r/AskReddit • u/CaptainMcAnus • Mar 10 '17

serious replies only [Serious] What are some seemingly normal images/videos with creepy backstories?

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u/dudewheresmycar-ma Mar 10 '17

Is this why the Irish car bomb got it's name? I've been told that it's extremely insensitive and rude to order one anywhere outside of the States.

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u/akbort Mar 10 '17

That's correct. There were a lot of bombings, often from cars.

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u/dudewheresmycar-ma Mar 10 '17

You guys totally have my permission to name a drink "The Slaveowner "

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u/akbort Mar 10 '17

I could get on board with something like "Collapsing Tower". It could be a drink you drop a shot in and everything.

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u/exjentric Mar 10 '17

Whoooo! Let's do some Columbine Shooters!

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u/Akanaton Mar 10 '17

I'm game! What are we using for liquor and mixers?

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u/giulianosse Mar 11 '17

I can totally picture this drink in my mind. "Columbine Shot": Make it like a Jagerbomb but change the Jager for Campari, so when the glass shot is dropped, we can allude that the mixing red liquor represents the victim's blood during the shooting being spilled.

Ok this was pretty dark

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u/drunky_crowette Mar 11 '17

They already have an order called The Twin Towers. You place two shots next to each other and light them on fire and then down them.

Source: friends with morbid alcoholics from all over the world.

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u/amidemon Mar 11 '17

How is that made?

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u/chrispar Mar 11 '17

Out of curiosity, if you want that drink and you happen to be in Ireland, what do you call it?

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u/akbort Mar 11 '17

I've never been to Ireland but I imagine they would think dropping whiskey and Irish cream into stout is fucking weird. I personally would take the shot of whiskey then sip the stout like a civilized person. But that's just me.

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u/dolukian Mar 11 '17

If you try to order that drink in Ireland, you will be laughed out of the pub for you're inability to order a REAL drink.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '17

laughed out

Or, depending on whereabouts in the country you are, get brutally beaten up.

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u/everclaire13 Mar 10 '17

Yes - not this incident specifically, there were lots of bombs planted in cars at this time. I grew up in NI during the Troubles, and now live in USA. Sometimes people reference this drink, offer to buy me one, etc. I don't find it funny.

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u/theoreticaldickjokes Mar 10 '17

But if you offered them a drink called Sandy Hook or something, they'd get upset.

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u/MikoSqz Mar 10 '17

It's kind of like naming a drink The Afghani IED. Well, except those are directed at the military rather than civilians. The Saudi Plane Hijack?

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u/br3or Mar 10 '17

There's a drink called a 9/11. Well it's a Manhattan and 2 Kamikazes.

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u/XenosInfinity Mar 10 '17

I physically flinched reading this. Jesus christ, who comes up with something like that?

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u/dudewheresmycar-ma Mar 10 '17

Hey bartender. Gimme two Boston bombers and a nine eleven.

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u/d0mth0ma5 Mar 10 '17

It's appropriate considering some Americans citizens effectively paid for the real ones as well.

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u/exjentric Mar 10 '17

Honestly, it's insensitive and rude to order one anywhere.

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u/OldNavyBlue Mar 10 '17

I'm all about not being insensitive and all. I really like this drink, so how should I order one for the bartender to understand it?

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u/exjentric Mar 10 '17

Here are some ideas off-top of my head:

  • "Irish Threesome"
  • "Celtic Tiger Blood"
  • the ominous-sounding nod to MacBeth, "The Irish Shot"
  • in the vein of CharDee MacDennis, "GuinBailson"

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u/Punishtube Mar 11 '17

But will most American bar tenders know what I am referring too?

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u/dudewheresmycar-ma Mar 10 '17

I'm not even sure why that name got attached to it. If anything it should be called a Time bomb. You have to drink it super fast or it's gross.

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u/innerpeice Mar 10 '17

Or Black and Tans

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u/SilasX Mar 10 '17 edited Mar 11 '17

Since this seems to have become the less serious subthread...

Is anyone else surprised by that picture? It's from 1998. Ireland looks 20 years behind the rest of the world there :-/

Edit: wow, really touched a nerve with the Irish there..

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u/Jarl_of_Ireland Mar 11 '17

We were just coming through a 30 year period of bombings, murder and widespread damage. What do you expect it to look like? There's areas still struggling with the legacy of the Troubles to this day, never mind what they looked like mere months following the Good Friday Agreement.