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nice baps

A petition and letter of complaint has been handed to owner John O'Toole, decrying his bakery's choice of title: Nice Baps.

Am I uptight and odd to be uncomfortable with this. My problem is I'm not very good expressing myself but...
it feels like theyre saying its ok to make womens breasts something you can comment on because it's ok it's only a joke

If someone feels offended they have a right to complain. It may be 'only a joke' but the joke's on you isn't it? Every time you walk past the shop you get a little reminder of the kind of attitude you're supposed to put up with.

By the way I dfind the shopkeeper's name - John O' Toole - strangely appropriate...

this would piss me off.
If I lived in the town I wouldn't shop there.

Nice baps is pathetic. I'm offended by the level of humour. Twat.

A friend said 'Its harmless fun IMO!' and I haven't replied yet as I can't put together how I feel coherently.

Can't see a butcher selling "large cocks" going down a storm. Nope you are right. Just tell her, if it was iced buns being marketed with "look at all the creamy white stuff on the top of our long dogs" it wouldn't be that funny.

We have a sandwich place near us called Bulging Baps. It doesn't bother me I think it's quite funny. At least the name is rememberable.

I think you may mean memorable.

Hmm, surely the word "bap" meant "bread roll" before it became slang for breasts?

well language changes doesn't it? Gay no longer means gay and nice no longer means nice. It's clearly a joke about breasts.

I have no problem with this.
........and if a butcher did call something large cocks I wouldn't have a problem with that either.

There is a layby butie shop near Settle called Busty Baps. Whe I passed it in the kinbus with colleagues from work the comment from the other female staff was ' I can guess where you guys are your getting lunch from!

Which is a great example of where the problem lies.

I can't believe people are getting so uptight about a harmless play on words!!

My butcher's is called Big Swinging Duck. And he hangs them from a pole that vibrates in the window so they do swing.

I'm not offended by this. It's on a part with all those hairdressers with terrible names, that's all.

I know "gay" no longer means "happy and carefree", but what does "nice" mean these days, if not, well, "nice", Unrulysun? [auld gimmer emoticon]

I believe it used to mean precise: as in a 'nice' distinction. Innit?

Lots of meanings for "nice"; so what does it mean these days? (Sorry, I'm not trying to be obtuse, but I live in rural Scotland and language develops differently here than in eg London.)

Ah, Ok, think I'm getting it...

Blandly inoffensively pleasant? 'That's a nice lamp, it will work well with my cream curtains'.

My I-phone won't open some links - that being one of them.

Good grief! I though nice meant, well, just nice.

And biscuits of course.

Sorry, Unrulysun, I think I "got" the modern parlance from the urbandictionary, the second of my links.

Apologies for the hijack.

yes i think it's moronic too

I refuse to get upset at the equivalent of the old saucy postcard humour.
I don't want to spend my day going round with a cat's arse face finding ways to be offended.
It's just a play onslang words that women often use themselves to describe their breasts that just happens to be a style of bread roll.(read other threads and you will know there are all sorts of slang words for them)

I think women have got bigger fish to fry than be pissed off over this.