New Year thoughts

Well, another holiday has come and gone and the new year is a few weeks old. I am finally "coming down" from the barrage of holiday ads for stuff that "everyone needs to get"..but the effects of that annual consumer attack lingers. I find myself looking at every commercial ontv and thinking :Say WHAT?"..For example, there is a new tooth paste ad that says "Life opens up when you do"...what the heck does that have to do with teeth? Frankly, it sounds faintly erotic..And, then, there is a fairly new toilet paper commercial where a woman (sounding like she is daring to speak the truth about a touchy subject) says "It's time to talk about what really happens in the bathroom" (or something to that effect). For a minute, I found myself wondering if (God forbid) things were not really being "wiped" down there..but, then, I thought...of course, that's not a problem. And THEN, we have the confusing ads for "feminine products" which , one the one hand, seem to imply women need lubrication, and, on the other hand, say women need absorbtion!?!?! Very confusing...