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| Longer Than 4 Hours?
With America's continued obsession and addiction to television comes the access to more information in a persons everyday life. Now, not only are television programs covering more controversial material and coming close to crossing moral and ethical lines, commercials are now informing the consumers about new prescription drugs. You cannot watch television longer than 15 minutes without seeing a commercial in which you question if you have a mental disorder or if you suffer from depression.
Zoloft, Vioxx, Claritin, Lipitor, Ambien, Nexium, Prozac, Prevacid, Zyprexa, Zocor, Allegra, Celebrex, Paxil, Zyrtec, Prilosec, and Wellbutrin. Do you have acid reflux disease? Do you suffer from chronic depression? Do you get frequent heartburn? Do you always feel anxious? Are you nervous? Do you suffer from insomnia? Are you allergic to everything under the sun? Are you hyper as all hell? Do you feel suicidal? Do you picture yourself killing someone in the next year? Are you just plain mentally insane and need to be drugged up just to perform daily tasks as simple as walking the trash out to the trash can without becoming depressed because you live all alone and don't have someone else to take the trash out for you while you could be doing something better with your time like diagnosing yourself with something else? Well, than maybe you do need drugs. Too many people are way to open about certain conditions. Somethings should be discussed with your doctor, not in the family room.
Those "things" are topics such as Erectile Dysfunction. If you need to ask your doctor about Cialis, ask him, don't have some guy on the television question if you can get it up or not. If you would like a free sample of Viagra, you would have already asked your doctor to see if they had a medicine for your condition. Am I the only one who wonders why these commercials are on TV besides to provide humor to people without ED?
First of all, this is a disease I do not want to think about. I am not looking forward in any way to the possibility of this happening to me. Second, if I did have this problem, the side effects are almost not worth taking the drug.
"The most common side effects with CIALIS are headache, upset stomach, back pain, and muscle aches." (www.cialis.com)
How are you gonna want to have sex when you have a pounding headache and your back and muscles hurt? Well, not all people suffer side effects so if you go through with it there is also the final risk associated with Cialis.
"Although a rare occurrence, men who experience an erection for more than 4 hours should seek immediate medical attention." (www.cialis.com)
What in the hell are you going to do if you have a raging hard on for more than 4 hours? You either better have a girlfriend or wife who is ready to go or a line of women standing outside of your bedroom door, otherwise you're pretty screwed. Just imagine the conversation with the secretary at the emergency room. And believe me, if the emergency room was ever needed for something, this would be the time. And I don't even want to think of the procedure of removing excess blood from the penis. I think I'll end on that note.
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Dazed and Confused
What has happened to music lately? Am I the only one who noticed that almost every single CD recorded, produced, and sold is a waste of time? Not only has conformity swallowed the clothing industries, mass media, and even the English language, now it has taken over the only piece of some individuals sanity, music. There are 3 reasons why there are no good bands left out there. And take notice I said bands, rappers are not bands, individual singers are not bands, in order to be a band you must play instruments and sing your own lyrics.
First off, the older bands who played good music no longer exist. They don't exist for various reasons. Some bands got old and walked away from the industry, which should be respected. Some bands don't know when to call it quits and produce a final shitty album. Such as Metallica, most songs from St. Anger sucked. Besides for that Metallica was one of the greatest bands to grace this earth with their presence. Some bands broke up such as Rage Against the Machine. RATM was a great band, their music was amazing and every song had a message behind it which filled lead singer Zach de la Rocha with a reason to sing which made their music that much better.
Another reason is that bands that used to rock, have conformed and completely changed their image.
Number One Example: Blink-182
Spring 2002: Blink-182 and Green Day
Spring 2004: Blink-182 and Taking Back Sunday
Ok, now can anyone tell me the difference between Green Day and Taking Back Sunday? Yeah, me neither. Since those 2 bands are always placed in the same musical genre I see nothing wrong with that. That was sarcasm in case you didn't pick that up. Blink-182 conformed, their latest CD was terrible, game over.
Reason number 3: Every band that comes out today sounds the same. If a song from a band like Led Zeppelin was played, anyone who knows what good music is would recognize them. If a song from the Red Hot Chili Peppers came on, most people who recognize it. Both of those bands have their own unique style which is why they will be remembered. Today I couldn't tell you the difference between Good Charlotte, Taking Back Sunday, Thursday, or anything else in that genre. I bet most other people share my opinion. Even if you don't agree totally, you have to admit that they sound stunningly similar. And that is the reason that when the next phase of music rolls around and emo is completely forgotten about, so will these bands, all the while Led Zeppelin and the Chili Peppers will still be listened to and known across the country. And if you didn't pick up the title of this by now, you don't know good music either.
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| I Smell Sellout, Is That You Trucker Hats?
Today's trends come and go and change their appearance more often than Michael Jackson. Some stick around, some fade away, and all have their respective reasons for doing so. However, some of the better trends fall to the wayside and some of the worst I have even seen stick around for some unholy reasoning.
Remember Old Navy Tech Vests, man weren't they the shit back in the day? Yo-yo's, damn those thing's kicked ass. Chuck Taylor's were a vote from congress away from becoming an American symbol right there beside the bald eagle. Looking back on the day's of yesteryear, the trends are just laughed at.
Today's trends will be ridiculous a few years from now. Almost as ridiculous as they already are. For the next week walk around and keep a tally of how many people have holes or rips in their jeans. And beside that tally, keep one of how many people ripped those holes on accident or by doing work. You bought jeans with holes in them? Slap. You ripped holes in a perfectly good pair of jeans? Backhand. Honestly, in 5 years, are you gonna say 'Damn, good thing I had those holes in my jeans, they really kept the air flow going inside my pants.'?
In most cases brand names can be considered trends when enough people waste their money. If you are the proud owner of a few brand name, designer clothing items, you are perfectly healthy. There is nothing wrong with that. But if you could open up your closet and dresser drawers and shoot a 5 minute long Abercrombie commercial, pay more attention in school and learn how to spell 'Counseling.'
However, putting that all aside, my favorite trend has got to be, beyond the shadow of a doubt, the Trucker Hat. All of a sudden everyone owns a trucker hat. I remember a few months ago when I only saw elderly men, rap groups from the 80's such as De La Soul, and of course truckers wearing them. The whole trucker hat scene came in around a year ago when people wanted to be different. Now there are designer trucker hats out in the world. So much for a good idea.
Also, either people have a problem getting these hats properly adjusted on their heads or the manufacturers are having problems putting the brims on correctly. Every trucker hat you see resting upon the poor soul of what used to be a human being that has now bent to the will of his corporate master, is on crooked, or cocked to the side as I prefer. If you wanna wear a trucker hat, go ahead, so long as you wear it as you would any other normal hat.
Those nice John Deere trucker hats worn by people who don't know what product John Deere manufactures. Trucker hats with the logo of some random company worn by people who say "I don't know, I just wore it because it was a trucker hat." Trucker hats with the logo's of things such as bands. What is happening? Designer trucker hats...oxymoron? Mass production of individuality? Does this make sense to anyone?
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| Believe Me, I Understand
One of things I've seen that are annoying me are bumper stickers and those stickers that are on the top of peoples windshields. I can understand the concept behind these stickers and have no problem with most of them, but there are a select few that just jam ice picks beneath my fingernails. They are asinine and are not worthy of being read by intelligible human beings.
The first and most common type of bumper sticker associated with being hated are the Proud Parent of an Honor Student stickers. Everyone knows they suck, so I won't dwell.
The next type of bumper stickers that not only annoy me but offend my character of being American. All bumper stickers containing, picturing, referring to, or glorifying the southern stars 'n' bars flag should be removed from any vehicle capable of being driven. First of all, its just plain stupid. People say its a sign of southern heritage. Great, I know I'd be proud of the fact that I enslaved people, broke from the union, and then lost a war. There's something to be proud of.
If the southern flag is a sign of southern heritage, than the swastika is a sign of German pride.
Think about that one.
Another type of stickers that outright suck are the ones that say "I'd rather be (fishing, golfing, jerking off my dog, etc.)" Great, if you wanna do that, go do it. Get the hell off the road and out of my way. These people are also most likely doing 20 under the speed limit as well. They don't wanna die on the way to the lake to go fishing. Well, to be honest, I'd rather be savagely beating on your face with a blunt object for being such a tool.
Alright, here's the last one that annoys me. It can be found only on Jeeps. "It's A Jeep Thing, You Wouldn't Understand." I usually look at that, read it again, look at the person driving, read it again, make a face of distinct disgust, and then drive away in awe. Here's how it is:
First of all, I most likely do understand and have already realized it sucks. Second, I just plain don't give a shit. If it's a Jeep thing, and I don't drive a Jeep, I DO NOT CARE. So don't waste your hard earned time and effort to plaster that saying to the windshield of your Jeep. Once these people actually go through the process of puberty and can think rationally, they will realize they are dumbasses. So do me a favor, take your Jeep and go do your 'thing' elsewhere so you don't waste my air.
It's An Intelligible Thing, You Wouldn't Understand.
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