Are There Really Still Milkmen In The Uk?

DiscoZombieDiscoZombie Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">just curious =p</div> I've never been to the UK but a certain Aphex Twin song and a couple Monty Python sketches suggest there still are milkmen in the UK. is this true? I am facinated.
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  • SupernornSupernorn Best. Picture. Ever. Made. Ever. Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7608Members, Constellation
    Yes they still exist. But sadly, I dont know anyone that actually gets their Milk from the milkman anymore. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • MonkfishMonkfish Sonic-boom-inducing buttcheeks of terrifying speed&#33; Join Date: 2003-06-03 Member: 16972Members
    Of course there are, and the milk trucks are electric.
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  • UKchaosUKchaos Join Date: 2002-08-10 Member: 1132Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I dont know anyone that actually gets their Milk from the milkman anymore<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    I do <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    There's milkmen in the US too. They're not all dead or something.
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  • DiscoZombieDiscoZombie Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
    hm, they're even somewhere in the US? what, in more rural areas? bah, I wish they existed in the NYC vacinity - I'm so bad at budgeting my milk. I buy a gallon, half of it goes bad. I buy a half-gallon, I always run out. delivery is teh key!
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  • DiscoZombieDiscoZombie Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Sonic+Nov 2 2004, 09:02 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Sonic @ Nov 2 2004, 09:02 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Of course there are, and the milk trucks are electric. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    wizardry!
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-DiscoZombie+Nov 2 2004, 11:06 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DiscoZombie @ Nov 2 2004, 11:06 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> hm, they're even somewhere in the US? what, in more rural areas? bah, I wish they existed in the NYC vacinity - I'm so bad at budgeting my milk. I buy a gallon, half of it goes bad. I buy a half-gallon, I always run out. delivery is teh key! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    If Seattle "Hub of Technology, Home of Microsoft, Nintendo of America, Bungie, and Valve" Washington is your idea of a rural area, then yes. Milk trucks putter around rural areas.
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  • CartiCarti Join Date: 2003-07-12 Member: 18099Members, Constellation
    I paid for milk from my pocket money (Don't Laugh)

    Sadly, i stopped getting it from the milkman because little 12yo kids nick the milk from my doorstep in the morning.

    Bloody youths -.-
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  • SupernornSupernorn Best. Picture. Ever. Made. Ever. Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7608Members, Constellation
    edited November 2004
    <!--QuoteBegin-Sonic+Nov 2 2004, 03:02 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Sonic @ Nov 2 2004, 03:02 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Of course there are, and the milk trucks are electric. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    They go pretty damn fast without all the milk on the back of them. Is it only all that milk that makes them go at 3mph ??
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  • MonkfishMonkfish Sonic-boom-inducing buttcheeks of terrifying speed&#33; Join Date: 2003-06-03 Member: 16972Members
    I dont think going round a corner at 20 with a truck full of milk is a good idea, do you? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • Seph_KimaraSeph_Kimara Join Date: 2003-08-10 Member: 19359Members
    That they do. Saw one this morning carting around an old lady.
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  • Chaos_LlamaChaos_Llama Join Date: 2004-04-23 Member: 28124Members
    I saw a milkman delivering milk to a neighbour on my street. I'm in canada.
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  • Cereal_KillRCereal_KillR Join Date: 2002-10-31 Member: 1837Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Sonic+Nov 2 2004, 04:02 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Sonic @ Nov 2 2004, 04:02 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Of course there are, and the milk trucks are electric. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    And the milk trucks have only 3 wheels, from memory.
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  • Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-TychoCelchuuu+Nov 2 2004, 09:03 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (TychoCelchuuu @ Nov 2 2004, 09:03 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> There's milkmen in the US too. They're not all dead or something. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I thought all the milkmen were exiled during The Exodus, after the Great War, in which the Man Borden crowned himself King of Milkmen, and they fought savagely with "Sunny D." who is sometimes called Orange Patron or even simply known as "D." during his years as a freelancer, before the Three Enligtenments.
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  • DiscoZombieDiscoZombie Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Cold-NiTe+Nov 2 2004, 11:30 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cold-NiTe @ Nov 2 2004, 11:30 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-TychoCelchuuu+Nov 2 2004, 09:03 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (TychoCelchuuu @ Nov 2 2004, 09:03 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> There's milkmen in the US too. They're not all dead or something. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I thought all the milkmen were exiled during The Exodus, after the Great War, in which the Man Borden crowned himself King of Milkmen, and they fought savagely with "Sunny D." who is sometimes called Orange Patron or even simply known as "D." during his years as a freelancer, before the Three Enligtenments. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    abridged for brevity and s1gx0riZ3d!
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  • Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
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  • n00b3hn00b3h Join Date: 2003-03-02 Member: 14205Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-supernorn2000+Nov 2 2004, 08:59 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (supernorn2000 @ Nov 2 2004, 08:59 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Yes they still exist. But sadly, I dont know anyone that actually gets their Milk from the milkman anymore. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    i do <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • Chaos_LlamaChaos_Llama Join Date: 2004-04-23 Member: 28124Members
    It'd be funny to get train a hoarde of feral cats to chase the milkman <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • ruffehruffeh Join Date: 2004-08-21 Member: 30766Members
    what the milkman cartoon on www.fat-pie.com

    its pretty good
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  • antifreezeantifreeze The guy with the goods&#33; Join Date: 2003-05-12 Member: 16232Members, Constellation
    Yeah they exist. I have one delivering to my home
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  • DOOManiacDOOManiac Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
    I wish we had milk men here in Oklahoma. That would pwn. Cause then I could get like, 1 bottle of milk a week... which is just enough..

    I hate buying half a gallon and only using half of it before it goes bad...
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  • Cereal_KillRCereal_KillR Join Date: 2002-10-31 Member: 1837Members
    You should drink maybe a third to a half liter a day <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    Milk is such a good drink <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • AlienCowAlienCow Join Date: 2003-09-20 Member: 21040Members
    Um? Stupidest topic ever? <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    I get milk from the milkman! And also bottles of apple juice! Nothing better than a pint bottle of milk. Or apple juice.

    Used to do bread and stuff too, don't think mine does anymore. Ah nostalgia of milkfloats.
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  • DiscoZombieDiscoZombie Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
    my topic isn't stupid *sniff*

    I'm just trying to learn about different cultures!

    do you have to be home when the milk is delivered? I'm sure it'd go bad if it were delivered while you were at work or school or summat...
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  • MonkfishMonkfish Sonic-boom-inducing buttcheeks of terrifying speed&#33; Join Date: 2003-06-03 Member: 16972Members
    It usually gets delivered before you go to work, at like 5/6am.
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  • JimJim Join Date: 2002-11-26 Member: 9989Members
    you forget it's pretty cold here <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> haha
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  • SnidelySnidely Join Date: 2003-02-04 Member: 13098Members
    edited November 2004
    <!--QuoteBegin-Chaos Llama+Nov 2 2004, 12:16 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Chaos Llama @ Nov 2 2004, 12:16 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> It'd be funny to get train a hoarde of feral cats to chase the milkman  <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Our milkmen are, almost exclusively, tamed vampires. They get paid in stray animals, which they can safely drain of blood. Giving them cats would be like giving a human valuable currency.

    Whereas the UK's zombie population is set to work in the Royal Mail, along with monkeys and animated lumps of stone.
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  • AlienCowAlienCow Join Date: 2003-09-20 Member: 21040Members
    Milk doesn't actually go off as fast as you yanks seem to think. A bottle will last a few days or so, at least. And if we get one a morning, then theres always unopened bottles at the back of the fridge.

    Having said that, we don't get one a morning any more, coz we never used to drink it all and then it WOULD go off before we even opened the bottles at the back <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    Incidentally, to those of you who know of Father Ted, the milk-float-bomb episode was on last night <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Snidely+Nov 2 2004, 01:45 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Snidely @ Nov 2 2004, 01:45 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Whereas the UK's zombie population is set to work in the Royal Mail, along with monkeys and <b>animated lumps of stone</b>. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Suddenly things seem to make a whole lot more sense.
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  • Cereal_KillRCereal_KillR Join Date: 2002-10-31 Member: 1837Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-AlienCow!+Nov 2 2004, 09:01 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (AlienCow! @ Nov 2 2004, 09:01 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Milk doesn't actually go off as fast as you yanks seem to think. A bottle will last a few days or so, at least. And if we get one a morning, then theres always unopened bottles at the back of the fridge.

    Having said that, we don't get one a morning any more, coz we never used to drink it all and then it WOULD go off before we even opened the bottles at the back <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    Incidentally, to those of you who know of Father Ted, the milk-float-bomb episode was on last night <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I could drink a (1L) bottle in two days, but I usually do so in 3 days. But with my family, we easily go above a liter a day.
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