So my estate agent really has been terrible... (snotty letter time)

[htid]

Thats the one I was looking for, Funkstar!

Funkstar? don't think it was!

[Kata]

I always wonder what petercook7 is smoking

[Zak33]

rolled up draft excluder I think

[jim]

I thought I was in the soft furnishings thread just then

[mediaboy]

I remember when this thread was first posted.. it's as priceless as it ever was xD

[Watchmaker]

Hello Nicholas,

Your estate agent story is really interesting...Kind of reminds me of an old scripture passage, my pappy once said. " Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mothers milk." ( Ex.23:19 ) Yes, like me, he was a wise man.

[neonplanet40]

[SeriousSam]

Hello Nicholas,

Your estate agent story is really interesting...Kind of reminds me of an old scripture passage, my pappy once said. " Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mothers milk." ( Ex.23:19 ) Yes, like me, he was a wise man.

I just had to look this up and didn't get what I expected...

Exodus 34:26, includes "Thou shalt not cook a young goat by it's mother's milk." This is not about the relationship of mother and child. This is about food. It is not wrong to eat a young goat. It is not wrong to boil or cook a young goat. The problem is milk. The problem is boiling or cooking milk.

Milk, with it's cream, that comes from a free ranging, grass eating cow, goat or other mammal, is the best, most nutritious and healthiest natural food available; if it is raw. If it is raw!

The cream gives the enzymes to digest the milk. The nutrients in the milk are invaluable but very heat sensitive. Many of the bacteria present in milk are important to human health. At even a low heat, the enzymes and many of nutrients are destroyed and made inaccessible to the body. Any necessary bacteria for the human body will be killed by the high temperatures used in the pasteurization process.

When milk is pasteurized or heated beyond it's normal temperature, it becomes a different substance that the body will not be able to digest properly. It's not toxic, in small amounts or short time periods but inside the body after digestion, it builds up over the years as plaque coating the arteries leading to heart attack, stroke and other debilitating diseases as we get older.

Returning to a diet of raw milk actually cleans out the arteries and returns the one in danger of that heart attack to health. Homogenization makes the fat globules smaller and more harmful in leading to that coronary.

However, in protecting the relative monopolies of dairies since the dawn of the 20th century, governments have for the most part outlawed the commercial sale of raw milk. They propound that unpasteurized milk contributes to some diseases. There is some truth to that, but that result comes more from the quality of milk produced by cows stuck in corporate mills with limited diets. The number of possible health problems and the number of people affected adversely, is very small. The number of people whose deaths and suffering are caused or contributed to, through pasteurized milk is vastly, geometrically higher.

Drinking raw milk may take a little getting used to. The flavour varies with the daily diet of the animal. Most commercial milk comes from diets high in alfalfa. If the animal has been eating onion or garlic in the garden, you may struggle with it's taste. It can also sometimes really smell like a cow but even then, after turning it into homemade ice cream, it is really delicious and enjoyable.

In Canada, due to the laws against selling raw, milk, a dairy operation can lose it's license to produce milk and can be fined as much as half of a years income from milk production for 1 case of selling raw milk to a customer. That happened to a milk producing Hudderite colony in Saskatchewan a few years ago.

For more information on the difference between raw milk and pasteurized milk, visit the Weston A Price foundation at http://westonaprice.org Also, inquire with your State or Provincial Health Department for the official reasons of the ban on raw milk sales to be able to develop a balanced and informed opinion on this issue.

Many of God's laws in the Old Testament, are health laws; not to determine sin, but to protect your health. Violation of the health laws of God will not kill you today but may contribute to a shorter or less enjoyable life in the long run.

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What .0?

[muddyfox470]

What .0?

^^ I'm with him

[petercook7]

Most houses need some form of upkeep. From decorations to renovations, over time all properties need money spent or invested on them (depending on your perspective). This creates a demand for goods and services which help fuel the economy. The house itself may not produce anything of immediate value but its existence certainly does. In fact, the amount spent on a house over its useful lifespan is likely to be significant.

So you advocate a one house policy? People will always find ways around it. Only allowed one house? Fine, if you’re rich you can simply buy out your neighbours and make your “one” house larger. Who wouldn’t sell if someone was offering them well over market rate for their property?

Maybe you’d prefer a socialist government?



Your proposal would likely stifle the economy more than anything else. Unless every country in the world adopted the same approach (not likely in our lifetime), UK residents with spare money would simply invest and/or move elsewhere. How is that good for the local economy?

Sorry city owners of country homes cause more local problems, they push people out from small villages into cities to find work, as the cost of living in villages rises, now we are seeing half empty villages.
The housing market has been held up by your taxes, you are pricing out many generations, its destroying social homes in this country, the cost of housing benefits will only rise till a crisis point, you’ll see an increase in pensioners seeking benefit help and this will increase year by year, costing council tax payers money forcing closers and sell offs of council departments and assets. No social homes high house prices means more tax costs for everyone. The money given to landlords by your taxes goes on to buy more properties, pushing up rents, pushing up house prices and pushing up taxes, it’ll reach a point were the monetary system in this country collapses, along with the increasing rate of lower paid jobs just to try and remain competitive.

[IronWarrior]

Are you in any way this guy here: http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/news/Ang...l/article.html

Hmm?

[Zak33]

What .0?

you've met him... my LAN... broad shouldered bloke... Auran

i think he's taking the mickey while endowing us with his vast knoweldge

[SeriousSam]

you've met him... my LAN... broad shouldered bloke... Auran

i think he's taking the mickey while endowing us with his vast knoweldge

I actually thought it was to do with not eating things which have died of natural causes, then right near the top of a "google" I found that article... fair enough raw milk is a darn sight healthier, but I did find the evangelical "pasteurised milk is evil" tone rather amusing. Didn't even have to check if it was a US article, that much was obvious after the first line or two.

[dshepsman]

I just had to look this up and didn't get what I expected...

Exodus 34:26, includes "Thou shalt not cook a young goat by it's mother's milk." This is not about the relationship of mother and child. This is about food. It is not wrong to eat a young goat. It is not wrong to boil or cook a young goat. The problem is milk. The problem is boiling or cooking milk.

Is this not to do with not consuming meat and dairy at the same time?

did someone mention an estate agent??

[[GSV]Trig]

you've met him... my LAN... broad shouldered bloke... Auran

i think he's taking the mickey while endowing us with his vast knoweldge

Knowing someone, and understanding someone, two completely different things chap