Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!d8g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Great article by an acquaintance of mine about fraudulent ads on the JT site Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:27:05 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 15 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2b100080-53c3-4683-a76c-cd28579f1d85@d8g2000prf.googlegroups.com> References: <13h927lubn4sd1negfrlk9je3fiqp7pamj@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 27.231.100.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1311218826 25844 127.0.0.1 (21 Jul 2011 03:27:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 03:27:06 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d8g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=27.231.100.1; posting-account=dFdNnAoAAACo_-792nICp6wBtnsk5ZbZ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: HUALESNKRC X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0,gzip(gfe) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:170132 On Jul 21, 3:57=A0am, "John W." wrote: > On Jul 18, 6:41=A0pm, The 2-Belo > wrote:>http://jasonirwin.ca/2011/07/16/leeches-on-society/ > > It's a good article, but only slightly different than the ads on Yahoo > that show PhotoShop-enhanced pics of muscular men who have supposedly > taken some supplement, or the credit ads that feature dancing > somethings-or-other. > > I bet there are countless snake oil salesmen trying to pitch various > concoctions that'll cure you of the radiation festitis. I come from a culture where (as a general rule) pharmaceuticals are not advertised. Even so, I'm kinda learning towards Mike's take on this.