Post #432,621
2/13/20 2:04:26 AM
2/13/20 2:04:26 AM
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Of course it's fake.
I mean, you can buy that candle, and it really is called that, but it actually smells of cedar and sandalwood etc. It doesn't actually smell of minge.
It's just called that so that people get all ventilated about it (like you just did), and drive engagement (good, bad - doesn't matter), and that adds value to the brand.
Far better to tackle Goop/Paltrow on the actually dangerous stuff they do (jade clunge eggs, the better with which to give yourself toxic shock), than this sort of ephemeral nonsense.
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Post #432,623
2/13/20 2:52:11 AM
2/13/20 2:52:11 AM
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Also, and above all, the Anti-Vacc BS.
AIUI, la Paltrow is pretty huge in anti-vaxxer circles. Makes her net worth as a human being decidedly negative, IMO. But yeah, those stones ladies are supposed to shove up their... I've always thought the "health benefits" marketing drivel for those is just an alibi for other "benefits"; aren't these basically just "Geisha balls"[1] under another name? --- 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Wa_balls
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Christian R. Conrad The Man Who (used to think he) Knows Fucking EverythingMail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi
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Post #432,628
2/13/20 8:30:17 AM
2/13/20 8:30:17 AM
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To be clear.
Of course I know the candle cannot possibly smell like her vagina. That she would market it as such I do not find depressing. What I find depressing is the fact that there are enough marching morons to purchase the product (for whatever reason) in a quantity sufficient for her to have "sold out" of them - at more than $75.00 per candle to boot. What I also find depressing is that the State of California had to sue her company over the false health and hygiene claims it made about shoving smooth stones into body orifices. Why did it come to that? How stupid can people be?
bcnu, Mikem
It's mourning in America again.
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Post #432,634
2/13/20 4:08:27 PM
2/13/20 4:08:27 PM
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americans bug their Dr for drugs they saw on TV ads even tho it claims it may rot your taint
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
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Post #432,646
2/14/20 9:12:21 AM
2/14/20 9:12:21 AM
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That's the ONE THING I don't understand about New Zealand.
Why do they allow prescription drug advertising to the public? The two of us are the only nations in the world that allow that. I get why we do: the part of our government that the banks and insurance companies don't own, the drug companies do. But New Zealand? WTF?
bcnu, Mikem
It's mourning in America again.
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Post #432,654
2/15/20 6:53:48 AM
2/15/20 6:53:48 AM
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Naah, that only explains part of how your society works.
The Moff: the part of our government that the banks and insurance companies don't own, the drug companies do. There are many more owners. You're forgetting Big Tobacco, Big Oil, perhaps above all the Military-Industrial Complex, and probably a bunch more that don't come to mind right now.
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Christian R. Conrad The Man Who (used to think he) Knows Fucking EverythingMail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi
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Post #432,662
2/17/20 8:50:26 AM
2/17/20 8:50:26 AM
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Care to explain New Zealand?
bcnu, Mikem
It's mourning in America again.
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Post #432,667
2/17/20 4:18:42 PM
2/17/20 4:18:42 PM
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Sheep. Hobbits. More sheep. HTH.
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Post #432,670
2/17/20 6:35:41 PM
2/17/20 6:35:41 PM
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It's a loophole in the laws.
That's the only explanation. I know that that sort of advertising is expressly prohibited in Australia, so I imagine it's just that in NZ it's well, not.
Wade.
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