Following a complaint from a male Christian viewer, who said he was upset by "the suggestion that God's messengers could literally fall for a man on the basis of his shop-bought fragrance," the country's Advertising Standards Authority moved to ban the ad on the presumption that other viewers would also be offended.

It took ONE complaint to get it banned? Damn!

The only thing I find offensive about Axe commercials is how painfully stupid they are.

He was doing that before it was cool.

/Got a folio edition of it from around 1870s on my shelf, what a great book.

Following a complaint from a male Christian viewer, who said he was upset by "the suggestion that God's messengers could literally fall for a man on the basis of his shop-bought fragrance..."

I'm upset by the suggestion that this moron votes. What to do....

Tigger: Following a complaint from a male Christian viewer, who said he was upset by "the suggestion that God's messengers could literally fall for a man on the basis of his shop-bought fragrance..."

I'm upset by the suggestion that this moron votes. What to do....

Is that the actual wording of the complaint?

Gee, I wonder if he's a lawyer?

/DNRTFA

Amazingly, this was not in America.

Isn't this commercial over a year old at this point?

kid_icarus: Following a complaint from a male Christian viewer, who said he was upset by "the suggestion that God's messengers could literally fall for a man on the basis of his shop-bought fragrance..."

Or they could have just been dizzy and/or delirious from the fumes.

I like that interpretation. The toxic stench of the stuff can knock and angel right out of Heaven.

Well Gods representatives on earth seem to fall for young boys on a regular basis without the help of a shop bought fragrance.

Well Gods representatives on earth seem to fall for young boys on a regular basis without the help of a shop bought fragrance.

BOOM HEADSHOT

Diogenes: The toxic stench of the stuff can knock and angel right out of Heaven.


Or a buzzard off a shiatwagon.

i thought we learned in Dogma that angels didn't have any junk?

pwhp_67: It's part of their own myth that angels mated with humans.

Do they think that it was only the male angels getting some?

To be fair, they do think this because it is what was stated in the Bible:

1 And it cometh to pass that mankind have begun to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters have been born to them,

2 and sons of God see the daughters of men that they [are] fair, and they take to themselves women of all whom they have chosen.

3 And Jehovah saith, `My Spirit doth not strive in man -- to the age; in their erring they [are] flesh:' and his days have been an hundred and twenty years.

4 The fallen ones were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when sons of God come in unto daughters of men, and they have borne to them -- they [are] the heroes, who, from of old, [are] the men of name.

Genesis 6:1-4

"Ad Banned for Offending Christians"

Public reaction: "Well, that's sort of stupid."

"Ad Banned for Offending Muslims"

Public reaction: "JESUS HOLY SHIAT THIS IS THE END"

I thought angels looked like Snape with a goatee and had no genitalia. I don't want them following me either.

pwhp_67: RexTalionis: To be fair, they do think this because it is what was stated in the Bible


So they're fine with guy angels banging their women but not with women angels going after some dudes?

That religion is even more farked up than I generally consider it to be...

Who is "they"? As far as the article goes, it was just one guy in South Africa that complained. Do you think he speaks for the whole of Christianity or something?

Of course they're pissed, there's a BLACK ANGEL!

The good smell makes up for anything else.....Not much of that left..

I find myself suddenly interested in theology.

Nabb1: The only thing I find offensive about Axe commercials is how painfully stupid they are.

You don't also find the scent itself practically wafting out of the TV offensive?

CeroX: dellsworth1007: RminusQ: Nabb1: The only thing I find offensive about Axe commercials is how painfully stupid they are.

You don't also find the scent itself practically wafting out of the TV offensive?

I think Axe is the foul stench that Princess Leia referred to concerning Grand Moff Tarkin. That stuff is vial. Only a hormone-possessed teen-aged boy could like it.

My wife likes the chocolate one... i think it smells like hershey farts myself

CHOCOLATE? WTF? Men should not use products that make them smell like FOOD. Leave that shiat to Bath & Body Works.

Traditionally all angels were male, there were no female angels. I think the commercial would have been made even hotter and more controversial if they had kept that in mind.

Barnstormer: I could see them being offended if they were tearing the skins off of animals.

That would be ripping apart hide.

I'm detecting Andy Zaltzman-like typing.