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kristin31
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 Posted: 04/25/06 - 11:40 Post subject: WHAT is it with cosmetic surgery ads and South Florida?
I am home with bronchitis and a sinus infection and stuff.
I have seen the same ad about 9 times for Claudia, who went to "South Florida Cosmetic Surgery". She has apparently, thanks to "South Florida Cosmetic Surgery" won several bikini contests and guys fall over on the beach when she wears a bikini.
I can even sing the jingle by now.
She is pretty, true, but the faux boobies are pointing out of the TV screen at my face.
I am jealous. I wish I had some boobs, but I am not calling South FLorida Cosmetic Surgery.
I am entranced, in a train-wreck sort of fashion.
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purple hayes
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Posted: 04/25/06 - 11:42 Post subject:
99X, a local alternative rock station (99x.com) plays TONS of commercials for diamond sellers/jewelers. What's up with that?
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rolling rock
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Posted: 04/25/06 - 11:43 Post subject:
um, it's not just south florida kristin....although i'd assume it's more blatant there. LOTS of billboards here with a half-naked 40-something on it, draped with some toilet paper looking thingy that doesn't exactly hide her "fixed" parts...
and then the catchy slogan....
"don't like it, fix it" 
lots of local commercials too. plastic surgeons soliciting boob jobs on prime time. yeah, don't look at me...my money's going to college 
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Posted: 04/25/06 - 11:44 Post subject:
I read an ad in a magazine that said:
"ENJOY YOUR GRANDCHILDREN - HAVE YOUR PROSTATE EXAMINED"
Gee - what was wrong with just taking them to the park?
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Posted: 04/25/06 - 11:47 Post subject:
Sorry Kristin, I forgot to tell you about my modeling job when I was down there last summer. 
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kristin31
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Posted: 04/25/06 - 11:49 Post subject:
I'll keep my body how it is, thanks, and keep swimming and doing yoga to stay in shape.
RR, The only thing I'd ever consider getting dome is having my nose straightened. I broke it as a teen and it's a little crooked. I doubt that I'd ever do it unless we won a bunch of money and I was really bored. That's not gonna happen.
PH, the jewelry ads are here as well. The one guy is a a total sleaze. Tried to tell me when we were looking at wedding rings that the price of platinum was going to skyrocket the next day (it was a Saturday, so the market was closed).
We ended up going to a small indepenent store to get very simple wedding bands, and later to get my grandmother's ring re-sized, and some other stuff.
Why do they keep marketing that "two-month salary" thing? It's not about the size of the bling, it's about the size of the love.
(OK, pass me that cough syrup again...)
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Posted: 04/25/06 - 11:51 Post subject:
I'm saving up for pec and calf implants. 
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Posted: 04/25/06 - 11:54 Post subject:
I used to think I would not have cosmetic surgery, but.... yep. I would.
I want to get rid of the stretch marks from hell.
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Posted: 04/25/06 - 11:55 Post subject:
| j1miller wrote: | | Sorry Kristin, I forgot to tell you about my modeling job when I was down there last summer. |
uhh...unless you are Cuban and have gotten shorter and much darker and grown long black hair and big boobs I don't think so...
I didn't mean this as a jealousy thing. This girl is really pretty in a cosmetically enhanced way. She was most likely prettier before the surgery.
I am all about fitness and staying in shape and controlling your health, using moisturizer, sunblock, whatever and staying in good physical condition. But I'd rather do it myself and not have silicone/collagen, whatever injected into my body.
At another level, I'd love to look like that, but I also wonder how many teenagers watch this stuff and think that they have to look this way.
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Posted: 04/25/06 - 12:10 Post subject:
i really don't have anything against plastic surgery or anyone who has plastic surgery, but these doctors need to stop advertising it as if it is the new "TOOTH WHITENING" system. getting new boobs for a high school girl is like kids braces in the 80s. it's that acceptable. and fine, so be it but these ga-zillionaire doctors do not have to advertise.  quit making it sound so ordinary and everyday.
WTF do all those pre-teen girls at the mall think when they go by the kiosk with the plastic surgery half naked woman on it???? dont' like it? change it? your dad will pay. if you make him miserable enough and cry long and hard enough, he will pay for your new boobs or nose. it's OK.
it's just another factor in the perfect body syndrome they are bombarded with. first they have the perfect half-naked images in all the magazines, and now, now they have their ultimate ANSWER....call the plastic surgeon.
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Posted: 04/25/06 - 12:47 Post subject:
| rolling rock wrote: | i really don't have anything against plastic surgery or anyone who has plastic surgery, but these doctors need to stop advertising it as if it is the new "TOOTH WHITENING" system. getting new boobs for a high school girl is like kids braces in the 80s. it's that acceptable. and fine, so be it but these ga-zillionaire doctors do not have to advertise. quit making it sound so ordinary and everyday.
WTF do all those pre-teen girls at the mall think when they go by the kiosk with the plastic surgery half naked woman on it???? dont' like it? change it? your dad will pay. if you make him miserable enough and cry long and hard enough, he will pay for your new boobs or nose. it's OK.
it's just another factor in the perfect body syndrome they are bombarded with. first they have the perfect half-naked images in all the magazines, and now, now they have their ultimate ANSWER....call the plastic surgeon. |
I just found the most ridiculous ad ever. A new dr is in the Keys, advertising (as Dave Barry says, "I am NOT making this up!") gynecology and plastic surgery in a one-stop place. Great. Get your penicillin and collagen/botox all at once.
I have nothing against anyone who has had cosmetic surgery either. Sometimes it's for very legit physical and mental health reasons. I just get annoyed at the ad campaigns telling everyone that the need to look like one standard or another. That is what bothers me.
Let's take Pamela Anderson. She is totally plastic, but also undeniably beautiful. But not everyone is going to look that way when they get nose jobs, implants, whatever.
What happened to individual beauty? I guarantee that (almost, unless they are downright evil) everyone you see on the street has something beautiful about them. It might be intense gorgeous eyes, a lovely nose, a lush head of hair, a perfect nose or chin, a great pair of legs, a tiny waist, a firm butt, great pecs, perfectly sculpted back, whatever..(This goes for men and women alike.) Or maybe it's something that you can't see. Maybe they are the most compassionate listener, the most brilliant research scientist who is discovering a cure for heart disease, diabetes, HIV, or the best mom or dad ever. Someone who just read a bedtime story to their child every night. THAT is beauty.
Not everyone has to look like a model to be beautiful. TAking care of yourself and keeping your health up is great, but the standards of physical perfection change daily, so why try to adapt yourself to the ideals of others? It's impossible. Be yourself, learn what is beautiful about YOU, and accentuate.
I need a nap. Sorry, I am doen wit my little rant.
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Posted: 04/25/06 - 12:49 Post subject:
Most of the commericals in this area are for personal injury lawyers
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Posted: 04/25/06 - 12:52 Post subject:
| Cappy wrote: | | Most of the commericals in this area are for personal injury lawyers |
We have them too. I presume that they sue the drive-thru plastic surgeon for the Michael Jackson botched nose job type of case.
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Posted: 04/25/06 - 13:08 Post subject:
I think the worst ads ever are the bimbettes in Hollywood. I saw a pic of an actress, topless, and it's obvious they were fake. She's very famous has a famous s/o. Girls will want to grow up to be like these women: if they fix their physical imperfections then they too can be rich, beautiful, successful and married to the hunk du jour. Sad really.
It's like the girl's answer to boys and their dreams to be the next Kobe or Shaq.
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Posted: 04/25/06 - 13:09 Post subject:
I think it should be covered by insurance since it is so prevenent.
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