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[Bozack]

If you're tryin' to be funny, maybe use a little less Vietnam. Old stand-up trick.

I'm sittin' on the damn stoop! You were the one who turned it into a war and a musical!

[sam_spade]

Cats oughtn't to drink milk in quantity.  Cats generally cannot tolerate lactose (they have NO patience for it) and too much of it will be bad news.

Yeah, this pretty much blew my mind when I learned of it when I was eighteen or so. Up until then I lived under the assumption cats were down with milk, a life built on a lie. It was my Santa Claus Isn't Real moment.

[Lister]

Well, the weird thing about milk is that most humans (depending on whose numbers you believe) don't handle it really well either.  Milk is like the ultimate marketing success: a substance that isn't all that beneficial past infancy that has become a staple in most homes.

Of course, it does make many excellent sauces.  Mmm.  And cheese.  Milk and eggs are like the awesomest raw ingredients ever.  And flour.  As a beverage, I'll pass.

[Hobo Frenzy]

I'm so confused about milk. I Don't really get it! Is it healthy? "They" say it gives me calcium but my sister (who just happens to be a vegan) tells me it strips my bones of calcium. I don't really drink it that often but I still wanna know what's up? And google brings up both sides. Too bad so sad. Does it bother anyone that we've all been drinking another animals boob juice?

[AlohaDawg]

If I can eat an animal's dead flesh I don't see the problem with milk.

It's a great ingredient and tastes really good with cookies. The stripping bones of calcium thing can't be right or I am sure it couldn't be marketed to children and babies - and the Federal WIC program would be in some shit, wouldn't it...

[MattFish]

"They" say it gives me calcium but my sister (who just happens to be a vegan) tells me it strips my bones of calcium.

Okay let's test this. I've been drinking milk pretty regularly all my life. Take my arm and your sister's arm, put them in a vicegrip, and tie a rope to our wrists, from which would hang weights. Slowly add more and more weight until one of our arms breaks. Then stop the test. I hypothesize my arm will be intact, if only quite sore.

[AlohaDawg]

Half the Vegans I know couldn't curl a Q-tip without some crackling noises.

Remember how Healthy and Vigourous Dennis Kucinich always looked? Vegan.

[Doc]

If milk does strip calcium from one's bones then that is one hell of a conspiracy right there.
I figure if milk actually does contain a greater concentration of calcium than your blood stream then it will increase the calcium concentration in your blood overall (assuming that the majority of fluid from the milk and all the calcium is taken up into the blood stream which is not the case I'm fairly sure) and therefore make it less favourable for further calcium to disolve (I'm guessing that this the calcium disolving into blood is how the stripping proceeds), so unless They are putting a calcium removing enzyme in the milk (which They told us gives us calcium in the first place) at best it's not doing anything, but there again I'm assuming that there's calcium in there to begin with. That would be an awesome conspiracy though.

[This section deleted because I realised it was complete lies. They got me me]

[hoborg]

Man, some people really hate milk. I'm gonna go drink a glass of milk and then simultaneously get acne, prostate AND ovarian cancer, diabetes, diarrhoea, and a heart attack. See ya.

[Hobo Frenzy]

Holy loaded lactose batman! That wiki page for milk is scary it makes me wonder why am I not dead yet. I found some more Milk Haters though and this stuff is funny. I'm going to make it a point to drink milk today.

[miles]

My vegan friend tells me that people of European descent can only tolerate milk because of a genetic defect (I call it natural selection--I love chocolate milk!  Thanks Darwin!), and that's why lactose intolerance seems to run along lines of nationality.  Who knows?

My sister says she is lactose intolerant.  She says she has a problem with all cheese too.  But don't certain types of cheese, like cheddar, have very little or no lactose?

[Lister]

I learned something!

I thought that the cheesemaking process itself completely broke down lactose, but apparently it doesn't - while cheese contains less lactose per serving, it's still there.

e d u c a t i o n

[AlohaDawg]

My vegan friend tells me that people of European descent can only tolerate milk because of a genetic defect (I call it natural selection--I love chocolate milk!  Thanks Darwin!), and that's why lactose intolerance seems to run along lines of nationality.  Who knows?

My sister says she is lactose intolerant.  She says she has a problem with all cheese too.  But don't certain types of cheese, like cheddar, have very little or no lactose?

A genetic defect? That's a brilliant display of bias in describing a morally neutral mutation. If she is of european descent, she's 'defective' as well...
use of language like that turns me off to any further argument.

[Golfhaus]

Milk gives me heartburn something fierce. I don't drink it. I tried that milk-for-the-lactose-intolerant, same thing. Which bummed me out real bad when I was working out reguarly as I used milk to mix my whey protein supplements.

I realize that makes me sound like a boob, but I swear I was never THAT into it.

[Mantonio]

I realize that makes me sound like a boob, but I swear I was never THAT into it.

Suuuuure, buddy. So what does your support group think of your cape?