Random old fogy stuff

Jun 25, 2016 21:37

Remember when, if you unplugged your phone, it wouldn't ring ( Read more... )

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semyaza June 26 2016, 06:48:10 UTC
It doesn't inspire confidence. They need to fire whoever made the ad.

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xylohypha June 26 2016, 22:49:28 UTC
Whoever made the ad, and whoever hired the company that made the ad, and whoever gave final approval to the end-product. Assuming they didn't try doing it themselves, which would be even more evidence that their critical faculties are not functional.

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semyaza June 26 2016, 22:52:13 UTC
What I should have said was 'you watch ads?'

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xylohypha June 26 2016, 23:34:16 UTC
Well, I always have something to read while I'm watching the TV, and that's usually what I do when the ads are (interminably) on--but I don't turn the sound down, and my ears picked up that this was one I hadn't seen or heard before. I was a little curious as to which pharmaceutical's use was supposedly linked to pseudotumor cerebri, looked up, and saw the huge letters calling it psuedotumor cerebri.

And I note that the hyphen I used in my post was unnecessary. Oops. At least no one was paying me to spell it!

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semyaza June 26 2016, 23:38:16 UTC
Is it likely or is it a false connection?

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xylohypha June 27 2016, 00:39:14 UTC
Dunno. This was the first I'd heard of it. I do see when I google that there are several drugs which have a known association with it in some patients.

On the other hand, obesity increases risk twenty-fold in some populations. I don't know that the TV-advertising-lawyers would be interested in weighing responsibility between several risk factors when some would provide them with scope for a lawsuit and others wouldn't necessarily.

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