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I see they are rerunning the Johnson and Johnson commercial that is a tribute to nurses - with the nurse giving chemo to the little girl while they sing the name game song.  I still tear up when I see it.  Every time I see it I pray that that little girl was cured and is alive and well today.

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I see they are rerunning the Johnson and Johnson commercial that is a tribute to nurses - with the nurse giving chemo to the little girl while they sing the name game song.  I still tear up when I see it.  Every time I see it I pray that that little girl was cured and is alive and well today.

There's something creepy and not quite right about men who become nurses so I get skeeved out by that ad.

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Every time I see it I pray that that little girl was cured and is alive and well today.

It's an actor.

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Here's the info from a marketing website:

https://inthecrowds.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/johnson-johnson-nursing-its-way-into-hearts-and-minds/

"The man in this commercial is Tom, an actual nurse. Only the patient is an actress. While this spot focuses on pediatric nursing, there are at least two similar spots focusing on emergency room nurses and hospice nurses. Each one is similarly well done."

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I have known a lot of nurses, male and female and I think they are pretty darn special. Also most teachers. They do some awful jobs that most of us haven't a clue about. I worked in not-for-profit and for profit psych hospitals, so I have seen a lot. 

And I love that commercial where they sing The Name Game as a distraction. I have to have distractions when I get shots or have blood drawn, so bless him!

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11 minutes ago, friendperidot said:

I have known a lot of nurses, male and female and I think they are pretty darn special. Also most teachers. They do some awful jobs that most of us haven't a clue about. I worked in not-for-profit and for profit psych hospitals, so I have seen a lot. 

And I love that commercial where they sing The Name Game as a distraction. I have to have distractions when I get shots or have blood drawn, so bless him!

I started my professional life as a med tech (1972) in hematology. One of my jobs was to collect blood in pediatrics by finger pricks. I found that if you didn't lie to the kids that it wasn't going to hurt - just be a sting that would go away and they needed to be brave, they almost always bucked up and put their brave face on. Loved those kids. This commercial resonates with me for that experience. Yeah for all the health care workers, men and women, in any profession.

My 5 year old grandson didn't know boys could be doctors since all the doctors he or his mother had were women. Hah. 

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14 hours ago, riley702 said:

I was in 4th grade, and other kids were pretty crappy about it. In Junior High, we'd play volleyball in Phys Ed and kids would try to spike the ball into my glasses and knock them off or even break them. And the shitheads wonder why I never come to class reunions.

I hear ya! I was bullied and harassed in junior high and high school. I do not attend class reunions because why do I want to hang out and talk about the good ole days when the good ole days were not all that great for me. I have seen pictures of my former classmates and chuckle because they do not look good at all. I know it sounds petty, but sometimes karma does make house calls.

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@peacheslatour that Tile commercial makes me cry too.

The Macy's Lighthouse commercial makes me tear up every time.  My dad dad me Morse Code when I was about the little boys age and I think it's so sweet that he sends a message to his friend through Morse Code.

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/wrxX/macys-lighthouse

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On ‎11‎/‎3‎/‎2017 at 6:14 PM, peacheslatour said:

OMG, that Tile commercial with the lost stuffed Panda bear. I know it has a happy ending but that sad little bear wandering around by himself with people just ignoring him and his sweet overtures at friendship make me bawl like a baby.

Tell me about it.  And the way the little girl hugs him so tight........waterworks.

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I did some Christmas shopping at Macy's at the beginning of the week, and one item I was considering was not under a sale sign.  I scanned it to see the price, and was seriously surprised when it came up full price - I really figured everything in the store was on some degree of sale at any given point.

1 hour ago, Bastet said:

I did some Christmas shopping at Macy's at the beginning of the week, and one item I was considering was not under a sale sign.  I scanned it to see the price, and was seriously surprised when it came up full price - I really figured everything in the store was on some degree of sale at any given point.

Nah, they shift it around so you're always coming back to check and maybe buy more stuff.

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Is this where we also post about commercials that traumatize us beyond all human endurance? Because if I see that LifeAlert commercial one more time (the one with the woman’s terrified, sobbing voice calling for help in her huge, echo-y, empty house), I think I will curl up into a ball and die.

I used to snicker at the “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” lady. Funny how, the older I get, the less amusing it has become.

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Is this where we also post about commercials that traumatize us beyond all human endurance? Because if I see that LifeAlert commercial one more time (the one with the woman’s terrified, sobbing voice calling for help in her huge, echo-y, empty house), I think I will curl up into a ball and die.

That is an absolutely horrible ad! It needs to be reshot to show someone rescuing the poor lady at the end.

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4 hours ago, smittykins said:

That’s probably why they turned the trauma up to eleven; we all snickered at the original lady and didn’t take the product seriously(and also why there’s now a disclaimer at the beginning of the ad).

The only thing they could do to make it WORSE would be to say "Without LifeAlert, this could be YOU... dead on the floor!"  I think they really should re-shoot this disturbing ad, and show the rescue.

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