like a piece of cheese, but not
Fact of the Day: Next Tuesday is National Orgasm Day. (Fun, yes? I mean, I'm not sure what we will all have to do to celebrate it...)
Historical Fact of the Day: Black Tulips are great. However, very expensive. Once, a long time ago, an onion-carrying-ship was transporting a black tulip bulb, which was worth about as much as it costed to buy two houses at the time. A member of the crew somehow mistook the bulb for an onion and ate it. Can you imagine that? Eating two-houses'-worth of food, in one sitting? In just four or five little bitefuls. It's scary, don't you think?
Thought of the Moment: Milk is gross, really gross. God, milk is so bad I would ban it if it wasn't so good for you (not for me though because I avoid it at all costs, except sometimes, very very rarely in my coffee...oh coffee)
Mood of the Day: melancholy but thankful we're all here at the end
Quote of the Day: Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
Image of the Day: blue butterflies at Durdle Door campsite (because they're happy and I miss that)
posted by titch @ 11:35 PM
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My fact of the day:
Acquired lactose intolerance is the default human state. Several generations ago, all babies possessed lactose dehydrogenase and so could digest milk, but they all would lose this enzyme in adulthood, and thus adults could not digest milk. This makes evolutionary sense, since the only stage in a person's life in which they would need to drink milk was as a baby. The ability of adults to digest milk only emerged recently in natural history, and was a result of a mutation that allowed lactose dehydrogenase to be produced in the adult alimentary canal.
Therefore, in conclusion, milk really is gross, and adults are not supposed to drink it. If you do drink it as an adult, you are not only a mutant, but probably also have some kind of Oedipal/childhood regression complex.
But... milk's nice! Pah!
And Durdle Door - what a nice place.
But without milk we'd have no cheese. Without cheese we'd have no cheesecake. Do you really want that?
And without milk most vegetarians would be dead or slowly dying. Or freaky vegans ;)
Hane: If it is a mutation, how do you know it isn't to make us superior? It's our right as mutants to rule this world.
Toby:
"And without milk most vegetarians would be dead or slowly dying."
That just supports my Oedipal/childhood regression complex theory. As you know, vegetarianism itself is a the result of a sexual neurosis! Thus, both the vegetarianism AND the milk-drinking are behaviours which satisfy the psychoneurotic complex!
"If it is a mutation, how do you know it isn't to make us superior? It's our right as mutants to rule this world."
Damn mutants! Get back underground where you belong!
I'm just playing, by the way. You know I love you all.
Hehe, well I'm going to stick with my milk drinking, it makes me happy (it aids production of serotonin)
Two can play at that game :P
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