I know that one. Thankfully they don’t show that one over here anymore: my mind went the same direction as yours.
We have a in my mind rather gross ad for a toilet-cleaing agent. I forget the brand. There’s a rather famous tv-chef going ‘Smells like orange, or maybe cinnamon.’ Next shot we see he’s sniffing the toilet-bowl. A guy sticks his head around the door and they have some inane conversation about how wonderful the toilet smells and how clean it is, until the second guy cheerfully goes ‘So, can I make a reservation for one?’ See, because it’s a reference to restaurants it’s funny, right? Eugh.
The new Wendy’s commercials where the guy talks about being a “meatatarian” har har :rolleyes:
Besides painfully reminding me of the complete dearth of fast food options for vegetarians/vegans, what also annoys me is that there’s already a perfectly good word for meat eaters: Carnivore. They didn’t need to come up with a new word just to antagonize vegetarians.
I’m a bit confused: are you saying that ANY breast surgery is a risk to health?
More than 20 years ago my mother had a biopsy and was diagnosed with breast cancer. She was 59 then. She had the mastectomy–which, the doctor said frankly, she might not survive. Quite the dilemma.
Well, she had the surgery done. She survived that “procedure” and is 79 now.
Could you be a little more clear about what surgery is risky to that extent?
Even for a healthy adult, general anesthesia presents a small, but real, risk to life and health. Normally it’s on the order of a one or two percent chance of an adverse reaction, and of the people who suffer that reaction, most will survive with treatment. Similarly, even with modern surgical techniques and antibiotics, cutting into the body presents another small, but non-zero risk for infection. And given that surgery happens at a hospital, the odds of having any infection be one of the various drug resistant varieties means that if an infection is contracted it’s likely to be more serious than an infection that occurs “in the wild” so to speak.
Of course some surgeries or patients will have higher than average risks than the ones I’m mentioning here - when my father had brain surgery this summer we were given odds of a one in twenty, or 5%, chance that he might contract an infection inside the central nervous system, which is always a bitch to treat. Even with a young, healthy adult. When alternative was letting my father continue to remain effectively an immobile near-vegetable, it was a no-brainer choice to accept the risk for the liklihood that the surgery would improve his condition.
The point that Nava is making is that while surgery is generally safe, it does entail some unavoidable risks. It is simply good health management to want to minimize the number of surgeries one experiences. Low risk does not mean trivial risk. And for cosmetic surgery, a lot of people believe that the risks are too great compared to the potential benefit.
Any surgery is a risk to health, yes, even local anesthesic one. Of course some are riskier than others, of course in your mother’s case whether to have the surgery or not wasn’t even a real question, the question was more “when” to have it.
But those guys are using “procedure” as an euphemism for “surgery.” Normal, non-medical folk don’t say “my wife had an apendecectomical procedure” or “my wife had an apendecectomy,” they say “my wife had surgery for apendicitis.” Heck, I know people who say “the doctors cut out my wife’s apendix.” These ads have people who are supposed to be regular people just shooting the breeze with someone and everything is a “procedure.”
Enroll, see the word, use your personal protective devices and your personal protection manual implements… cue a picture of soldiers landing on a beach
There are plenty of adverts I hate while I am watching them, but as I am one of those who advertising doesn’t work on ( that’s right, I’m skint.), I don’t pay much attention to product names. One that really bugs me though, is the one for a clothing freshener with a load of creepy woolen creatures “Feeling irie”, and a caterpillar crawling in the wash basket. WTF?
Last night I saw an ad for buying an HDTV at Best Buy. A family buys an LCD screen and goes home, tries to hook it up, and can’t figure out why the picture doesn’t look right. The voiceover then says that the Geek Squad can hook up your HDTV correctly. The family has the Geek Squad hook up their HDTV, then the family huddles together in the living room, mesmerized by their new HDTV programming.
The camera then pans into the next room, where the dog is hunched down and lonely on the kitchen floor. The voiceover for the dog’s brain says something like, “I don’t know what HDTV or the Geek Squad is, but I don’t like it.”
There’s a great message - spend your free time watching a TV from our store instead of playing with your dog.
