OMG I WANT THIS AMAZING RONALDINHO BOTTLE OPENER

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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

http://bestmessageboardever.com/uploads/post-1486-1149307672.jpg

― and what, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually I can't tell if Nick got the Japanese joke or not: Nick, did you get the Japanese joke or not?

― nabisco, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not entirely sure now.

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:13 (seventeen years ago) link

People have been taking the piss out of Ronaldinho's teeth since forever, including people who love and admire his talent. No other black man in world football that I'm aware of has anyone taking the piss out of his teeth. The bottler opener has NOTHING TO DO WITH RACE. It's all about finding a flaw in a talented rich hero. I can understand people with pronounced teeth being offended by this (at the end of the day laughing about buck teeth is a playground bullying tactic) but I really don't get that people think there's a racist motive.

People have been mocking footballers and their appearance for as long as I can remember. It's all down to taking down yr idols, people with a talent and wealth that you envy.

"Englishes" look at Ronaldinho Bottle Opener and say "haha big teeth", and what looks at it and says "Golliwog" - yet he thinks other people are racist.

― onimo, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I got the Japanese joke.

― HI DERE, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link

IT DOESN'T MATTER IF THERE'S A RACIST "MOTIVE" THERE IS A GIGANTIC BODY OF RACIST ICONOGRAPHY THAT THAT BOTTLE OPENER FITS PERFECTLY INTO JESUS CHRIST I FEEL LIKE I'M TAKING CRAZY PILLS

― horseshoe, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link

"I've got this uncle, Uncle Leo - every time he sees a bottle opener with big teeth, he thinks it's anti-semitism."

there are three types of people in this life:

1. people who didn't know Ronaldinho is mostly famous for having massive big gums 'n' teeth (being the best footballer in the world comes a close second) and therefore can be forgiven for thinking the bottle opener is racist as long as they now rescind their views in light of this new information,

2. people who, in full possession of the denticular (warning: may not be real word) facts, believe this bottle opener to be racist, and who are consequently just plain wrong, and

3. people who think this is a quality item celebrating the gigantic gnashers of a certified genius, albeit one who has a tendancy to showboat instead of, you know, just getting the job done.

― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link

they've made a product that resembles a canonical odious racist image--again, it was my first association upon seeing the bottle-opener

I have to say, it wasn't mine. I saw Ronaldinho as a bottle opener, and LMAO. Because I didn't even THINK it was in any way racist I showed it to my (black) co-worker and he also laughed too hard, again not seeing how it could be racist. Maybe it's just cos us Britishers know Ronildinho and his massive teeth better than the USers.

― The Wayward Johnny B, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

showboat

― HI DERE, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah okay Nick if you're blissfully unaware of racist caricatures of bucktoothed east Asians (reaching their apex during a war I'm pretty sure British people remember) then it's kind of hard to take you seriously as an even-handed judge of bottle openers versus historically racist representations.

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

maybe british people are just stupid????

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link

haha 'showboat' was an obvious trap there

― onimo, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, that's the ticket dude. Good thinkin'!

― dan m, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I couldn't find any bottle openers for this guy:

http://www.mraksports.com/product/elway_bobble_hof.jpg

http://i4.ebayimg.com/03/i/08/cc/f7/f9_1.JPG

If any of the British don't know who John Elway is, suffice to say that it was serendipity that he played for the Denver BRONCOS.

http://www.leadingauthorities.com/images/Elway_John.jpg

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.worldcupjapankorea.com/famous-soccer-players/ronaldo/ronaldo-wallpapers/ronaldo-wallpaer.jpg

"Hi, my name is Ronaldo and I was famous for being a badly-toothed footballing genius from Brazil before he was. hence the silly bit at the end of his name."

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

MOD: PLS MAKE THIS BIT BOLD AND MAYBE RED, AND CAN IT BLINK TOO MAYBE

IT DOESN'T MATTER IF THERE'S A RACIST "MOTIVE" THERE IS A GIGANTIC BODY OF RACIST ICONOGRAPHY THAT THAT BOTTLE OPENER FITS PERFECTLY

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

Shit, my friend's mom brought some of that green tea favoured darlie stuff from thailand. it was awesome.

luke chadwick:

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41821000/jpg/_41821338_chadwick203.jpg

UMM NOT ILLEGAL KTHX

― Will M., Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

(I should point out I find this thread more funny than offensive because WOW CULTURAL GULF)

― HI DERE, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link

non-shocker

― dan m, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link

(xpost)

― dan m, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Horseshoe, HI DERE, dan m, and what, Nabisco, ghost rider, Mr Que OTM.

― jaymc, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link

haha omg this thread

ethan, plz 2 disable hair-trigger race alarm on innocent britisher thread about football*

*soccer

― unfished business, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't believe Dan picked up on the 'Show Boat' reference I'd shoehorned in to signpost my hidden racist agenda. Or not so hidden, as it turns out.

http://tokyo.blog.lemonde.fr/files/mitsuhirato.thumbnail.jpg

Herge got the Japanese joke.

― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link

OK never mind, not Dan M, I was misreading him.

― jaymc, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link

hahahah every american is ethan, i suppose we ALL LOOK THE SAME TO YOU

― ghost rider, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link

we are all and what now

― ghost rider, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link

stop pretending like Ethan's being difficult. many, if not all, the Americans on this thread are on the same page.

― horseshoe, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost with ghost rider

― horseshoe, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I am 'Merican and I don't think it's racist, but that just must be my middle class white male prejudice speaking right?

― dan m, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost So did Dr. Seuss.

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~hist32/History/Seuss01.jpg

― jaymc, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

What I want to know is, did it really go for $12,000 on eBay? And if so, who to?

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

what ilx2 needed was a britisher vs american race debate that also involves soccer

This sentence actually made me cry with laughter.

― HI DERE, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

haha i was gonna paste a dr seuss cartoon earlier - 'WHAT?? HIROHITO REALLY DID HAVE YELLOW SKIN AND BUCK TEETH AND MAYBE HE WORE A COOLIE HAT ONCE...."

― and what, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

xxpost: Ronaldinho's Mum. only a mum could love those teeth.

― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

what ilx2 needed was a britisher vs american race debate that also involves soccer

This ~~sentence~~ actually made me cry ~~with laughter.~~

HI DERE on Thursday, March 22, 2007 2:31 PM (5 seconds ago)

― and what, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah okay, I get why the image itself fits in with a lot of racially stereotypical stuff down the years, but as the Brits are saying, it's drawing attention (and paying AFFECTIONATE homage) to his somewhat exaggerated teeth. Race didn't enter into ANY of our (British) considerations.

― unfished business, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

maybe you shouldnt brag about your ignorance

― and what, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.vortrupp.de/humor/pics/bullshit.jpg

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

oh wait AFFECTIONATE!! i know if i was a black 'footballer' i would cherish the paternalistic horse-racing style affection of white british 'football' fans

― and what, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

It's not ignorance, Ethan, it's an entirely different mindset.

― unfished business, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

IT DOESN'T MATTER IF THERE'S A RACIST "MOTIVE" THERE IS A GIGANTIC BODY OF RACIST ICONOGRAPHY THAT THAT BOTTLE OPENER FITS PERFECTLY INTO JESUS CHRIST I FEEL LIKE I'M TAKING CRAZY PILLS

horseshoe on Thursday, March 22, 2007 3:15 PM (18 minutes ago)

IT DOESN'T MATTER IF THERE'S A RACIST "MOTIVE" THERE IS A GIGANTIC BODY OF RACIST ICONOGRAPHY THAT THAT BOTTLE OPENER FITS PERFECTLY INTO JESUS CHRIST I FEEL LIKE I'M TAKING CRAZY PILLS

horseshoe on Thursday, March 22, 2007 3:15 PM (18 minutes ago)
IT DOESN'T MATTER IF THERE'S A RACIST "MOTIVE" THERE IS A GIGANTIC BODY OF RACIST ICONOGRAPHY THAT THAT BOTTLE OPENER FITS PERFECTLY INTO JESUS CHRIST I FEEL LIKE I'M TAKING CRAZY PILLS

horseshoe on Thursday, March 22, 2007 3:15 PM (18 minutes ago)

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

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