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deconstructing the viagrafication of masculinity.

Laudable goal that!  However I fear it would require the purchase of time for public, (pubic?), service announcements.  My solution would be to place a 100% tax on all drug advertisements.  25% would go to such counter Pharma advertisments.  The remainder would go to Medicade.  I don't know how it works over there.  Is prime time commercial TV viagrafied?  How about running counter adds, how poorly the stuff works, featuring a computer generated "sprite" of Berlusconi?  Two birds with one stone?  Make that a kidney stone please.  Such an ad would be the political equivalent of a kidney stone for good ole' S.B. (Has he got his initials backwards?)

If sanity be culturally normative, then by the norms of this culture I claim insanity.

by ARGeezer (argeezer a in a circle yahoo dot com) on Mon Jul 7th, 2008 at 07:25:10 PM EST
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my fave big pharma ad i saw in a doctor's waiting room in the usa, in a med journal that was full of colour whole page ads for medications. the centrefold was an ad for a medication whose unique purpose was to enable patients to remember to take their other medications.

wot's next, thunk i, another one to help remind you to take that one?

who said perpetual motion was impossible?

something else that may amuse you: here in yurp rupert murdoch has kindly provided us with access to the much lauded fox news (we distort, you deride) channel.

it is wonderful enough to see the ollie north show, hannity, and o'reilly, but in the c.5 minutes per 15 devoted to commercials in the usa, we used to get a world weather loop, now we get little nuggets, a ridiculously large proporton of which are about: (sit down before reading further)

natural remedies, solar energy, all kinds of green stories, herbal lore.

go figure...

to imagine the kind of mind that could sit through fox programming interspersed with pharma ads....

can't. go. there.

steven king time

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Chinese Proverb.

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Mon Jul 7th, 2008 at 08:55:21 PM EST
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Rupert decided about two months ago that his favorite color was green.  That was probably the color of the faces of some of his highly paid Foaminators. He reportedly decided it was good business. If it lets him run ads for green products it seems like an improvement.  I, however, have alternatives, poor though they be, so I don't watch Faux News.  I'll put on the hair shirt to read the Economist, but that is the upper limit of my gag reflex.

If sanity be culturally normative, then by the norms of this culture I claim insanity.
by ARGeezer (argeezer a in a circle yahoo dot com) on Mon Jul 7th, 2008 at 09:42:19 PM EST
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heh-

if i was living stateside, i wouldn't need to watch fox, it'd be happening right outside the window!

but i would read the economist, not because i think their mission is noble, but because they write the densest coverage.

dense both ways!

frothy fox or turgid economist, pretty much the same agenda...

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Chinese Proverb.

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Tue Jul 8th, 2008 at 01:52:45 PM EST
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Yeah, Fox only qualifies as dense in one sense.  Your reasons are the same as mine for the Economist.  I hold my nose and read it for the diamonds in the dung hill.  I especially appreciate their international coverage.  Been reading it off and on since 1965, when I read all coverage from 1919 to 1924 on the "French Occupation of the Rhur" for a grad seminar.  Topic was Reaction of British Quality Press to.... So I also got familiar with the Nation, the Observer and others.  Certainly don't read it cause I agree with their views.

If sanity be culturally normative, then by the norms of this culture I claim insanity.
by ARGeezer (argeezer a in a circle yahoo dot com) on Tue Jul 8th, 2008 at 03:16:14 PM EST
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