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The unhinged child soldier rearing knife assassin definitely fucking qualifies.
The Dude buy it just for the White Russian.
Pretty sure in 2025 he would use soy-milk 😁
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Meanwhile, hard liquor and alcohol are supposed to mean that you are normal and the good guy.
Now you're getting it!!
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I've always thought the trope was based on the idea of stunted development. Kids are heavily encouraged to drink milk, so films making a point of adults drinking it are indicating that there's some part of growing up that they've missed.
It's also not made for adults, it's literally baby food for mamals.
While some parts of the world have been drinking it out of necessity to survive (in colder climate) most of the world haven't developed a lactose tolerancy.
Adult milk drinkers are indeed freaks.
Well it's not like plants are made for us to eat but we still eat them
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TV Tropes has you covered for all your beverage based characterization needs: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DrinkBasedCharacterization
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Milk is a good choice, gotta keep them bones strong
You live a joyless existence if you avoid milk and cookies.
Milk is for babies and calves. I don't see other adult animals sucking titty milk
I don't see orher adult animals sitting in front of a screen and paying taxes either
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Is a hit of calcium and vitamin d when needed tho
I’d see smoking a cigar in a non smoking section and blowing it in someone’s face as more a telling sign of evil arrogance.
I don't know what's funnier about this comment section... The people who seem to absolutely despise milk, or the big milk shills downvoting them all into oblivion.
"Big milk shills" aka normal people who happen to lime milk...
Lime milk is where i draw the line. Gtfo here with that abomination of dairy
:D Well now I have to leave that typo in!
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normal people
Drinking cows milk is normalized for most people, yes. But normal is a strange word for artificially inseminating another species, getting them pregnant, killing their baby, stealing their mothers milk then killing her way before she gets old. When you could just blend some oats.
We live in a world where there are animals that take the place of other animals' tongue; where insects farm other insects; where parasites live in the skin of animals and different animals eat them, forming a symbiotic relationship; where predators often kill for fun.
Normal is the right word.
Normal, natural and necessary are the three N's of Carnism. Also:
Vegan Bullshit Bingo #1:
Lions eat meat too
Yes, animals kill in the wild - to survive. We humans are, as opposed to predators or parasites, omnivores. We know how to grow crops, vegetables, etc. and cultivate fields. We have a choice, a conscience and we have ethics. Are you identifying with the intelligence and life situation of that of a lion or a tongue parasite? Do you also commonly ask yourself "What would a tongue parasite do in my place right now"? Are lions that kill newborns of other lions, for example, really good role models?
Vegan Bullshit Bingo #54
Well, humans just are on top of the food chain.
Shouldn't you take responsibility in the role of the stronger and be considerate with your power? Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you have to. Otherwise you could maltreat children, handicapped people and all other physically disabled people for fun. Of course we don't do that because it would be immoral. Why should this moral understanding suddenly no longer apply to other species? Wouldn't we also wish for mercy and compassion if tomorrow a species superior to us colonized the earth?
Lol I think we'd need a whole discussion on philosophy and psychology to correctly address these points, and I doubt either of us is qualified enough.
Projecting human morality on animals is... Funny, as our higher empathy is essentially a social animal's trait that helps its group survive. Extending it to the whole universe is surely possible but who are we to say whether it's correct or not? We can only evaluate measurable effects, such as those on our ecosystem.
Regardless, I never wanted to start a discussion on veganism, I don't approve of current farming methods anyway, just pointing out that your definition of normal was wrong.
I think it's not that complicated. There is this quote from Jeremy Bentham:
The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
Which they obviously can, right? Watch the videos.
Now let's not focus on them but on us, that's easier: We are at a point in history where we (you and me) don't need to kill animals anymore to survive. It is even harming us, clocking our arteries, destroying ecosystems. We live in a society where you can go buy plant-based alternatives that are cheaper and healthier, processed stuff like schnitzel and sausages, but also notorious superfoods like lentils and tofu. Happy Eat your Beans-day, by the way.
So we could solve like a quarter of the climate catastrophe, save millions on health care (I'm European) and human lifes by ditching saturated fat, slow down or even prevent further antibiotic resistance and free billions of sentient beings from short miserable lifes. But most of us choose not to, because they're accustomed to a taste.
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Neither Homeländer nor McPoyle are represented. This is far from definitive.
Leon The Professional drank milk and he was good from what I recall, minus the whole being a hired killer…
minus the whole being a hired killer
Tiny little detail
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What if someone is drinking chocolate milk? Where are they on the evil scale?
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