OMG I WANT THIS AMAZING RONALDINHO BOTTLE OPENER

I actually went as far as taking a photo of one of those sponges in a shop window several months back, w/ a mind to bump this thread, but either forgot or couldn't be bothered

lol @ the Mail seeking a quote for this from a spokesperson for UAF

http://i.imgur.com/OMdhl.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/philmcnulty/ronnie438.jpg

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Posted 10 August 2003 - 12:43 PM

Good player Reizeger and this proposed transfers been suggested for a good while. I wouldnt say Michael Reizeger is ugly but you could open a bottle of Bud on those buck teeth of his!

Which Ronaldo? If you mean the bloke who could open a bottle of beer with his teeth (easily) then is Real Madrid again. Come to think of it you won't go far wrong with Real Madrid. The bench probably costs more than most clubs (not just the price of the players). When I say bench I obviously mean the substitutes that sit on the sidelines during a game. Not a piece of wood....

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motherload of crazyee----> http://www.badassmotherfuckers.org/

http://news.panasonic.net/stories/2011/0816_6210.html

http://soccerly.com/article/Oliben/an-inside-look-at-ronaldinhos-new-teeth

http://i.imgur.com/5eYhx9a.jpg

this thread is a nice reminder of how far ilx has come in just a few years btw

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BrieEXGIQAArTat.jpg

oh lol i didn't fucking see 2 posts ago

was coming here to post same lol

not enough ronaldinho itt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83rinbq_8uI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Evi9y74A0s

just a fucking bottle opener ffs

we have two of those suarez bottle openers in the office. the owners are argentinian and mexican.

Please someone explain clearly to me, because I am clearly an idiot, exactly *how* this is racist.

― ailsa, Thursday, March 22, 2007 2:26 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol (not directed at you koogs)

also DJP's post needs to be in the first response hall of fame if it is not already

i love that the first three posts so clearly demarcate the lines of the oncoming clusterfuck

*incredulousness*
*unflappable enthusiasm*

looking like ronaldinho is racist now

http://deadspin.com/yasiel-puig-uses-his-mouth-to-open-two-beers-at-the-sam-1639231462

I have to assume all the british posters at the start of this thread are paying tribute to stewart lee's routine about jimmy hill by acting out the part of hill

I have to

every few months i skimread through this thread

at last, some good humour to defuse the situation! some of you highly-strung types ought to learn a lesson from this. looking at you, ethan.

― unfished business, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:58 (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU LIMEY RETARD

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:58 (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

2 weeks pass...

let us discuss whether the portrayal of Ronaldinho on the Simpsons was as offensive or whatever as the bottle opener:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pou-5Vcv0TE

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 14 September 2007 20:32 (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nooooooooo

― Just got offed, Friday, 14 September 2007 20:35 (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's Ronaldo, not Ronaldinho. Probably best not to think all black guys look the same on this thread, Alex.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 14 September 2007 20:37 (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the duration and recapitulation of the arguments here is quite something, mostly one would expect a 1000 page thread like this to be perhaps 400 posts of argument, 200 posts of partially related sniping and then a long cadenza of meta and periodic reminiscence

in this thread people are still trying to determine whether or not the ronaldinho bottle opener might, in fact, be racist after about 850 posts

I don't think I've got that far although there are always a couple of die-hards no

like the japanese guy who thinks it's still ww2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MW0U4UER2c

first response hall of fame

the thing is so grotesque and repellent, quite why anyone would want such an object even if it weren't racist

http://i.imgur.com/F1DwB95.jpg

i dont know who the fuck ronaldinho is but im pretty sure i saw that bottle opener at the end of 'bamboozled'
― and what, Thursday, March 22, 2007 10:55 AM (7 years ago)

it's been nice shitting with you guys

Paul Robinson Chin Ironing BoardWayne Rooney Dog-Training KitMichael Carrick Diaper Dollie with Real Wets-Itself ActionSuper Nail-Bashing Hammer with Michael Owen's Face (Peen End) and Gary Neville's Face (Claw End)

underrated post

this was a coming of age, of sorts

would like to stake an inarguable claim for Most Improved

damn shd have been

i would like to point out that i am the Most Improved

did it ever get conclusively established whether the bottle opener was racist

the only thing to be said in defence of the 'not racist' crowd is that the sort of iconography it duplicates is not quite as familiar in england, and where it does occur it doesn't look quite the same

largely because unlike the people who came up with darlie toothpaste et al, its authors would never have seen any black people so instead of a sort of monstrous deformation of the familiar, they are more purely fictive, rather like the chinoiserie figurines of the 18th and early 19th century

that doesn't explain the way people were still defending it even when its character was amply demonstrated though

the priggish bullheadedness of imbecile youth obvs

true, although most of the rest don't have access to that defence

louis when I was reading this thread from the beginning I didn't realise that unfished business was you which has not been the case with any of your other noms de theatre so you may have a point

obviously most of the world is oblivious to how race functions in brazil but it's sort of peculiar how people who do not identify as black/preto (iirc ronaldinho identifies as pardo/mixed or mb moreno) are considered black elsewhere. there's an argument that within brazil the distinction doesn't really change how ppl are treated, and it's certainly more true abroad wrt anti-black racism; ronaldinho was called an ape by a mexican politician recently (he's moved to queretaro)

it feels worth noting that ronaldinho had cosmetic dental surgery last year

theres only a vague correlation between how brazilian people identify themselves racially and their ancestry

very much doubt whether ronaldinho identifies as 'pardo' though

well obv ancestry is so mixed compared to most countries that any categories are going to be especially arbitrary and loose. can't find the bit about ronaldinho's identification but suspect it was on this blog - http://blackwomenofbrazil.co/

they arent quite as arbitrary as all that and it very much depends on what part of the country, rio grande do sul where he comes from has large populations of german, swiss, polish people etc and a different sort of identity to equatorial brazil, ronaldinho is i think petit-bourgeois by birth unlike most famous brazilian players which would shift his terms of identification somewhat but id imagine he would still be de facto classified as preto by most

there's a lot of debate on that brazilian blog about self-identification vs perceptions & how/if/to what extent ppl distance themselves from blackness. the number of brazilians identifying as preto has shrunk a lot & it's an issue for anti-racist campaigners

my favourite ronaldinho goals

#6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O3otJu2FWE

#5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74i9cSi-WxU

#4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns7lkn3Gahs

#3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEiMWZEns1s

#2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZkJnsADaww

#1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZkJnsADaww

that should be

#1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m6mz0-hlFc

Ronaldinho has made 14 appearances in all competitions - scoring only three goals and making two assists.

However, the Mexican club's fitness coach Roberto Bassagaisteguy recently revealed the 34-year-old hasn't been pulling his weight in training.

''He doesn't do physical exercise,' Bassagaisteguy said of Ronaldinho. 'I can't force him to run because he doesn't like it. He does special exercises with special players. I know what they like.

Kabuscorp president Kangamba expects Ronaldinho to be plying his trade in Girabola - the top division of Angolan football - at the halfway mark of 2015.

"It's a certainty. We are negotiating, but Ronaldinho has to terminate the contract with his current club, and then be able to join us in June," Kangamba told Public Television Angola (PTA) .

"You may ask why I picked Ronaldinho... Well, I want quality in my squad."

If Ronaldinho does complete a move to Kabuscorp, he would follow in the footsteps of former team-mate Rivaldo, who joined the club on a one-year deal in 2012.

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http://www.watoday.com.au/sport/soccer/brazil-football-legend-ronaldinho-crashes-car-gets-snapped-in-tearyeyed-selfie-20151007-gk3518.html

Saw this bit of questionable kitchen equipment in Primark yesterday:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41oVOKUr9sL._SY300_.jpg

Progress!

http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/redsox/2016/08/09/red-sox-deem-david-ortiz-bobblehead-racially-insensitive/qwAnoxGz56oV5pxohgrFuM/story.html

In unprintable language, Ortiz said he agreed with the team’s decision.

I want to know what he said!

I'm going to go with "What the fuck is this shit?"

Two versions of the bobblehead were made. The Red Sox found both unacceptable.

Good Lord, what did the first one look like?

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/how-america-bought-and-sold-racism/

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/football-legend-ronaldinho-pictured-with-chechen-leader-ramzan-kadyrov-accused-by-canada-of-a3589721.html

oops

There's a more general purpose Ronaldinho thred fwiw
Ronaldinho

i almost posted that recent horrendously ugly statue of ronaldo here

WHATEVER, ASSHOLES, SIPPY CUPS HAVE TO BE SHAPED A CERTAIN WAY!
― horseshoe, Thursday, March 22, 2007 5:25 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Galaxy brain thoughts right there

Thanks to #blackface @Prada, now you can take #sambo home with you for the holidays #StopRacism #StopBlackface #StopPrada pic.twitter.com/5t2cvosLIF

— Chinyere Ezie (@lawyergrrl) December 13, 2018

Oh ok

bernardo silva would like to point out he has been otm in this thread

send him my best!

primo

Just got out of a meeting where I had to explain to our management team from Germany that naming our extended Black Friday sale "Black Week" was maybe not a good idea.

hahahahahahahahaha

"Come on in, the savings are SPOOKY GOOD!"

oh no

"Let's call a spade a spade; you'd have to be a total monkey to pass up these deals! N****r!"

got them to settle on "Our week long Black Friday sale" literally hours before they sent the blast out to like 25,000 customers.

I couldn't find a more appropriate thread for this: https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/02/tech/amazon-auschwitz-products-removed-scli-intl/index.html

Selling "Christmas ornaments" with images of Auschwitz does not seem appropriate. Auschwitz on a bottle opener is rather disturbing and disrespectful. We ask @amazon to remove the items of those suppliers. https://t.co/0uG2JG558e pic.twitter.com/ucZoTWPk1W

— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) December 1, 2019

the pitfalls of algorithmic products.

ha you stole my coda

I have to applaud Auschwitz Memorial's stone-faced reaction to this horrifying shit:

Sadly, it is not over yet @amazon. The "Massacre Auschwitcz (!) Birkenau Jewish Death" mousepad is another disturbing online product. We are not sure if @yadvashem would like the "Christmas ornament" with a freight car used for deporting Jews for extermination either. https://t.co/qDEEzqzwSU pic.twitter.com/wXExhFZPmV

— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) December 1, 2019

The "Massacre Auschwitcz (!) Birkenau Jewish Death" mousepad is another disturbing online product.

This is a strong contender for Understatement of the Year

Kind of glad there wasn't a more appropriate thread for it? This one barely is tbh.

In the wake of DJP's link, there were some local stories here consisting of the same "bad taste" element. Online vendors pull xmas stuff or postcards or canvas posters that were "decorated" w/ images of concentration camps. Any morality is lost on bots (and those who let bots roam free), but I've seen shops online presenting posters/stickers/canvas etc with questionable content before. Basically, the "store" works as follows: if it's an image that exists on the internet, we can print it for you on X, look: here's an example.

xps all otm

I'm in a facebook group that documents US conservatives' weird obsession with AOC, and there were some bottle opener images recently that gave me flashbacks to this thread (especially with the handful of "I don't see how that's racist" replies).

Just goes to show, the real divide on the "Racist trinkets: classic or dud?" issue has never been UK/US

(AOC = Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the popular young Democratic congresswoman from NYC. Sorry I didn't spell it out in my post!)

denial about UK racism is off the charts in this thread

also i don't speak dutch but i imagine the zwarte piet debates are pretty much the same

I... Idk about this new drink at a thematic bar in Santiago. pic.twitter.com/clPU5LPLxV

— SuperheroesInColor (@HeroesInColor00) November 10, 2021

uh

Spotted this variety of kale on display yesterday at the Chelsea Flower Show ffs.