BS: Do we really need to see this ?

Subject: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Victor in Mapperton
Date: 22 Apr 09 - 08:50 PM

The first TV advert in the UK for the morning-after pill is to be screened shortly. It comes after a row in recent weeks about the planned crop of TV adverts for condoms and sexual health services. I don't know about you, but do we really need such ad's ?

I am sick looking at ad's for sanity towels, now this lot is due to hit our screens.

The advert will show a woman waking up next to her partner and then taking a trip to a pharmacy to ask for the drug, which is the only morning-after pill available to women in the UK.


Next we will be watching how she got into this position.

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Amos
Date: 22 Apr 09 - 08:56 PM

Victor:

I would love to learn more about these sanity towels you have in the UK. Is there any evidence that they work? If so, how?



A

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Apr 09 - 09:03 PM

lol

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Apr 09 - 09:38 PM

I don't think ANY drug ads should be on TV.

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 22 Apr 09 - 09:41 PM

Seems very sensible to me.

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Apr 09 - 09:43 PM

Sanity Towels for sale

No comment.

-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: michaelr
Date: 22 Apr 09 - 09:47 PM

Bit of a prude, are you, Victor?

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Apr 09 - 10:34 PM

None of those towels for me... I think we should have a sanity clause.

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Bert
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 02:38 AM

Not for you Amos. No chance.

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: GUEST,CrazyEddie
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 03:44 AM

Bill D: I donna believe inna Sanity Claus!

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 04:31 AM

Seems like sound common sense to me.

An old engineer once told me :

A standing pr*ck has no conscience, and a gaping [vagina] no pride.

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Victor in Mapperton
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 04:35 AM

Sorry, that should have read "sanitary towels" as well you know. Glad it entertained the resident site nerds. When your my age your allowed to make errors.

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 04:52 AM

That reminds me of the Engineer Song, Bryn. You're (sic) quite right. Do you apply the same principle to your (sic) driving, Victor?

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 04:53 AM

The only thing that bothers me about the feminine hygiene adds is the use of blue liquid to demonstrate their absorbency. I think we should see them in action, doing what they're designed to do & soaking up all shades of vaginal discharge - menstrual, seminal, or otherwise.

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Michael
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 05:52 AM

Victor, I think the TV ads imply that you are allowed to make mistakes when you are any age!

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: 3refs
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 07:35 AM

I golf with a buddy who wears a pantie liner under his hat on hot days to stop the sweat from running down his face. The sticky tape must be placed on the hat though as it does not stick to bald heads! We now let him use the lady's tee!

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 08:32 AM

Why doesn't she get the moring after pill the day before?

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 08:44 AM

Victor, was it a similar error that led you to falsely accuse another member of sending you offensive pms?

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 09:06 AM

Just watch BBC - problem solved.

(Well, it might not cure your spelling or your sanity, but you can't have everything.)

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Becca72
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 09:13 AM

Sins, I think that would rip a hole in the space-time continuum...

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Victor in Mapperton
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 09:26 AM

Keith A of Hertford, That was not a spelling error, that was a very nasty pm from a member in which he or she made a threat that you are referring to. A big difference sir.

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 09:48 AM

Which was not a spelling error? The "ad's" when "ads" was meant?   Or "your" when "You're" was meant?

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 10:06 AM

Go do something else during the adverts if they offend you. I think that having the information out there is a good thing - however it gets there.

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Jeri
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 10:12 AM

'The "ad's" when "ads" was meant?' and 'Or "your" when "You're" was meant?' are sentence fragments, not complete sentences. If you're going to be a pedant, you should probably avoid making grammatical errors yourself. Either you can do that, or you can just stifle the urge to take petty digs at people.

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: goatfell
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 10:22 AM

prude, if you don't want to see it then either switch off or change the channel, and don't sit there watching it and then complaining and boring the rest of us. push the button

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Victor in Mapperton
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 10:23 AM

Uncle_DaveO, I just sent you a pm concerning your remarks.

Thank you

Victor

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Victor in Mapperton
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 10:28 AM

I read recently that a new found respect for older people in society has emerged. Clearly not on mudcat.

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 11:31 AM

Great thread, thanks for the laughs folk!
And why don't they ever use builders or long distance lorry drivers advertise loo paper?

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Becca72
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 12:01 PM

I should probably mind my own business and not poke the bear, so to speak, but my father taught me from a very young age that respect is earned, not granted simply based on age.

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: goatfell
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 03:16 PM

If saw a thing on telly I wouldn't complain about it, I would just either switch off or change the channel they why we were born with thumbs.And I wouldn't complain about it.

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: greg stephens
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 03:26 PM

Put the kettle on in the ad break, Victor, or have a flip through the other channels and see if there any Friends or South Park episodes on anywhere, or doumentaries about Lancaster bombers. There generally are.That always whiles a few minutes away in an agreeable fashion, I find.

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Don Firth
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 03:58 PM

It's not a matter of lack of respect for older people, Victor, it's that one can be ultra-prudish at any age, and it's the inherent prudishness of your objections to informative ads that people here are commenting on. After all, the appellation "Victor in Mapperton" doesn't specify your age, so as far as anyone here knows, you could be no older than fourteen.

Hell's bells, Victor, I doubt very seriously that you are any older than I am, and frankly, I think your objections belong back in the Victorian age, when some folks were so up-tight about matters of human reproduction that they put skirts on pianos so their legs—excuse me, "limbs"—wouldn't show.

How old am I? When the Big Bang occurred, I'm the one who said, "What the hell was THAT!??"

Don Firth (78 on June the 19th. By the way, that's age, not rpm.)

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Rasener
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 04:05 PM

>>Next we will be watching how she got into this position<<

Hmm thats a good idea :-)

I don't see what the problem is. I have three women in the house and its like water off a ducks back. It's no good trying to hide such things, they are a fact of life.

I think you must be suffering from embarrasment.

Sanitary Towels and Tampons are very good for nose bleeds, ask footballers.

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Don Firth
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 04:22 PM

I'd say this young lady either has a pretty bad sinus problem or she doesn't know diddly-squat about her own anatomy!

CLICKY.

Don Firth

P. S. Or Wibble Wibble.

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Rasener
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 04:29 PM

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 04:59 PM

Mousey mousey mousey...

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Jeri
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 05:28 PM

We have loads of contraceptive commercials here that are mostly bland. The ED stuff though, some of those ads are hilarious, the way they work euphemisms for erections and body parts in. Something about Santa having a 'sackful of pride' and the next-door neighbor watering his lawn with a droopy hose. More symbols than you can count.

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 05:39 PM

Yes, Victor. We NEED to see it. Seen any teen pregnacy rates lately?






PS....women DO these 'horrible' things. Get over it.

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 05:39 PM

No we don't really need to see it... that's why we have an off button on the television or mute on the remote.

BUT:

It's a fact of life. I personally don't agree with the morning after pill at all, there are many easier and safer methods of contraception, but if that is what it takes for a girl/woman to be absolutely sure she is not going to have an unwanted pregnancy, then that is that person's choice - just as it is your choice to watch or not to watch commercial TV.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 05:54 PM

At school we had a whole heap of nonsensical What's the definiton of...? jokes. The one that remains the funniest (and please forgive my puerile sense of humour) is What's the definition of a used tampon? The answer, of course, is the still sublime Dracula's tea-bag.

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 05:57 PM

What's red & white and sits in a tree?

A sanitary owl.

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 06:15 PM

Why don't we have adverts about responsibility, morals, honour, self-respect, apathy, the damage that crudity has done to our society, and the fact that despite such adverts as these, teenage pregnancy is still on the rise?

Why don't we have adverts on spirituality?

Why don't we have adverts on why we've stopped asking "Why?!"

Why don't we have adverts about how so many people have been dumbed down?

Why don't we have adverts about those who think you should never complain, just turn off the button?

Why don't we have adverts about how stupid, de-sensitised and irresponsible so many of us have become?

WHY don't we have adverts about the terrible damage we are doing to our children in flooding their young minds with information they so often don't want to know about, whilst being made to feel that unless they ARE out there, having it off on every street corner, with every Tom, Dick or Barbara, then queueing up at Tesco's to kill off any remote chance of any responsibility daring to come their way, and killing a new life being started..then they are NOT cool dudes who know how to live life on the modern Conveyor Belt of Life?

And WHY don't we have adverts about how turning away, pretending that our kids are all blissfully happy when they're dying inside, has actually caused adverts like this to be screened in the first place?

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Don Firth
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 06:26 PM

There you have it, folks! The world is coming to and end!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 06:30 PM

OH, Lizzie, but over HERE we DO.....!! Thanks to the Mormons!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 06:43 PM

Hmmmm...never thought of myself as a Mormon, and hell, I'd hate the underwear.... ;0)

..but the more you de-sensitise our children, surround them with 'Morning After Pills' and 'Heya kids, why not try anal sex to avoid pregnancy' as they taught over here for a while...???..the more fooked up our kids are going to become.

Geez, I'm 54 and can still remember when 'Go to work on an egg' adverts used to refer to a boiled egg for breakfast, not how to get rid of your own!

Sorry folks, but I refuse to join the 'Yeah! Tell the little blighters everything, then we can all live our lives not having to feel the remotest bit guilty for anything our kids do" brigade...

If you de sensitise children, they grow into de-sensitised adults and a world filled with de-sensitised adults is on the road to hell...

Preaching that the Morning After Pill is cool and really handy for that Naughty Night Before Slip Up is wrong, imo.

When did human life get to be so irrelevant?
We've lost the plot, as a species, methinks.

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Deckman
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 06:44 PM

What's TV?

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 06:47 PM

Terror Vision

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Emma B
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 06:54 PM

Lizzie, in the UK, anal intercourse is a legal activity ONLY between consenting men and women aged 16 and over, in both heterosexual and homosexual relationships, except in Northern Ireland where it's 17 and over

I would like you to quote exactly, and with evidence, where minors have been taught to practice it as a form of birth control

Personally I would prefer to see 'the morning after pill' available rather than unwanted pregnacies but, I would also like to see a society where, for some young women, parenthood is not the only viable 'career choice'

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: Don Firth
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 07:09 PM

Okay, ladies. Ten paces, turn and fire!    CLICKY.

(I'm outta here! This could get dangerous!)

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Do we really need to see this ?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 23 Apr 09 - 07:11 PM

Maybe Lizzie meant 'oral intercourse', not anal. Mind you, with some folk there probably isn't a lot of difference between the two orifices. ☺