So, you guys probably remember the WTF moment about this new weight loss drug (well at the time it was new) called alli. I can’t believe that it’s still around after all these years! I thought they’d gotten sued by now for pain and suffering and ruined laundry. So I saw this thing with alli reviews and the findings are even more interesting.

Alli does lower cholesterol and risk of type 2 diabetes with extended use. However, it does not really promote much weight loss. The average participant in studies used the prescription dose, not the Alli dose, and about 70% lost 5-10% of their body mass, not necessarily in fat over the space of a year, while the rest did not lose any weight at all. Those that did lose weight gained it back after they went off Orlistat. Unfortunately, you could lose more than 5 to 10% of your body weight with diet and exercise alone.

…No really? You can probably lose more body weight just by masturbation.

Remember the list of side effects that it comes with? You know, anal leakage, increased chance to shit your pants, the possibility of losing your social life? It’s there. Just imagine yourself taking this medication just so you can be .5% lighter. You’re at work…with light pants on. You start feeling something come out…

Oh yeah, goodbye those pair of pants. Goodbye social life too. You’ll be the one known in the office as the one who couldn’t control their bowels. People are cruel. And heaven forbid if you work in child care. Kids are crueler.

Here is one of the poor consumer reviews:

used this product for a week and for that week I felt crappy…..I guess I wanted so desperately to be thin..I did NOT consult doctor first..How many people do!!! Well on the seventh day I passed out twice..That was it….I would rather have my live than die trying to be thin!!!!!DO NOT USE THIS product ..It is NOT safe!!!!Even if many reviews say it is…It is not!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well this person made a mistake and not consult a doctor before taking this drug. But she also makes a point there–how many people do when they start a new diet, especially ones including over-the-counter diet pills? And the scary part about this case is that she passed out–twice–while on this medication. She could have died the third time.

Why hasn’t this been pulled yet? What are these big hats doing up at the FDA?

This is supposed to be an acne treatment pill? (Didn’t know there was a such thing, but I digress)

All right, so I saw this thing about accutane side effects. Didn’t know what accutane was until recently, but I just read it. Apparently this thing has the world’s longest side effect list ever. This thing causes you to want to sleep, makes you be in a lot of pain, messes with your moods, may kill your unborn child…wtf? Really?!

At times I get a sudden acne breakout, but nothing too serious, and this isn’t supposed to be taken for mild breakouts. But who in their right mind would actually try this to get rid of their acne?

I was going to write a story about rubber stamps, but it flew out of my head. Oops.

But for real though, I was trying to log into WordPress, only to find out that I’d have to reinstall it. What the…?!

It turns out that everything was intact, but one of the tables crashed (didn’t know that it can do that!), hence the “install WordPress” thing. So I had to Google on how to repair it, and did just that. So everything is fine, except everything is loading a lot slower than I’d like to. But…everything’s fine otherwise.

I have a job interview tomorrow. Hopefully everything goes my way this time. I’m being driven up a wall not having any money.

There’s my update, and I’m sticking to it.

Wow, I haven’t done one of these in a minute, so I’ll do one now, since it’s been over a week since I’ve blogged, and it’s still fresh in the mind.

Coming from a friend’s house today, there were two pitbulls loose on the block. Their master is trying to get them into a car so she can take them home. One looked at us, and it was adorable. My friend was like “hey, it’s not going to bother us”. And that one didn’t. There was the other one, much bigger than the other, and the moment it saw us, it just barked nonstop. The master is trying to get it to get away from us, and it wouldn’t listen. So what does this little saucy bitch do?

Kicked it.

That’s right. She kicked the dog because it wasn’t obeying her. My friends thought that this was hysterical, but I’m a little more sensitive to it, because while I’m not a big fan of pitbulls (I’m a bit scared of them; they have a way of intimidating people), I still love animals. That was not necessary at all. There are ways to get a dog to obey you. Ways that do not resort to kicking it. I mean, kids disobey their parents all the time. Does it make it okay to kick them? I think of pets like children. You have to feed them, give them shelter, clean up after them, and give them lots of TLC. When your child disobeys, what do you do? Give them a time-out right? Yeah. Or, you give them a small smack on the bottom or hand. Granted you can’t give a dog a time-out (not that I know of anyway since their brain work differently), but you have to understand–you have to train them to be obedient.

Unfortunately, this is how some people train pets–put them through a form of torture. And this is why so many people hate dogs, namely pitbulls. Because the masters train them to be vicious and when they aren’t obeying–kick, or a punch will knock them into place.

I have a next-door neighbor who has two Rottweilers (another breed that I’m not a big fan of either–the intimidation thing again). One morning, he found one of the dogs eating the garbage. Instead of saying “no”, pulling them away, and nothing more, this fool punches her. PUNCHES her!! If I didn’t live in an area where you have no idea who has a gun, I’d punch the fool myself.

Oh, it gets worse. Just a few weeks ago, I’m getting the mail, and the master and both the Rottweilers are out of their yard. All of the sudden, all I hear is “get that ass! Get his ass!” He’s teaching them to fight. I don’t think he has a clue, nor does he care that one of them could have been seriously injured, or killed. Then what happens? They’d have Animal Control up their ass. It’s really fucked up. The only reason why we haven’t called on them yet is because we don’t really like conflict with the neighbors, so we basically mind our business. I’m sure that someone’s going to call eventually. It might be me next time, disregarding conflict.

People, no breed of dog is naturally vicious. It’s the evil motherfuckers training them that are. Shih tzus can be violent if trained accordingly, right? Goes for any breed. Same with children–expose them to violence, they may very well be violent themselves. Remember that. Be good to your pets.