Just Say What?
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37 responses to “Just Say What?”
Half the drugs they Fargone shill on TV nowadays the side effects Symply scare me out of my wits! I’d rather have what they are trying to fix than the side effects you get!
Virginia — or at least parts of it — got your freeze, Jimmy. Glad we could help. Is “Perkitrex” a pun of am I merely anticipating Ghost’s reaction? Good morning, by the way, Jimmy and Villagers, and belated Food Morning, Debbe. Most drugs scare the … out of me, symply. John’s had some truly frightening reactions to some of the prescriptions he’s been put on. Or which have been put on him. Fortunately he now has a physician he swears by and trusts and who doesn’t automatically go for the newest drug on the market. Shelly and Ginger went shopping. John went target shooting (or after coyotes for the bounty) and I’m stuck at home making vegetarian lasagna, Cajun chili and roasted chicken.
Symply, I concur, the cure seems worse than the disease. The wonderment of modern pharmicuticals is the strange mix of diseases each claims to cure. I feel the snake oil pitchman has just found a corporate curtain behind which he now hides.
Mindy, I wasn’t going to say this, but since you mentioned it…
Perkitrex sounds as though it would be an ED drug for pokies.
Also, have you ever noticed that the drugs featured in last year’s pharmaceutical company TV ads tend to become the drugs featured in this year’s personal injury attorneys’ TV ads?
A new study suggests humans’ cognitive speed peaks at age 24, and that it’s a steady downhill descent from there. I suppose that would explain a lot of things.
Ice is cheaper than Perkitrex, also more fun in applying.
Good morning, Villiagers! My boss says he can remember when those TV ads for prrescription drugs cam out and she was beseiged with patients want ing to know if X was “right for them”. Now it’s a joke or a yawn.
It could have been worse over on The Dark Side today, Lily. At least no one told the joke about the good ol’ boy who sneaked his pet duck into the movie theatre by hiding it in his pants.
Ah yes, better living through chemistry! Count me on the side of I’d rather have the malady than the side effects.
Symply, on your comment about using all the chicken, did you save the feathers to stuff pillows with? 😉
Hey, Greg Cravens. I may have to rethink not having “ride a unicycle” on my bucket list.
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/2014/01/unicycle-inline2.jpg
Iwas disgustd by the stupid sex jokes on the Dark Side today
Not surprised, though, were you, Lily? They do seem to have more than their share of, what is that thing Mindy always calls me? Oh yeah, chauvinists.
Hey GR6, if you like that unicycle, have a look at this: http://www.hammacher.com/Product/Default.aspx?sku=11102&promo=Sports-Leisure-Outdoor-Fun&catid=231
Looks to me more like a time machine than a cycle, Mark. Wasn’t there something like that in the last Men In Black movie?
What I really want is the Hover Bike from “Looper”.
http://www.thereplicapropforum.com/gallery/data/921/looper-hover-bike-01.JPG
Ghost, I can’t imagine you making some of those comments
As a trained chemist NOT associated with the pharm industry, I have to comment: Those side effects mentioned are merely POSSIBILITIES, not certainties. A patient may experience, or may not experience, any of them or none of them. If your medical condition warrants usage of the new wonder drug “whateveritis”, give it a shot if your doctor advises it. I imagine any worthy physician would evaluate side effects when suggesting it to you, and, you, as patient, ought to inquire if you have any doubts about “whateveritis”.
Ghost, Blinky, and anyone else interested: I like TWC to have on during a storm outbreak so I can watch where the severe stuff lies and is going. Yes, I could do it on a terminal, but with the tv on, I can use this laptop to check other things while keeping a constant eye on the stormy weather. [We do not have any fancy phones in the house, so watching a screen on a phone is not an option.] Do you not agree that the frequent radar views of the stormy area are more effective than sporadic checking on a computer?
Less seriously, on the suggested/suspected changes on TWC personnel: …And the downside is what?
One aspect of our dependence on foreign oil is our mania for burning carbon based fuels ‘just for fun’: unicycles, snowmobiles, water skis, high highway speeds, etc.
This house is heated by natural gas, but I keep the thermostat at 65F days, 62 nights. Summers I almost never use AC. I realize I have an advantage over most of you re AC. I sin, but with restraint.
Sorry GR6, no hoverbike, but the same site does offer this: http://www.hammacher.com/Product/Default.aspx?sku=11933&promo=Sports-Leisure-Outdoor-Fun&catid=231
Lily, I will admit (at the risk of damaging my carefully-crafted persona) that no, I would not have made those remarks.
c ex-p: My understanding of how side effects get listed on drug package inserts is that some significant (if small) percentage of the subjects in clinical trials for the drug reported a given side effect. But yes, those are probably there as much as or more so for legal reasons than medical ones.
I have to say that those expensive pharmaceuticals arlargely responsible for me still being alive. I haven’t used the little blue pills or their kin, but lots of other chemicals that have kept other systems working correctly. The possible side effects are daunting, BUT sometimes the side effectson listed are extreme circumstance. I’ve had several minor surgeries that had disclosures that include possible results including DEATH. Not at all likely buy it has to be included because our increasingly litigious society demands it. I for one am grateful that we have pharmaceutical and medical research.
The Flying Hovercraft looks like fun, Mark. I wonder if one could get away with registering a light single engine airplane as a boat as long as one agreed to never fly it more than 50 feet AGL.