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ToxicSlurpee posted:Depends on ancestry, far as I can tell. The various cultures that spent a lot of time in places good for herding started keeping lactose tolerance into adulthood. Other cultures lose lactose tolerance like you're supposed to. It's an adaptation. Various Germanic peoples eat piles and piles of cheese. There are herding cultures in other places like the Maasai, Mongols, and various other Asian cultures whose names escape me right now. I know plenty of non-lactose intolerant adults who put milk in their cereal or coffee, but seeing someone just drink a glass of milk is weird. I never see that.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Depends on ancestry, far as I can tell. The various cultures that spent a lot of time in places good for herding started keeping lactose tolerance into adulthood. Other cultures lose lactose tolerance like you're supposed to. It's an adaptation. Various Germanic peoples eat piles and piles of cheese. There are herding cultures in other places like the Maasai, Mongols, and various other Asian cultures whose names escape me right now. It’s important to note that some of those populations, like the Mongolians, still have high rates of lactose intolerance because they processed the milk in ways that heavily reduced the lactose, like fermenting horse milk into kumis. They just found ways to use milk without ever needing to introduce lactose tolerance into the population at large.
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Feb 20, 2020 16:24
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Lactase persistence also spreads pretty fast once it's introduced into a population that really benefits from it. It's known to have developed I think six times essentially through different mutations to the MCM6 gene, and they all are dominant over lactose intolerance in adulthood. You only need one copy of the mutation, to have a degree of lactase persistence suitable to digesting most dairy products.
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Feb 20, 2020 16:37
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AngryRobotsInc posted:It's known to have developed I think six times essentially through different mutations to the MCM6 gene, and they all are dominant over lactose intolerance in adulthood. Meanwhile, MCM5 gave rise to tolerance of Prairie School architecture.
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Feb 20, 2020 17:26
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Soysaucebeast posted:Lucky. I'm currently doing the opposite. I drank milk like it was going out of style until I hit about 30 or so. Then all the sudden drinking milk gives me the bubble guts, but I can still eat cheese, yogurt and whatever else with no problems at all. I'd think that if I were lactose intolerant it would be with any milk product, but it is literally only milk itself. It's weird to me that that started in my 30's. Most cheeses and yoghurts are cultured, i.e. a useful microorganism does most of the work of turning the milk/cream into the finished product. Lactose is good food for bacteria (that's what happens with lactose intolerance: if you can't process it in the small intestine, it passes into the large intestine, where your intestinal microbes use it to go on a massive bender instead), so the bacterial culture eats the lactose and excretes delicious flavour. Since the sensitivity is to lactose specifically, not casein or other milk components, this makes it comparatively safe to eat. Note that this doesn't apply to uncultured cheeses (paneer, haloumi) or yoghurts (some mass-produced yoghurts are made with gelling/flavouring agents rather than bacterial cultures and still have all their lactose) -- those are just as unsafe as drinking the milk straight. Cream also has less lactose than the milk it's made from, since it has proportionally more fat (which does not contain lactose). Butter has much less, for the same reason. ToxicFrog has a new favorite as of 17:50 on Feb 20, 2020 |
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Feb 20, 2020 17:48
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Suspect Bucket posted:Meanwhile, MCM5 gave rise to tolerance of Prairie School architecture. Not to be confused with MC5, which confers jam intolerance
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Feb 20, 2020 19:41
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I know plenty of non-lactose intolerant adults who put milk in their cereal or coffee, but seeing someone just drink a glass of milk is weird. I never see that. So what do people do after they finish the cereal, throw the milk away? Or if you're dunking cookies in milk, do you just dump the milk?
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Feb 20, 2020 19:44
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Trabant posted:So what do people do after they finish the cereal, throw the milk away? OK what the gently caress kind of milk amateur are you if you have any milk left over from cereal? Jesus you're giving me the vapours here!
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Feb 20, 2020 19:52
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Yeah you don’t drown it in milk, you put in just enough so there’s none left Nowadays I put cereal in Greek yogurt, it’s better anyway
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Feb 20, 2020 19:56
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Making the end of an episode and the end of your handful of sunflower seeds time up so you can finally go to sleep is a Sisyphean task and I'll hear nobody demean any food synchronisation related struggle
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Feb 20, 2020 19:59
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I know plenty of non-lactose intolerant adults who put milk in their cereal or coffee, but seeing someone just drink a glass of milk is weird. I never see that. 
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Feb 20, 2020 20:00
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Yeah you don’t drown it in milk, you put in just enough so there’s none left Well no, of course you don't drown it, the cereal must retain some crisp. But you'll have something left over, probably. I suppose the cookie-dunking part of the question is the better example. Unless you're doing the dunking in a thimble or something.
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Feb 20, 2020 20:43
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ToxicFrog posted:Most cheeses and yoghurts are cultured, i.e. a useful microorganism does most of the work of turning the milk/cream into the finished product. Lactose is good food for bacteria (that's what happens with lactose intolerance: if you can't process it in the small intestine, it passes into the large intestine, where your intestinal microbes use it to go on a massive bender instead), so the bacterial culture eats the lactose and excretes delicious flavour. Since the sensitivity is to lactose specifically, not casein or other milk components, this makes it comparatively safe to eat. The easy way to remember it is that because of genetic lactase persistence, white people did not need to develop a culture.
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Feb 20, 2020 20:54
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Back when I was a kid and would eat several bowls of cereal throughout the day, drinking the remaining milk was always the best part. Especially after honey cereal or nougat crisps!
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Feb 20, 2020 20:58
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ToxicFrog posted:it passes into the large intestine, where your intestinal microbes use it to go on a massive bender instead), so the bacterial culture eats the lactose and excretes delicious flavour. So lactose intolerance is a flavor enema
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Feb 20, 2020 23:13
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Trabant posted:
You dunk biscuits in tea you heathen.
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Feb 20, 2020 23:19
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Helith posted:You dunk biscuits in tea you heathen. Garbage hard British biscuits, sure. But if you tell me you dunk chocolate chip cookies in tea... wtf man? And this is from someone with a crippling addiction to looseleaf tea.
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Feb 21, 2020 07:09
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Trabant posted:Garbage hard British biscuits, sure. But if you tell me you dunk chocolate chip cookies in tea... wtf man? Why would you dunk choc chip cookies when Tim Tams exist? Just do a Tim Tam slam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfmLdRcq1FE
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Feb 21, 2020 07:49
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historical fun fact: circa 1776CE, the english ceased to speak english.
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Feb 21, 2020 08:31
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Decrepus posted:So lactose intolerance is a flavor enema The metabolic byproducts are mostly gas and various compounds that isnt taken up by or degraded in the gut, thus worsening your intestinal water retention which gives you the farts and runny shits.
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Feb 21, 2020 09:15
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:historical fun fact: circa 1776CE, the english ceased to speak english. Only the religious exiles and criminals they sent to colonize other lands. They instead started to develop pidgins known as "American" and "Australian". There's still a semi-isolated island where they speak proper "English", thankfully for those who are cultural and lingual purists it helpfully re-isolated itself recently.
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Feb 21, 2020 11:55
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Linguists can actually date the changes in English pronunciation by comparing the dialects of the English colonies and the dates of emigration. They can tell that the shift in pronuncing the long a (the bath trap split) in southern England was gradual because it's only present in some Australian English words compared to southern English, and it's in more words in New Zealand English, as NZ was colonised/invaded later.
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Feb 21, 2020 13:25
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Trabant posted:Garbage hard British biscuits, sure. But if you tell me you dunk chocolate chip cookies in tea... wtf man? Hell yes. All biscuits get dunked in tea. If you can't dunk it, it's not a good biscuit
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Feb 21, 2020 13:47
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Danger - Octopus! posted:Hell yes. All biscuits get dunked in tea. If you can't dunk it, it's not a good biscuit I feel like you're missing the point. A cookie is not a biscuit, so what you dunk your biscuits in is irrelevant for the discussion. Alhazred has a new favorite as of 16:47 on Feb 21, 2020 |
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Feb 21, 2020 16:44
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 yum, wouldn't dunk in tea, because it's slathered in gravy or jam or is serving as bread for a decadent breakfast sandwich, and besides I drink coffee like an adult  ?????????? I guess tea tastes better than these things so combine two mediocre flavours for a sad, soggy snack
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Feb 21, 2020 16:48
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My "Of course my biscuits are digestive" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
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Feb 21, 2020 16:55
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:
Soggy biscuits are an old British tradition.
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nonathlon posted:Allegedly, when the first platypus was captured, killed and sent back to the museum in England, the response was something along the lines of "haha guys, you got us good, for a while we thought it was real". I can corroborate this, and add the pleasing extra detail that they added "...look, you can even see the stitching around the beak." It wasn't until live specimens were brought back to England that serious biologists believed in such a drat silly thing.
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chitoryu12 posted:Soggy biscuits are an old British tradition. there's no education like public education
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:historical fun fact: circa 1776CE, the english ceased to speak english. actually pretty accurate, rural dialects in eastern North America preserve pre-1776 English much more authentically than anything being spoken in the British Isles today. we continued speaking proper English while the perfidious Brits descended into weird gibberish.
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Straight White Shark posted:actually pretty accurate, rural dialects in eastern North America preserve pre-1776 English much more authentically than anything being spoken in the British Isles today. we continued speaking proper English while the perfidious Brits descended into weird gibberish. On the other end of the spectrum you get English spoken in areas where the population is a mish mash of random cultures all smooshed together that, when they were deciding which languages to borrow from, answered "yes" and created a crazy dialect. I think those are neat but my opinion is probably biased by the fact that I speak one. It's great to lay it on thick for people who are from out of state. There are a lot of people that disagree with me but I think that Pittsburghese in particular is fantastic. Yinz're in Stiller country. Freakin' jagoffs. Betchyinz dun e'n know what a hoagie is.
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Kevin DuBrow posted:Much of the tunnels are still in use. Bazalgate displayed a foresight that astounds me as someone who has examined the current state of American infrastructure politics. From the UK’s Institution of Civil Engineers: Seems pretty rude to consider it a scandal then
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The old timey pirate accent is a result of Robert Newton playing up his own West Country accent when playing Long John Silver in 1950. Though that accent is likely at least somewhat historically accurate since Edward "Blackbeard" Teach was from Bristol and Sir Francis Drake was from Devon. Though we don't really know how either of them sounded since the bastards had the audacity of living before audio recordings were invented (and also a century apart). There are some records about Drake having a very thick accent. FreudianSlippers has a new favorite as of 23:32 on Feb 21, 2020 |
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I hope that we can all that there is one dude who invented modern english and that he talked like one of us, an american https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s&t=195s It's weird because french is the other way, the québécois are incomprehensible idiots but even the weirdest accents in France sound good and decent
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what the gently caress that is not an american accent that is a british accent that keeps pigs and makes cider e: far closer to this than anything american https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cun-LZvOTdw Ichabod Sexbeast has a new favorite as of 00:45 on Feb 22, 2020 |
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Alhazred posted:My "Of course my biscuits are digestive" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt. This is a quality humor presentation
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Long term residents of Antarctica are developing their own accent. https://youtu.be/uHKGErnN9W8
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Suspect Bucket posted:Long term residents of Antarctica are developing their own accent. https://youtu.be/uHKGErnN9W8 thats fascinating and really cool if true, but also the narrator has weirdly elongated vowels
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Feb 23, 2020 07:42
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Kevin DuBrow posted:What makes the translations so funny? Are they just comically inaccurate? That poor woman...
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That reminds me of the antarctic scientist that performed a self-appendectomy to save his own life. https://www.mdlinx.com/internal-medicine/article/1633
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