Long time no write. I'm such a bad blogger. Bad Anna. I doubt any of my former readers even bother anymore. But its the fault of this this evil little invention the government likes to call school. Yep. I just finished my third week of public school, and it has been even more horrible than I imagined. No wonder so many people drop out, I starting to not blame them. I'm again wondering every waking hour why, oh why did have to sign up for Honors?????????
I'll spare you all the gory details and focus on the positive, I'm still getting plenty of funny/insightful America stories, the latest of which involving some rather silly intructions on a popcorn bag and on TV.
I've noticed that on TV America has a lot of feminine commercials (I asked my parents about that, cuz i thought that was kinda wierd, and they said 10 years ago Americans would never dream of running so many ads for tampons...I guess times have changed) and I've also noticed that whenever they run ads for medicine or whatever they spend a good 20 seconds on all the risks and side affects of them after delivering thier selling line. On the British TV that was illegally broadcast to us in Poland (Shhh...don't tell the Brits), they'd always put that stuff in very fine print at the botton of the screen or just say to see your doctor...No doubt the Americans thoroughness is because of all those lawsuits.....
Anyway, theres this new commercial going around advertising some kind of new and improved birth control thing. So they talk about how great it is for a few seconds then go into thier list of warnings: "May cause bloodclots...blahblahblah...should not used by women who are nursing, pregnant, or may become pregnant..."
...... well that last line is pretty typical for the various warning these commercials have but...seriously? Isn't that kind of what birth control is supposed to prevent? Though I guess if a woman gets pregnant while using their new and improved birth control, they wouldn't be wanting to use it for very much longer longer anyway...
The other funny incident involves instructions on a popcorn bag. Ok, so the bag was folded up and sealed with a plastic cover. So naturally I removed it and unfolded the bag to read the instructions. The first thing on the list: 1) Remove plastic cover...Yeah, thanks for telling me. Remember, you couldn't even see the instructions until you removed the plastic.
*Shakes head* Sometimes Americans baffle me.
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Oh, I feel terrible for both you and Jilly. I know it sucks to go "home". I hope it gets better.
I love the ads and stuff. And a big DUH to anyone who didn't realize that they shouldn't use birth control if they are pregnant! Seriously, would someone sue over that? If I were the judge I'd be like, "So you were pregnant and using birth control. You know that pregnancy will eventually = birth right?"
Oh, and you're in my google reader so I'll never stop reading 'cause I see when you post:).
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