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Boggles the mind.

I believe it's the "I want to live longer in Life" mindset (which, unfortunately, becomes increasingly more of a semi-obsessive, daily thought-process for those of use who are approaching the horizon of where our progenitors previous found completion).

Very grateful to not require any medications in my daily life. My genes have expressed rather bad, progressively-worse dental attributes over the years (and my eyes have just plain gone Rogue); but, thankfully, there ain't nothin' wrong with all the rest :)

In today's Commercial environment, morbidity == mortality. Marketers have glomed-on to tickling the impending fears of those who have passed the Middle, and are facing the End. Fear is a lucrative business for certain segments of our Society.
 
Just need audio skip or reduction modes like a few TVs had years back and i would be fine.
Wearing out the mute button on the remote :)
Liberty,Liberty,Liberty,Liberty,Liberty, Liberty, wore my ears out. lol
They should be broke spending all that money on ads. lol
 
They should be broke spending all that money on ads. lol
I wish everyone would pay more attention to this, especially with local businesses on the local TV stations; the more they spend on local TV ads, over and over, sometimes 2 or 3 times in EVERY commercial break, the more fees they're tacking onto your toilet repair bill. I avoid those companies like the plague.
And, back when we still had phone books/Yellow Pages, I usually started at the end of the service section (like, "Plumbing") and would call Zack's Plumbing Service way before I'd even consider "AAA Prime Plumbing, GiveUsYerMoney!"
 
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