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Crazy Marketing Claims in Ads

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  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 12,300 Member
    John FTW!
  • claireychn074
    claireychn074 Posts: 1,681 Member
    John772016 wrote: »
    nossmf wrote: »
    aneedlecraft wrote: »
    Here's one I saw today... BMI dropping 15 in 14 days - what magic starting weight would make that math work?

    At my height of 5'9", I would have BMI 47 at BW 320, and BMI 32 at 220. So a hundred pounds in two weeks, and all I have to do is walk while stretching. Sign me up!

    You could also grow substantially taller, but that would pretty much require one of those 'rack' torture devices 🤔

    When I’m stiff from a hard workout, I frequently think about those rack torture devices and go “ooooo nice” 🤣
  • DiscusTank5
    DiscusTank5 Posts: 511 Member
    sollyn23l2 wrote: »
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    If only I knew adding a little ginger to my water would have tripled my weight liss.

    And provided more patience?!? What a deal.
  • DiscusTank5
    DiscusTank5 Posts: 511 Member
    MargaretYakoda wrote: »
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
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    The Forbidden Tater Tot!

    I thought it was a brown sugar cube. Either way, I'm in! ;)
  • DiscusTank5
    DiscusTank5 Posts: 511 Member
    springlering62 wrote: »
    Ok, this isn’t “crazy” marketing but darned good marketing.

    This is facing me on the door of the dermatologist’s exam room. I’m laughing at the mirror because good grief! So many things to worry about!

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    Probably a candidate for all of the above! 🤣🤣🤣

    For what it's worth, those two top left pictures together remind me of the villain in the Incredibles.
  • DiscusTank5
    DiscusTank5 Posts: 511 Member
    nossmf wrote: »
    What's been bugging me lately are a series of "I did x every day for a week, here's what happened" type of articles, where x can be anything from doing a specific exercise or drinking a liter of water or waking up an hour earlier or whatever. The premise is good, to change a behavior and monitor the impact that change has on your life. But the execution is flawed in several ways:

    1. A week is almost never long enough to actually cause a real change; most of that time is simply enduring the shock of change
    2. While some of the changes are good to implement every day, others not so much. I saw one where a person performed 100 reps of bench press EVERY SINGLE DAY, not giving the body a chance to rest and recover.
    3. Often the person making the "change" is not an average-Joe type of person, but somebody already well versed in the behavior to begin with. The "10,000 steps per day" person was already physically fit, so any "changes" would be radically different than if they asked a couch potato to suddenly do the same thing.

    THIS. I got one in my newsfeed about a guy who tried going vegan for one week. Wow. What a commitment.

    I've dabbled with veganism for a month here and there but couldn't get enough protein in and felt tired. Then, I went vegetarian for all of 2023 to see what the effects were on my cholesterol levels. HDLs dropped 24 points.
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,786 Member
    edited December 2024
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    Stars and sparkles make ads more believable. Am I right?

    PS, they forgot to airbrush or filter her hands. Yeeks! Imagine going in for a hug on that smooth smiling face and she puts out those old lady paws.

    Speaking as a totally unfiltered and unairbrushed old lady myself. ✨✨💖💖🌈🦄✨💖✨💖✨💖✨ Maybe some sparkles’ll work for me, too.
  • devenmsmith
    devenmsmith Posts: 7 Member
    My favorite are the labels like “no hormones ever” on pork and poultry just so they can jack up the price and take advantage of the consumers that don’t know pork and poultry are hormone free (and don’t read the statement tied to the asterisk stating as much) whether that label is there or not because the USDA doesn’t allow the use of hormones in pork/poultry.

    A bit more on the comical side but another one that is funny to me is labeling things organic rather than having come up with another word to describe growing method. All food is technically organic given its carbon based. Or labeling things “natural” just because it uses a whole food ingredient. Pretty sure I can’t naturally find a granola bar out in the wild.
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,786 Member
    edited January 7
    @devenmsmith your comments here and on the toxic fitness threads amuse me. I hope you’ll be back often!
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,786 Member
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