Useless Conversation

[Merusk]

Name one thing, other than death, that does not cause or lead to cancer.

Cancer.

[Yegolev]

Not true.  Pancreatic cancer can lead to bone cancer.

I'm going with oral sex.  For the recipient.

[Nebu]

I'm going with oral sex.  For the recipient.

Depends on the disease state of the giver.  See... always a catch.

[Merusk]

Hmm.. how about blinking.

[Nebu]

Hmm.. how about blinking.

Too much can be as bad as not enough.  Life is all about moderation. 

I'm a nerd. 

[Lantyssa]

PS  I also dislike Lactaid but I like eggnog.  As above, however, I don't really miss it.  I miss vodka the most! 

You gave up vodka?  You poor thing.  And I thought being both lactose intolerant and celiac was rough.

[NowhereMan]

Is it just me or is the BBC website being funky and broken right now?

[Oban]

The site is fine for me at the moment.

[Trippy]

The problem here is that people who cannot drink milk are trying to capture some sort of Social Grail by drinking white fluids that are not milk.  Perhaps people feel like outcasts if they don't eat cereal with milk.  Perhaps they dislike the political views of lactose.  Doesn't matter.  What matters is that if it doesn't come from a mammal's tit, it's not milk and you probably shouldn't be drinking it.  I put fake milk consumption into the same category as hair-straightening, skin-bleaching and those enormous anime contact lenses.

If you're not supposed to drink milk, quit faking it.  Isn't it tough enough simply avoiding processed foods that contain milk products?  I don't drink paint because I'm paint intolerant.

Asians consume massive amounts of soy mlk because they never got the mutation that Europeans got to be able to breakdown lactose as an adult. It's incorporated into a wide variety of both sweet and savory dishes.

Also, if you want to read an eye-opening book about milk (the dairy kind) read The China Study by T. Colin Campbell.

[stray]

I seemed to not have borrowed that trait from my mom's side (both her and my half-brother, both Asian, can get sick from drinking it though). I drink lots of it..

[Oban]

My wife, who is Asian, drinks about a litre of milk every day.

Go figure.

[Trippy]

She must have lots of gas too

No but seriously tolerance to the undigested lactose varies by individual. I can drink milk as well but large amounts will cause, uh, extra curricular digestive activity.

[Lantyssa]

In can vary in an individual, too.  Sometimes I can handle ice-cream, sometimes I can't.

[lamaros]

Sorbet is better anyway.

As for Yeg's rant about milks... eh. Yeah the dairy board tried to sue with that line too. Failed pretty quickly.

[FatuousTwat]

Am I going crazy or are there 2 different threads about milk going on right now?

[Oban]

Two tits are better than one.

[Trippy]

In can vary in an individual, too.  Sometimes I can handle ice-cream, sometimes I can't.

It can depend on how often you eat lactose. For some people (like myself) their bodies can develop the ability to break some of it down if they eat it on the regular basis.

[Cyrrex]

Also, if you want to read an eye-opening book about milk........

Fuck yeah, sign me up!  I've always wanted to read about milk 

All the milk talk is kinda weird.  I'd suggest a Milk Discussion thread, but that, too, would be weird.  Also, you people know way too much about milk.

[Sky]

I like whole milk for a beverage but use 2% for cereal. I still use cream for cooking, though. Which reminds me...

[Merusk]

Male enhancement drugs mean I can't listen to the radio at work without headphones anymore.

"Thicker and WIDER"  "Stretch that opening the way women love!" 

Fuck me, it's not like I'm listening to Howard Stern here, it's a Clear Channel station where they bleep the word "Drugs" out of Everlast's "What it's Like".  Yet somehow this prolaxis commercial ISN'T offensive? 

[Nebu]

It's not natural to drink anything other than human milk, so bodies have varying reactions to cow's milk.  No surprise really. 

I also agree that soy milk shouldn't be called milk at all.  It's juice.  Bean juice. 

[Merusk]

It's not natural to drink anything other than human milk,

Yeah but look at the  reactions when you suggest doing things with it. 

Some of you lot act like you never had sex when your wives were pregnant, or for months afterwards.

[Nebu]

Yeah but look at the  reactions when you suggest doing things with it. 

Same conservative nutjobs that want to hide nudity and then go visit $5k call girls.  I honestly don't know why anyone would feed their baby formula in the first three months without a pressing medical reason.  This is such a repressed culture.

[Cyrrex]

Some of you lot act like you never had sex when your wives were pregnant, or for months afterwards.

I really, really do not want to know where you're going with that statement.

[Merusk]

Yeah but look at the  reactions when you suggest doing things with it. 

Same conservative nutjobs that want to hide nudity and then go visit $5k call girls.  I honestly don't know why anyone would feed their baby formula in the first three months without a pressing medical reason.  This is such a repressed culture.

Nope, same guys on this board in this thread.  Go look at the "Ice Cream from breast milk" thread or the one on the swede who was going to do the same thing.  Lots of  reactions to the very notion.

As to the formula within the first 3 months, there's 3 pregnant women in the office here right now.  Overhearing conversations between them and the previous mothers, the majority don't see the benefit. Their statement is it's too inconvient to pump or breast feed or they're frightened by the "It hurts!" from the older moms.  (Ignoring the one who just plain couldn't produce. )

Some of you lot act like you never had sex when your wives were pregnant, or for months afterwards.

I really, really do not want to know where you're going with that statement.

When you have kids you'll understand. Things happen. 

[Oban]

I would be fine with breast milk ice cream from my wife or ex-wife, but the idea of some random woman's milk just seems wrong to me.

[Yegolev]

I agree with Nebu completely.  My real question is why someone who is lactose intolerant bothers to drink cow milk or its various substitutes?  I don't mean to say that you can't drink what you want, soy or coconut or what have you, but if you're trying to eat lactose-free ice cream then it seems like there's something wrong.

You know what makes me go  ?  Considering nine months of no sex plus however long lactation continues.  That shit can break up a marriage.

Oban, just equate random women with large, six-stomached non-humans that stand around in their own shit, eating whatever they find in their feed troughs or on the ground.  That should ease your fears.

[Nebu]

As to the formula within the first 3 months, there's 3 pregnant women in the office here right now.  Overhearing conversations between them and the previous mothers, the majority don't see the benefit. Their statement is it's too inconvient to pump or breast feed or they're frightened by the "It hurts!" from the older moms.  (Ignoring the one who just plain couldn't produce. )

In bold for emphasis.  The benefits are obvious to anyone with the skill to do a google search and read. (I'm certain you know the benefits... just saying.) 

[Cyrrex]

Yeah but look at the  reactions when you suggest doing things with it. 

Same conservative nutjobs that want to hide nudity and then go visit $5k call girls.  I honestly don't know why anyone would feed their baby formula in the first three months without a pressing medical reason.  This is such a repressed culture.

Nope, same guys on this board in this thread.  Go look at the "Ice Cream from breast milk" thread or the one on the swede who was going to do the same thing.  Lots of  reactions to the very notion.

As to the formula within the first 3 months, there's 3 pregnant women in the office here right now.  Overhearing conversations between them and the previous mothers, the majority don't see the benefit. Their statement is it's too inconvient to pump or breast feed or they're frightened by the "It hurts!" from the older moms.  (Ignoring the one who just plain couldn't produce. )

Some of you lot act like you never had sex when your wives were pregnant, or for months afterwards.

I really, really do not want to know where you're going with that statement.

When you have kids you'll understand. Things happen. 

I have two kids, so I understand the biology.  I am more reacting to the implication that you may be going out of your way to enjoy some of that breast milk yourself.  See?  Now you made me come out and say it!

[Merusk]

As to the formula within the first 3 months, there's 3 pregnant women in the office here right now.  Overhearing conversations between them and the previous mothers, the majority don't see the benefit. Their statement is it's too inconvient to pump or breast feed or they're frightened by the "It hurts!" from the older moms.  (Ignoring the one who just plain couldn't produce. )

In bold for emphasis.  The benefits are obvious to anyone with the skill to do a google search and read. (I'm certain you know the benefits... just saying.) 

Yeah, I know.  And when I feel I can jump-in I do mention this.. then I get glares and "It's not YOUR body that has to do it, is it.  So it's awful piggish of you to have an opinion." style questions.  Yay.

You know what makes me go  ?  Considering nine months of no sex plus however long lactation continues.  That shit can break up a marriage.

Yeah I don't get those people at all.  You can have sex right up until the plug falls out and a soon as she's healed and not dead tired afterwards.  It's not a fucking terminal condition and she does't have cooties.   I don't know that I could have made it past month two.

I have two kids, so I understand the biology.  I am more reacting to the implication that you may be going out of your way to enjoy some of that breast milk yourself.  See?  Now you made me come out and say it!

Out of my way? No, but I do like nibblin on the wife.. sometimes things squirt. 

[voodoolily]

Oban, just equate random women with large, six-stomached non-humans that stand around in their own shit, eating whatever they find in their feed troughs or on the ground.  That should ease your fears.

To be fair, it's only four stomachs.

[Salamok]

Hmm.. how about blinking.

Too much can be as bad as not enough.  Life is all about moderation. 

I'm a nerd. 

So moderation won't give you cancer!  Everyone dies of something and if you live long enough that something is usually cancer.

Some of you lot act like you never had sex when your wives were pregnant, or for months afterwards.

#1 turn off - pregnant women.  I just couldn't do it after the 1st 5-6 months, then after the kid was born the wife got her revenge and cut me off for a bit.

[Yegolev]

This thread is going places.

[Oban]

Hooray for escorts.

[HaemishM]

This thread is going places.

Bad, bad places.