Comments on: Help Remedies’ Clever Packaging

By: Clubber Lang

Clubber Lang — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:55:10 +0000

I’d like to see this brand branch out into constipation medication as well as emergency contraception.

By: Koushik Chatterjee

Koushik Chatterjee — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:10:09 +0000

I love it…am sure you won’t buy any other brand after reading this…clever marketing

By: Freedom

Freedom — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:26:23 +0000

Why would you ever call aspirin bacon? Everyone in the south knows that bacon is something you take for additional clogging of the arteries, while aspirin is something people use to thin the blood.

Don’t be such a loser.

I’m so much more advanced than you because of your (spelling, showing off, use of humor, lack of previous travelling, failure to drink and take the right medicine, criticism of packaging, love of packaging, etc…)

By: sonstar

sonstar — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:33:40 +0000

I refer to asprin as the blanketed term of “bacon”. yum.

By: Frazer

Frazer — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 05:01:36 +0000

It reminds me of ‘Idiocracy’ when everyone calls Not Sure a fag when talks ).

By: Frazer

Frazer — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:34:39 +0000

Hahaha I love that vid .

By: Joey deVilla

Joey deVilla — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:34:38 +0000

Frazer: Am I to assume you're the voice in the Best Tornado Video Ever? But seriously: when someone asks me for some pain-relieving pill, I use the correct medical terminology.

By: Frazer

Frazer — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:21:09 +0000

Scenario:

I have a headache brought on by a glass of wine. I know I’m not supposed to take tylenol if I’ve been drinking because of potential liver damage. I see this on a friend’s coffee table. It says, ‘help I have headache’ and the packaging is cute and appealing. I remember this site saying that’s what the aspirin package says and I don’t know what the heck this ‘acetaminophen’ stuff is so I assume it must be a fancy name for aspirin as reliable source, a well read author, told me so. I take a dose. A few hours later I die of liver failure. With my last dieing breath I gasp ‘deVilla…’.

A little melodramatic but I think I made my point, hehehe.

By: Frazer

Frazer — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:10:22 +0000

What’s with the vehement response Meg and Crys gave to a minor correction in point of fact? I have never ever heard of the word ‘aspirin’ being used to refer to ‘tylenol’ colloquially or not. In which area do I do this? I’ve lived the Pacific Northwest, Southern California, New England, and the South (I’m in the military) and i’ve never heard anyone just calling all pain relievers as Aspirin. If you want to know why that’s important look at Loiuse’s and aloria’s comments.

raetsel, how is pointing out that the author’s verbatic statement, “The aspirin package is labelled “Help / I have a headache” ” is completely and dangerously incorrect pointless to the post? It sounds VERY relevant to me. Why do you applaud him for stubbornly maintaining patently incorrect and misleading information that could kill someone for no other reason then perhaps a point of pride?

Mr. deVilla, if you are using this term ‘colloquially’ as you say then that implies that it is used conversationally in this manner in some region or dialect somewhere in the world. Can you please tell me where you’ve heard this used in conversation in this manner?

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:20:20 +0000

Message to derrick: Don’t worry, you won’t be mistaken for a human. Not with spelling like that.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:46:25 +0000

I’m not exactly a really burly manly man, but I agree with Derrick, wtf? I went on their site, curious about the cost. The cost is $6 for 12 tablets of aspiramenaphin or whatever it is (it’s not a big deal, chill out people). It’s also $6 for eight bandages. You’re paying 6 bucks for a cute package with a witty little message on it. Thinking about this is giving me a headache.

By: derrick

derrick — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:41:56 +0000

this is the dummest hippie sh*t I’ve read in a while. Actually there’s a lot of this stuff popping up these days: cute little packages, filet mignon and curry and cinamon flavored rice for you dog… what happened to america’s balls? why can’t our advil just be advil. What are they trying to cover up with these fun little packages? Is this what consumers want? I’m fu*king ashamed to be human right now

By: Rosberry

Rosberry — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:05:52 +0000

This would be nice if you could get to the items easily. This kind of packaging is hard to open if you have arthritus, carpal tunnel syndrome or any other problems affecting hand and finger strength. The worse you feel the harder it is to open the packages. FAIL.

By: raetsel

raetsel — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:39:10 +0000

i wouldn’t promote calling anything but aspirin as “aspirin” either, but is all this blabbering about aspirin versus acetaminophen even necessary here? it’s not like he’s suggesting use of one or another or anything even remotely along those lines. he’s showing you neat products with neat packaging. so yes, to all the idiots going on about it – please shutup, it’s pointless to the post & is only to in effect say “i’m right, i’m right, i know about pain relief medicine, give me a cookie!!!”

if you go to the site, as was pointed out, they do say what it is specifically.

anyway, thanks for the neat post sorry the point seemed missed to most. i’m glad you didn’t change your use of the word “aspirin.”

By: aloria

aloria — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:08:24 +0000

Likewise, I am on medication that, when taken with acetaminophen, can seriously mess up my liver. When I ask for an “aspirin,” that’s exactly what I mean. I never heard of people using it just to refer to a generic painkiller, but I guess I should be more careful now that I know it happens.

By: Louise

Louise — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:34:03 +0000

Far be it from me to feed the troll but I would never call a substance that wasn’t aspirin “aspirin”. That would be kinda dangerous. I’m allergic to aspirin and it might kill me. Believing thse beautifully packaged pills to be aspirin could only lead me to miss out on a real treat. So let’s call them painkillers, please.

By: Crys

Crys — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:58:17 +0000

I am inclined to agree w/ Meg. Aspirin is just used to refer to a OTC pain reliever. This is not really a forum to be discussing the difference between aspirin, tylenol, advil, or their generic equivalents, the use of the word aspirin was just a term being used as a description.
Instead of looking at the intent of the original post, you have decided to analyze exact terminology. How about just acknowledging the post?
And if you have nothing better to do than to make sure everyone knows your knowledge of the importance of these meds, then I say “Get a Life”!
Please find a truly important cause that could use your kind of zealotry.

By: Kylie from Australia

Kylie from Australia — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:11:50 +0000

I’m completely with you, Meg. Aspirin and paracetamol are two completely different drugs that do completely different things, and they certainly shouldn’t be confused! If someone had a heart condition and asked for aspirin and you gave them paracetamol instead, there could be serious consequences. I understand if you called all brands of paracetamol “Tylenol” (Here we have “Panadol”, and even generic brands of paracetamol are referred to as Panadol) because it’s the same thing, just a different brand. But aspirin is a completely different drug and should not be confused.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracetamol

By: Alix

Alix — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:04:13 +0000

Humour should relieve some of that pain:)

By: JB

JB — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 03:18:58 +0000

help
I stumbled upon that site totally by accident and with no prior knowledge of it and now I’m obsessively compulsively googling the entire ‘net looking for more to satisfy my addiction.. helpineedhelp(.com