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    Shiiiii

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    Do these idiots not realise people can see them?

    https://www.thejournal.ie/officers-l...55043-Aug2019/

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49332640

    Massive amount of time for 'Jess Tye' going out of her way to be a feminist stereotype whilst, with a straight face, talking about the dangers of gender stereotyping.
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    https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...eotyping-rules

    It seems that one of the ads was banned as the women sat on the bench showed the woman being "passive" as opposed to rock-climbing. All adverts are going to be banned soon, aren't they?

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    Quote Originally Posted by John Arne View Post
    All adverts are going to be banned soon, aren't they?
    Good tbh.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John Arne View Post
    https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...eotyping-rules

    It seems that one of the ads was banned as the women sat on the bench showed the woman being "passive" as opposed to rock-climbing. All adverts are going to be banned soon, aren't they?
    Fucking hell.

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    And you lot dare mocking the US.

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    My favorite part:

    Meanwhile, three people complained about an ad for the Volkswagen eGolf car.
    If that is all it takes, then I expect that some internet folks will be having a lot of fun with this soon.

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    Wow, they’re banned? In the US they just get pulled voluntarily. Add this to the retarded UK libel laws as a win for the Great States

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    We're a joke for this stuff. Puritan scummers. They want shooting.

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    Anyone who's had the misfortune of watching American telly with any regularity could tell you it immeasurably more awful than anything even our worst channels might put out.

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    There's a trillion channels.

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    Of shite and infomercials.

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    I always seem to find American 'soccer' streams and it mostly seems to be hormone replacement clinics and ride-on lawnmowers. And yet ninety per cent of the telly this forum wanks over is American.

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    They're good at prime-time dramas. It's their daytime tv that's the problem. And the thousands of adverts. Gender stereotyping adverts. Scum.

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    Daytime tv is literally catered to single moms and crackheads who don't want to do anything with their lives. Of course upstanding citizens such as yourselves would have no interest.

    The only redeeming factor between 10am-7:00p is the local* news and The Price is Right.

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    This...Is...JEOPARDY!

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    Americans have absolutely no business taking the moral high ground on anything related to adverts, given they allow medication to be advertised directly to...patients? Customers? Horrific.

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    The problem there goes a lil bit deeper than the ads

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    Quote Originally Posted by mugbull View Post
    This...Is...JEOPARDY!
    Jeopardy is great dinner theater and I appreciate you recognizing it's greatness.

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    I love American shit TV.

    American Pickers, Pawn Stars, Storage Wars are tier two. Forged in Fire and Top Chef are Tier One.

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    Quote Originally Posted by randomlegend View Post
    Americans have absolutely no business taking the moral high ground on anything related to adverts, given they allow medication to be advertised directly to...patients? Customers? Horrific.
    As opposed to advertising gambling to gambling addicts?

    The way you say it is if they're advertising cancer treatments to the poor. It's generally just some type of "Do you not shit enough? It could be a lack of fiber!" bullshit that comes with 137 side effects including death.

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    Plus we get all of your best bullshit shows. Big Brother, Pop Idol, MasterChef..... all redone in bigger and better (read: ridiculously over-produced) fashion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry View Post
    I love American shit TV.

    American Pickers, Pawn Stars, Storage Wars are tier two. Forged in Fire and Top Chef are Tier One.
    That's all cable mate, not for the common folk.

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    You're not watching enough American TV if your advertising complaint isn't directly related to shit like...

    "Have you or a loved one ever drank green tea on a hot Tuesday in the shade next to a Carrier air conditioning unit in the sun? You could be entitled to legal compensation. Call Lytal, Morgan, Morgan & Humphries now at 1-800-GET-PAID for a free consultation."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pepe View Post
    That's all cable mate, not for the common folk.
    I mean if you're thinking you're going to get a lot out of channel 26.3 HD-5 off the ol' antenna, well..

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    Quote Originally Posted by bruhnaldo View Post
    As opposed to advertising gambling to gambling addicts?

    The way you say it is if they're advertising cancer treatments to the poor. It's generally just some type of "Do you not shit enough? It could be a lack of fiber!" bullshit that comes with 137 side effects including death.
    It's taken me all of two minutes to find adverts for Opdivo, a monoloconal antibody for advanced lung cancer being advertised direct to patients.

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    Local car dealers put out some cracking ads once in a while.

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    If they were advertising pretend ME cures every day would be a Super Bowl Party round Randrew's.

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    I also watched some glass blowing competition from America on Netflix.

    I still don't understand the science behind glass blowing though. Whereas after watching Forged in Fire I feel like I could make a (shit) knife if I had the tools.

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    Quote Originally Posted by randomlegend View Post
    It's taken me all of two minutes to find adverts for Opdivo, a monoloconal antibody for advanced lung cancer being advertised direct to patients.
    On television right now? Or did you literally google "cancer commercials America" and snagged the lowest hanging fruit?

    Mind you, which only would've popped up "in all of two minutes" if it was universally panned and therefore creating several search results as opposed to something mindlessly scrolling every 20 minutes on television like what we're actually talking about?

    An outlier doesn't create the condition.

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    I meant the adverts rather than the programmes, specifically the ones that spend a few minutes at the end telling you to go to a doctor if the medication they're flogging makes your dick rot off or your arms catch on fire or any of a hundred other horrifying symptoms.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bruhnaldo View Post
    On television right now? Or did you literally google "cancer commercials America" and snagged the lowest hanging fruit?

    Mind you, which only would've popped up "in all of two minutes" if it was universally panned and therefore creating several search results as opposed to something mindlessly scrolling every 20 minutes on television like what we're actually talking about?

    An outlier doesn't create the condition.


    Monoclonal antibody for ulcerative colitis.



    Diabetic medications.



    Antidepressants.



    Our friend the monoclonal antibody for lung cancer. I could go on...

    A friend who is core medical trainee (so she has 3-4 more years experience than me) went to the US recently and was absolutely shocked at the stuff being advertised on TV, such as the aforementioned monoclonal antibodies (which are properly dangerous drugs only prescribed by consultants). It's fucking insane that it's allowed.

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    What's the big deal? It's not like you can buy them on your own anyway. Freedomz hur hur.

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    When I was watching Spectrum over there, they spent most of the time advertising the channel itself. It'd be like BBC News 24 stopped every 5 minutes to give you a sizzle reel of Huw Edwards.

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    Quote Originally Posted by randomlegend View Post
    I could go on...
    No one said there wasn't commercials about medicines.

    You make it sound like how Trump and Bernie were up there saying they were gonna cure AIDS or whatever the fuck. The medicines they're selling actually do things. It's not snake oil.

    You talking about people shouldn't be taking moral high grounds because they advertise ulcerative colitis treatment on daytime television lol.

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    First of all your argument was that they aren't actually advertising serious medications for serious illnesses - which evidently they are.

    Now you've seen you were wrong on that, you've moved the goalposts to me apparently "making it sound" like they are selling fake medications, something I never even remotely suggested.

    Yes, I am saying people who allow advertisement of dangerous medications for serious illnesses directly to patients on daytime TV shouldn't be taking the moral high ground on anything to do with advertising.
    Last edited by randomlegend; 14-08-2019 at 08:45 PM.

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    What's wrong with advertising medicines? As long as they're not making stuff up about them who cares?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    What's wrong with advertising medicines? As long as they're not making stuff up about them who cares?
    They go the other way and state every single possible side effect.

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    Exactly. Your money, your body. Fuck the doctors.

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    For a lot of the same reasons as people coming to their doctor and demanding antibiotics for a viral sore throat has disastrous consequences.

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    Is the anti-depressant resistance apocalypse a thing? Hopefully. Clear out some of the cretins.

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    Advertising them on TV is just including old people in the self-diagnosed, self-cured generation. It's just that they use the adverts during Ellen, we use Google.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    Is the anti-depressant resistance apocalypse a thing? Hopefully. Clear out some of the cretins.
    Shame it won't work that way.

    One of them will get clinically depressed, go postal and inspire a survivor onto medication that won't do the job. Circle of life. And death.

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    Not here it won't. Relax.

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    Quote Originally Posted by randomlegend View Post
    First of all your argument was that they aren't actually advertising serious medications for serious illnesses - which evidently they are.

    Now you've seen you were wrong on that, you've moved the goalposts....
    Ya I stopped reading here tbh.

    You said "Americans shouldn't take the moral high ground".

    I insinuated you're acting like they're out here trying to sell fake cure all treatments to the poor as opposed to just advertising common medications and treatments available.

    You then showed a bunch of outlier advertisements, mostly that ironically suggested actual medicines/treatments that were available, again not sure what's too morally bankrupt there.

    You then quite literally stated that the said serious medicines needed a fucking doctor's prescription (and therefore doctor's consultation... and therefore would only be prescribed if absolutely necessary...)

    You've fucked up your own argument, all I did was lend you the rope.

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    It's a circle.

    All of the adverts you see are patented 'remixes' of already available drugs/treatments with little to no increased potency over what the doctor would traditionally prescribe but they will likely be more expensive than the now out of patent generic.

    The adverts all tell you to 'ask your doctor about x brand' because they are not allowed to recommend this course of action unless prompted by the patient.

    Prior to you even seeing the advert your doctor may have accepted money from the pharmaceutical company involved in making this or another drug, in turn these doctors who have received more than 5 grand from these corporations are literally 10 to 20% more likely to go with the brand name despite it's increased price and identical results.

    As with everything wrong in America, it's money and greed at the expense of the public.

    On the thing that started this all, as with a lot of things wrong in the UK. It's well intentioned idiocy, spaffed out by overpaid consultants, governed by useless jobsworths.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bruhnaldo View Post
    Ya I stopped reading here tbh.

    You said "Americans shouldn't take the moral high ground".

    I insinuated you're acting like they're out here trying to sell fake cure all treatments to the poor as opposed to just advertising common medications and treatments available.

    You then showed a bunch of outlier advertisements, mostly that ironically suggested actual medicines/treatments that were available, again not sure what's too morally bankrupt there.

    You then quite literally stated that the said serious medicines needed a fucking doctor's prescription (and therefore doctor's consultation... and therefore would only be prescribed if absolutely necessary...)

    You've fucked up your own argument, all I did was lend you the rope.
    This entire post is a perfect advert for what's wrong with advertising drugs to the public. You don't understand what's being advertised or the impact it has at all.

    It's very strange to argue with someone who constantly sets out for you what your own argument is, and then tries to tell you why you're wrong, when you never made that argument in the first place.
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    As someone who takes cymbalta I cant see how advertising that is just business as usual. I took me a good 6 months for all the side effects to wear off.

    Edit: IMO it is pretty scary that GPs down here are allowed to hand out drugs like cymbalta without any sory of therapy or referral to a proper clinical psychologist.
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