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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