... if Axe knows that thanks to their awful fucking commercials, tons of women consider finding out the guy they're dating uses any Axe products a dumpworthy offense.
What, surely you don't mean millions of women don't find a guy who smells like he showered in cheap cologne fuckable and try to save their sense of smell!
They call it Lynx over here. And yes, those adverts are obnoxious.
We have a theory that creative people in advertising are so desperately stressed out and jaded by the lies they have to tell to keep their jobs that they vie with each other to come up with ads that look all right to the customer, but actually put people off.
The one commercial of theirs that I like is the one where they release the trained pig to hunt down guys with greasy hair, so that the guerrilla shamoo crew can clean them up. But mostly just because I think a guerrilla shampoo crew using trained pigs like that would be a great idea.
A friend came over to my house after hosing himself down with Axe.
As soon as he walked through the door, my face went >_q and I asked him what he had been rolling in. He proudly proclaimed that he was an Axe Man and asked me if I wanted to jump all over him yet.
I told him to get out. He thought I was joking. I WAS NOT.
I seriously want to do anti-Axe commercials. "Men, nobody likes this. You've been lied to. See Mike Rowe there? He's covered in pig shit, goose shit, cow shit, and sewer shit. And he is still sexier and better smelling than any man wearing Axe."
I find that almost all of these crappy products smell like a blend of antifreeze and insect repellent, sometimes with a nice dollop of sweaty ball-sac added for a "sporty" scent, and I agree 100% that the ads are sexist, vile, absolutely stupid and cringe-worthy, but have you seen the BOD commercials? Not only are the men as hot as the women, but they're shown being active and manly, not passively getting women who'd shoot them on instinct in the real world, just because they're wearing cheap drugstore perfume for boys. BOD gets an A; AXE gets the ax.
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Date: 2009-03-11 11:41 pm (UTC)Also, I use their anti-hangover shower gel. It smells nice on me.
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Date: 2009-03-11 11:49 pm (UTC)We have a theory that creative people in advertising are so desperately stressed out and jaded by the lies they have to tell to keep their jobs that they vie with each other to come up with ads that look all right to the customer, but actually put people off.
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Date: 2009-03-12 03:55 am (UTC)As soon as he walked through the door, my face went >_q and I asked him what he had been rolling in. He proudly proclaimed that he was an Axe Man and asked me if I wanted to jump all over him yet.
I told him to get out. He thought I was joking. I WAS NOT.
He has been blessedly unscented ever since.
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