Meanwhile, hard liquor and alcohol are supposed to mean that you are normal and the good guy.
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We drink milk (and kefir) with out meals too tho
But you never forget your one and true love: ethanol
(And sometimes methanol, when it’s DIY)
Now you’re getting it!!
This but unironically
I think that’s foe anti-heroes
Leon The Professional drank milk and he was good from what I recall, minus the whole being a hired killer…
minus the whole being a hired killer
Tiny little detail
“No women, no kids” is good enough for me.
Not to forget, he managed to get a little girl off the reigns of Big Tobacco
I’ve always thought the trope was based on the idea of stunted development. Kids are heavily encouraged to drink milk, so films making a point of adults drinking it are indicating that there’s some part of growing up that they’ve missed.
……… Homelander
You sound like a high school English teacher.
You sound like a high school student
It wasn’t meant as any sort of insult, more of the trope of overanalizing innocuous things.
I was considering just not replying to this but I decided that this mindset makes me too sad.
If an artist decides to include something in their work, it is likely going to be relevant in some way.
To use the stupid meme example of “the curtains were fucking blue” your teacher wasn’t telling you that blue curtains = sadness, they were telling you to think critically about what the writer chose to include in the text.
“The curtains were fucking blue” can be a valid interpretation, but the issue is when people stop their thinking at that surface level and ridicule any deeper analysis of a work.
TV Tropes has you covered for all your beverage based characterization needs: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DrinkBasedCharacterization
It’s also not made for adults, it’s literally baby food for mamals.
While some parts of the world have been drinking it out of necessity to survive (in colder climate) most of the world haven’t developed a lactose tolerancy.
Adult milk drinkers are indeed freaks.Yet several cultures across the world developed means to drink milk and eat cheese. The mongols’ fermentation process allows them to eat and drink despite being lactose intolerant, not to mention they make kumis from mare milk
Now I’m gonna drink even MORE milk today. Mwahahaaa! MWAHAHAHAHA!
I’ll stick to milking my almonds, even if it’s a tedious job bcs their tits are very small.
It’s actually really easy, you put them in a blender with water and then squeeze them in a cheesecloth so the proteins come out. And you can make crackers with the dried leftovers.
But oat milk > almond milk and for that you do unfortunately have to milk thousands of tiny little oat titties.
Well it’s not like plants are made for us to eat but we still eat them
Actually lots of the plant parts we eat did evolve being eaten as part of the survival plan. Fruits disperse seeds and keep us less interested in eating more vital parts of the plant.
Not particularly by us, the same as milk didn’t evolve to be particularly drunk by humans
“Not particularly by us” OK then not particularly by anything by that logic, as we’re very much included in the wide range of animals who’s dietary needs have conditioned the evolution of fruit-based seed dispersal. Fact of the matter is we’ve been eating and pooping out seeds for the entire existence of our species and likely the entire existence of our mammalian lineage. We did evolve to eat fruit and they did evolve to be eaten by us.
We evolved to benefit from our own milk, too. Though only for the first year or so of life.
Everything is made to eat, you just gotta make it
But that includes milk
I drink milk, can confirm, am evil.
Proof! Science has spoken
Can confirm, as far as I know, I am at least a bit psychopathic and I love a good glass of milk
Do I get to be depraved and evil if I drink plant milk? I haven’t had a glass lately, but that actually sounds refreshing.
…only if it comes from plant boobs…
(I think you’re stuck being a good person)No
Leon was a bad man that did a good thing, don’t confuse the two.
Were we talking about psychopaths, or bad ppl?
So, you’re telling me heroes drink milk? Ok, I’m onboard.
only one of these could be called a hero.
leon is at BEST a very dark shade of morally gray as a former child soldier who was raised to be a hitman by the mob.
and the dude is just the dude. he just wanted his damn rug back.
His relatability makes him the most heroic of them all in my book.
Leon is a hitman, but he’s also probably learning disabled. He rescued a girl from the mob.
The Dude is just a guy who likes bowling, but he’s pretty cool and that’s enough for me.
The opening narration confirms that the Dude is in fact, not a hero (emphasis mine):
[…] I only mention it because sometimes there’s a man… I won’t say a hero, 'cause, what’s a hero? But sometimes, there’s a man. And I’m talkin’ about the Dude here. Sometimes, there’s a man, well, he’s the man for his time and place. He fits right in there. And that’s the Dude, in Los Angeles. And even if he’s a lazy man - and the Dude was most certainly that. Quite possibly the laziest in Los Angeles County, which would place him high in the runnin’ for laziest worldwide. But sometimes there’s a man, sometimes, there’s a man. Aw. I lost my train of thought here. But… aw, hell. I’ve done introduced him enough.
The Dude Abides.
The unhinged child soldier rearing knife assassin definitely fucking qualifies.
The lightsaber is not a “knife”.
It cuts and toasts!
‘I can quit blue milk any time I like’ - Stormtrooper Lewis.
Anyone else ever listen to the Stormtrooper Bob audio plays?
You never say no to bacta
That scene and that cute penguin that doesn’t want to be eaten scene felt like some sort of vegan subliminal messaging
The Dude buy it just for the White Russian.
Pretty sure in 2025 he would use soy-milk 😁
He’s drinking half and half
When you start drinking in the morning you can’t go all-in
Little of this, little of that
vodka and milk is not a valid recipe for a white russian. idk what the hell the dude thinks he’s drinking but it’s definitely not that.
The Dude is both chill, and poor. Not everyone has coffee liqueur and creamer money. He makes do with what’s around and he’s happy about it.
Coffee liqueur is super easy to make. Cheap vodka, super strong coffee and a vanilla bean. Let it sit for a month. You can add glycerin if you want to increase the viscosity, but not needed for white russians.
That’s cause you’re young.
When you get to the 50s you can’t use cream, bur you doesn’t stop to like white russian
i think the kahlua is probably the most important thing there… otherwise it just tastes like milk.
And he uses both in the scenes where we see him making the drink.
I don’t remeber what a White Russian should be made of from my bartender years, but if it was cream, well I stay with the Dude.
At one point you’ve to prioritize your calories.
Kahlua - necessary Vodka - necessary Cream??? > Milk
yeh but he skips the liqueur too
indeed he doesn’t. either there’s sobe other scene i’m thinking of or i’m misremembering
He uses half & half throughout most of the movie.
is that not milk?
I’ve never seen someone drink half & half the way people drink milk. Like just a straight glass of half & half.
It is used almost exclusively as a substitute for heavy cream in recipes, so my mind considers it cream.
but is it milk or cream? is it like 5%?
50/50. Half cream, half whole milk… But the few times I’ve tasted it on its own, it is much closer to cream imo
I still drink/love/crave milk, but have long-since graduated to half-and-half. Heavy cream in my pure keto phase was arguably crossing the line.
Delicious though
My mom’s boyfriend’s house is clockwork orange themed… I don’t really talk to that side of the family anymore.
😶
Oh I could say worse but I think that little tidbit gives you a general vibe.
I guess the last question is if it’s intentional or incidental?
I don’t think that. I thinks big milk industry shaping a new narrative to make milk “cool-ish”
What movie is top left?
For others who might not know the movies:
- Inglourious Basterds
- No Country For Old Men
- A Clockwork Orange
I’ll fill in the first one once someone can identify it.
Get Out
I absolutely will not! (Thanks!)
