BurtWorm
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Fri Feb-20-04 02:10 AM
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Has any one noticed the number of candy ads on Nick TV |
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Edited on Fri Feb-20-04 02:11 AM by BurtWorm
that look like ads for psychotropic subtances? I'm thinking of ones in which a kid pops a piece of candy and goes into some kind of altered state--frequently the head turns into a piece of fruit or some other thing. One is for something called Airheads, I think. The kid in question turns blue and flops around an auditorium like a balloon with its air let out, then sinks back into his seat like a junkie coming off a high. There's another ad for fruit rollups in which two slacker jrs. whip their heads around until they're too dizzy to stand. The ad ends with a POV shot of kids who don't get it looking down, with the playground spinning dizzily behind them.
This candy is clearly being sold as a kind of drug. Isn't it?
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frank frankly
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Fri Feb-20-04 02:14 AM
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1. there is LSD in most of those confections |
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Fri Feb-20-04 02:22 AM
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3. I'd be more inclined to believe that there's nicotine |
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or heroin or something highly addictive in them.
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Fri Feb-20-04 02:28 AM
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4. Is that because LSD is cheaper then sugar? |
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or is it just that the republican sugar producers and the drug companies are in collusion? Mind control...Hmmm, makes a dictatorship easier to run. So easy to run that an idiot could run this country.
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Fri Feb-20-04 02:20 AM
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2. Now that you mention it, |
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I think I remember a Skittles ad that was distinctly psychedelic. This is one of my pet peeves. If I were king of the forest, ALL advertising directed at children would be banned, period. That goes for fast food, toys, everything.
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Fri Feb-20-04 02:35 AM
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5. I think it is evil to sell shit to kids on TV |
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And I really don't get what they're selling, besides a product that bears no relation to the image created for it. Why do they think candy is more appealing when it's sold as a drug? The obvious answer is that self-medication is primally appealing--but no kid is really going to think that fruit roll ups are going to give him a high, is he?
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