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Why the title?  It all started with a chance meeting, and the opportunity to help a stranger and a response that left me feeling the need to write about it.

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Article: 20051129 (Tue, 29-Nov-2005, 20:07)

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Because She Thinks You're Not Worth It?

Having largely exhausted the sales potential of preying on women's insecurities about their appearance, the same cosmetic company has started aggressively targetting men.

"What you think are great lines, she thinks are premature wrinkles.  React!" - L'Oreal TV advert

Sure.  I'd react.  I'd boot the superficial cow out.  Life is difficult enough without pandering to some shallow bint's vanity-by-proxy.  I sure as hell wouldn't be wasting money on phony self-assurance products.  End of story.

"You think you look the business, she thinks you look overworked.  React!" - L'Oreal TV advert

Does this kind of crap, really sell things?  Is the buying public really that gullible?  I guess if this were someone else speaking, tt's at this point I'd be reminding them that the most commonly read newspaper in the UK is The Sun and that it really does seem to wield a fair amount of influence, so yeah, it's pretty much a given that they are.

For the second time, I find myself finishing an article with the phrase "worrying isn't it?".