Russell Howard's apparently insurmountable breast milk issues...

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I love RH...every last thing about him....except his apparently massive mental problem regarding breast milk.

Every other show he seems to be pulling faces, gagging and generally freaking out about it...

Russell, darling, it's just milk sweetie. Milk designed by nature for humans to drink. I mean you do realise that cow's milk come out of cow mammary glands don't you?

Maybe you could redress the balance and do a set on how utterly disgusting it is for anyone to drink, see, think about or generally come into contact with cow's milk.....

AIBU to think RH should stop with the whole BM is disgusting meme and if he can't say anything reasonable on the topic then silence on the matter would work just fine?

I have not a clue who he is, never heard of him.

i dont think his disdain is ever about babies breastfeeding though, its always men on tv actually drinking from a womans breast (i THINK he was a reporter, reporting for a foreign news channel and he tried it on screen) he did a bit when they made the breast milk ice cream, its stories like that he objects to, besides i dont think anyone would look to him as being an ambassador for any kind of parenting issues

hmm in the most part although he often mentions babies etc in passing...

Is it really that balls out disgusting to contemplate an adult human drinking breast milk / eating breast milk icecream?

Why should it be any more disgusting than an adult human drinking /eating cows milk /eating cows milk ice cream?

How are we supposed to find BM a high value natural food source for babies if it is disgusting and cringe-worthy in general?

It's just milk ffs.

had no clue who he was until a couple of days ago when I watched him on telly and thought he was cool.

Disappointing to hear he is a tosser over this. it seemed as if he was able to find humour without resorting to picking on whatever downtrodden group its still ok to mock.

I mean, surely there are enough people out there who can be mocked for their offensive ideas and prejudices without needing to be a dickhead about mothers who breastfeed?

have the BNP disbanded without my knowledge? has Nigel Farage resigned? where's that dopey "I'm so beautiful" daily mail woman?

Has he run out of fodder for his act?

Well, I certainly wouldn't go around eating the ice-cream made from the milk of some random woman.

He's a little too preoccupied with his mother for my liking.

Number of joke he's done about his mum's tits and fanny, I think someone needs to open a dictionary at O, underline Oedipus and leave it lying round his dressing room.

Yet you would happily eat ice cream made from the milk of some random cow.

Yeah, because it's been tested so I know it's safe :/

i think its pretty gross.

the minute you are out of Bf the whole thing seems freaky weird - you wait

hecsy well yes you may have a point there...

It just grates really...when I like so much of his stuff.

I mean it isn't normal to like sweat off someone...but I doubt he would spend 5 mins of his show making out like it is totally vom worthy....and BM is actually meant to be drunk by humans...

living I must have missed the bit in his BM icecream vomming play acting where he made that serious point about testing...although again...what are you saying?

That the BM of a random woman is good enough for her newborn baby, but not for you? weird.

nehru well maybe...although I didn't think it was disgusting or weird before I started Bfing, so maybe not.

Mostly what I thought before Bfing was 'If I have carried these inconvenient back ache inducing boulders around for the last 20 years for nothing I'll be fecking livid!'

Happily it didn't come to that.

what's cows milk tested for, out of interest? and if the same rigorous test applied to human milk would that make it ok?

I remember reading about late stage cancer patients being given breastmilk because of stem celks or something...I wonder if human milk is arguably safer than cows milk to consume.
(although given how much of a pita expressing was how the hell you'd get a production line going beats me)

i was so into it at the time, you develop this kind of blase attitude to it, then I find it really weird it ever happened/worked etc

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Babies almost always drink their mother's milk, not that of a random woman.

It is the cultural norm of our society that adults do not consume breast milk. Lots of comedy focuses on the breaking of cultural norms.

I find a lot of RH's humour to be sexist and derogatory towards women. And tbf I did like him when I first saw/heard of him but the more I watch the more I notice and think...hang on....

tbh who cares about one mans opinion of something? people have different ideas about stuff

I can't quite believe it worked either, my boobs were "small and humble" as that yodelling woman puts it. I was surprised they did such a good job.

hairy it is nutritionally more relevant and easier to digest.....can't imagine why....oh wait...yes I can!

Some diseases are easier to spread from human to human than from cow to human. There are certainly some things you would like to test for in human milk that you would not need to test for in cow milk.

However the point stands that this risk is not one that is EVER considered when a mother BFs her baby.

So I would ask again why it is safe enough for a newborn baby, but an adult would baulk at the 'risks'?

comedy focussing on the breaking of cultural norms is a good thing, I'd think.
comedy focussing on reinforcing damaging stereotypes, probably notsomuch.

I think its the GROSS OUT thing of an adult breastfeeding?!!

tooold yes that's a fair point too...maybe I should just bid RH a fondish farewell and admit that actually he is just a bit too laddish-naff for me.

nehru yes but how can it be totally gross for an adult to eat it without it being just a little bit gross all round?

You can't be all ARGH ARGH I HAVE BM ON ME GET IT OFF GET IT OFF, and NOT damage the idea of BM as a perfectly appropriate food stuff!

Actually I am bit like that about rhubarb myself...although rhubarb is genuinely poisonous

because its for babies - other wise its a fetish