• Chessmasterrex@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I always thought the generic nature of many of these ads are slightly strange. They’d show some smiling woman walking down a beach, hair blowing in a breeze. Then they start talking about a medicine for COPD, bipolar disorder, acid reflux or whatever. I guess the viewer is supposed to assume that the woman is afflicted with one of these maladies and now is relieved from it? To me it looks like stock footage of some random lady walking down a beach who had no clue she’d be in a ad for Prozac.

  • sumguyonline@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    The unfortunate reality is most people would rather choose “Joy” pills rather than face the realities that are required to be faced if we want to fix everything.

    • SynopsisTantilize@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Yes. I was dealing with some pretty rough depression a while back. I raw dogged that shit for months before I finally just fixed the bullshit I had subjected myself to.

  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’ll say this. If any of those people represented in the ad exist, they can afford the medication that’s being sold by the ad.

    Those are the people who buy the things that people say “if you have to ask, you can’t afford it” about.

    You all forget, there’s legions of people who are wealthy, but not the ultra rich. They bring in millions of dollars a year. Far more than you or I possibly could, but they’re not notable because they’re part of the 1% and the 0.1% are much much worse.

    What they don’t get, is that their wealth is closer to the bottom 99% than the top 0.1%. they should be on our side, but they won’t get involved because they’re a bunch of fence sitting assholes that just do enough to keep up their lifestyle, but not so much that anyone notices.

  • son_named_bort@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I don’t know if I’d want to live in a world where people spontaneously break out into songs about their type 2 diabetes.

  • fckreddit@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I always say this: ads exist in a parallel dimensions where problems are nonexistent. What minor problems there are can be solved trivially in less than 30 seconds.

  • fishbone@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Side effects may include:

    spoiler

    3 inches of blood

    Anorexia Nervosa

    Cephalic Carnage

    Fleshgod Apocalypse

    Gorod

    Ion Dissonance

    Katatonia

    Malevolent Creation

    Malignancy

    Mayhem

    Mütiilation

    Neurosis

    Nocturnal Rites

    Odious Mortem

    Phobia

    Severe Tortue

    Sickening Horror

    Spawn of Possesion

    Vampire Moose

    Vehemence

    Viraemia

    Visceral Bleeding

    Vital Remains

    Ask your doctor if Abilify is right for you. (Side note, fuck Abilify. It’s the worst med I’ve ever taken by a huge margin)

      • fishbone@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        3 days ago

        They are! Some of them even have good music (ouch, self jab). A lot of them fall squarely in the realm of non metalheads saying “this isn’t music/this is just noise”, a few of them are small scale bands, and a few of them are really iconic bands.

        3 inches of Blood is very much the outlier genre-wise, it’s power metal about DnD stuff.

        • xXSirDanglesXx@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Surprised to see you threw Anorexia Nervosa in there, I’ve never met anybody else who had listened to them, or even heard of em for that matter.

          • fishbone@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            2 days ago

            Hell yeah, Anorexia Nervosa was one of my favorite bands for a long time. Good tunes. I grew up in a town with a comparatively big metal scene, so I was pretty blessed with a lot of metal that I would have otherwise never heard. Honestly I wasn’t too sure that anyone would recognize anything from that list outside of Neurosis or a few others. Hell, I wouldn’t recognize some of them if I didn’t write the list, and it’s all from my own music library.

            • xXSirDanglesXx@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              2 days ago

              Fleshgod, Gorod, Katatonia, and Spawn of Possession immediately stood out to me, among the others, but I was legit just surprised to have seen an Anorexia Nervosa mention up there.

      • fishbone@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        2 days ago

        I swear, drug companies’ modus operandi solely revolves around coming up with side effects so awful that the original problem just doesn’t seem as bad by comparison, despite the meds not actually helping it in any way.

        Abilify made me unable to even consider anything beyond sleeping and eating.

  • fishbone@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Relevant (and absurd) Dethklok song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP3XmWdH_vg

    Lyrics:

    spoiler

    Pull the plug (x8)

    I drove my truck into a moving van

    It was all filled up with jet fuel and

    I crashed right in and explosion

    Smash through the window and ripped off my hands

    Medical team drove up and found me

    Bleeding in pieces picked up off the street

    Drove me into a filthy hospital

    Horror experienced financially

    Woke up in pain in a gown in bed

    Internal hemorrhaging inside my head

    I really think that I should be dead

    I saw the bill and then I cry bled

    To keep me alive it is costing me

    National deficit times three

    There is no way to avoid this fee

    Please pull the plug and kill me

    It’s costing too much

    Pull the plug

    It’s costing too much

    Pull the plug (x16)

    Aneurysm

    Botulism

    Epilepsy

    Narcolepsy

    Pull the plug

    Nearsighted

    Breath lighted

    Cataracts

    Heart attacks

    Pull the plug

    Hepatitis

    Bronchitis

    Appendicitis

    Arthritis

    Pull the plug

    Encephalitis

    Adenitus

    Mastoiditus

    Capsulitus

    Pull the plug now (x4)

    Pay you my life instead of life support

    Harvest my plasma because it’s worth more

    Take all my blood and my organs

    Sell them to buyers over in third worlds

    Burn my cadaver for some energy

    Charge the patients in their misery

    Such a strong quarter for the industry

    Pharmaceutical fucking victory

    Can’t pay the price

    Pull the plug

    Pay with my life

    Pull the plug

    Say my farewell

    Pull the plug

    See you in hell

    I’ll fucking pull the plug

  • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I recently overheard one that was “fatal infection of the skin of the perineum.” I thought might be one of the worst ways to go out.

  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Is this something American I’m too British to have experienced? Also, I use adblock so I probability wouldn’t see it anyway.