Comments on: Why are their so many diarrhoea medicine adverts?

by: the skwib

Thu, 25 May 2006 15:51:53 +0000

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by: exmonkey

Mon, 22 May 2006 12:59:36 +0000

So in effect you are saying that rather than exercise their democratic right vote in order to regain a sense of vicarious political control over their own lives, people are inwardly focusing their need for a feeling of control by obsessing about their rectums?

Can we expect to see commercials encouraging people to shag their mothers, kill their fathers and put out their own eyes?

by: ditdotdat

Mon, 22 May 2006 11:25:38 +0000

I’d say it’s socio-psychological and related to the fact that people think that the government has simultaneously too much and too little control over their lives. They respond by reverting to to what Freud described as the ‘Anal stage’ of childhood
development. This also explains why some people go even further back, to the ‘oral stage’ and become preoccupied with their diet.

by: gilesbooth

Sun, 21 May 2006 21:33:31 +0000

Maybe Immodium sales are up because of people like poo lady Dr Gillian McKeith telling everyone that if they need to use more than one postage-stamp sized piece of loo roll, they are in urgent need of buying her new book, sorry, I mean medical attention.