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Little things that annoy you....
- Thread starter Dizaster
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But if ya all gotta line up to buy hot water n beans at least have the decency to know what you're gunna buy at the time ya reach the front of the line instead of starting up with the 20 questions simply coz ya got no *smile* idea what you're standing in the nice line for.
Went to Werribee Zoo a few weeks back, I lined up for food at the sushi place. I was 3rd in line, a woman & her teenage daughter were at the window ordering. 15 minutes later they had finally sorted out what they wanted (I kid you not). The line behind me was unbelievably long.
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That's right. And that's the issue. Not what you order or buy, but how you do it. Endless questions, endless umming and aahing, discussions, think time, and "wow I really like those jeans you're wearing...what are they ?" ..."oh sorry I've left my card in the car hang on a minute"...and on and on.
Simple transactions turned into something that's akin to buying a house.
Far easier to milk them than milk almonds. Have you seen the size of almond udders?
Better call mirriam Webster too:
Words can have multiple definitions.
Or take your time to get what you want.
Let the old entitled pr1cks behind you suffer and wait, the water will still be hot
If it's squeezed out of a plant it's either juice or sap, same as it's been for hundreds of years. Milk from shrubbery is simply a marketing misnomer used to try n insinuate a more palatable product to consumers.
Might have to take up praying on a regular basis to ensure I never get stuck in a line behind you.
Dave another way to look at is by considering tomatoes and bananas.
Fruit and nut if you ask a botanist.
But both are always front and centre in the produce. No one puts out bananas and cashews together on a platter.
Thats only important if you are growing them.
But if its about the eating, then we have a different category.
Different categories depending on why/how it is used.
I'm pretty sure places in Europe (like France) have made laws to ensure plant juices aren't called milk - because it's not milk.
The milk bit is just some marketing expression used to get people to substitute it for cows milk. If it's a good enough product, should be able to survive without the milk terminology.
This milk thing does my head in.
en.m.wikipedia.org
“One of the first reliable modern English dictionaries, Samuel Johnson's 1755 A Dictionary of the English Language, gave two definitions of the word "milk". The first described "the liquor with which animals feed their young from the breast", and the second an "emulsion made by contusion of seeds", using almond milk as an example.[45]”
If people call soy milk that and that’s a commonly used expression then that’s what the word means now.
Words change in meaning. It’s happened for 100s of years and will keep happening.
If any industry should complaint it’s the faggot industry. Those stick sellers got destroyed.
Woke another one that means things it didn’t ten years ago.
Plant milk - Wikipedia
“One of the first reliable modern English dictionaries, Samuel Johnson's 1755 A Dictionary of the English Language, gave two definitions of the word "milk". The first described "the liquor with which animals feed their young from the breast", and the second an "emulsion made by contusion of seeds", using almond milk as an example.[45]”
If people call soy milk that and that’s a commonly used expression then that’s what the word means now.
Words change in meaning. It’s happened for 100s of years and will keep happening.
If any industry should complaint it’s the faggot industry. Those stick sellers got destroyed.
Woke another one that means things it didn’t ten years ago.
Bananas are botanically a berry, rather than a nut.
You might be thinking of strawberries which aren't technically berries. Their seeds are nuts.
It's milk if enough people call it milk, and it becomes an accepted definition.
That's how language works.
It's both incorrect and pedantic to pull someone up for calling it milk.
If someone calls coconut milk a mammary secretion, then we can all get upset.
