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GreenNinja		2005-07-27 08:15:26 PM

Quite impressive. I'm at number 12 (maybe 13, not too sure). I pledged 5 for this year, not sure if I'll make it or not. Of course, I'm only 21 so I have some time, but that guy has dedication.

labman		2005-07-27 09:33:38 PM

That is indeed impressive. I stopped at a gallon, but only because I have a funky liver enzyme and they don't want my blood anymore.

ViolinistGuy		2005-07-27 11:18:34 PM

Don't you think "Funky Liver Enzyme" would be a great name for a rock band?

(Misses Dave Barry)

MrCheeks		2005-07-27 11:19:01 PM

In a row?

Qermaq		2005-07-27 11:19:09 PM

This guy is only a Hero if he's among the dozen or so Africans who don't carry HIV.

colslax		2005-07-27 11:20:19 PM

Congrats to him, someone ought to give him a cookie.

\works on so many levels

Xevious		2005-07-27 11:20:26 PM

I donated blood once. No one told me that you have to eat first. Actually I didn't donate it. I sold it for weed money. (I was 19.) Got all sick and threw up on the nurse. Was sweating and cold. It sucked. I'll keep my blood to myself. I get nauseous whenever I see my own blood. Other's blood doesn't bother me unless it's my kid's. But mine? No way. It was the worst $10 I ever made.

ctyt		2005-07-27 11:20:55 PM

It's an old white guy (his name makes the latter obvious), so he doesn't have AIDS. Don't worry, Farkers.

Flashman73		2005-07-27 11:21:17 PM

I've donated my sperm to the toilet every day for the last 16 years

Atillathepun		2005-07-27 11:21:37 PM

Cue conservatives denouncing him as a bleeding heart liberal in 3...2...1...

MadisonProgressive		2005-07-27 11:24:07 PM

/Have been donating blood for over 2 years now
//He is a HERO.

BearToy		2005-07-27 11:24:49 PM

The last time I went to the doctor, he said he wanted a full workup and would need a blood, urine, semen, and stool sample. So I left him my underwear.

/rimshot

ct0ner		2005-07-27 11:25:22 PM

Clearly, it's all Hillary Clinton's fault.

Cyburbia		2005-07-27 11:26:02 PM

I thought a South African blood donation meant getting your BMW hijacked at a stop light in some wealthy suburb north of Johannesburg. I stand corrected.

Scruffinator		2005-07-27 11:26:54 PM

This guy is only a Hero if he's among the dozen or so Africans who don't carry HIV.

South African.

Most South Africans are white....(well, compared to the other countries).

GreenNinja		2005-07-27 11:27:08 PM

I actually am wearing one of those right now MadisonProgressive. They called me too late in the year to do 5 though, something about switching the call center delayed some of the calls. I'm O negative though, so I get called pretty soon after I am available to donate.

Hick		2005-07-27 11:28:10 PM

I got a cup once.

I always give blood, such a great cause.

GonzoNihilist		2005-07-27 11:28:40 PM

Thanks BearToy I'm going to go throw up now.

Before and after giving blood

You can really hardly tell

weems		2005-07-27 11:29:22 PM

I was giving faithfully but I had to stop at a gallon because I spent a semester studying in England. If you're in London for more than a few weeks, you might as well have been shooting heroin with dirty needles in the Congo as far as the blood people are concerned.

Despite the fact that it has never been definitively proven that eating abnormal prions from cows with bovine spongiform encephalopathy can cause humans to get Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Not that I'm bitter. I'm just sick of paying for t-shirts.

Maxor		2005-07-27 11:30:03 PM

it's kinda irritating I've managed to successfuly donate blood once in 8 tries. That took getting pricked 5 times. Every other time after the 6th prick the nurse just said have the cookies and orange juice thats fine. I did get to go back to work with 4 or 5 of those nifty colored elactic bandages each time.

The wonderfull thing is they allways tell me it'll be a breeze "you've got easily defined veins" (not crap they just carry clotting agent though no blood)

wagol		2005-07-27 11:30:11 PM

wow... 168 liters of blood, very impressive. I've only donated twice, and the first time I almost passed out.

/yes I'm a wimp
//yes I'm using metric
///three slashes!!1

thisispete		2005-07-27 11:31:10 PM

I've donated blood three times. The third time I passed out, I hadn't eaten that morning. I'm not sure if I'll do it again.

/O+

dislocated		2005-07-27 11:31:14 PM

Jamin Aura		2005-07-27 11:32:24 PM

me and my buds used to give blood next to each other, and flex our arms to see who could fill up the blood the fastest...also did it as a last resort to loose weight in wrestling once.

dadigits		2005-07-27 11:33:48 PM

Had to stop donating for a year because I went to a malaria risk zone in Africa. Pisses me off.

I must echo the hero sentiment.

KChambers		2005-07-27 11:35:06 PM

2 down 348 to go... university blood drives should start up soon and I can catch up sorta... damn time limits.

beerdiva		2005-07-27 11:40:29 PM

The real crime is what you're charged when you receive a donated pint

djinarl		2005-07-27 11:41:04 PM

<b>weems</b>

I feel your pain. I was one pint shy of gallon #2 when they changed their rules.

So much for goals, eh?

krazydiamond		2005-07-27 11:41:34 PM

God damn Red Cross won't take my freaking blood...murmer murmer...whine...whine...

Something about not having enough iron...IRON SMIRON!!! I figured if someone's dying they would rather have my low iron blood than none at all. Ah well. You'd have to eat a god damn steak every day to meet there requirements for small women.

British		2005-07-27 11:42:13 PM

I dunno.

"Donating blood" and "Africa" in the same sentence just worries me. What could possibly go wrong?

IronTom		2005-07-27 11:43:44 PM

IronTom has given over 5 gallons. Yes he has, as far as I can recall.

BunkoSquad		2005-07-27 11:44:10 PM

Wow...I'm impressed. No Farker has shown up yet to say that they'll never give blood, 'cuz it's for suckers, and maybe people wouldn't need blood if they wouldn't get themselves in stupid accidents.

Jamin Aura		2005-07-27 11:45:44 PM

Frylock "How would you like to come with me and meatwad to donate blood master shake"

Fake Master Shake "Oh that sounds awesome lets do that"

Frylock "AHAH! the real master shake believes that donating blood is a pyramid scheme formulated by Dracula and his night slaves to conquer the world..."

/not the exact quote but whatever
//adult swim is on, screw you guys.

13ItemsInA12ItemOrLessLane		2005-07-27 11:46:16 PM

For those in CT, it is easy enough to find a local location and sign up and donate.

http://www.bloodct.org/blood.htm (pops)

I am up to ?? 34ish pints...but I am bit older.

Ceph		2005-07-27 11:48:46 PM

I can't give blood because I'm queer. Because, you know, every gay guy has HIV and there is no way to test for it in donated blood. *cough*

IronTom		2005-07-27 11:49:06 PM

do leeches count?

IronTom		2005-07-27 11:50:26 PM

My girlfriend worked at the bloodbank.

Donald_McRonald		2005-07-27 11:52:14 PM

The rest of my body routinely donates blood to my weiner.

Gameshot911		2005-07-27 11:53:08 PM

I donated for the first time a few days ago at age 17, even though i was shaking from the fear of needles (though it wasnt bad at all...i just have those childhood horror vists to the doctor engraved in my memory) It has always been something that I've wanted to do.

I feel that blood is something that I make a nearly endly supply of...it doesnt cost me ANYTHING to give...itll just go to waste if i dont (blood cells die)...and I can save someones life..so why wouldnt I?

jup619		2005-07-27 11:55:28 PM

350 times! how many were for beer money?

socalnewwaver		2005-07-27 11:57:22 PM

i donate regularly, and yesterday when i went, they offered me extra ice cream (my donor center trades a pint of blood for a pint of baskin robbins ice cream) if i would let the new guy stick me - he needed five sticks to get certified.

so i let the new guy stick me. he doesn't get the needle in the vein quick enough, and blood squirts out of my arm all over the place like a cheap horror flick.

but despite all this, i have to say donating is a worthy cause, and props to all of you who do it.

Felgraf		2005-07-27 11:57:39 PM

Ceph
What I don't understand about that, is...
They test all the blood they get *anyways*!

MadisonProgressive		2005-07-28 12:02:13 AM

Ceph: That's too bad. You can't even give platelets either.

Has anyone done it before? I plan to do it myself this summer yet.

deevo		2005-07-28 12:04:36 AM

Starting at 17, and seeing as (56 days between) I can only legally donate 13 times per 2 years, so that's 53 years; I have to donate to age 70 to pass this guy? Psh forget that tattoo, I'm going full steam.

thisispete		2005-07-28 12:10:44 AM

BunkoSquad:

Wow...I'm impressed. No Farker has shown up yet to say that they'll never give blood, 'cuz it's for suckers, and maybe people wouldn't need blood if they wouldn't get themselves in stupid accidents.

The only people I know of who are strongly against blood donation are Jehovah's Witnesses. I'm not sure of their rationale for it, but they don't protest blood clinics or anything like that, as far as I'm aware.

IronTom		2005-07-28 12:11:15 AM

Those Bloodmobiles get to me. Vibrating humming lull you into fainting and the nurses put a cold towel on your head and such.

Never had the spitting blood problem. Squirt, that would have, sqirt, turned me, sqirt, off.

Still I like the blood doner stickers. I have a picture in the studio at the mixer in metallized clothes with an honest-to-goodness earned blood doner sticker. Squirt. I thought, squirt, it was, squirt, cool. Fun times.

It's as cool as an "I voted" sticker, and you can get it more often.

Scruffinator		2005-07-28 12:14:53 AM

I'm sort of inbetween giving blood. I just have this feeling that the moment I give blood I'm going to need it the next week, due to an accident or something. I guess it's just me though, considering the rest of the posts. Though I do know a bunch of college kids that give blood then get drunk....

Villain		2005-07-28 12:17:55 AM

So, any chance they're going to change the rules and let gay men donate blood in the US?

whack_dude		2005-07-28 12:27:39 AM

I have given everything I have, there is nothing left.

IronTom		2005-07-28 12:31:23 AM

Scruffinator

it is unlikely that you will get in an accident. And you have to replace your fluids somehow.

Ideally karma would see you through; if you donate there would be blood for you if you need it. I really don't count on that. Just replenish yourself quick, like the African guy must do.

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