contest entry....

[misstia]

uh, mom's helping him throw up in the sink?!?!?!? why is that so much grosser than throwing up in the toilet??

Comments

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

Forget the sink... that's Thorazine! Your kid pukes a lot, so let's get him on an anti-psychotic medication?

They gave that drug to 1.5 million children? Oh wow. Talk about Shimmer being a floor polish and a dessert topping...

[columbina.livejournal.com]

You and I had the same thought. It IS a valid treatment for both constipation and nausea, but wow.

As an added bonus, afterward your kid gets very, very calm and sleeps very soundly!

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

Hey, man, so's promethazine and I take it all the time for chronic nausea. Granted, it's not as strong of an anti-psychotic...

[dunkler-ort.livejournal.com]

I take promethazine all the time too, and had a lot of explaining to do when someone asked me what kind of drug it was the other day. xD

[columbina.livejournal.com]

I guess she's either concerned about letting her kid's face that near the toilet, or they decided they couldn't depict a toilet in the ad.

What gets me is using Thorazine to control vomiting, which is a little like swatting a fly with a 2x4.

[evilfoo.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing at the time they'd be too prudish to show a toilet? *shrug*

Altho, I shudder at the thought of a thorazine suppository. x_^

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

Actually, that's true; the first pressing of If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears by the Mamas and the Papas was suppressed because it was a picture of the four of them sitting in a bathtub and next to it was a toilet. In the next version, the toilet was covered by text; in 1968, you couldn't even say "pregnant" on TV.

[misstia]

there was a big hullabaloo with leave it to beaver in the 50s showing wally and the beaver keeping a baby alligator in the back of a toilet....you only saw the top of the tank...

[lizzelizzel.livejournal.com]

I don't even understand.

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

It wasn't until All In the Family and Archie Bunker that we were allowed to hear a toilet flushing on TV.

[mystical-chickn.livejournal.com]

Okay, the apostrophes are just driving me crazy.

[lifetaketwo.livejournal.com]

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed the errant use of apostrophes.

[dubhain.livejournal.com]

They prescribe them in nursing homes and psych wards.

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

YES!

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

There is another Thorazine ad I wanted to put up, but it's too similar to this one so I'll just link to it:

[misstia]

you can post it! it's not the same! he ain't puking in a sink and it's to control his agitation not vomiting!

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I have. I also found one that creeped me the heck out and I need to post as well.

[itskelp.livejournal.com]

I LOVE IT

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

...THAT IS HILARIOUS

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Ah. And I was going to say "Demented old people love it too!"

[suchakiller.livejournal.com]

Looks like he threw up there. and now she's pushing his face into it to show him that was bad and hopefully it'll make him not do that again.
Kind of like the same thing some people do with their puppys when they've pooped in the house.

[real-bethy.livejournal.com]

I keep picturing the mother saying, "Eat it! Eat it!"

[inker-alpha.livejournal.com]

holy crap, you took gross out to a whole new level...

[jodi.livejournal.com]

I, for one, always choose to throw up in the sink if I have a choice.
Why wouldn't I?
It doesn't make any sense to get down on the bathroom floor and shove my face near something designed for urine and feces when the alternative is to stand at a counter and be sick over something designed for washing my hands and being clean.
Feeling like you have to throw up makes you feel vulnerable and that's not a time I would choose to further degrade my emotional base by poising myself over a toilet bowl, to boot.

[fridgedicebunny.livejournal.com]

Yes, but... Then you have to clean the chunks out of the sink instead of just flushing the toilet (which was designed to eliminate solid waste, unlike sinks). O_O That seems worse to me.

[itskelp.livejournal.com]

vomit clogs up a sink like nobody's business

[lightning-rose.livejournal.com]

That's my experience!

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

If I get nauseated enough to throw up, standing up to do it is no longer an option. Generally I'm so close to blacking out that I have to sort of throw myself in the general direction of the bathroom and hope I don't sail into the wall. (Plus ew, having to rinse the sink after that would be disgusting enough to make me puke all over again.)

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

Actually (and this seems grosser when you say it then when you actually do it), my mom always had me barf into the kitchen sink, because we had a garbage disposal, and, as you say, it makes more sense than kneeling over the toilet. I think it wasn't until I was in college that I threw up in a toilet.

All righty then.

[itskelp.livejournal.com]

oh yes, sinks equipped with garbage disposals are excelling for vomiting, among other things

[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

Vomit clogs up the sink. Maybe the vomiter won't care, being ill; but the one who's gotta unclog that mess is going to care VERY much.

[slvrymoon.livejournal.com]

I always preferred to throw up in the garbage. The only way I'd do it in a toilet is if it's completely spotless! Luckily I don't throw up very much!

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

A suppository?

But, mom, I'm not nauseas down there!

[lightning-rose.livejournal.com]

Suppositories make sense if you're vomiting.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Story a friend told me years ago: The father's PO'd because his son goes out and gets drunk and barfs in the sink. He wouldn't mind so much if he'd use the toilet. He tells him "Some day you'll barf your stomach out!" but the son doesn't listen.

So the dad gets a pig stomach and when son goes out drinking, dad puts the stomach in the sink. Sure enough, the son comes home. HUALGHHH!

Next morning, the son tells his dad, "Dad, you were right! Last night I threw up my stomach, right there in the sink.

"But don't worry. I put it all back!"

[meezergal.livejournal.com]

My God, who knew there were so many different places and styles of vomiting? It's sort of amusing, in a disgusting way.

[acksed.livejournal.com]

Suppositories? Syrup? So many ways to abuse that it's not funny.