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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 10:21 PM
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Who else is annoyed by this commercial?
The one where the guy is posing as someone from the pharmaceutical industry, and tanking Americans for not using their vacation time, for working themselves to death, and offering happiness in the form of a pill?

I know this is supposed to be funny, but every time it comes on I scream at the TV - "Not ALL of us GET vacation time, you fuckhead!"

Is it just me?
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merwin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 10:23 PM
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1. I don't know. I haven't seen it but the idea is kind of funny :)
I like the freudian slip about the pharmaceutical industry tanking Americans :-)
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 10:27 PM
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3. I just don't find it funny
He's sitting there, all stuck up, talking about how Americans worked themselves to death and then thanks the American people for making his industry so huge.

Maybe I'm just bitter as hell because I haven't had a vacation in years.
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merwin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 04:02 AM
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10. I just saw it on TV. I found it very funny. I was LOL actually :)
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EC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 10:25 PM
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2. It irritates me too,
it's in essence saying keep working yourself to death, but don't know it, cause you'll never feel it...I'd hate to think that's the purpose of life...
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 10:27 PM
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4. So, it doesn't make you want to go to Disney either?
Glad I'm not the only one!
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EC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 10:30 PM
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5. You couldn't pay me to go to Disney......n/t
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twenty2strings Donating Member (254 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 10:36 PM
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6. There's another commercial in that series...Thanking loyal ...
employees for not taking vacations. You know the old Capraesqe style of the people against 'The man'. That sentiment has gone out of style for a while,but I think It's coming back. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 10:37 PM
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7. Yeah, that one pissed me off too
But for some reason, the pharmaceutical one really pissed me off. Maye it's all that money I shell out for meds monthly.
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cags Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 10:38 PM
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8. Not me. Cracks me up everytime.
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Emops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-15-05 10:39 PM
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9. You *do* know those commercials are supposed to be sarcastic, right?
I can't really figure out what there is to get offended over.
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