{"id":81,"date":"2003-06-04T22:56:27","date_gmt":"2003-06-05T04:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/blog\/?p=255"},"modified":"2003-06-04T22:56:27","modified_gmt":"2003-06-05T04:56:27","slug":"human-guniea-pig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Human Guniea Pig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have truly become a human guinea pig!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been doing surveys online for at least a couple of months now.\u00c2\u00a0 Yesterday I received a stick of deodorant to use for the next three weeks.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I will be taking a survey about it online.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve always like participating in product testing.\u00c2\u00a0 Several years ago, I participated in a product test for gel pens.\u00c2\u00a0 Obviously, their tests were successful and the products were well-received because now you see gel pens everywhere.\u00c2\u00a0 I gives me great pride to know that I tried them first!<\/p>\n<p>I guess deodorants are another story.\u00c2\u00a0 Brian thinks it&#8217;s a bad idea.\u00c2\u00a0 He goes, &#8220;I&#8217;ll laugh if you start walking around with your arms in the air because you can&#8217;t put them down due to an armpit irritation.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 I doubt that will really happen.\u00c2\u00a0 But then, I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m trying (other than it&#8217;s a deodorant stick).\u00c2\u00a0 Being that I have voluntarily subjected myself to this, I doubt that I could sue should anything bad happen.\u00c2\u00a0 But that&#8217;s being pessimistic.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s just like any old deodorant stick.\u00c2\u00a0 It can&#8217;t possibly kill me!<\/p>\n<p>I told Brian about it last night while we were laying in bed, watching tv.\u00c2\u00a0 I mentioned the paragraph in the instruction letter that came with it which states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you experience a medical emergency related to this product, discontinue use and call 651-632-6180.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suppose so they can do a cover up.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;ll mop up everyone who knows that you took this product so they can&#8217;t get sued.\u00c2\u00a0 After which they will disavow any knowledge of your being a part of the program.\u00c2\u00a0 Just kidding!<\/p>\n<p>Brian, paranoid freak that he is, goes &#8220;Fuck that!\u00c2\u00a0 I think you should send it back to them and highlight all of the things that you disagree with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s just being paranoid.\u00c2\u00a0 Those disclaimers come standard on everything.\u00c2\u00a0 And I mean, EVERYTHING!\u00c2\u00a0 This is the US after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have truly become a human guinea pig! I&#8217;ve been doing surveys online for at least a couple of months now.\u00c2\u00a0 Yesterday I received a stick of deodorant to use for the next three weeks.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I will be taking a survey about it online.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve always like participating in product testing.\u00c2\u00a0 Several years ago, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}