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smashingstars
2008-07-20 11:33 pm UTC (link)

Is he wrong? I know nothing about lactose intolerance so I looked some stuff up online. This site says that the lactose intolerant usually can consume 7 g of lactose without a reaction, and also that butter has only trace amounts and can usually be consumed. This site and this site seem to agree.

I'm not saying s/he's right, and s/he was spectacularly wanky about explaining their point. I'm just saying that a couple minutes skimming Google results for webpages that looked moderately informative seem, on the surface, to support

nadsatshoot.

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	sarracenia 2008-07-21 01:29 am UTC (link)
	Eh, my dad gets a reaction from eating butter, but he's so spectacularly lactose-intolerant that not even the pills help him much. So since s/h/it's being absolute about it and going "No no one can", yes s/h/it is. Any time you're talking about absolutes and usually in the same sentence, you're usually wrong. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	evilsqueakers 2008-07-22 08:20 am UTC (link)
	When I have intolerance attacks every couple years, those pills do nothing to help my cramps and sick feeling. I end up taking like 4 and nada. If I have to take a pill, I just take a Midol with a Diet Coke. Just ride it out. It's always fun in a classroom. My dad clearly gave me the awesome genes. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	keri 2008-07-21 01:48 am UTC (link)
	I think it really is a matter of ignoring the 'usually' and 'most' that made people go WTF, troll. I mean, this is a bit thoughts on yaoi here, but I can't eat any real butter without getting sick, though I can drink up to 2% milk (not too much, though. and skim is always okay). And then there are people who can eat it just fine. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ari_o 2008-07-21 02:00 am UTC (link)
	Former room mate commented below. Not troll. O_o (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	keri 2008-07-21 02:04 am UTC (link)
	But people are saying things that I read as 'wtf, troll'. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ari_o 2008-07-21 02:06 am UTC (link)
	Yes, i know. Just pointing out a this dude is actually weird and not a troll comment. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	smashingstars 2008-07-21 02:03 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, their I'm-so-very-right attitude was major fail. I was pretty much splitting hairs here, wondering if it was a case of being marginally correct but completely douchey, or being incorrect and completely douchey. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ari_o 2008-07-21 02:07 am UTC (link)
	I think incorrect and a total douche. yes. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smashingstars 2008-07-21 02:37 am UTC (link)
	Hee. This makes me want to create a spreadsheet of wank SO BAD. shifty eyes (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ari_o 2008-07-21 02:51 am UTC (link)
	Wait, why a spreadsheet? Aren't the bingo cards more fun? (Reply to this)(Parent)

eldritch
2008-07-21 07:21 pm UTC (link)

It really, really depends. My dad, my sister, and I are all varying degrees of lactose intolerant. My sister can eat a full bowl of mac'n'cheese with no ill effects. My dad is the same. If I try that, the result is not pretty.

But I don't think any of us have trouble with butter, no. It just. Really, really, depends on the person, so it's not that weird to assume that people can't eat butter.

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