Lauren's Lair: Here be dragons...

[davina61]

I cant say my catch phrase here it would get me banned (I learnt a good few profanities after 50+ years in the garage trade) but my drag race friends called me Buddha as I knew a lot. Of course its now Buddeta!

[Emma1017]

"But I have seen a lot of stuff the US puts out and it just makes me think 'it could be worse.'"

Lauren, Stottie and Davina, consider yourself lucky not to be assaulted by the endless drug commercials.  They pay extra for multiple minutes of dancing intestines, Broadway productions on cancer drugs, and insincere TV doctors selling suspicious medications...and, oh yeah, with RFK, Jr. in charge of protecting our health.

Lori, do you know any good Indian shamans?

[Lori Dee ✅]

Lori, do you know any good Indian shamans?

I don't think they were very good. I found it suspicious that the local Medicine Man kept calling in sick.

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[Sephirah]

"But I have seen a lot of stuff the US puts out and it just makes me think 'it could be worse.'"

Lauren, Stottie and Davina, consider yourself lucky not to be assaulted by the endless drug commercials.  They pay extra for multiple minutes of dancing intestines, Broadway productions on cancer drugs, and insincere TV doctors selling suspicious medications...and, oh yeah, with RFK, Jr. in charge of protecting our health.

Lori, do you know any good Indian shamans?

I always found that extremely... weird, Emma. The proclivity to try to sell medication to people. Trying to tell folks they need a particular drug rather than letting their medical practitioner determine if that's actually the case.

That being said, we do have ads for mild painkillers, and a worrying amount of aids to relieving your bowels, on UK terrestrial television. That's kind of as far as it goes though. At least from what I remember of advertising.

[Stottie Girl]

I always found that extremely... weird, Emma. The proclivity to try to sell medication to people. Trying to tell folks they need a particular drug rather than letting their medical practitioner determine if that's actually the case.

That being said, we do have ads for mild painkillers, and a worrying amount of aids to relieving your bowels, on UK terrestrial television. That's kind of as far as it goes though. At least from what I remember of advertising.

You've made me think of that god awful pepto-bismol advert now!

[Lori Dee ✅]

That reminds me of an internet meme about toilet paper commercials:

Who is not buying toilet paper?

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[Sephirah]

That reminds me of an internet meme about toilet paper commercials:

Who is not buying toilet paper?

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Well, back during COVID... in the UK, everyone was. In vast quantities. For some unfathomable reason, haha.

You have me thinking about a really creepy toilet roll ad over here though. With a little kid. It was very... odd.

Oh god.. I found it..

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You've made me think of that god awful pepto-bismol advert now!

I remember the one with the odd firefighters. We have some very strange ads in the UK.

[Stottie Girl]

Ha I remember that ad!

The toilet roll thing was funny. Why in a crisis does everyone panic buy loo roll? As a heating engineer I often had to go into storecupboards looking for the gas meters and you would open the door and a mountain of bog roll would fall out, the guilt written on their faces was priceless!

[Sephirah]

Ha I remember that ad!

The toilet roll thing was funny. Why in a crisis does everyone panic buy loo roll? As a heating engineer I often had to go into storecupboards looking for the gas meters and you would open the door and a mountain of bog roll would fall out, the guilt written on their faces was priceless!

I never understood that, at all. It was like a nationwide craze. Of all the things to panic buy. People can be weird.

[Lori Dee ✅]

The point of the meme was why do they need to advertise toilet paper? Who is not buying toilet paper?

Maybe the ads were targeting people with bidets?

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[Stottie Girl]

The point of the meme was why do they need to advertise toilet paper? Who is not buying toilet paper?

Maybe the ads were targeting people with bidets?

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Or Muslims, they often use a bib tap arrangement instead. Not really sure why. I would have thought it would spray everywhere but I've installed a few of them over the years. It's a culture thing I guess. I am not a fan of Eastern European toilets for the record having been caught short in Italy and had to use one. The less said about that the better! I was on my way to Milan too, had to change plans!!

[Charlotte Kitty ✅]

I think they just want you to buy their expensive toilet rolls, hence the ads, rather than the cheaper supermarket one I buy lol!

Considering bad toilet experiences I worked in China for 2 weeks.  In the factory there was a bucket of light brown looking water and a ladle to wash yourself after hovering over the hole in the floor! I snuck tissue out of the meeting room for obvious reasons and binned! Hotels all had uk like toilets.

[Stottie Girl]

I think they just want you to buy their expensive toilet rolls, hence the ads, rather than the cheaper supermarket one I buy lol!

Considering bad toilet experiences I worked in China for 2 weeks.  In the factory there was a bucket of light brown looking water and a ladle to wash yourself after hovering over the hole in the floor! I snuck tissue out of the meeting room for obvious reasons and binned! Hotels all had uk like toilets.

No cheapo supermarket loo roll for me thanks. Nothing but the best for my butt! ha ha!

Yep hole in the floor is essentially what an eastern european toilet is. The one I used had a length of garden hose connected to a tap. I misjudged the water pressure lol!

How the hell did we get onto this subject. Sorry for poluting your blog Lauren!

[KathyLauren]

I think they just want you to buy their expensive toilet rolls, hence the ads, rather than the cheaper supermarket one I buy lol!

Considering bad toilet experiences I worked in China for 2 weeks.  In the factory there was a bucket of light brown looking water and a ladle to wash yourself after hovering over the hole in the floor! I snuck tissue out of the meeting room for obvious reasons and binned! Hotels all had uk like toilets.

Years ago, I did a trip to India.  Tourist accommodations there are categorized as "Indian" or "European".  Indian means hole-in-the-floor toilets; European means sit-down toilets.  The trip was organized by Americans, so we stayed in European hotels, but we did eat at a few Indian restaurants.  Trains are Indian-style only: if you look down, you can see the ties going by!

[Emma1017]

This is the toilet paper TV ad campaign that drives me absolutely insane:

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Thank God I bought a bidet during COVID.

[Stottie Girl]

Oh my god what have we started here lol! Sorry Lauren!

We had the Charmin bear too.

[Sephirah]

Haha, you all made me smile. Thank you. <3

This morning I couldn't wake up. It was the weirdest thing. I tried to wake up three times. The first time I woke up and fell out of bed, everything was spinning. Then I thought "this is a dream" and tried to wake up again... then I saw some weird figures talking in the corner of the room... so I thought again "I am dreaming" and tried to wake up again... which I did... sort of, feeling very, very weird. I've been feeling... off... all day.

I don't want to go through that again.

[Stottie Girl]

Haha, you all made me smile. Thank you. <3

This morning I couldn't wake up. It was the weirdest thing. I tried to wake up three times. The first time I woke up and fell out of bed, everything was spinning. Then I thought "this is a dream" and tried to wake up again... then I saw some weird figures talking in the corner of the room... so I thought again "I am dreaming" and tried to wake up again... which I did... sort of, feeling very, very weird. I've been feeling... off... all day.

I don't want to go through that again.

There is a phenomenon called "false awakening" (Something like that) I had it once or twice when I was suffering work stress. I think it either is or is similar to lucid dreaming. I only ever had it happen in a loop once though normally I just snapped awake when I realised I was still dreaming. It doesn't happen anymore. Maybe you have something playing on your mind?

[Sephirah]

There is a phenomenon called "false awakening" (Something like that) I had it once or twice when I was suffering work stress. I think it either is or is similar to lucid dreaming. I only ever had it happen in a loop once though normally I just snapped awake when I realised I was still dreaming. It doesn't happen anymore. Maybe you have something playing on your mind?

Likely. There's always something playing on my mind. I wish it were a lucid dream. That would have been nicer. I couldn't control this. It was extremely weird. It was like inception within inception. A dream where you know you're dreaming but you don't know you're dreaming.

*shudders*

I am scared to sleep tonight, haha.

[Stottie Girl]

Likely. There's always something playing on my mind. I wish it were a lucid dream. That would have been nicer. I couldn't control this. It was extremely weird. It was like inception within inception. A dream where you know you're dreaming but you don't know you're dreaming.

*shudders*

I am scared to sleep tonight, haha.

Sleep can't hurt you, I would tuck you in if I could ha ha! Sweet dreams!