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2005-06-03 03:57:52 PM
You can touch the Stuff, keep your hands of the junk

- Argh_Dammit

( If I am not mistaken )
 
2005-06-03 04:00:14 PM
"See, it's not that hard is it? Oh, it is."
*eye roll*
 
2005-06-03 04:02:21 PM
I don't like this ad. It implied she was looking at my private parts.
 
2005-06-03 04:04:33 PM
Alternate Ad Tagline:

Is your groin inflamed with raging tumors or are you happy to see me?
 
2005-06-03 04:05:54 PM

Yes m'am!!
*fap fap fap*
 
2005-06-03 04:07:56 PM
I would have gone with "Please mind the bollocks."
 
2005-06-03 04:11:53 PM
I don't like this ad. It implied she was looking at my private parts.

If that were the case, she'd be laughing in the pic. ;)
 
2005-06-03 04:15:23 PM
Ha, shows her. I was going to grab my stuff anyway.
 
2005-06-03 04:16:38 PM
More effective ad may be a quick run down( with visual aide ) of the after effects of testicular cancer if not caught early.

/whale biologist
 
2005-06-03 04:17:53 PM
mryoop789: If that were the case, she'd be laughing in the pic. ;)

*starts crying while masturbating furiously*
 
2005-06-03 04:25:37 PM
Can you imagine the righteous "moral" outrage if there was an ad campaign like that here in the States?

The American equivalant will be Jan Crouch admonishing: "Don't touch yourself - if God wills for your nuts to fall off - IT'S OUT OF YOUR HANDS!!"
 
2005-06-03 04:45:54 PM
Yikes! What a great ad!
 
ZAZ [TotalFark]
2005-06-03 05:13:46 PM
I prefer to have a hot blonde fondle me. Good thing my doctor is a hot blonde.
 
2005-06-03 10:54:24 PM
Now, not handling other men's testicles has left me not having any frame of reference. What am I looking for down there? I found a couple of lumps, but I'm pretty sure those are normal.
 
2005-06-04 12:00:47 AM
 
2005-06-04 12:01:59 AM
The ad is here:

http://www.rachelgetsfruity.com

I'm annoyed, though. She takes a bite out of the plum at the end. As much as she's the hawt, hasn't anyone told her not to use teeth?
 
2005-06-04 12:02:27 AM
www.rachelgetsfruity.com
 
2005-06-04 12:07:13 AM
Testicular Cancer, Testicular Smancer! The south koreans are cloning humans to create stem-cells, why don't we have a cancer cure yet? I'll tell you why, because God hates Rachel, and he is smiting us for leering at her hotness.

I'm going to beat myself into submission for thinking bad thoughts while looking at her nipple mounds. And by "beat", I mean masturbate. And by "submission" I mean, until the wee little fellow bleeds.
 
2005-06-04 12:12:50 AM
OK, the ad may be kinda weird but this is a bigger issue than most of us think.

About 20 years ago, my dad has testicular cancer... very heinous.
I had a really nasty case of epididymitis a few years ago that majorly set me back. I'm still not the same.

Men's health issues are either kinda taboo or there simply isn't enough money involved to get labs interested. Either way, having done quite a bit of research, men's bits are largely ignored/ misunderstood.
 
2005-06-04 12:18:21 AM
Bad headline, great ad.

/long-time Rachel fan
 
2005-06-04 12:19:37 AM
Wow! It worked! it's got mye touching myself now... Umm... What exactly is grabbing my balls supposed to accomplish?
 
2005-06-04 12:20:25 AM
SHE WAS SO NOT HALF-NAKED!!!

/I feel cheated. :(
 
2005-06-04 12:22:38 AM
Half-naked = Topless or bottomless
Rachel != Half=naked

/still hot
 
2005-06-04 12:26:52 AM
If this was about an ad for breast exams, it would not have a "Silly" tag.

/Obvious
 
2005-06-04 12:41:37 AM

Here, let me help.




A few years ago friend of mine noticed a sore spot on one of his balls. He felt around and found that the spot was a lump. He waited a few days and after it didn't go away saw a doctor. As is often the case in professional fields, there are more worthless doctors than good ones and the first one he saw was worthless. He was told it was a calcium deposit and sent away feeling like a hypochondriac. Within a week the testicle with the lump was about half a size bigger than the other one and hurt so bad it was difficult to walk.

When he finally did get an appointment with someone not from the Dr. Nick ("Hi Everybody") school of asshatery the doctor took one look and scheduled my friend for surgery. Once under the knife they decided it was cancer and removed the testicle. Then they opened his abdomen up for some exploratory work. As I guess often happens in these cases, every organ in his body was covered with little tumors. They closed him back up and his doctor said that if there was anything he really wanted to do he should get it done within six months.

The good news? Two things: That was 10 years ago. He said the chemotherapy made him think death would be better, but he's glad he stuck with it and won. The other thing is that his prosthetic testicle is silicon. He can do some really funny/cool tricks by teabagging a flashlight in a dark room.
 
2005-06-04 12:42:24 AM
What if you don't have any hands?
 
2005-06-04 12:43:54 AM
encouraging story, but that last sentance was really unessecary
 
2005-06-04 01:02:37 AM
He can do some really funny/cool tricks by teabagging a flashlight in a dark room.

Pics?
 
2005-06-04 01:04:39 AM
The Hammered: Pics?

I was laughing too hard at the time. Sorry.
 
2005-06-04 01:07:12 AM
Holy crap, she took a bite out of that testicle.
 
2005-06-04 01:17:49 AM
And yet again, BearToy wins.

/is smug with the fact that she just ordered Indian food, for delivery, with a credit card.
 
2005-06-04 01:18:36 AM
Touch myself? DAMN, I never would have thought of that!
 
2005-06-04 01:19:27 AM
Take your time,
cover up.
NWH says "grab yo' stuff."
 
2005-06-04 01:20:02 AM
"put one hand down your trousers"

Ok. Now what?
 
2005-06-04 01:21:41 AM
Better her than Tom Green...
 
2005-06-04 01:25:19 AM
Ack, you had to post a very un-cute wrestler, BearToy. :P Can someone PS a better head onto him please?
 
2005-06-04 01:31:14 AM
I was born with superfluous third testicle. I've had to hear from girls my whole life about how filled my marble sack is. I pray for testiclear cancer to remove this blight of my life.
 
2005-06-04 01:32:15 AM
Around 2,000 men are diagnosed with testicular cancer each year, with those aged 15-45 most likely to get it.

That's it?????

(*Goes back to touching himself without worring about cancer, or spelling*)
 
2005-06-04 01:35:33 AM
For your testicle checking needs:



 
2005-06-04 01:38:39 AM
So, from S-Club 7 to cancer PSAs: a move up, or next.stop.pr0n?
 
2005-06-04 01:47:16 AM
Ceph: Ack, you had to post a very un-cute wrestler

I apologize. He is difficult to look at, I know.
Alas, even my database has a limited number of images relevant to testicular examination suitable for SFW posting on Fark.
 
2005-06-04 01:58:37 AM
BearToy - The other thing is that his prosthetic testicle is silicon.

Damn, I wish they'd had those when I had TC ten years ago....wait....

That was 10 years ago

Dammit! Why didn't my otherwise competent oncologist tell me about that? It would be nice not having to explain to the ladies why I don't have twins....
 
2005-06-04 02:20:42 AM
arashinogarou: Damn, I wish they'd had those when I had TC ten years ago


I think they look farkin cool




Oh and I hope you're okay now arashinogarou
 
2005-06-04 03:06:02 AM
Oh yeah, I'm fine now...after chemo that made me wish I were dead.

/Still thanking God and the guy who invented chemotherapy
 
2005-06-04 03:23:19 AM
arashinogarou: Oh yeah, I'm fine now...after chemo that made me wish I were dead.

Excellent that you're okay.

If you have the time and any interest, maybe you could describe what the experience was like. My friend talked about just basically feeling like he was an animated corpse all the time. He said it also made all things involving food into someting very disgusting. He said it was like his digestive tract was always doing an emergency evacuation with some panicing internal official screaming "TWO EXITS, EVERYBODY OUT NOW!"

Even before any of this Jerry was never a shy person. One story he told that has stuck with me is how he was stranded for hours in Fort Worth traffic after getting pumped up with chemo. He hadn't eaten anything so the dry heaves didn't really matter. But when the sub-processors in his brain decided to liquify the contents of his intestines and explosively pressurize it into his colon, he had an emergency on his hands. He was 20 minutes away from his house even if traffic wasn't bumper-to-bumper and stationary. After sweating, squirming, and crying a lot he finally was forced to get out of his car and squat in the median. When some SUV soccer-mom coont scowled at him through the window slot she used to exhale smoke, he went up to her window and said "I'm sorry to bother you but I have cancer and I'm dying."
 
2005-06-04 05:36:15 AM
All men should ever have to worry about is how we can get women like that to regularly examine us for testicular cancer.

That's the only thing we should ever have to worry about.
 
2005-06-04 08:21:43 AM
Never heard ever her till now, but i'd let her juggle my hacky sack.
 
2005-06-04 09:47:45 AM
Ain't no Party like a teabag party.
we're gonna show you how (everybody get down tonight)
 
2005-06-04 11:49:06 AM
useless without video... oh, there it is.. oh my. I feel funny down there, I'm just gonna rub my..CRAP I HAVE A LUMP!!
 
2005-06-04 04:42:05 PM
Chemo for TC is generally one of two: either BEP (bleomyin, etoposide and platinol / cisplatin - cool stuff, it's based on platinum!) or ABVD (adriamycin / doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine and dacarbazine). Dacarbazine makes about 95% of people puke their guts out from the time the infusion finishes to about 12 hours later. Doxorubicin makes you puke pretty badly too. But both pale in comparison to cisplatin, which is rated as perhaps the most emetogenic drug that isn't specifically an emetic. Pretty much, don't expect to do anything but hurl for like a week after getting it unless they give you some serious drugs to prevent it. As if that weren't bad enough, it fries your inner ears and kidneys, too. ABVD, OTOH, is horribly destructive if it manages to leak out of you veins. Kinda like acid, in a way.

Of course, both of them fry the HELL out of cancer, too, which is the entire point. There are some things they can do to prevent puking, but those have side effects too. Like dexamethasone which makes you wired as all hell and compazine which makes most people really droney. Dronabinol, a relative of weed, has most of the effects of weed as well. (Though smoked marijuana works better for like 92% of people, but good luck getting it legally). Zofran, and three other drugs like it, are the ones that make people want to die a little less now (heavy-duty anti-puking stuff, minimal side effects), but they're really expensive.
 
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