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OneMoreRobot3021


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Cymbalta (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Pharmaceutical Industry)
#5703438 - 06/02/06 10:04 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I saw a commercial for this drug a few days ago and it's been bouncing around in my head a whole bunch. The commercial struck me as being rather ridiculous. It sounded like it could have been an advertisement for ecstasy, only it was Cymbalta.
The tagline for the drug is super-creepy: Depression hurts, but you don't have to.
Anyone know the commercial and drug I'm talking about?
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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dblaney
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Re: Cymbalta (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Pharmaceutical Industry) [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5703483 - 06/02/06 10:16 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yeah I've heard of this drug. I think I've also seen the commercial but I can't swear to it. Most medication commercials nowadays could easily be for ecstasy, I mean they all have people dancing through sunny meadows or playing games in a utopic setting. It's laughable. My mom tried Cymbalta once for her depression and said that it made her shakey and nauseauted and she couldn't sleep for an entire night.
-------------------- "What is in us that turns a deaf ear to the cries of human suffering?" "Belief is a beautiful armor But makes for the heaviest sword" - John Mayer Making the noise "penicillin" is no substitute for actually taking penicillin. "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." -Abraham Lincoln
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OneMoreRobot3021


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Re: Cymbalta (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Pharmaceutical Industry) [Re: dblaney]
#5703488 - 06/02/06 10:17 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
dblaney said: My mom tried Cymbalta once for her depression and said that it made her shakey and nauseauted and she couldn't sleep for an entire night.
Well I bet she couldn't think about her depression, so it worked.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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dblaney
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Re: Cymbalta (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Pharmaceutical Industry) [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5703501 - 06/02/06 10:21 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Hahah you know, I bet you're right.
They should market a new cure for depression: cobra venom. Whenever you're depressed, just pop a pill of cobra venom, and in no time at all you'll have completely forgotten you're depressed!
(Manufacturers warning: side effects can include nausea, excruciating pain, blood clots, strokes, heart attacks, difficulty breathing, the sensation that your body is on fire, high fevers, vomitting, hemorrages, the inability to talk, paralysis both temporary and permanent, and in some cases, death)
-------------------- "What is in us that turns a deaf ear to the cries of human suffering?" "Belief is a beautiful armor But makes for the heaviest sword" - John Mayer Making the noise "penicillin" is no substitute for actually taking penicillin. "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." -Abraham Lincoln
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OneMoreRobot3021


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Re: Cymbalta (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Pharmaceutical Industry) [Re: dblaney]
#5703503 - 06/02/06 10:22 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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ZippoZ
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Re: Cymbalta (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Pharmaceutical Industry) [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5703519 - 06/02/06 10:27 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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whered you get the dr strangelove title?
-------------------- PEACE
zippoz "in times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption" "People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."
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OneMoreRobot3021


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Re: Cymbalta (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Pharmaceutical Industry) [Re: ZippoZ]
#5703523 - 06/02/06 10:28 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I'm not sure exactly what that question means. It pretty much answers itself.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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Noetical
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Re: Cymbalta (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Pharmaceutical Industry) [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5703794 - 06/02/06 11:43 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I have a panging urge to see Strangelove now
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RandalFlagg
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Re: Cymbalta (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Pharmaceutical Industry) [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5704020 - 06/02/06 12:58 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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M.A.D.
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Mutually Assured Depression
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ZippoZ
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Re: Cymbalta (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Pharmaceutical Industry) [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5704167 - 06/02/06 01:35 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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its was more of a statment that im glad that you have seen the movie,
-------------------- PEACE
zippoz "in times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption" "People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."
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Atheist
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Re: Cymbalta (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Pharmaceutical Industry) [Re: ZippoZ]
#5704242 - 06/02/06 01:52 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Kubrick is awesome
he died not too long ago right?
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