Friday, April 17, 2015

Cyanide-flavored Milk Tea and the Bamboozling of a Detergent Powder



Why is that every time a crime was committed in the four corners of our beloved country, we are always looking for eyewitnesses’ accounts? I know that their accounts are essential in conducting a thorough investigation, but can’t we just improve our scientific data and evidence-gathering?

Take for example, this mass hysteria over two people that were pulled by the Grim Reaper’s scythe when they sipped and ingested a cyanide-flavored milk tea. As an avid reader of suicide and crime novels, I am definitely sure that cyanide killed these two unsuspecting milk tea-lovers.

READ: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/684722/death-of-2-by-milk-tea-not-caused-by-breach-in-sanitation

ErgoCha Milk-tea House. Credits to Glen Juego of Twitter.

Scientifically speaking, cyanide poisoning causes histotoxic hypoxia, or the inability of cells to take up or utilize oxygen from the bloodstream, despite physiologically normal delivery of oxygen to such cells and tissues. In layman’s term, if you shove cyanide into throat, your blood’s IQ will suddenly drop and have Alzheimer’s, thus, scrwing you; weakness, confusion, bizarre behavior, excessive sleepiness, coma, shortness of breath, headache, dizziness, and seizures can all present. Or perhaps, you should instead see the CCTV footage of the victims' last moments. It’s all over the World Wide Web.

CCTV FOOTAGE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfO3hqHAT_c

Although cyanide poisoning is hard to detect, the scientist/toxicologist/whatever-they-are-called of the ever-reliable PNP crime laboratory must at least release an intelligent guess that in is indeed cyanide that killed the two, because people, as well as milk-tea store-owners, are having second thoughts on continuing their rituals on having their daily dose of milk-teas. I must say: No, people of this pathetic country, there is no danger on drinking tea, coffee, or soda. The danger is on the morbid people that test their ability to sneak poison and be satisfied that they killed people and not be blamed on their crime.

Until now, the police are having hard time on detecting traces of cyanide in the body of the victims. My personal tip: look at the largest body organ: the skin. If it is pink to cherry-red, it is caused by neither make-up nor glutathione, it is most likely cyanide.

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“Finally Ariel Happened to me one-wash clean sa labada for just seven-fifty. Finally Ariel happenned to me ang gaan sa bulsa cause it’s just seven-fifty.”

TV AD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIjZImAyoKs

A screen-cap of the LLS-causing TV ad of Ariel


This is one of those clever television advertisements that will forever be in the Filipino culture like Knorr’s “Makulay ang Buhay sa Sinabawang Gulay”, Downy’s “Amoy Ulam na ba Kayo?” and Rejoice’s “To the Left, to the Right” It is clever, theatrical, and will go straight down to your subconscious. It sticks to you like an annoying elevator pop song.

But realistically speaking, will you choose a vegetable soup over a fried chicken? Did Downy met your expectations when you rubbed your shirt and released its overflowing grandiosity of fragrance? Did your hair went sideways and danced with you when you performed what the song commands you to do?

If yes, okay, maybe this advertisement is truthful and you should not continue reading this. If no, well these products have a lot to explain. Oh, you should continue reading this by the way.

These TV ads are created to deceive. The song retains in our conscious mind and suggests to our subconscious that they are better than their serious competitor: The Brand X. Let us just say that they are that genius in the art of deception, but, as a smart buyer, you must at least read and compare the contents of the two competing products. (Tip: read the text that has the smallest font size; they are usually the most important one).

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These two, the Milk Tea Drama and Ariel, have something in common: the art of deception.

Are you deceived by the police that don’t have an idea on what killed the two victims? Just having a glimpse of the CCTV footage, we, in the darker side of the internet, are already almost a hundred percent sure that it is indeed cyanide-poisoning. I know that the scientists in the RITM and PNP are a billion-fold more knowledgeable that I, but, please, give light for these people to understand what cyanide-poisoning (and other kind of poisoning) is.

Furthermore, do not be convinced of catchy campaign jingles. Read. Read. And read.

PS. I am forever fascinated by how Filipinos find joy (or ridicule) on very serious matters; like:

(In the tune of “Finally”) Finally, milk-tea happened to me, dalawa ang patay, ang isa, fifty-fifty (credits to Filipino Vines Facebook Page)

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