Friday, February 23, 2007

They said what?

Ever hear a commercial or someone make a comment and your first impression is "WTF?" Since I have been house confined I have been able to watch TV. Commercials get to me....they always seem lately to be in the "WTF?" category in my head....especially anything related to sexual dysfunction. The Cialis commercials are a joke: for example the one where an older couple were overlooking a gorgeous mountain scene but in separate bath tubs. Ok if one had just taken Cialis, why would one be in separate bath tubs? Or the one where they go out dancing. I would be "gettin' it on" and sure not in a bath tub as those days are over and why would one waste a pill on dancing unless they were dancing in the sheets? Men do not need Cialis to take a bath by themselves or take their wives dancing.

Last night I heard a new Viagra commercial. Buy 3 prescriptions and get the 4th one free. I had been reading Southern Devil by Diane Whiteside (good series BTW) and didn't think I heard that commercial right, so I went to the Viagara website ( https://www.viagra.com/index.asp ) and yep, the commercial was right. Now for someone in the medical field, we know that most prescriptions for Viagara are by the bottle and there are 30 pills in each bottle. So doing the math here, that means a male takes 90 pills before getting another 30 free, totalling 120 pills. Now as one ages, the number of times one needs to use this pill to get it up decreases because the sex drive of a male starts decreasing around age 50 (still with me)? So on average, even if said person still did it once a week (and I am being generous here), those 120 pills would not be used even in a 2 year span. Please tell me what male 55+ does it more than once a week unless they are dating someone 30 years younger than they are? Ok say they are dating someone younger and are taking that pill 3 times a week it still would take 30 weeks before starting the freebie. (I have my doubts if the 3 times a week would happen because that isn't factoring in the heart side effects). I would say Viagra is smart as this would be a safe bet that no one would take them up on the free 4th prescription. But it makes the top "WTF" and something else to ponder besides the other crappola on TV.

I can only wonder what's next?