There should be a commercial ...
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There should be a commercial ...
Sophisticated bon-vivant in his leather chair by the fireplace ...
"Whenever I'm in the mood for a carcinogenic neurotoxin, I reach for alcohol."
"I enjoy the satisfaction and confidence of knowing that I'll have a day or two of depression and anxiety afterwards."
I'd like to see your commercials!
"Whenever I'm in the mood for a carcinogenic neurotoxin, I reach for alcohol."
"I enjoy the satisfaction and confidence of knowing that I'll have a day or two of depression and anxiety afterwards."
I'd like to see your commercials!
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Very funny idea!
Based on something I say when I give my "Alcoholism as a disease" talk at our local beginners meeting:
{Black Screen}
Voice over: "Alcohol is yeast excrement."
Voice over: "So if you're drunk and someone tells you that you're full of sh*t, they're right!"
The sound of a toilet flushing.
{the end}
(I start the talk with a brief description of what alcohol really is. It's hard to get really wistful and romantic about a beverage when you know that it's literally just a bunch of crap.)
~SK
{Black Screen}
Voice over: "Alcohol is yeast excrement."
Voice over: "So if you're drunk and someone tells you that you're full of sh*t, they're right!"
The sound of a toilet flushing.
{the end}
(I start the talk with a brief description of what alcohol really is. It's hard to get really wistful and romantic about a beverage when you know that it's literally just a bunch of crap.)
~SK
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Originally Posted by St_Kurt 
Based on something I say when I give my "Alcoholism as a disease" talk at our local beginners meeting:
{Black Screen}
Voice over: "Alcohol is yeast excrement."
Voice over: "So if you're drunk and someone tells you that you're full of sh*t, they're right!"
The sound of a toilet flushing.
{the end}
(I start the talk with a brief description of what alcohol really is. It's hard to get really wistful and romantic about a beverage when you know that it's literally just a bunch of crap.)
~SK
{Black Screen}
Voice over: "Alcohol is yeast excrement."
Voice over: "So if you're drunk and someone tells you that you're full of sh*t, they're right!"
The sound of a toilet flushing.
{the end}
(I start the talk with a brief description of what alcohol really is. It's hard to get really wistful and romantic about a beverage when you know that it's literally just a bunch of crap.)
~SK
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Sound of female sobbing
PPicture of filthy bedroom....
woman crumpled in fetal position
Voice Over....
Problem drinker....Heavy drinker...Abuser...Alcoholic?
It matters not....You too can recover
Shot of sunrise on a beech
Music swells ...."You'll Never walk Alone"
Fade out
PPicture of filthy bedroom....
woman crumpled in fetal position
Voice Over....
Problem drinker....Heavy drinker...Abuser...Alcoholic?
It matters not....You too can recover
Shot of sunrise on a beech
Music swells ...."You'll Never walk Alone"
Fade out
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For some reason that commercial/guy really get my goat, ahh yes, become sophisticated, get blottoed, wreck your car, kill an innocent, rot all of your internal organs and toast your brain!!!
Why that commercial/guy get to me so badly I do not know, I enjoy a lot of beer commercials, I guess with that commercial/guy it is a combination of trying to sell off alcohol and sophistication as going hand in hand...... think about the last time you you saw someone in a thousand dollar suit fall down drunk, was sopistication the first thing that popped into your head? I need to work on this....
Why that commercial/guy get to me so badly I do not know, I enjoy a lot of beer commercials, I guess with that commercial/guy it is a combination of trying to sell off alcohol and sophistication as going hand in hand...... think about the last time you you saw someone in a thousand dollar suit fall down drunk, was sopistication the first thing that popped into your head? I need to work on this....
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Most people that drink alcohol do not have negative experiences...
Just because I do, that doesn't mean I should take away other's enjoyment.
Alcohol worked very very well for me for a long time. I felt like those commercials: happy, peaceful, serene.
It just stopped working and I couldn't.
Just because I do, that doesn't mean I should take away other's enjoyment.
Alcohol worked very very well for me for a long time. I felt like those commercials: happy, peaceful, serene.
It just stopped working and I couldn't.
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Originally Posted by sugErspun
Most people that drink alcohol do not have negative experiences...
Just because I do, that doesn't mean I should take away other's enjoyment.
Alcohol worked very very well for me for a long time. I felt like those commercials: happy, peaceful, serene.
It just stopped working and I couldn't.
Just because I do, that doesn't mean I should take away other's enjoyment.
Alcohol worked very very well for me for a long time. I felt like those commercials: happy, peaceful, serene.
It just stopped working and I couldn't.
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Originally Posted by kevin 311
Oops! Well, let's just say that was only intended for this particular audience.
I realize that temperance is not a solution but the commercial ideas were funny and I enjoyed them. Thanks for the thread.
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I just find it irritating that the commercials make me feel that I need to drink to have a complete & fullfilling life. My life could/should be like a beer commercial! But then, that's the point of commercials I suppose. For people I know that don't abuse alcohol, drinking is quite irrelevant in their life. Contradictory, but only in my confused head!
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Kevin...thanks for the 
"But we aren't a glum lot.If newcomers could see no joy or fun in our existence, they wouldnt want it.We absolutely insist on enjoying life"
(pg 132, The Big Book Of Alcoholics Anonymous)
(pg 132, The Big Book Of Alcoholics Anonymous)
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Originally Posted by gravity
I just find it irritating that the commercials make me feel that I need to drink to have a complete & fullfilling life. My life could/should be like a beer commercial! But then, that's the point of commercials I suppose. For people I know that don't abuse alcohol, drinking is quite irrelevant in their life. Contradictory, but only in my confused head!
You can reach a point where commercials lose their power to make you feel anything. I have to try really hard to bring a liqour commercial into mind...they just kind of pass like anything else these days.
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Originally Posted by mike_mass
I agree, we are not a temperance movement.
even tho I can't see the point in *anyone* poisoning or abusing themselves - whether with alcohol, cigarettes or whatever - it's certainly not my place to tell others what they should enjoy or how or when they should enjoy it.
(no offense meant to Kevin 311 btw...just sayin'....
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I agree we are not a temperance movement, a lot of people are able to enjoy alcohol in a healthy manner, a drink or 2 every once in a while to loosen them up and that is it, in a way I am a bit envious, because I sure loved to drink early on, then it turned on me!
I have no problem like I said with most alcohol commercials, but some of them like the one here (To me) seem to glorify alcohol, make it seem as though one is missing out on something if they do not drink, just me...... with a bit of envy, yet still able to accept that I am an alcoholic as a result I can never drink safely again. Odd thing is knowing that sets me free and makes me happy.
I have no problem like I said with most alcohol commercials, but some of them like the one here (To me) seem to glorify alcohol, make it seem as though one is missing out on something if they do not drink, just me...... with a bit of envy, yet still able to accept that I am an alcoholic as a result I can never drink safely again. Odd thing is knowing that sets me free and makes me happy.
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