If I were a woman, I'd be outraged. How stupid do they think you are?

"Think"? More like "know". We still buy their products even though they've been needlessly testing on animals for years, fill their food with hydrogenated oils and high fructose corn syrup, and over-saturate the market with products that are just about the same as others, pushing other companies to the bottom of the shelves. Take Tide and Cheer for example. P and G uses a different color and scent in these two detergents because this covers a greater percentage of consumers. We buy one or the other, thinking it's because one may be better, but in reality they may be the exact same product with the exact same make up. We, however, are swayed by how it smells. This little ploy probably nets them tons.

As a society, I think we're an easy sell. Hell, we look at those stupid fucking Charmin Bears and go "ahhh".

We would buy fermented afterbirth sludge if they had a good commercial for it.

But thank you for being outraged about it, anonymous coward. This at least shows you think about this stuff.

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.....hugging bunnies since 1969
www.daphneszoo.com

Daphne - "fermented afterbirth sludge" you certainly can turn an interesting phrase. This also demonstrates a pet peeve of mine, that the ad agencies would use sex to sell celibacy. Why don't they allow the products to sell themselves based on merit (or lack there of). I have nothing against sex, but its a poor reason to buy laxatives (unless one's lover is full of shit).
That and becoming laxative dependent is an ugly scenario.

And let's not forget that so many elderly folks abuse laxatives already. Old wisdom has it that a daily poop is absolutely essential to overall health. When people make it to the far side of seventy-five, naturally everything slows down, including the GI tract. Many folks in their 80s only poop once every three days and are perfectly normal. They have this old-fashioned idea that one must poop daily or problems might arise.

I agree that the daily poop is the best part of facing the day on awakening. But this is not an event that can be forced or it becomes an unpleasant chore.

Abusing laxatives can lead to electrolyte imbalances, which are especially dangerous to older people. All that extra fiber, when not accompanied by adequate fluid intakes can actually have the opposite effect of what was intended: CONSTIPATION and eventually, FECAL IMPACTION!!! A ball of dessicated plant material lodged in some unfortunate corner of the large intestine, with more poopy masses and fluids building up behind it. The pressure is rising and you wind up with MEGACOLON!!!

I implore you all as conscientious poop producers: expose and fight the evils of laxative abuse for the greater good of mankind!
----Captain Craptastic!!!