TV Commercials

(UsedToBeT2D) #1

Half the commercials are for Big Pharma and all their drugs to treat us for all the health problems caused by the other half of commercials for junk food.
There is a theme there…what do you think it is?

(Robin) #2

The theme song to JAWS.

#3

keep the general population under control thru sickness and weakness.
and all the time doing that, increase your wealth to staggering profits.

(Brian) #4

I hate the TV more and more all the time, and tend to spend less and less time with it. I might have spent 2 or 3 hours this week with it turned on and actual watching, as opposed to just putting up with the “noise” of commercials was probably closer to 1.5 hours, for the whole week. If the thing died completely, it might be a while before I missed it.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #5

I haven’t owned a television in sixteen years. Got rid of it when I realised I was staying up well past midnight to watch re-runs of a show I hadn’t enjoyed when it was originally broadcast.

#6

Same here. Our family hasn’t owned a TV in 20 years. Total waste of time.

(UsedToBeT2D) #7

I am with you on that, I have not found anything worth sticking with for the past 10 years.

(Consensus is Politics) #8

Not to mention the big pharma scam, making new drugs to counter act the old drugs.

I recently saw a documentary about a specific big pharma case, in the 1950’s and 1960’s about Thalidomide. I remember seeing news stories about the problem when I was a kid. If you feel the need to get really pissed (American pissed, as in a righteous anger, not boozed up) and given a really good cry for these people.

Will make you think twice about using any drug again.

You will tear up. You have been warned. Just remember to point your righteous anger towards the bad guys. :sob:

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #9

“Pissed” in American dialect is short for “pissed off,” which is used and means the same thing on both sides of the Atlantic. It will be interesting to see if Americans start to adopt the British (and Commonwealth) meaning of “pissed,” but American cultural hegemony makes that unlikely.

#10

don’t matter where you are in the world and the wording of it all, ticked off, pizzed off, PURE ANGER is just that over any subject…so yea we all know it in the end :crazy_face: No one has word dominance over emotions of direction towards issues I would think.

(Consensus is Politics) #11

Indeed. True. What really gets my goat these days is the continual change of meanings in language. Linguists say its normal for words to change over years. But thats before the information age. When the pronunciation of a word, like “Fire” and “Wash” would get changed to “Far” and “Worsh”. Its not just accents, its more than that, seeing as those same people can say it right, they just learned it a certain way and continue to use what they learned. I was in the USAF for 20 years. I have known people and have had friends from nearly every place on this Earth. I can tell the difference between accent and pronunciation.

The last two generations are totally screwing up their languages. :triumph: and emoticons dont help :cold_sweat:

#12

politically correct is the 2 worse scary words put together I seen change alot of life on this planet. good or bad? hey

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #13

No, the scariest words are, “We need to talk.” :rofl: