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OMG, teh Randi!!!
Ok, so has anyone seen that Head-On product? It is ,supposedly, a topical analgesic. Actually, it looks like a glue stick that you rub on your forehead. Testing of this product shows that it is nothing more than bee's wax, or some shit. So, what is the new Randi? First-On. Same thing as Head-On, but a shorter, and wider, tube, and it is supposed to stop itching sensations from bug bites. And Prefer-On, which looks just like head on, but its supposed to cause scars to heal or some such.
And where did I see these products? A commercial on CNN. Fuckin' tree-huggin', granola-eatin', birkenstock-wearing hippies. I wonder if I could sell a jar of razor blades as a pain reliever? The instructions would read something like this:
"For permanent pain relief only.
1. Apply to throat using a side to side motion.
2. If pain persists, apply to inside of arms, starting at the inner elbow area, and continue to wrists."
People will buy ANYTHING. HELL, I bought a copy of Akira...
Huh, wonder if Greenpeace has checked to see if these things were tested on tasty meat-type critters?
I wonder if any vegans have checked to see if it contains any animal by-products.
And where did I see these products? A commercial on CNN. Fuckin' tree-huggin', granola-eatin', birkenstock-wearing hippies. I wonder if I could sell a jar of razor blades as a pain reliever? The instructions would read something like this:
"For permanent pain relief only.
1. Apply to throat using a side to side motion.
2. If pain persists, apply to inside of arms, starting at the inner elbow area, and continue to wrists."
People will buy ANYTHING. HELL, I bought a copy of Akira...
Huh, wonder if Greenpeace has checked to see if these things were tested on tasty meat-type critters?
I wonder if any vegans have checked to see if it contains any animal by-products.
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I tried that Head-On crap because I have a hard time taking pills. I usually avoid taking anything for headaches especially, but this one was a killer. The sensation you get when you rub this on your forehead is like it's freezing your skin. And it works. So long as your headache is only in your forehead. So, I had an okay forehead and a throbbing beyond all hell rest of my skull.
Seriously, don't buy this because the creators are hippies using shitty all-natural ingredients. Don't buy this because it doesn't work.
If I thought, for any reason, that I were cool, it would be for the fairly nifty job I have. Or for some of the hobbies that I have had over the years. Also, I have owned some fairly kick ass shit in the past. Not to mention the cool things i have built. Or maybe the super geeky girlfriend that I have NO idea how I convinced to date me. Trust me, I'm no Antonio Banderas.
To be honest, I believe in Akira sucking as fervently as most of the people here believe in evolution in its stated and currently accepted form.
It's not that you think your cool, it's your active hate on this classic anime. And relating Head-On to Akira? That's just not right. Buying Akira gets you a $10 DVD, and buying Head-On gets you a $10 tube of beeswax.
The point is that Akira, love it or hate it, is an extemely influential anime and there is no reason to actively hate on it. Cuz most anime that you probably watch these days was influenced by Akira.
But lets get back to this Head-On pseudoscience.
And the throat slicing? Look at it this way: unlike the claim that rubbing beeswax on your forehead will relieve massive headaches, the claim that slitting your own throat will relieve pain permanently is a fairly honest claim.
And as for Akira being a "classic," or a "masterpiece." Tell me something. If I were to take a shit, and it naturally came out in the shape of The David, would that be a masterpiece among turds? And if that David-shaped turd were over 20 years old, would that make it a classic piece of turd masterpiece? Do you see where I'm going with this?
Don't get me wrong, my best friend in the whole world drags me to the health food store, and she tries to get me to eat all of this crap. I'm highly allergic to mushrooms. Most non-tofu based "meat replacement" products are soy based, with ground up mushrooms as filler. After the first time she fed me some of that crap, and I got sick, she decided it was burgers and steaks anytime we grab a meal.
Alright, I'm done. At this rate I'm going to dig my own grave on this forum. Hectoring Time is over now. *putting soap box away*
Head-On, apply directly to the forehead.
Head-On, apply directly to the forehead.
MAKE IT STOP. I'm going to have nightmares about that commercial. It will never end. 0_o
Then consider that even if it is homeopathic, as the creators claim, then homeopathy "treats" an ailment by exacerbating it. It's a mystical belief system based on the principal that diluting a chemical to near-nothingness will cause the water to retain a memory of the chemical's properties. It's garbage.
If anything, when you stamp this wax to your forehead, you're feeling the temperature change caused by the sublimation of the wax. That must mean it's working! [/Sarcasm] Let's not forget that Head On has been told implicitly to stop claiming it cures headaches. Notice that neither the commercials nor packaging do so anymore -- because it would open the company to massive fraud suits.
But hey, let's use your implied example: The case where you've got this pro-choice vegan "hippy" who believes that animals have rights, too. Just because this person believes in the rights of fully grown living animals, doesn't mean they have to believe in the rights of (in their hypothetical opinon) an unconscious and barely formed human zygote. It's not as if these people are advocating the slaughter of small children. In their mind it could go something like HUMAN = ANIMAL > HUMAN ZYGOTE. If you consider abortion to be only the destruction of the zygote and not a human being then it's still perfectly logical to also disagree with the killing of animals.
A person can easily be vegan and pro-choice without contradicting themselves. I don't think you've actually thought this through, wally.
These people also sell fake medicine for just about everything else you can think of. Let's say someone gets the flu and believes in this homeopathy, they will use the fake remedy, giving money to a fake company, and their suffering will continue. Because they are using this "medicine", they are not likely to simultaneously use real medicine. You don't often take two different medicines for the same thing, you take just one. You dont' use Pepto Bismol and Immodium AD at the same time. Why would you use both real flu medicine and fake, if you think they are both real? The result of this is that every year many people refrain from receiving actual medical treatment they gravely need. Sometimes they go to the hospital when it's too late, sometimes they don't. At a minimum they suffer unnecessarily, at maximum they die unnecessarily, and it's all because someone wanted to make money by convincing them that fake medicine is real.
Let's look at a real world case here. You know Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King Junior's wife? She had ovarian cancer and a stroke. She knew about it within plenty of time. If she had gone to real doctors and had surgery, chemotherapy, etc., she might still be alive today. Instead, she opted to receive "holistic" therapy at a "clinic" in Mexico. Guess what happened to here there. She suffered and died, I say prematurely. As far as I'm concerned, such clinics are basically murder houses. They convince people who can otherwise have their lives extended by actual medicine to give them money. Then they pretend to treat these people until they die. This is the same shit Mother Theresa did. It's the same shit that chiropractors, reflexologists, and acupuncturists do on a lower level. It should be illegal everywhere.
If you support fake medicine, you are giving money to murderers. In my book, selling fake medicine is pretty high on the evil chart. It's maybe only a step down from outright murder. It's definitely worse than any amount of robbery. It's definitely worse than beating someone up. You're basically fighting to help all sorts of cancers, bacterial infections, viruses, and other illnesses succeed in causing suffering and death across the human population, while simultaneously profiting from it. It doesn't get much more evil than that. These people are despicable, and should face some horrible penalty. If I ever met any of these people, it would be difficult for me to control myself and not just attempt to beat the shit out of them.
This is also why I will not shop at many "organic" grocery stores like Whole Foods, or other places like GNC. Sure Whole Foods has tasty lunches, and many other perfectly legitimate products on sale. And sure, many people who shop there only buy these legitimate products. However, they sell lots of homepathy there. They are big pushers of fake medicine. As long as that remains the case, I will not give them money. If I am every in any position of political power, these guys are in big fucking trouble, I can tell you that. I encourage everyone else to refrain from spending your money anywhere that sells fake medicine.
If you support fake medicine, I consider that effectively the same as giving money to murderers. I also have no respect for you as an intelligent human being. If you have headaches every day, see a fucking doctor! There is probably something very wrong with you, and they can actually help you. If you insist on rubbing a stick of wax on your head as a way to distract yourself, rather than actually finding a way to solve your problem, then you deserve all the headaches you get. Besides, if a distraction is all you want, rub some Icy Hot on your genitals. That'll give you some cool refreshing tingling.
1. I honestly don't see why this has went from a pleasant discussion to a personal attack on me.
2. I have only bought one tube of the Head On wax-stick, and will not buy any more, after reading what you had to say.
3. -_- Whole Foods is the only store near me that sells pomegranate juice... I can't stop buying it...
4. I've been to a doctor, and I have some sort of sinus problem, which I take medicine for all the time. I bought the Head On crap just to see how it'd work to relieve the pain because the medicine doesn't always immediately kick in. Yes, I'm an idiot for doing this.
I'm sorry for getting you so angry, Scott. Please don't beat the shit out of me <(0_0)>. And, after reading your post, I too am starting to agree that if someone convinces another person to take some sort of unscientific treatment, they are more or less killing them.
If you know for a fact that the more money they get, the more money they'll sink into homeopathy, though, well, that may be another story.