A going problem
November 5, 2007
Just a quick question.
Why is it that incontinence drug commercials are afraid to say “urinate?”
Why is it always called “going?”
As in - “If you have problems going frequently, going at inopportune times or going with pain…”
Or, if you have prostate problems, you might hear that “Your going problem might be a growing problem.”
You mean urinating?
These are adult drugs, right? Let’s just go ahead and refrain from the euphemisms. What’s next - peepee? Make water? Jeez.
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I once worked for an American firm manufacturing Pills for the Kidneys and Bladder. Our literature used to describe geriatric peeing problems as “getting up nights”.
I was young then, and my problem in those days was getting up mornings.
Incidentally, the pills were pharmaceutically sound and contained among other things methylene blue, a perfectly respectable urinary antiseptic. This accounted for their world-wide sales because they made you pee blue, so that used to say discreetly “within a few hours of taking the pills you will see that they are doing you good”. In unsophisticated markets we were more blunt: “The Blue Comes Through”.
Corey- It’s all about the clever rhyme… “your urinating problem might be a dilating problem” just doesn’t have the same ring. On a side note, today I had to explain to one of my kids that the, “gotta go, gotta go, gotta go right now” jingle is actually about going to the bathroom; its not about changing locations.
Do you sing that song in class? You could still sing it during bathroom breaks.