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Warpy

(111,383 posts)

20. I hated those fucking commercials

Reply to cliffside (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2024, 03:04 AM

Mar 25

I was nobody's fucking baby, not since I'd outgrown the need for diapers. In addition, giving myself COPD and heart disease, not to mention completely ruined skin, didn't appeal to me and I wondered why those male admen thought it was a winning slogan to get women addicted to their sthinking, reeking product.

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"You've come along way baby" some might remember the slogan for cigarettes ... [View all] cliffside Mar 25 OP

100% stopdiggin Mar 25 #1

Hard to look at some of today's voters and have some optimism, but we're not going back too far ... cliffside Mar 25 #4

my point (probably not terribly well made) is that there's a lot more of US stopdiggin Mar 25 #15

I understood your point, I wanted to point out that is it just not the young vs the old ... cliffside Mar 25 #17

I believe it was "You've come a long way baby". Virginia slims I think NoRethugFriends Mar 25 #2

Thx! And edited the title and yes it was Virginia slims. cliffside Mar 25 #3

... Celerity Mar 25 #5

I would prefer :) cliffside Mar 25 #13

true... it's no longer unusual for women/Blacks to hold office. BlueWaveNeverEnd Mar 25 #6

Small progress, something to celebrate, although a little to slow! nt cliffside Mar 25 #8

Message auto-removed Name removed Mar 25 #10

virginia slims slogan. AllaN01Bear Mar 25 #7

People thought they were living in modern times marybourg Mar 25 #9

We all did as people think so today ... cliffside Mar 25 #12

So we were really living in the "olden days"? marybourg Mar 25 #18

History repeats itself, or what is old is new ... cliffside Mar 25 #19

Bingo, marketing, we've all lived through it and still experiencing today ... cliffside Mar 25 #11

Yabba Dabba Doo! Caribbeans Mar 25 #14

I grew up with the Flintstones and Jetsons ... cliffside Mar 25 #16

I hated those fucking commercials Warpy Mar 25 #20

Ultimately it is about profits, just as we were sucked into plastic recycling ... cliffside Mar 25 #21