Shiiiii
Do these idiots not realise people can see them?
https://www.thejournal.ie/officers-l...55043-Aug2019/
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.
Last edited by Spikey M; 14-08-2019 at 08:22 AM.
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?
And you lot dare mocking the US.
My favorite part:
If that is all it takes, then I expect that some internet folks will be having a lot of fun with this soon.Meanwhile, three people complained about an ad for the Volkswagen eGolf car.
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
We're a joke for this stuff. Puritan scummers. They want shooting.
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.
There's a trillion channels.
Of shite and infomercials.
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.
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.
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.
*-edit
This...Is...JEOPARDY!
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.
The problem there goes a lil bit deeper than the ads
I love American shit TV.
American Pickers, Pawn Stars, Storage Wars are tier two. Forged in Fire and Top Chef are Tier One.
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.
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.
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."
Local car dealers put out some cracking ads once in a while.
If they were advertising pretend ME cures every day would be a Super Bowl Party round Randrew's.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What's the big deal? It's not like you can buy them on your own anyway. Freedomz hur hur.
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.
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.
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.
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What's wrong with advertising medicines? As long as they're not making stuff up about them who cares?
Exactly. Your money, your body. Fuck the doctors.
For a lot of the same reasons as people coming to their doctor and demanding antibiotics for a viral sore throat has disastrous consequences.
Is the anti-depressant resistance apocalypse a thing? Hopefully. Clear out some of the cretins.
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.
Not here it won't. Relax.
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.
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.
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.
Last edited by randomlegend; 15-08-2019 at 06:52 AM.
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.
Last edited by Queenslander; 15-08-2019 at 06:59 AM.