Are we Brits too milk aware? (for whatever reason) I notice when the milk starts to turn, but no one else does until its rank.

It has to be something in the pasteruisation process. Here I see sell by dates two weeks hence, but back home I was lucky to keep a pint of milk in the fridge for 4 days before it started to turn suspiciously yellow.

Is it all UHT out here, maybe?

Most not UHT, it is pasturised, but the shelf life is longer than in UK

Yes - US milk typically has a "sell by" date that is a couple of weeks into the future as opposed to (if I remember correctly) about 5 days in the UK - and US milk does last longer than any natural milk product really should ...

At the risk of scaring the bejesus out of everyone, I have a feeling that the milk here is irradiated - 'food' here in the US seems to have much longer shelf life - I guess when so much is trucked around such large distances the logistics chain is longer in duration as well as distance...

... plus I guess there was more pressure to have food that you could eat all of and so not waste money...

When we've bought fresh 'artisan' food, i.e. bread without all the added sh*t etc, then it goes off much more quickly, same as back home...

Bloody adverts cutting into the middle of a sporting event...bonus points for doing it in the middle of a tense moment of play such as at the last down, right before a potential TD passing play, just because someone calls a time out...to come back and have missed what happened.

It's as bad during a racing event, they get right up close to see an over taking phase and then cut to break without seeing what happens.

WTF with sprinkles on top.

And while ranting about sporting events....sporting shows that talk about completely random sporting events giving you a spoiler, to something nothing to do with their show such as Match of the Plucking bloody Day announcing who had made the finals of the UK Snooker Championship.

You arse tards need your bollocks tied to a cheese grater before being pushed down a great big slide.

One of your best, Bob

I agree 100%, but still, great stuff ...

How can anyone not notice?

It quickly looks like the marshmellow monster from Ghostbusters has jazzed a load all around the sides of the container as well as stinking as bad as a linebackers jockstrap.

It then quickly turns to cottage cheese that makes the container sound like a rattle as well as a solid dark blob, rather than the shiny, clear, white milk of before.

On the subject of milk. For those of us with children old enough to help themselves, has anyone had the pleasure of discovering the chocolate milk that was brought into said child's bedroom an indeterminite number of weeks ago, and has since turned into what can best be described as brown cheese? This invariably happens in the summer as well, so it gets good and fetid.

This and stepping on a lego brick in bare feet are probably two of the best ads for contraception around

That's the rank stage of things. They do not notice when its on the turn, but still OK for a cup of tea, if there is not a new bottle.

Yep know that one well, and not just brown cheese but a wide variety of moulds. All great stuff.

And if you've got girls....dolls with accessories....what in gods name does a Barbie doll need bloody detachable bloody shoes for? Shit me, they hurt like a bugger too....and they multiply...they are everywhere, the kids never play with them so they end up floating around the room waiting to trap you

That tipping stage only lasts a matter of hours though...here at least, seriously...it could be tipping at breakfast time, but come lunch, it's a full on jizz festival.

Ah yes. I have that to look forward to. My girl isn't quite two yet so she hasn't got fully into the dollies yet.

She likes to play with toy cars, and make engine noises though

Stepping on an electrical plug has the same fun effect, especially if you're running across the room at the time. That's the good thing about UK sockets, the fact that you can isolate the power at the wall.