OMG I WANT THIS AMAZING RONALDINHO BOTTLE OPENER

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― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

you've got to be shitting me

― HI DERE, Thursday, 22 March 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

I doubt anyone can find a better piece of football memorablia.

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

a Luke Chadwick one would've been better.

― blueski, Thursday, 22 March 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

It went on EBay for $12,000!

― The Wayward Johnny B, Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

want one!

http://i9.tinypic.com/2vwa89h.jpg

― onimo, Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

http://val.kolpakov.com/toothpaste/Image002.jpg

― and what, Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

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― and what, Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

Does Ronaldinho remind you of the man from the Darkie toothpaste box?

― onimo, Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

That bottle opener does!

― HI DERE, Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

(hence "you've got to be shitting me")

― HI DERE, Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

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, 22 March 2007 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

i dont know who the fuck ronaldinho is

I'm fairly sure even Tuomas and Lex know who Ronaldinho is.

― onimo, Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

hahahahahaha this thread will be a winner

― ghost rider, Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

Bamboozled used that "Black man bottle opener" didn't it? He looks nothing like Ronaldinho.

― onimo, Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

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

― ghost rider, Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

It's wearing 10, has big teeth and a ponytail - it's not Roberto Carlos is it?

Bizarrely, I found it while image searching "aranyscapat" looking for pics of the Hungary 1954 squad. wtf?!

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure I've seen a "LOL RONALDINHO BUCKTEETH LOOKS LIKE BOTTLE OPENER" comment on ILX before somewhere. Someone is going to be owed some royalties.

― dan m, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.toothpasteworld.com/images/specials/hammerman.jpg

― Abbott, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

http://karikaturas.no.sapo.pt/imagens/Ronaldinho.jpg

believe it or not, that's actually a photograph.

― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

I must be missing something:

http://www.oceleb.com/img/ronaldinho/ronaldinho.jpg

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, not even does this look like that bottle opener:

http://www.123football.com/players/r/ronaldinho/ronaldinho10.jpg

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

His teeth aren't HUGE, but they're very pronounced because his gums are enormous.

http://worldcup.goal.com/images/10396_news.jpg

― onimo, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

If it had been a Luke Chadwick/Esther Rantzen/other comedy-toothed character bottle-opener, would this be creating controversy? It's a caricature of a man with fuck-off big teeth. His colour is neither here nor there.

I want one too.

For reference, people who have no idea who Ronaldhino is:

http://www.webdelcule.com/03-04/ronaldinho-pos1.jpg

― ailsa, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/images/20051130-ronaldinho.jpg

― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

he has the mighty chomperz, okay?

― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

Um, xxxxpost. You people are weird. Ronaldhino is basically 90% teeth and gums.

― ailsa, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

Who the fuck is Luke Chadwick? :)

ailsa otm, comedy bottle opener has nothing to do with his colour.

I think and what is saying all comedy bottle opener (and toothpaste tube) black men look alike.

― onimo, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)

I thought people would've been used to ethan trolling by now.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

Well, it was the first thing I thought of too, fwiw.

― G00blar, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

by "ethan trolling" you mean dan perry expressing his revulsion circa the second post?

― ghost rider, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

all blackface minstrel representations of black men usually do look alike

― and what, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

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

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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

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

guys, its called DARLIE now.

http://static.flickr.com/76/229972638_e2ff5efa6c_m.jpg

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

(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 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha wow

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

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

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

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

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

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

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

(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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEiMWZEns1s

― nakhchivan, Saturday, 27 September 2014 23:45 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZkJnsADaww

― nakhchivan, Saturday, 27 September 2014 23:45 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZkJnsADaww

― nakhchivan, Saturday, 27 September 2014 23:46 (eleven years ago)

that should be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m6mz0-hlFc

― nakhchivan, Saturday, 27 September 2014 23:47 (eleven years ago)

four months pass...

Ronaldinho has made 14 appearances in all competitions - scoring only three goals and making two assists.

However, the Mexican club's fitness coach Roberto Bassagaisteguy recently revealed the 34-year-old hasn't been pulling his weight in training.

''He doesn't do physical exercise,' Bassagaisteguy said of Ronaldinho. 'I can't force him to run because he doesn't like it. He does special exercises with special players. I know what they like.

― no love deb weep (nakhchivan), Saturday, 14 February 2015 22:16 (ten years ago)

Kabuscorp president Kangamba expects Ronaldinho to be plying his trade in Girabola - the top division of Angolan football - at the halfway mark of 2015.

"It's a certainty. We are negotiating, but Ronaldinho has to terminate the contract with his current club, and then be able to join us in June," Kangamba told Public Television Angola (PTA) .

"You may ask why I picked Ronaldinho... Well, I want quality in my squad."

If Ronaldinho does complete a move to Kabuscorp, he would follow in the footsteps of former team-mate Rivaldo, who joined the club on a one-year deal in 2012.

― no love deb weep (nakhchivan), Saturday, 14 February 2015 22:16 (ten years ago)

six months pass...

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― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Wednesday, 9 September 2015 23:18 (ten years ago)

four weeks pass...

http://www.watoday.com.au/sport/soccer/brazil-football-legend-ronaldinho-crashes-car-gets-snapped-in-tearyeyed-selfie-20151007-gk3518.html

― écorché (S-), Thursday, 8 October 2015 02:00 (ten years ago)

three months pass...

Saw this bit of questionable kitchen equipment in Primark yesterday:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41oVOKUr9sL._SY300_.jpg

― bored at work (snoball), Friday, 8 January 2016 20:02 (nine years ago)

seven months pass...

Progress!

http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/redsox/2016/08/09/red-sox-deem-david-ortiz-bobblehead-racially-insensitive/qwAnoxGz56oV5pxohgrFuM/story.html

― Don't boo, vote (DJP), Thursday, 11 August 2016 14:06 (nine years ago)

In unprintable language, Ortiz said he agreed with the team’s decision.

I want to know what he said!

― horseshoe, Thursday, 11 August 2016 15:32 (nine years ago)

I'm going to go with "What the fuck is this shit?"

― Don't boo, vote (DJP), Thursday, 11 August 2016 15:36 (nine years ago)

Two versions of the bobblehead were made. The Red Sox found both unacceptable.

Good Lord, what did the first one look like?

― pplains, Thursday, 11 August 2016 15:37 (nine years ago)

nine months pass...

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/how-america-bought-and-sold-racism/

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 22 May 2017 08:53 (eight years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/football-legend-ronaldinho-pictured-with-chechen-leader-ramzan-kadyrov-accused-by-canada-of-a3589721.html

― sarahell, Monday, 17 July 2017 19:19 (eight years ago)

oops

― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Monday, 17 July 2017 19:21 (eight years ago)

There's a more general purpose Ronaldinho thred fwiw
Ronaldinho

― nashwan, Monday, 17 July 2017 20:00 (eight years ago)

i almost posted that recent horrendously ugly statue of ronaldo here

― brimstead, Monday, 17 July 2017 20:36 (eight years ago)

nine months pass...

WHATEVER, ASSHOLES, SIPPY CUPS HAVE TO BE SHAPED A CERTAIN WAY!
― horseshoe, Thursday, March 22, 2007 5:25 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 April 2018 02:55 (seven years ago)

Galaxy brain thoughts right there

― valorous wokelord (silby), Monday, 23 April 2018 03:19 (seven years ago)

seven months pass...

Thanks to #blackface @Prada, now you can take #sambo home with you for the holidays #StopRacism #StopBlackface #StopPrada pic.twitter.com/5t2cvosLIF
— Chinyere Ezie (@lawyergrrl) December 13, 2018

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Saturday, 15 December 2018 01:56 (six years ago)

Oh ok

― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Saturday, 15 December 2018 02:05 (six years ago)

nine months pass...

bernardo silva would like to point out he has been otm in this thread

― imago, Monday, 23 September 2019 11:05 (six years ago)

send him my best!

― treeship., Monday, 23 September 2019 11:52 (six years ago)

primo

― imago, Monday, 23 September 2019 11:53 (six years ago)

one month passes...

Just got out of a meeting where I had to explain to our management team from Germany that naming our extended Black Friday sale "Black Week" was maybe not a good idea.

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 22 November 2019 17:56 (five years ago)

hahahahahahahahaha

― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 22 November 2019 18:12 (five years ago)

"Come on in, the savings are SPOOKY GOOD!"

― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 22 November 2019 18:13 (five years ago)

oh no

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Friday, 22 November 2019 18:18 (five years ago)

"Let's call a spade a spade; you'd have to be a total monkey to pass up these deals! N****r!"

― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 22 November 2019 18:23 (five years ago)

got them to settle on "Our week long Black Friday sale" literally hours before they sent the blast out to like 25,000 customers.

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 22 November 2019 18:28 (five years ago)

I couldn't find a more appropriate thread for this: https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/02/tech/amazon-auschwitz-products-removed-scli-intl/index.html

― brigadier pudding (DJP), Monday, 2 December 2019 18:30 (five years ago)

Selling "Christmas ornaments" with images of Auschwitz does not seem appropriate. Auschwitz on a bottle opener is rather disturbing and disrespectful. We ask @amazon to remove the items of those suppliers. https://t.co/0uG2JG558e pic.twitter.com/ucZoTWPk1W
— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) December 1, 2019

― brigadier pudding (DJP), Monday, 2 December 2019 18:31 (five years ago)

the pitfalls of algorithmic products.

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Monday, 2 December 2019 18:32 (five years ago)

ha you stole my coda

― brigadier pudding (DJP), Monday, 2 December 2019 18:32 (five years ago)

I have to applaud Auschwitz Memorial's stone-faced reaction to this horrifying shit:

Sadly, it is not over yet @amazon. The "Massacre Auschwitcz (!) Birkenau Jewish Death" mousepad is another disturbing online product. We are not sure if @yadvashem would like the "Christmas ornament" with a freight car used for deporting Jews for extermination either. https://t.co/qDEEzqzwSU pic.twitter.com/wXExhFZPmV
— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) December 1, 2019

― brigadier pudding (DJP), Monday, 2 December 2019 18:33 (five years ago)

The "Massacre Auschwitcz (!) Birkenau Jewish Death" mousepad is another disturbing online product.

This is a strong contender for Understatement of the Year

― brigadier pudding (DJP), Monday, 2 December 2019 18:34 (five years ago)

Kind of glad there wasn't a more appropriate thread for it? This one barely is tbh.

In the wake of DJP's link, there were some local stories here consisting of the same "bad taste" element. Online vendors pull xmas stuff or postcards or canvas posters that were "decorated" w/ images of concentration camps. Any morality is lost on bots (and those who let bots roam free), but I've seen shops online presenting posters/stickers/canvas etc with questionable content before. Basically, the "store" works as follows: if it's an image that exists on the internet, we can print it for you on X, look: here's an example.

xps all otm

― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 2 December 2019 18:36 (five years ago)

one year passes...

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 (four years ago)

(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 (four years ago)

denial about UK racism is off the charts in this thread

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

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 (four years ago)

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 (three years ago)

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

six months pass...

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

― Madchen, Thursday, 26 May 2022 09:27 (three years ago)

three years pass...

https://www.out.com/news/tiktok-blackface-ksi-labubu

― jaymc, Monday, 4 August 2025 23:20 (two months ago)

Labubus rank pretty high on 'Things I just don't care about'

― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 4 August 2025 23:28 (two months ago)

I just kept reading that article going “holy fuck I’m old”

― my favorite herbs are fennel and Drake (DJP), Tuesday, 5 August 2025 02:40 (two months ago)

I feel like I'm on Match Game.

"'The Tiktok lady turned her {BLANK} black, garnering accusations of racism.' Plains?"

"Um, her face?"

"Be more specific."

"Huh? Uh..."

"I'll read the card again. 'The Tiktok lady...'"

― pplains, Tuesday, 5 August 2025 03:08 (two months ago)

Scrolling through the opening exchanges of this thread anticipating my own entry into the fray is like waiting for the drop in a late period Scott Walker song

― imago, Tuesday, 5 August 2025 07:22 (two months ago)

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