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

@DrewWalton

2 жыл бұрын

This comment made me laugh harder than I'm comfortable admitting.

@lethauntic

2 жыл бұрын

Isn't it ironic for a channel centered around computer stuff to do social commentary, though?

@SeaJay_Oceans

2 жыл бұрын

I like the mouse, the water should have little plastic gold fish in it ! Aquarium Mouse ! :-)

@Nostalgianerd

2 жыл бұрын

Kinda did, not gonna lie

@lasgio_

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nostalgianerd YOOOOO WHERE CAN I GET THAT SICK HOODIE??

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.

@olik136

2 жыл бұрын

A few months ago I was watching a twitch stream until they had a sponsored segment... sponsored by a painkiller... that is a hard no-go for me

@martinhorner642

2 жыл бұрын

True story. The way I remember it, when I was growing up (70s/80s) there was just no such thing. Then there was common purpose drugs being advertised to the public ("Ask your doctor about...") like viagra, heart disease, blood pressure, etc. and now it's absolutely insane. I've seen commercials for chemotherapy drugs, stuff for really specific skin diseases, one for a liver disease I had to look up, never heard of it before...

@krzysztofczarnecki8238

2 жыл бұрын

In Poland you can have a whole ad segment on TV made of drug or supplement commercials. And the most annoying is that they often adverise some really unappetizing medications during meal time, like the drugs against: diarrhea, constipation, vaginal fungus, oily hair, foot fungus, irritable bowel syndrome, eye warts, face zits, hemorrhoids, butt ulcers, bad breath, incontinence and other gross stuff. Not to mention all sorts of painkillers, antidepressants, erection boosters, sleeping pills, anti-stress drugs, drugs against looking old, having too much or too little water in your organism, being too or not enough .... It's like a third of our ads. Reminds me of the song "pills" by St. Vincent.

@davidmcgill1000

2 жыл бұрын

Could say they filled the void cigarettes once had.

@acertainshape

2 жыл бұрын

We can thank George W. Bush for deregulating all that. He signed the bill. I am sure no lobbyists were involved.

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.

@fl0atpvnk

2 жыл бұрын

3 whole boxes?! That’s a lot. What other weird things did you find that people would donate?

@arthurmann578

2 жыл бұрын

I built my first computer in 1981 and in all of these years on working on computers AND going to Goodwill, Salvation Army, thrift stores, I have NEVER SEEN a single one of these mice! This is my first time! I kinda' want one or two now...😁

@shawbros

2 жыл бұрын

@@arthurmann578 I've seen them a couple times in thrift stores. One was a soccer themed mouse, with a soccer ball in the liquid.

@arthurmann578

2 жыл бұрын

@@shawbros I'm definitely going to keep my eyes out for them now! 👍👍

@SeaJay_Oceans

2 жыл бұрын

The mouse with actual instant coffee in it would be wonderful... need a little perk for the afternoon ? Sprinkle your mouse into a glass of water ! :-)

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.

@blakegriplingph

2 жыл бұрын

They did that to cigarettes before, actually.

@ohioplayer-bl9em

2 жыл бұрын

Drug companies are 75% of all advertising dollars in the US. Not 75% of the commercials overall that you see but 75% of the money spent. They spend more money per commercial because they are not buying just the commercial, they are buying influence and good news countries by filling the MSM pockets. Watch the coverage from the MSM on the vaccine and alternative treatments on COVID. According to the MSM there is only one option... The vaccine.. vitamins, weight loss, exercise is all pointless. You have to get the vaccine according to them. It's hard to have freedom when you are owned by someone.

@thomashenden71

2 жыл бұрын

And even Oxycontin, too! 😕

@nessamillikan6247

2 жыл бұрын

It’s not unlike public schools having all of these unhealthy snacks available for children to buy-these companies want you to get started as early as possible so you make their products a part of your lifestyle, including instilling brand loyalty. It is so predatory.

@blakegriplingph

2 жыл бұрын

@@nessamillikan6247 Which is why some countries in Europe actually banned advertisements aimed towards children.

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...

@CommodoreFan64

2 жыл бұрын

My mother works at a state mental hospital(she's about to retire in the next year, or so), and in the late 90's, and early 00's she would bring home all kinds of drug rep crap like pens, staplers, note pads, clocks, flash lights, mini pocket knives, pen holders, stuffed knock off Beanie Babies, etc., and I still have some of it like a blue stapler that stands upright for Viagra 🤣(serious though trying to sell Viagra to a mental hospital where some of them are criminals in padded rooms, come on Pfizer WTF?!?!), but yeah never got a mouse either.

@sparklesparklesparkle6318

2 жыл бұрын

@@CommodoreFan64 One of my coworkers ate like 10 bluechews on a shift on a job where it's literally only men. not sure why he wanted to have a raging carrot around a bunch of men but I guess that is his business.

@braidena1633

2 жыл бұрын

i kept a viagra tie as a backup in case i didn't dress up on thursdays for catholic school church. you couldn't tell what it was unless you were looking. which one teacher did and banished me from wearing it again. but yes -- drug rep pens, squishy balls, bags, clocks, desktop toys, all kinds of this stuff.

@sparklesparklesparkle6318

2 жыл бұрын

@@braidena1633 I used to own a custom printed T Shirt that had the twin towers at the moment of the second impact with the giant fireball shooting out of the tower and the billowing pillars of smoke.

@lasarousi

2 жыл бұрын

There's a difference using a shitty pen with a fading brand and actually advocating anything about that brand. Kinda tabloid levels of outrage in this section.

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.

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.

@LevitatingCups

2 жыл бұрын

Its gotten worse today, but its more on the sense of what to recommend, instead of "have a free product". Ads alone in the U.S.A. are roughly 14 billion a year, you would hope you'd atleast get a free mouse, something with more than 400dpi.

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

"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.

@Charlesb88

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, it would be quit HARD to use the viagra mouse. 😀

@JaredConnell

2 жыл бұрын

It would probably give you carpal tunnel and make your wrist all stiff

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.

@johndododoe1411

Жыл бұрын

With one or two expensive exceptions, security features on USB drives were essentially bundled security software of very low value. Would make more sense for NHS to install equivalent software on all the PCs and treat the drives like blank floppy disks.

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.

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

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

@anangryspartan2502

2 жыл бұрын

@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 why are you like this? I hardly think this is the place for that rhetoric. We are here for looking at fun relics of a bygone Era, not to discuss politics and flawed reasoning. Don't be an ass and just have fun.

@PondScummer

2 жыл бұрын

@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 go away

@sparklesparklesparkle6318

2 жыл бұрын

@@PondScummer so drug companies pushing perscription medication is evil? But once it's a new rushed vaccine all is forgiven?

@fakeshemp9599

2 жыл бұрын

My mom was a nurse and we had all different kinds of stuff branded with drug names lol

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

@littlepinkniki

Жыл бұрын

My brother did exactly the same thing with the stuff my folks brought home from the med companies… all they ended up doing was nurture a budding industrial engineer 😂 we never run out of branded pens and paper pads at home

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.

@kaitlyn__L

Жыл бұрын

@Jay Dee I appreciate your commitment to car appreciation! However, mice and cars have different requirements for their shape :P

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.

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. 👍🏻

@bland9876

2 жыл бұрын

Sometimes I watch a video where they only talk about something for 30 seconds and the video is definitely clickbait but this video felt like they gave the mouse a long enough time talking about it that I don't feel clickbaited and then he went on to talk about other things that made the video even cooler so he kind of undersold the video.

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.

@kaitlyn__L

2 жыл бұрын

I hate how “lower side effects” gets spun as “no side effects” so often. “Lower incidence of dependency” becomes “it’s addiction-proof!” Marketing is such a dubious profession

@mycosys

2 жыл бұрын

oxcodone wasnt a problem either til they made it long release. Same with MS-contin morphine

@LukeLane1984

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I remember once seeing a bottle of cough syrup from the early 1900s, and written on the label was: Now with Heroin! Non-addictive!

@HappyQuailsLC

2 жыл бұрын

Be careful, you are learning from the same information machine as what misled everyone in the first place.

@admcstabby

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, we all get it. Big pharma as a corporation can be pretty evil/corrupt. But read the room man, most people are reminiscing about their childhood or light-hearted jokes about it. I'm high as shit enjoying reading similar feelings of nostalgia from my childood and here comes President Buzzkill to somehow instantly sober a good high. Corporations can suck, but I'm sure the chemists or people who invent the pharma aren't trying to get patients "hooked" for profit or destroy a country.

I got a lot of fun stuff that my mom brought home from reps. I had a rubber nose that looked like it was full of snot that came out a little when you squeezed it. Also had a pen shaped like a bone that was pretty cool. The neatest was a little moving picture thing that you looked into and showed an h-pilori attacking a stomach or something. I think that one came with a pretty metal looking t-shirt.

I used to work as a developer at a company that did systems and support for community mental health agencies here in the US. This crap is everywhere even now, especially with the anti-psychotics. My father (who is a network administrator) actually has quite a collection of the mental health swag he’s picked up over the years from various doctors. Some of the things are sort of cool like his oversized paper clip. The drug reps come in with food and then leave this trash after they do their spiel to whoever shows up. Unfortunately, maybe not necessarily the specific pieces of swag, but the methods overall, do work.

@KeithZim

2 жыл бұрын

Can confirm. I worked desktop support for a hospital system for 5 years. "swag" everywhere but mostly in the trash later.

The mouse ball cleaning skills are still very much at the front of my head because I still use a trackball because of limited desk space

@stephen1r2

2 жыл бұрын

Look at elecom, they have a both types of corded trackball. Someone said the wireless versions have radio issues but I got the corded one. You'd only need cordless for couch MMC stuff. Craft Computing review: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qa2u1KuDhJe5Y84.html

@Smankit

2 жыл бұрын

with the DPI you can get on mice these days all you need is about 2 inches of movement if that

Having fallen for the slightly clickbaity title, I can promise you that, having worked for a pharmaceutical in the uk, the link between profit and health was very much alive and kicking when I worked for the sales department some 15 years ago. From promotional items not un-similar to this right through to GPs being wined and dined to encourage them to “remember” one brand over another… it happened all the time and was absolutely systematic…. I even remember spreadsheets that linked quantities of drugs prescribed to the postcodes of surgeries as a rough means to determine success rate of sales practices (some GPs were much more “pliable” than others for sure) and this would feed back into more/less vigorous activity from reps. Maybe things have changed? Somehow doubt it.

My aunt works in drug marketing, I've been flipping pancakes with a zocor branded spatula for like 15 years. It's so weird the objects they choose to brand, like zocor is a heart pill so maybe you're supposed to flip your healthy low fat meals with your zocor branded spatula? Idk, I don't get it.

I remember seeing drug company reps coming into my doctors office and meeting with my doc before my appointment. This also worked in my favor because my doctor knew I was poor with bad insurance and would give me "samples" of some drugs I might need.

@Justin-vr5zn

2 жыл бұрын

"Hey kid, I know you are poor so here's a bunch of free addictive... I mean "non-addictive" drugs, come back next week for some more!"

Holy shit. I had one of those KitKat mice on my very first PC as a child, I have no idea where I got it though. It was literally the mouse I used every day from like 2000-2002.

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

The weirdest pharma promotional stuff I've heard of was blue viagra branded santa hats my friend's dad got sent years ago. Way more memorable than pens or notepads!

@sparklesparklesparkle6318

2 жыл бұрын

I have Moderna COVAX condoms

@cericat

Жыл бұрын

Viagra had a picnic blanket, not a bad one either AFAIK it's still going the one mum and dad got. Bath towels but I can't remember which painkiller that was off the top of my head. Oxycodone pill that's a pencil case, I've been using that one since high school. So many damn pens, mouse mats, 3 and 4 ring folders... the CDs, which weren't always bad to have since some of the tracks could be lesser known but decent pieces to listen to (alcohol companies did that one too along with video games). IIRC it was chlorhexidine that did a scarf and beanie combo one time but I'm going off colour scheme as the name actually wasn't on either.

There's something just unsettling and sinister about companies trying to get you to wear a fishing hat with Oxycontin on it.... litterally synthetic heroin.

@slipknotboy555

2 жыл бұрын

It's not literally synthetic heroin, they're just both opioids (They're both semi-synthetic opioids - heroin derived from morphine, oxycodone derived from thebaine or whatever it's called). The funny thing is, in the grand scheme of things, heroin isn't that strong compared to many other opioids mg to mg; people just think it is because it's a "street drug." it also doesn't work well orally (while things like Oxycodone and Hydrocone do). Your point stands, just wanted to correct that and add some stuff. Source: Am an opioid addict (sober for years now)

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

we truly are trapped in a mortal purgatory far worse than hell

Did you cut out a section about lighting a Terminator 2 cigarette with a Lucky Strike lighter (since it's still in the subs)?

Another excellent episode, I was smiling all the way through. I honestly didn’t realise there was such a variety of promotional mice. It doesn’t surprise me that drug companies were involved, they’ll do anything to persuade you to change to the latest version of their ultra expensive products.

I actually lowkey love the pens and mugs and these mouse given free by the rx companies. They always had the coolest designs, even if I didn’t want to promote a med for ED or something, I still used them for the design alone 🤷🏽 The car mouse reminded me of a *very* cheap mouse shaped like a car I had for about 2 years before it up and died. Also the guitar peddle mouse was reviewed by LGR iirc!

@cericat

Жыл бұрын

The pen dumps by the regional rep got me through high school without ever needing to pay for a new pen.

@VidweII

Жыл бұрын

LGR also did an identical Viagra racecar mouse.

Those weird shaped ones are bought and used by old people. "Hey Grandpa why are you using a mouse shaped like a banana?" Grandpa "because it's funny"

I love how every drug commercial in America is basically a grinning person moving in slow motion and doing random things

@cericat

Жыл бұрын

The best drug ad I've ever seen is for an ED (not viagra) treatment, two guys dressed as concert pianists, walk onto the stage and drop their strides and underwear then apparently play the piece with their dicks. AFAIK it's a strictly Australian one.

This video hit me really hard into the nostalgia. Most of my first contact with tech stuff where through this kind of merc. Mouses, mousepads, usbs, cds, and all that kind of stuff. The 90´s: So near and still so far! Thank you for the vid!

I have a love/hate relationship with my Paxil prescription. On the one hand, it fucks up so much of my life. On the other hand, I would literally be dead with out it. For some insane reason, I want this mouse. To the eBay!

11:00 Good lord, I miss that M&M's screensaver. Staple of my childhood right there.

The only mouse I ever tried to use like this was a Star Trek Phaser mouse.

I have one of these liquid filled mice. When you actually use it it warms up under your hand and starts leaking it's oily stuff.

@tactileslut

2 жыл бұрын

So... the more you fondle it the slipperier it gets. :)

I have to admit, with the coffe mouse, they actually made a pretty convincing looking fake coffee.

most companies have cheesy promotional items, esp at trade shows back when those were really important.

Never cease to amaze me how you could collect all these fantastic hardware devices. Well done!!

I have that “Mouse Driver” book about the design of that mouse.

That KitKat mouse was my mouse around 99/2000 or so, the memories! I've settled on a Logitech G402 now, but shockingly recently due to being too tight to buy a decent mouse, I was using a novelty mouse shaped like a sports car (with working lights). My wrist was absolutely buggered.

'Pointy-faced bastard' has had me giggling for 10 minutes

Can't wait to see wtf this is about lol

@AMKR4Lyfe

2 жыл бұрын

Ditto

@AMKR4Lyfe

2 жыл бұрын

What kind of drugs 🤔

@gdtyra

2 жыл бұрын

@@AMKR4Lyfe I was disappointed. I thought he had come across a mouse that was used for cartel drug smuggling or something

i had one of those silver mice, it would electrocute me any time i tried using it. thing was the pc was well grounded! that mouse sucked hardcore.

@mycosys

2 жыл бұрын

how many times did you die?

Those mice with liquid in them remind me of my wireless PS2 controller I used to have with liquid in both handles that blue LED lights could shine into. It was really cool.

I had forgotten about your channel until i today when i watched one of "Lady Decade" and she sort did small mention of you lol. Love your channel, specially the 80's software ones.

Our health care system is trash. I've had major illnesses due to not having Insurance. I'm one of the lucky ones now, I get to pay 100 a week for health insurance and still pay co-pays and pay for prescriptions.

@CommodoreFan64

2 жыл бұрын

That's the thing about our US health system, the quality of care can be second to none, only if you can afford it, or you're a single mother with 4 kids each with a different baby daddy living off the government tit while all the rest of us hard working people who just get by pay for their freeloading. 🤬 It's not for everyone, but for me, I've found out just paying my Dr. out of pocket, and so far the one prescription I'm on(the res is OTC) is cheaper than insurance.

@kaitlyn__L

2 жыл бұрын

@@CommodoreFan64 wait, are you implying Medicare/Medicaid is the same quality as the people who can afford the best insurance or just pay out of pocket for the best doctors?

@PondScummer

2 жыл бұрын

@@kaitlyn__L He's also implying people who can't work don't deserve health care. something something social cleansing

I like how you've outdone LGR with the number of weird mice in one video :D

My dad had one of these mice back in the day, it was for some cruise company and had a little ship inside

my mom had an optical mouse with kaj stenvall artwork from some medicine company around '00. it was a quality item for the time too, optical mice being new at the time and that artwork license not being the lowest end as far as artwork licenses go.

On a sort of side related note per cigarettes promotion it wasn’t THAT long ago that companies such as Philip Morris (Marlboro) sent out glamourous assistants and GAVE AWAY cigarettes and rather snazzy lighters to students on a night out. Thinking back it seems unreal but yes it definitely happened to us in sheffield university, England. I wonder when it was outlawed?!?

The local doctors game my mum a bunch of drug branded tea towels, which she gave to me when I moved into my own place. They really suck, they don't pick up any water, and leave lint on any surface they touch.

This is both very sad at multiple levels, and outright hilarious. My favourite type of Nostalgia Nerd video.

Man, my first distortion pedal was a Boss DS-1 purchased circa 1993. I would totally love to have that mouse. As impractical as it is there's no denying it's awesome.

I worked as a developer in a company that did devices for drug research etc. We had a certain blue pill mouse (not car shaped, the liquid filled one). They didn’t let me take it unfortunately :( The mouse, I mean. Not the pills.

6:26 the moment that boss DS-1 pedal mouse appeared it blew my mind.

Yes I remember the naughties being pharm paradise in Cleveland. I was on Prozac for almost 10 years, until it was banned finally.

KUDOS for the in video guitar/pedal demo

Humph, I was really hoping that silversmith mouse in the thumbnail was going to be a flask. My hopes and dreams are dashed, dashed I say!

I didn't know the NN could play the guitar that well. This guy is wholesome!

Loved this one, keep up the great work

I worked in an NHS surgery in the late 90s. There was so much promotional stuff from pharmaceutical companies, it was mostly pens and notepads, tbf. Never saw any mice.

I had the M&M mouse and used it for quite long, when I remember correctly. I just loved such things as a kid.

My second job out of college was for a small salesforce automation company which had contracts for major US pharmaceutical companies. I worked on the help desk for one of the clients where we had access to a couple client laptops for when we needed to walk through procedures and to regularly familiarize ourselves when you updates were pushed. We could see a lot of stuff about their promotions including the swag of this nature. So many items and it was all about which companies reps could throw the most at the prescribing physicians. There was also a fun story about them committing to using Newtons to collect Dr signatures when they left samples and 1 to 2 weeks later Apple announced the end of the product line.

I had one of those Ambien plushies... Amazing stuff.

as a guitarist, the boss pedal mice would look nice on a shelf.🍻

"The Viargra NASCAR Mouse" There's a set of words I wasn't expecting to be put together.

A perfect "product placement" you did there with the lucky strike gum package

Any chance of doing a nostalgia nerd tour around England with a few other youtubers like Mark fixes stuff, the retro hour group, RMC? Etc...pretty sure a lot of us will put our hands in our pocket to pay for venues and such

Okay, one thing I wasn't expecting was you to be so good at the guitar, you released any compositions yet?

Bizarly I found this a very entertaining and funny mouse review/round-up video 🐭😅

You’re back!!! I’m so happy!!!

This reminded me of a flash drive I had in the late 00s. I dont remember how I got it, but it was branded for an IBS medication. I used it for school and covered up the branding with colored tape. I still do have an Adobe branded USB hub shaped like a rainbow Tangle toy, and yes, it does twist around like a real Tangle.

My uncle (in Spain) owns a pharmacy, and this stuff is very much still distributed. Pretty much every item of stationery, mugs, stressballs, clocks, bluetooth speakers all have medicine brand names on them.

I need the antidepressant mouse when my team is throwing competitive matches.

Oh wow that nascar mouse brings me back. My grandma had one because Marc Martin was her favorite driver. It was super uncomfortable.

This title is so clickbaitey and yet absolutely accurate that I must respect the intense cleverness of it.

Having had several close relatives working in the NHS I'm quite familiar with the promotional mugs, key-fobs etc. but had never seen one of those mice before. I do have a lighter with dice in its gas chamber though, these have appeared round here quite recently.

I was going to buy one of those Wallace Silversmiths mice for my Win 98 laptop since it didn't work with USB... realized it would bother me how easily it tarnished though

17:39 suddenly I have flashbacks to the little tykes car mice that a certain tech KZreadr used to dominate people on Unreal Tournament.

Dude that AOL hoody is awesome!!!

My wife works in a doctor office and the tactics have changed slightly but nothing has changed. Yea, there are lots of dumb things given away but they take it a step further. Every day (not exaggerating) a different drug rep is there buying the entire staff lunch and checking to see if “samples” need resupplied. Between the constant reminder by some rep of the new drug they want to push that quarter, they ensure to keep their ability to come in weekly by giving away enough samples for a couple dozen patients to have a constant supply. That way the doctor can give them to the patient while waiting for a preauth to clear or to a patient that can’t get it. Yea, it does help people but how much help is it when the entire system is designed in such a way that this is necessary?

Brings back memories of stashing certain small items inside joysticks in the 90s.

My dad was a pharmacist since the early 80s and my best friend's mom was a drug rep for Purdue (oxycontin company). I've seen some crazy things over the years.

we had a friend who would go to some conference every year in Vegas that was just blocks and blocks of CPS (cheap plastic...stuff), tons of electronic peripherals like this. We used to get so much swag like this from him.

Got a drug ad at 2:45. Didn't catch what - allergies? Skipped the 2nd one... How (un)appropriate!

Not sure why, but your reaction to the mouse err mouse had me rolling. He can rightfully have his tail coming out of his nose, and no one wants to tickle the mouses ass while he nibbles your wrists.

Nostalgia Nerd: It's crazy that some of these devices are still available to be honest. I mean, who, _who_ would use them? LGR: **laughs in Oddware**

Smuggling drugs inside of mice eh? I think that’s a new one. 🤣

I've got one from a vendor that is USB and optical that has "fish" in it. I use it as my loaner mouse.

I remember having the KitKat mouse in the UK that came bundled in an Easter egg box. Was OK to use for the time. Don't know what happened to it unfortunately although would be not so nice to use today but OK for my old retro PC.

I got an Aqua mouse on ebay not too long ago and have been on the lookout for really cool ones since. As an antidepressant patient, I unironically love the one with pills (dystopian advertising aside).

Not just America. We used to get heaps of random merch from drug companies when my family owned pharmacies here in Australia

When I saw the mousedriver I instantly thought of the Razer naga for some reason, something about the shape reminds me of it

I have that silver mouse somewhere up in my roof, mines not engraved but still in the box. It got used for a few months before being replaced with one of the early microsoft laser mice.

I've been using the same mouse since 2007. The only reason I changed to my current intellimouse optical is because of the scroll wheel and side buttons. I still have my prior mouse which is an Intellimouse 1.3a and it still works in the ps2 port. I've used it for borderlands 3