I agree completely with visionep. Milkmans points are just not true or avoidable.

Theres also the point of engines not being able to run Ethanol at all. Vintage cars for example.

In the end this bio ethanol is just another farce to make money, at a very high cost to... as always... the poor.

What this guy says in the video is just not true. Even with only E10, a higher priced gasoline will still give you better mileage (up to 10%). This is happening in Germany right now. Nobody is buying this ethanol crap because it simply isnt worth it. Not to mention because of the detrimental effects on people and cars.

I agree completely with Patrick Stewart. My mother was beaten to within an inch of her life by a man who was so governed by jealousy that if she said hello to the milkman he assumed she was having an affair and would beat her for it. She told me once in passing that she left when she did because she was afraid that he was going to be as vicious with me as he was with her. I asked her why she wasn't as important as me, but she never answered.

I spent most of my childhood hungry and alone - mom had to work more than full-time hours to feed and house and clothe me. (This was in the mid to late 60s; back than only sluts got divorced and women certainly weren't paid anything like equal wages. They still aren't, but that's another topic.) I saw her literally once or twice a week. I grew up certain that the abuse, the subsequent divorce, poverty and societal rejection were all my fault. Not because it was proven to me, but because that's the way children think. Developing minds cannot think some things through. Spend some time reading the research about developmental stages of cognition and that will become crystal clear.

My father's abuse showed me a) those you trust most will hurt you, and badly, and that if they haven't yet you should do something so that it happens now and not just sit around, tense as shit waiting for something that you know is inevitably going to happen; b) that love is just a word and fists and feet are the real power; c) men in power are hurtful and therefore are not to be trusted and d) that women in power are not to be trusted because they're never around.

So. Lots of violence and self-destructive behaviour as a young man because of the impossibility of trusting anyone or anything. I couldn't trust the people around me who were more powerful (emotionally, physically or politically) and I couldn't trust those around me who were less powerful because I'd seen what happens to the weak. Even better, I couldn't trust myself because I'd been the one who had done whatever it was that had started the whole thing off. What fun!

Eventually, being an essentially thinking person I figured out that it wasn't my fault, that mom left because dad was a breathtaking asshole and not because I'd done something so horrible that they had to split up. However, understanding something and having it be an essential part of your personality are two very different things. It's roughly akin to the difference between learning a second language as a child and learning one as an adult. The language(s) you learn as a child are part and parcel of your cognition and strongly inform your worldview. Learning a language as an adult means that you need to remember how to speak that language. With practice, you might get to the point that you can think in that language, and you might even be able to carry on a good conversation, but you're never going to fool a native speaker of that language. Fluency comes with practice and intent.

It may seem like I'm whining a bit here, but after reading the comments above, I have to let you folks know something. Abuse fucks up your children for life. The lessons you learn as a kid don't just go away because you want them to. It's like trying to forget a language when it's the only one you know how to speak.

Beating the shit out of an abuser doesn't do anyone any good. Except that the abuser isn't abusing right there and then. Sitting back and saying 'oh where are the cops when you need them' without doing anything is cowardice and doesn't do anyone any good. Stopping it before it happens by teaching children that it is never acceptable is what will prevent it from being the illness that pervades our world. The best way to teach children is to lead by example.

Stopping those who do abuse their partners is no mean feat. I mean, what if they're fine with the language they speak? What if they don't want to learn another language? Do you force them? Put them in institutions or some such crap?

Only those willing to be sufficiently self-aware are going to get past it, and that doesn't happen when there's no overarching societal pressure to stop it. Talking about it is what exposes it, and stops it.

Here we are, having a conversation.

Bye now.

Hey Milkman. You were correct about the day of the Jewish Sabbath, it just starts sundown on Friday and goes to sundown on Saturday.


In reply to this comment by MilkmanDan:
Take a pew quiz based on the survey here:
http://features.pewforum.org/quiz/us-religious-knowledge/index.php?

I'm an atheist, and got 93%, 14/15. I didn't know the correct day of the week for Jewish sabbath. Some of the questions are answered by this video, but I'm confident that I would have gotten the same score going in cold, so to speak. Still, if you happen to read this before viewing, you may like to take the quiz first.

Hey Milkman. You were correct about the day of the Jewish Sabbath, it just starts sundown on Friday and goes to sundown on Saturday.

I didn't know about the Great Awakening either, although I had heard about it. (Scored 14/15, without watching the video first.)

My Mormon relatives will be pleased to see that they do well in general knowledge.

I'd like to see all 31 questions.

I don't know how I managed to have kids - I was doing it all wrong - I don't remember the Bees at all!
-Come to think of it - The kids do look a lot like the milkman!

>> ^MilkmanDan:
>> ^Stormsinger:
Didn't anyone ever tell this moron that it's not smart to tease wild animals? What he's done here is essentially equivalent. Bait them until they do something he can get attention with...
I fail to see the value in his moronic attempts to (at best) waste people's time.

When Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, she was baiting a response. She was wasting government resources. From the perspective of the bus driver trying to enforce the rules, and any law enforcement people that got involved later, I'm sure she was taking "moronic" actions that willfully disregarded the status quo. She was an instigator, a trouble maker, a rabble-rouser.
And I'd suggest that her actions were worthy of the utmost respect.
Comparing this dude to Rosa Parks is perhaps overstating his case, but I think that civil disobedience of this sort that brings attention to the utterly pointless waste of ...everything that is the TSA does actually serve a worthy purpose.

Said everything I think needed to be said. Good one, milkman. I cannot see how using a personal camera is equivalent to teasing and baiting wild animals and how standing up for your rights once challenged can be considered by some to be a waste of people's time. Some, I suppose, like to apologize for the atrocities of bad policy and bad departments.

Clever! Am I the only one that read "Milkman" in the title?

That town must have had a rather promiscuous, blonde, blue-eyed milkman, it seems.

As much as a mystery NatGeo seems to want to make out of this, there might just be a more plausible scientific explanation:

"Even though we could not find a definitive explanation for this higher incidence, the existence of other 'twin towns' around the world – most of them in remote isolated areas with high levels of inbreeding just as Linha São Pedro – shows that external influence is not needed for this to happen," [a scientist] says.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16492-nazi-angel-of-death-not-responsible-for-town-of-twins.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

But as they explicitly state, however, it's not a definitive explanation.

Interesting sift.

Milkman dan is exactly right. It's not quite as free a baldur's gate, but baldur's gate was by no means a fully open world either. It's easier to crank out maps and locations in a BG style environment hence easier to create a game and make good profit from the work you put in.

Have we had a PERFECT reincarnation of BG using modern day gaming standards? Not yet, but it was close. Maybe it's a holy grail we're looking for, all us die hard BG fans.

I will however admit that the side quests and storyline in BG were so incredibly involved and engorging. Dragon age did not drag me in as much. I was absolutely infatuated with Leliana's accent and when i realised i could get my sexy redhead elf girl to get it on with the sexy orlaisian bard temptress, i was obsessed with getting that to happen.

I don't think that counts, though. I believe it was Durlag's Tower that i always remember most of all from any game, ever. The story and depth of that place was immense, you were slowly taken through the dwarf's footsteps and his eventual decline into insanity which led him to kill all his loved ones. That storyline really blew my socks off, and it didn't need lesbian sex or a hugely attractive exotic accent to do it.

Alright, Dragon Age isn't QUITE our new baldur's gate, but it's been the best contender by miles and miles. Maybe if this one does so well and we show our appreciation for the display of quality in areas that we most wanted it, they'll be able to improve on it and give us more. And maybe then we'll have our new baldur's gate.

Thanks for the welcomes!

>> ^Throbbin:
Milkman! Somehow you remind me of the unbearable lightness of meat!


From the secret files of Max Cannon! (www.redmeat.com)

Milkman! Somehow you remind me of the unbearable lightness of meat!

>> ^nibiyabi:
No paternity test necessary.


Yes the "Milkman Theory" is moot

#44 I would like some milk from the milkman's wife's tits.

What? I've been all around the thing on the outside. What plant lady?


In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
You can't get over it. You gotta go around to the right past the plant lady.

In reply to this comment by oxdottir:
MG you around? I can't get over the arboretum wall in the milkman area. You have tips? I am on my levitation ball, but I'm just not getting high enough...


In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
Yeah, I beat it a couple weeks ago after seeing Yahtzee's review. It was one of the best video games that I've ever played. What part are you stuck at?

MG you around? I can't get over the arboretum wall in the milkman area. You have tips? I am on my levitation ball, but I'm just not getting high enough...


In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
Yeah, I beat it a couple weeks ago after seeing Yahtzee's review. It was one of the best video games that I've ever played. What part are you stuck at?