I love unedited footage of a bear!
THIS IS MY SERMON THIS IS MY SERMON THIS IS MY SERMON
Darn, the world is getting shittier and shittier and I’m all out of Claridryl!
In case it is relevant to your case too, I’ll mention I have this problem when I use them (or firefox) over my VPN’s “normal” connections (yet YT over chromium still works), yet they all work fine over my VPN’s “P2P-friendly” connections. I haven’t had time to diagnose exactly why though…
