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Is it just me, or does anyone else think that the advertising of prescription drugs shouldn't be allowed?

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It just seems so wrong and sleazy to me, and I can only guess that the Doctors don't like it either. I mean before at least the hypochondriacs out there had to crack a book, go off what a doctor may have told the friend of a friend of your aunt two towns over or more recently scour the interwebs in search of a diagnosis for their latest problem, but now all you have to be doing is watching your favourite television network and Kapow inside an hour your bombarded with several ads for various pills willing to cure whatever ails you, whether you're too happy, not happy enough, can't poop, poop too much, can't get it up, can't get it down. It don't matter, if you got it there's a pill for it and more importantly a commercial for that pill.

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Don't get me wrong, I'm not against pills in any way shape or form, I still believe in the might and power of pills the way that most of my generation seems to believe in massage, chiropracty and acupuncture. But then again I also think that Doctors should be grey haired men in white coats who drive Cadillacs, not shaggy headed Birkenstock wearing folks with a kayak strapped to the roof of their RAV4. But that's me . . . and I also think that cops should be bigger stronger and more intimidating that me, and that's without the the gun. But that's something for another time.

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But I doubt there's anyway to get the prescription commercials off the air now. But I say if they must stay on, they should roll like beer commercials, you know have rocking soundtracks and leave me with the impression that if I use their product I'll have a funner life, shag hotter girls and drive sweeter cars. Like the Smilin' Bob did with Enzyte . . . too bad they got their asses sued off for selling admitting to knowingly selling lies in pill format. That's right kids, moral of the story, don't admit to knowing anything . . . and if you can blame the guy who can't speak English.

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Ah Pedro you saved my ass so many times.

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That's enough ranting, how about a weird accapella type band that I was directed to yesterday by the name of Van Canto. Based solely on the couple of videos I watched on YouTube they cover metal songs with out instruments, well okay there seems to be a drum kit in the background, but they do just like you do when you're rocking out and start trying to sing out the guitar parts going all squeedley and weedley and bin-a-lin-lin-lin-nin, only they're good.

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Check them out rocking the shit out of Metallica's Battery and here's a vid clip of them doing Iron Maiden's The Trooper live on stage. Pretty cool eh? I wonder if the singer's got another band, because I think he'd make a great metal front man, even if he does like to slather on the guy-liner.

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I think that's enough for now. Until next time.