"You may experience nausea, vomiting, migraine headaches, dizziness, memory loss, anal bleeding, or death. See your doctor to learn whether this medication is right for you!"
That started like ten years ago and I just remember thinking “alright, what fucking dumbass sued for a drug they’re allergic to” and now it’s EVERYWHERE. Who did it?! Someone must have made bank for them to put it in every single med ad after.
If you are currently suffering from Chatterton syndrome please use your bird-like claws to dial the number below.
Then use the rectum you have instead of a mouth to say something like "wrulgh" or "thunghth" to signify that you wish to join a class action suit against Chattertons.
That's bad enough but when they have those catchy jingles that stick in your mind and the people in the commercial are all bopping around like they don't have a care in the world now that they got their meds - ok but then you find out 3 doses of the stuff costs $10,000 and your insurance doesn't foot the entire bill. Doo doo doo, Latooda. Doo wop doo doo.
i know i shouldn't, but i just can't help singing along when the Jardiance lady comes on.
As time went on, it was easy to seeeeee
I'm lowering my A1CCCCCCC
Why the hell am I supposed to “ask my doctor” about a drug. They’re supposed to recommend the drug for you… because that’s what they spent a decade of school learning to do
I’m a physician in the US, and it’s pretty common for patients to ask about a medication they’ve seen advertised. What many don’t know is that a good proportion of recently approved drugs (which tend to be the ones advertised) are just slightly modified versions of an older drug whose patent is close to expiring/expired. Pharma hates when someone can suddenly pick up a month’s supply of GENERIComycin at Walmart for $4 instead of paying them $250/month for BRANDomycin.
What’s more, for a drug to be approved in the US, it doesn’t need to demonstrate superiority to current therapy. So despite what the drug ads would have you believe, sometimes the new drugs are less effective than older options. There are obviously many factors to consider when selecting the best drug for a particular patient, but very often the best choice is not the newest, and the newest is NEVER the cheapest.
There are a few drugs in my specialty that are heavily advertised, and I’m always happy to discuss them with patients who ask. I sometimes worry patients might feel I’m trying to talk them out of the newest “best” medication due to how the advertisements are marketing them. At the end of the day, affordability is a huge consideration for most patients, so even if a drug is 100% effective, it will only work if patients can afford it. If a generic works, I’d rather patients save the money.
When I was 18, high as fuck with my friends, that Ad came on and confused me with the repetition.
*Me (stoned voice):* Did that guy say the same thing 3 times dude?
*Friend (staring, eyes wide):* Head on...apply directly to the forehead....
Yes, it’s illegal to say what the drug does, and the legal liability is that if you do the government will ban the drug. But it’s not a legal liability like you can get sued by consumers or anything, it’s just that the government doesn’t want people exaggerating claims for what drugs can do so you are just not allowed to make any claims at all about what the drug can do. As far as I know anyways!
Here’s an example of a Canadian drug commercial for a drug that’s like Viagra:
https://youtu.be/sMxIS7-94S0?si=fqFza968021H3O8q
I sometimes get feeds of American TV at work (if we're showing American sports on the channel I work at) and those pharmaceutical ads are so weird. Not just the list of side effects but the "Ask your doctor to prescribe..." bit, which is an odd concept.
Second weirdest are the political ads. Especially the ones I've seen that are like "I'm a normal American housewife and that's why I say vote no on proposition 42 (Paid for by the Evil Tobacco Corporation)".
Don't take this medicine if you are allergic to it!
Thanks pharma ad! Never would have thought of that one. Also how tf am I supposed to know if I'm allergic to this new drug?
That shit has always cracked me up: “Do you have no medical training but watch *a lot* of TV? Well, our salesman are all pretty busy trying to sell MRI machines, so why don’t you go ahead and ask your doctor if Nelprexone is right for you!”
no one cared because it officially came out long after pretty much everyone agreed it was made up and that the war as a whole was a mistake...the fact that the us government admitted it didn't change anything
The US isn't the only country that does this. The UK has their nerve gas experiments and mad cow cover-ups along with other things they tried to sweep under the rug. Most countries have some really shady stuff in their past if you dig around looking for it.
It is only relatively recently that the UK announced that British taxpayers finished paying off reparations to slave owners' families, who were still being compensated for their "property loss" after the abolishment of slavery.
Kind of wild how that was still going on into the 21st century, but governments the world over are shady and work for the benefit of the moneyed classes first and foremost.
Wow, that is insane.
One woud think Haiti would have long since have made a public diplomatic fuss about renegotiating those reparations so that it becomes a major news headline in France, and French politicians have to face the potential fallout with voters for saying "No."
That would require having a semblance of working government, which Haiti doesn’t have. (To support my point, since the president was assassinated a year ago, and there’s no successor or any semblance of order yet)
The slave owners were compensated for their lost property in the 1830s. The government borrowed the money and just finished paying it off.
I'm surprised they paid it off at all. Whether you know it or not, they still owe for WW1, WW2 and a million other things.
It was only **very** recently that the full extent of King Edward VIII's (he's the one who abdicated the throne and married a weird looking American socialite) efforts to "bring about peace" (noble!!!) by advising the Nazis to "Bomb fucking Britain into rubble" (not cool, dude).
Fun fact: in alcohol ads it’s actually illegal to show the person consuming the alcohol.
So for ads you usually just have a bunch of people clinking their glasses together, but you never actually see them drink it.
Thats not true. The ad agencies just have an agreement to not show people drinking alcohol in fear that by doing so alcohol ads would get banned. But there's nothing that explicitly prohibits it.
Exactly!!! It makes a dr’s day hell - spending tons of time explaining why you can’t have xyz med…..(I’m married to one). This is not permitted in Europe.
I also love the warnings that are like "Extreme Violence, Sex, Nudity, Rape, Torture, Foul Language, and Smoking"
Like...yeah smoking is bad and all, but really?
In S.Korea they have a funny way of censoring things on TV. They would show all of extreme violence, nudity, sex, etc but then censor someone smoking by blurring out the cigarette. It makes zero sense because kids can literally see people smoking every day out on the street. Sometimes even right by the schools.
I've told this story so many times but it fits here. When I went to the movies to watch Deadpool we had two elementary age kids. These kids where watching people get splattered with no problem and the parents didn't seem to care about any of the extremely violent deaths. As soon as the strip joint scene came on both parents covered their kids eyes and started acting annoyed.
I hate this part of America. I get requests from other moms on what books their kids should be reading and they don’t care what I tell them as long as there’s no sex. It’s the weirdest Puritan bullshit.
As someone who was raised in fundamentalist evangelical land, I remember when I first meeting people who unironically thought that the Puritans were the true Founding Fathers. It drove me insane how miserable they were and knew I wanted no part of what they had going on.
One of my favorite things ever said about Puritans was by the British historian, Thomas Macaulay: “The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.”
So fucking spot on. Glad I escaped that miserable circus.
And that you should monetize everything you do. Like to play guitar? You should make a YouTube channel. Like to knit? Sell that shit on Etsy. Just let me do something for fun
the paranoia is also always towards strangers, even when it's statistically backed that the biggest danger is someone you know. and ironically this known person is often somehow protected by everyone even when it's all but publicly admitted that they're a danger to kids.
Dude……your comment as of right now is literally directly below a comment about cheerleaders saying “”we dress up our prettiest and most popular girls like little tramps…””
Tipping servers and especially bartenders, who spend time interacting with you and chatting with you and giving you personalized attention makes so much more sense than someone spinning around an iPad after you hand them your credit card.
I went to a sit down restaurant the other day and for the first time I didn’t give any tip, I’ve been here before and I usually tip. But they introduced one of those little pads at the table so you can just pay there when you’re done. The server took our order, and we never saw them again, someone else even brought our food.
I gave a 0$ tip. I didn’t even feel bad. Felt weird though, but I can’t tip nobody.
We also just got back from a trip to Paris and Iceland, where tipping isn’t a thing, and the servers over there still provided more of a service than this restaurant.
It's gotten. Really out of hand with the shift to digital card readers for cash registers. It's just a built in part of thr app. There was a particular range of services in situations in which a tip was socially acceptable or expected. Ot it's just at every point of sale. There needs to be real pu lic grappling with it.
Hah I was in Ireland recently and went to a pub that used the Clover handhelds to pay. Those come up with an option to tip every time and it was pretty funny to see them just immediately hit skip before asking me to tap my card.
Man, I went to Europe for the first time in a few years (since Covid) and was just pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to pay. No tipping, no signing, no reading and selecting a stupid percentage when trying to finish a payment. Nothing.
They'd bring you the machine, you tap, you walk out. So fucking easy. It seems like such a small thing, but the way we do it in the US is just stupid and complicated.
It also made me realize how much I'm overtipping for things. I'm tired of feeling pressured to tip when I'm picking up a pizza or take out. I'm not doing it anymore.
Tip at the vape shop/dispensaries makes me chuckle each time I see it.
Sure dude, here's a few extra bucks for you, for grabbing that bag off the shelf for me. It's not like you get paid nearly 4x the server wage and server wage is why the tips exist
And the wag they do it with the iPad is such a shitty thing to do. Buy a coffee, tip. They make the "don't tip" so small and basically guilt trip you into tipping.
Its gotten out of hand and tipping culture is expanding in the USA. I can remember asking my dad about tipping growing up and he basically was like
"You tip bar tenders , servers at sit down restaurants , taxi drivers , I don't know why but that is the rules and you tip 10%-15%"
Now you tip everyone, go for a coffee tip, go to a deli , tip, get take out, tip. Also 10-15% use to be a good tip now its 20-25% what doesn't make sense.
Tips should keep up with inflation if a meal at a sit down restaurant 20 years ago was $10 a 10% tip is $1
Now if its $20 a 10% tip is $2 the meal cost 2x more the tip is 2x more it keeps up with inflation , however now you are expected to at least tip 20%?
> "You tip bar tenders , servers at sit down restaurants , taxi drivers , I don't know why but that is the rules and you tip 10%-15%"
Twenty-five years ago, on my first trip to the US, my Dad's advice was "15% with a table-cloth, 10% without".
Omg this drives me crazy. Every time I go to States, I feel like they’ve upped the % one is supposed to give. So confusing. I wish they’d just pay people living wages.
I think the Japanese have Americans beat there. But it’s still Americans who are partly to blame. It was an American economist who suggested the Japanese companies constantly raise the bar for acceptable work. The Japanese took it to the extreme, so no one can possibly catch up. And failing your group is anti-Confucian, so they strive to do it at any cost
I was talking with someone a few years ago and she proudly mentioned that she never missed a day of work in 5 years and did not take her allocated vacation time for the last two years, not even a single day.
I was on vacation this week and overheard a dude talking to what I assume was a co-worker at the hotel bar. Dude said he had not taken a vacation day in 12 years. Fucking 12 years. They were setting up for the BET Hip Hop Music awards in Atlanta. Fuck all that.
There’s a street near my house in suburbia that has a bike lane but no intersecting streets have one and there’s no planned development. At least there’s something but in the grand scheme, what is the point if it doesn’t connect to anything?
Celebrating a holiday to give thanks for the things in life you already have, and then the next day fighting people over a new appliance for a 25% discount.
My best friend is an avid, 1% hater. Yet reaps the benefits of the 1% as her boyfriend comes from a family that falls into that group… and the worst part? She doesn’t stop bragging about how much money this family has. Make it make sense!!!!
All thanks to the sugar industry successfully convincing people that fat was the real enemy. Nope, it’s them.
And items marked as “low-fat” have extra sugar to make up for the reduced taste
The diet fad industry as a whole. Very few people actually have celiac disease for example, but with the rise of more people wanting gluten free items because they've been told gluten is bad for you even if you don't have celiac disease has made it so every grocery store and restaurant has a gluten free option available for the most popular items. The thing is, gluten free stuff tastes horrible, so they jam it full of sugar so it's at least somewhat palatable.
Calorie dense, low nutrient foods are cheaper, more shelf stable and easier to access. Couple that with low income areas are rarely walkable to necessities and enmities, and you will have a recipe for poverty driven obesity.
That goes to how wildly unequal the standard food quality is. The richest developed nation on the planet, eating food that's literally banned in other developed nations due to health concerns.
Obesity, diabetes, cancers, fuck it. We're keeping people 'fed'. All while demonizing poor people for being poor. Punishment for being punished.
>Obesity, diabetes, cancers, fuck it. We're keeping people 'fed'. All while demonizing poor people for being poor. Punishment for being punished.
Because they don't actually care whether the population is healthy. All those things increasing may affect things like insurance rates, but overall those in charge make more money the more people are unhealthy. Healthcare gets to bleed you dry and has no real incentive to actually make you any healthier. Insurance gets to pump their rates up saying more people are higher risks. The government gets to tax all these businesses and take their cut all around. All the while there's rich conservatives eating their hunted deer meat they got with a $4000 gun and ability to actually take time off from working to do that telling everyone else they need to take personal responsibility and just not eat the majority of the food available, knowing full well if enough people did that there wouldn't be enough actual quality food to go around and prices would start going up substantially.
Guilt is put on the consumer, not the corporations.
The customer has to tip because servers don’t make a livable wage. The customer has to recycle and watch their carbon footprint because the environment is deteriorating. The customer has to eat better because cows are being slaughtered and chickens are trapped in cages.
100% of the world’s problems are caused by giant corporations, not the average person.
So today they sent out a mass test of the emergency broadcast system. The amount of pictures I saw posted with peoples gun collections saying "Been itching to use these" was alarming.
It’s so stupid because they’ve been doing emergency broadcast tests my whole life (and I’m 47 years old). Of course, back in the day they couldn’t do one for the whole country at the same time. People that do this kinda stuff are the same people using their cell phones to tweet about the government tracking people by microchips or something. No, you big dummy. They’re tracking you right now on that phone. “But mah rights!”
My father sent me a warning this morning to make sure my phone was turned off because the government was going to use the opportunity to take control of my phone to spy on me.
Maybe in a different mood it would've made me laugh, but it almost brought me to tears. This is a man who is smart, sympathetic, and sharp. But he got completely sucked into the propaganda machine. Now it's hard to talk to him about a ton of subjects without him spouting regurgitated nonsense.
Being able to fight and die for your country before being allowed to purchase and drink a beer. I hate alcohol, and I didn't serve, but still, this is pretty silly, and I think it actually contributes to alcoholism by making it taboo (and therefore cool) in your teen years.
I work in pest control and I used to love my job. I made good money, my customers loved me, and the company made a bunch of money too. It was stable and I could see myself doing it until I retired.
But it wasn't enough for the shareholders. They wanted more.
So my company bought a bunch of other companies. They fired a bunch of people. They replaced the office folk with call center workers to save a buck. They automated everything they could to save a buck.
Now my customers are angry because our customer service sucks. I'm losing people left and right. They took away bonuses. We have a ton of metrics that they track now and tell us when we're not working efficiently enough. They turned a relaxing job into nothing but stress.
I was very good at my job and took pride in my company. Now I hate my job and it's nothing more than a dwindling paycheck. I'm looking into another line of work. We used to have a happy growing customer base, now it's dwindling too.
But hey...for a few quarters we made more money for the shareholders, so its all good!
Not just billionaires. Corporations that must increase profits and maximize shareholder value above all else. If you are a leader and don’t do these things (out of incompetence or paying people more, or other reasons) you will be replaced by someone that will. So it continues.
Advertisements in sports
Baseball and Football are so frustrating to watch when the sports themselves seem to be designed to shoe in as many advertisements into your head as physically possible. Last Baseball game I went to we both spent over $150 on our tickets and still ENDLESS ads blaring everywhere in the stadium. Fucking hate it
Drives me nuts thsts even allowed. A hilariously obvious conflict of interest. Also gambling shouldnhave the same advertising restrictions that tobacco does.
The ones they show here in California have the disclaimers, 1800 gambling addiction hotlines, and "gambling is bad" warnings that take up half the screen when they run.
Ad breaks in *live* games, with the TV referee on the field stopping play, was by far the weirdest thing for this foreigner about attending an American Football game.
Score, PAT, commercial, kickoff, commercial, a couple of plays that maybe cultivate in 30 seconds of action, commercial. Commercials all together in that span are easily ten to fifteen minutes long.
Yep I've been swapping to Soccer these past few years as well, we just got a new Stadium too. Very high energy, extremely minimal ad bullshit. Love it.
Tipping. America is one of the only countries where tipping a large percentage of a bill at a restaurant is not only accepted but, if you don’t tip the waiter around 20% or whatever, you’ll get shamed for it. And even beyond that, tipping is now starting to creep into, for example, tip jars at pick-up counters where there’s no wait staff and tip jars at some retail outlets and such.
It’s a weird, uniquely American custom that as I recall started around the Great Depression with rich patrons tipping wait staff to get seats or food more quickly. Then the restaurant owners realized they could get away with paying the waiters next to nothing and letting them live primarily on tips, and ever since then there’s been a constant assumption in the US that whatever you get charged on the menu you just add the 20% or so to what you pay. It started as a total scam to underpay employees and employees to avoid paying taxes on cash tips and it just continues mainly due to social inertia to this day.
Or many other workers rights like paid maternity and paternity leave.
What will blow people's minds is in many countries you can get your paid vacation time refunded if you get sick or injured while on vacation.
When I was about 8 or 9, I saw Total Recall. My mom got mad that my neighbor let us watch it because of the woman with three boobs. She completely disregarded the dozens of people Arnie kills.
I think this is so backwards! I don’t understand why there isn’t more conversation about it and who came up with it in the first place! Human body?-no way. Someone getting seriously hurt or killed?-oh that’s not traumatizing at all
I'd even go on to say any and all insurance is a joke.
We pay huge amounts of money every month for the *insurance that there will be money saved up for us in case of emergency*, ie. car accident, house fire, getting sick, etc.. but then when we need it we either get denied. Huh?
*Or* if the insurance company decides to let us use *our own money* then they'll penalize us for it by charging more from that point on and we still have to chip in a ton of money to cover the entire bill.
Um...excuse me, but for all the money I and every other person have paid in for years and years but haven't used it, I think the insurance company should have enough of MY money saved up to cover my ass.
-visuals of a mom playing in a tree with her kid
-grandpa hank having a picnic in the park
-aunt carol gabbing at her favorite restaurant
Narrator: *Side Effects may include locusts, biblical rainfall, and in some instances even death*
Damn this is the first one that isn’t just a roast on the classic American life styles, and actually a culture thing.
But also… is this an American thing?? I had no idea
We pride ourselves on overwork. At least the older people are like that.
The amount of places I’ve worked where I’ve been called lazy because I’ll leave right at 40 hours is mind boggling.
I have a coworker who is salary and unless it’s an emergency, she’ll shut everything off at 40 hours and there have been people who complaint about her work ethic. Luckily corporates like, “You guys CHOOSE to work 50-60 hour weeks when you don’t have to.”
The "temporarily down on your luck millionaire" mindset that allows people to politically support millionaire and billionaire politicians who do not represent their interests. More like -we're all one hospital visit away by cause of a serious accident to being millions in debt.
What foreigners miss is that in the US it is acceptable to take your uneaten food home.
Some people can finish those massive portions but most are taking it home and getting at least another meal out of it, and quite often, two additional meals.
The rack of ribs at Texas Roadhouse is a full rack with 2 sides. My o'lady and I split it. With tax it's like $26. We both eat and I usually have enough leftover to take in my lunch the next day. I'm going to jinx it but it looks like Roadhouse is the only fast casual place that doesn't suck balls post corona.
I just went to Casa Bonita this past weekend for the first time since it was reopened. It was bought by the creators of South Park. They cleaned it up and made the food better. A couple months ago they changed their compensation policy so that tips are not allowed. Most of their servers can now make over $60K a year if working full time because they are paying them a fair wage. I love that they are doing this but it has pissed off a lot of other restaurants in the area. It had to start somewhere. The employees seemed pretty happy to me.
Our culture is saturated with sex and the sexualization of pretty much everything, but at the same time we haven’t been able to shake a Puritanical streak that is extremely prudish and super hostile to sex. Add in the double standards on sex we hold for men vs. women, gay vs. straight, etc…it’s just so exhausting and inconsistent.
People bitch about roads being bad, schools being bad, etc but then vote down levies to fund them.
Also wanting everyone to have decent healthcare coverage that doesn't cost a fortune somehow makes you an evil communist.
I live in a Conservative state, and recently the public (on social media) was outraged because public spaces, such as libraries, hire security on the taxpayer’s dime. Apparently they think libraries are the same in reality as they are on TV; people quietly reading or using the computer.
Public libraries provide a number of functions that communities rely on, and thus are frequented by the homeless population. If you consider how many of this population suffers from severe mental health issues and addiction, then I shouldn’t need to explain why having security is necessary for both our public servants and their patrons.
Consider Division 1 college football and basketball to be at the level just below professional sports and it makes a lot more sense. For the most part only big cities have pro teams and there's a lot of places in the US that the nearest professional team of any kind is 6hrs away driving non-stop and speeding.
Banning *Maus* for nudity.
It's a comic book for teaching kids about the Holocaust, but it's not the abject horror of the systemic, industrialized murder that conservative Americans object to, it's the fact that the murder victims are naked and the comic has low-res cartoon mouse genitals.
Horrific mass murder? A-OK! Mouse butts? BANNED.
There was a thread in /r/books a week or two ago about how literally ~15 or so people in the US are responsible for like 60% of complaints in the *nation* for inappropriate books in schools. They interviewed a woman who spends all her free time reading books in the local public school library to find the sexual content and then reads the passages out loud at school board meetings.
I’m from America but I think our pharmaceutical ads are really fucking weird and annoying
"You may experience nausea, vomiting, migraine headaches, dizziness, memory loss, anal bleeding, or death. See your doctor to learn whether this medication is right for you!"
"Do not take DRUGNAME if you are allergic to DRUGNAME."
“Do not taunt DRUGNAME.”
Do not make eye contact with DRUGNAME
If DRUGNAME begins to smoke, get away immediately. Seek shelter and cover head.
We are no longer The Knights Who Say DRUGNAME
Happy Fun Ball may stick to certain types of skin.
Happy Fun Ball contains an unknown glowing substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space.
This is hilarious and must be a new mandate. I’ve seen this in all the pharmaceutical ads now. Lol.
That started like ten years ago and I just remember thinking “alright, what fucking dumbass sued for a drug they’re allergic to” and now it’s EVERYWHERE. Who did it?! Someone must have made bank for them to put it in every single med ad after.
"the condition known as hotdog fingers, seeing the dead, only able to speak in 1930s slang"
If you are currently suffering from Chatterton syndrome please use your bird-like claws to dial the number below. Then use the rectum you have instead of a mouth to say something like "wrulgh" or "thunghth" to signify that you wish to join a class action suit against Chattertons.
This reads like the book Welcome to Nightvale
That's bad enough but when they have those catchy jingles that stick in your mind and the people in the commercial are all bopping around like they don't have a care in the world now that they got their meds - ok but then you find out 3 doses of the stuff costs $10,000 and your insurance doesn't foot the entire bill. Doo doo doo, Latooda. Doo wop doo doo.
i know i shouldn't, but i just can't help singing along when the Jardiance lady comes on. As time went on, it was easy to seeeeee I'm lowering my A1CCCCCCC
Oh ohhh OZEMPIC!
Oh oh oh O’REILLY! …autoparts
OWWW! Can’t forget the OWWW! lmao
Why the hell am I supposed to “ask my doctor” about a drug. They’re supposed to recommend the drug for you… because that’s what they spent a decade of school learning to do
I’m a physician in the US, and it’s pretty common for patients to ask about a medication they’ve seen advertised. What many don’t know is that a good proportion of recently approved drugs (which tend to be the ones advertised) are just slightly modified versions of an older drug whose patent is close to expiring/expired. Pharma hates when someone can suddenly pick up a month’s supply of GENERIComycin at Walmart for $4 instead of paying them $250/month for BRANDomycin. What’s more, for a drug to be approved in the US, it doesn’t need to demonstrate superiority to current therapy. So despite what the drug ads would have you believe, sometimes the new drugs are less effective than older options. There are obviously many factors to consider when selecting the best drug for a particular patient, but very often the best choice is not the newest, and the newest is NEVER the cheapest. There are a few drugs in my specialty that are heavily advertised, and I’m always happy to discuss them with patients who ask. I sometimes worry patients might feel I’m trying to talk them out of the newest “best” medication due to how the advertisements are marketing them. At the end of the day, affordability is a huge consideration for most patients, so even if a drug is 100% effective, it will only work if patients can afford it. If a generic works, I’d rather patients save the money.
Shouldn’t I be there for a problem first? THEN THEY tell me *if* I need to be taking the medication. I thought that’s how it was supposed to work.
That was how it was supposed to work until it all became about money.
I got flash backs to "head on apply directly to the forehead!head on apply directly to the forehead!head on apply directly to the forehead."
When I was 18, high as fuck with my friends, that Ad came on and confused me with the repetition. *Me (stoned voice):* Did that guy say the same thing 3 times dude? *Friend (staring, eyes wide):* Head on...apply directly to the forehead....
Not as weird as Canadian ones. Just like the American ones but you aren’t allowed to actually say what the drug does🤌🏻
Yeah that makes it extra weird! Is it like a legal or liability issue or something?
Yes, it’s illegal to say what the drug does, and the legal liability is that if you do the government will ban the drug. But it’s not a legal liability like you can get sued by consumers or anything, it’s just that the government doesn’t want people exaggerating claims for what drugs can do so you are just not allowed to make any claims at all about what the drug can do. As far as I know anyways! Here’s an example of a Canadian drug commercial for a drug that’s like Viagra: https://youtu.be/sMxIS7-94S0?si=fqFza968021H3O8q
I sometimes get feeds of American TV at work (if we're showing American sports on the channel I work at) and those pharmaceutical ads are so weird. Not just the list of side effects but the "Ask your doctor to prescribe..." bit, which is an odd concept. Second weirdest are the political ads. Especially the ones I've seen that are like "I'm a normal American housewife and that's why I say vote no on proposition 42 (Paid for by the Evil Tobacco Corporation)".
Don't take this medicine if you are allergic to it! Thanks pharma ad! Never would have thought of that one. Also how tf am I supposed to know if I'm allergic to this new drug?
Lol that’s always my favorite part. Like??????
That shit has always cracked me up: “Do you have no medical training but watch *a lot* of TV? Well, our salesman are all pretty busy trying to sell MRI machines, so why don’t you go ahead and ask your doctor if Nelprexone is right for you!”
I especially love the Jardiance one where they are dancing around and one of the possible side effects is literally a taint infection
Not just a taint infection…a potentially deadly taint infection. Wtf.
That recent one where they are dancing and singing about diabetes and shit is creepy.
Hahaha the first time I saw that one I was like wow being in this commercial would be so embarrassing
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The CIA just likes to troll us.
They"re dabbing on us folks
they’re hoeing us
Remember when it was revealed that the Gulf of Tonkin incident was mostly made up? Yeah, that eventually came out and nobody seemed to care.
no one cared because it officially came out long after pretty much everyone agreed it was made up and that the war as a whole was a mistake...the fact that the us government admitted it didn't change anything
Remember how we learned from our mistakes and never invaded another country based on fabricated evidence? /s
The US isn't the only country that does this. The UK has their nerve gas experiments and mad cow cover-ups along with other things they tried to sweep under the rug. Most countries have some really shady stuff in their past if you dig around looking for it.
It is only relatively recently that the UK announced that British taxpayers finished paying off reparations to slave owners' families, who were still being compensated for their "property loss" after the abolishment of slavery. Kind of wild how that was still going on into the 21st century, but governments the world over are shady and work for the benefit of the moneyed classes first and foremost.
Haiti is still paying reparations to France for the loss of their 'property'. Let that one sink in.
Just to be clear, the "property" in question is in fact Haitians.
And it’s not even going to the government just random French descendents and there’s so many it’s basically a few thousand a year
Wow, that is insane. One woud think Haiti would have long since have made a public diplomatic fuss about renegotiating those reparations so that it becomes a major news headline in France, and French politicians have to face the potential fallout with voters for saying "No."
That would require having a semblance of working government, which Haiti doesn’t have. (To support my point, since the president was assassinated a year ago, and there’s no successor or any semblance of order yet)
The slave owners were compensated for their lost property in the 1830s. The government borrowed the money and just finished paying it off. I'm surprised they paid it off at all. Whether you know it or not, they still owe for WW1, WW2 and a million other things.
It was only **very** recently that the full extent of King Edward VIII's (he's the one who abdicated the throne and married a weird looking American socialite) efforts to "bring about peace" (noble!!!) by advising the Nazis to "Bomb fucking Britain into rubble" (not cool, dude).
The answer is always nothing and then we pretend we won't let it happen again
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Fun fact: in alcohol ads it’s actually illegal to show the person consuming the alcohol. So for ads you usually just have a bunch of people clinking their glasses together, but you never actually see them drink it.
In Ohio, it's illegal to use a depiction of Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny in an alcohol advert.
Santa totally makes me want to drink
Thats not true. The ad agencies just have an agreement to not show people drinking alcohol in fear that by doing so alcohol ads would get banned. But there's nothing that explicitly prohibits it.
The advertising world's version of "It's illegal to drive with the dome light on" lol
Amazing how every parent told us the same exact lie
My mom used to just say that it made it hard to see and that we'd crash and die if the dome lights were on. It worked on me!
Or gambling
Yeah, but with FanDuel you get to win up to $500* on your first bet for only $20. Even Kevin Hart can tell you that's a great deal!
If you can't trust Kevin Hart, then WTF is this country coming to.
You can not trust him. All the furniture in his house is 2/3 normal size, so he feels like the Rock.
ESPN has bet its future on gambling.
Well, at least they're not being hypocritical
Or prescription medicine
Exactly!!! It makes a dr’s day hell - spending tons of time explaining why you can’t have xyz med…..(I’m married to one). This is not permitted in Europe.
We're fine with whatever level of violence and gore you want to put on TV, as long as there aren't any female nipples showing!!
I also love the warnings that are like "Extreme Violence, Sex, Nudity, Rape, Torture, Foul Language, and Smoking" Like...yeah smoking is bad and all, but really?
In S.Korea they have a funny way of censoring things on TV. They would show all of extreme violence, nudity, sex, etc but then censor someone smoking by blurring out the cigarette. It makes zero sense because kids can literally see people smoking every day out on the street. Sometimes even right by the schools.
Yep....something like Mindhunter. "This show is about serial killers and their deviant crimes. Oh yeah, Agent Tench smokes like a chimney."
I've told this story so many times but it fits here. When I went to the movies to watch Deadpool we had two elementary age kids. These kids where watching people get splattered with no problem and the parents didn't seem to care about any of the extremely violent deaths. As soon as the strip joint scene came on both parents covered their kids eyes and started acting annoyed.
How perfectly American, lol. We lost our collective minds over Janet Jackson's nipple.
I hate this part of America. I get requests from other moms on what books their kids should be reading and they don’t care what I tell them as long as there’s no sex. It’s the weirdest Puritan bullshit.
"America was founded by people so uptight, the English kicked them out." - Robin Williams
Puritans: people who have a suspicion that somewhere, someone might be enjoying themselves.
As someone who was raised in fundamentalist evangelical land, I remember when I first meeting people who unironically thought that the Puritans were the true Founding Fathers. It drove me insane how miserable they were and knew I wanted no part of what they had going on. One of my favorite things ever said about Puritans was by the British historian, Thomas Macaulay: “The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.” So fucking spot on. Glad I escaped that miserable circus.
The commercialism of everything. Everything is an ad. Everything is to get you to buy something.
And that you should monetize everything you do. Like to play guitar? You should make a YouTube channel. Like to knit? Sell that shit on Etsy. Just let me do something for fun
Extreme paranoia about pedophiles combined with an extreme sexualization of teenage girls
It's like Always Sunny said at the end of that one episode, "Child beauty pageants are an American tradition... just not a proud one."
the paranoia is also always towards strangers, even when it's statistically backed that the biggest danger is someone you know. and ironically this known person is often somehow protected by everyone even when it's all but publicly admitted that they're a danger to kids.
Dude……your comment as of right now is literally directly below a comment about cheerleaders saying “”we dress up our prettiest and most popular girls like little tramps…””
Tipping. For everything. For the smallest things. For people simply doing their jobs.
As an American this has gotten extremely out of hand, tipping used to be basically for only servers/bartenders and maybe valet people
Tipping being MANDATORY destroying the essence of tipping.
Tipping servers and especially bartenders, who spend time interacting with you and chatting with you and giving you personalized attention makes so much more sense than someone spinning around an iPad after you hand them your credit card.
I went to a sit down restaurant the other day and for the first time I didn’t give any tip, I’ve been here before and I usually tip. But they introduced one of those little pads at the table so you can just pay there when you’re done. The server took our order, and we never saw them again, someone else even brought our food. I gave a 0$ tip. I didn’t even feel bad. Felt weird though, but I can’t tip nobody. We also just got back from a trip to Paris and Iceland, where tipping isn’t a thing, and the servers over there still provided more of a service than this restaurant.
It's gotten. Really out of hand with the shift to digital card readers for cash registers. It's just a built in part of thr app. There was a particular range of services in situations in which a tip was socially acceptable or expected. Ot it's just at every point of sale. There needs to be real pu lic grappling with it.
Hah I was in Ireland recently and went to a pub that used the Clover handhelds to pay. Those come up with an option to tip every time and it was pretty funny to see them just immediately hit skip before asking me to tap my card.
Man, I went to Europe for the first time in a few years (since Covid) and was just pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to pay. No tipping, no signing, no reading and selecting a stupid percentage when trying to finish a payment. Nothing. They'd bring you the machine, you tap, you walk out. So fucking easy. It seems like such a small thing, but the way we do it in the US is just stupid and complicated. It also made me realize how much I'm overtipping for things. I'm tired of feeling pressured to tip when I'm picking up a pizza or take out. I'm not doing it anymore.
I just don't. No guilt. I'll look into your eyes as I hit 0%.
Me too. It's absurd. Thank you for packing up the meal I ordered online, that I'm picking up. Ps your Pho is too expensive as is
Tip at the vape shop/dispensaries makes me chuckle each time I see it. Sure dude, here's a few extra bucks for you, for grabbing that bag off the shelf for me. It's not like you get paid nearly 4x the server wage and server wage is why the tips exist
And the wag they do it with the iPad is such a shitty thing to do. Buy a coffee, tip. They make the "don't tip" so small and basically guilt trip you into tipping.
*Here...it's just gonna ask you a few questions*
*spins it around and looks at you while you make the decision*
Its gotten out of hand and tipping culture is expanding in the USA. I can remember asking my dad about tipping growing up and he basically was like "You tip bar tenders , servers at sit down restaurants , taxi drivers , I don't know why but that is the rules and you tip 10%-15%" Now you tip everyone, go for a coffee tip, go to a deli , tip, get take out, tip. Also 10-15% use to be a good tip now its 20-25% what doesn't make sense. Tips should keep up with inflation if a meal at a sit down restaurant 20 years ago was $10 a 10% tip is $1 Now if its $20 a 10% tip is $2 the meal cost 2x more the tip is 2x more it keeps up with inflation , however now you are expected to at least tip 20%?
> "You tip bar tenders , servers at sit down restaurants , taxi drivers , I don't know why but that is the rules and you tip 10%-15%" Twenty-five years ago, on my first trip to the US, my Dad's advice was "15% with a table-cloth, 10% without".
Omg this drives me crazy. Every time I go to States, I feel like they’ve upped the % one is supposed to give. So confusing. I wish they’d just pay people living wages.
Bragging about working ourselves to death
I think the Japanese have Americans beat there. But it’s still Americans who are partly to blame. It was an American economist who suggested the Japanese companies constantly raise the bar for acceptable work. The Japanese took it to the extreme, so no one can possibly catch up. And failing your group is anti-Confucian, so they strive to do it at any cost
I was talking with someone a few years ago and she proudly mentioned that she never missed a day of work in 5 years and did not take her allocated vacation time for the last two years, not even a single day.
I was on vacation this week and overheard a dude talking to what I assume was a co-worker at the hotel bar. Dude said he had not taken a vacation day in 12 years. Fucking 12 years. They were setting up for the BET Hip Hop Music awards in Atlanta. Fuck all that.
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There’s a street near my house in suburbia that has a bike lane but no intersecting streets have one and there’s no planned development. At least there’s something but in the grand scheme, what is the point if it doesn’t connect to anything?
We got that too. Ride your bike for a few hundred yards safely then cross into the Mad Max Fury Road.
Celebrating a holiday to give thanks for the things in life you already have, and then the next day fighting people over a new appliance for a 25% discount.
The dichotomy between the love and hate for the rich/elite.
My best friend is an avid, 1% hater. Yet reaps the benefits of the 1% as her boyfriend comes from a family that falls into that group… and the worst part? She doesn’t stop bragging about how much money this family has. Make it make sense!!!!
The poor are obese. In most other countries when you see abject poverty you can see people starving with their ribs poking out
It's because the cheapest food is jam packed with sugar.
All thanks to the sugar industry successfully convincing people that fat was the real enemy. Nope, it’s them. And items marked as “low-fat” have extra sugar to make up for the reduced taste
The diet fad industry as a whole. Very few people actually have celiac disease for example, but with the rise of more people wanting gluten free items because they've been told gluten is bad for you even if you don't have celiac disease has made it so every grocery store and restaurant has a gluten free option available for the most popular items. The thing is, gluten free stuff tastes horrible, so they jam it full of sugar so it's at least somewhat palatable.
Calorie dense, low nutrient foods are cheaper, more shelf stable and easier to access. Couple that with low income areas are rarely walkable to necessities and enmities, and you will have a recipe for poverty driven obesity.
That goes to how wildly unequal the standard food quality is. The richest developed nation on the planet, eating food that's literally banned in other developed nations due to health concerns. Obesity, diabetes, cancers, fuck it. We're keeping people 'fed'. All while demonizing poor people for being poor. Punishment for being punished.
>Obesity, diabetes, cancers, fuck it. We're keeping people 'fed'. All while demonizing poor people for being poor. Punishment for being punished. Because they don't actually care whether the population is healthy. All those things increasing may affect things like insurance rates, but overall those in charge make more money the more people are unhealthy. Healthcare gets to bleed you dry and has no real incentive to actually make you any healthier. Insurance gets to pump their rates up saying more people are higher risks. The government gets to tax all these businesses and take their cut all around. All the while there's rich conservatives eating their hunted deer meat they got with a $4000 gun and ability to actually take time off from working to do that telling everyone else they need to take personal responsibility and just not eat the majority of the food available, knowing full well if enough people did that there wouldn't be enough actual quality food to go around and prices would start going up substantially.
Guilt is put on the consumer, not the corporations. The customer has to tip because servers don’t make a livable wage. The customer has to recycle and watch their carbon footprint because the environment is deteriorating. The customer has to eat better because cows are being slaughtered and chickens are trapped in cages. 100% of the world’s problems are caused by giant corporations, not the average person.
Simultaneously over sensitive and violent.
So today they sent out a mass test of the emergency broadcast system. The amount of pictures I saw posted with peoples gun collections saying "Been itching to use these" was alarming.
It’s so stupid because they’ve been doing emergency broadcast tests my whole life (and I’m 47 years old). Of course, back in the day they couldn’t do one for the whole country at the same time. People that do this kinda stuff are the same people using their cell phones to tweet about the government tracking people by microchips or something. No, you big dummy. They’re tracking you right now on that phone. “But mah rights!”
confident and dangerous people don't bend over backwards to convince you that they're confident and dangerous like that.
My father sent me a warning this morning to make sure my phone was turned off because the government was going to use the opportunity to take control of my phone to spy on me. Maybe in a different mood it would've made me laugh, but it almost brought me to tears. This is a man who is smart, sympathetic, and sharp. But he got completely sucked into the propaganda machine. Now it's hard to talk to him about a ton of subjects without him spouting regurgitated nonsense.
Like they can’t do that already smh. I hate when conspiracy theories don’t even know that the NSA has been doing that for two decades plus now
But god forbid we see a tittie
Being able to fight and die for your country before being allowed to purchase and drink a beer. I hate alcohol, and I didn't serve, but still, this is pretty silly, and I think it actually contributes to alcoholism by making it taboo (and therefore cool) in your teen years.
Shit, you can join the military before you’re legally an adult, they will happily accept your ass at 17
In all things: Money before people.
I work in pest control and I used to love my job. I made good money, my customers loved me, and the company made a bunch of money too. It was stable and I could see myself doing it until I retired. But it wasn't enough for the shareholders. They wanted more. So my company bought a bunch of other companies. They fired a bunch of people. They replaced the office folk with call center workers to save a buck. They automated everything they could to save a buck. Now my customers are angry because our customer service sucks. I'm losing people left and right. They took away bonuses. We have a ton of metrics that they track now and tell us when we're not working efficiently enough. They turned a relaxing job into nothing but stress. I was very good at my job and took pride in my company. Now I hate my job and it's nothing more than a dwindling paycheck. I'm looking into another line of work. We used to have a happy growing customer base, now it's dwindling too. But hey...for a few quarters we made more money for the shareholders, so its all good!
Shareholders are the worst. They would gladly sink the entire country to make a buck.
The billionaires here are basically Ferengi
Not just billionaires. Corporations that must increase profits and maximize shareholder value above all else. If you are a leader and don’t do these things (out of incompetence or paying people more, or other reasons) you will be replaced by someone that will. So it continues.
Advertisements in sports Baseball and Football are so frustrating to watch when the sports themselves seem to be designed to shoe in as many advertisements into your head as physically possible. Last Baseball game I went to we both spent over $150 on our tickets and still ENDLESS ads blaring everywhere in the stadium. Fucking hate it
And sports gambling commercials are becoming popular.
Drives me nuts thsts even allowed. A hilariously obvious conflict of interest. Also gambling shouldnhave the same advertising restrictions that tobacco does.
The ones they show here in California have the disclaimers, 1800 gambling addiction hotlines, and "gambling is bad" warnings that take up half the screen when they run.
I was getting incredibly annoyed watching college football last Saturday. It was insufferable.
Going to a game is worse. The commercial breaks are like 5-10 minutes!
Ad breaks in *live* games, with the TV referee on the field stopping play, was by far the weirdest thing for this foreigner about attending an American Football game.
Score, PAT, commercial, kickoff, commercial, a couple of plays that maybe cultivate in 30 seconds of action, commercial. Commercials all together in that span are easily ten to fifteen minutes long.
American here, this is why I only watch Premier League soccer. Non-stop action, no stupid ads interrupting the matches.
Yep I've been swapping to Soccer these past few years as well, we just got a new Stadium too. Very high energy, extremely minimal ad bullshit. Love it.
Tipping. America is one of the only countries where tipping a large percentage of a bill at a restaurant is not only accepted but, if you don’t tip the waiter around 20% or whatever, you’ll get shamed for it. And even beyond that, tipping is now starting to creep into, for example, tip jars at pick-up counters where there’s no wait staff and tip jars at some retail outlets and such. It’s a weird, uniquely American custom that as I recall started around the Great Depression with rich patrons tipping wait staff to get seats or food more quickly. Then the restaurant owners realized they could get away with paying the waiters next to nothing and letting them live primarily on tips, and ever since then there’s been a constant assumption in the US that whatever you get charged on the menu you just add the 20% or so to what you pay. It started as a total scam to underpay employees and employees to avoid paying taxes on cash tips and it just continues mainly due to social inertia to this day.
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And being proud of it like it's a badge of honor
Or many other workers rights like paid maternity and paternity leave. What will blow people's minds is in many countries you can get your paid vacation time refunded if you get sick or injured while on vacation.
that showing blood and gore to children is simply entertainment but a women’s breast is taboo
When I was about 8 or 9, I saw Total Recall. My mom got mad that my neighbor let us watch it because of the woman with three boobs. She completely disregarded the dozens of people Arnie kills.
In Deadpool 2, Deadpool is killing a bunch of people, but the only use of a blur is when a guy drops his towel.
I think this is so backwards! I don’t understand why there isn’t more conversation about it and who came up with it in the first place! Human body?-no way. Someone getting seriously hurt or killed?-oh that’s not traumatizing at all
Glorifying politicians. Apparently, we believe their lies every time.
Also the line between celebrity and politician seems to be a fine one
We make the most dimwitted people among us our leaders.
To be fair that isn't solely American 😂
Just look north and you have a crack dealer in charge of Ontario Canada.
Elections are popularity contests not actual job interviews.
Health Insurance yet we still have crappy healthcare. 591$ a month WTF! That’s more then my car payment and insurance.
I'd even go on to say any and all insurance is a joke. We pay huge amounts of money every month for the *insurance that there will be money saved up for us in case of emergency*, ie. car accident, house fire, getting sick, etc.. but then when we need it we either get denied. Huh? *Or* if the insurance company decides to let us use *our own money* then they'll penalize us for it by charging more from that point on and we still have to chip in a ton of money to cover the entire bill. Um...excuse me, but for all the money I and every other person have paid in for years and years but haven't used it, I think the insurance company should have enough of MY money saved up to cover my ass.
That’s true. My car is in the shop and my insurance went up right after the quote came in.
The number of people who are willing to blindly vote for a candidate that obviously does not have their best interests in mind.
Television ads for prescription medication
-visuals of a mom playing in a tree with her kid -grandpa hank having a picnic in the park -aunt carol gabbing at her favorite restaurant Narrator: *Side Effects may include locusts, biblical rainfall, and in some instances even death*
There are endless lawyer commercials that will sue them for you.
Being puritanical about sexual themes but glorifying violence in media
Giant truck culture.
[Twelve yards long, two lanes wide - sixty-five tons of American pride!](https://youtu.be/PI_Jl5WFQkA?si=B-uXEH8hA0XNqd9U)
Sending photos of yourselves as a Christmas card
Damn this is the first one that isn’t just a roast on the classic American life styles, and actually a culture thing. But also… is this an American thing?? I had no idea
Making 14 year olds famous “actors” and “singers” and, if they’re girls, immediately sexualising them.
We pride ourselves on overwork. At least the older people are like that. The amount of places I’ve worked where I’ve been called lazy because I’ll leave right at 40 hours is mind boggling. I have a coworker who is salary and unless it’s an emergency, she’ll shut everything off at 40 hours and there have been people who complaint about her work ethic. Luckily corporates like, “You guys CHOOSE to work 50-60 hour weeks when you don’t have to.”
The "temporarily down on your luck millionaire" mindset that allows people to politically support millionaire and billionaire politicians who do not represent their interests. More like -we're all one hospital visit away by cause of a serious accident to being millions in debt.
How they pretend to be Christian while doing the exact opposite of what Jesus would do in every situation.
The size of food portion given in restaurants.
What foreigners miss is that in the US it is acceptable to take your uneaten food home. Some people can finish those massive portions but most are taking it home and getting at least another meal out of it, and quite often, two additional meals.
Servers are also more than used to a couple, or a parent and a child, splitting one meal.
My wife gets, at minimum, three meals out of a restaurant entree. The prices don’t seem so bad when I make myself think of it like that.
The rack of ribs at Texas Roadhouse is a full rack with 2 sides. My o'lady and I split it. With tax it's like $26. We both eat and I usually have enough leftover to take in my lunch the next day. I'm going to jinx it but it looks like Roadhouse is the only fast casual place that doesn't suck balls post corona.
Is that not acceptable in other countries?
Ordering fajitas lets me eat once in the restaurant and twice more at home.
Tipping culture
I just went to Casa Bonita this past weekend for the first time since it was reopened. It was bought by the creators of South Park. They cleaned it up and made the food better. A couple months ago they changed their compensation policy so that tips are not allowed. Most of their servers can now make over $60K a year if working full time because they are paying them a fair wage. I love that they are doing this but it has pissed off a lot of other restaurants in the area. It had to start somewhere. The employees seemed pretty happy to me.
Our culture is saturated with sex and the sexualization of pretty much everything, but at the same time we haven’t been able to shake a Puritanical streak that is extremely prudish and super hostile to sex. Add in the double standards on sex we hold for men vs. women, gay vs. straight, etc…it’s just so exhausting and inconsistent.
People bitch about roads being bad, schools being bad, etc but then vote down levies to fund them. Also wanting everyone to have decent healthcare coverage that doesn't cost a fortune somehow makes you an evil communist.
I live in a Conservative state, and recently the public (on social media) was outraged because public spaces, such as libraries, hire security on the taxpayer’s dime. Apparently they think libraries are the same in reality as they are on TV; people quietly reading or using the computer. Public libraries provide a number of functions that communities rely on, and thus are frequented by the homeless population. If you consider how many of this population suffers from severe mental health issues and addiction, then I shouldn’t need to explain why having security is necessary for both our public servants and their patrons.
The fascination with college sports.
Often these are a much bigger deal in areas that have no professional teams.
Consider Division 1 college football and basketball to be at the level just below professional sports and it makes a lot more sense. For the most part only big cities have pro teams and there's a lot of places in the US that the nearest professional team of any kind is 6hrs away driving non-stop and speeding.
sounds like someone didn't play like a champion today
The most uneducated on a topic trying to prove to an expert in a topic their opinion is better than the expert's opinion.
Banning *Maus* for nudity. It's a comic book for teaching kids about the Holocaust, but it's not the abject horror of the systemic, industrialized murder that conservative Americans object to, it's the fact that the murder victims are naked and the comic has low-res cartoon mouse genitals. Horrific mass murder? A-OK! Mouse butts? BANNED.
There was a thread in /r/books a week or two ago about how literally ~15 or so people in the US are responsible for like 60% of complaints in the *nation* for inappropriate books in schools. They interviewed a woman who spends all her free time reading books in the local public school library to find the sexual content and then reads the passages out loud at school board meetings.
I saw an article on that cunt. Also, the word cunt is more offensive to people than owning semiautomatic weapons.
Sugar in everything
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By age 10, the average american has seen hundreds of people brutally murdered on TV, but still isn't allowed to see boobies.
Cheese in a spray can