OMG I WANT THIS AMAZING RONALDINHO BOTTLE OPENER

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Ailsa was OTM. Can't say it any better.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:20 (6 years ago) Permalink

'if it was a white guy you wouldnt say it was racist!' well uh yeah

― and what, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:22 (6 years ago) Permalink

Plus Dan and Ethan's response is obviously because of the toothpaste thing. Which is something I have never seen before and I doubt many of "us britishers" have.
So yeah ok Ethan may not have been trolling. Sorry.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:22 (6 years ago) Permalink

darkie toothpaste was a stand-in for any number of racist products throughout us & uk & basically every other country's history, of which this bottle opener fits neatly into the history of

― and what, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:23 (6 years ago) Permalink

Haha, the first google hit for Luke Chadwick leads you to uglyfootballers.com

― ailsa, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:24 (6 years ago) Permalink

Kerr, are you really not seeing this? Ethan and Dan aren't responding to the toothpaste thing, they are invoking the toothpaste thing because they think it's the same thing. Which it isn't.

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

― ailsa, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:26 (6 years ago) Permalink

But ethan this bottle opener has nothing to do with his colour. It's about his teeth. Sure that's still discriminating, but if the worlds most famous footballer was white and had big teeth the opener would still have been made.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:26 (6 years ago) Permalink

And I think I better go and google Luke Chadwick to see who he is.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:27 (6 years ago) Permalink

guys, its called DARLIE now.

― g®▲Ðұ, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:27 (6 years ago) Permalink

(the bottle opener I mean. And btw, I am aware of the toothpaste and several other stereotypical things of days of yore. The toothpaste issue = all black men have shiny white teeth. Wrong. The bottle-opener = Ronaldhino has great big silly teeth. Fair enough. He does. It's not saying anything about black people, or Brazilians, or Barcelona players, or men, or whatever. It's saying something about ONE MAN.)

probably an xpost

― ailsa, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:29 (6 years ago) Permalink

hahaha wow

― ghost rider, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:30 (6 years ago) Permalink

Luke Chadwick = crap footballer only famous for looking like Plug off the Bash Street Kids.

― ailsa, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:31 (6 years ago) Permalink

I know this will be read as trolling, but I DON'T UNDERSTAND ENGLAND.

― horseshoe, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:31 (6 years ago) Permalink

if the worlds most famous footballer was white and had big teeth the opener would still have been made.

Like the D. Beckham "Coin Slot" Bum Bottle Opener?

― nabisco, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:32 (6 years ago) Permalink

That toothpaste is Chinese, BTW. Just to be clear.

― Super Cub, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:32 (6 years ago) Permalink

Scrolls up thread...nope, no-one in the "this be racist" argument is from England. But, whatever.

― ailsa, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:32 (6 years ago) Permalink

(though I don't actually know who Robert Spiralli is, so I'm quite prepared to admit I might be wrong here)

― ailsa, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:33 (6 years ago) Permalink

Scrolls up thread...nope, no-one in the "this be racist" argument is from England. But, whatever.

ailsa on Thursday, March 22, 2007 2:32 PM (46 seconds ago)

hahahah that's the point! an entire nation of tuomas!

― ghost rider, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:34 (6 years ago) Permalink

(I think "this be racist." I don't understand the "this isn't racist" POV.)

― horseshoe, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

I'm kind of shocked that you guys are denying the (unintentional probably, but undeniable) effect here. Does the bottle opener sing "Mammy" too?

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

xpost

― horseshoe, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

*"you guys" being the aforementioned tuomas nation

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:36 (6 years ago) Permalink

wow i cant even tell which one's the bottle opener & which is the real guy

― and what, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:37 (6 years ago) Permalink

The level of accuracy in terms of the topographical distribution of the largeness of his pronounced front teeth is admirable. i.e. the right one, as we look, is lareger, which is anatomically correct.

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:39 (6 years ago) Permalink

i bet none of you hypocrites would think it was racist if these servants were depicted as white - what a double standard!!!!!

― and what, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:39 (6 years ago) Permalink

Paul Robinson Chin Ironing Board
Wayne Rooney Dog-Training Kit
Michael Carrick Diaper Dollie with Real Wets-Itself Action
Super Nail-Bashing Hammer with Michael Owen's Face (Peen End) and Gary Neville's Face (Claw End)

― nabisco, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:40 (6 years ago) Permalink

It's not saying anything about black people, or Brazilians, or Barcelona players, or men, or whatever. It's saying something about ONE MAN.

I'd agree with this, but still, in the creation of a bottle-opener that sends up Ronaldinho's teeth, they've made a product that resembles a canonical odious racist image--again, it was my first association upon seeing the bottle-opener--and I'm a little uncomfortable with images that resemble such portrayals.

― G00blar, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:41 (6 years ago) Permalink

Yes, yes, the bottle opener is exactly the same as that cartoon.

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:42 (6 years ago) Permalink

I think it looks more like a tiny totem-pole.

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:42 (6 years ago) Permalink

Among my family, that toothpaste was a source of dark humor and terror of what humanity has wrought. I mean the Hammerman toothpaste. The 'darlie' paste is just a giant cosmic WTF that's making me need to shower.

― Abbott, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:43 (6 years ago) Permalink

I join in the Britishes perplexity at this reaction. It's kind of mean to make fun of someone's teeth though.

― Super Cub, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:44 (6 years ago) Permalink

It's OK, he's a millionnaire and the most talented man in the world.

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:44 (6 years ago) Permalink

okay I get that American "sensitivity" to this stuff comes from a particular history with regard to race, but it's not like England's record on that score is blemish-free! seriously, wtf?

― horseshoe, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:45 (6 years ago) Permalink

Britishes make fun of the teeth? I thought they were accepting of the crazy choppers. They offered me my one dream of acceptance for my revolting teeth.

― Abbott, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:46 (6 years ago) Permalink

It's alright, we're having a party soon cos it's 200 years since we abolished slavery. People still sing Rule Britannia though.

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:46 (6 years ago) Permalink

I was going to say...

― Super Cub, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:47 (6 years ago) Permalink

Where does this "British people have bad teeth" meme come from?

Probably my brother, actually.

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:47 (6 years ago) Permalink

^^^ here to vouch for england's lack of any history of racist products

― and what, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:47 (6 years ago) Permalink

STOP CALLING US ENGLISHES!

― ailsa, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:48 (6 years ago) Permalink

sorry. I always get confused about that, actually.

― horseshoe, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:49 (6 years ago) Permalink

BECAUSE YOUR WAYS ARE OPAQUE TO ME

― horseshoe, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:49 (6 years ago) Permalink

There was a programme last night about the 200 years thing, and one guy traced back his ancestry to his great-great(possibly another great, I forget)-grandfather, and found that he'd been sold into slavery by his own tribe/village/community/whatever, rather than kidnapped by white people. That was... interesting.

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:50 (6 years ago) Permalink

British people make shitty music except for Billy Childish and Mark E. Smith

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:51 (6 years ago) Permalink

omg black africans sold slaves to white europeans THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING

― and what, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:52 (6 years ago) Permalink

goodbye racial guilt!

― and what, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:52 (6 years ago) Permalink

It did for that chap.

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:52 (6 years ago) Permalink

My mom mailed me this dish towel she embroidered. I have no idea what the fuck to do with it. Fucking Mormons.

― Abbott, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:52 (6 years ago) Permalink

Racist and a p@3dophile.

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:53 (6 years ago) Permalink

I KNOW! 96 tears

― Abbott, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:53 (6 years ago) Permalink

haha, she's asking for it

― Super Cub, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:53 (6 years ago) Permalink

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I saw those Diana Wash things in a... I wanna say Matalan.

As an afficiando of all things kooky, fun and afros, I wanted one until I realised that scrubbing dishes sucks.

― Pohnny Jolo (buckatee91), Saturday, 10 September 2011 22:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Watching Breakfast At Tiffany's for the first time. Fucking hell. Mickey Rooney.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 24 October 2011 19:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

Didn't quite get the extent of America's issue with this until now.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 24 October 2011 19:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

with what

― conrad, Monday, 24 October 2011 19:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yellowface.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 24 October 2011 19:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

http://www.ioffer.com/search/items/black%20americana%20bottle%20opener

― lol waggoner (am0n), Monday, 24 October 2011 20:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

Witness at Berlusconi trial in Rome claims Italy's ex-PM watched a striptease by a woman wearing a football shirt and ... a Ronaldinho mask

― mizzell, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 15:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

Product mentioned upthread, but useful to have Daily Mail's input on this:

They're not exactly politically correct, are they? Race row after Afro washing up sponges go on sale

Paladone said the range had been a phenomenal success since hitting the shelves. But its attempts to give the humble cleaning implement a funky 70s disco makeover seems to have backfired.

― jlgt, Friday, 27 April 2012 06:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

― jlgt, Friday, 27 April 2012 06:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

I was thinking of this thread when I read the essay linked on the "Is This Racist?" thread about the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia. http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/collect/

These anti-black depictions were routinely manifested in or on material objects: ashtrays, drinking glasses, banks, games, fishing lures, detergent boxes, and other everyday items ~~like that bottle opener, obviously, ffs!~~

― we are not bemused (onimo), Friday, 27 April 2012 10:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

Did Scik Mouthy ever get one of these amazing Ronaldinho bottle openers?

― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Friday, 27 April 2012 10:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

I think he got a golden troll doll instead.

― we are not bemused (onimo), Friday, 27 April 2012 10:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― wring wring wring wring wring wring wring wring homophone (DJ Mencap), Friday, 27 April 2012 10:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

― tebow kortwa (nakhchivan), Thursday, 10 May 2012 20:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

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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!

― Au Wazza Balcazar (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 21:57 (8 months ago) Permalink

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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― Au Wazza Balcazar (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 21:59 (8 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

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

― limited holiday edition eggnog (soda), Friday, 16 November 2012 02:44 (7 months ago) Permalink

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