Side effects may include...
One of the ways in which my wife and I amuse ourselves is, in various ways, finding the "real" message in TV commercials - be it the fine print, reading between the lines, or paying attention to the "our lawyers make us say this" parts.
One that caught my attention and made me laugh to myself is in the commercials for online pharmacy. First of all, is anyone else completely unsurprised that a number of real, debilitating medical conditions go unresolved, but pretty much as soon as the Baby Boom generation (by far the most self-absorbed, self-indulgent, self-important, self-deluded and flat-out selfish group of people this planet has seen) started looking middle age squarely in the face, we started seeing hard-on pills flooding the market? But, I digress. In listing the potential side effects of Cialis, the commercial mentions "delayed back pain."
Maybe it's just me, but here's the train of thought I come up with. An old, decrepit man takes Cialis. Now, I realize that not only old men take Cialis, but then, not everyone gets every side effect. So, old man pops (grandpops?) his pill, has sex - which obviously his body is trying to tell him he can't handle any more, then, some time later, decides his back hurts. Maybe it ain't the pill that's doing that. Maybe, just maybe, Old Man McGill just got a more strenuous workout in his lower back than he's had in some time, eh?
I amuse myself with the idea that this "delayed back pain" is not an actual symptom of the pill, but of the intended effect of the pill. (That's not really the case, of course. Other varieties of muscle ache and pain are possible side effects of tadalafil, the active ingredient in Cialis. But I think my version's better than their stupid commercial.) I think it's the "delayed." Is that delay just enough time for you to get all pumped up, as it were, on your pill and go out there and hurt yourself?
Then again, there's always the chance that the back pain comes from sitting for hours in a porcelain bathtub outside somewhere, which they always seem to be doing for reasons I've never understood. "Hey, this pill will allow us to have sex! Time to get into separate, side-by-side bathtubs!!!" I really don't get that. See, I told you my version is better than their stupid commercial.
One that caught my attention and made me laugh to myself is in the commercials for online pharmacy. First of all, is anyone else completely unsurprised that a number of real, debilitating medical conditions go unresolved, but pretty much as soon as the Baby Boom generation (by far the most self-absorbed, self-indulgent, self-important, self-deluded and flat-out selfish group of people this planet has seen) started looking middle age squarely in the face, we started seeing hard-on pills flooding the market? But, I digress. In listing the potential side effects of Cialis, the commercial mentions "delayed back pain."
Maybe it's just me, but here's the train of thought I come up with. An old, decrepit man takes Cialis. Now, I realize that not only old men take Cialis, but then, not everyone gets every side effect. So, old man pops (grandpops?) his pill, has sex - which obviously his body is trying to tell him he can't handle any more, then, some time later, decides his back hurts. Maybe it ain't the pill that's doing that. Maybe, just maybe, Old Man McGill just got a more strenuous workout in his lower back than he's had in some time, eh?
I amuse myself with the idea that this "delayed back pain" is not an actual symptom of the pill, but of the intended effect of the pill. (That's not really the case, of course. Other varieties of muscle ache and pain are possible side effects of tadalafil, the active ingredient in Cialis. But I think my version's better than their stupid commercial.) I think it's the "delayed." Is that delay just enough time for you to get all pumped up, as it were, on your pill and go out there and hurt yourself?
Then again, there's always the chance that the back pain comes from sitting for hours in a porcelain bathtub outside somewhere, which they always seem to be doing for reasons I've never understood. "Hey, this pill will allow us to have sex! Time to get into separate, side-by-side bathtubs!!!" I really don't get that. See, I told you my version is better than their stupid commercial.