OMG I WANT THIS AMAZING RONALDINHO BOTTLE OPENER

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

― ailsa, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link

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

― horseshoe, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

― Super Cub, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

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

― ailsa, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

(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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

― horseshoe, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost

― horseshoe, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

*"you guys" being the aforementioned tuomas nation

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

http://static.zooomr.com/images/2d1f0fe2fbed0f29dadc77cbba68e00527f952f5.jpg http://elrincondesergio.blogia.com/upload/20060804141125-10-ronaldinho.jpg

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

― and what, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3c/Ww_blackcaricature.jpg

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

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

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

I was going to say...

― Super Cub, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:47 (seventeen years ago) link

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

Probably my brother, actually.

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:47 (seventeen years ago) link

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Golliwogg1.jpg
^^^ here to vouch for england's lack of any history of racist products

― and what, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:47 (seventeen years ago) link

STOP CALLING US ENGLISHES!

― ailsa, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link

sorry. I always get confused about that, actually.

― horseshoe, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link

BECAUSE YOUR WAYS ARE OPAQUE TO ME

― horseshoe, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

omg black africans sold slaves to white europeans THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING

― and what, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

goodbye racial guilt!

― and what, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

It did for that chap.

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

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

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f86/igotabeefpastry/towellie.jpg

― Abbott, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Racist and a p@3dophile.

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I KNOW! 96 tears

― Abbott, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link

haha, she's asking for it

― Super Cub, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey guys can we all just agree to be really glad Ronaldinho isn't Japanese?

― nabisco, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link

And underage labour!

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link

B-b-b-but Nabisco, what about that guy who plays for the Japanese national team who actually is Brazillian? Ronaldinho could EASILY be Korean.

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Japanese? Explain.

― Super Cub, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f86/igotabeefpastry/towellie.jpg
My mom mailed me this dish towel she embroidered. I have no idea what the fuck to do with it.

Abbott on Thursday, March 22, 2007 1:52 PM (2 minutes ago)

send it to me so i can embroider U GONNA GET RAPED?

― and what, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Hahaha okay, failure to get that joke completely invalidates the opinion of anyone who thinks this bottle opener is hilarious.

― nabisco, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm off to edit my Magyar Aranycsapat team on pro Evo 6 to make them even more accurate in terms of appearances and tactics. THEY WERE COMMUNISTS!!!!!!

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Results 1 - 10 of about 82,500 for racist embroidery patterns with Safesearch on. (0.17 seconds)

― and what, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, I bet that is what my mom searched for to find hers.

― Abbott, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link

http://oberlin.edu/student/lfamular/headache.jpg

― pretzel walrus, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link

ilx.jpg is never not otm

― ghost rider, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link

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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

― Mark E. Smith died this year. Or, maybe last year. (bernard snowy), Saturday, 13 February 2021 14:29 (three years ago) link

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

― Mark E. Smith died this year. Or, maybe last year. (bernard snowy), Saturday, 13 February 2021 14:34 (three years ago) link

denial about UK racism is off the charts in this thread

― Left, Saturday, 13 February 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link

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

― Left, Saturday, 13 February 2021 17:22 (three years ago) link

eight months pass...

I... Idk about this new drink at a thematic bar in Santiago. pic.twitter.com/clPU5LPLxV
— SuperheroesInColor (@HeroesInColor00) November 10, 2021

― peace, man, Thursday, 11 November 2021 14:14 (two years ago) link

― talkin' about his flat tire (DJP), Thursday, 11 November 2021 15:31 (two years ago) link

six months pass...

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

― Madchen, Thursday, 26 May 2022 09:27 (one year ago) link

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