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thenewgreen  ·  4048 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Weekly random thought #1: Milk

Instagram satisfied that place for me. I enjoy using photos to satisfy my witty quips.

Took this one 30 minutes ago. It's my sister 5 minutes after breast feeding. Her feeding cover is still on her shoulder. Check out the look in my nephews eyes. That's something I would have linked to on twitter.

I'm looking forward to your "random thoughts" series.

As for wanting to drink milk, that just seems crazy to me. Who wants to drink milk? That is, aside from my nephew. -He's about to get a buzz. But as an adult, do people really still drink milk? I think it's odd. I do still like cereal and I of course love most cheeses... But milk?





kleinbl00  ·  4047 days ago  ·  link  ·  

thenewgreen  ·  4047 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My entire family thanks you. I've just texted this to his mom/dad and got an immediate response from his father: "classic"

kleinbl00  ·  4047 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Plasq, bitch.

Live it, learn it, love it.

thenewgreen  ·  4047 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Pretty crazy what 3 months will do. Incidentally, I felt my son kick for the first time last night, then sat back and watched my wives stomach move and contort as he did his thing.

mk  ·  4048 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Occasionally I'll be at a restaurant and order a glass of milk. ecib can verify. It blows people away.

Yeah, I drink milk.

ecib  ·  4048 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I just don't understand why you would do that in a restaraunt.

ButterflyEffect  ·  4048 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I love to drink milk! I still drink it with a good amount of meals, and do the whole chocolate milk thing every so often.

I even go as far as buying locally sourced milk from time to time.

_refugee_  ·  4048 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm with ya, tng. not a milk drinker either. not in the slightest.

zebra2  ·  4046 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Every once in a while I'll get a strange milk craving. It happens less and less now, but it once happened periodically. "Milk thirsty" is right. It's its own kind of thirst: nothing else will do, and it gets more intense as you have more milk in your diet until you're over it about a week later.

user-inactivated  ·  4048 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Looks like I'm woefully outnumbered here. It might have something to do with the following story:

When I was a kid, my brothers and I would have to drink milk surreptitiously because if my dad saw us doing it, he'd fly into a rage. No joke. No clear reason to it, he'd just get really mad. So I was always functioning on a milk deficit.

Maybe that helped inflate the value of milk in my mind. Now there are days when it's all I can drink. Besides whiskey, I mean.

thenewgreen  ·  4048 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I want to know why your father was so enraged? Any ideas?

Also, I wonder if you've got "milk" on the brain because currently your wife is having to nourish two infants. I can't imagine having to do that for one, yet alone two. Logistically I'm not even sure how that works.

user-inactivated  ·  4048 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Growing up my dad was a riddle. An angry, angry riddle. Funny, because now he's unflappable, and a lot of fun to hang out with.

You should see the pillow made for nursing twins. It's more architecture than upholstery.

That is a fantastic picture, by the way. That kid looks like he's brimming with character. Is he as much of a ham as the pic suggests?

thenewgreen  ·  4048 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Is he as much of a ham as the pic suggests?
-So far, yeah it seems so. Lot's of smiles with this one. He's only 3 months old though so a smile can come from waiving a flashlight in front of him as easily as it can from him passing gas. But I think the "ham" is strong with this one.
kleinbl00  ·  4048 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Eat a brownie. Or a chocolate chip cookie.

Or a habanero.

Habaneros will make you "milk thirsty."

ecib  ·  4048 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I was 14 or so, at my buddy's house, and bored. Raiding the fridge we came across his father's stash of peppers, along with one sealed in a bag that his dad said was "the hottest pepper known, in existence." To this day I don't know if it was a Ghost Pepper or not, -only that we decided that coupled with our boredom, it represented the perfect challenge.

His dad was the farthest thing from full of shit, so it was with some trepidation that we worked ourselves up to it, flipping a coin to see who would bite directly into it first. He lost, and after psyching himself up for a moment, he bit into the very tip of the pepper.

He began sweating almost immediately, and was grimacing hard while insisting it wasn't as bad as he thought through clenched teeth. I could tell he was bullshitting, but he had bitten into it and now it was my turn. What is sort of common chile knowledge to folks who love spicy food and are older than 14 years old, is that the heat only builds and increases in intensity as time goes by in the short term after consuming a hot pepper. That, and the fact that the majority of the heat is found in the seeds themselves...not the tip of the pepper where my friend bit.

So seeing him able to cope I pick up the pepper and bite half of it off. And proceed to LOSE MY FUCKING SHIT. I was howling with pain and literally slapping myself in the face. I was sputtering a deformed mumble of "MALK! MALK!" while my friend blocked the fridge to enforce our pact before biting, which was "No beverages allowed" because um...I guess we were trying to prove our manliness. Seeing me obviously overreacting as I began beating him to get at the fridge, he decided to show me what a weakling I was being by chewing up the other half of the pepper. I remember watching in horror as he literally made a show of chewing into it as he looked at me smiling. Oh god was he fucked.

In his refrigerator, there was a half gallon of milk opened, with another full gallon unopened. There was, for the roughly 3 minutes it took to consume that gallon and a half of milk, a period of relative nirvana that we attained. It was followed by hours of Hell on Earth once the milk ran out. My mouth has never known such pain.

kleinbl00  ·  4047 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I, too, had friends with Pepper Bullshit Syndrome. Each one of them ate a dried habanero just to prove they could. Each one of them suffered greatly.

One of them got to the point where he'd carry around one of those little Mexican cellophane bags of dried habaneros to crush and sprinkle on his food. He'd keep them in his baja jacket. Where his hands went. And he had a nasty habit of rubbing his eyes. You can guess how well that ended.

He resolved the problem by buying a small can of pepper spray. He'd squirt it on his Taco Bell.

We had to have an intervention.

thenewgreen  ·  4048 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm with you on all of those examples, but I have never as an adult craved a glass of milk by itself. I know this is odd, but one of my favorites are Oreo's and milk, that and any soggy cereal. But just a glass of milk? No thanks.

mknod  ·  4048 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I definitely agree with this, just the idea of a glass of milk is gross to me.

T-Dog  ·  4048 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm definitely on the same page there. I don't think humans are really supposed to be craving cows milk in the first place. Why don't people find that weird?

user-inactivated  ·  4048 days ago  ·  link  ·  

They really aren't. Pretty sure that's why so many people are lactose intolerant, or otherwise have milk allergies. But people do all sorts of weird shit. Don't the Masai consume cows' blood as their number one staple? I had a friend who traveled around the Himalayas and constantly got offered fermented yak milk as a delicacy. People would throw it in a bucket and put it under the bed and forget about it, and then when honored visitors came by, voila, warm rancid yak yogurt.

thenewgreen  ·  4048 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I don't think humans are really supposed to be craving cows milk in the first place.
Exactly! But then, cheese.
humanodon  ·  4048 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Milkshakes or White Russians are ok, but I can't do milk by itself anymore.

kleinbl00  ·  4048 days ago  ·  link  ·  

PROTIP in the White Russian:

skip the milk.

Black Russians kick the shit out of White Russians. Even better, ditch the vodka and substitute tequila or dark rum.

humanodon  ·  4048 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I agree; just saying that if I must drink milk, those are ways I'd prefer over straight milk.