Y’all remember Stargate when Kurt Russell and James Spader meet the nice Egyptian descendants and offer them chocolate as a sign of friendship, right?
Well, isn’t the ability to process lactose in adulthood a relatively recent (c. 3000 years ago) genetic mutation that originated predominantly in European farmers? Since the alien humans are descendants of Egyptians from 10,000 years ago, wouldn’t they be lactose intolerant and therefore likely to get diarrhoea as a result of their chocolate bar gifts?
Maybe it should be in the standard “meeting alien” protocols: don’t offer them milk chocolate, only dark or white chocolate, in case they’re lactose intolerant?
Just a thought.
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I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
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