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General Topics => The Debating Chamber => Topic started by: Colwyn on December 14, 2015, 17:10:52 PM
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I just heard a spokesperson from Nurofen explaining why the fact that their product had been removed from shelves in Australia didn't mean anything was wrong with their marketing and it was not relevant to the UK anyway. He said that company research had shown that people wanted more detailed information whilst "navigating in a grocery environment". I'll take advice from JH on this, but didn't we use to call this ....... "shopping"?
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This piece is old news. They put on the boxes "Migraine" or "Back Ache" etc., but the ingredience are all the same in each box, so the Australian Authorities have taken them off the shelves. Not been removed in the U.K.though. ;)
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It's not old news Your Maj, and the Australian Authorities haven't taken them off the shelves. They've given the company upto 3 months to remove them and in the meantime they'll be deciding on the level of fine that Reckitt Benckiser, a British company, will be paying.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/uk-nurofen-owner-reckitt-benckiser-ordered-to-stop-selling-misleading-target-specific-painkillers-a6772096.html
Yes Colwyn, "navigating in a grocery environment" did use to be called "shopping" in our day, but in modern marketing they have to use 5 words where we could use just 1.
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If it's old news better tell the BBC as I heard it on the radio today. :o
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Me too Marina. :)
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It was reported a very long time ago that the people making headache tablets had put different cures on their tablets i.e. migraine, headache etc., I read that piece on F.B. today and Phil immediately said he knew about it because it was reported a long time ago that all the tablets contained the same things, but all had different conditions (to cure on them). I then remembered I had read this a long time ago too. In fact, I remember me and Phil going into a supermarket and him picking up some tablets for migraine and then showing me some for headaches, with the same ingredience. I would advise peopel who do not know to go and compare the tablet ingredience, they are all the same.
So BBC are playing catch up. This is a post fro 2013.
http://theconversation.com/targeted-pain-relief-or-targeted-marketing-the-truth-hurts-13798
This shows as Phil keeps telling me none of these tablets can concentrate on certain pains, because, they are all the same.
Especially for KKOB. Australian Authorites order products to be taken off shelves.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3359775/Nurofen-tablets-taken-shelves-Australia-misleading-customers-sold-UK.html
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And especially for you Your Maj.
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Now that I've got your attention !
The post refers to what's happened in AUSTRALIA !
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Yes, we are talking about Austraila in case you missed that. It has been old news in the U.K. for years.
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Now.........
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I worked for them for 15 years, this is old/new news and a string of law suits to add to their history!
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So new news is old news if it happened somewhere else years ago.
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I had hoped that the title of the post would give a slight clue that it was about abuse of the English language. Obviously that failed miserably and it has been read as about some damned pills.
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Same old! Same old! ;D ;D ;D
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It's heartening to see that Jacqui and KKOB are maintaining CBF's standards of intellectual discussion and banter! Keep it going guys.............it always puts a smile on my face. ;D ;D ;D
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Now, THAT exchange was blooming funny.
Thanks KKOB and Jacqui....... big, big smile throughout.
Colwyn - I feel your pain but who'd a thought shopping could be such fun.
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Well for those of us who didn't hear it months ago thanks for the story :)
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It's heartening to see that Jacqui and KKOB are maintaining CBF's standards of intellectual discussion and banter! Keep it going guys.............it always puts a smile on my face. ;D ;D ;D
You're welcome.
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Hang on .. does this mean that all those adverts from Anadin that get in the way of The Chase, could in fact be the same pills in different boxes? How surprising is that? : :)
Next thing you'll be telling me is that Night Nurse and other cold and flu 'remedies' are just paracetamol in liquid form or paracetomal given a fancy name and box.
The giant Pharma companies have been fooling most of the great British Public for years, and overcharging them for the privilege too.
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And it gets worse. Jelly babies aren't made from real babies; and tapioca isn't really frog spawn. However, spotted dick is actually made from ...
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And there I was thinking that if I took pain relief for backache, there was a little trolley in it which took the ingredients, by express, straight to the nerve in my back which was hurting and ignoring everything else! You will be telling me next that the moon isn't made of cheese. ;)
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I think you're off your trolley.
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You are not the first person to have told me that! ;)
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I've always been a bit confused about sausage dogs and hot dogs.
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Well........cats confuse me! I've never seen one on a hot tin roof to compare it with, or (as a Manic cat lover) seen a scaredy one!
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I've never seen a Siamese one joined to another.
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You obviously haven't looked KKOB. Ever heard of "cat knotted" ;)
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Oh yes.
Also, I've never seen a cat with 9 tails.
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Or even lives.
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KKOB we are getting so catestrophically off poor Colwyn's post!
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Sorry, time for my tablets I guess.
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Hope you have a panacea in there, they can cure any pain imaginable. Or you could imagine them stopping off at all your pain centres and dropping off a cure from the ingredients. ;)
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Surely you mean ingredience ?
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Had to think hard about that one! ;D
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Come on sadler, keep up! ;) ;D
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Surely you mean ingredience ?
Watch out KKOB....she's behind you!!!
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Marina, I was in front of the game! ;D
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Oh no she's not !
( Well, it is panto season. )
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Oh yes she is! However, I have a pain in my third vertebrae which tablet would you recommend?
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Viagra..............you will then stand up straight! 8)
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A 9mm Nurofen just behind the right ear should cure it.
Viagra will just make you stiffer.
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Sorry KKOB just laughed out loud. Dennis I don't think Viagra would help me, although my husband maybe would be slightly more interesting because of it. We'll see, just put it in his cocoa. Will update you all later. ;) ;) ;D ;D
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Oh yes she is! However, I have a pain in my third vertebrae which tablet would you recommend?
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My apologies Sadler. I didn't know. :-[ :'(