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May 27, 2009

Gillette Tries To Corner The Douchebag Market

Gross, Gillette. It's one thing when Kyan Douglas encourages guys to do a little "manscaping," because it's 2002 and America is just getting over SEPTEMBER 11TH by taking better care of ourselves, but you guys aren't talking about gentle trimming or pubic hygiene. This is just straight up shaved balls. You can make as family friendly of a cartoon as you want, and that is still what it will be. I'm surprised this ad wasn't a partnership with Ed Hardy wine. "Make your next guy's night out a hairless balls night out. Brought to you by Gillette and Ed Hardy Wine, because that is our thing now."

These guys know what I'm talking about:


Thanks, Gillette!


Thanks, Gillette!


Dear Gillette, there is no hair on my balls now! POUND ME!

Schick 4 life. (AdFreak via Gawker.)

Posted by Gabe at 6:00 PM in
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EtWB

If I wasn't happily married, that middle picture would make me cry. I'd want to laugh, but then I'd realize that those idiots probably get laid all the time.

I'm not saying women are stupid, I'm just saying the women who would fuck those guys are.

Posted by: EtWB profile link at 05/27/09 6:07 PM | Reply
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sarah palin

Pretty sure that the kind of chicks who fuck dudes who look like that aren't much less ridiculous looking themselves. Once again, the paradox of the "hot chicks with douchebags" phenomenon. The chicks are douches too.

Posted by: sarah palin profile link in reply to EtWB's comment at 05/27/09 7:00 PM | Reply
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Is getting laid all the time* worth being those guys? If those two things weren't mutually exclusive, I'd seriously look into monastic living.

*That's assuming the supposedly huge amount of sex they might be having with many partners isn't gross and risky.

Posted by: Gmarley in reply to EtWB's comment at 05/27/09 7:04 PM | Reply
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The last photograph is terrifying. A human being should not look like that. Ever.

Also, I shave my balls occasionally, and yet do not have a $300/week hair gel budget, a gym membership, or a jar of diarrhea that I rub on my face to appear tan.

Posted by: That One at 05/27/09 6:16 PM | Reply
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Becca

this guy literally looks like a golem - as in shaped from earthen clay by rabbinical elders.
yuck.

Posted by: Becca profile link in reply to That One's comment at 05/27/09 10:44 PM | Reply
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Mental note for the next videogum meet up: That One is the guy who shaves his balls.

Posted by: Punky Brewster profile link in reply to That One's comment at 05/28/09 1:51 PM | Reply
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An American Patriot

I guess you and I are opposites then because I just let me shit grow. 42 years of unbridled hell fuck yeah growth and going strong!

Posted by: An American Patriot profile link in reply to That One's comment at 05/30/09 10:25 AM | Reply
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hlebtastic

The defined tan line on the last one's hair line will make me feel better about myself for an eternity. Thank you douchebags, for reminding me I actually am not the worst person in the world.

Posted by: hlebtastic profile link at 05/27/09 6:26 PM | Reply
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Becca

this has been exceptionally uncouth.

these guys look like they all have lots of fun @ Gilette sponsored dinners.

Posted by: Becca profile link at 05/27/09 6:33 PM | Reply
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dafs

That guy does not know what you're talking about, as he died in a car accident.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=212307178

Whoops!

Posted by: dafs profile link at 05/27/09 6:38 PM | Reply
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Classy.

Posted by: That One in reply to dafs's comment at 05/27/09 6:52 PM | Reply
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Mcluskyist

So now instead of sepia toned montages, we'll have to suffer through memorial GIFs? The future just keeps fucking up, doesn't it?

Posted by: Mcluskyist profile link in reply to dafs's comment at 05/29/09 6:11 PM | Reply
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sarah palin

My jaw was fully dropped after watching the video, which made the passage of vomit out and down my front much easier once I clicked into the post and associated those photographs with the video.

Posted by: sarah palin profile link at 05/27/09 6:59 PM | Reply
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Picture number 2: Gottis, fake bakers, or blackface makeup enthusiasts? YOU decide.

Posted by: Chadams at 05/27/09 7:06 PM | Reply
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the idea that "getting laid all the time" justifies looking like that ever EVER is exactly what is wrong with youth culture these days.

also those are the people who pass herpes like mixtapes.

Posted by: D at 05/27/09 7:09 PM | Reply
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i-Five! Basically the same idea and post at the same time. Now we each have to kill the other's mortal enemy.

Posted by: Gmarley in reply to D's comment at 05/27/09 7:26 PM | Reply
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Deezey

I would say that most of us men are smart enough not to need an instructional video, BUT I do have a friend that confided in me that he shaved down there and messed himself up pretty bad. I won't get into all of the horrid details, just know that a rash and subsequent infection sent him to the ER at a time that he did not have health insurance. I remind him of it all the time. And, yes, I am so going to forward him that video.

Posted by: Deezey profile link at 05/27/09 7:40 PM | Reply
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MarkyBob

"When there's no underbrush, the tree looks taller."

Posted by: MarkyBob profile link at 05/27/09 8:10 PM | Reply
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For added fun, put "douchebag" into Google Images. You'll find at least one of these pics.

Posted by: That One at 05/27/09 8:27 PM | Reply
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Dumbelina

I don't really have a lot to say except "This is just straight up shaved balls" is going in my next Xmas newsletter.

Posted by: Dumbelina profile link at 05/27/09 8:44 PM | Reply
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inglorius basTURD

I shave my balls.

Posted by: inglorius basTURD profile link at 05/27/09 8:46 PM | Reply
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THANKS FOR THE NIGHTMARES!

Posted by: Rube at 05/27/09 9:01 PM | Reply
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Edith

I like my dicks smooth as a silk ribbon, long as ball of yarn, soft as a gentle breeze, and thin as a stalk of grass.

Posted by: Edith profile link at 05/27/09 9:10 PM | Reply
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gillette has always had the duchebag market cornered.

Posted by: golly at 05/27/09 9:17 PM | Reply
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douchebags. man, i suck.

Posted by: golly again in reply to golly's comment at 05/27/09 9:36 PM | Reply
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That last guy is haunting. Truly, truly haunting.

Posted by: MsQuinn profile link at 05/27/09 9:22 PM | Reply
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douchebag. my bad.

Posted by: golly again in reply to MsQuinn's comment at 05/27/09 9:34 PM | Reply
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There is no possibly way that there are women that are attracted to these men. No possible way. I refuse to believe it. I will not lose any more faith in humanity.

Posted by: Jenn at 05/27/09 9:53 PM | Reply
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Seriously, can't we just burn down New Jersey and start fresh?

Posted by: Chris at 05/27/09 10:25 PM | Reply
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Hey! There's a few cool people in New Jersey. We're just hiding out in the Pine Barrens until this whole douchebag thing blows over.

Posted by: Katie in reply to Chris's comment at 05/28/09 9:42 AM | Reply
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I'm starting WhoopsThoseAreYourEyebrowsGum.com in honor of that last dude. It will mostly be pictures of him drinking Ed Hardy wine and Bawls martinis. (Shaven not trimmed. Duh.)

Posted by: eric at 05/27/09 11:03 PM | Reply
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Becca

so many things here: the self-tanner with purple undertones - natural blond died jet black. blowlemia. tanorexia. sonic the hedgehog hair...

soooo many things!

Posted by: Becca profile link in reply to eric's comment at 05/28/09 12:39 AM | Reply
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Hint: the tree never ends up looking taller.

Posted by: b at 05/28/09 12:26 AM | Reply
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I'm surprised no one's commented on the fact that it's Bob Saget doing the instructional voiceover.

Posted by: linseeeee profile link at 05/28/09 8:03 AM | Reply
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Carrie

Haha. "Kids, before I met your mother, I did a lot of stupid things...like shaving my balls."

Posted by: Carrie profile link in reply to linseeeee's comment at 05/29/09 10:16 AM | Reply
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jennybean

Those guys getting laid really does blow my mind because I usually run screaming in the opposite direction when approached by one or in their general vicinity. But it happens, and the girls that make it happen are worse than those asshats.
Also, is this commercial encouraging men to *only* shave their balls?

Posted by: jennybean profile link at 05/28/09 8:54 AM | Reply
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EtWB

Where were you when I was in high school?

Posted by: EtWB profile link in reply to jennybean's comment at 05/28/09 2:19 PM | Reply
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Also in re: picture #2: can we call that look "boy band face". They look like they want to give girls 10 years younger than themselves grandma-style smooches when they bring them up on stage for that special a cappella number for that one special lady out there in the audience this evening.

Posted by: Chadams at 05/28/09 3:52 PM | Reply
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Elvis vs. Shark

Ok, so I'm Canadian, and this has always baffled me. These douchebags in this post (and the hot chicks w/ douchebags website), with the spiky hair and everything, still exist in America? And get women?

I haven't seen a guy like that for five or six years now, I thought they all died out! Honestly. You know who gets girls up here in Ontario? Scraggly hipsters with purple hoodies who listen to Bon Iver and No Age. I'm not joking. Every girl I know is going out with a indie dude, not weirdos like picture above. It really bugs me, because I can't join in youse guyses fun, cuz I can't relate.

Posted by: Elvis vs. Shark profile link at 05/28/09 5:27 PM | Reply
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Gillette- The best a man can get?

Posted by: the monk profile link at 05/28/09 6:22 PM | Reply
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Gillette- The best a man can get?

Posted by: the monk profile link at 05/28/09 6:23 PM | Reply
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LAT THE RAZER DO THE WORK

Posted by: Terry's Chocolate Orange at 05/29/09 12:57 PM | Reply
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Detroit Dutchgirl

And after manscaping, slap some Jovan Musk on it.

Posted by: Detroit Dutchgirl profile link at 05/29/09 1:20 PM | Reply
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I find the "moisturizer" part most disturbing. Is it just me or is there a subtle "ah" noise in the background at that part?

Posted by: electric_wookie profile link at 05/29/09 3:55 PM | Reply
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Shaved balls? Shit is so cash!

Posted by: Paulie at 06/01/09 5:15 PM | Reply
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