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This is a link post Spelling mistake in headline
misplaced 't'
 (I helped save b3ta! MartinH, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 14:05, Reply)
This is a normal post Indeed, I find the whole debacle bizarre.
Surely, it's good business to keep one's suppliers happy, and their businesses profitable.
 (I helped save b3ta! The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 14:13, Reply)
This is a normal post I'm still surprised the suppliers don't decide the price.
If I go into a shop and see something marked at £10, I can't just go "I want this and I've decided I'm only going to pay £5 for it so there."
 (I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 14:28, Reply)
This is a normal post If your product is perishable
you'll sell it for what you can get for it. The choice is simply 'some money' or 'no money'.
 (I helped save b3ta! wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 14:40, Reply)
This is a normal post but surely from the buyer's point of view,
it's also "milk" or "no milk". I can't go into a supermarket either and tell them how much I want to pay for milk, I pay their price or don't get milk.

I thought the free market was supposed to sort all this out and ensure fair prices for everybody.
 (I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 14:52, Reply)
This is a normal post The price of milk is an important tool for supermarkets to look like they're cheap.
Along with bread and whatever else people almost always buy, the price is under constant scruitiny by the public. This lets the supermarkets charge more for the items people only get occasionally, which people are less likely to have a firmly fixed idea of how much they're willing to pay.
 (I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 14:59, Reply)
This is a normal post oddly I usually find it cheaper in the grocers.

(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 15:01, Reply)
This is a normal post It is.
There's only four or five companies who process milk and they hold the power, not the producers.

Can anyone spell cartel?
 (azgiles, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 15:01, Reply)
This is a normal post i can !
well maybe i can if i have enough time and i realy realy wanted to
 (I helped save b3ta! fluffybunnykiller Is feasting on the clitoris of life, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 15:25, Reply)
This is a normal post I vote for disruption!
Farmers are cunts, milk is inherently fucking evil and if it puts this shower of a government into further humiliating turmoil that'll cheer me right up
 (I helped save b3ta! TownsendsPublisher is all gravy baby, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 14:36, Reply)
This is a normal post milk is inherently evil?
what?
are you vegan?
 (I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 14:38, Reply)
This is a normal post no, he just really doesn't like milk

(sanguine badger spirits in the room tickle you like a sneaky prawn, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 14:40, Reply)
This is a normal post No
I just have an odd idea that drinking sweat from a different species is not entirely rational. Throw in that humans are the only things on the planet that view milk as anything other than something to rear young with

It's the pus-suppers that are the odd ones in my book
 (I helped save b3ta! TownsendsPublisher is all gravy baby, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 14:42, Reply)
This is a normal post It's not sweat though, is it,
and humans are also the only species on the planet that wear clothes and cook their food, and build houses and whatever...

So I take it you live naked down a muddy hole and eat raw chickens with your bare teeth.

And don't discuss the matter on the internet, because animals don't have electricity.
 (I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 14:46, Reply)
This is a normal post I appreciate I'm in a very small minority here
I've not touched the stuff in 40 years so I can't imagine I'll change my mind.

I note no disagreement about farmers anyway :D
 (I helped save b3ta! TownsendsPublisher is all gravy baby, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 14:52, Reply)
This is a normal post I don't personally know any farmers so I couldn't possibly comment,
just got back from the farmer's market with this week's shopping, they all seem perfectly pleasant there, but you can never tell.
 (I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 14:54, Reply)
This is a normal post We eat and drink all kinds of shit. Mainly for one reason.
Because it's tasty.
 (I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 14:54, Reply)
This is a normal post ewwww

(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 14:55, Reply)
This is a normal post I didn't mean shit literally.

(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 15:00, Reply)
This is a normal post Of course you didn't
*shuffles sideways*
 (I helped save b3ta! Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 15:22, Reply)
This is a normal post Cats?
My cats like the odd drink of milk and they're old farts.

(Although I do agree that it's strange that milk is so popular given the fact that most people can't digest milk - the enzyme you need tends to disappear in adulthood).
 (azgiles, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 15:08, Reply)
This is a normal post sort-of-true-but-not-quite
Infant mammals nurse on their mothers to drink milk, which is rich in lactose. The intestinal villi secrete the enzyme called lactase (β-D-galactosidase) to digest it. This enzyme cleaves the lactose molecule into its two subunits, the simple sugars glucose and galactose, which can be absorbed. Since lactose occurs mostly in milk, in most mammals the production of lactase gradually decreases with maturity due to a lack of constant consumption.

Many people with ancestry in Europe, West Asia, India, and parts of East Africa maintain lactase production into adulthood. In many of these areas, milk from mammals such as cattle, goats, and sheep is used as a large source of food. Hence, it was in these regions that genes for lifelong lactase production first evolved. The genes of adult lactose tolerance have evolved independently in various ethnic groups.[6] By descent, more than 70% of western Europeans can drink milk as adults, compared with less than 30% of people from areas of Africa, eastern and south-eastern Asia and Oceania.[7] In people who are lactose intolerant, lactose is not broken down and provides food for gas-producing gut flora, which can lead to diarrhoea, bloating, flatulence, and other gastrointestinal symptoms.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose
 (I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 15:13, Reply)
This is a normal post Ants farm aphids and catterpillars for milk/equivalent.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphid#Ant_mutualism
 (I helped save b3ta! skeltonator Needs some new daps., Sat 14 Jul 2012, 15:12, Reply)
This is a normal post I've never seen an ant using a JCB.

(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 15:14, Reply)
This is a normal post ^ joke about caterpillars

(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 15:32, Reply)
This is a normal post I've never seen an ant getting shafted by massive corporations
who demand their product for less than cost price then have the gall to demand an even lower price in times of economic strife whilst trying to support their families and maintain an industry that is very important to the economy of their civilisation, nor have I seen a dairy farmer grazing his cows, calving or milking with a JCB. No offence MGT but I'm not going to get into a debate about this, I live in a farming community, I come from a farming background and I can't be arsed to debate with someone who just debates for the sake of it. Also I buy my milk direct from a farm with its own pasteurising facility. Unlike most supermarket milk it hasn't been left to go off and re pasteurised up to six times, nor is it imported.

EDIT: Oh FFS, I'm sorry, my sense of humour took leave of me for a moment there *facepalm*
 (I helped save b3ta! skeltonator Needs some new daps., Sat 14 Jul 2012, 15:32, Reply)
This is a normal post I'm on your side man I hate massive corporations,
that's why I do my shopping at the farmers' market every week and rarely go into supermarkets.
 (I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 15:35, Reply)
This is a normal post Good on you! and sorry, see above Edit.
:D
 (I helped save b3ta! skeltonator Needs some new daps., Sat 14 Jul 2012, 15:37, Reply)
This is a normal post All the farmers I have met, apart from Albert, are cunts.
I vote the same.
 (pissflaps. FSPW, Sat 14 Jul 2012, 14:39, Reply)
This is a normal post Here's a lollipop, now don't be a cunt.
fuck....in fact.... carry on.
Phew! that was close.
 (I helped save b3ta! skeltonator Needs some new daps., Sat 14 Jul 2012, 16:50, Reply)