And I really love the Depends by mail (in unlabeled packaging) and the seemingly never ending "catheters delivered to your door" ads (shipping charges are free, also unmarked!).

cares what the neighbors hear?

Along with Depends they are needed for physical disabilities,just like eyeglasses.

I wasn't disparaging users of such products, I think it may be intuited that I am satiring the never-ending advertisements for such products, most importantly the implicate message delivered in their ads! That is, these are embarrassments. I merely extended this to colostomy bags to punctuate the point I was attempting to make.

It's called satire.

Too bad Strom Thurman is gone. He might have done for colostomy bags what Bob Dole did for Viagra.

That's satire, also.

Guess what: if you've had a colectomy, your neighbors probably noticed you were in a hospital and rehabilitation center for a couple months. It's a hilarious surgery one has for the funny reason of staying alive.

I merely want to satire the adverts on the TV for "senior" products.

Please do not reflect my satirical post on to me, personally.

I know that's difficult in a written post here. I've been on both sides of those issues here.

I apologize if you took it otherwise. I thought that I was explicit enough that my post was satire.

Yeah, that's who most of the fellow patients in rehab were - Gulf War II vets in their 20s who were adjusting to their colectomies.

If you want your writing to be understood, write it so it is understandable. When a joke fails, don't blame the audience for writing bad material. HTH HAND.

Maybe we need a satire tag, too.

I intended no malignment, except to those who would market 24/7 for products to exploit senior citizens. They are already advertising, mobile chairs, catheters, Depends-like diapers, fake supplements to fix prostate problems (having to pee all the time -- BTW, it doesn't work), fucking catheters (there's one ad for guys and one for gals -- remarkably the gal's ad has young women; the men's ad not so much), etc.

I see these adverts all the time on my local TV channels -- sorry, there's no cable here, no broadband Internet either.

I report, and possibly satirize. You decide.

I apologize if I offended. If you've never seen these ads I understand why my post may offend. But my post merely related what the ads explicitly say. I merely extended it to colostomy bags as a satirical and putative extension of the already existent marketing on commercial TV.