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Anyone else find the "23andMe" advert creepy? (Vanity)
TV Advert ^ | me

Posted on 08/21/2013 8:40:43 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear

I have seen this running today on FOX and I think it's creepy. So you get a 'testing kit' and send it off to a lab??? To find out about myself?

(Excerpt) Read more at 23andMe.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 23andme; annewojcicki; bigbrother; chromosomes; creepy; genealogy; genetics; helixmakemineadouble
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

What’s REALLY creepy are the Al Jazeera ads plastered all over piratically every TV show on every cable channel.


21 posted on 08/21/2013 9:54:55 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Amendment10

I would be interested, but not at $100 a pop.

I am of English/German/Irish heritage, but somehow ended up with O+ blood type. I’m curious as to whether there might be some American Indian genes in there, from back in the 17th Century, or ... who knows?


22 posted on 08/21/2013 9:55:35 PM PDT by VietVet (I am old enough to know who I am and what I believe, and I 'm not inclined to apologize for any of)
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To: VietVet

O+ doesn’t necessarily mean you have heritage in addition to the ones you listed.

O+ is a universal blood group found in all races.


23 posted on 08/21/2013 10:01:40 PM PDT by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
Ever been to the "18AndMe" site?


24 posted on 08/21/2013 10:11:08 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
I'm gettin a bit burned out on Jan from the Toyota commercials.

But she's still a billion times better than the most washed out hag in advertising history...
Put that cow out to pasture, puhleeeeeze!
25 posted on 08/21/2013 10:18:10 PM PDT by djf (Rich widows: My Bitcoin address is... 1ETDmR4GDjwmc9rUEQnfB1gAnk6WLmd3n6)
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To: Yehuda; Slump Tester
Sasquatch IS something I haven't seen before!!!

Say goodbye to Sasquatch

26 posted on 08/21/2013 10:32:08 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: djf

I read somewhere long ago that of all people, it’s a 50-50 split on if they think Flo is hot or not.

I see your “not” vote and hereby nullify it with my “hot” vote.

Lookin’ good, Flo! (Lookin’ reeeal good.)


27 posted on 08/21/2013 10:37:46 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Slump Tester

Looks like Gore and ManBearPigfoot.


28 posted on 08/21/2013 10:39:20 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Arguing with a marxist is like playing Chess with a Pigeon.)
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To: djf

They need to flush Aunt Flo; there’s something unsanitary about her...maybe it’s the unnaturally red lips.


29 posted on 08/22/2013 12:07:19 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: ApplegateRanch

I agree. Also am I the only one who would like to stomp on that faggy sounding gecko?


30 posted on 08/22/2013 12:11:55 AM PDT by catfish1957 (Face it!!!! The government in DC is full of treasonous bastards)
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To: catfish1957

I’d like to feed that thing to the Roadrunner.


31 posted on 08/22/2013 12:17:17 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: PghBaldy

I had the opportunity to have my DNA checked for no charge at Ancestry.com. I was going to do it until I read the agreement, which gave them the right to use the information for any purpose and to change the purposes after the fact.


32 posted on 08/22/2013 4:00:49 AM PDT by Piranha (Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have - Saul Alinsky)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
Yes, it is "creepy." Like most advertisements, designed to provoke an emotional response and by-pass critical thinking. It's also a product "bound to happen," perhaps even useful, if a bit premature.

Hopefully, such a broad ranging company, in search of a larger audience than academia and medical research, could reduce the cost of DNA-typing, if not the quality.

But, yes... the ad is, as you said, "creepy," catering to the religion of self-idolatry.

33 posted on 08/22/2013 6:21:16 AM PDT by Prospero (Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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To: James C. Bennett

True, but much less prevalent among western Europeans than Central Asians or some American Indians.


34 posted on 08/22/2013 9:38:38 AM PDT by VietVet (I am old enough to know who I am and what I believe, and I 'm not inclined to apologize for any of)
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