Pills for Fat B@stards

El Greco said:
Women keep buying gels and creams for spot reducing. After all these years that this myth has been debunked, many women believe these things actually work. All major cosmetic brands have a number of such products in their range. How do you expect people to debunk pills when they aren't even through with creams yet.
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There are some ridiculous radio ads at the moment for Clearasil, which claim that the cream has a visible effect on spots IN ONLY THREE DAYS!!!

I've never had a spot that lasts more than three days whether you coat it in gunk or leave it the hell alone.

The latest is NEW! WITH BOSWELLOX! Hhm. Sounds a bit like Botox but is in fact extract of frankincense
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You think the word BOSWELLOX sounds like Botox? That's not what I think it sounds like...:D
 
While the subject has veered to quack acne treatments, check out this site. I saw it advertised on television one night. It claims to treat acne from both the outside, with a topical cream, and the inside with a gender-specific pill. Their claim of "all-natural ingredients" set off alarms, so I decided to investigate their site.

Sure enough, the pills are homeopathic. The cream's active ingredient is 5% Benzoyl Peroxide. This is the same active ingredient as in Clearasil and other brands of acne treatments. But surely, any results will be attributed to the pills. Why? Because they're gender-specific and outside of conventional science, so they must be the reason the acne is disappearing.
 
Tking Doll:
I've never had a spot that lasts more than three days whether you coat it in gunk or leave it the hell alone
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There is one thing you can do wth a spot and that's dry it out. Toothpaste does this very well.

Forty Two:
something else must be causing the extra weight, something that their product can solve
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There's the whole psychological element that no pill can address. Eating habits and the relationship of the overeater with food need to be addressed. Food has to stop being a reward/crutch/comfort and that's hard to achieve, especally if there are other problem areas in the person's life.

I don't eat dairy but I love cake, biscuits (cookies), crisps (chips) chips (fries) and chocolate. But I prefer being thin. (Jaffa Cakes are really low fat - do you have those?). Does that make me self-disciplined or just lucky?

By the way, what is a candy bar? Is it the same as chocolate? Two countries divided by a single language.
 
We don't call them that though. We call them chocolate bars. I thought candy was what we calls sweets.
 
Most candy bars have chocolate, but I can think of at least one that doesn't -- Payday, which is just caramel and peanuts.

Most candy bars are about four inches (10 cm) by one inch (2.5 cm) by about an inch, but there are exceptions. Most include either caramel or nougat to hold the bar together, but some, like Hershey or Dove, are solid chocolate.

When an American just mentions a candy bar, they're usually visualizing a Snickers, which is the most popular bar in the US.
 
Most candy bars have chocolate, but I can think of at least one that doesn't -- Payday, which is just caramel and peanuts.

Most candy bars are about four inches (10 cm) by one inch (2.5 cm) by about an inch, but there are exceptions. Most include either caramel or nougat to hold the bar together, but some, like Hershey or Dove, are solid chocolate.

When an American just mentions a candy bar, they're usually visualizing a Snickers, which is the most popular bar in the US
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Hhm, we're getting into tricky territory here. A Hershey or Dove bar would be a bar of chocolate, but Mars or Snickers would be a chocolate bar. (Dove is a brand of soap here).

We have a thing called a Lion Bar which is chocolate covered peanuts wiith some sort of sticky stuff. That's just called a Lion Bar. Or to me, Satan's excreta (hate peanuts). There's another thing called Peanut Brittle which is peanuts bound together with sticky stuff. I've no idea what that would be described as.

We have candy floss, which I think you call cotton candy. We have ice lollies, which I think you call popsicles, and lollies, which are hard and mostly made of sugar, but not cold. No idea what you call those. Then there are sweets; they mostly come in packets - barley sugar, is a sweet, for example. Or a humbug. Or a Werther's Original (I think they're American).

It's interesting that junk food is an area where our languages really differ (crisps, chips, biscuits being other examples), along with things we wear on our bottom halves (English: trousers, pants, knickers).
 
severin said:

It's interesting that junk food is an area where our languages really differ (crisps, chips, biscuits being other examples), along with things we wear on our bottom halves (English: trousers, pants, knickers).
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Sorry, this is waaay off topic, but I have to share (not my chocolate, I'm never sharing that).

In the USA, trousers are pants and khaki is pronounced 'Cacky'.

In the UK, 'Cacky' means, literally, pooey i.e. has poo on it, and pants are, of course, underwear. Years ago I saw the film Regarding Henry, starring Harrison Ford. In the plot, Harrison has gone gone missing. His wife (Annette Bening) phones the police and they ask what he is wearing...

...when she described him as wearing "cacky pants", I laughed so hard I wet myself. I've never forgotten it.

Sorry for the completely juvenile nature of this story, I refused to grow up when I saw my first tax return.
 
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