it's not suckling like a baby would
baby cows are quite a bit bigger and more powerful, so the suckling is the same.

You pull and squeeze when you milk a cow.

I'm fairly sure that milking machines just do the squeezing, with a bit of suction,
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 15:43, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Yes, but the first person to milk a cow wouldn't know that

(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 15 Dec 2010, 15:47, Reply)

they could reason as much
just because people were less advanced technologically and such, doesn't mean they were retards.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 15:51, Reply)

Yes, but if pulling and sqeezing didn't work to obtain lady milk
why would they think it would on cow milk?
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 15 Dec 2010, 15:54, Reply)

because of the different shape of the teat
and the observation of a baby cow acquiring the milk
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 15:57, Reply)

You are thinking too much about this.
And as much as I would like to stay here and discuss whether Stone Age people sucked cows off or not, I'm off to work.

(expect me back online in five minutes)
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 15 Dec 2010, 15:59, Reply)

it hasn't required any real thought
also, I'm really fucking bored
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 16:01, Reply)

Or probably killed a cow and drunk the milk from the udder
then later realised they didn't have to kill the cow.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 15:56, Reply)

There must be a farmer, somewhere, who, on a cold lonely morning in the milking shed thought to himself:
"It squeezes and sucks, eh?" *zip*

And then shortly after:

"OH GOD! OH, THE UNIMAGINABLE PAIN! SO MUCH BLOOD!"
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Wed 15 Dec 2010, 15:52, Reply)

Imagine explaining that one at A & E

(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 15 Dec 2010, 15:58, Reply)