Johnny Danger (Godz)
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Post by Johnny Danger (Godz) on May 27, 2008 13:19:08 GMT -5
Smoking is far from the only stupid thing people do willingly. Consuming more than a moderate quantity of alcohol is bad for the human body. People go base jumping, which seems like a real crap idea to me, personally. People will do things that they know are bad for them if a) they like it or b) they're addicted. Me, I smoke cigarettes two, maybe three times a month, because I enjoy smoking. We're all fans of a sport where people volutarily hit each other with metal chairs to the head. Hell, I want to get into the buisness myself. I other words, I agree with you. Liar. I don't like wrestling anymore. Actually I used to want to get into it, too. Tried it for a while, but decided it just wasn't for me with all the drugs and BS that go on backstage. And smoking is obviously not the only stupid thing people do....its not even the stupidest. (If that's a word...) But IMO, its up there.
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Post by The Royal Our Herobaums on May 27, 2008 13:23:36 GMT -5
We're all fans of a sport where people volutarily hit each other with metal chairs to the head. Hell, I want to get into the buisness myself. I other words, I agree with you. Liar. I don't like wrestling anymore. Actually I used to want to get into it, too. Tried it for a while, but decided it just wasn't for me with all the drugs and BS that go on backstage. And smoking is obviously not the only stupid thing people do....its not even the stupidest. (If that's a word...) But IMO, its up there. Oh, for sure, it's pretty stupid (and, yeah, stupidest is the superlative of stupid); I mean, there's a whole boat load of documentation regarding the dangers, and it gets done anyway. Hell, I won't lie; I started smoking because of a girl (though, as I said, I do genuinely enjoy it these days).
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Post by Lenny: Smooth like Keith Stone on May 27, 2008 13:26:21 GMT -5
These latest Truth commercials may be bad, but at least they got rid of that Lenny Kravitz guy with the Humpty Hump glasses. I wanted to give that guy a pedigree.
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Post by acressl on May 27, 2008 13:32:00 GMT -5
These latest Truth commercials may be bad, but at least they got rid of that Lenny Kravitz guy with the Humpty Hump glasses. I wanted to give that guy a pedigree. Here, here. Is he gone though or in hiding? What if they discovered he had been sneaking cigs and was really just a sell out? Man, that would rock The Truth. Also, why do the anti-cig folk have to look like douchebags? The kids are to listen to these hobos tell them about good life choices?
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Post by Johnny Danger (Godz) on May 27, 2008 13:32:08 GMT -5
Liar. I don't like wrestling anymore. Actually I used to want to get into it, too. Tried it for a while, but decided it just wasn't for me with all the drugs and BS that go on backstage. And smoking is obviously not the only stupid thing people do....its not even the stupidest. (If that's a word...) But IMO, its up there. Oh, for sure, it's pretty stupid (and, yeah, stupidest is the superlative of stupid); I mean, there's a whole boat load of documentation regarding the dangers, and it gets done anyway. Hell, I won't lie; I started smoking because of a girl (though, as I said, I do genuinely enjoy it these days). Was it to impress her or out of depression because of her? Cause if so, hey, at least you didn't try to kill yourself or anything ;D And, yeah, that Truth Lenny Kravitz guy annoyed me to the point of wanting to DDT him.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2008 13:32:31 GMT -5
I think Denis Leary said it best when he said, "Its like smokers around the world are going to wake up one day and say, 'Yeah Jim, I've got a pack of smokes right here I - HOLY SHIT THESE THINGS ARE BAD FOR YOU!!! I thought they had vitamin C in them and stuff"
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Post by The Royal Our Herobaums on May 27, 2008 13:39:18 GMT -5
Oh, for sure, it's pretty stupid (and, yeah, stupidest is the superlative of stupid); I mean, there's a whole boat load of documentation regarding the dangers, and it gets done anyway. Hell, I won't lie; I started smoking because of a girl (though, as I said, I do genuinely enjoy it these days). Was it to impress her or out of depression because of her? Cause if so, hey, at least you didn't try to kill yourself or anything ;D And, yeah, that Truth Lenny Kravitz guy annoyed me to the point of wanting to DDT him. It was a strange amalgamation of impressing her, being depressed because of her, and having something to share with her, if that makes any kind of sense. You didn't like the goofy glasses guy when he dressed up as that googly-eyed mascot? Who could hate that?
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Post by Johnny Danger (Godz) on May 27, 2008 13:41:15 GMT -5
LOL yeah it kind of makes sense. Girls make you do stupid things. Smoking is just a huuuuuuuge turnoff in women for me. I've...ahem, "been with" a girl who smoked heavily, and I definitely see why people say it was like "kissing an ashtray", but, large quantities of peppermint schnapps seemed to take care of that, and somehow make her more sexually attracted to me at the same time! How's that for responsible advice?
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Post by Mr Captain Falcon on May 27, 2008 13:41:59 GMT -5
You know the Magical Amount..... MAN do i hate those commercials. Truth needs to explode. We dont need commercials to tell us smoking is bad. They put warning labels on the cartons or boxes, thats enough.
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Post by The Royal Our Herobaums on May 27, 2008 13:47:24 GMT -5
LOL yeah it kind of makes sense. Girls make you do stupid things. Smoking is just a huuuuuuuge turnoff in women for me. I've...ahem, "been with" a girl who smoked heavily, and I definitely see why people say it was like "kissing an ashtray", but, large quantities of peppermint schnapps seemed to take care of that, and somehow make her more sexually attracted to me at the same time! How's that for responsible advice? More responsible than my constant giving of the advice that almost everyone looks sexier when they are smoking. Hell, we could form a tag team called Irresponsible Advice. It would be like O' Haire's Devil's Advocate thing.
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Post by Johnny Danger (Godz) on May 27, 2008 13:54:09 GMT -5
LOL yeah it kind of makes sense. Girls make you do stupid things. Smoking is just a huuuuuuuge turnoff in women for me. I've...ahem, "been with" a girl who smoked heavily, and I definitely see why people say it was like "kissing an ashtray", but, large quantities of peppermint schnapps seemed to take care of that, and somehow make her more sexually attracted to me at the same time! How's that for responsible advice? More responsible than my constant giving of the advice that almost everyone looks sexier when they are smoking. Hell, we could form a tag team called Irresponsible Advice. It would be like O' Haire's Devil's Advocate thing. LOL, that'd be awesome. Find some hot chick at the mall, you give her a cigarette. I run up and slap it out of her hand and give her a beer. Her mom shows up "What the hell is wrong with you two!? She's only 17!" Both of us reply "So?" Hey, its already better than Hardcore Holly and Cody Rhodes....
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Post by The Royal Our Herobaums on May 27, 2008 14:06:56 GMT -5
More responsible than my constant giving of the advice that almost everyone looks sexier when they are smoking. Hell, we could form a tag team called Irresponsible Advice. It would be like O' Haire's Devil's Advocate thing. LOL, that'd be awesome. Find some hot chick at the mall, you give her a cigarette. I run up and slap it out of her hand and give her a beer. Her mom shows up "What the hell is wrong with you two!? She's only 17!" Both of us reply "So?" Hey, its already better than Hardcore Holly and Cody Rhodes.... Yeah, but we already have a team name, and the 'E doesn't give the belts to teams with a real name anymore. Oh well, I'm still all for giving cigarettes and booze to 17 year old girls. Hell, their mothers, too.
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Post by Benjamin Boone on May 27, 2008 14:38:13 GMT -5
You know that episode of South Park where those "Butt Out!" people came and did that annoying song about smoking, which in turn led to all of the boys and girls at the school smoking? Yeah, those new Truth commercials seem to do just that. If I was around a bunch of jackasses carrying on some dumb song with a pretend stork or dancing bears, I would lose IQ points too.
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Post by Grendel on May 27, 2008 16:10:48 GMT -5
Eh, I don't pay attention to those ads, as I've found them to be extremely stupid. If someone wants to smoke, let them. One of the old guys in my old neighborhood lived to be 95 years old and smoked like a smokestack, drank like a sailor, and went through a tin of chew a day. So it kills some and not others, maybe it has something to do with genetics?
As for myself, I kicked my tobacco habit after 15 years and haven't really looked back. It wasn't any advertising that did it, it was just a personal choice. Don't even know why I quit, but I just did. And that was damn near 12 years ago. My tobacco of choice was chewing tobacco, and that is supposed to be harder to quit than smoking. It wasn't that hard for me personally.
Do I think that we need anti-smoking commercials and such? I think it defeats the purpose in the long run. I don't think there are any statistics that state that the anti smoking ads actually work. If anything works, it's the exorbitant amount they keep raising the taxes on em. I know many people who stopped smoking tobacco when it got so damn expensive to smoke.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on May 27, 2008 16:26:37 GMT -5
I think they don't want people to quit smoking. That's why the ads are so stupid that nobody could take them seriously. They're probably paid for by tobacco companies. I have a cigarette every time one of these commercials comes on. It's a little ritual I have. I thoroughly despise these self-righteous pricks.
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Post by Lupin the Third on May 27, 2008 16:29:02 GMT -5
I've never seen that one yet. I was pretty annoyed with the who animation and singing with the other ones, but this one, WOW. That was by far the stupidest commercial I've ever seen. Yes, even more stupid than Head-on and the Starbursts "Berries and Cream guy."
Where's Krusty the Clown looking dumbfounded when ya need him?
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Post by Time Lord Soundwave on May 27, 2008 16:30:19 GMT -5
I think they don't want people to quit smoking. That's why the ads are so stupid that nobody could take them seriously. They're probably paid for by tobacco companies. I have a cigarette every time one of these commercials comes on. It's a little ritual I have. I thoroughly despise these self-righteous pricks. The ads are paid for by Philip Morris. In other words, you're playing right into their hands.
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Post by Time Lord Soundwave on May 27, 2008 16:31:22 GMT -5
I've never seen that one yet. I was pretty annoyed with the who animation and singing with the other ones, but this one, WOW. That was by far the stupidest commercial I've ever seen. Yes, even more stupid than Head-on and the Starbursts "Berries and Cream guy." Where's Krusty the Clown looking dumbfounded when ya need him? It's even funnier when you remember he was smoking a cigarette at the time.
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Post by Grendel on May 27, 2008 16:38:30 GMT -5
I have a cigarette every time one of these commercials comes on. It's a little ritual I have. I thoroughly despise these self-righteous pricks. The ads are paid for by Philip Morris. In other words, you're playing right into their hands. Where's the gif of Mr. Burns going "Excellent ..."
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Post by acressl on May 27, 2008 16:38:50 GMT -5
If they're determined, they should do Truth style ads about other things everyone already knows are harmful. Yeah, kids shouldn't smoke. They also shouldn't have kids of their own in high school and drop out. They shouldn't experiment with drugs and neglect their studies. They shouldn't live, damnit. Let us tell them what to do that way we'll relieve them of having to make a conscious decision for themself as to what they should do. Brilliant. Hell, we live in a world where there's commercials featuring your favorite NFL stars urging your lame net ass to go outside. Ain't that just the saddest?
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