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Monday again...
Feb. 15th, 2010 09:34 am
So, I happened to watch a TV advert yesterday. This is something I don't do often: I actively avoid channels with ads, using catch-up or on demand instead, or I watch on DVD. But yesterday I watched an advert.
This featured a naked woman in a field, dreamy filters on the camera and slow shots of different parts of her body to make it clear that she is, for whatever unfathomable reason, standing there naked. Kinda like a racier version of those Flake ads, you know? Although in the Flake ads the woman is usually clothed while giving her chocolate that blowjob.
What was this 40-second long porn movie attempting to sell? Well, I'll tell ya. It was toothpaste. No, I am not kidding. Toothpaste now with added porn.
So glad it wasn't my brand.
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Talk about crappy reporting, this article in the Guardian is hilariously bad. Apparently some new study has shown that being overweight when elderly is a good thing. But get this:
They couldn't possibly be muddling up cause and effect here, could they? I've lost a lot of elderly relatives in my life and the one common factor is when people get sick and quit looking after themselves properly, they lose weight. Both my grandmothers were overweight most of their lives - that post-childbirth thing in an age when the media didn't make women feel like shit for having curves - and both dropped to less than six stone before they died. Because they were sick.
I'm the first to decry the whole being-fat-is-bad-for-you thing, but I really doubt it's protection from death!
Here's another choice quote:
So there you have it, girls. The secret of immortality! If you exercise you're half as likely to die!
Seriously?
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My thoughts on a few of the movies I've seen recently...
( It's Complicated )
( Precious )
( A Single Man )
This featured a naked woman in a field, dreamy filters on the camera and slow shots of different parts of her body to make it clear that she is, for whatever unfathomable reason, standing there naked. Kinda like a racier version of those Flake ads, you know? Although in the Flake ads the woman is usually clothed while giving her chocolate that blowjob.
What was this 40-second long porn movie attempting to sell? Well, I'll tell ya. It was toothpaste. No, I am not kidding. Toothpaste now with added porn.
So glad it wasn't my brand.
*
Talk about crappy reporting, this article in the Guardian is hilariously bad. Apparently some new study has shown that being overweight when elderly is a good thing. But get this:
This study has demonstrated that, for people who have survived to the age of 70, the risk of death is lowest among those with a BMI [body mass index] classified as overweight.
They couldn't possibly be muddling up cause and effect here, could they? I've lost a lot of elderly relatives in my life and the one common factor is when people get sick and quit looking after themselves properly, they lose weight. Both my grandmothers were overweight most of their lives - that post-childbirth thing in an age when the media didn't make women feel like shit for having curves - and both dropped to less than six stone before they died. Because they were sick.
I'm the first to decry the whole being-fat-is-bad-for-you thing, but I really doubt it's protection from death!
Here's another choice quote:
Women who do not take exercise are twice as likely to die as women who get regular exercise, regardless of their BMI.
So there you have it, girls. The secret of immortality! If you exercise you're half as likely to die!
Seriously?
*
My thoughts on a few of the movies I've seen recently...
( It's Complicated )
( Precious )
( A Single Man )
