It has been almost a decade since I decided that TV was not worth watching anymore. I was sick of the drug commercials, the diet ads and the fast food promotions. TV ads seemed to be a very sick and manipulative game that advertisers were playing on the public (me and my young daughters).
The attitudes and images on TV and in magazines were crass and sinking into the gutter, slowly but surely. I knew that I didn't want my girls to absorb any of it. So I slowly did a TV detox in the house. It began with only allowing PBS or the cooking channel, and not more than an hour a day. Then I removed it completely and it wasn't an issue. I had the girls create things instead of sitting in front of the tube.
Prior to that, I was using the TV as a babysitter (horrible, but true). I did keep my eye on the girls but they were glued in front of a video, of some sort. It didn't make it right that they were watching educational things though. I really didn't want them to be "sitting" in front of a TV screen while growing up. That is how I grew up and I found it brought no lasting value to me in my life. It was a waste of time.
I was successful in this TV removal endeavor and we still do not have a TV in our home. I was also successful in keeping my home free from fashion and "style" magazines because I didn't want my girls to grow up with a distorted body image. It worked. They don't overeat or under-eat. They don't use food as a friend and certainly don't see it as a foe.
This "no TV" and no style/fashion mag thing does have occasional Amish-like side effects though.
For example, I had no idea there was a royal wedding, let alone an engagement. I kept getting email ads about "royal" this and that and wondered what it meant but didn't care enough to check. I don't pay attention to the gossip mags in the check-out line at the grocery store either, so I was clueless. Then one Friday the whole world was watching this "royal" wedding and I had no idea it was even happening. I bet the Amish didn't know either.
I also bet you are wondering what does Viagra have to do with any of this, right?
Well, since my city slicker self has been urban farming full time, I am not seen in front of my Mac so much like in the old days. But one night I clicked on a link (somewhere) and I ended up at the CBS website. I clicked on a video about a serial killer of young girls and as I sat there waiting for the video to load, I was questioning myself heavily because life has taught me to stay far away from dark people and their ideas.
I wasn't able to overcome my curiosity about this serial killer though, so I watched the segment and tolerated the ONE and ONLY ad that the 20 minute segment played at least 5 times. There was no way to get rid of the ad because it was part of the video. If I wanted more info on that serial killer, I had to put up with the ridiculous commercial.
The single ad during the program was for Viagra. There was this good looking older guy driving a muscle car, in great shape and then the Viagra pitch followed. I had no idea it would be for Viagra and was actually surprised and totally rolling my eyes all the way into the back of my head when I realized what the ad was for.
I am thinking, yeah, right! Like this guy has erectile disfunction. Anyone who knows about this knows that men that work out regularly get great blood flow throughout their entire body and I am pretty sure that 50 year old man with rock hard muscles was not really having any problems in that area.
Why can't Big Pharma be honest for a change? Why not show an obese dude who never eats a salad and subsists on junk food and who never bothers to put on sneakers to walk around the block? He is the Viagra guy, not the senior body builder.
By the end of the serial killer segment the tune of the Viagra melody was stuck in my head which I didn't appreciate. I was taken back to the years when I decided that TV was nothing more than brainwashing of things I had no interest in.
I then decided to make my own "ad" and I have to say that there could be something to Tooth Soap® competing with Viagra.
Science has proved that the "placebo" effect is absolutely real.
And Tooth Soap® does give a man "confidence", similar to how a placebo could give confidence. With all that fresh breath and brighter teeth, what man wouldn't feel really good about himself? That feeling could go far and it is all from Tooth Soap® (no prescription needed by the way).
Tooth Soap® is also perfectly safe to use and won't interfere with any spontaneous activities.
Yes, it's true Virginia. All your honey needs in the golden years is Tooth Soap®.
