Is There Truth in Advertising?
The marketing industry has its fair share of deception and bullshit. From “Do-Nothing” infomercials to self-proclaimed “Gurus,” it seems like everyone’s out to beat you up and take your lunch money.
Well personally, I think it’s time to wake up and smell the coffee. If people are begging you for cash, they clearly don’t know how to get rich fast.
And let’s not kid ourselves about those supposed free iPhones. If time equals money, then spending 50 billion hours on online surveys ain’t exactly free.
Sure, I’ll concede that there’s an ounce of truth in advertising. Hell, pharmaceutical commercials are too honest. I mean, have you ever seen those commercials? One minute you’re watching a cheerful montage of newfound vitality, and the next you’re bombarded with a laundry list of potential side effects…
“RELAXOFT may cause nosebleeds, baldness, memory loss, swollen ankles, facial boils, excessive earwax, uncontrollable cursing, an urge to play in the mud, road-rage, snoring while awake, perjury, atheism, and a compulsion to spit at small pets.”
Well, isn’t that lovely? Next time, I think I’ll just tough out the headache.
All of these side-effects lead to bigger questions. Like, if I’m feeling under the weather and my partner offers me medicine, should I fight him? Should I slap it out of his hand? After all, the medicine might have caused the sickness in the first place.
And while pharmaceutical ads get points for partial honesty, they’re not entirely off the hook. In many other ways, they’re just as confusing and misleading. For example, they often feature scenes unrelated to the product.
Vagisil commercials have cheerleaders performing routines. Male enhancement commercials have politicians playing golf. Every herpes commercials can be summed up as: “I have herpes.” “I don’t.” “Let’s ride bicycles.”
Ultimately, when it comes to medication, I don’t pay much attention to the advertisements. It’s best to let the doctors decide what’s right for me. They usually know what they’re talking about. Well, emphasis on usually. I once had a doctor whose office plants were always dead. I couldn’t help but wonder if I could trust him with my life.
127 Comments
Shellz
A lot of those side effects vary, but I agree, after hearing all that, I'll just keep whatever I have and let it go away naturally, lol.
lmao @ RELAXOFT side effects. xD
p.s. I added you as an affiliate. =p
Jackie
Sorry about the form, my email was down since Thursday. But sure I'd love to be affiliates! I will add you later.
And those medicine commercials are so wierd.. I always am left wondering what their marketing team was thinking? Chris Rock had a funny bit on those commercials from his stand up routine Bigger & Blacker. They always try to find something until they have you! Like do you sleep at nighy and wake up in the morning? hahah
Jide Salu
What do I deserve to have had a comment from you? WOW!!!
After coming on this site and seeing 117 comments and still going, I must now regard myself as a mini blogger celebrity…loll
YOUR COMMENT: "For a while, I had a doctor whose office plants were always dead. How the hell was I supposed to trust him with my life?" – IS A CLASSIC
On medication, what do the doctors know? Spending all those years at medic-school only to end up telling us what we already knew.
I must come back here and thanks for dropping by…
Chynna Ashley
Doctors in England are shite. They give you antibiotics for EVERYTHING. I bet if you crawled into the surgery and you collapsed and your guts were hanging out and all sorts they would just say, "Take this pills twice a day for two weeks" :| STUPID.
I would definitely want to be affiliates with you 🙂 I'll add you to the list after I post this comment.
Ben
I think I might wait for the tutorial and then put you under the tutorial credits rather make a new section called 'People I stole codes from… with permission of course.'
Oh and we found out as Purple slipped up and went 'Oh I don't want to see that film, I hated the first one.'
Maura
I so agree!!! a)Medicine should be done by doctors because other stuff can be riskful.
Other then that I don't know how to respond to this post, I agree with you. Alot of stuff is useless or has no point. A lot of radio adds are like that here where I come from.
Anyways in other news I can't say I have never left the country, because I went to the USA before but this is my first trip without my parents XD
Milu
Hi^^
How do you doing?~
U know , just today i read ur biography and really is sooo good know you a bit better ^0^
Aww you are sooo popular hahaha
Taversia
LMAO…… Oh my gosh, I think I've seen the herpes commercial you speak of!! I thought the EXACT same thing. XD Hahaha… Man, them's some crazy-pointless commercials out there, huh…
I dunno though, I suppose it all depends on said advertising. I've seen wholly legitimate ads before; they're just few and far in between these days. 😛 Can never be too careful, that's for sure..
Masoud
Hi! 🙂
Just wanted to tell you that I'm leaving for Sweden, and I'll be staying there for a week so sorry if I don't manage to comment your blogs meanwhile 'cause I don't think that internet will work there..
takecare 🙂
Lee
Lol, like those stupid yellow and red ads telling you that you are the 1 millionth visitor to visit the site… and it's only new. I spot a free survey ad!
I like how you talk about funny rants instead of your day, I'll try that sometime! My posts are boring.
Masoud
Hi 🙂
Didn't manage to add you before now 'cause my computer kinda broke down.
You're up in my list now though 😀
Rachel
Darn, I didn't see the only letters thing, so I typed a zero instead of an "o" and I lost my comment. Pretty much I said…
Haha yeah, I remembere your tweet. I was like YEAH because I had been thinking the exact same thing.
LOL that reminds me of this commercial that I saw last night when I was babysitting. This lady came on and was like "in our last [insert drug name] commercial, we realize that we were not entirely clear." Then she went on to list potential side-effects for the full minute. It was really wtf-y.
Shola
No i didn't get it to work :/ I am still playing about with it. i am most likely doing something wrong. I normally do. Grrr.
How has you weekend been? i saw twitter and saw you have possibly one of the best days of your life this weekend. What happened? Your boyfriend proposed or something? That would be majorly sweet if he did.
Marissa
Uh oh! That's not good.
Chris
my site is not really about blogging its about graphics and stuff lol
sure i'll add you later i dont have my ftp in this laptop (:
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