Dark Reason This Mouse is Filled with Drugs | Nostalgia Nerd

The humble computer mouse. It's an item we take for granted. We use it to navigate around our GUI. But there's an altogether darker use for the mouse, a use that may have slipped us by, but could have easily changed our lives for the worse (or better, depending on the outcome). In this video, I explore promotional novelty mice, and their effect on our lives.

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[SmeddyTooBestChannel]

I feel like this started as a social commentary and then just turned into an excuse to look at silly mice. 10/10

[cs]

"Can you imagine using this Viagra mouse for any length of time?"
Well, maybe for 4-8 hours, but then I'd have to ask my doctor.

[chupathingy]

You have no idea how omnipresent drug advertisements really are here in the states. Tv, radio, billboards, sides of buses, clothing, i could go on. Dystopic doesn't begin to describe it. It's like Robocop without the sarcasm.

[theFLCLguy]

I worked at Goodwill, a thrift store in America, and we once got three boxes of mice like that. They were for some random company.

[RocketboyX]

My dad had one of those metal shrouded mice... by the time he was done through it he had worn through multiple layers of metal. You could get a matching mousepad for it as well.

[panqueque]

There's something exceedingly disgusting about a drug company giving branded products to doctor's kids in an effort to get them to prescribe their drugs.

[karenelizabeth]

I love collectibles with floaty stuff and water inside. The Fedex one is pretty cute.

[jrr]

As a child of a doctor in the 90s in the USA. Yes. They got me. I used so many drug company pens and pads at school for notes and I think I even had a lunch bag. Never got a mouse though...

[Otakunopodcast]

I used to work in a doctor's office, this was during the heydey of the pharmaceutical swag era before any sort of (even weakened/watered down) regulation was put in place and BOY HOWDY did we get showered with all sorts of things. Unfortunately our local drug reps must have been pretty boring, because we only got the typical stuff: usually pens and notepads, sometimes t-shirts and hats, the occasional tote or duffel bag. Never got any mice tho. I still have quite a few pens and notepads scattered around the house. They do come in handy.
But yeah I do remember quite a lot of those really weird mouse shapes.
P.S.: It's a good thing they didn't make the M&M mouse round like an actual M&M, otherwise you'd have something akin to the horrid Apple "puck" mouse of the early iMac days. That M&M mouse looks actually usable by contrast.

[punk]

The NHS was flooded with free USB sticks from companies. They were told not to use them since the ones provided to them officially had security measures but the free ones didn't.

[DJSockmonkeyMusic]

As a recovering heroin addict, I want an OxyContin mouse and hat so much I could pop.

[ilusha]

I remember accompanying my mother to pharma conferences and going around for swag. It was a lot of fun. These conferences were much more about the science, my mother being a chemist. So all the people there were nerds at heart who geeked out about their meds and exchanged tons of nerdy swag.

[evanbarnes]

I was one of those kids who the drug company "gifts" reached. My dad was a doctor, and he would only accept the gifts that he thought I would enjoy taking apart, which I always did. I was especially delighted to play with the rotary dampers in the automatically opening calculators

[kaitlyn__L]

I knew one boy in secondary school who had a racing car mouse. He insisted against all evidence it was actually more ergonomic than regular mice.

[danielcenteno]

As the son of two doctors my childhood in the 90s and early 00s was filled with promotionals like those.

[TBMartin]

In the 90's (in the UK) i had a friend who's parents were both doctors (very rich ones who owned multiple doctor surgeries) and these promotional items were very common. I have seen promotion items such as stress balls, telephones, computer mouse's, computer disks and so on. It was very common back in the day.

[ChristianBehnke]

At first I thought "How is this a topic for a 20 minute video?" and then I was pleasantly surprised by the sheer variety of crappy mice! Enjoyed that one. 👍🏻

[mgzukows]

It's because they said Oxycontin was non addictive but gave the same results as morphine. They told doctors you didn't have to worry.

It's always a lie, but that's how it goes. Morphine was a safer alternative to ether. Heroin (Literally name with hero in the word.) Was supposed to be less addictive form of that. Then there was oxyies.

[BonJoviBeatlesLedZep]

Fitting upload because I just got a new mouse myself. Logitech G604.
EDIT: AND THOSE ARE MY EXACT ANTIDEPRESSANTS, PAXIL CR.

[jamesflames]

Naturally the guitar pedal mouse should be operated with the foot.