Ah, Barnes & Noble, bane of my existence, how you taunt me so with your beckoning pages and new stories awaiting only my money to unfold before my eyes. The library, that wordsmith whore, 'tis not the same as your complete ownership.
I took a whole semester of Shakespeare. Can you tell? That was effing beautiful.
Here's my rant for the day: medicines.
I was listening to the radio today and this commercial came on for an anti-depressant whose side effects included, but were apparently not limited to, constipation, impudence, and dry mouth. As if those three weren't bad enough, long-term effects include heart failure, lung disease, kidney disease, and rectal bleeding.
Rectal bleeding.
If it's a choice between being a little sad and blood coming out of my ass, I'm going with depression. What is with these medicines where the side-effects are worse then what they're treating?
End rant.
Today's topic is not a typo, but a reference to the Jagermeister bottle. While I'm not old enough to drink Jagermeister, I am old enough to appreciate the humor in an alcohol bottle that has a deer and a cross inside a large circle.
I'm ending this blog with two things: The funny quote of the day, and the funny video of the day, which will now be traditional so long as I remind my lazy ass to find them.
Quote: "Well, better to have love and lost than to have to deal with that effing bitch for the whole rest of the season."
Video: Check out the guys over at britanick.com, two wonderfully funny guys wasting their degrees. Keeping with the Shakespeare theme, I link you to "A Monologue For Thee".
I don't think "impudence" is a side effect of any medicine... that's usually the sole purview of the human. "Impotence", however, might well be. :-) Yeah, I agree that the side-effect lists can get rather silly, but remember that they're required by law to list even the ones that happened in one person in their clinical trials, even if that person might have had the effect without the medicine. Ever heard "Side effects are similar to those of a sugar pill and include..."? That means there weren't any side effects associated with the actual use of the medicine - but they still have to report 'em.
ReplyDeleteYes, our federal government is often quite silly.