Oh yeah, and I could really live without made-up words like “Hospitaliano”.
“Apply directly to the forehead!”
I just can’t wait til these guys throw their hats into the ED ring!
OK, last one and I’m done for the night:
There used to be an ad for a Herpes drug that started off “Four pills a DAY??!! I can’t do that! I have a life!” I always wanted to scream at them ‘No you don’t, you have herpes!’ and how ungrateful can you be? Don’t you think AIDS and Cancer patients wouldn’t gladly trade body parts for a cure that required four pills a day?
When the first Boniva ads came out, Sally Field was whining about the inconvenience of taking a one pill a week. She just couldn’t find the time!
I think that actually is inconvenient because you have to take it when you wake up and you can’t have caffeine for an hour after you take it, so it is a weekly annoyance for any coffee drinker. (At least, if that’s the same drug my mom was complaining about last Thanksgiving. The alternative is, IIRC, a monthly pill that requires two hours before coffee, which she couldn’t imagine dealing with.)
Oh, hmm. I’ll have to check with someone I know and see if there’s anything on this that she knows of. She works in pharmacology and is also on our workplace’s Institutional Review Board with me. She typically does a lot of editing on reviewed consent forms in the “side effects” sections, so she might have an idea about what percentages are assigned to what categories.
With some of them you also are supposed to stand and preferably not even sit down for an hour or more, which could be tough on an elderly woman with osteoporosis first thing in the morning. (I thought someone had posted here before that they had a whole lot of GI pain after not adhering to this.) There’s actually a once-yearly IV infusion - which you have to go to the doctor’s office for - that’s being marketed as a positive alternative to the pills as a result.
That standing/sitting thing sounds familiar, so yeah, I think that’s what she was complaining about. That would be quite annoying to deal with every week.
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“All new.” As opposed to partially new? Especially irritating in promos for TV show episodes.
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“Less” instead of “fewer.”
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Not words, but an image: The cliched and totally irrelevant scenes of grandma or granddad with the grandkids, walking in the park or playing in the backyard, while the announcer tells you to talk with your doctor to see if such-and-such drug is right for you.
I remember that commercial. “Five pills a day? For five days? Who has time for that? Not me, I have a life.” Because taking a pill is such an inconvenience.
Sitting is OK, according to the directions (PDF):
[Blanking] [something]…one [blank] at a time.
ACTING!
Thank you!
I’d like to sit in on one of those auditions, it’d be hilarious. And where do the actors get that look from?
I remember reading about a common shot at the end of soap opera scenes where someone else has just delivered a line and they cut to an actor and the actor’s got to muse over the line just delivered.
They call it “taking a moment”. And one actress said when she has to “take a moment”, she does it by thinking to herself “Hmmm, did I leave the oven on?”
Or how’d you like to be one of those shopping network hosts when they have some chef on and the host has to eat some barely-cooked whatever-it-is and make the O face?
period
tampon
feminine itch
breast health
breast milk
bone health
certain part of the male anatomy
erectile dysfunction
E.D.
jock itch
well qualified
icy cold
epiduo gel
I’m _____ and I approve this message
There’s an ad for a birth control pill that results in women only having a period every three months. Right after the narrator says that, it cuts to a smiling woman saying with total confidence, “That’s four periods a year.”
I always want to find that woman and whisper in her ear, “With math skills like that, you really should be reproducing…”
Does anyone ever really base their car buying decision on “Safety”, I had to tell a salesman exactly where to go and how to get there last time I was looking at cars as every time I got near a car he started spouting about how it had this that and the other safety feature, I really don’t care, and how every car on the lot was the safest I’ll never know.
So does every antidepressant. It’s called tarditive dyskinesia. The drugs that have it worst are the anti-psychotics. Oh, and any other medications that deal with dopamine–including some stomach medications, like Reglan, which actually has the highest incidence of movement-based disorders: 20% according to Wiki.
And with all of them, the risk is greatly reduced if you titrate up slowly. That way, if do get the symptom, you can get off of the medication before it becomes permanent. Quite a lot of people have taken medicines that have this possible side effect.
It’s not the same thing as 25% off. If you believe that, you’ve fallen for the trick, too. It’s up to 25% off if you buy two items. The point is to get you to spend more money that you normally would. As for the up to: remember that it’s always 50% off a second item of equal or lesser value. It’s only 25% if the items are exactly equal in price.
Sorry if this one was mentioned already:
“X easy payments of only $Y!”
I know this is a type of scam that takes advantage of stupid people. Just because you pay $100 $24.99 at a time doesn’t make it any cheaper.
I call this a tax on the innumerate. I saw one of those “build your own model of the Cutty Sark” ones where you get one piece a week - I can’t remember the deal specifically but IIRC it would take you a couple of years to finish and cost you well over a thousand pounds. You could probably buy the original Cutty Sark for that much at the moment.
I’m completely over the Febreze ads where the feamle lead says something needs to be washed and then she soaks it in Febreze… and i’m disgusted. I know it’s a pain to clean upholstery but Sears did our furniture.