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(BBC) Amusing BBC correspondent stops at US petrol station, buys gas at bargain price, discovers beef jerky   (news.bbc.co.uk) divider line 179
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The Invisible Sky Wizard 2008-06-15 02:22:37 PM  
This is a paragraph break.

This is another paragraph break.

And so is this.

And here's another.

The writer of that article seems to be awfully fond of them.

 
Life_is_a_carnivore 2008-06-15 02:28:00 PM  
Does he have the teeth for beef jerky??

 
Gordon Bennett 2008-06-15 02:30:32 PM  
The stuff is terribly addictive. It's like meat chewing gum that you get to swallow instead of spit back in the wrapper and look for a bin.

 
All Apologies 2008-06-15 02:31:41 PM  
It's a great article about advertising, more than anything else. I love how he skewers the pharmaceutical advertisements.

The insidious message is simple; if your doctor is not offering you this drug, maybe you should be asking for it.

The best part of the adverts tends to come towards the end when the law requires the pharmaceutical company to list the possible side effects of the various products.

Sometimes these are spelled out in a warm tone implying this is all a bit of a formality imposed by our fuss-budget of a government.

 
Flying_Phish 2008-06-15 02:31:51 PM  
He has the worst recipe for do-it-yourself beef jerky

 
Another user already has this login name 2008-06-15 02:31:55 PM  
The Invisible Sky Wizard [TotalFark] Quote 2008-06-15 02:22:37 PM

That's the style of the BBC website. It's optimized for scanning rather than reading word for word like you would with the paper.

 
Black Lagoon 2008-06-15 02:32:17 PM  
Gordon Bennett: The stuff is terribly addictive. It's like meat chewing gum that you get to swallow instead of spit back in the wrapper and look for a bin.

That is simultaneously the best and worst description I've ever heard of beef jerky.

I also now want some beef jerky.

 
FrancoFile 2008-06-15 02:32:48 PM  
The main thrust of the article is that advertising is more pervasive in the US.

Written from the perspective of someone who's familiar with soccer uniforms that are covered by advertisements. Playing fields, too.

/Irony: it's not just for breakfast anymore.
//BritFarkers - why go halfway to 'advert'? Why not just 'ad' like we do?

 
Wizzin 2008-06-15 02:33:31 PM  
Try Tivo and never have to worry about those annoying "adverts" again.

 
GungFu 2008-06-15 02:34:13 PM  
The Invisible Sky Wizard: This is a paragraph break.

This is another paragraph break.

And so is this.

And here's another.

The writer of that article seems to be awfully fond of them.



Er, it's called grown-up writing.

Once you leave high school, you might encounter it.

Does it piss you off?

Really? Enough for you to make a comment?

Wow!

That really must suck for you, yes?

How 'bout now?

 
bacccc 2008-06-15 02:35:51 PM  
Nice read!

 
d'art 2008-06-15 02:36:17 PM  
Wizzin: Try Tivo and never have to worry about those annoying "adverts" again.

Try TiVo(tm) and never have to worry about those annoying "adverts" again!

This message brought to you by TiVo.(tm)

 
HMS_Blinkin 2008-06-15 02:36:38 PM  
FTFA: America is, I think, the only country in the world which permits advertising of drugs which are available only through your doctor.

False, so does New Zealand.

 
FrancoFile 2008-06-15 02:38:10 PM  
HMS_Blinkin: FTFA: America is, I think, the only country in the world which permits advertising of drugs which are available only through your doctor.

False, so does New Zealand.


Yeah, freedom of speech is a real biatch, ain't it.

 
GungFu 2008-06-15 02:38:35 PM  
FrancoFile: The main thrust of the article is that advertising is more pervasive in the US.

shrani.si

I saw this coont advertising on US tv once. I couldn't farking believe what I was watching.

 
TFossor 2008-06-15 02:41:27 PM  
Nifty short article.

If he finds beef jerky addictive, he should try turkey jerky. Or venison jerky. Or my latest addiction: Maple Brown Sugar Ham jerky.
Good stuff.

-TF

 
BMFPitt 2008-06-15 02:41:28 PM  
FrancoFile: HMS_Blinkin: FTFA: America is, I think, the only country in the world which permits advertising of drugs which are available only through your doctor.
False, so does New Zealand.
Yeah, freedom of speech is a real biatch, ain't it.


I may be willing to accept a brutal dictatorship if it means I don't have to see any more ads for antidepressants of cures for restless leg syndrome.

 
ottawaboy 2008-06-15 02:41:41 PM  
Interesting article. I notice some of the same things when visiting the States from Canada, or watching American television (with the incredible list of side effects).

 
chiark 2008-06-15 02:42:25 PM  
He look more of a large than a medium.

 
HMS_Blinkin 2008-06-15 02:42:40 PM  
GungFu: FrancoFile: The main thrust of the article is that advertising is more pervasive in the US.



I saw this coont advertising on US tv once. I couldn't farking believe what I was watching.


What the hell, that's capitalism. We've all heard it, but if you can get somebody to buy it or pay for it, then it doesn't matter how stupid or useless your product or service is. God, how I love capitalism.

 
Newlow 2008-06-15 02:44:26 PM  
Spaceball?

 
The Invisible Sky Wizard 2008-06-15 02:44:32 PM  
GungFu:
Er, it's called grown-up writing.

Once you leave high school, you might encounter it.

Does it piss you off?



You were so close to a swift and biting haiku.

 
Netheus 2008-06-15 02:44:51 PM  
wait wait wait

They don't have jerky? Even when I WAS a vegetarian, I craved jerky.

We need to send these poor, deprived individuals, jerky!

 
cretinbob [TotalFark] 2008-06-15 02:45:32 PM  
www.lucagiacalone.it

//has no need for beef jerky, 'cos he's made of it

 
CygnusDarius [TotalFark] 2008-06-15 02:45:33 PM  
GungFu: The Invisible Sky Wizard: This is a paragraph break.

This is another paragraph break.

And so is this.

And here's another.

The writer of that article seems to be awfully fond of them.


Er, it's called grown-up writing.

Once you leave high school, you might encounter it.

Does it piss you off?

Really? Enough for you to make a comment?

Wow!

That really must suck for you, yes?

How 'bout now?


It doesn't bother me, though

But it's a little weird to actually find a paragraph

With few sentences

Still, I think it's rather dumb

To be complaining about something this weird

Don't you agree?

 
Adam Baum 2008-06-15 02:45:43 PM  
"like Bovril-flavoured lino"

i lol'd.

 
I Like Bread 2008-06-15 02:45:46 PM  
TFossor: Or venison jerky.

My dad makes his own. God DAMN, that stuff is like crack. Chewy, peppery crack.

 
TheMightyTimmah 2008-06-15 02:45:57 PM  
Just wait until he finds Skoal..

 
Black Lagoon 2008-06-15 02:46:24 PM  
TFossor: Or my latest addiction: Maple Brown Sugar Ham jerky.

...my God.

Must. Have.

 
themindiswatching 2008-06-15 02:47:41 PM  
ottawaboy: Interesting article. I notice some of the same things when visiting the States from Canada, or watching American television (with the incredible list of side effects).

Side effects of Americantravelzac include loss of humor, addiction to monster trucks and violence against people not like you.

/;)

 
CygnusDarius [TotalFark] 2008-06-15 02:48:22 PM  
I Like Bread: TFossor: Or venison jerky.

My dad makes his own. God DAMN, that stuff is like crack. Chewy, peppery crack.


Texas crack?.

 
theuglymerican 2008-06-15 02:48:24 PM  
The United States of Advertising

By Kevin Connolly ??

Eurotard. Why do drug companies advertise? So folks will by their dope? Which nation invents most of the drugs used on this planet? Why do they make them? Altruism? Or $?

 
The Mind Boggles 2008-06-15 02:49:12 PM  
TFossor: Nifty short article.

If he finds beef jerky addictive, he should try turkey jerky. Or venison jerky. Or my latest addiction: Maple Brown Sugar Ham jerky.
Good stuff.

-TF


Oh my yes. It's wonderful.

 
Noexit 2008-06-15 02:49:14 PM  
Cool article, kinda neat to take a look from the outside in.

 
lostcat 2008-06-15 02:50:05 PM  
Do they still advertise on TV?

I wouldn't know. I haven't watched that crap for about 10 years.

/if it's worth watching, it comes out on DVD

 
Walker [TotalFark] 2008-06-15 02:50:23 PM  
The best part of the adverts tends to come towards the end when the law requires the pharmaceutical company to list the possible side effects of the various products.

If you have an erection that lasts longer than 4 hours seek medical attention....or head to a whorehouse and fark every whore in the place.

 
LowbrowDeluxe 2008-06-15 02:51:36 PM  
theuglymerican: The United States of Advertising

By Kevin Connolly ??

Eurotard. Why do drug companies advertise? So folks will by their dope? Which nation invents most of the drugs used on this planet? Why do they make them? Altruism? Or $?


Okay...so not just a clever username. Check.

/Has beef jerky.
//Just got back from the store with it.
///I'm Fark Psychic!
////Side effects may include slashies.

 
Snarky McFarkerson 2008-06-15 02:53:25 PM  
Are you telling me it's not normal to see ads for every sort of prescription meds on TV? Sometimes it's hard to realize how US-centric you get without leaving America or hearing from a foreigner.

God, I hate those ads.

 
haikupoet 2008-06-15 02:53:37 PM  
CygnusDarius:

Er, it's called grown-up writing.

Once you leave high school, you might encounter it.

Does it piss you off?

Really? Enough for you to make a comment?

Wow!

That really must suck for you, yes?

How 'bout now?

It doesn't bother me, though

But it's a little weird to actually find a paragraph

With few sentences

Still, I think it's rather dumb

To be complaining about something this weird

Don't you agree?


There are times it's not such a big deal.

It depends a great deal on the impact of what you have to say, however.

If you're writing stream-of-conscious journalism like the writer of the article, it's not so bad, as it flows a little more naturally.

On the other hand, if you're Dave Winer (one of the pioneering bloggers and an epic wanker with an ego so bloated it's probably cancerous), it gets incredibly annoying, because it looks like you're trying to aerate your writing to make the stink of bad prose go away.

It is a style that should be used sparingly.

 
FarkinNortherner [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-06-15 02:55:14 PM  
FrancoFile: The main thrust of the article is that advertising is more pervasive in the US.

Which it is.

Written from the perspective of someone who's familiar with soccer uniforms football strips that are covered by advertisements.

/Irony: it's not just for breakfast anymore.


There's nothing ironic about that. Sports sponsorship is more overt in one field (pun intended), that says nothing about its overall prevalence.

/Irony copper

 
Gash 2008-06-15 02:55:59 PM  
Reminds me of the scene in Idiocracy where scientists are concentrating on curing hair loss and impotence. Anyone got a pic of the Orang Utan with the long hair and massive hard-on?

 
farkeruk 2008-06-15 02:57:45 PM  
FTA: The insidious message is simple; if your doctor is not offering you this drug, maybe you should be asking for it.

It's only insidious if you completely trust your doctor to be a genius and uncorruptable. My own experience is that you can make doctors very uncomfortable when you turn up with pages of print outs from support group websites with treatments they haven't considered for medical problems and ask them why they hadn't suggested it...

 
EsteeFlwrPot 2008-06-15 02:58:38 PM  
I like the spicy beer jerky. Yummy.

 
GungFu 2008-06-15 02:59:14 PM  
farm1.static.flickr.com

I've had the meat jerky stuff from the US gas stations but none...I mean absolutely none compare to the chinese kind found in Hong Kong. Mmmmm....honey glazed, bbq...hot off the grill...yummy!
Food of gods!

bp1.blogger.com

 
Dire [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-06-15 03:00:06 PM  
From TFA Prescription drugs though are surely different. After all, the whole point of them is that it is not considered safe to let us simply buy them over the counter. They are so strong or so habit forming that it is up to the doctor to decide that we really need them.

FAIL. That is not the whole point in them. That is the point in SOME drugs being prescription-only, but that is definitely not the reason for all prescription drugs being prescription-only. To think so is to be extremely naive.

 
Half Man Half Biscuit 2008-06-15 03:01:04 PM  
Snarky McFarkerson: Are you telling me it's not normal to see ads for every sort of prescription meds on TV? Sometimes it's hard to realize how US-centric you get without leaving America or hearing from a foreigner.

God, I hate those ads.


Nope, over-the-counter stuff yes, but full-prescription meds no.

I think the reason is doctors really don't want patients walking in and demanding a particular 'it's on telly so I must have it' brand when a generic would work just as well and cost a fraction.

 
Sultan Of Herf 2008-06-15 03:01:18 PM  
TFossor: Nifty short article.

If he finds beef jerky addictive, he should try turkey jerky. Or venison jerky. Or my latest addiction: Maple Brown Sugar Ham jerky.
Good stuff.

-TF


Maple brown sugar ham jerky...is that kinda like bacon? Where may I acquire some of this ham jerky, for scientific comparison testing of course...

 
Cavemankiwi 2008-06-15 03:01:24 PM  
Sorry yanks, biltong from South Africa is way better! Does anyone know of a place in the bay area where you can get biltong?

 
lostcat 2008-06-15 03:01:35 PM  
GungFu: I've had the meat jerky stuff from the US gas stations but none...I mean absolutely none compare to the chinese kind found in Hong Kong. Mmmmm....honey glazed, bbq...hot off the grill...yummy!
Food of gods!


They love their meat over there. They give Texas a run for its money.

 
maldinero 2008-06-15 03:01:40 PM  
Anyone notice the video volume control on that page?
It goes to 11.

 
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