I also recommend a couple or three Aspirins right before donating. Helps ease the sting.

I know, it's FARK, not News, but this was SOP for me back at UVa in 1975.

/racked up seven and a half gallons
//can't give any more. Spent three months in Great Britain in 1980. Sometime during the 1990's they told me not to come back because of that

Works with plasma donations. I love getting hammered off of 2 martinis in my post donation celebration.

Chariset: MBooda: I know, it's FARK, not News, but this was SOP for me back at UVa in 1975.

/racked up seven and a half gallons
//can't give any more. Spent three months in Great Britain in 1980. Sometime during the 1990's they told me not to come back because of that

Mad Cow.

I mean that's why they're worried. Mad Cow disease

Oh yeah, I know. Seems like kind of a reach, though. After over 30 years, I'm still a BSE threat because I ate beef a couple of times at a restaurant in Plymouth, Devonshire?

/they wouldn't even serve it the way I like it, still mooing
//only halfway edible thing in the whole bloody country

I know a guy who gave blood, and then went out drinking on a mission. He woke up in the back seat of his car the next morning covered in vomit, and missing his pants. He figures he puked on the seat and then rolled in it. As for his pants, along with the wallet and car keys that were in them, he had no idea what happened to them. Now this was in the days of phone booths, and he was lucky enough to be relatively close to one; and lucky enough to get a buddy to take a collect call, then come and pick him up with a spare pair of shorts.

I didn't have any interest in seeing how drunk I could get after that. Well that and a few other friends that had very bad experiences; well that and another couple guys I didn't know who died around the same time all doing stupid things with alcohol.

Of course I live in Wisconsin. Any major college town has at least two deaths a year from alcohol poisoning.

/lets not even talk about drunk driving deaths

BigBooper: I know a guy who gave blood, and then went out drinking on a mission. He woke up in the back seat of his car the next morning covered in vomit, and missing his pants. He figures he puked on the seat and then rolled in it. As for his pants, along with the wallet and car keys that were in them, he had no idea what happened to them. Now this was in the days of phone booths, and he was lucky enough to be relatively close to one; and lucky enough to get a buddy to take a collect call, then come and pick him up with a spare pair of shorts.

I didn't have any interest in seeing how drunk I could get after that. Well that and a few other friends that had very bad experiences; well that and another couple guys I didn't know who died around the same time all doing stupid things with alcohol.

Of course I live in Wisconsin. Any major college town has at least two deaths a year from alcohol poisoning.

/lets not even talk about drunk driving deaths

A couple buddies and I wanted to do something similar back in the day, but were gonna do it at one of our homes. Donated blood, halfway through the drive home I was driving, looked around and all 3 were fast asleep and wanted to just get dropped off at home. Project never really did get off the ground.

Puritanical "Muricans look askance at this and fear for their collective virginity.

MBooda: I know, it's FARK, not News, but this was SOP for me back at UVa in 1975.

/racked up seven and a half gallons
//can't give any more. Spent three months in Great Britain in 1980. Sometime during the 1990's they told me not to come back because of that

Same here. My college used to give you a certificate for a pitcher of beer if you donated blood. Then I spent a couple of years in the UK in the '80s/'90s and now they won't take my blood either.

Mooooooooooo!

heh. i guess less blood is one way to increase your blood alcohol level.

...during exams in university I got the call. I was clever and left my wallet at home for some reason. I figured I could make it to the clinic and back on a bus transfer (90 minutes). Of course, it took too long and I ended up having to walk home across the city after dropping a pint. I ran into a friend on the way who bought me a patio-beer. when I finally got home, I opened a second beer and woke up on the couch the next morning with the TV on. It was instant - open the beer - now it's morning.

it was a very deep sleep.

I weigh 180 pounds. Blood makes up 7% of body weight (or so I'm told), meaning I have 202 ounces of blood. If I were to consume two 12 ounce cans of Natural Ice (not that I would, but if I did) which is 5.9% alcohol, my BAC would be 0.035.

F**k! Hit "add comment" too soon.

I wonder if the idea you give blood you get buzzed faster is a myth. I weigh 180 pounds. Blood makes up 7% of body weight (or so I'm told), meaning I have 202 ounces of blood. If I were to consume two 12 ounce cans of Natural Ice (not that I would, but if I did) which is 5.9% alcohol, my BAC would be 0.7. If I gave a pint of blood, which is 16 ounces, I'd be left with 186 ounces of blood. The alcohol in the above mentioned two cans would then result in me having a BAC of 0.76. That doesn't seem like enough of a difference to be noticeable.

I'm close to passing out after giving a pint of blood...and I don't drink very often so I don't doubt that very little alcohol would get me shiatfaced. I honestly applaud this idea and anything else clever they have for getting people to donate. It's the easiest thing to do (if you're eligible) and it helps out so many people. I do double red cell apheresis (they take two pints of blood cells and give me back some of my plasma with some saline) so I'm not as likely to pass out. I'd highly recommend it for anybody that gets too loopy on giving whole blood.

/I will be a lifelong donor so at some point I am going to try this :)
//Will be an even cheaper date than I already am

Cloudchaser Sakonige the Red Wolf: F**k! Hit "add comment" too soon.

I wonder if the idea you give blood you get buzzed faster is a myth. I weigh 180 pounds. Blood makes up 7% of body weight (or so I'm told), meaning I have 202 ounces of blood. If I were to consume two 12 ounce cans of Natural Ice (not that I would, but if I did) which is 5.9% alcohol, my BAC would be 0.7. If I gave a pint of blood, which is 16 ounces, I'd be left with 186 ounces of blood. The alcohol in the above mentioned two cans would then result in me having a BAC of 0.76. That doesn't seem like enough of a difference to be noticeable.

Luckily, alcohol is water-seeking and not just limited to blood as a 0.7 BAC would likely kill the average person (feel free to insert your own joke about 2 natty ices being fatal). A more reasonable estimate would be that water makes up 70% of your body (it's higher, but I'm too lazy to redo your math) so you would be a 0.076 after two beers (but even that sounds a little high - if you included time lag for the rate ). Of course this ignores the fact that we're mixing ounces (for weight) and fluid ounces (for volume). And easier metric would be to say the human body has about 10 pints of blood, so giving 1 pint would get you 11% drunker by volume.

That said, I can tell you from experience that giving blood and then going to drink does get you buzzed much faster (the blood donation center should give you advice to at least eat before you do any drinking after donating), though I've never been certain if it's just because your BAC climbs significantly faster, or simply the fact that many people are a little light headed and woozy for the rest of the day regardless and alcohol just builds on that


/Went to a school whose microbrewery holds a "pint for a pint" blood drive a couple times a year

MBooda: I know, it's FARK, not News, but this was SOP for me back at UVa in 1975.

/racked up seven and a half gallons
//can't give any more. Spent three months in Great Britain in 1980. Sometime during the 1990's they told me not to come back because of that



Freddie mercury

Mef: Cloudchaser Sakonige the Red Wolf: F**k! Hit "add comment" too soon.

I wonder if the idea you give blood you get buzzed faster is a myth. I weigh 180 pounds. Blood makes up 7% of body weight (or so I'm told), meaning I have 202 ounces of blood. If I were to consume two 12 ounce cans of Natural Ice (not that I would, but if I did) which is 5.9% alcohol, my BAC would be 0.7. If I gave a pint of blood, which is 16 ounces, I'd be left with 186 ounces of blood. The alcohol in the above mentioned two cans would then result in me having a BAC of 0.76. That doesn't seem like enough of a difference to be noticeable.

Luckily, alcohol is water-seeking and not just limited to blood as a 0.7 BAC would likely kill the average person (feel free to insert your own joke about 2 natty ices being fatal). A more reasonable estimate would be that water makes up 70% of your body (it's higher, but I'm too lazy to redo your math) so you would be a 0.076 after two beers (but even that sounds a little high - if you included time lag for the rate ). Of course this ignores the fact that we're mixing ounces (for weight) and fluid ounces (for volume). And easier metric would be to say the human body has about 10 pints of blood, so giving 1 pint would get you 11% drunker by volume.

That said, I can tell you from experience that giving blood and then going to drink does get you buzzed much faster (the blood donation center should give you advice to at least eat before you do any drinking after donating), though I've never been certain if it's just because your BAC climbs significantly faster, or simply the fact that many people are a little light headed and woozy for the rest of the day regardless and alcohol just builds on that


/Went to a school whose microbrewery holds a "pint for a pint" blood drive a couple times a year

My bad, had the decimal in the wrong place. Good point, I didn't consider that amount and weight ounces are different. Or that the effects of alcohol would build on already feeling woozy

DeepRed_II: MBooda: I know, it's FARK, not News, but this was SOP for me back at UVa in 1975.

/racked up seven and a half gallons
//can't give any more. Spent three months in Great Britain in 1980. Sometime during the 1990's they told me not to come back because of that



Freddie mercury

Ironically, I never did see him in the UK. Closest I ever got to him was at the Capitol Centre in Landover in November of '77. I was somewhere in the upper decks, so it was a long ways away.

/not that he couldn't have got me from that distance