The Buckets by Greg Cravens for February 24, 2021

This is why I will never take Nexium. When it was first released as a prescription only med, it was heavily advertised as “the little purple pill” without EVER telling you what it was supposed to treat. “Take this because it’s cute and colorful! Who cares if you actually need it?”

This strip goes with today’s 9 to 5 (https://www.gocomics.com/9to5/2021/02/24)

If you can’t spell it, you don’t need it.

My favourite past time is look up the long and difficult names they give to explain that skin/anything care is so much better. It is good for a hysterical laugh every time. “Buy this cream and thanks to its mumbledidock you will have a nice skin.”Look up in dictionary, mumbledidock = aptitude to retain water = the cream is mixed with water and doesn’t separate into water and other ingredients.

They have so many medications that just seems to dampen your immune system, so that the visible signs of the underlying problem, just goes away. That is NOT a cure, but just a scam to make you dependent on more medications.

“Bet”. Why not?

I ignore drug commercials for the same reason I ignore those exotic disease tv shows

Im in reasonably good health and just getting older, everything suddenly becomes a symptom if I want to obsess about it

I have the same problem, but it’s because I always mute the commercials. That’s real relief.

Maybe I’m missing something, but I don’t think that logic follows. What if he has ED? Why would knowing that he’s seen the ad 10 times mean he doesn’t have ED?

You also won’t be getting any of the money from the lawsuit.

Anybody remember “Head on! Apply directly to the forehead!”?

That was the sum total of the ad. Simply someone repeatedly saying that for 30 seconds and showing them using something that looks like a glue stick and wiping it across their brow.

It was for a homeopathic headache “remedy” (and in case anyone doesn’t know, homeopathic=“nothing but water and other inert ingredients that will do absolutely nothing for you and will cost you more than real medicine.”) They couldn’t even say what it was supposed to cure, as it cures nothing.

The fine print (bottom of the screens) for a number of products has a statement that causes me to wonder why you are going to take the advertised product in the first place.

It usually reads; These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

If you don’t need it, don’t take it.