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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
http://1.2.3.9/bmi/i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/04/26/article-2135711-12C6B06B000005DC-997_634x529.jpg
― jlgt, Friday, 27 April 2012 06:19 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
I think he got a golden troll doll instead.
― we are not bemused (onimo), Friday, 27 April 2012 10:22 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/OMdhl.jpg
― tebow kortwa (nakhchivan), Thursday, 10 May 2012 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/philmcnulty/ronnie438.jpg
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
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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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
motherload of crazyee----> http://www.badassmotherfuckers.org/
― limited holiday edition eggnog (soda), Friday, 16 November 2012 02:44 (eleven years ago) link
http://news.panasonic.net/stories/2011/0816_6210.html
― There are a lot of subjective opinions (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 25 August 2013 23:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://soccerly.com/article/Oliben/an-inside-look-at-ronaldinhos-new-teeth
― how's life, Sunday, 22 September 2013 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/5eYhx9a.jpg
― ۩, Saturday, 30 November 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
this thread is a nice reminder of how far ilx has come in just a few years btw
― k3vin k., Saturday, 30 November 2013 16:39 (ten years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BrieEXGIQAArTat.jpg
― avicii usque ad arse (imago), Thursday, 3 July 2014 01:34 (ten years ago) link
oh lol i didn't fucking see 2 posts ago
was coming here to post same lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 3 July 2014 13:56 (ten years ago) link
not enough ronaldinho itt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83rinbq_8uI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Evi9y74A0s
― ogmor, Thursday, 3 July 2014 16:54 (ten years ago) link
just a fucking bottle opener ffs
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Thursday, 3 July 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
we have two of those suarez bottle openers in the office. the owners are argentinian and mexican.
― koogs, Thursday, 24 July 2014 12:24 (ten years ago) link
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
― ailsa, Thursday, March 22, 2007 2:26 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol (not directed at you koogs)
― marcos, Thursday, 24 July 2014 14:16 (ten years ago) link
also DJP's post needs to be in the first response hall of fame if it is not already
― marcos, Thursday, 24 July 2014 14:18 (ten years ago) link
i love that the first three posts so clearly demarcate the lines of the oncoming clusterfuck
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 24 July 2014 14:56 (ten years ago) link
*incredulousness**unflappable enthusiasm*
looking like ronaldinho is racist now
― your favourite misread ILX threads (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 July 2014 15:24 (ten years ago) link
http://deadspin.com/yasiel-puig-uses-his-mouth-to-open-two-beers-at-the-sam-1639231462
― who cares? the moon sucks. (The Yellow Kid), Friday, 26 September 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link
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
― Onan Pullett (wins), Friday, 26 September 2014 22:40 (nine years ago) link
every few months i skimread through this thread
― nakhchivan, Friday, 26 September 2014 22:41 (nine years ago) link
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
― nakhchivan, Friday, 26 September 2014 22:44 (nine years ago) link
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
― nakhchivan, Friday, 26 September 2014 22:48 (nine years ago) link
I don't think I've got that far although there are always a couple of die-hards no
― Onan Pullett (wins), Friday, 26 September 2014 22:56 (nine years ago) link
like the japanese guy who thinks it's still ww2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MW0U4UER2c
― Onan Pullett (wins), Friday, 26 September 2014 22:58 (nine years ago) link
first response hall of fame
― horseshoe, Friday, 26 September 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
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
― nakhchivan, Friday, 26 September 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link
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)
― sarahell, Saturday, 27 September 2014 00:00 (nine years ago) link
it's been nice shitting with you guys
― Onan Pullett (wins), Saturday, 27 September 2014 12:38 (nine years ago) link
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
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Saturday, 27 September 2014 18:06 (nine years ago) link
this was a coming of age, of sorts
― pretentious over rated bloody old rubbish (imago), Saturday, 27 September 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link
would like to stake an inarguable claim for Most Improved
― pretentious over rated bloody old rubbish (imago), Saturday, 27 September 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
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
― Spirit of Match Game '76 (silby), Saturday, 27 September 2014 19:06 (nine years ago) link
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
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 27 September 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
the priggish bullheadedness of imbecile youth obvs
― pretentious over rated bloody old rubbish (imago), Saturday, 27 September 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link
true, although most of the rest don't have access to that defence
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 27 September 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
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
― Onan Pullett (wins), Saturday, 27 September 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link
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
― ogmor, Saturday, 27 September 2014 21:26 (nine years ago) link
theres only a vague correlation between how brazilian people identify themselves racially and their ancestry
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 27 September 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link