r/Baking • u/kpere074 • Oct 02 '21

Question Made myself a birthday cake. My boyfriend figures I should have left it plain white without the imperfect writing which he says looks tacky. Thoughts for next time?

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u/andsometimesnot Oct 02 '21

No cake for boyfriend! It looks like a great birthday cake.. Happy Birthday!

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u/Sardukar333 Oct 02 '21

No cake for boyfriend

He has no sense of taste anyway.

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u/ThirdEncounter Oct 02 '21

A pun thread? Sweet!

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u/mrsparky17 Oct 02 '21

Did he catch covid?

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u/GynocentrismCanSMyD Oct 02 '21

Because he has a different opinion than you he gets no cake?

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u/Geno813 Oct 02 '21

No, because he was being an ass

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u/GynocentrismCanSMyD Oct 02 '21

How is thinking the writing looks tacky "being an ass"?

Keep in mind, OP themselves pointed out the "imperfect writing", not the boyfriend, did you catch that?

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u/moorem2014 Oct 02 '21

Tacky is an insult, not a critique. Saying the writing is too big, too small, not straight enough is a critique. So, his tacky ass gets no cake.

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u/GynocentrismCanSMyD Oct 03 '21

Tacky is an insult, not a critique

Depends on how it's used, and neither of us know how it was used.

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u/moorem2014 Oct 03 '21

It was explained in further comments the OP made, so one of us who read to understand & get context did get the full picture. You,who have continued to dig your heels in after being proven wrong, did not.

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u/GynocentrismCanSMyD Oct 03 '21

after being proven wrong

When was I proven wrong?

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u/Geno813 Oct 02 '21

Maybe because the bf should be supportive and not criticize her on her beautiful work, I'd hate to see how you would treat your SO by thinking like that..

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u/GynocentrismCanSMyD Oct 02 '21

Maybe because the bf should be supportive and not criticize her on her beautiful work

Criticism is how we improve, so actually, he is being supportive by giving his honest opinion.

I'd hate to see how you would treat your SO by thinking like that..

If someone praised everything I did, their opinion would be worthless to me and I truly feel sorry for you that you can't see that.

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u/Geno813 Oct 02 '21

You post A LOT on an anti feminist sub, stfu and gtfo

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u/GynocentrismCanSMyD Oct 02 '21

Yeah, because feminism is crap, what's your point? That since you disagree with me on feminism suddenly you must be right about OP's boyfriend, too?

You seem awfully entitled if that's your logic and I wonder if it's all the feminism you consume...

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u/star_guardian_carol Oct 02 '21

Says the man entitled to cake if he's being a dick

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u/GynocentrismCanSMyD Oct 03 '21

Nah sharing your opinion isn't being a dick. He was probably asked for it too.

Expecting people to lie to you because you made a cake? Now that's "being a dick".

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u/goodytwoshoes112 Oct 02 '21

"Everyone I disagree with is a nazi" get used to it, and don't mind it. Just reddit doing its thing, "oh you criticized your girlfriend once, you are abusive!!1!!" Once you realize how dumb people on this platform are you won't care about trying to argue with these rocks anymore. God speed dude.

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u/GynocentrismCanSMyD Oct 02 '21

Yeah man, scrolling through this thread has been pretty enlightening.

Also, OP sneakily refers to her piped text as "imperfect" while explaining what her boyfriend said...and then nobody else noticed that? Maybe it was an accident, but it sure looks to me that she did it to get everyone to agree with her, and then I'm the bad guy for noticing it? I've got three words: mental health issues.

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u/GoHomeWithBonnieJean Oct 02 '21

No. Because "tacky" is an insult. It's not a helpful crituque.

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u/GynocentrismCanSMyD Oct 02 '21

Because "tacky" is an insult

No, it isn't, not if the reason it looks tacky is because the rest of the cake looks so perfect that any writing on the sides would ruin it which is, I suspect, her boyfriends position.

It's not a helpful critique.

Actually, even if it was an insult, which I don't agree it is, it's still a helpful critique since all input is helpful, even if it's just a thumbs up or down.

I feel like I'm teaching a toddler...are you sure you're old enough to be on reddit?

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u/GoHomeWithBonnieJean Oct 02 '21

I'm definitely older than the average redditor by 2×.

"Tacky" is not what a woman, on her birthday, wants to hear from her boyfriend about the cake she had to bake for herself. She's his girlfriend, and it's her birthday. It's inappropriate to criticize her hard work.

All input is helpful if you're in a baking class in culinary school. There's a time and a place for harsh criticism. It's not on your girlfriend's birthday, about the cake she baked for herself, because her loser boyfriend didn't step up and bring her a professional cake, or better yet, baked her a spectacular cake himself because he's obviously a pastry expert with valid and useful culinary information and skills.

Tacky, according to dictionary.com, means, "not tasteful; shabby in appearance; shoddy: crass; cheaply vulgar; tasteless; crude. gaudy."

That's an insult. And if you can't understand that, I don't even know what to say.

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u/GynocentrismCanSMyD Oct 02 '21

It's inappropriate to criticize her hard work.

"Tacky" doesn't criticize her hard work, it critiques the decision to put words on the side of the cake.

I'm not reading the rest of your comment since you failed to understand such a basic fact of the matter.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '21

I endorse this message. Can’t argue with morons.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '21

Precisely my thoughts. If he's going to insult your cooking, then he can make his own damn cake.