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Corrode posted:This sort of exists. My dad is a type 1 diabetic and last time I saw him he had some kind of monitor which constantly updated his blood sugar levels and told him when he needed more insulin etc. You still have to prick your finger on the regular to keep the monitor grounded. It’s measuring interstitial glucose. Fingerpricks measure blood glucose.
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Corrode posted:This sort of exists. My dad is a type 1 diabetic and last time I saw him he had some kind of monitor which constantly updated his blood sugar levels and told him when he needed more insulin etc. I gather, but how does it stop you getting future acne?
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Inescapable Duck posted:I gather, but how does it stop you getting future acne? Acne is a symptom of an infection. If you drain the swamp, the swamp critters die and they won’t readily come back even if the area gets moist again.
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Corrode posted:This sort of exists. My dad is a type 1 diabetic and last time I saw him he had some kind of monitor which constantly updated his blood sugar levels and told him when he needed more insulin etc. I had a girl on a field trip I ran who had one of those. She said it was like a mobile phone for her pancreas that would text her when it needed (thing).
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Nov 8, 2017 11:06
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Phanatic posted:There was one for baldness where the voiceover warned that pregnant women shouldn't even touch the pill. Oh, hey, I take one of those! It's because it inhibits production/absorption of dihydrotestosterone, which is important for sexual differentiation of male fetuses, so if a pregnant woman absorbs it then their child might end up with some sort of intersex condition. I suspect that the "don't even touch it" thing is an excess of caution though.
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Platystemon posted:This just makes me imagine Skyrim: Blood Dragon. Two pages ago but this shouldn't be ignored. This would be wayyy too loving good. Elder scrolls with late 80s/early 90s (Edit: Movie) thematic cues would be phenomenal.
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GPTribefan posted:It's not even that. Way way way back in pharmacy school, we were informed that those warnings are put there solely to prevent lawsuits. Basically - any opportunistic douche can claim that ANYTHING was a result of taking this drug in an attempt to hit the drug company jackpot. Therefore, they report EVERYTHING that occurs in the trials, even things that happen in the placebo group - if someone says they got jock itch while they were taking a cholesterol drug, it gets reported just in case. Read the leaflets that come with stock bottles sometime and you'll see things reported as "side effects" that happened once as a coincidence. I work in drug development and this is hilariously true.
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GPTribefan posted:The same thing applies to every product - all those late 90s comedians that joked about "WHY WOULD YOU EVER USE THE HAIR DRYER IN THE SHOWER LOL HERES YOUR SIGN"? It was done to prevent someone from taking a hair dryer in the shower, using it, hurting themselves, and suing the company because "hey you didn't say NOT to do that!!" I'm glad to see that the world runs by Air Bud Rules.
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side effects may include this one guy who got hit by a car on his way to an initial screening for drug trials
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I once took a drug that had, in its possible side effect list, "vivid, and/or horrifying nightmares" That is the exact, unmodified phrasing they used.
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Not Operator posted:I once took a drug that had, in its possible side effect list, "vivid, and/or horrifying nightmares" That would make me want to take more of it.
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When I have a headache and I take something with Ibuprofen or Paracetamol, the possible side effects always include "headache".
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Iron Crowned posted:That would make me want to take more of it. Mefloquine is your friend.
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Nutella new coked itself: https://boingboing.net/2017/11/09/nutella-fans-enraged-over-reci.html
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GrandpaPants posted:Nutella new coked itself: It also contains 56.3 percent sugar, instead of the previous 55.9 percent Dear God, my friend used to let her kid eat this for seemingly half of his meals because it's "healthy". I knew that was bullshit, but 56% of the jar is just sugar? That's insane!
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Indolent Bastard posted:It also contains 56.3 percent sugar, instead of the previous 55.9 percent It's spreadable chocolate in a jar, what...what did she think was healthy about it?
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Do we have a thread for opposites of dumb marketing moves? This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOtxvdIwd3A has popped up on youtube for me, and I'm delighted.
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GrandpaPants posted:It's spreadable chocolate in a jar, what...what did she think was healthy about it? Yea, the only remotely "healthy" parts of Nutella are the milk and hazelnuts, but nobody says Snickers are healthy because they have peanuts.
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Indolent Bastard posted:It also contains 56.3 percent sugar, instead of the previous 55.9 percent Yeah you might as well be eating Betty crocker cake frosting on a slice of bread for the same effect.
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GrandpaPants posted:It's spreadable chocolate in a jar, what...what did she think was healthy about it? The hazel nuts (allegedly). canis minor posted:Do we have a thread for opposites of dumb marketing moves? Have you ever seen Stranger Than Fiction? You'd probably like it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26FBhM_pjoc
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GrandpaPants posted:It's spreadable chocolate in a jar, what...what did she think was healthy about it? The jar used to say it was part of a complete breakfast and how could that lie?
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GrandpaPants posted:It's spreadable chocolate in a jar, what...what did she think was healthy about it? I swear that "healthiness" was part of its marketing some time ago. It's obviously never been healthy but there was a period, perhaps before the popular opinion of sugar changed recently, where they had the balls to claim that on TV
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Yep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThIrw_LpuRA Full of quality ingredients, like hazelnuts! Skim milk! Cocoa! And a fuckton of sugar and palm oil!  It's just more of the same "Part of this complete breakfast!" where the breakfast was only complete because there was a lot more there apart from the cereal or waffles or whatever sugary junk was being shilled. (I note with interest that that video was uploaded by TOKENFATK1D.)
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Nov 9, 2017 20:37
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canis minor posted:Do we have a thread for opposites of dumb marketing moves? Definitely delightful. Though I can't shake the fact that this whiskey-sponsored film stars a man famous for a role where alcohol destroys his life, hearing voices in his head.
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So, apparently Mila Kunis is the celebrity spokesperson for Jim Beam whiskey (learn something new every day) and now the company is facing backlash because last week on Conan she revealed that she regularly donates to Planned Parenthood in Mike Pence's name. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/people-are-boycotting-jim-beam-because-of-something-mila-kunis-said_us_5a031b8ce4b04e96f0c6f378
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Choco1980 posted:So, apparently Mila Kunis is the celebrity spokesperson for Jim Beam whiskey (learn something new every day) and now the company is facing backlash because last week on Conan she revealed that she regularly donates to Planned Parenthood in Mike Pence's name. Time to buy a crate of Jim Beam.
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Choco1980 posted:So, apparently Mila Kunis is the celebrity spokesperson for Jim Beam whiskey (learn something new every day) and now the company is facing backlash because last week on Conan she revealed that she regularly donates to Planned Parenthood in Mike Pence's name. I really like this one: https://twitter.com/cheapoldbstd/status/927956601683791872 "I don't buy Jim Beam in the first place, so this boycott will be easy! Also, let me take a brief jab at the idea of privilege." Hey, buddy: If you don't buy something in the first place, continuing not to buy it will do nothing.
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Hirayuki posted:Yep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThIrw_LpuRA "This bag o' sugar has vitamins and protein added! It's super healthy  "
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Choco1980 posted:So, apparently Mila Kunis is the celebrity spokesperson for Jim Beam whiskey (learn something new every day) and now the company is facing backlash because last week on Conan she revealed that she regularly donates to Planned Parenthood in Mike Pence's name. I'm going to become an alcoholic, just to support her.
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spog posted:I'm going to become an alcoholic, just to support her. I didn't know there were any non-alcoholic goons left.
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chitoryu12 posted:I didn't know there were any non-alcoholic goons left. Someone new registers every day. 
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spog posted:I'm going to become an alcoholic, just to support her. That's kind of the way I felt about that anti-heroin ad starring Rachel Lee Cook. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAHoxaphbEs Doesn't that ad make you want to try heroin?
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Choco1980 posted:So, apparently Mila Kunis is the celebrity spokesperson for Jim Beam whiskey (learn something new every day) and now the company is facing backlash because last week on Conan she revealed that she regularly donates to Planned Parenthood in Mike Pence's name. Well now I wish I didn't hate all Jim Beam whiskeys. Phanatic posted:That's kind of the way I felt about that anti-heroin ad starring Rachel Lee Cook. It makes me want to have breakfast with Rachel Leigh Cook, you weirdo. Vincent Van Goatse has a new favorite as of 00:10 on Nov 10, 2017 |
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Well now I wish I didn't hate all Jim Beam whiskeys. You hate Knob Creek?
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Phanatic posted:You hate Knob Creek? Maker's, Evan Williams bottled in bond, or die, mofo.
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Phanatic posted:That's kind of the way I felt about that anti-heroin ad starring Rachel Lee Cook. She did this really cool one on the war on drugs this year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKXN6Vdr3g0
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If you're like me and you stopped giving a poo poo years ago, you drink Old Crow (which is also made by Beam).
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Evan Williams hits the golden mean of price vs. quality.
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Phanatic posted:That's kind of the way I felt about that anti-heroin ad starring Rachel Lee Cook. I don't know. I am suddenly turned on by the thought of not doing heroin.
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