[ratherbefuddled]

Sometimes I end up watching US TV with US ads on some stream. They are horrifying and amusing all at once.

The idea that prescription medication is marketed to the general public on TV is entirely foreign to me, the descriptions of conditions that 99% of people wouldn't have heard of make me wonder just who they are connecting with.

Then you get to the "side affects may include headaches, vomiting, diarrhoea, haemorrhaging, spontaneous combustion, exploding eyeballs, bubonic plague and instant death - do not take this drug if you are a living breathing human being" bit and you can't help but laugh. Who goes to their doctor after watching one of these?

And "Dude Wipes" - I mean is that a spoof?

[zmgsabst]

The pharma ads are bribes to news stations not to report on them (via being a major funding source for their parent conglomerate).