OMG I WANT THIS AMAZING RONALDINHO BOTTLE OPENER

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One of, at any rate.

I was talking, originally, about this damned bottle-opener, but then the personal shit started getting flung.

― unfished business, Thursday, 22 March 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.nawtythings.com/novelties/cocktail/ct1.jpg

― g®▲Ðұ, Thursday, 22 March 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

lex, it's in the first post of the thread

― unfished business, Thursday, 22 March 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

http://images.quizilla.com/M/mattababy/1075690038_turesgiant.jpg
IT IS HAPPENING...AGAIN.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 22 March 2007 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

louis you said you were done with this thread about 50 posts in, or what seems a lifetime ago after reading it all

― lex pretend, Thursday, 22 March 2007 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh man I hate no xposts.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 22 March 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I was done with it, but it wasn't done with me.

― unfished business, Thursday, 22 March 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link

lex, it's in the first post of the thread

images off

like your sense of perspective/dignity on this thread

― lex pretend, Thursday, 22 March 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

He who is tired of this thread is tired of life.

― Matt, Thursday, 22 March 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

DAMN YOU XPOSTS

― Matt, Thursday, 22 March 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

anyway ENOUGH, I'm now closing the shed door long, long, long after the horse bolted. :-(

― unfished business, Thursday, 22 March 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.themurphyscottagecrafts.com/cciron/pics%20050.jpg

― g®▲Ðұ, Thursday, 22 March 2007 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Pazuzu craves bottle caps

― kenan, Thursday, 22 March 2007 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.corkscrew.com/images/unicorn.jpg

― g®▲Ðұ, Thursday, 22 March 2007 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.corkscrew.com/images/old_snifter_th.jpg

― g®▲Ðұ, Thursday, 22 March 2007 22:19 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG I KNOW U ARE ALL GONE OFF THE NET NOW BUT THIS IS SRSLY THE BEST THING EVER AND I GET MY DOG BACK THIS SATURDAY

― g®▲Ðұ, Thursday, 22 March 2007 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link

HI GUYS, IVE BEEN BUSY ESLEWHERE WHATD I MISS IN THIS THREAD?

ALSO I BRING YOU BUNNY

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/1174467715997.jpg

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

DO THE REASONABLE BRITISH PEOPLE JUST SLEEP THE FUCK IN OR WHAT

It's the evening here, not the morning.

― ailsa, Thursday, 22 March 2007 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link

btw I've been waiting on someone to add WHY ARE AMERICANS SO OBSESSED WITH RACE to Ronaldo Bottle Opener in the above style all fuckin afternoon.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 March 2007 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost, that is.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 March 2007 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link

i can't believe i read this whole thing

― river wolf, Thursday, 22 March 2007 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link

It's Ronaldhino, not Ronaldo. Or do all Brazilian footballers with silly teeth look the same to you?

― ailsa, Thursday, 22 March 2007 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link

KEEP ZINGIN AILSA

― river wolf, Thursday, 22 March 2007 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link

hahahahahaha this thread will be a winner

ghost rider on Thursday, March 22, 2007 12:58 PM

ghost rider otm

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 22 March 2007 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.ronaldinho.cc/images/ronaldinho-profile.jpg

― am0n, Friday, 23 March 2007 00:54 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/06/01/ronaldinho_wideweb__470x379,0.jpg

― am0n, Friday, 23 March 2007 00:55 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.irancartoon.com/100/daily/Ronaldinho.jpg

― am0n, Friday, 23 March 2007 00:56 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.paddy-boehm.de/karikaturen/gross/Ronaldinho.jpg

― am0n, Friday, 23 March 2007 00:57 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.cyberattic.com/stores/ritabrand/items/461691/catphoto.jpg

― bobby bedelia, Friday, 23 March 2007 07:51 (seventeen years ago) link

http://futility.typepad.com/futility/images/shanehits2.jpg

― bobby bedelia, Friday, 23 March 2007 07:53 (seventeen years ago) link

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y103/catchee/roonlg.jpg

― bobby bedelia, Friday, 23 March 2007 08:02 (seventeen years ago) link

i do think the initial image of the bottle opener screamed RACIST (I R american)
but i also think the UKists had a fair enough point regarding different sensitivities as seen in US depictions of indians/pakistanis & such

also, i bet most of the DC crew throwing a shit fit just luv them some Tarantino </morbius>

― bobby bedelia, Friday, 23 March 2007 08:14 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.hollywood-costumes.com/austinpowers/austin-headb.jpg

― The Wayward Johnny B, Friday, 23 March 2007 08:16 (seventeen years ago) link

just opened this thread with images on and whaaaaaaaaaaat how can anyone look at the first image without thinking that it's massively and REALLY OBVIOUSLY, way beyond any "cultural differences" bullshit, completely fucking racist?! seriously how STUPID do you have to be?

― lex pretend, Friday, 23 March 2007 08:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, this thread turned out approximately as I had anticipated.

― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 23 March 2007 10:18 (seventeen years ago) link

don't be so proud of that!

― lex pretend, Friday, 23 March 2007 10:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Shall we talk about whether tax-originated compensation should be paid to the victims of slavery now?

― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 23 March 2007 10:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Make sure we do it before America wakes up.

― The Wayward Johnny B, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I think America is ultimately right on this matter.

― blueski, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:27 (seventeen years ago) link

As do I.
What mitigated against their argument was that, Dan and Nabisco aside (plus others but I can't be arsed re-reading the whole thing) it degenerated into unpleasant name-calling in ten seconds flat.

― Matt, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Noise dudes calling you a limey retard isn't really name calling though is it? More like punctuation.

― onimo, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link

"Chapter four: correct usage of the limey retard"

― Matt, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link

for what it's worth, I stand by the points I made, and I still don't think it's racist for the reasons I fruitlessly outlined. it's clearly a difference of perspective, and no amount of CAPS LOCK is going to make me believe my perspective on it is wrong. there wasn't much in the way of cogent argument for the 'American' side, but I guess that point is that their take on it is intuitive so there needn't be.

― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link

The item itself may or may not be intended as racist (I suspect not) but it doubtless fits in an entire lineage of racist cultural iconography.

But yeah, compensation to the great-great-great-great grandchildren of the victims of slavery! Someone somewhere thinks it ought to be paid! Because "I'm sorry, here's £100!" is recompense enough! And who the fuck pays it! And who the fuck is it paid to! Oh what a great idea!

― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 23 March 2007 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I had only vaguely heard the name ronaldinho before resding this thread, I didn't know who he was.

Intentionally or otherwise, the bottle opener strikes me strongly as being a racist caricature. I would not, personally, own such an item myself. It stirkes me as being naff, grotesque and tacky.

I generally agree w/ghost rider, ally, matt dc and nabiso, having read the entire thread.

Louis you are the new calum.

― Pashmina, Friday, 23 March 2007 12:07 (seventeen years ago) link

use of British in insults needs to go. if an American says something stupid (it may have happened once or twice on ILX, but can't say for sure) i don't write 'shut up you AMERICAN whatever'. i don't think other American ILXors would care much for that either. but then we Brits have never really understood their sense of humour of course. Pip pip!

― blueski, Friday, 23 March 2007 12:13 (seventeen years ago) link

"resding" = "reading", "stirkes me" = "strikes me"

also, forgot to say OMG THIS THREAD.

― Pashmina, Friday, 23 March 2007 12:14 (seventeen years ago) link

What do you mean? I threw in my two penn'orth on an issue barely worth giving a stuff for, but my two penn'orth was magnified and thrown back to such an extent that I ended up arguing a cause I don't actually have any strong feelings towards, on entirely semantic grounds. 'Calum' was I believe a renowned libertarian with a somewhat dodgy attitude towards foreigners, i.e. totally unlike myself. Whilst I could see their position, I was arguing mine from the unshifting basis that knowing Ronaldinho, I could judge whether a representation of him was racist or not. I decided not, which led certain posters to character-assassinate me. :-(

― unfished business, Friday, 23 March 2007 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Louis you are the new calum.

Hahahahahahahaha I almost said this yesterday!

― HI DERE, Friday, 23 March 2007 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link

"shut up you american whatever" was actually part of CRW's ILM steez, I think?

― Pashmina, Friday, 23 March 2007 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link

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