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[curiouswombat]

Hmm - so Boots are going to sell Viagra over the counter, without prescription, in three (or was it four?) of their shops – and they are all in Manchester! At £50 ($190ish) for 4 tablets!

What on Earth does this tell us about Manchester?

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[samson28.livejournal.com]

That they're all limp dicked!!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Can you imagine some Boots executive telling some of them so, face to face?

[samson28.livejournal.com]

Could get bloody and awfully messy rather quickly!

[keswindhover.livejournal.com]

Well, it tells us what Boots senior executives think about Manchester!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

How about 'Ownership of guns as cock-substitutes implies you need a cock-assistance'? Or 'Too much money, too little time'?

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Or how about "You all come on the 'B' of the Bang"? Although if they did all come on it ( this is it (http://www.bofthebang.com/) for non-British friends) it could get a bit messy.....

[gillo]

Home-to-be of the new mega-casino too - is there a link?

Just saying...

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Yes - I wondered about that too...

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

This is going to keep me giggling all day.

Julia, in need of amusement to distract me from the whole stupidity of humans thing

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Hee - glad to have been of service, ma'am. Which develops all sorts of double entendres under the circumstances!

[spikendru.livejournal.com]

What on Earth does this tell us about Manchester?

Er . . . that Spike needs to find a new team? I hear Arsenal is more virile. *g*

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Hee - yes, I hadn't thought of that! Oh, the shame.....

a pointed comment

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

That's one medication that should absolutely *never* be sold over the counter.

On a related note, the day I need to take it is the day I drive my car off a cliff. :p

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[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Apparently it must now be considered to have no major side-effects or dangers to be allowed OTC - they are much stricter about what you can get OTC in the UK than the US I think, going by some other medications anyway!

Like the very suitable icon!

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[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I thought that icon seemed appropriate. :-)

I'd always assumed it was harder to get OTC in America than in most other places, but I've never researched it. I'm always hearing complaints about our government interfering with release of medications, but that's probably more on the prescription level.

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[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

We hear the same complaints - and an added one that some drugs are licenced but will not be prescribed through the NHS until they are cleared by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE!) - who decide whether things are highly clinically effective, and often also decide on grounds of cost-effectivness.

One of the lines we often hear from people is 'Why should we wait for it to be licensed here when it is already cleared in the US?' so if you also hear people moaning that your government is holding drugs up then I guess really both countries are similar!

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[ozma914.livejournal.com]

I guess they are similar ... that sounds exactly like the kind of complaints we get about our Food and Drug Administration. Red tape knows no boundaries ...

[jerusha]

Hmm...good question. That's a lot of money to pay for four pills.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Isn't it!

[missmurchison.livejournal.com]

I'm imagining a woman trying to decide between a packet of pills for her boyfriend or a vibrator. On a per-orgasm basis, the vibrator is a much better buy.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

You know you have a point - I guess lots of men will try to get their partners to go in to buy the pills - and they will be disappointed, because you have to have an appointment with the pharmacist and a general health check before you get the tablets to the check-out!

[missmurchison.livejournal.com]

That's a good plan, as is only selling four tablets at a time, since there's been abuse of this drug. But I have a feeling that the idiots will still use it idiotically. At least they can keep it away from guys whose are arteries are as hard as their other equipment isn't.

[averageshmoe.livejournal.com]

Late night television in the States (alright, the upstart Colonies) seems to consist of commercials featuring a character named 'Bob.' He has a fixed smile that would do the Joker proud and is pushing some sort of 'male enhancement' supplement.

Is truly freaky.

Are the English as obsessed with 'natural solutions' as the folks over here? A convicted conman can wind up on the NY Times best seller list with a book of supposed remedies, many of which make medical professionals blanch, simply by claiming that they are remedies that "THEY" don't want you to know about.

Sorry about my silence lately, got a new Dell and it's been spending more time in the shop then at home. Makes me wonder how all of those 'Ultimate Computers' that rebel against their human creators would fare after downloading software updates.

Take care.

pgavigan

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Sorry about my silence lately, got a new Dell and it's been spending more time in the shop then at home. I wondered where you were, glad it's just the computer that's crocked, and not you.

We do have a 'natural cures' industry - but I think less of a one than yours sounds. My favourite is a book that you see advertised in the magazines meant for middle-aged and elderly ladies, which promises to tell you how vinegar will cure all your bodily ills, all your household problems, improve the way your car runs, and promote world peace. OK - it may not actually include the world peace line.....

[missmurchison.livejournal.com]

Thanks to what I'm sure was massive and possibly legal bribery on some level or levels, anything classified as a "dietary supplement" is not currently regulated by our Food and Drug Administration. "Bob" and the product he's hawking (which, if you listen closely, doesn't actually promise to do anything at all) is one of the more benign types of snake oil being advertised ad nauseam. There's even something called "Estroven," which manages to sound like hormone replacement therapy without actually saying it's any such thing.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Estroven does sound as if it is a form of HRT doesn't it? And even if you know that you can't get HRT without a precription, you might feel that it would be 'just as good'.