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I thought that I would jump on the ranting bandwagon with some rants of my very own

Professonal Atheltes (Especially Baseball, Football, Basketball, and Ice Hockey): Okay, so this is not a product. However, I still feel like ranting about them. I find it odd how they are getting paid millions of dollars for playing a game. I also find it odd how people will pay $50 a ticket just to watch a game. There is a little thing called television that allows them to watch the same game for free. Not only that, but some of these athletes get by with crimes that would land the average person in jail. Now, some of them are beating up their fans. By doing that, they are beating up the people that give them money. In my world, the person that gives money to a person is that person's boss. So, they are beating up their boss. The athlete who did this didn't get any jail time. All they got was a suspension for the rest of the season. If that happened between two ordinary people, they would have been thrown in jail. Enough of that...

Spyware, Adware, and Pop-ups: Seriously, what's the point of all this? I can't surf the internet anymore without seeing 2 jillion pop-up ads every 2 jillion seconds. Yes, that is bad. In fact I can't use my computer for other purposes without these things poping up and slowing me down. I have lost several lives (in games of course) due to these things. Who falls for these ads anyways? I can't imagine the average person falling for their free* crap ads more than once, if that much. By now, most people have been exposed to such torture to not fall for these ads. What I find ironic is that many of these ads are for spyware and adware removers. Spyware and Adware are what cause pop-ups to begin with, so having a pop-up to remove pop-ups is pointless. Of course, spyware removers do not work. As soon as I run my spyware remover program, more ads appear. I wish that Edgar the Virus Hunter made a spyware remover. That way, I could drop a train on 'em.

Disclaimer: These opinions are only the opinions of Rob of the Sky and are in no way, shape, or form associated with the Wiki or any of it's forums.

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I'm the human wedgie!

That's a real popular song! Who wants to hear of it 4888 times more?

The opposite of progress is Congress!

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My rant: People who whine about popups, spyware and virii but keep on using Internet Explorer and Outlook anyway.

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I now have a new rant
Strong Bad's Rhyme 'n Grammar: I spent $5000 on this CD so that I could improve on my grammar. Apprently, this was a waste of my hard earn money that I could have spent on better things like my tuition. This tape is worthless. Its not even worth frying in the microwave. Now, that is useless. As Homestar would say, "Worst 5000 bucks I've ever spent".

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I'm the human wedgie!

That's a real popular song! Who wants to hear of it 4888 times more?

The opposite of progress is Congress!

Yes, why don't they air those on TV? I don't listen to the radio that much, therefore I haven't heard the "Balance, balance, balance!" ads.

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Graphic Quit TV Ads They have these ads for Quit, a service if you want to quit smoking, where a doctor opens up very realistic (maybe even real) body parts to demonstrate the effects of smoking.Here is a picture from the ad and you can watch the ad here ( 2.2 MB ). They used to have it all the time on TV during day and night, but they don't show it much anymore. They were even trying to, as well as the warnings, have pictures of tar in a lung on cigarette boxes. A lot of people hate those ads (they are disgusting). There is also another ad here ( 2.1 MB ). At least the ads are barely ever shown anymore.

Australian TV There are 6 networks that you can get on free-to-air television, one is a really bad community channel (c31), one is aimed for other languages (SBS) (they have a few good shows from USA though), one is from the government, which doesn't have very interesting shows (ABC - Australian Brodcasting Corporation) and then the other three are the main networks with good shows (7, 9, 10). But really, they should have specialty channels like a kids one, a news one and other stuff. SpongeBob is only shown Wednesday to Friday, at 8 am (they started having SpongeBob on TV recently). Unless you have cable, there isn't much stuff to watch. I mean, channel-surfing takes 6 seconds to see all channels.

Automobile Advertisements on Mass Transit Vehicles?
"Surely you jest!"

What an oxymoron! I'm so sick of seeing ads for SUV's on the side of city buses. Honestly, they want to encourage you to ride mass transit, for ecological/economic reasons, yet when the bus pulls up, you see a shiny new car being offered by some Cardgage-esque salesman. That's a mixed message. I also saw a car ad on the side of an Amtrak train. For the select few of us who choose to use public transportation, it's kinda frustrating to see these signs of the car-driven culture we're stuck in.

Thank you, that is all.

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We shall have waffles. We shall have waffles, forthwith!

AGREE'D! (Ow, my disagreeability!)

Speaking of double standards...:

http://www.joeyday.com/2003/10/08/indec ... commercial

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I don't even get Channel 10 where I live. I moved from Adelaide over a year ago, and I miss the Simpsons, Just Shoot Me, Everybody loves Raymond and all those shows. And 7 Darwin shows infomercials for maybe 2 hrs a day... stupid.

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1. The moderators and administrators are dictators. We'll try to be benevolent, but your vote doesn't necessarily count. The admins and mods are always right.

Ugh.

1. You are not a mod. Do not try to be one.
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3. You're replying to a post made five months ago. Don't make off-topic replies to five-month-old posts.
4. Don't push your luck.

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I was going to say that a long time ago, but I decided not to do so.

Anyway,

Agree'd — Why don't they switch to Google ads?!

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Coca Cola - I think it was some new kind of Coca-Cola commercial. It talked about having very few calories and still tasting good. At the end, it said, "If you know what's best for you." If you know what's best for you, don't drink this heart-attack-in-a-bottle stuff they call "pop".

Yogurt - Once again, I didn't pay attention to the brand, but the commercial actually said that eating this type of yogurt will make you burn fat. The commercial actually said that eating this type of yogurt will make you burn fat. How does it propose to burn fat? By making you lift the spoon to your mouth?

Chef Boyardee - Who has seen that latest commercial where the can rolls home to that house? <SARCASM amount="500">That commercial must've been in the Super Bowl, because IT WAS hilarious!</SARCASM>

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You're thinking of Yoplait. I only know because I have some in my fridge (usually I go with the cheaper stuff, but it was on sale, and it is quite tasty) and it says the same thing on every lid. In fact, it has nothing to do with the brand, and everything to do with the fact that it has a lot of calcium. And the astute observer will notice that it does not claim to burn fat, it claims to help burn fat. Basically, studies show that increasing calcium in your diet can greatly increase the amount of fat you lose on a reduced-calorie diet. Here's a good article on the subject.

Next time read the fine print before going off on a tirade.

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Commercials for perscription medicine. These ads are confusing. I mean sometimes the side effects are worse than the initial problem.

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Some Cereals: This is so awesome! My milk is a different color!

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It drives me crazy when the commercial doesn't even tell you what the drug is for! It's like if you have that particular ailment, you're just supposed to know that you should ask your doctor if it's right for you? What if I ask my doctor if a prostate medicine is right for me? Maybe drug companies just want us to look dumb.

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No, drug companies just want you to part with your money, and don't mind if you look dumb in the process.

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It's all part of a scheme to keep from mentioning the side affects.

1st Commercial: Just say the name of the drug, and tell people to ask their doctors. Don't say what it does! Don't even hint at it! This way, you don't have to say what the side affects are.

2nd Commercial: Don't mention the name of the drug in any way! Just talk about a new drug that does this and that and the other thing. Make sure it has the same style/look as the 1st commercial. This way people tie the two together, and you never ever have to list side affects.

I've really thought about this long and hard, and I don't think that prescription drug companies should be advertising at all. To anybody. Instead, part of the money they spend would go into subsidizing peer reviewed journals that are sent to every prescribing doctor. These journals would annually have a list of all prescription drugs with a brief description sorted by use. They would compare similar drugs, ie this drug works as well as this drug. Or this drug doesn't work quite as well in our study as this drug, but it is better for people suffering from x side affect with the other drug. Each time a new drug comes out, its study is in the journal with a similar comparison.

This way, the prescribing doctors keep informed (better informed, even) of recent developments in drugs, drug companies can sell their drugs cheaper because the billions and billions of dollars they spend on advertising won't be needed, and you won't have gullible people assaulting their doctors so they can have the "latest and greatest drug" that they saw on tv, when what they have is working fine.

I agree that drug makers shouldn't be advertising on TV or magazines to the general public. The lay person has about as much ability to judge a drug's appropriateness for them as I have the ability to buy a dress that fits my girlfriend.

Or something.

On the other hand, I'm afraid that if drug companies were barred from public advertising, they'd find different ways to push their drugs, in particular some form of "payola" -- cash or gifts for doctors who recommend their drugs over the competitors. In fact, I'm worried that some of this might already be going on.

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Bingo. From some articles I have read, it has been this way for years already. It's not so expicit, though. Basically the drug company sends you and your family or your mistress or whoever to Maui for a week, calling it Continuing Education, you go to a couple hours of advertising for their product, and then you go home. Or they say "You're a great doctor. Why don't you come and discuss our drug with us for an hour at a restaurant with $50 a plate dinners, and then we'll pay you five grand in consulting fees." Never do they actually say or enforce that you use their drug over a competitors, but after receiving all those nice things, most doctors can't help but feel obligated to "pay them back" in a way.

http://newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/?041025crat_atlarge
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/content/vol326/issue7400/twib.shtml#326/7400/0
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/content/vol326/issue7400/twib.shtml#326/7400/0-b
http://www.nofreelunch.org/factsfallacies.htm

Ok, if I have to but up with another Viagra or Levitra or Celias commercial, I'm going to go crazy. I mean come one! I don't think anyone watching tv really wants to see those commercials. And besides, I feel sorry for those guys on those commercials. They're branded for life. Just look at Bob Dole.

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MALE ENHANCEMENT DRUGS! So you can die having sex--literally!
I mean, GOOD FREAKING GRAVY! Have you read all the possible side effects on these things? High blood pressure, heart attacks, stroke. I mean, it sounds to me like the cure is worse than the disease! I think I can live without sex. I don't think I could live if my freaking heart a sploded!

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there are worse commercials, how bout thase commercials with the kids talking about wetting the bed no that sucks.

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Didymus said:



One of my Dad's friends OD'd on Viagra and Enzyte, it had some..........quite hilarious after affects.

I'm leave it at that

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RIP Nathan "Buz" Buzdor

My rant: People who can't quote right.*

Cmon! That's not the way! It's just like this:



It should end up like this:


*We would like to apologize for copying Thefreakyblueman.

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RIP Nathan "Buz" Buzdor

Okay. I'd first like to say that this topic is SO GOOOD!!

Once, a while ago, on some channel... um... yeah, I can't really remember it too well. But the commercial branded itself in my brain. Basically, is showed a little boy playing baseball, and then he starts to have trouble breathing. It goes through all the normal melodramatic stuff, and the kid drops his bat. And then they say the name of the athsma drug, and advertise it a bit more thoroughly, and then the guy talking twenty miles an hour informs us that one of the side effects is trouble breathing.

I mean, come on!!!

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I remember one commercial that advertised a perscription for women.

It was a prescription about having only 4 periods a year and the side effects were like, increased chance of heart attack, stroke and other side effects. Crazy people would even consider that....

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