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Irish Car Bomb Cupcakes

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    #62
    Foxhound38
    Registered Users Posts: 2,547 ✭✭✭Foxhound38


    Life is more enjoyable when you stop looking for things to be outraged about - it's just a cupcake, who cares?


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    #63
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    Foxhound38 wrote: »
    Life is more enjoyable when you stop looking for things to be outraged about - it's just a cupcake, who cares?
    Bit disingenuous. It's not the cupcake, it's the name. You don't have to be an outrage merchant to see how "carbomb" is in poor taste.

    Lately I see far more people giving out about people being offended... than people being offended. Stephen Fry, who is part of that fashion, seems like such a knob too.
    What people mean when they say "People look for offence at anything these days" is "I hate when people take offence at stuff I don't take offence at... but it's no problem for me to get offended by other stuff."


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    #64
    Dick Masterson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 64 ✭✭Dick Masterson


    I'm not the least bit offended, I just think the name is stupid because surely the Irish weren't the first or most frequent users of carbombs, right? It's not something unique to Irish culture.

    Now if they said Iraqi carbombs, then I can see how someone could be offended by that because they're very common over there nowadays after America liberated the oppressed Shiites and give them the freedom to duel with their Sunni overlords.


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    #65
    Foxhound38
    Registered Users Posts: 2,547 ✭✭✭Foxhound38


    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    Bit disingenuous. It's not the cupcake, it's the name. You don't have to be an outrage merchant to see how "carbomb" is in poor taste.

    Lately I see far more people giving out about people being offended... than people being offended. Stephen Fry, who is part of that fashion, seems like such a knob too.
    What people mean when they say "People look for offence at anything these days" is "I hate when people take offence at stuff I don't take offence at... but it's no problem for me to get offended by other stuff."

    It's not disingenuous - it's just not bending myself out of shape over what is an ill-advised name of a cupcake. Was it ill-advised? Yes. Is a word going to ruin my day? No - especially if the cupcake tastes good!


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    #66
    Driveby Dogboy
    Site Banned Posts: 257 ✭✭Driveby Dogboy


    whats the craze with cupcakes these days anyway?


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    #67
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,025 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Driveby Dogboy wrote: »
    whats the craze with cupcakes these days anyway?

    Cupcakes are so last year, Cronuts are where its at right now....


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    #68
    pandaboy
    Registered Users Posts: 618 ✭✭✭pandaboy


    As explosive as the "Lord MountBattenberg"?


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    #69
    bodice ripper
    Registered Users Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    Bit disingenuous. It's not the cupcake, it's the name. You don't have to be an outrage merchant to see how "carbomb" is in poor taste.

    Lately I see far more people giving out about people being offended... than people being offended. Stephen Fry, who is part of that fashion, seems like such a knob too.
    What people mean when they say "People look for offence at anything these days" is "I hate when people take offence at stuff I don't take offence at... but it's no problem for me to get offended by other stuff."


    Sorry, you think Stephen Fry is a knob, therefore all your opinions are suspect.


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    #70
    Corvo Attano
    Registered Users Posts: 8,446 ✭✭✭Corvo Attano


    What a terrible name.

    You should be offended by her lack of naming skills.


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    #71
    minidazzler
    Registered Users Posts: 14,739 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    Bit disingenuous. It's not the cupcake, it's the name. You don't have to be an outrage merchant to see how "carbomb" is in poor taste.

    Lately I see far more people giving out about people being offended... than people being offended. Stephen Fry, who is part of that fashion, seems like such a knob too.
    What people mean when they say "People look for offence at anything these days" is "I hate when people take offence at stuff I don't take offence at... but it's no problem for me to get offended by other stuff."

    Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry.


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    #72
    Rabies
    Registered Users Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    polydactyl wrote: »
    Just came across this on a Facebook baking page I belong to. I commented to the poster that the name was horribly in bad taste and that while I knew it was based on a shot you can buy in American bars that I also found that horribly offensive. I told her about the Omagh bombing etc. She responded with " oh but I am married to a man called O Grady and have visited " the old sod" twice so its ok.

    I politely pointed out that this fact made it worse as if she is so proud of her families Irish heritage that she should be even more aware of how offensive it is than most Americans who could rightly clam no knowledge of its links in history.

    Am I just being overly offended? I did grow up " at the border" so do find it very offensive but am now even more irritated as she is using the " I'm Irish through marriage rubbish" to excuse it :mad:

    Go back in time. Stop the Omagh bombing.
    Bake cake

    or

    Switch off your computer. Cut off all contact with the outside world. Wrap yourself in cotton wool and sing Disney songs all day.


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    #73
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,272 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Where I come from their called buns. Not, cupcakes.


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    #74
    ardle1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭ardle1


    Royalties Please.;)


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    #75
    Rabies
    Registered Users Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    Gummy Panda wrote: »
    Where are these cake samples?

    You need a good training ground to prove your work before samples can be given out.


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    #76
    Sinfonia
    Registered Users Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭Sinfonia


    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    Well I'd find it hard to believe he wouldn't take offence at homophobic or anti-semitic or anti intellectual speech.

    I think he'd either do something constructive about it or keep his mouth shut to be honest.
    Rather than just say "I'm offended, so you can't do/say that", which is what he's railing against in that quote.


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    #77
    Duiske
    Registered Users Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭Duiske


    Nothing starts a Sunday morning like a coffee and a Boston Bomb Biscuit.


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    #78
    Jello
    Registered Users Posts: 2,739 ✭✭✭Jello


    Working in an Irish bar in Denver for the summer. "Irish Car Bombs" and a pint called "Black and Tan" are two of our most popular drinks!


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    #79
    goose2005
    Registered Users Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    Jello wrote: »
    Working in an Irish bar in Denver for the summer. "Irish Car Bombs" and a pint called "Black and Tan" are two of our most popular drinks!

    What about a Michael Collins - it's like a Tom Collins, but you just give it a shot in the head.


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    #80
    Bozo Skeleton
    Registered Users Posts: 749 ✭✭✭Bozo Skeleton


    Jello wrote: »
    Working in an Irish bar in Denver for the summer. "Irish Car Bombs" and a pint called "Black and Tan" are two of our most popular drinks!

    In all my years working in bars in Dublin, I have only been asked for a Black and Tan a handful of times, and every single time it was a Yank tourist asking for it. A young lad, (born in the US, but Irish, I guess) told me last night it's all the rage in Mayo. I don't believe him.
    Mayo people, is this true? And if so, why? I can understand a Smithwicks with a Guinness head, but half Guinness half Smithwicks, that's just stupid. And a pain in the ass to pour.


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    #81
    Pug160
    Registered Users Posts: 1,088 ✭✭✭Pug160


    minidazzler wrote: »
    Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry.

    Stephen is very intelligent and witty but he's not perfect - no one is. He made a comment a few years ago implying that women never actually enjoy sex, which was one of the dumbest comments I have ever heard. Stephen might be gay, but I thought a man with his education would have at least known more about a woman's anatomy.


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    #82
    nice_very
    Registered Users Posts: 1,723 ✭✭✭nice_very


    BUNS, call them by their correct name: BUNS

    next you guys will be all like, mom when you go to the drugstore bring me back a gallon of soda


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    #83
    ardle1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭ardle1


    Pug160 wrote: »
    Stephen is very intelligent and witty but he's not perfect - no one is. He made a comment a few years ago implying that women never actually enjoy sex, which was one of the dumbest comments I have ever heard. Stephen might be gay, but I thought a man with his education would have at least known more about a woman's anatomy.

    He forgot to finish his statement 'that women never actually enjoy sex' with him


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