Videos of old Ayds television commercials have enjoyed a resurgence of popularity on Internet video sites for the unintentional dark humor from the association with the wasting associated with HIV infection (for example, Ayds helps you lose weight or Why take diet pills when you can enjoy Ayds? or even Thank Goodness for Ayds).
if you will eat any sweets only two pieces once or twice per day, it is ok. People get fat while they eat everything what they see and do not like to move – just sitting.
I eat lot of candies and sweets, but I run a lot. And I am very flat guy
My apologies. When someone shows up here with an inyourface avatar and screen name and a link to their screen name, it usually is for self-promotion.
However, you should know that we don’t take kindly to “firsters” — or any other “ers” for that matter — here on FB. They generally tend to get nommed, bludgeoned, spindled and/or mutilated on sight.
Isn’t it those kind of rockets they used on that ’67 Chevy in the first season of Mythbusters? Or was it what they called that Chevy after installing said rockets?
It’s not the size of the package, it’s how you present it.
I like women with curves. If I wanted to date someone who looks like a child I’d be a pedobear.
I laughed at that too, that totally wouldn’t fly today. Today she would say “size 8″ cause 10 is still too fat but 6 just wouldn’t be believable in a commercial.
Wow, now that you pointed out the link, I just realized how weird and useless memory-usage I must have, since I remembered seeing that ad from almost a year ago, but I forget a bunch of other things which actually happen to be important. :\
Still funny, even if it is over 25 years old. The real fail here is that failblog posted something that has already made its way through every other comedy outlet known to man.
I read about these on Wikipedia and apparently the claim that they help you lose weight was bogus. It was theorized that some people might’ve lost some weight because the box recommended having one with a warm beverage before a meal. And it has been shown that a warm beverage before a meal helps to curb your appetite. So you probably could’ve gotten the same effect without the candy.
OK youngsters. AYDS was simply the name of a ‘weight loss supplement’ that was similar to all the ones out there today. It didn’t work then and they don’t work now. But the carmel were not bad.
And just incase you don’t know this, GAY also had a entirely different meaning back in the day. geez louise.
♪♫As time goes by, I realize,
How much you mean, to me.
And now, now that you’re here,
promise your love, that I’ve waited to share,
and dreams of these moments together,
Color my World, with hope, of loving you!♪ ♫
By the way, does anybody really know what time it is?
Well, I quoted the next line in the song, but golly, gee, guess what word it includes? Yup, I’m in moderation. I feel like I should be wearing a dunce cap.
I made a reference to an an!magus (Harry Potter ref, for anyone unfamiliar with the books) a couple of weeks ago, & got thrown into moderation. I’m not sure why they haven’t fixed i-m-a-g yet. It was a similar thing that kept Gracie & me from using our normal screen names for the past few days — fixed yesterday by the PTB.
Customer Service and I were e-mailing back and forth. As I was sending the e-mail about the problem with “n-i-g,” she sent me an e-mail saying “we know what the problem was and it should be better now – try it.” Just before I read that e-mail (but after it was sent, I think), I tried to get on & it worked. She said I was correct about the “n-i-g” filter.
What was that song they were singing in that musical in Team America: World Police? Sounds like “Everybody Has Ayds” could be the perfect jingle for this stuff.
What’s really sad is that this was a good product in the 70′s. It really worked. I remember it as a kid. Then “AIDS” came along and they were wiped out by the stigma of the name.
I must be much much older than everyone here, because I remember, as a kid, my Mom having a box of these on top of the frig all the time. My brother and I used to sneak them. They weren’t that good, but stolen ‘candy’ always tastes better. So I hear.
About as funny as my classmate who made brownies with said-laxative…and gave them to the teacher… We didn’t see her the rest of the day…
*stifflesnerk*
She would probably expect me to do that to her! Much more fun to not and let her worry herself into a conniption fit. Whenever I did something nice for her when I was a teen, she always suspected I was playing a prank on her. The solution to that was simple. I stopped doing nice things for her.
At least until April, when I go out of town again. That time will be to Vegas! And a three day convention about the Children’s Tumpr Foundation. I am informed there WILL be a pool though.
I’ll be in a casino/resort, so I certainly hope so! The question will be will I have a computer that works? I am still using my step-fathers and won’t be able to take it with me.
*pouts as well*
It’s entirely possible that I’ll get my computer fixed or replaced by then. But not likely by my birthday.
*wishes for iPhone for birthday like Jon*
*doesn’t expect at all to get one*
Lets be fair here, these dietary supplements were before the disease was widely known of. Now, show me a commercial circa 1985 or later, and I would call it a “Fail.”
See. Now. I remember when that commercial being on tv! In fact… I think my Mom even bought it a box of it at one point. O.o
Yeah… 80′s diet fads… A prelude to todays obsession with “thin”.
Yeah, I found that odd too, until I remembered that whole myth about Marilyn Monroe being a size 16. Dress sizes have fluctuated so much over the years, I’d guess this lady’s size 10 to be more like a 4 or a 6 today.
Probably someone at some point realized that if someone had a choice between a size 4 dress in their line and a size 6 in someone else’s line, and both were in actuality the same size, they’d probably pick the size 4 dress as it would make them feel better.
And I would appreciate it, if when referring to me, you spell/type my name correctly. This means the use of a shift key, which may be too difficult for some.
failinator/co-owner of the Z.T.N (tm)/janitor superspy/troll shhhhwwwwicer says:
Lemme put it this way: There is a reason why, when reading through the comment threads of FailBlog, you rarely see regulars posting in the same thread twice in a row, except when acknowledging a mistake in their previous comment. You never see them post 3 times in a row, with two minutes in between each comment. Patience, young Padawan, patience.
failinator/co-owner of the Z.T.N (tm)/janitor superspy/troll shhhhwwwwicer says:
An ugly poncho/wrap thing (will get used on future train rides because I won’t care if it gets wrecked)
An ugly glass angel (supposed to look like crystal, doesn’t)
A REALLY ugly bag (will also get used for travel, for the very same reason)
Three books pushing her right-wing-christianist belief system (that she KNOWS I don’t share)
A pizza cutter (Orange, but with a plastic blade- still the best thing in the bunch)
A couple of orange ball point pens (she IS trying here)
And some silicone pancake molds (also pretty good)
I get that she’s trying, but the books sort of ruin whatever her intent might have been. She does this to other people to. Even after they have asked her to stop.
I may start sending her Noam Chomsky (sp?) books in retaliation.
My mother will have the perfect book for me to send to my aunt. I just know it.
This aunt has been asked (nicely) to NOT give religious or political items by one of her step-daughters. This aunt told that step daughter that that was what she wanted to give, and would continue to do so. When I heard this, I almost told her (the aunt) to stop sending ME anything altogether. And then I realized… she wouldn’t stop. She thinks she’s “saving” me.
Considering that I tend to think that god is a construct of man, I don’t think she and I will ever see eye to eye on that front.
Seriously, she thinks McDonalds is run by satanists. I WISH I were kidding.
I’m pretty sure she thinks the Catholics are wrong too. She’s rabidly Lutheran. She actually got fired from a teaching position at a Lutheran school for being too Lutheran.
Well, you see, Kerry, if I may, it’s a fail because it’s on Fail Blog. That’s the king of thing that’s featured here. Fail Blog does feature wins from time to time, but you’ll have to wait a bit because they’re few and far between.
No. You see, WITK, if I may, it’s a fail because it’s on Fail Blog. That’s the kinD of thing that’s featured here. Fail Blog does feature wins from time to time, but you’ll have to wait a bit because they’re few and far between.
There is a better appetite suppressant on the market today than a diet candy. Sugarrest (R) does this by competitive inhibition of the sweet taste receptors.
Now y’all can see why the pig farmers had a cow when the media called that nasty flu going round “swine flu” and made them call it “H1N1 flu” instead. Pork sales was fallin’ like a rock.
If you saw that ad a year ago, it was probably on the Interwebs. The ad dates from the early 1980s. AYDS weight-loss candy enjoyed only a few months of okay sales… then a connection between some cases of people suddenly becoming immune-deficient was discovered, named AIDS, and publicly announced. It was as though AYDS had acquired AIDS — nobody wanted to touch it anymore! I’m not sure if it returned to the market under a different name.
This is an early 80s ad, right? Which makes me wonder why she’s so glad to be a size 10. Wasn’t this when the rise of anorexic models began? Is it an effort to promote healthy weight loss? Were dress sizes done differently then? 10 just seems like a size you would start losing weight at, not a size you’d be happy to be.
I’m surprised that it took this long for the Ayds diet plan to make it here.
They were still showing the ads when the Aids outbreak began, then the ads…suddenly…stopped. For some reason. Shame, they made me laugh.
(Sorry,Band-aids just are not as funny because it doesn’t replicate one of the side effects of the disease)
BTW- about the size 10… that was a modern size 8.
We are witnessing the end of realistic body sizes, lucky us.
Perhaps some day they will grow miniature thin humans just for TV, like they grow miniature chickens to fit into TV dinners now.
What the commenters here don’t know…those little chocolates were really, really good. My mom got them and my brother and I would enjoy a few in the evening with a Diet Rite or a Tab. I miss them. I’d buy a box in a heartbeat.
awesome
You misspelled AWESOME!!!!!!ONE!!!!!1!!!ELEBENTY!!!!!!1!!!
Is it possible to buy any of them now?
yes, thank god we have ayds
the candy is a lie
The Cayke is a Lye.
The lye is a cake….of soap?
*Cryes*
*Dyes*
What, I was tired of all this white.
*Snyckers*
Dyd he dye?
*Hydes*
*Jekylls*
Jinx!
*skips into thread*
*erases ‘i’ and replaces with ‘y’*
*skips out of thread*
It’s a tye!
Well, since Shadow isn’t here to do it:
Gracie! Gracie! Gracie!
My apologies. Shadow was distracted by an important phone call from a friend.
Hope everything is okay, Shadow. You sound … a bit disturbed.
Really? I didn’t mean to come off that way. Everything’s fine. Thanks for asking though.
*squeeze*
* Hydes*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayds
Videos of old Ayds television commercials have enjoyed a resurgence of popularity on Internet video sites for the unintentional dark humor from the association with the wasting associated with HIV infection (for example, Ayds helps you lose weight or Why take diet pills when you can enjoy Ayds? or even Thank Goodness for Ayds).
*Jekylls*
if you will eat any sweets only two pieces once or twice per day, it is ok. People get fat while they eat everything what they see and do not like to move – just sitting.
I eat lot of candies and sweets, but I run a lot. And I am very flat guy
The cake is a pie
That pie is a spy!
does it count if i only have the hivvy?
do the hivvy
the hivvy hivvy shake?
I dont need no candy to get ayds?!
This is just full of fail.
She’s full of Ayds
She also failed to lose weight, since you can’t lose weight by adding mass to your body.
*climbs on a scale*
*removes left arm to demonstrate*
Space travel: 100% weight loss, guaranteed!
I have no reaction to that.
Still, it has a certain attraction.
Massive fail.
Floatsum and jetsom weight loss?
*makes a note to try that*
…the latest fad diet.
its an appitatiasomething depressermacallit. eat it and you wont go hungry.
sweet. give it to the pygmies
2nd as well? maybe? what a joyus day!
*eyes RB*
*eyes tombstone*
*eyes RB*
He he he he
what the ehll does that mean
ehllo!!
It means, Mr. Self-Promotion, that you’re closer to it than you might think.
um not self promotion, i browse wordpress blogs, failblog happens to be my fav….
My apologies. When someone shows up here with an inyourface avatar and screen name and a link to their screen name, it usually is for self-promotion.
However, you should know that we don’t take kindly to “firsters” — or any other “ers” for that matter — here on FB. They generally tend to get nommed, bludgeoned, spindled and/or mutilated on sight.
or *shhhhhwacked*
…yes, of course. There’s always that.
Or fooomed. Or glowered. Or ran over by a tank. Or…
*runsawaywithaquickness*
Or SHUNNED! SHUNNED by the regulars!
um i am a regular, just finally learned how to log in from my wordpress
Oh, you poor innocent soul. Much like achieving fame, you are not a regular until other people say you are.
I say! This is most irregular.
Best to get a diaper on it then Marius, lest you want a mess to clean up.
I sorry to ask this but how do you do that?
I’m irregular — and proud of it!
I R regular.
Ayds surely will not make you regular.
idk getting shhhhhhwacked kinda sounds like a good time
You might think so. But you would be wrong. It tends to sting a bit.
I personally find it appalling that in a place such as FailBlog where Monty Python references abound, we do not *SCHLAP!* trolls.
Go right ahead, we won’t stop you!
*is thrilled to have a new weapon*
Noo! Not the COMFY CHAIR!!
DA-DA-DUN!
Fetch the soft pillows!!!
Also, does nobody else remember this product? God, does that make me too damn old or what?
Yes. Yes, you are. You can cross that off today’s to-do list.
Graveyards are full of headstones, so named because if you THWACK! someone across the head with one it really hurts.
jarod did have aids
What is a “jarod”?
Twit.
Isn’t it those kind of rockets they used on that ’67 Chevy in the first season of Mythbusters? Or was it what they called that Chevy after installing said rockets?
i think that was J-rod missles XD
Blows dust of the fail… this is brand new isn’t it? You can tell by her hair do.
these ayds commercials are older than betty white. its played out, not really funny anymore… hope failblog does better than this
Didn’t Jared also get aides to lose weight?
I think his trick was Subway sammiches and Ayds.
Indeed
Not a fail: This came out before AIDS itself.
This.
IS… SPARTAAAA!!!!
No, this is Patrick…
Well, I know affects gay people more often than other demographics, but I was unaware that AIDS itself had “come out”, so to speak…
I accidenty my subject.
Really? I didn’t.
*hands Shadow magnifying glass*
Anything now?
Okay, that time, I was doing something, and you
see it.
*facepalm*
Doh!
You have to hold it like THIS!
In the right context, most of the stuff on FailBlog wouldn’t be a fail. But where’s the fun in that?
except for the slapstick
…and the rim shots.
…and the potato launchers.
Agreed.
But you can’t fight teh stoopid.
I agree, not only does the product pre-date the naming of the epidemic, but the coincidence is really old news.
O RLY
Been flying into Paris lately?
I tried, but she keeps smacking my planes away like they were toys.
*snork*
I caught herpes on the layover.
I remember they were still showing ads for these when AIDS was just beginning to dominate the news.
Yes, it did, but the product name was a massive fail for the manufacturers when AIDS became known as such.
That’s what I was thinking. This was made before everyone started associating the word aids with acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
I remember when this first came around in the late ’70s, early ’80s before AIDS was all that well known.
And at first it was called GRID
She likes being a size 10?……I miss those women…..
We’re still around. Trust me.
Trapezoidal! That’s it! That’s what I am!
Gah! It really is a trap.
*Snickers and Skedaddles*
I think of myself as a sort of rhombus.
A lofty goal, indeed.
Nowadays it would read:
And now I’m a size 00 again!
*pleh*
It’s not the size of the package, it’s how you present it.
I like women with curves. If I wanted to date someone who looks like a child I’d be a pedobear.
I laughed at that too, that totally wouldn’t fly today. Today she would say “size 8″ cause 10 is still too fat but 6 just wouldn’t be believable in a commercial.
“Too fat” is when they start looking at things like piano cases for your coffin. Otherwise, people are just famine resistant.
That’s a UK size 10 which is a US size 6, isn’t it?
Maybe it was for formalwear. The sizes on those run redonkulously small.
She likes being a size 10…because back in those days a size 10 was really a size 10, these days a size 10 is actually a size 14….are we confused yet?
That’s my natural state. Please continue.
ezackly. what was size 10 then is now size 2 most places.
Get AIDS for free from your neighborhood whore.
Everyone has AYDS!
♪
Well I’m gonna march on Washington
Lead the fight and charge the brigades
There’s a hero inside of all of us
I’ll make them see everyone has AIDS
♪
♪ Ayds
ayds ayds ayds ayds
ayds
AYDS!!!! ♪
And now I’m a size 10! So is my dog blue…
♫♪Me and you and a dog named boo…♫♪
lol i dont think its ayds its AIDS omg XD
Fortunately, school will soon be back in session.
Whereupon certain people will once again embark on the arduous task of spelling correctly.
… or at least misspelling in a different venue.
*POUNCETACKLESKAWEEEEEZE*
Problems all worked out now, our Little NS?
oof
*struggles to her feet*
Hiya, LGB! Yup — everything got worked out. They fixed it yesterday afternoon.
So wonderful! So glad to have you back!
(And Gracie, too.)
The world is right once again – at least until it’s time for the zombies to take over.
As long as they do those wonderfully choreographed dances you have them do, they can take over any time!
*squeeze*
Can they wait until after the weekend? I’ve got plans.
Zombie plans?
I’ll see what I can do. No promises.
If your appetite hasn’t been suppressed yet see
failblog.org/2009/01/07/ayds-commercial-fail/
That was my thought when I saw this.
Wow, now that you pointed out the link, I just realized how weird and useless memory-usage I must have, since I remembered seeing that ad from almost a year ago, but I forget a bunch of other things which actually happen to be important. :\
I was afraid this was going to bring out the haters. My cue to get some work done, I’m afraid.
I’ll be back … and I’ll bring ketchup.
WILL SOMEONE PLEASE KICK ME OFF THE DAMN BLOG SO I CAN GET SOME WORK DONE?!?
/kick #failblog LGB get to work!
*ahem*
LGB, I am here with some bad news. This is your temporary eviction notice. You have five minutes to pack up your stuff.
Ahhhh! The voices of reason. My Fail Peeps never let me down…
Thanks! *squeeeeeeeeze*
No time for squeezing! WORK!
You people suck. Life is to short for four-letter-w-words! Play like there’s no tomorrow LGB!
Now that I can post again, I get paid to fail! Er…
*grabs LGB’s hand*
*skips over to the merry-go-round*
*scoops up all the fabulous Fail Peeps*
*squeezes and squeezes*
*squeezes some more*
*never lets go*
You guys are the very bestest!
Whoooops!
*lets go just a little bit*
Better now? Well, you’re still a kinda blue. Just move around a little.
*gasps for air*
*starts to regain color in face*
yknow when i started the last comment there was only 3 comments man u guys add FAST
It’s a team effort.
Go, Team!
*dons cheerleader outfit*
*waves pom poms*
(I miss McFail)
I remember those. Thy were NOT delicious!
Well, I suppose if you have AIDS, and you die, that is an effective way to curb your appetite.
Not. Always.
It just changes the foods you crave.
Monkey not included.
No, Notu — the monkey discussion was on the previous fail. Please try to keep up.
I want Ayds
Still funny, even if it is over 25 years old. The real fail here is that failblog posted something that has already made its way through every other comedy outlet known to man.
Actually, this is the second time they’ve posted an AYDS commercial here. Granted, this is a different commercial, but the joke is the same.
U sure will lose weight with ayds! Lets join and get it! Mmmm…
I read about these on Wikipedia and apparently the claim that they help you lose weight was bogus. It was theorized that some people might’ve lost some weight because the box recommended having one with a warm beverage before a meal. And it has been shown that a warm beverage before a meal helps to curb your appetite. So you probably could’ve gotten the same effect without the candy.
Perhaps it was intended to have a sort of placebo affect?
Well, she probably did, because if she didn’t, she’d be full of it.
*snerkitty*
*LGBsqueezies*
*softcreamysqueeziesfordabuttacow*
Erm… Failblog Fail. this has been on failbog before, just with a different title. Bats!!
OK youngsters. AYDS was simply the name of a ‘weight loss supplement’ that was similar to all the ones out there today. It didn’t work then and they don’t work now. But the carmel were not bad.
And just incase you don’t know this, GAY also had a entirely different meaning back in the day. geez louise.
Really?
Things were different thirty or more years ago? I’m shocked. SHOCKED.
Experiment 1 says no.
I am completely one hundred percent indifferent on the subject.
That’s more than half of your usual effort, Marius! Well done!
*golf claps*
♪ Is it ignorance or apathy . . . Hey I don’t know and I don’t care. ♪
♪ Glory days don’t mean shit to me ♫
♪ I drank a six pack of apathy ♫
♪ It’s staring me down ♪
♪ Wearing a crown of apathy ♪
Marius, I’m really starting to think we were separated at birth.
Hee! Hee!
♪ Your lost and found ♪
♪
Seasons change, time passes by
As the weeks become the months become the years …
♪
8)
♪♫As time goes by, I realize,
How much you mean, to me.
And now, now that you’re here,
promise your love, that I’ve waited to share,
and dreams of these moments together,
Color my World, with hope, of loving you!♪ ♫
By the way, does anybody really know what time it is?
♪ Does anybody really care? ♪
♪ About time. . . ♪
I can’t imagine why.
Well, I quoted the next line in the song, but golly, gee, guess what word it includes? Yup, I’m in moderation. I feel like I should be wearing a dunce cap.
♪ Oh no ♪
♪ We’ve all got time enough to cry ♪
*Dances Judy away from her blog troubles*
Just as long as you’re not ♪ staring blindly into space… ♪
Silly blog.
I made a reference to an an!magus (Harry Potter ref, for anyone unfamiliar with the books) a couple of weeks ago, & got thrown into moderation. I’m not sure why they haven’t fixed i-m-a-g yet. It was a similar thing that kept Gracie & me from using our normal screen names for the past few days — fixed yesterday by the PTB.
Has anyone complained about it, or just played with it like I have? I doubt the PTB are good enough to fix issues they aren’t aware of.
Customer Service and I were e-mailing back and forth. As I was sending the e-mail about the problem with “n-i-g,” she sent me an e-mail saying “we know what the problem was and it should be better now – try it.” Just before I read that e-mail (but after it was sent, I think), I tried to get on & it worked. She said I was correct about the “n-i-g” filter.
I wish i could have AYDS.
I only have AIDS
I remember when that crap came out… just before HIV was commonly called AIDS. Talk about poor timing…
HIV isn’t called AIDS. The condition HIV causes is called AIDS, or “Afflicted Immune Deficiency Syndrome”.
Actually it’s Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, according to wikipedia.
not “Ahh! I Die Soon!
“?
Still better than Nad’s Hair Removal.
Southpark already did it
What was that song they were singing in that musical in Team America: World Police? Sounds like “Everybody Has Ayds” could be the perfect jingle for this stuff.
I think they’re calling it AydSlim now …
Whats sad is that a size 10 now is considered fat
What’s sadder still is a size 8 is also considered fat. I’m pretty sure a 6 is too.
What’s really sad is that this was a good product in the 70′s. It really worked. I remember it as a kid. Then “AIDS” came along and they were wiped out by the stigma of the name.
I must be much much older than everyone here, because I remember, as a kid, my Mom having a box of these on top of the frig all the time. My brother and I used to sneak them. They weren’t that good, but stolen ‘candy’ always tastes better. So I hear.
Ah…. South Park
Everyone has Aydes! AYDES, AYDES, AYDES! Your mother and your grandma and your father all have Aydes!
Not much of a drinker?
That’s called constipation, which requires a different flavor of candy.
*flips the bird to the BM*
No, I will not slow down!
Exlax?
*snork!*
When my mom and my uncle were kids, they fed a whole bunch of Exlax to the dog. The way my uncle tells it is highlarious!
Poor goggie! Musta pooped for days!
I think it was just the one, but it was about every three steps!
*roffle*
*feels bad momentarily*
*roffles some more*
About as funny as my classmate who made brownies with said-laxative…and gave them to the teacher… We didn’t see her the rest of the day…
*stifflesnerk*
I’ll have to try that for my step-mother, a.k.a. Oogna, She Walrus of the North.
Welcome back.
She would probably expect me to do that to her! Much more fun to not and let her worry herself into a conniption fit. Whenever I did something nice for her when I was a teen, she always suspected I was playing a prank on her. The solution to that was simple. I stopped doing nice things for her.
*flips*
What was that for!?
Hiya all! I’m finally home, and back to reliable (such as it is) internet access!!
*SQUEEZE!*
Welcome back, Avis!!!
*squeezies*
What’d I miss?
Welcome home, Avis. Glad to have you back, all to ourselves. Forever.
At least until April, when I go out of town again. That time will be to Vegas! And a three day convention about the Children’s Tumpr Foundation. I am informed there WILL be a pool though.
Will there be good internet?
*pouts*
*squeezies*
I’ll be in a casino/resort, so I certainly hope so! The question will be will I have a computer that works? I am still using my step-fathers and won’t be able to take it with me.
*pouts as well*
Don’t worry, I’ll airmail you my iPhone/netbook. On a purely temporary basis, of course.
Methinks someone is quite pleased with their new Christmas gifts.
I can dance around like the crazy person I am, and FailBlog at the SAME time!
Technology nowadays, eh?
It’s entirely possible that I’ll get my computer fixed or replaced by then. But not likely by my birthday.
*wishes for iPhone for birthday like Jon*
*doesn’t expect at all to get one*
It means you don’t get the inevitable debt that comes with it.
All of the hotels in Vegas have pools. I think it’s a law or something.
I so very much want to get a chance to go swimming! I haven’t been in a couple of years!
I intend to avoid the casino like the plague though.
Not THAT kind of bird, sweetie!
*welcomebacksqueeze*
*squeeze*
The phrase, “take two Ayds in the morning” made me chuckle.
Lose weight even faster with new Diet Ebola-Cola!!!
U can’t be srs about this one….. *facepalm*
But I already enjoy AIDS everyday…….with out some candy!
Do you really know sandy koufax?
Alas, the candy
had an unfortunate name,
and FailBlog found out.
Blame the candy’s parents, they put it on the birth certificate.
♪ I want candy!
I want AYDS! ♪
Methinks it’s time to start voting again.
*adjusts “I voted” pin*
*adjusts “I’ve been voting more or less continuously for the last month” pin, with a smug look on his face*
I have been remiss in my voting.
Sorry.
I will pick it up from here on.
I propose we all make a New Year’s resolution to vote more often.
And early.
Chicago is my kind of town.
When does the polls open again?
*checks watch*
*realizes he forgot to wind it again*
*winds it up, notices it won’t start*
*remembers it’s digital*
Go AYDS!
Candy!!!!111 I thought it all started from a monkey.
…and knowing is half the battle!
*Dons luchador outfit*
*Battles the alphabet kid*
Lets be fair here, these dietary supplements were before the disease was widely known of. Now, show me a commercial circa 1985 or later, and I would call it a “Fail.”
And of course, nobody else thought to inform us of that fact. Thank you for enlightening us.
Hey, no problem. Thats what I’m here for.
And here we have two stellar examples of the need for a sarcasm font.
Well, I guess it could be faked.
<sarcasm>No, that wouldn’t work either.</sarcasm>
What would it look like though? I’m thinking severe italics, with the occasional derisive snort…
Are there italics that slant the other way? That might work.
They have to look snarky somehow.
Maybe upsidedown italics?
*grumblegrumble stoopit things*
[!] sarcasm [\!]
everyone should get AYDS!!!!
See. Now. I remember when that commercial being on tv! In fact… I think my Mom even bought it a box of it at one point. O.o
Yeah… 80′s diet fads… A prelude to todays obsession with “thin”.
If life gives you lemons, make lemonayds. With chocolate.
You can tell this commercial is old because they’re promoting a diet candy by calling her a size 10 rather than a zero.
Yeah. That’s the only way.
Isn’t the entire concept of “diet candy” an oxymoron? Or at least a little moronic?
It’s like low calorie chocolate.
Oooh, only 107 calories? That’s 107 more than I would gain if I just didn’t eat that…
Yeah, I found that odd too, until I remembered that whole myth about Marilyn Monroe being a size 16. Dress sizes have fluctuated so much over the years, I’d guess this lady’s size 10 to be more like a 4 or a 6 today.
Probably someone at some point realized that if someone had a choice between a size 4 dress in their line and a size 6 in someone else’s line, and both were in actuality the same size, they’d probably pick the size 4 dress as it would make them feel better.
God, what a run-on sentence.
Yes, but it was like really good and I like really good run-on sentences and stuff and junk and oh by the way Happy Anti-Kalou Day!
Mhhh… AYDS… I’m sure it has a GREAT taste!
REPLY TRAIN COMMENCE!
ALL ABOARD!!
*choo!! choo!!*
*chug-a-lug-a-chug-a-lug-a*
I don’t have a ticket.
You can have my spare.
Shhh – don’t say that too loudly.
Here – duck under this rope and hide behind the curtain. Nobody will know.
*holds up rope for LGB*
*looks around nonchalantly*
*whistles innocently*
*eyes NS’s antics*
*giggles*
You both have a lifetime pass. You don’t need tickets to ride.
*wiggles her antics*
*runsawayfast*
LESS FILLING!!
Not of the graves… AH!
Now I know why you promote this sort of thing, you sly zombie, you.
TASTES GREAT!
Old Fail.
Really old fail.
Really?
Old?
Fail?
.?
ROF?
Fail?
That really took you 18 minutes to type?
*looks around for ZA*
LMAO!
Is there something in my teeth?
Is my hair messed up?
*frets*
*preens*
1:Firs I had to read all the comments
2:type name
3:typereply
4:tired
5:§§§
No, no, no. Safety must ALWAYS be third.
We’re clearly working with amateurs here, LGB.
Yeah, there’s a couple, actually.
It’s the month of the pseudo-regular. People who pop in occasionally and presume we know who they are.
While some of you might not renember me talk to avis he should renember me.
Ooooooh. Mistake #1 there. I’d run, quickly.
I remember you perfectly well, failinator. Your absence was appreciated, along with one or more of your cohorts.
And, by the way, Avis is a woman.
*runs quickly*
*superfacepalm*
Sorry about all the things i did I want to change.
Teehee, for some reason, I always pronounce “cohorts” inside my head as “co-Wh0res”
Wait what cohort?
And I would appreciate it, if when referring to me, you spell/type my name correctly. This means the use of a shift key, which may be too difficult for some.
I wasnt exactly absent at will I was banned.
Sorry Avis.
Very sorry.
Anyways what is my “cohorts” name
Did you stop to think there might have been a reason for that?
Stopped to think straight after i was banned.
Please tell me what my cohorts name is I want to know.
Is it shadow the sniper?
*facepalm*
… Somebody get this guy his ADHD meds. Please.
What did i do now?
Don’t worry. I’m a doctor.
No meds for me thanks.
*Anaethesises*
Don’t worry. Everything’s gonna be aaaalriight…
Lemme put it this way: There is a reason why, when reading through the comment threads of FailBlog, you rarely see regulars posting in the same thread twice in a row, except when acknowledging a mistake in their previous comment. You never see them post 3 times in a row, with two minutes in between each comment. Patience, young Padawan, patience.
*Waits for something to happen*
Oops too late.
When 6 out of 7 posts in a row are by one person, the phrase “Attention Whore” starts to appear.
Nah im just bored.
Well inflict your boredom on more than one thread.
Or limit the affliction to one post at a time.
Well I am now.
*knocks everything 3 or lower down a number*
*puts safety at 3*
Better?
great aydes are now usful, whay next? Herpyes hershy candy bar?filled with marshmallowy goodness? lmao
This product pre-dated the onslaught of HIV by a long time. It’s a shame the company had to take a hit because of the name.
*headdesk*
*xElebenty*
Avis, late Christmas pressie!
*offers deskpillow*
Now stupidity won’t cause you to hurt yourself quite so much
*rubs forehead*
Thanks, I think this will get lots of use!
An ugly poncho/wrap thing (will get used on future train rides because I won’t care if it gets wrecked)
An ugly glass angel (supposed to look like crystal, doesn’t)
A REALLY ugly bag (will also get used for travel, for the very same reason)
Three books pushing her right-wing-christianist belief system (that she KNOWS I don’t share)
A pizza cutter (Orange, but with a plastic blade- still the best thing in the bunch)
A couple of orange ball point pens (she IS trying here)
And some silicone pancake molds (also pretty good)
I get that she’s trying, but the books sort of ruin whatever her intent might have been. She does this to other people to. Even after they have asked her to stop.
I may start sending her Noam Chomsky (sp?) books in retaliation.
Also? She did send socks too!
I knew it!
Perhaps you can trade them in at a book store for some delicious left-wing propaganda & send that to her?
Or Mein Kampf
and PHOTOSHOP(!!!one!1elebenty) her name onto the front.
The Audacity of Hope might work well.
Or maybe this book. It sounds rather like a hoot.
That might actually get her to stop!!!
That or arrange for an intervention/brainwashing session.
Or worse… something by Richard Dawkins.
My mother will have the perfect book for me to send to my aunt. I just know it.
This aunt has been asked (nicely) to NOT give religious or political items by one of her step-daughters. This aunt told that step daughter that that was what she wanted to give, and would continue to do so. When I heard this, I almost told her (the aunt) to stop sending ME anything altogether. And then I realized… she wouldn’t stop. She thinks she’s “saving” me.
It’s an evil world out there.. people roleplay hornychatting on blogs about failure… trolls “f1rst!!11elebenty!”-ing on blogs about failure…
God was a hard act to follow.
Considering that I tend to think that god is a construct of man, I don’t think she and I will ever see eye to eye on that front.
Seriously, she thinks McDonalds is run by satanists. I WISH I were kidding.
Well… Ronald…
But he’s gone now, over here at least, and McDonalds is a Satan/Satin/PedoClown free zone!
Pshhhh… yeah, right. Everybody knows Ronald McDonald is Catholic.
I’m pretty sure she thinks the Catholics are wrong too. She’s rabidly Lutheran. She actually got fired from a teaching position at a Lutheran school for being too Lutheran.
Lutheran, as Martin Luther, the German, the “Eine Minuten Bitte. Ich habe einen kleinen problemo avec diese Religione.
He was from everywhere“
That was a question. Just not sure where to pop the ?
Well, I think she’d love it if you did it on the beach, right as the finale of the fireworks show reaches its climax, on a loudspeaker. Wearing a tux.
Hang on, there was far to much wrong with that to understand.
Lutheran? As in Martin Luther? The German? The “Einen minuten, Bitte. Ich habe einen kleinen Problemo avec diese Religione”?
And Shadow, that sounds like an awful lot of planning and effort for someone who doesn’t as yet exist.
@ Jon;,
I hope your question was done in the voice of Sean Connery.:wink:
Qwaz, this is no analogie. Put a space between your “.” and “:”
Thatsh a good point you got there, qwaz.
Are you shure you don’t want to sit in the front sheat?
@ Jon, yeah, Lutheran as in Martin Luther, the German guy. My family takes that religion to cult levels.
That’s worth a thought, but she doesn’t include receipts. Likely for that very reason.
I really don’t know what I’m going to do with them.
If they’re brand new, you might be able to exchange them at a large bookseller without a receipt as long as you’re ok with store credit.
I think.
At least it works that way with some other things.
My, aren’t we a bunch of sad little trolls.
I had no idea.
No.
Idea.
Whatsoever.
Hey, Failpeeps!
I don’t know if you know this ….. but AYDS had its name before the disease caused by HIV was widely known.
From what I understand, the company that produced AYDS took quite a hit when AIDS became known.
Really. It’s true! I saw it on Wikipedia!
*flutters eyelashes in as innocent a manner as possible*
*wields a shellacked minnow menacingly*
Eeeeeep!
*runsawayfast*
NO.
FREAKING.
WAY.
That works well as a sarcasm font.
Which one?
The.
One.
Like.
This?
or
This
One.
Yeah.
It.
TOTALLY.
Doesn’t.
Take.
Up.
Unnecessary.
Space.
What’s the big fail? We still have Band-AIDS on the market and no one laughs at that.
Well, you see, Kerry, if I may, it’s a fail because it’s on Fail Blog. That’s the king of thing that’s featured here. Fail Blog does feature wins from time to time, but you’ll have to wait a bit because they’re few and far between.
LOL @ “king of thing.”
*skipsawaywithaquickness*
Is it a fail because she says she’s a size-10?
No. You see, WITK, if I may, it’s a fail because it’s on Fail Blog. That’s the kinD of thing that’s featured here. Fail Blog does feature wins from time to time, but you’ll have to wait a bit because they’re few and far between.
I D what you did there
Because its called ayds and that sounds like aids
Mmm… I love AIDS, er, AYDS.
“mommy, i want ayds!”
Lose weight!…and T-cells!
I remember those ads from like the late 70′s – early 80′s. And no, I am not older than dirt. We’re the same age…
I don’t remember those ads at all. And yes, I was around and watching TV then. I for some reason remember shampoo and cereal ads from that era.
If anyone wants to sue me for all I have done on failblog do it now.
I’m sorry, I used up all my cash suing for damages, the last time I was *THWACK!*-ed. Such is my fate.
Its free
*Tosses ! into comment*
Sue Yu?
I loved that fail or win
Who doesn’t love ayds in their mouth?
Me!
i’ll give you ayds in your mouth you perv
One of my professors was talking about this once…and now I know he was for real.
I just picked up some Ayds from the local girlscouts.
There is a better appetite suppressant on the market today than a diet candy. Sugarrest (R) does this by competitive inhibition of the sweet taste receptors.
I don’t know if I want to eat dinner, wear a size 10 dress with aids.
*Coming Soon* New HYV Flavor!
Now y’all can see why the pig farmers had a cow when the media called that nasty flu going round “swine flu” and made them call it “H1N1 flu” instead. Pork sales was fallin’ like a rock.
This was funny when they made a joke about it on Saturday Night Live in the 1970s. 30 year old joke? Not so much.
I remember Ayds. Haven’t thought about that diet aid for decades.
Including this commercial as a Fail is a fail.
wasn’t Magyc a sponsor for thys?
lol awesome
Urgh. FailBlog failing once again.
This has got to be an ‘epic fail’ doesn’t it?
It fails so perfectly on SO many levels….
If you saw that ad a year ago, it was probably on the Interwebs. The ad dates from the early 1980s. AYDS weight-loss candy enjoyed only a few months of okay sales… then a connection between some cases of people suddenly becoming immune-deficient was discovered, named AIDS, and publicly announced. It was as though AYDS had acquired AIDS — nobody wanted to touch it anymore! I’m not sure if it returned to the market under a different name.
Oh sure, AYDS will help you lose wait, giving the fact that you’ll be dead and won’t be able to eat anything…
MMMM AIDS
they had lower standards those days, I suppose.
Mmmmm… delicious!
This is an early 80s ad, right? Which makes me wonder why she’s so glad to be a size 10. Wasn’t this when the rise of anorexic models began? Is it an effort to promote healthy weight loss? Were dress sizes done differently then? 10 just seems like a size you would start losing weight at, not a size you’d be happy to be.
I’m surprised that it took this long for the Ayds diet plan to make it here.
They were still showing the ads when the Aids outbreak began, then the ads…suddenly…stopped. For some reason. Shame, they made me laugh.
(Sorry,Band-aids just are not as funny because it doesn’t replicate one of the side effects of the disease)
BTW- about the size 10… that was a modern size 8.
We are witnessing the end of realistic body sizes, lucky us.
Perhaps some day they will grow miniature thin humans just for TV, like they grow miniature chickens to fit into TV dinners now.
Anyone else on the Aids I mean Ayds diet?
XD This is like the SP episode “Jared Has Aides”. Good stuff.
The sad this is that she’s a size 10 …
I think this was a southpark joke
she loves being a size 10 again… lmfao that’s like fat in today-land
Well, losing weight is worth dying (from AYDS) for
size 10?!?! thats pretty big..
a size 10 is HUGE!!! woww! hahaa
“I love being a size 10 again!”
The sad thing is today that’s considered huge.
At least it’s better than Swine Fever, and all their SARS.
WOOOW hahaha did they not know about AIDS back then?
Avaliable in 4 Gay, strait, lesbian, and bisexual!!
She’s so beautiful! And size 10. Why isn’t the world like that anymore?
Well, let’s hope there’s never a terrible contagious disease called “Doritos”. Way to fail someday in the future, Frito-Lay!
You know what this means? AYDS IS FINALLY FUNNY!
Now come on, you can’t count that, that ad was looong before it came to mean Another Infected **** Sucker.
there is southpark episode based on this!
First time we heard that eɪds helped losing weight, it was funny. Everytime after the first, it was terrifyingly boring.
What the commenters here don’t know…those little chocolates were really, really good. My mom got them and my brother and I would enjoy a few in the evening with a Diet Rite or a Tab. I miss them. I’d buy a box in a heartbeat.
So this is where Ayd’s came from…
I will give you Ayd’s
hehe so funny
I cracked up laughing after i heard this!
Great !
I don’t need no candy to get ayds?!
fail.