OMG I WANT THIS AMAZING RONALDINHO BOTTLE OPENER

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hey now

― unfished business, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link

shootin my mouth off
makin a scene
wearin a dress and
defendin, it seems,
some racist toy
"it's affectionate, boy!"
there's a cultural gulf
it'll swallow us both

in this rough ol' thread

― gbx, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.israellycool.com/growingpains_big.jpg

― i would just like to point out that i have been otm on this thread, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=racial+objectification
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=objectification+african-american
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=objectification+%22black+people%22

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Louis this thread is not about you.

― Matt DC, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm pretty sure Louis's ancestors owned slaves though, so in a way it is entirely about him.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

the problem is that some people always seem so adamant about something NOT being racist (see also Shilpa CBB thing) but then as the argument develops you see how ignorant they are about the subject generally. there's so much denial involved on their side because people are often so desperate to be seen as not racist or supportive of anything that could be construed as racist. i've done it myself, tho i still think i was right in some cases heh.

― blueski, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

louisjaggerbottleopener.jpg

― i would just like to point out that i have been otm on this thread, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I liked Grimace becuase he was purple, and had fairly inarticulate limbs

― kingfish, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

NEXT LEVEL

xpost to dom

― and what, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

shootin my mouth off
makin a scene
wearin a dress and
defendin, it seems,
some racist toy
"it's affectionate, boy!"
there's a cultural gulf
it'll swallow us both

in this rough ol' thread

gbx on Friday, 23 March 2007 15:16 (16 minutes ago)

Excellent.

― Pashmina, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Racism becomes it.

― blueski, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:7Sl97-b3UO0J:www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/slav_fact.cfm+sicily+slavery&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10&gl=uk

― Frogman Henry, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

thunderpants.edu

― and what, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Why would a hamburglar concern himself with fries and shakes? Wouldn't that just make him a burglar with a more general specialty?

― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

HAHAHA

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I really don't think that bottle opener is racist and I wouldn't suspect one of being racist for owning it, but I couldn't own one even if I was a football fan. It's just too reminiscent of American racist iconography. I'd be uncomfortable with it and I would totally understand if guests were like WTF, dude. Products with the kind of racist iconography featured above, while rare, were sold in America as late as the '60's or even the '70's. It's going to be a while before that context disappears.

I think that sums it up fairly.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link

possibly the most offensive thing on this thread is the idea that objectification of black people - relentlessly focusing on their bodies or body parts - died some kind of natural dignified death, rather than actually still going great guns in a million other ways

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

when that fire gets stoked, flame-outs occur

― deej, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

That really is a choice quote.

― i would just like to point out that i have been otm on this thread, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

ASPBURGLAR more like

― blueski, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

The Ronaldo bottle opener reminds of those rubbish football figure things with gigantic heads that were in shops a few years ago.

― jel --, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Ronaldinho, I mean. Sorry.

― jel --, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

no talkin bad 'bout bobble-heads!

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

He doesn't mean bobbleheads, he means Corinthians:

http://www.corinthianseller.co.uk/images/ruud-gullit-miniature.jpg

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

That really is a choice quote.

theres something v. poetic about the mixed metaphor. And i appreciate the passive voice. that quote is enjoyed by me.

― deej, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Those things were pretty offensive to free-breakfast-cereal-toy makers.

― Frogman Henry, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Ronaldinho Corinthian:

http://www.corinthianseller.co.uk/microstars/microstars-MC6840.jpg

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

[quote]U R ALL DISINGENUOUS[quote]

There's a lot of ingenuousness on this thread from the British side, but very little disingenuousness.

― Mark C, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.corinthianseller.co.uk/prostars/prostars-PRO1219.jpg
WANT

― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

you are mocking the dead

― unfished business, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

they should have done Puskas in monochrome. who ever saw him in colour, eh? it's not the same.

http://www.planetworldcup.com/LEGENDS/puskas.jpg

also, he should probabaly be a bit porkier.

― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

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WANT ALL OF THESE

― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

That Puskas figure looks like he should be drawing a knife on a bouncer.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

srsly that's not puskas, it's robert blake

― kenan, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

what, the leeds player?

― unfished business, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Well allegedly after the Battle of Berne he smashed in a Brazillian official with a broken bottle.

― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

'Diamond' Frankie Puskas was suspected of killing Jack 'The Hat' McVitie before the Krays got busted for it.

― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

If those images had worked we'd have Schmeichel, Beckenbauer, Passarella, Carlos Alberto, Maldini, Roy Keane, Best, Stoichkov, Platini, Cruyff, Maradonna, Garrincha and Puskas all together. (Stoichkov and Platini on the bench.)

― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Dom, you still haven't started that 'great footballers of the 90's' thread.

― unfished business, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

"img" instead of "image" inside the square brackets was yr undoing, Nick.

― Pashmina, Friday, 23 March 2007 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 23 March 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Cruyff, looks kinda like that French actor dude.

― jel --, Friday, 23 March 2007 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

That Garrincha one is actually amazing.

― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 23 March 2007 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Passarella looks like he's about to spit at you.

― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 23 March 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Not sure they've got Garrincha's legs right.

― unfished business, Friday, 23 March 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Nick, you've picked too many Fancy Dans. where's Souey? where's Paul Mariner?

― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 23 March 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I would just like to point out that i would just like to point out that i have been otm on this thread has been otm in this thread

― Matt, Friday, 23 March 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Hem Hem

― Madchen, Friday, 23 March 2007 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Beardsley. Now there was a chin.

― Matt, Friday, 23 March 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

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